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>>9450626
If a writer can't include well written female characters, that's a shitty writer.
get gud, then try again

>>9450626
You can't write good fiction about the world if you don't know the world: seems like you know nothing about half of the population.

Write about what you know, anon.

>>9450626
there's a rule in script writing, i forget what it's called. but bascially a reader (producer) will test the script by determining whether there is a single instance of a female to female conversation that is not about one of the male characters. obviously, its not great to fail the test.

though it sounds like you dont kno much about women, just make it up. often i find peoples conceptions about shit more interesting than the reality. just create female characters you'd like to know or not know. additionally, you must know your mom, no?

gravity's rainbow

>>9450621
Have done.

>>9450628
Word.

You done Absalom, Absalom?

>>9450160
postmodern bourgeois semantics are not my cup of tea

His ideas aren't edgy enough.

Utterly boring and inconsequential

He did it to himself.

>>9449966

How?

>>9449964
>Takes the easiest possible Enlightenment era philosophy (utilitarianism)
>Claims to have discovered 'logical' morals

No you goddamned mongoloid
I know you only asked this to irritate me but fuck it, I'm mad

Raskolnikov is an embodiment of the sweeping nihilism in St. Petersburg during the mid 19th century, itself born out of a failed grasp at bourgeoise Socialism by the educated youths of the earlier 19th century. His descent into inhumanity and moral despondence is a criticism of the dangerous power of unbridled philosophical sophistry and twisted moralist manipulation which Dostoevsky saw as having been born out of that earlier era of Socialism. That he is ultimately saved by the trope 'absolved whore' and embraces Christianity has been alternatively interpreted as an earnest admittance of the need for religious absolution among the people of that era, or by some skeptics as a sarcastic satirization of many of the earlier Socialist's very ideals and a prediction of the bastardized return of that movement later under the Bolsheviks - both interpretations find validity in Dostoevsky's other works, notably Notes From Underground.

No he was Russian

How come he felt guilt for the crone, but not for Lizaveta?

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>>9449323
I know very little. I need to read more. I need to get serious about learning a second language

>>9449323
I learned that I'm easily influenced by books and almost always agree with the author on everything

That I will literally never write anything even close to good

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>what took you so long?

>>9446701
just an old codger scratching his head over being literally. no knowledege gained

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>>9442315
Alternatevely: "post your charts" edition

quoth myself:
>This took a while so be kind. Please note I'm only putting down stuff I've read, so I know there's glaring omissions.
>Also taking the time to mention Watts alongside the likes of Clarke and Asimov is strange but I really do think he's phenomenal author.

>This is a only a first and now I've got the software and basis I can easily update it, so please ask if you want anything added.

>>9441547
In addition to Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer.

>>9442321
Always nice to see new content. Well, usually.

The setup is a bit strange, the curved lines make it harder to follow than a normal flowchart. Also I suppose the notes are separate so that the other bubbles don't get too big. Also maybe consider adding a background color because it's even harder to read with image hover over a thread.

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>>9454211

Read separate books of the bible in between reading other works.

>>9454005
agreed

>>9454005
>>9454020
I am currently finishing Genesis. Do you mean reading like this:
>Genesis
>Crime and Punishment
>Exodus
>brothers karamazov
>Leviticus
>etc.
I am just beginning getting into serious lit, I haven't read all classics, except the few that I finished in the last half a year.

3edgy5me

I think you are trying too hard with the whole bit about the light leaving their eyes and how their trust turns to fear and hatred etc etc. Try to put yourself into the mind of the character: would he really be thinking about that, with that wording?

Also- people don't die instantly when you slit their throat

>>9453956
Depends on where you cut and how deep

start with getting a job

>>9453824
Only read White Noise and Cosmopolis. Liked both, though I can't really say much about him.

Libra is his best work

White Noise is his most important

Americana is self-important drivel

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>>9453814
building a meaningful relationship with a person will help you climb out of whatever shitole that you are speaking of.

yes reading books and being literate is good but dont forget to also live your life too, autist.

>>9453814
Don Quixote. Imagine that the windmills represent the girl, and you share Don Quixote's love for books/reading.

Ask her out you bumblefuck. It'll only get worse.

get a job \\

>>9453776
Is it about getting a job?

>>9453780
get a job u worthless sack of shit by john "i fucked ur oneitis" green

bump

All Sex, All the Time - Theodore Dalrymple

https://www.city-journal.org/html/all-sex-all-time-11803.html

>>9453727

Mother Earth, Motherboard

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

It's on the longer side for an essay, but just read it. It is fucking excellent.