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>>9539685
Bump

>>9539685
>put in couple pages of work
>get Anne Rice
>make mental note to kill myself
>omit second half of pages so much less dialogue
>get DFW
how does this thing work?

>>9539702
Don't bump shill threads like this.

never heard of it

i read it recently for the first time, in my mid 20s

i think it suffers from being so influential and referenced, that it doesn't seem as impressive as it no doubt was when it was first released

>>9539432

Good entry level /lit/. Compared to other works in the canon it's rather average. You should read it because it gets referenced literally everywhere. You should not read it because Buzzfeed tells you George Orwell was right about Trump. When you have read it you can tell stupid people that they didn't get it.

It's alright.

not my diary desu

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>>9539342

Justine.

Jung man, there's no need to feel down.
I said, Jung man, pick yourself off the ground.
I said, Jung man, 'cause you're in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy.

>>9539073
Tfw read von Franz because Jung is too complicated.

>>9539073

I have never actually read Jung, but his influence is so obviously smeared all over Zizek, Deleuze, etc. that I might actually give it a try. Heck, he even influenced Pauli's interpretation of non-causality (I'm a physicist). So any recommendations on where do I start?

is this all you or are you mocking me

>>9539006

Exactly

>>9538902
There's nothing that can't be fixed. Get to work, faggot.

>be Boethius
>be in prison for trying to fulfil lifelong dream of reuniting West and East
>practically the Henry Kissinger of the ancient world
>Philosophy visits you in your cell
>she's a hot bitch
>acts all expectant like you should be grateful for the visit
>barely care about philosophy, only minored in it in Athens, and dropped out ASAP anyway, to get your hands dirty government
>whatever
>ask her to free you
>she replies she's only there to provide "consolation" and grace you with her presence
>isn't she a goddess or something?
>ask her if she'll get you out of here, if you talk about how great she is for a while
>"Maybe"
>write an entire book's worth of blowing smoke up Philosophy's ass
>she seems really into it
>she's warmed up considerably now that you're basically grovelling and singing her praises
>feel good, feel like you're gonna get out of there soon
>fill five scrolls with scholastic bullshit you barely remember from the Academy
>finish it
>ask her if she'll free you now
>she gets offended and accuses you of thinking you're entitled to freedom
>leaves you to die
>tfw everyone forgets about your failed plans to reunite the empire under one christendom
>tfw they publish your cuck book
>tfw known for all time as philosophy's cuck

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>>9538705
ho-hum

>>9538654
Youll lose your muse, but gain a pal (if youre any good). Is this what you want? Of course there are other muses to be had no doubt, out there, somewhere..

Morte d'Arthur, Troilus and Creseyde

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>>9538623

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>>9538623

it's not about literal errors of writing style, it's about the author's inner state and how it might be reflected in writing style

Fraudulent intelligence.
See, even my answer was pretentious because it's complete bullshit, but my very act of attempting to define it without knowledge defined it.

>>9538614
>>9538615
So it's about suspicions the reader has about the writer?
What triggers these suspicions?

movie covers are cheating because all movie covers are shit

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>>9538517
Almost every other cover of this book is miles ahead so it's total shit, relatively.

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>>9538517
>Solaris

It's a lousy movie tie-in cover, but at least that image touches on Kelvin's interior life in the book
My copy is this romance-novel abomination

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>tfw there is no God but me, and I can do anything I please

>>9538481
4 chan is evil and unchristian

jesus was a non-white, Jewish proto-socialist

>>9538486
degenerate, hf living only for yourself

Get an agent instead of sending out unsolicited manuscripts like a retard.

>>9538079
>22k
There's your problem, anon. Write more short stories, wait for the rights of the ones you published to revert back, then try selling them as a collection.

>375k in debt
Lol, enjoy never retiring

>>9537809
>Did he effectively create what we know as Christianity?
No, this is a meme created by reddit fedoras who think that every church teaching not explicitly laid out by Jesus Christ in the Gospels comes from Paul (even though they can rarely point to a single example), because they were raised by plebeian protestants who don't know shit about the Sacred Tradition of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Martin Luther was a pseud and as always Germans were a mistake. The Spanish church did literally nothing wrong. Impeach Pope Francis Amen

>>9537809
>this Paul fellow

lets not pretend they were white Americans ok?

His name was Sha'ul, and he was a brown Jew.

>>9537851
how would you categorize your faith?

Virginia Woolf was a stupid cunt.

>>9537327

What kind of "trans" thing is it?

Nobody reads Stein whereas Woolf is on 9/10 school curriculum reading lists.

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>>9537243
>letting 80% of the americans die in a nuclear holocaust
>totally worth it

>barely literate white supremacist writes edgy YA-tier fantasy fulfillment
You have to be 18 to post on this site and an IQ of 90+ to post on this board.

>>9537745
He had a physics phd.

I would rather comment on that graffiti.

The 'artist' went out of their way to copy a twitter post in graffiti and then alter it slightly so they could claim it as their own. What kind of person does that?

>>9537244
I would rather comment on your dubs

The anon who posted that post received a dubs and still wastes his life on here seemingly without knowing how lucky he is.

>>9537244
You know what kind of person does that.