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In your best prose, describe pic related.
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>>10007911
Nigga is stanky and goes vroom vroom.
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>>10007911
The first officer to arrive at the scene of the crash had never before seen such a grotesque sight.
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>>10007911
The abominable doughman.
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Does it bother you he puts himself on the same level as Tolkien?
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Yes. This fucking fat shitty garbage writer should die already geez if I could I would kill this faggot with my bare hands this fucking piece of shit
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>>10007848
who cares what some fatass larper says about his own work? he's so fascinated with brutality and nitty gritty bullshit (((taxes))) because he never experienced that shit himself. Tolkien was at fucking Somme, and in command of other men.
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I respect Tolkien immensely, not only because the Hobbit was the first novel I ever read but because he inspired a lifelong love of languages. Sadly LOTR's narrative is completely binary and its characters uncomplicated in their motivations (the Silmarillion is better in this regard) compared to ASOIAF. I would place Martin beside or just a bit under Tolkien.
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hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up copy of Theory of the Subject my name is Badiou but u can call me t3h Ma0iSt oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very truthful!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet truthful ppl like me _… im 80 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 read Plato's Republic w/ my psychoanalyst (im lacanian if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite book!!! bcuz its SOOOO truthful!!!! shes unsutured 2 any particular truth procedure of course but i want 2 meet more truthful ppl (: like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of polemics against Foucauldian idealinguisters!!!!
SET THEORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein truthful again _^ hehe…toodles!!!!!
logic and worlds,
t3h Ma0iSt oF d00m
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>>10007814
I applaud your effort, but this pasta is so stale that nothing can make it palatable again.
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>>10007838
It is so old and unused that many younger users may see it for the first time today.
I would agree to say it doesn't really work in 2017, though, because it alludes to ways of using Internet that ceased to exist.
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>>10007814
I liked this anon, keep up the good work.
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Anyone else really enjoy reading inappropriate things on the bus? What are some good books for this?
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>reading Lolita on the bus
>woman gets on and tells her young daughter to sit in the open seat next to me
What did she mean by this?
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Sade, Hitler, Trump
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>>10007822
means she has never heard about the book and is completely oblivious.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YGbNYtdskKoQU3pL-TCcYYol61NqJClewBelNe_G3n8/edit?usp=sharing
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Revising now.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nl0mrU-C3O9gH2u4vN6Ytr3sE8ZLEsT5-HBG0_5XxZ4/edit
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>>10007785
uhhh
I don't mind reading it but why is everyone attaching their real faces/identities to the edit? Is this for a class or something?
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>>10007796
Nevermind the images are freaking me out too much and it's so long.
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>A wave of words and woven breath's trickle over the fingers of suffering deaths tightest grip on desperations coagulated purple flesh now pardoned of an ocean of unspeakable depths now returning and simmering into the dying tides of a restless ease and another wave of words. Broken and blown away in the color of every fallen leaf since tormented beginnings of the end tumbling together forming a jumping current from the great unknowing's stupendous diligent stupidity suspending all time to a continuous space of salacious debauchery. Sitting hunched over the corner of the literary world, the fantasy now awash with the uninvited light of the real world penetrating through the window-blind eyelids of an altogether other world complicit to housing a living nightmare. Forced sublimation correlated with the influx of the possibility of receding possibilities follows this coerced happiness and yet precedes that same force while determined to this or barred from that or any other possibility but nonetheless enslaved by repetitive animation, and the sounds of a washing machine a wash with unstoppability as well as the sight of a naked lamp unplugged populate the thought scape of a train tumbling down the dark abyss of infinite transgression. Feathers and boards collapsing into themselves with afflictions as good as fictions, even better, a wisp of an awesome wallop at your self at its own feet defeated by another wave. Drown.
How's my prose?
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>>10007747
>woven breath's
>suffering deaths
>tightest grip
>coagulated purple
>unspeakable depths
>dying tides
>restless ease
>fallen leaf
>tomented beginnings
>jumping current
>etc. etc et.c et.c e.t.cet.c
kill yourself
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Thesaurus vomit that means nothing. Quit tugging your scabby prick while you write and think about how any sane person is supposed to sit down and read this horse shit you're serving up.
