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>>9304933
>If so, what happened?
Dolan
>Is it more relevant
probably not

Literally Hitler was elected as american president

>>9304933
>what happened?
Snowden.

because it's a different language.

You could actually do Le grand Gatsby tho

>>9304912
That's exactly why French are retarded

>>9304786
Lovecraft's Necronomicon

>>9304786
Nick Land

>>9304786
I could tell you but then they'd have to kill me.

>>9304670
Nah, I'm really good looking

I feel strange when someone told me that she loves me. (except my mother of course)

>>9304679
That has nothing to do with what I'm describing

>>9304546
Keep writing

>>9304546
Get drunk m8. Not drunk drunk, the state before you feel bad.

combine your 16 unfinished novels into one complete novel.

finnegans wake

but seriously just read a book you're interested in

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>>9304543

>>9304550
Yeah, i'm having a hard time deciding.

>>9304556
Is this a serious post? I actually saw the movie a few years ago when it got nominated. I guess i liked it a bit.

>>9304512
The fucking bird shouldn't have mocked him if it didn't want to get killed. Alo Boo did nothing wrong.

>>9304512
>Most popular piece of American fiction ever written
>Heavily underrated

Choose one

>>9304512
I think it gets a bad rap on this site, but >>9305043

'The fact that I had a permanent fiance was little comparison for his absence: I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. I stayed miserable for two days.'

also

'There was a lady in the moon in Maycomb.'

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>>9304510

LITERALLY anything

Unlike in a hypothetical situation involving a party I have less trust in and less affection for then yourself, I will be frank in my telling you this and let you know the book you are imploring me to provide is indeed the account of my own earthly life.

>tranny negroidic ape feminist tells me that white men are evil and everything they do is bad because they are white and male
>tell them that's stupid
>they accuse me of having ressentiment for black feminist trannies

It was the most confusing moment of my life

>>9304469
False flag post. It is less common for 'victims of oppression' to play the ressentiment card, when instead they could just moralise for the same effect.

If they DID do the former, then it would require more cognitive dissonance, since their ressentiment is what has come to define them as people, and they'd go down that slippery slope of undermining themselves too.

If you're wondering why someone would false flag like this >>9304469, it is because the 'alt-right'/'redpill' herd are just as motivated by ressentiment as their enemies are. So if they can paint the identification of ressentiment as a 'liberal'/'jews' tactic, they absolve themselves.

Too right, too right. I was a binman, I was, and they let me drive the bin lorry on week-outs. Even when I was just stickiwicking old fag-ends and sanitary pads on the side of the flat-top as a litter-picker, I had more dignity, even if it meant taking the tram into the nottinghamshire. Once I even saw the Queen, I did!

Academics are scum of the earth, right there with the journalists and the like.

>>9304438
It's funny how many people on /lit/ seem to have no idea that this is how academia works (in the UK and US, at least). All those posts saying 'any jobs with this degree other than academia?', as if getting a proper academic career were the easy option and not hilariously difficult and competitive.

the new adaptation
>light turner
What a shitshow. Bangkok 8 or Joe Pitt

>>9304402
unironically recommend my diary desu

>>9304406
Bangkok 8 seems nice. Thanks.

>>9304290
Now that it has been fetishized and is practiced on such a massive scale by every neckbeard with a word processor cranking out shit genre fiction demanded by publishers for their "throw shit and see what sticks" approach to fantasy and sci fi, only outstanding examples like Malazan stand out, and I would rather see more of a move towards plot development and prose in my genre fiction. Instead we get trash like GoT and Kingkiller.

That does not preclude the genius of Tolkien, Howard, Lovecraft, Frank Herbert, Heinlen, William Gibson, Miller (Leibowitz) and Orson Scott Card, for whom world building is probably more than half of their genius, Tolkein in particular having raised it to an art form which isnt surprising considering he was a proto-autist who saw developing languages as a hobby. Interestingly enough, the Malazan fellow is also an archaeologist by training, and I wonder if a background in classical humanities creates a better world builder.

I imagine the cosmology of the world is a very important foundation of any world. Yes it's a worthwhile endeavour to sort it out before writing anything. Gives you back knowledge of your own universe and makes it seem like you're not making it up as you go along.

>>9304290
They have their place. Worlds can do things normal narratives can't. Intricate meaningless feudalism is integral to Gormenghast, and something similar is integral to Dune. And I don't even need to explain Neuromancer.

Plus, worldbuilding has always been a big part of heavily allegorical works. Think Piers Ploughman or Dante.

Ironically, I'd argue that "worldbuilding" is not important to one of the largest influences on the whole concept, the Bible.
>>9304431
This is completely wrong. Its basic assumptions are fucked. This whole idea that if you don't sort your setting out people will find it unrealistic is bunk, and forgets that all the reader cares about in most stories is...the story.

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>tfw read Nietzsche and realize that you are literally the walking definition of slave morality

if only our age had a napoleon i wouldnt even feel bad about it

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>>9304288

Certainly not us right? I mean we're having a great time on this Mongolian anime board..

>>9304664
follow Drumpf you dipshit

>>9304218
Martin Heidegger's The Question Concering Technology

>>9304218
My Diary desu~

>>9304218
Industrial Society and Its Future

>>9304068

dahye has a tight anus

>>9304068

Post your gf's feet

>>9304068
Women are women.

(I hope that helped you!!).