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Can any other philosopher hold up to this guy?
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>>9438704
possibly diogenes, but Kierkegaard is my personal favorite
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Yea.
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>>9438719
nihilists fuck off, you have never thought deeper into an argument on God than the top layer "muh hes not omnipotent got em'"
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Holier-than-thou: The Author
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>>9438642
OP: the faggot
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>>9438646
fipibipi
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>>9438672
Lazy anonymous poster: the post
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What are some complex/mature books involving teenagers?
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Infinite Jest
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>>9438628Catcher in the Rye
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>>9438628
Mishima's The Sound of Waves is a mature exploration of young adulthood and young love on an isolated Japanese island. A great book you can finish on a calm weekend.
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What's the best book on the history of the Russian Revolution? I read Animal Farm recently and I want to learn more. Thoughts?
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>>9438417
>I read Animal Farm recently
>I want to learn more
Um what?
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>>9438421
Animal Farm was based on the Russian Revolution
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ITT: Post an extract of your writing/others say if it'd be worth reading more.
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The crow, it crawk an scraw, fidgeting soil branch pile in Winter horizon burn. Locked frost and not a moss, the crow, it skwoh and squawk, diddled like not the bird can also be retarded, seasons rotund bi-cycle silo, what the fuck does it know. Not where the berries is, nigger.
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>>9438296
I want my 5 seconds back.
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Crackle jaw smacked rough and raw,
Crystal palace crumbled teeth like Alice,
Cautious, not caught, triple locked door,
Rumpy-pomp sweat on dick like ballast,
Baby girl next door she sleep deep,
Dick up inna bitch de guts squirt fuck juice,
High nigga HaHa we high beepity beep,
Her girl dumb like her momma loose.
Rickety ricket wrackety wrackety roo,
spring pinch spiral shatter spine fucked,
bed break, high intake, fucked her too,
Blue diamond little pill syringe tucked.
Stick it sponge leak creak-creak who is it,
Skrrrt skrrrit skrit French maids anime,
Adelaide, was that her name? Shit,
This bitch, she better have my Monet.
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Do you ever look at what you wrote after some time (be it minutes, hours, weeks, months) and cringe?
I have this often. Any solutions for this problem or is this a good thing?
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I don't cringe, but I see the flaws in my writing after letting it sit for a week or two. It's a good thing, not a problem. Once you gain some distance from your work you can begin to repair it.
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>>9438255
Even Bolaño had that feeling bro, my diary sucks
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>>9438255
a long time ago. It is better not to do so, one should not seek oneself out of oneself
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Why do college age millenials write social media posts like replying to a corporate chain mail?
>egregious
>joyous
>my heart goes out
>poignant
worse yet they couple these contrivanced with
>icky
>gross
etc
Politically correct drilling?
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>>9438205
t. Triggered vocablet
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>>9438205
Why are Millenials so obsessed with the word "Literally"? It honestly pisses me off how they use that word out of context so much to exaggerate something so trivial.
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>>9438205
noblesse oblige (ed. nancy mitford)
the uses of literacy (richard hoggart)
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What are your favorite history books?
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>>9438193
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A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the great - J.B. Bury
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What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
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Is Gothic Horror as a genre a Protestant nostalgia for the Catholic world view?
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I'd be interested to hear more about this.
Do you guys remember the guy who connected Hamlet, Byronic heroes, and Christopher Nolan's Batman all to a satanic conspiracy against the Catholic church?
Essentially saying that they and others were diabolical works trying to trap the Protestant individual in an isolated struggle against evil, ultimately undermining Christianity and destroying the individual. Meaning that they are supposed to be homages to medieval knightly faith, but so distorted that they become parodies and self-destruct.
I don't believe a word of it, but it had a lot of poetic value.
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>>9438077
I doubt it.
The Catholic worldview has the supernatural all about, but it is rarely horrifying, a contrast to Gothic Horror. The tendency of female Gothic writers to go to The Supernatural Explained indicates to me that the genre is more about Protestant culture.