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>>10007765
What kind of reception could I expect if I chose to publish a novel in this style
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Fuck no I'm not reading all of this. Which are the main/essential/most important/etc books? I'm not looking to become a scholar on Kierkegaard, I'm just interested in the main aspects of his philosophy.
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>>10007746
Fear and Trembling and then Either/Or
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>>10007750
Anything else? I think I've heard the one about anxiety being mentioned often
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Attack upon Christendom
Fear and Trembling
Either/Or
Works of Love
enjoy, OP. the first one is the most entertaining.
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What are the go to books about one going on a journey to discover truth? I do mean an actual journey, but a metaphorical one would work as well.
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>>10007722
Moby Dick, the Odyssey,my diary desu
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>>10007722
Uh
Every book ever written?
that's the monomyth
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Rec me a book about cell phone providers
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I want a book that will make me mad about our capitalist consumerist society, bonus points if it's about how we ourselves are the merchandise in the digital world.
Rant: the fucking cell phone provider cut off me number today, after I didn't buy any credits for two months. I still used that number to message friends and family over wifi. All the message apps refuse to let me sign up without a number, and I refuse to feed the disgusting companies anymore. I guess I sound like some edgy teenager against the system, but well
inb4 the capital, emerson, thoreau
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>>10007714
get a subscription, faggot moron cuck
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Anything by Bruce A. Kushnick, however, it will probably make you more upset about bureaucracy than capitalist consumerism.
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>>10008750
Thanks
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Was pretty good, I like the unreliable narrator and the slips into hallucinations. Is the movie any good? And is any other pkd stuff worth reading?
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ubik is his best work
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>>10007702
Weird, just finished this book about an hour ago. Thoroughly enjoyed it, Dick's depiction of druggie conversations was absolutely hilarious, and I loved the way the narrator would daydream mid conversation and snap back, leaving parts to the imagination. Ending was simultaneously sad/poetic and hopeful. All in all a great read. The movie is a very faithful adaptation, with only minor scenes cut to save time, and a few very minor plot changes. Would definitely recommend you watch the film soon.
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>>10007807
Also, was it ever implied or stated in the book that Donna was Hank like in the movie or was that an artistic liberty taken for the film?
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Convince me to read Marxist literature and become a Marxist as a white guy.
What's in it for -me-?
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>>10007642
Are you a prole? If so Marxism is for you, being white doesn't change that.
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>>10007642
because race is itself a superstructure built upon the economic base.
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>Convince me to read Marxist literature
it influenced human thought and history significantly.
>become a Marxist
some decisions you have to make on your own. your mother won't always be around to wipe your ass and tie your shoelaces.
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>hear about the iliad being a poem
>open it up
>its some shit sounding prose
How the fuck can anyone see translated poetry as worthwhile? It is beyond belief from a purely artistic standpoint. The only explanation is that pseudo intellectuals want the pseud cred for having read it but cant accpet that they never will because they wont learn Ancient Greek.
Fuck the pseuds.
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are you some pleb who thinks poetry has to rhyme or something? epic poetry has no characteristic that defines how its written
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>>10007680
I really hope both of you are trolling
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>>10007607
>translated poetry is worthless
Some poems keep their poetic character even in translation. Other poems lose a lot. It depends on the language & poet.
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He's been recommended to me recently. What do you think of him, where should one start?
Any Portuguese anons kind enough to clear some misconceptions or misreadings about him?
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An absolute genious, most people here only read Book of Disquiet, but his poetry is where its at, anything wrote by Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro and Ricardo Reis should be read, also Mensagem (no heteronym)
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>>10007610
>An absolute genious
Haha, nah
>most people here only read Book of Disquiet
Because that's the only interesting thing he ever wrote
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>>10007610
Thanks, I appreciate it.
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What do you get from Swann worrying so much about Odette? It's not to worry, right? Holy shit Swann in Love is such a painful read for someone in a budding relationship. Will the rest of ISoLT answer my question?
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yes
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I'm still not there yet
I think I will end up reading the full 7 books
This guy was seriously talented. Shame on Joyce for bullying him
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>>10007560
source on joyce bullying him?
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Let's be real here: the best part was the Evensong section. Yes?
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The best part was the gaucho's speech
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>>10007480
>inb4 someone mentions the shit-eating scene
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The best part was in fact when Slothrop had a bad trip smoking the datura and castrated himself with Roger Mexico's special garden shears gifted to him by Jessica.