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>We do not accept unsolicited submissions
>Recent publications: my vagina is literally bleeding By Ironic Depression Humor Trust Fund Girl Who Writes in Deadpan Non Capitalized Prose
IT ISNT FAIR
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Guess you'll have to find an agent
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>>9319395
This. Or maybe look for a smaller publishing house. Oneworld took tons when they were starting up, and then hit it out of the park and no longer take submissions.
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>>9319386
>We do not accept unsolicited submissions
>Every one of the poems published in the last issue is political
>90% by women
>Google first author
>Has a tumblr blog where they say Donald Trump being elected was as bad as the time they were raped
>Go back to website
>Newest issue's cover is a dead Trump with pencils stuck in his face
>Repeat for nearly every uni literary mag
Really stimulates the neurons.
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Holy this kino was boring. Why did PTA pick such a pleb pinecone book. Mason and dixon would have been the patrician choice
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Yeah a 2-hour Hollywood version of Mason & Dixon would have been great eh
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It feels a little weird that Pynchon approved this to be honest. I haven't seen it (or read IV) but the other Pynchon I've read is very word-based. I can't imagine him working well in movie form
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I haven't read the novel but I do enjoy the film. It's like Chinatown on acid.
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Who wrote the best shit scenes?
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sunset
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>>9319079
This was such a funny episode
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i vaguely rremeber a HORRIBLE george r.r. martin written diarrhea scene
>fell for the meme and started reading pic related
>have to look up on the internet to understand what the fuck is going on everytime I finish a chapter
Is it hard just for the sake of being hard? What the fuck
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Once you finish part one it becomes an actual narrative, instead of a grab bag of scenes.
Use this if you aren't.
http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/rainbow.htm
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>>9319130
aren't what
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>>9319146
Aren't following dumass.
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Why the fuck should I read Plato if I've already read Stirner? I don't need some preachy virtuecuck telling me why spooks are real.
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>>9318872
If I hate melons and don't ever want to eat them I still need to know what exactly melons looks like.
I'm walking into the supermarket, I have been taught to avoid melons, I have read the manuscript. Green stripes and red inside, I know the drill.
Let's pick up this yellow fruit instead, that looks fun BAM I bought a fucking honey melon
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>>9318888
>Food analogies
Hi /v/
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>>9318872
stirner is for edgelords
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Hey lit, just wanted to say thank you.
You have introduced me into the world of reading. I have found something that I have been missing in my life and have found great happiness through books suggested on this board.
You probably don't hear this enough but thank you for existing and I hope more plebs like me get introduced into the world of reading through this board.
Currently reading Demons.
Share your currently reading, and if any other plebs are like me.
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>>9318716
nigga
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>>9318716
I'm a pleb just like you. This board needs more plebs just like us.
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>>9318723
I'm sure there are plenty of lurkers, I lurked for a while before commenting here and there, mostly picking up suggestions etc.
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holy shit this guy was a genius
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Invisible Cities is really his masterwork in my opinion (although I can't claim to have read all his fiction).
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All I know about Italo Calvino is that my dyke ex-gf wanted me to read him and my brain somehow assumes he's like Borges and Eco
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>Be me
>First language portuguese
>Decide to learn italian
>Pick up the basics on duolingo
>Can read italian with sparse use of a dictionary
>Too lazy to do that
>Never use italian
I'm a fucking mess senpaitachi.
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>"his eyes flashed"
Excuse me?
His eyes "flashed"?
What did he eat for breakfast, lightning bolts?
Is he a robot with camera eyes? hm?
The son of Zeus perhaps?
Shooting electricity out of his fucking eyes?
People's eyes don't fucking "flash" you fucking hack, Christ
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You sound like you suffer from the 'tism.
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>>9318635
Yeah your eyes would never flash you pathetic pussy.
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>>9318635
>try to make an author sound stupid
>reveal you're insensitive to facial cues
being a critic is is hard
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Why haven't you read this GOAT-tier masterpiece yet? 2017-03-31 12:10:53 Post No.9318490
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Why haven't you read this GOAT-tier masterpiece yet?
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I want to but I'm halfway through two meme doorstoppers. Please forgive.
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>>9318498
>Halfway through TWO meme doorstoppers.
Why read two at once?
What books are they?
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>>9318502
Because I'm a retard.
They are The Recognitions and Underworld. Okay maybe the second one hasn't attained meme status but whatever.
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Thoughts on this?
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'Twas a struggle indeed.
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>the best piece of Norwegian literature is some pretentious multi volumed autobiography by some 40 year old man
What happened to get to this point my guys?
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Which one should i read next?
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Gatsby, it's melancholy, and makes me long to live in that era, to have experienced the fashion and architecture, you can feel the hot summer nights as you read the pages.
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my diary desu
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>>9318150
Only read the prologue to Invisible Man, and it was pretty fucking aces.
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Attention /lit/izens, bow to your king!
There is a reason it is called "the Book"
Poetry, history, philosophy, and theology all perfectly blended into a single edition and given the rightful stamp of "Holy". Lolita cannot stand in it's shadow, Aesop's Fables are not worthy of being it's footstool. Bow to the king of books you ignorant and unwise, Bow with all your might!
What other book contains all of history within it's pages? What other book more accurately summarizes the human condition and the solution? What book is there that can be upheld for centuries, in the face of persecution and censorship?
No one will remember the other novels written by mere mortals, but the Bible shall live forever with the words therein.
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>>9318060
The Bible is just a voice in the wilderness, preparing the way for the Lord of all Books
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>>9318134
I stand on a stack of Gravity's Rainbows while preparing my banana pancakes.
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I'm not even religious and I think it's the best book ever written, maybe even with an ironic amen brother!
if david foster wallace killed himself, why shouldn't i?
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>>9318025
who said you shouldn't? follow your dreams, anon
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>>9318025
because i've told you not to.
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Killing yourself is the most reddit thing you can do
Reading the tunnel right now, the first 100 pages has been unalloyed joy. I am feeling the pure excitement of language, this book is glorious.
If you are on the fence, get off on the Gassy side. I am only 1/6th of the way through and am more then comfortable recommending this book, It could drop in quality 10 fold over the next 500 pages and It would still be worth it.
>tfw Gassposter was right
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It doesn't get good until 200 pages in pleb.
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>>9317564
If that's true then my scrotum might hemorrhage, I nut at least once per page. I'm gonna get back to reading it now.
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>>9317552
I am /pol/ and apparently this book discusses Hitler. Is it pro national socialist? Does he question the holocaust at all? If it's just going to be the uneducated mainstream version of history then I'm not interested. I'd really like to know before wasting time reading it. Thanks.
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Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
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Prove to me the Tractatus isn't he best philosophy work ever made. This is the only book I take everywhere I go, no matter what. The most puzzling and enlightening book I have ever read. Prove me wrong.
Pro-tip: you can't.
(This is the average Tractatus page for me)
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Wiggy is like babby's first mindfuck
his ideas are so shallow and boring, and that's when he isn't playing pointless language games
all philosophical problems are not at bottom linguistic problems
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>>9317426
No. That was his later thinking of Language Games after the Tractatus, but when he said that all philosophical problems are due to inherent logic of our language, and that they are unsolvable, he totally hit the nail on the head.
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>>9317424
>Pro-tip: you can't.
We could if you gave an accurate list of all the philosophy you've read. Come on. You know it wouldn't be long.