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Why is my writing shit?
He kept the door to his apartment tightly locked. A flee would have trouble finding a way inside. Mrs. Crowley the nosey landlady stands next to the passage once in a while and listens intently to the faint ephemeral hum that radiates into the third story landing of her husbands building. Mr. Callahan was rarely seen entering or leaving his flat. In fact, the Blackwells have met with him on only two occaisions; when the apartment was shown and when the contract was signed.
For seven months, about once a week, Mrs. Blackwell would pass by apartment number 308 collecting rent. Her pace would slow and her ears would twitch. Sometimes she stopped entirely, sometimes time she pressed her ear to the wood of the door.
Mr. Blackwell described him. A twenty-something short-haired spectacled man too tall for his tweed trousers. A young entrepreneur, he chuckled, here fresh out of Everwood down south. Said he was here for an internship. I asked where but-
Mr. Blackwell frowned.
He sort of, changed his tone when I asked that. Told me it was an internship and to leave it at that.
Callahan is seen neither coming nor leaving, but strange noises iminate from inside his hole. Whiring and buzzing. A metalic drone dripping morse-code static into a maelstrom of other sounds, sounds that can't be imagined but only described in some attempt to attach what she knew to what she could never. She listens to steam as it sighs from imaginary pipes, the incessant autonomous tone of heavy clockwork calculating the answer to a question she thought unfathomable
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>>9259663
Crowley should be Blackwell.
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Post your garbage
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>>9259663
how is it you can jam the word "ephemeral" in there, but you can't spell "flea" correctly?
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What fantasy books/series should beginner read? 2017-03-19 03:52:55 Post No.9259654
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What fantasy books/series should beginner read?
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I want to get into fantasy to take a break from philosophy. Any recommendations for beginner who has never read one asides from the Hobbit or Harry Potter?
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Wheel of time
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>>9259654
Lord of the rings obviously, game of thrones, Malazan. Wheel of time is pretty good but has a fuckton of filler, malazan is a similar length but isn't as padded out.
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Tortall series
Pern series
Howl's Moving Castle
The Once and Future King
Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave
Sir Apropos of Nothing
Any book recs on how to overcome this realm of suffering?
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Read some Epicurus and Lucretius.
What specifically ails you about this realm?
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Courage is everything.
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>>9259324
>materialists
They don't know suffering desu. Epicurus didn't feel the evil.
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Favorite Books/Short Stories 2017-03-19 01:54:19 Post No.9259276
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Favorite Books/Short Stories
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Alright kind strangers, let's have a favorite book thread. A good friend of mine recommended that I do this and he promised me you wouldn't bully me for my tastes. Let's see if that's true.
1. Starship Troopers
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. Johnny Got His Gun
4. Catch-22
5. To Kill a Mocking Bird
6. Ender's Game
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. 1984
9. Freakonomics
10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
And you?
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This looks like a crypto-sci fi thread
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>>9259276
You should read Julius Evola
and then kill yourself
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Is this postmodern? Sorry for /co/posting here but I don't think /co/ knows what postmodernism is
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arguably
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Anon, the modern takes multiple things and put them together. The postmodern takes certain things and expose that they are multiple and lacking within themselves. So yes, Watchmen is postmodern, do you see?
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Deconstruction, yada yada yada.
Check out American Flagg! or Bratpack, or even The One.
Comics!
Just ordered this off Amazon
What am I in for?
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More like the portly Karl Marx
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spooks
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Revolution on the go
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>these people get published
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It's the future of writing. Would you prefer if such powers were kept secret?
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At some point or another the real genius of our generation will emerge, and these mediocrities that are the darlings of the idiot critics will be forgotten like so much dandelion fluff.
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>>9259107
Yes. The responsibility of art should be placed with the intelligent.
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Why does he have so much lolis and pedophilia stuff in his books?
I don't want jokes or speculation, I want the actual reason. Has there been any academic writing that addresses it?
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>>9259092
I can only really recall in GR... don't remember any of it in anything else I've read
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well in gravitys rainbow im pretty sure slothrops affair with bianca is supposed to be the point that he goes from a likeable protaganist to a tragic figure. hes transgressed a moral threshold that pretty much any decent human being would find unacceptable and i think its no coincidence that this is around the same time he starts to disintegrate from the narrative. but i dunno maybe pynchon is just a sick fuck
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>>9259103
There's an entire song about it in TCoL49.
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>blocks your ideology
>schniffs
>plagiarizes white supremacists
>Where do you think yoush are going, keedo?
What do?
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>g-good day, c-comrade
>I w-was just g-going to th-th-think about n-n-new ways to o-o-organize the Left
>I w-wasn't going to actually organize the Left, though
>What do you think I am, a-a retard?
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Read Bruce fink instead.
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>>9259076
Into the gulags you fat fuck
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The Broom of the System 2017-03-19 12:46:08 Post No.9259023
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So obviously Infinite Jest gets discussed to death here, but has anyone read The Broom of the System?
I finished it recently and would be keen to discuss. I struggled to enjoy the first half but loved the second half completely. What are your thoughts?
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>>9259023
It's a brilliant book. What do you want?
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>>9259023
I hated it. Felt very sophomoric. Flat humour. Obnoxiously middle-class characters. Totally misused Wittgenstein.
It's like the epitome of that le quirky white American middle-class pseudo-intellectual sensibility.
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>>9259138
>It's like the epitome of that le quirky white American middle-class pseudo-intellectual sensibility.
>middle-class
DFW was upper class, though. He affected middle class sensibilities because he knew that he couldn't affect proletarian sensibilities.
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What's the most entertaining (fun) book you have ever read?
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Renault's The King Must Die is pretty good sword and sandal schlock
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>Characters only flaw is that they are homosexual
Why are gay Mary Sues so popular in fiction?
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>gay
>Mary sue
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>>9259036
Gary Lou
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Name 1 (ONE) work of fiction where this occurs
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Got a good story about this ghoul 2017-03-18 11:59:15 Post No.9258845
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Got a good story about this ghoul
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I heard this from my cousin, who studied modern languages at Oxford.
One of her friends was a twentysomething woman reading for a Master's in French Literature, with the topic of her dissertation being Michel Houellebecq. When she started writing it her supervisor told her that Houellebecq was known to assist students who wrote about him and that she should drop him an email. She did, sending him a polite request for a few questions and clarifications. He replied politely, but also asking how old she was. In the next message she received he said that he would be happy to help her, on the condition that she send him photographs of herself. Nude photos. According to my cousin, she complied.
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I believe it.
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he probably just needed the nudes for research desu
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lmao i'm emailing him to see if he responds
should i mail with my real name?
In your best prose, write about getting rich and fucking bitches
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why'd you have to use a black kid in your picture.
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>>9258824
I just typed "writing" on google and got the first result
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I'm rich nibba
I put my peepee in a veevee
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*blocks your path*
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> T-the w-world is... everything t-hat's the case
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>dialogical philosopher, who hates meaningless talk, and thinks philosophy should be therapeutic and that language is inherently hermeneutic
>takes philosophers two to three generations to get any of this because no one fucking understands him
>even then, nobody understands his first book
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>autistic neurotic manlet
>unironical voluntary cuckold
>couldn't understand continentals
>whole work is one big brainlet butthurt
This is what happens when you don't have r9k and neetbux to contain these subhumans. They go outside and try to end philosophy through autistic screeching.