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>>9590380
b-ok

>>9590382
This.

Also, just use libgen like the rest of us.

>>9590411
Libgen has next to nothing. Fuck off with this meme and read more

>>9590292
Pic unrelated lol

>>9590292
my diary desu

>>9590576
fucking kek

This is profound

>>9590259
Vocabulary Word Salad: The Post

But op, why is she holding Lolita

>>9590149
>implying i have thoughts

>>9590149
I only got about a third of the way through Flowers of Evil before lending my copy to someone and never getting it back but it was pretty great.

What should you read before starting Baudelaire?

there can't be good arguments against the truth, so none.

All you need to know is that anyone willing to put effort into writing down such arguments is acting in bad faith essentially.

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Yeah

>>9589930
Schopenhauer's On Women
Hitler's Mein Kampf
McDonald's Culture of Critique Series
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Decline of the West
Art of the Deal

Math textbooks.

>>9589945
Shit post

But really OP math is your best bet for this. If you hate math try Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Oh yes I like it

I really don't like the available translations of Gracq (monolinguist here, sorry). I feel like it's not much better in French either, but I could be wrong. Tartar Steppe is really one of my absolutes. Need to read Junger.

>>9589946
> I feel like it's not much better in French either

You've got to be shilling me. Rivage is honestly a 10/10 book with god-tier purple prose in french. Intoxicating doesn't describe it enough. Finishing it was such a "Wow, best book ever" feel.

Bumping again folks

About being brunk, there are some beautifull poems by Omar khayyam

>>9590129
Drunk?

>>9589725

Are you me? THANK YOU for this post, I hope you (we) get some good advice on how to unleash the "extra" words.

>>9589728
I mean we're probably plebs who should read more, but I read my fair share of books and when it's me on the writing end I still can't fathom how you can fill hundreds of pages.
Actually, what baffles me the most is being able to write a whole chapter, so a dozen of pages, on the same topic.
>Have to write about a guy waking up and going to the kitchen
>most I've managed to do is one page
Granted, it sounds really nice and I think it's good writing but shouldn't it be way more? I can't add anything to it

Aye, all I can manage are short stories, the longest I've managed in less than 10,000 words. I write horror, which tends to be better off in short form anyway, but I'm hoping as I gain experience I manage to write longer pieces. I imagine it's my plots that's the issue, as the usual feedback I get at my writer's group is to trim stuff down rather than extend it.

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*laughs*

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*kisses horse*

>>9589626
fucking kek

She has some funny ones on the Brontës too

>>9590330
i suggest therapy

like every stephenson novel, it starts with a single, cool idea in it and a decent attempt at a set-up for realizing that idea, but the moment it's actually introduced (and in the most ham-fisted way possible mind you) everything goes completely to shit

I really think this guy should team with a guy who actually knows how to write 1) good prose 2) good characters 3) good plots, because he probably would deserve half the profits just for his 4) good ideas

better yet someone with more talent should just rip off his books, because I would read those all in a heartbeat

>>9589565
The L Ron Hubbard character on a garbage skow was funny though.

>>9589565
It was supposed to be a comic book. It got resuscitated as a novel.

>>>/his/hum/

we moderns do things because they make rational sense, not because we are the slave of someone else who commands us. it's pretty cut and dry desu. Plato definitely isn't wishy washy about that either

>>9589563

obviously if one believes in God, then what God commands is morally good because it is morally good, otherwise you wouldn't believe in God

if you don't believe in God, then everyone who believes in God is just a mindless drone

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Its an interesting dialogue that presents the cultural Socrates was challenging. I always recommend this as an introduction to Plato because it introduces the concepts of forms in an interesting way. Christianity recognizes that things are holy because God says so, its
interesting to me to see the development of religion and how its become something more complex than what the Greeks believed.

Try some of Emerson's poetry, a more modern example is Ginsberg, but /lit/ doesn't like him very much.

Here is a poem of Ginsberg's:

A Supermarket in California


What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in a hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?
—Berkeley, 1955

>>9589557
Whitman

I think Bloom was one of the first to push Whitman as an influence on Stevens, but Stevens was a literary chameleon (also read all of Emerson in his youth). So try Stevens, even though his diction will be higher and more abstract at first. Start with Harmonium.

here's a nice quick one, part 3 of "certain phenomena of sound"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=61&issue=1&page=20

I don't like gentrification. I don't like either the fashion or the fashionability of artist communities. I wish Faber and FSG could've set up in hick towns so all the artists would live out in the country instead of shitting up the cities and raising rent.

wow things change and you are so authentic because you can see the shalloweness in other people trying to have fun

>>9589561
desu I hate people who shit on gentrification way more than actual gentrifiers. yes, it's annoying if people pretend to assume the culture of a neighborhood while actually destroying it. but living in surburbia isn't appealing for a lot of people, so "gentrifiers" are just responding to natural incentives by going back to neighborhoods built before suburbia happened.