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>tfw forcing myself to finish a book I don't much care for
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just put it down man, it's not worth it.
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>>9491575
I do the same so I can place them on my bookshelf without feeling immense shame
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>>9491594
this

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Who pays for the roads?
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FUCK who pays for the road, I just want my mom to stop paying taxes so she can buy me pricier tendies.
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>>9491522
The roads, or The roads?
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>>9491522
UGH there's no such thing as society!

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>tfw have good ideas and my writing is alright, but it's too bland and boring

How do I write with a more carefree style? I want my sentences to all be different and interesting, while maintaining a level of rhythm within my prose. A good example of what I want to achieve is Nabokov. I don't care if you like him or not, but he had a certain "flowery" style that came across as effortless on his part. I've had some short stories published, but they're fucking boring and stale. It's the same sentence structure throughout. I want something more fun. Please, I want to write in a more stylish way. How can I do this, /lit/?
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smoke heroin
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>>9491520
Please, this is serious.
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>>9491513
reviewbrah lookin good here

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Hey /lit/. I am in serious trouble right now, I used to be able to read many books, hundreds of pages per day, but now it seems that I suddenly have had a brain fog and I forget words and my reading comprehension has simply gone down considerably. What is this, has anyone had it, and is it reversible?
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>>9491486
I have experienced this. Fret not, anon. You are aging, and you've recently entered a period in your life in which other occupations consume your time, such as a new job, a new woman, a big move, etc. The challenges of meaningless life require ample attention from our brains, because money and (re)production are the essential elements of survival in a capitalist society.

Understand your mind is finite. Like a jar of piss, it becomes full.

When I realized I'd lost my wits was the night I came across the word apotheosis in Moby Dick. I'd seen it dozens of times, looked it up as many. My brain shot blanks, like I sometime dream my Cock would.

Knowing that I knew the word at some point, I panicked. In fact, I renounced the arts altogether. I resigned myself to wagecuckery and parenting.

Then, randomly, I began meditating. Meditation revealed to me the dilapidated state of my body. Thus I began running. I practiced these activities for weeks.

Let me tell you anon: I am a kid again. The fog of adulthood and all the nonsense data resting like manure in my mind, it faded away. I went clear.

I retain everything now. In fact, I'd elevate myself as a man to the rank of a God.

Meditate. Run. Read. Repeat for a while. Die.
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>>9491660
wow, anon. That is really deep. But still that does not solve my problem. What I am worried about, I am sure, is a possibly neurological problem that I must be currently experiencing and of which I know not its cause. Have you any experience with that?
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>>9491685
Everyone has felt that way. The vast majority of cases can be fixed by following the other anon's suggestions.

If you truly think you are an exceptional case, then go get your fuckin brain checked out.

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Why aren't you working on your philosophical treatise right now?
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>>9491433
morally weak and would rather get drunk tbrqhwy desu. also brainlet.
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>>9491433
computer crashed a couple months ago
lost 2 years of entries in my political manifest

Now i have my own business. Weird how much time you save when not stroking your brain dick
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because philosophy is a hyperrealistic construct susceptible to confirmation bias and little else of rationale

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>tfw edith was raped by her father
of course, i was unaware until my wife pointed it out
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I raped your wife.
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>>9491366
I was unaware until you pointed it out.
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>>9491363
Edith mentally raped Stoner for the entirety of their relationship. She was in the wrong.

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My grandma thinks Jesus spoke Latin. How do I convince her he spoke Hebrew. She's 89 and I want her to know she is wrong before she dies
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>>9491299
Why do you want to upset her?
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google it fag
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>>9491299
But she would still be wrong if you convinced her

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Has the mystery of what a "civinad" is ever been solved?

Most credible theories point to it referring to some kind of citizen or perhaps chancellor
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>>9491244
Fuck off, you fat nerd

>>>/r9k/
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Where is mankrik's wife?
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>>9491264
reported

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I know that their styles are polar opposites, but can it be said that one is superior to the other?
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Yes, Faulkner was better.
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>>9491242
Yeah this
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>>9491237
Hemingway is a meme-author just like David Foster Wallace or Shakespeare.

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What was Dolokhov's fucking problem?
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>>9491138
Asshole pseud of remarkable effectiveness that two women of my acquaitence actually liked. Go figure.
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>>9491138
>>9493059
I'm thinking of reading this book. Is it any good?
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>>9493094
It reads so quickly and clearly that youll be sorry when it ends. If (you) like tight novels, however, read Anna.

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>According to a New York Times Magazine profile by the novelist Madison Smartt Bell, for a year Vollmann wrote much of his first novel, You Bright and Risen Angels, after hours on office computers, subsisting on candy bars from vending machines and hiding from the janitorial staff.

Is this what they call the literary lifestyle?
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I write my novel while I hide from the centipede in my stomach which when it discovers me compels me to masturbate and watch anime. Vollmann and I are very similar except I'm a lot more talented to be totally frankly honestly true and noble intentioned with you my dear fellow.
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It doesn't represent the majority, but then again how do we know where majority of writers claim their thinking zone? Me, I just sit at my computer in the middle of the night and re-read the Voluspo for the 100th time, after a good several avocados and milk.
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>>9491102
yikes

What is /lit/ opinion on audio books
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>>9490958
Useful when you drive alone for a long time and you don't want to read one book or want to read it again but you feel too lazy to.
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Stop being a lazy fucking child and read without having to get someone else to do it for you.
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>>9491129
Glad someones agrees.

So was he correct?
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>>9490897
"No."
~t. George Orwell
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>>9490897
It is if you live in a commie country
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>>9490897
Yes. You need to find a nice balance; reading too much is just as bad as reading too little.

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I am confused. What makes this "poetry?"

I'm not being facetious, but what distinguishes it from an essay or a short story?
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Is "The Road" a very long poem too?
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Guys help
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>>9490825
>Claudia
It's not poetry, it's affirmative action

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What's his political angle?
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obtuse
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who gives a shit?
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>>9490786
What's wrong with his face?

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