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tfw only 35/100

also here are some bonus results

oh shit this actually happened

thanks polling anon

>>9543923
>Infinite Jest dropped to 42

what did he mean by this?

>>9543214
oh that's the complete works of mark twain in the background if you were curious. not a recent purchase but it made it in the picture.

>An American reading American po-mo trash.

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>>9543214
>Ramcharit manas.
Well done.

ढोल, गवार,शूद्र, पशु नारी सकल ताड़ना के अधिकारी।
Drum, uneducated,low castes,animals and women are always deserving of a tounge lashing.

t. Tamil Vaishnav Brahmin that likes to annoy liberals on the Internet.

The tiger was thinking a lot about what would happen after his death. Nevertheless he should be asking what was before his birth. Thus he opened the cage to find out.
(sorry for my language, I am polish ape)

The tigers maze
He is always trapped in that cage
Oh no
No
NO
The tiger is skinned

...and the lionesses and gazelles and polar bears and meerkats and the Zoo where I was a boy in the crowd yes when I put the spoon in the Dippin' Dots like my uncle used or shall I wear my monkey hat yes and how he stared at my from behind his bars and I thought well as well he is a tiger and then I asked him with my eyes to escape this place yes and then he roared and gripped the cage yes to say yes Nael my friend and first he put his arms around the bars yes and tore them apart so he could walk down so I could pet him and his tail was swaying like mad and yes he's out yes he is YES.

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>>9538877
This upsets me desu.

David Copperfield. Agnes is an angel. Anyone who says otherwise is a butthurt feminist.

>>9537130
my diary desu

>>9537130
Dunno, but that girl would definitely be my ideal female

>>9536491
>A boy falls in love with a girl. Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl’s phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well. But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day’s confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn’t exist in this universe at all. She is the girl’s alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC’s own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush. Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

>a man meets a ratty looking asian guy in his creative writing workshop, the two slowly become friends discussing each other's poetry
>later the guy asks the MC if he can come with him to visit a 'friends' place and critique his work
>meets him at some house where a fat ugly neckbeard is alone on his computer in the living room, and when the MC attempts to introduce himself or talk to him the neckbeard ignores him - the MC reads his work, and the book goes aside to read the short story (think Canterbury Tales or Hyperion)
>finishes it confuses and tries to discuss it with the neckbeard, to no avail
>goes back to monotony of life until the next time he's contacted by his friend to meet up at another house
>this time it's a couple asleep on the couch who won't wake up, so the two sit on the opposite couch and read their story
>rinse and repeat with a further few anomalies (woman having sex off in another room while they read her story, crossdresser off smoking by the back door while they read his story etc.)
>all the while the structure and order of the MCs life is a very slowly breaking up

In all honesty it doesn't sound good through greentexting it but I know what I'm doing.

>Guy drills holes in wood for a living, goes around drilling wood. Then one day he's asked to drill holes in metal, begins crying. End.

Strive towards complete proficiency. Consume more foreign media and train yourself to reliably think in another language.

>>9550714
Watch movies?

I'm reading Blood Meridian in german. I found it in the bargain bin. Mmmm. It's okay.

Although I live in germany, I never really got into german novels. German poems and even wanderlieder, sure, but I just can't enjoy books as much. I'm determined to stick with it, and it is entertaining, but I can't help but imagine how much more I'd be enjoying it if I were reading it in english.

is good and poetic

>>9549385
Thanks, /lit/

>>9549365
Any opinions on pinsky's translation?

He was recommended to me, but he's only translated the inferno, so who should i read for purgatorio and paradisio?

>>9548823
Absolute garbage. Witz I could barely read when he went full Yiddish and a book of numbers was boring as fuck.

>>9548823
read one of his short stories once, was terribly boring and seemed like a bad DFW rip off mixed with a bad ripoff of mid-atlantic no bullshit.

>>9548823
Who is this seccond cohen poster?
Why does he meme about joshua?

>Mom, do you see me?
>Yes, but I don't want to

Is this a Brave Little Abacus lyric?

nothing beats the raw emotion of the yes//YES

>>9548463
Yes
YES

Confirmed new meme. Neal lives on forever.

>>9547656

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/sources/ccmt.aspx

>>9547656

Ever since reading the Sherlock Holmes series, I'm organzing all series by in universe chronology.

Started with sherlock holmes, then conan the barbarian.
Now I'm working on lovecrafts works.

I'm not done, so you're stuck with reading them as they were writen.

>>9547699

I think I'll do a song of ice and fire next.

>>9546655
Thanks.

>>9546655
Thanks

It's always nice to see a new /lit/ chart

>>9546655
That Mahabharata set is aesthetic as fuck.

- rupi kaur

>>9546066
Yeah, we know, but it's not very helpful for everyday life, so let's move on.

>>9546084
where? what philosophy is better for everydaylife?

>>9545124
cast it off

Start afresh and don't allow yourself get into similar rut with the new one.

10k words in 2 years?
im at 35k, in 2 months, and the second of those months I've only written like 2-3 of the days

working on two books of poetry, nearing completion on one.

Only problem I see is publishing them. ;')

I've only been published 43 or so times (in low-mid tier outlets), is that enough to have some gatekeeper accept me?

>>9544560
>He can’t think, he can’t write
Bloom went too far with this one, I guess it was a different time

Go write another 45 books on Shakespeare

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>>9544560

It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’