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Looks interesting desu

>>9580178
That's a big dog

I did ok. Fucked off for most of the time, got straight As last two years.

I.....became a chronic alcoholic, write some books that are unpublished, though got some short stories I'm starting to get published.

Wish I basically would have fucked all the chicks I wanted to fuck.....especially now that I know they wanted to fuck too.

I learned how funny being a complete loser is. All my characters are complete losers, even if they're successful in some ways.

>>9579446
>what did you learn the most about writing

That D'Annunzio was a shit writer.

Thought I was hot rub. Chemistry woke me up, though, and my teacher gave me a c. Cried when I got home because it made me feel stupid but looking back on it I'm glad it happened.

Pretty sure that and two other B's was my downfall for higher education.

Now my first year of state school in Delaware and would like to go into academia but I probably won't be abe to compete with those applicants coming from Harvard, Yale, etc.

Only hope is grad school. If grad isn't good I'll probably quit writing and all and either kill myself or join a band until I starve

Regret was not taking that publishing deal.

>>9571411
The book of Revelation

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>>9570078
that pynchon chart should probably be updated.

For the record:
Genesis is 50 chapters long,
Exodus 40,
Leviticus 27,
Numbers 36,
Deuteronomy 34

>Deuteronomy June 26 - June 2
Surely you mean July 2.

>>9569616
>Surely you mean July 2.

Yeah I messed that up

>>9569596
tfw I unironically stole my bible from a hotel room

>>9586601
> Hero X is in trouble and might possibly die
> God Y shows up and saves him

every fucking time

>>9586601
english

>>9586518
yeah meme yourself into irrational belief you dip

>i have felt the presence of god
how fucking presumptuous

It baffles me how /lit/izens seem to want to pick up faith like a fashion statement. If you truly felt god, then look inward. Don't be so quick to seek meaning external to yourself.

>>9586526
Actually there's nothing more rational.

>>9585757
Joyce is unreadable shit. I have tried probably 15x to read Ulysses, getting hundreds of pages in, and I cannot understand why it is universally revered. I understand this relegates me to literary plebdom, but it is an honest one. I cannot even put myself in the place to derive pleasure or intellectual benefaction from the work. It is just drivel.

>Why don't you write books people can read?
-Nora Barnacle

I do use books to prop up a wobbly table.

I have coffee stains on the pages of Naked Lunch and a couple on some Philip K Dick novels.

One of my kids thought it'd be funny to see how far a book would go if he kicked it out of the second floor window so now my copy of 100 Years of Solitude has a permanent boot print on the cover and some dirt stains.

I'm thinking of trading in my children for a first edition of Gravity's Rainbow.

i consider myself a literary intellectual despite not knowing Latin or Greek.

>>9584772
Moby Dick is much more fun when you imagine timid, awkward acting by the girl playing Ishmael on the bow of the paper mache ship shouting at the girl in the stuffed whale costume.

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For most realist or sentimental novels I have a portfolio so-to-speak of character designs in my mind of what people look like and then choose someone from there to visualize in a story depending on their description and modify them accordingly. Admittedly most of these designs come from movie sets or paintings I admire. Though I will say for pomo and poetry my character designs in my head are radically different from the usual and more than once I've literally visualized Pynchon himself in one of this books and Keats in one of his poems. The same goes for what the settings look like; I have a few "bases" of run-down 19th century cities and castles and such in my head beforehand. Though for "framing" a particular scene in my head I purposely try to visualize them in interesting or unique angles like I'm sort of a director

>>9584768
Bump

at least all he did was create beautiful prose that never hurt anyone

Marx on the otherhand...

he was a great artist

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>I'm an angry poor wagecuck

im really not into the aristotle/aquinas thing

as a platonist/augustinian and a member of the orthodox church, does anyone have a non-meme argument for why anyone should switch to Catholicism? except for the fact that Catholics have more lavish Cathedrals and that Catholocism is the religion of Western Europe, I don't see any plusses. The Western European thing makes me want to be a Catholic, but I just can't get into it. Orthodoxy Anglicanism and Lutheranism all seem better

>>9583353
Because you should only join a religion based on if it's true. The Catholic Church is undisputed in it being the succession of the Throne of Peter (even Orthos admit this). A quick read of the gospel will show that Jesus intended for His Church to have a leader (ie Pope) and that Peter needed a succession for said leadership.

I don't know how true it is but I heard that before his accident he had a major epiphany and was apparently was going to start working on something he claimed was going to outshine the Summa. I figure God had to take him out because the world wasn't ready for it.

Not read, is it translated to English? What is it about?

>>9581777
It is a modernist novel about an intellectual in late 19th century Croatia who can't make ends meet. He is deeply psychologically flawed and can't stop escaping from himself and his responsibilities - "Bijeg" is Croatian for escape. His passive personality, as his "escapes" get larger and more frequent, eventually leads to the ruin of his life.

It's defabul

>>9582226
Oops on that last part. I don't know of any translations unfortunately, which is a shame because this is the best book I've read this year for sure.

2 genius at work : Goscinny and Sempé.

>>9581549
Do u feel smart?

>>9581555
OP asks a question, I provide an answer, while subtly including my opinion.

I do not spend time on the internet to feel smart anon.

your diary desu

My diary desu

our diaries desus

if youre talking about the willful ignorance of those who think that WASPs control the country and are out to get them then yeah, most reasonable people would agree.

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>>9578951
WHITE CHRISTIAN MALES WANT TO HACK OFF YOUR CLITORIS IN TRUMP'S AMERICA

>>9578964
sun's going down

better change my gender