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>>9625700
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.

The mind is like Tetris in respect to the fact that the unconscious mind is more crucial than the waking mind. Conscious thoughts spawn the blocks while the unconscious organizes the pieces as best it can. It's not always perfect, and sometimes blockages form. It's in this that the conscious mind must aid it's unaware partner by finding the piece it requires to be spawned next. The trick being to find how to make the game to do so, and understanding that it's always you controlling either side.

>>9625700
As i sit in this chair, drunk, I decay further. Closer to the nothingness of death. The worst part is, I want to be more. I question if that's possible of course. Will I become more? I know I won't. the question of 'can' is irrelevant here.

put three sprigs of barley under your pillow every night for two weeks, on the 14th night take the bundle and burn it at precisely midnight and recite a hymn to Demeter and sleep outside on the bare ground. a compelling high concept exciting plot should come to you in the dream that follows.

>>9625578
>Not making sure that the 14th day falls on the 12th day of the month for maximum mortal task luck gains
So close yet so far.


>>9625552
Honestly, you don't. The best plot ideas, and the ones that seem most natural to read and write are ones that just come to you. They also usually parallel some experience you've had in your life, in some way. The plot idea for my short story that's being published in the fall is based on playing in the woods behind my house as a child. It just came to me one night after I had spent the day exhaustively trying to come up with a decent plot idea.

>>9625604
okay but the fault in our stars doesn't parallel john green's life at all

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By realizing that Orwell was a socialist and 1984 was a critique of totalitarianism in general.

>>9625695
Come on anon, that's so low tier that you can get it from reading the fucking TvTropes article.

>>9625702
*TVTropes.

>>9625391
not at all

bad thread

You forgot singing

>>9625391
pedophilia and coprophagia spring to mind. man gravitys rainbow is fucking insane

>>9625374
I hate to use the word due to its buzzword tendencies of late, but the universe is a fractally organic entity. It's like a brain itself, and everything we interact with is just that brain's imagination at play.

All of its rules bend in on themselves, so everything appears to be infinitely divisible until energy. Case in point is biology, living matter, the nature of DNA's encoding, and how we learn.

Mm, I guess in a sense you could say the universe is itself an incomprehensibly gargantuan, self-aware computer.
>I mean, when you look inside yourself, be it body or mind or whatever you feel toward spirit/soul, do you not find a universe within yourself resembling the one you're living in?

>But what makes the universe follow the rules that the universe works by? I don't see a massive computer anywhere making the universe work. Is it just done in an invisible way? Can things done in an invisible way even work?

what is this schizo logic

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>>9625374
The premise is dialectical. I think I am using that word correctly (?). i.e: I think you're doing a positivist thing here whereby you attribute the reality of the game to the underlying language of the computer; comparing that to the reality of the universe being attributed to the underlying language of itself. That being shit like mathematics. Which is all well and good, but the "system" or "computer" or "universe" in these cases are all predicated on themselves in a way not too dissimilar from how the anthropic principle works, right?

I am doing a shit job of explaining this, can anyone pick up what I am putting down?

Dunno, but I once used part of the fist page of my copy of Crime and Punishment to roll one because I didn't have papers. It was really shit to smoke though...

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no, this is

and you have to go back to facebook

dude weed lmao, im so nerdy, pls upvote

wood, because no trees

>>9625296
But why would there be no trees? Also--a bit beyond the scope of the initial question--would there be any good reason for needing to use wood instead of something else?

Depends on the planet. Wouldn't want to use wood on a planet with a surface temperature above the combustion temperature of wood.

>>9625236
>one should know a bit of math in order to understand philosophy

yeah and probably back when that quote was uttered the total world knowledge of math amounted to some trig and maybe basic algebra

Plato certainly did

that's pretty much the motto inscribed on the door of plato's academy in athens. "dont know maths? gtfo"

nobody wants to read your emo diary, keep your personal and professional writing seperate.

>>9625195
i-it's not an emo diary...there are some nice thoughts in it

have you tried making them a single work?

>>9625128
Huckleberry Finn is the one you need to read.

>>9625128
Definitely not; it makes a good children's book and nothing else. Huck Finn is still canon nowadays so read it unless you want to be out of the loop. This book on the other hand I got nothing out of but wasted time.

>>9625154
>>9625165
I'm referring to the whole series though. Will I know what's going on in huck finn if I don't read Tom Sawyer. Is any of the other stuff worth reading?

i forget. But probably, yet not in a traditionally respectable way

>>9624942
she got upset because her husband let her go alone in a car with another man instead of telling the guy that offered her the ride to fuck off, like a gentleman would, and started to despise him from then on.
he was the one not following the rules of tradition there.

>>9625001
I don't know.
He was respecting her wishes and she got mad because she felt he shouldn't trust her.
I stand by my first statement recalled from fuzzy memories.

I am not one of those guys who writes on a story concept and then, regardless of whether or not I finish it, move onto another. I stick to the same universe and just make more stories in it. Because if I were to build another world, it'd just turn out to be the same, with only a couple minor backdrop differences like volcanoes and earthquakes being possible.
With that said, I feel bad about scrapping old characters and concepts mainly because I feel a lot of old stuff has good things in there that are very good and salvageable. It would be a waste of good fruit that I finally produced after trying so hard to find that "ah-hah!" moment. Although, I am not afraid to kill every single one of my characters off.

>>9624904
Anon, if I were you, and I am in some senses -- pun intended, wink wink -- that would not be a waste of time but a personal goal.
>Can I improve my skills to the point that I can bring new life to old works?
>Can I save Doc1 and be disappointed/frustrated with it, go off to do intense study and practice with other things for a month or two, then come back and create Doc2 with some of Doc1's content?

Funny enough, after a while you end up realizing that all the side projects, practices, and studies you did to get to the skill level you wanted to be with the projects/goals you wanted to do are ultimately the things that make you successful.
>At least, that's how it is when you look at everyone who's where you want to be, anyway.

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if you aren't rewriting and revising, you aren't writing seriously

Hitchikers Guide to Galaxy.

>>9624824
To the Lighthouse. And Beckett's The Unnamable.

;-)

>>9624751
LA Confidential

Good intentions are overrated.
Read Richard Stark's Parker novels.

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I'll share this one too.

wish there was something like the first 4 seasons of Breaking Bad.

they're like....hey...is there any superhero with like super sight?

They're cool I guess
Now I remember why I don't browse /lit/ anymore

>>9624727
they r bad