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>>9438110
I must see this. Somebody deliver plz
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The funniest classic novel?
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Finnegans Wake
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>>9438076
Punnegan's Wake*
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>>9438074
Tristan Shandy or Evelina.
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I want to be the next John Green. Anyway, YA romance is the genre I want to target. Please give me topics I can put in my book so that it becomes a best seller. Sex, obviously. What else? I'm doing whatever it takes.
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Do you think John Green gets tons of "young adult" poontang? Is that the reason to be a YA author? The YA poon?
Do you think JK Rowling has a rotation of twink Harry Potter boy toys?
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>>9438047
Sex with older men.
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A beautiful young girl with a golden heart falls for Anon from /r9k/
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What the hell was his problem?
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cunts gonna cunt
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he understood that esoteric knowledge is hierarchical by nature and was true to this?
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Is he worth reading or just an edgelord like that pic would lead me to believe? Should I just stick to Nietzsche?
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Is Peterson right and we can't escape certain stories? Are tellings like flood myths real in some sort and able to regenerate themselves so that independent cultures cook them up?
https://youtu.be/7XtEZvLo-Sc
Can a human transcend those basic myths - is there anything beyond which we have heard anymore?
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>>9437873
I don't think so. In the modern day, we like to think of ourselves as progressing as a society, but I think it's much more likely we have always been like this, and only our technology and knowledge has progressed. We cannot transcend those myths because transcending is inherently inhuman.
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>>9437873
kill yourself
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>>9437873
If you believe Jung, then myths are an innate part of out psyche. They are ancestral memories which we all inherit, so it's no surprise that they keep emerging in unconnected cultures.
Are you guys lazy, or stupid, or both?
Let's do the math:
>1 Erotic Novella (10,000 - 20,000 words) takes about 2 hours to write
>1 in every 10 Novellas will sell reasonably well ($25 per month)
>14 waking hours in a day
>A NEET can write 5 (minimum) Erotic Novellas a day
I'm not going to do the overall math here but if you are a NEET with an imagination you could easily be earning $500 minimum simply writing erotic novellas and waiting for the royalty checks to come in.
You could be living in a comfy cabin in Maine, Montana, Wisconsin etc spending your free time swimming and hiking and reading just by spending a few hours a day writing erotic novellas intended for specific markets / demographics.
Why aren't you guys doing this?
Which brings me back to my original question...
I quit my job in August 2016 and since then my royalties have been increasing gradually as some of my books are spread via word-of-mouth. I go the extra mile and create fake accounts on womens-only book club forums to promote my work and the sales are going through the roof. I could easily risk spending a month writing nothing and still earn more than enough to pay rent on the summerhouse I'm renting in Rome, Maine.
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>>9437871
Go fuck yourself
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For a NEET that's actually quite a lot of work, especially when parents/irresponsible socialist govt's already provide free food, clothing, and shelter.
For me the main thing that dissuades me from trying this is the market research. I just don't want to read a dickload of shitty erotic novels and find out what sells. I don't even want to write it if it doesn't "work" for me. My dabblings in erotica have catered to my own sick fetishes and sub-fetishes, and I'm not sure how common these are in the female erotica reader demographic.
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>>9437871
>1 in 10 will sell reasonably well
Where did you get this figure from?
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Have you read any "self-help" books you actually liked?
I was really surprised by this one
It's basically the anti self-help of self-help books
Drops all pretenses and faux positivity, just gets straight to the point
The final chapter about death is even quite depressing
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Bachelor pad economics
Toxic parents
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>>9437847
Listened to it on audio book when I used my free audible trial.
It's not as anti self-help as it would have you initially believe. After the first chapter or two it basically turns into any other self-help book but tries to veil it by throwing in curse words and a fair amount of humor. If I remember correctly the first two chapters are the best ones.
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>>9437860
also, to answer your question
The War of Art and The Power of Now were pretty good.