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>>9275327
Austin Texas?

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>>9275336

Publicly humiliate yourself as punishment and whip your brain until it submits and never makes that mistake again

How do you think I got famous?

My name is Ted and you have heard of me, I assure you

Write it anyway. Ideas that stay in your head are useless,but getting anything to paper is. This way you can read it and store it away for use in some larger work.

>>9275019
Write it as a short story

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>and but so

James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
dumb frogposter

>>9275188
>missing the opportunity to make Had Had John's name
ya blew it.

>When you never left the campus

still trying to articulate exactly what it is about "Embassytown" that irritates me. possibly the almost complete lack of visual references.

>>9274932
I read Perdido and the one about the train about nine years ago. He's got an imagination, I'll give him that. His characters make you feel excluded, however.

>>9274883
i remember seeing this on the net when I was a teenager, maybe a decade a go or more. Is it really satire? I got the impression it was at least partly serious, if having a sense of humor about itself.

>>9274912
When I read it, I took it as quite the satire. There are people who ironically follow it as a sort of religion much like the church of the flying spaghetti monster and then there are just the plain nutters.

it was pretty out there in 1968. today, it comes off as deliberately whacky, a lot like "katie the spork of doom".

it also assumes that you're a typical sixties american robot. i hate it when people play the trickster archetype while assuming you haven't seen it a thousand times before and you might even know the jokes better than them.

>>9274880
I just asked my dad and he said you could spend your whole life trying to read the pre-reqs to a Gaddis novel. So I'd yes, it's necessary

>>9274900
>spends whole life misinterpreting his father

>>9274900
T-thanks, anon.

>>9274750
You do you boo

>>9274750

Don't try and make people like you. Do your own thing, treat the world like it's your farm just waiting for you to plow it. Speaking of plowing, if you see a woman who seems interested in you, fck her without her consent.

>>9274750
Like Ingegneri's mediocre man. Just read that

>>9274916
Wealth of Nations, nice.

>>9274916
Hellllloooooo reddit rsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsrs

>>9274916
Did you steal that book?

>>9274712
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism-- Gershom Sholem

>>9274731

Thanks familia

>>9274731
Scholem is your man, I agree. Origins of the Kabbalah, and if you're still curious, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism and Zohar — The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah.

I traveled with a bunch of my black friends to your mom's house. I'd say that counts.

>>9274889
GOT EEEEM

>>9274885
>tfw many writers says they work and die alone
>tfw vollmann is the only worthwhile travel writer

It's beginning to sadden me that we've reduced a man's life, work, and suicide into a wacky meme

it was the greatest literary career move ever you fucking brainlet
you havent even read his books.
His suicide was deliberate, meaningful and poignant in relation to his work and actually brought about the sincerity he tried and was failing to preach in life

Wouldn't make sense. "Infinite Jest" is from Shakespeare.

>>9274646
No, but Gucci is still a legend

>>9274667
Indeed he is, probably the most influential figure in hip-hop.

>>9274646
I really like covers with digital text superimposed on an image with depth.
if I ever publish I'd want a cover like that.

>>9274591
Microdose DMT

>>9274591
You negotiate; that's half the art.

I'm not being an ironic meme retard and I mean this:

Write by hand or via typewriter in a room without a television while binge drinking whiskey. Meditate, drink, and pray. Only when the act of writing and prayer become indistinguishable will you create something authentic.

>>9274563
Hamlet
Everything else is tied for last.

Waiting for Godot
Everything else is tied for first

Libation Bearers, Oedipus Rex, the Frogs, Girl from Samos, Amphytrion, Shakespeare's Complete Works, Faust, the Robbers, Doll House, some of Strindberg's, Inspector General, Boris Godunov, No Exit, I'm bored now.

Last week I randomly experienced a few days of being happier than I'd been in years, but what you might call my "creative energies" died away almost completely. Normally I feel pretty excited, creatively, whether it's writing or fantasizing in my head or trying to make my friends laugh. Not serious creative work, but the point is that I've always felt flowing in me a "performative" energy. When I became happier, though, I changed; I became very appreciative of other people's work, but lost interest in making my own. Instead of trying to be the funniest person in the room, I was more appreciative of my friends' attempts to be funny, and I noticed they were funnier than I'd given them credit for before. What I was reading became more interesting, and less threatening, because I wasn't comparing it with what I could do. I felt less driven to write fiction, but I think the ideas that did occur to me were better, deeper, than the ideas I normally have. Whereas I'm normally attracted to absurdity and surrealism, while happy I was more attracted to realism. A few days went by, though, and I returned to my normal depressed self. So anyway my personal conclusion from this is that I think there's a connection between depression and creativity, that depression can give you a "charge," sort of possess you, but that you can be carried away by ideas that you would see as naive and mediocre if you were happier and saw them from a higher vantage point.

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pain and the fear of death compel me to write, so I will write until I learn to smile at pain and inevitable nothingness.

>You guys are all serious writers

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