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>>9648735

Zizek

>>9648735
It was actually Aristotle who put the final nail in the coffin

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Maybe the sophists were right all along

>>9648583
a fucking meme

>>9648624
Kill yourself tourist. Plenty of Evola threads in the archives, there's an extensive "reactionary" thread every week at least.

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heres a guide to evola

I should specify, I'm mostly looking to get advice on story, characters, whether there are any plot holes or inconsistencies, ect. Any grammar issues or writing errors I can fix later.

>>9648486
>He knew it was dangerous,
>He wasn't too worried though,
>Even though it was late,
>Every once in awhile,
>Even with all this,
>Just that day,

This is the writing of the average person in a highschool English class. I have no idea why you think that you're above technical writing advice when you write worse than the average tumblr girl in a creative writing class. Your writing is so full of Colloquial and cliched expressions that I mentally cannot make it past the first couple paragraphs. Burn this and learn how to write properly, please. Nobody is going to want to read this. I don't care about an unoriginal and uninspired story when the writing makes me want to vomit.

>>9648545

This is the type of advice I needed. What direction would you point me in to improve my writing.

>>9648467
t. Jewish shill swine

I laugh everyday at these translations fags, trying to find the best translation out of thousands, while I can just go literally anywhere in this country and find the absolute true word of G-d himself in a small nice pocket edition

t. Israeli

>>9648522
exactly, so many "translations" of the bible that every king made to serve himself best and trick the minds of the people, and the old testament is just a shitty plagiarism of the Torah. The Torah is the original word, written by G-d and unchanged since.

>>9648417
I like Murakami, but Laszlo definitely has merit. Check out Seiobo There Below to start.

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>>9648417
I tired to read Seiobo There Below. It was a Gravity's Rainbow-esque pomo ramble which ~100 pages in hadn't advanced at all.

>>9648417
Melancholy of Resistance is a fantastic book.

Then you haven't seen enough Absurdists.

>>9648376

I dont think over one thousand is less than zero, but hey that's just my arithmetic speaking here.

>>9648376
>written by a 20-year old aping Joan Didion
>masterpiece

I like the book but no

>>9648364
Does Kurosawa's Ran not count?

>>9648365
Sure its great but it takes place in fedual Japan. I was looking for an adaptation with a modern setting.

>>9648365
Ran is God Tier cinema. Great fusion of the source material while staying distinct.

Hm, I dunno -- but I'd hazard a guess that improving penmanship is somewhere in the fucking wheelhouse of human capability.

>>9648362

I mean mine has improved somewhat, but was always not great. Elementary school teachers used to say it wasn't an issue worth addressing, as, "everything would be typed in the future." I feel like I was cheated and robbed.

People with exceptionally messy handwriting, to the point where no one else can even make out what they're writing, are autistic. Even worse is when they disgrace a book by scribbling their disgusting notes in it.

>it was all in gregor samsa's mind

1984 is about le stalin

That Shakespeare intended for the audiences' sympathies to lie with Shylock and the play is a denunciation of antisemitism.

"Start with the Greeks".

>>9648395
People looking to "get into literature" should start with whatever they happen to enjoy, for heaven's sake. Leave the Greeks for when your own curiosity leads you to them.

>>9648284

descartes - meditations
hobbes - leviathan
hume - treatise of human nature
rousseau - discourse on the origins of inequality
kant - critique of pure reason
mill - utilitarianism
hegel - phenomenology of spirit
marx - capital
wittgenstein - tractatus
heidegger - being and time

>>9648186
>Words: 4061k+
>Over four million words

Why

>>9648205
autism

>>9648186

Is it erotica??

I leave my house everyday, what the hell are you talking about?

The fact that you think I want to be a writer tells me despite your constant attempts at the analysis of my psyche you still come up wrong.

Nice, you all are in the dark.

>>9648113
He's not talking to you, Jim. I think he's talking to Henry, but hasn't worked out Henry isn't coming out because he's dead. Let's see how it plays out though, because he might be talking to himself, if it's Richard.

A darker voice of my own

>>9648086
>subvocalizing

>>9648086

Paulie's voice from The Sopranos, when something shocking happens it internally goes "oooooh"

ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

>>9647988
Sorry I'm new here I don't speak smart

I saw an interview recently on why the idea of wanting "motivation" is a dillusion. If you need motivation to do something you are conditioned to rely on something temporary and you will find yourself looking for more and more overtime. So instead discipline yourself to do things, as it is a much more powerful way to achieve ones goals in life.

>>9647938
Romantic-Era poetry of course.

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http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/test

>On the basis of your results, we estimate you know 73% of the English words.
>This is a high level for a native speaker.

>>9647955
Any good recs? Won't that be kinda archaic?