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>>9212079
You're not as smart as you think you are, and someone else has had better thoughts than you about every subject

>>9212096
i never said i'm smart.

what i'm trying to get at is, if a thought is worth anything if you didn't come up with it yourself. no matter how insignificant it might be. isn't, for example, bombarding your mind with philosophical concepts like lecture a baby on how to dance ballet in hope he will somehow learn how to do his first steps from that?

non-fiction

i can't bring myself to read fiction anymore. it feels utterly pointless.

not that non-fiction isn't pointless either

>>9212066


immolate yourself my man

For me it's mostly non-fiction plus short stories. Occassionaly a novel. But novels usually are too long for me and I get bored with the writer's style. Recently I feel that films are the superior medium of storytelling - more concise and subtle. But it's harder to find a good film than a good novel.

OP isnt back........ wait.... what happened?

>>9212078
Op's mirror turned into a giant tv and a knock came to the door. It's the mailman. She proceeded to go through the mail only to find a blue cartidge labelled ' the entertainment'. they watch it and went into a catatonic state, pissed themselves, and died

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>>9212078

I have. It was okay.

>>9211925
I have. It was mediocre.

someone should write slash fiction about ben carson's hands and donald trump's hands

>>9211875
Did you accidentally post the wrong image buddy?

>>9211875
Simon Vance did a wonderful audiobook version of it.

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>tfw Yeshua gets nailed to the cross

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>tfw Beatriz dies

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>tfw The man goes to the bathroom

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Bump

>>9211867
there is no such thing as "better environment" - just start reading, you're seeking to excuse your laziness with "i'm distracted"

>>9211932
thank you anon

it was something they invented to not be responsible for their creations.

>not motivated?
allas, the muse isn't paying me any visits lately

>wrote something edgy
the spirits guided me

the idea of an external force takes away all the pressure on the artist. they can just claim they're merely the medium trough which the deities speak to humanity.

pretty cowardly

>>9211859
Dantes invocations seemed semi ironic

>>9211868
More like pretty based

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Dunno that it answers the question 100% honestly, but pic related is the first thing that came to mind.

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>>9211828
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
It made me feel uncompetitive and able

>>9211828
Skylark is an incredible book, one of my favourites. Some good books that gave me a similar feeling are

The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian
The Tanners by Robert Walser
Inland by Gerald Murnane

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>>9211819

Copy a romance novel, but change the character names.

I was disappointed to find that Wisconsin Whore Dog is not in print.

>>9213117
This shit is way harder than I thought. I just do not know how to write 'steamy passion'

this is apogee-georgesorosindoctrination kids

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>>9211782
>this is apogee-georgesorosindoctrination kids

Why apogee? Why not nadir?

Because it doesn't matter which word you use. The meaning is futile.

You've proven my point.

>>9211744
did they make you feel in the past?

>>9211634
The one he sacrificed to lure the dead to come speak to him?

He got a 300hp mercury outboard, gasoline, and a GPS so that he could get back to Ithaca in a day or two instead of seven years or whatever the fuck it was.

>>9211634
The contract stated the Moor was to kept his wife satisfied while Odysseus was in Troy so she wouldn't have sex with any of her suitors.

bump

has anyone here even read it? can it compare at all to the great meme itself, infinite jest?

I've read it. It was good, but it's no IJ.

let you know when it shows up on bookzz.

pay for it? hahahahaha no.

on that subject.. has anyone tried to find pirate copies of books outside of bookzz and irc's #bookz? the last few times i went looking, for example, an epub of Moorcock's "Elric at the End of Time", the few hits i got all led to pages that set off alarms and warnings from my antivirus software. the fuck?

>>9211594
I personally don't think it's the same.

No. I had no idea how important punctuation and paragraph placement is until I tried an audiobook.

>>9211594
I work the night shift at work so I am allowed to use my earbuds. I'll use audible for most of the time and while it does diminish the experience, it is VERY useful in my situation.

It also strongly relies on the Narrator him/herself. If the person reading to me is the fullest human being on earth, I won't be able to listen to it. I recommend anything read by R.C Bray

>Listening to sci-fi novel
>Protagonist is in the army.
>Calls a magazine a clip
>Deletes audiobook