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>>9275433
What a fatty. The mind is as healthy as the body-brain that filters it. Why must all critics be giant tubs of flesh

I have to admit, when I first saw a Boomer in Left 4 Dead, I never would have expected it to be a fantastic author

That was my own personal bias and I own up to it

>>9275433
Love him. Omensetters is a classic.

>>9275428
back to 9gag, faggot

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you can't kek the Zek

>>9275428
>he cites anyone at all
DELETE THIS

She thinks big dave was a genius. Bid gave was her hero. She writes books that aren't very good.

She only writes about her falsely perceived persecution due to her genetics. Not very interesting.

>>9275558
(not true by the way)

>>9275268
Horror is a weird genre, in that it isnt as crammed full of trash as sci fi and fantasy, but still lacks the definitive works of the genre such as Lem, Wolfe, Tolkein, Dick, Herbert.

The biggest names are the most bottom tier shit, and the stuff that is closest to literary fiction is either from the 20s or very very obscure and niche like ligotti and dan simmons early on.

>>9275291
I agree. I've tried reading big names of Horror like King, Lovecraft, Poe, Barker, and I have no idea why the fuck they're given such praise and that goes with all books in general (Which is a little off topic) but I don't understand why so many popular books end up so.

I don't typically like horror but Blackwood isn't really strictly horror. Like his contemporaries (Machen etc.) the important thing is not what's said but what's not said. The stories aren't incredibly overt, sometimes they never explicitly reveal whether the core "horror" feature was actually real at all or just a figment of the character's imagination, and in a sense this makes "weird" fiction that much weirder and more enjoyable.

His smile, his hidden kindness, his intelligence, the way his beard brushes my face.

He has a cool mustache

Some selected quotes from the last few pages:

>My genius lies in my nostrils
>I am in fact a female elephant
>Mankind can only have fresh hopes now that I have lived

lads

>>9275215

You don't, you're already doing it.

>>9275841
Please elaborate.

i feel bad for you.

>What does your family and friends think about your writing?

All the pretentious english majors here love my poetry.

>>9275338
I want you to know that I'm having trouble telling if your post is a troll post or sincere, and to reflect on the significance of my inability to tell.

I don't think that's something you can prepare for beyond embracing nihilistic narcisstic tendencies, all of whih the internet is already fostering en masse.

Because it's already collapsed

>>9275250
Because I'm a 34 year old autodidact who's little pink state college degree in teaching is mothballed.

As a financially secure individual with diverse portfolios I look forward to the publications coming out of the collapse. I'm sure vanity fair will dust off some of its best writers to jot down their thoughts in an amusing narrative. Perhaps its will become a docudrama with Matt Damon narrating.

In the meantime, I will instruct my children to "go ivy, go tech, go state, or go home"

>>9275146
Nobody here has read him which means he's probably very good

Prose poem gibberish.

I really like A Smuggler's Bible, just got Cannonball, Lookout Catridge, and Ancient History. Looking forward to those.

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the illustrations used to scare me

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>>9275121
Welcome back to CozyTown. I should update this pic, come to think of it. I found a few little other books.

>>9275331
Update it, please! To be honest I have your pic saved on my laptop, it gives me cozy feels. I should take a photo of all the books and other stuff I have. A friend sent me a mug from Finland and it's too pretty that I'm scared to use it.

>>9275038
Learn Greek

Ovid
Virgil
Homer
Jung

>>9275038
try herodotus maybe? don't forget about the romans either.

>>9275113
i literally just use word. its really all you need

>>9275186
Ah, i've used it before. I guess it's pretty good but I only just started and thought maybe there was more to it.

Thanks.

>>9275199
Ah yes, good old word! Yes yes we go way back dear old word and I. But of an inadequate chess partner but he'll do all the same, yes yes.

>>9275085
could younat least have made it non wallacian? there's like 50 threads right now ffs.

Jane Austen was a pseudonym for a male author.

pynchon would post here, but he's busy massaging my prostate at the moment.

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>>9275085
WHAT IF OP is actually a fucking faggot?

fuck
mary*

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What a fucking merry man, holy shit

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>>9275061
>Reading a 7th century epic as a modern work

It doesn't fucking matter
Read the book, draw parallels, self-reflect, and SHUT THE FUCK UP

GET
OFF
OF
MY
B O A R D
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>>9275058
Le le le meme, can I meme too? Lmao cuck