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Was this guy really that good? 2017-03-05 04:38:10 Post No.9190832
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Was this guy really that good? Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:38:10 Post No. 9190832 [Report] [View this topic]

many black kids in my classes obsess over this guy

is he really that good a writer on the level of Joyce? or even better?

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Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:41:38 Post No.9190844
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>>9190832
He ruined everything Malcolm X worked towards, so I suppose that took some talent.

Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:42:35 Post No.9190846
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>>9190832
>on the level of joyce

fuck no, nobody can touch the fartmaster

But Baldwin is good. I frankly don't give a damn about his political essays but his fiction is top-shelf stuff.

Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:44:03 Post No.9190850
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:44:03 Post No.9190850 [Report]

Every writer with exceptional prose is compared with Joyce.

Having read them both, he's not as good as Joyce, but he's definitely up there. He's a very emotionally evocative and talented writer, the best to come out of the Harlem Renaissance IMO.

Read Sonny's Blues if u want a taste, Giovanni's Room if u want his best.

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2017-03-05 04:06:38 Post No.9190725
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:06:38 Post No. 9190725 [Report] [View this topic]

>Its another Melvyn is rude to his guests episode.

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Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:09:55 Post No.9190741
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>>9190725
The Bill O'Reilly of entry level philosophical "discussions".

Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:31:03 Post No.9190811
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:31:03 Post No.9190811 [Report]

I wish these programs went for longer. They barely have time to scratch the surface with basic details.

I guess that is the target audience; I think they should do 2 parts, the first being an introduction and a basic analysis, and then another episode adding a layer of depth.

The guest scholars are not being utilised to their potential.

Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:31:32 Post No.9190813
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 04:31:32 Post No.9190813 [Report]

>>9190725

When the show is good, its really good. But aaalways Melvyn exuding someone who just can't wait to get home.

Anonymous
2017-03-05 03:21:58 Post No.9190551
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:21:58 Post No. 9190551 [Report] [View this topic]

Never read a book before, where do I start?

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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:22:33 Post No.9190556
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:22:33 Post No.9190556 [Report]

>>9190551
Start with Dostoievski, Hanamaru

Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:25:35 Post No.9190565
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:25:35 Post No.9190565 [Report]

Start with the egyptians

Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:26:02 Post No.9190567
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:26:02 Post No.9190567 [Report]

>>9190551
Start with the turks

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2017-03-05 02:09:32 Post No.9190278
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 02:09:32 Post No. 9190278 [Report] [View this topic]

>your favorite YA novels

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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:41:34 Post No.9190623
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:41:34 Post No.9190623 [Report]

Crime and Punishment

Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:44:27 Post No.9190636
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:44:27 Post No.9190636 [Report]

Piss and Posterity

Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:57:27 Post No.9190682
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 03:57:27 Post No.9190682 [Report]

Mein Kampf

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2017-03-05 12:16:22 Post No.9189870
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 12:16:22 Post No. 9189870 [Report] [View this topic]

Stop using computers.

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Anonymous 2017-03-05 12:49:39 Post No.9189969
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>>9189870
Tomorrow.

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>>9189870
No

Anonymous 2017-03-05 12:54:38 Post No.9189975
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Anonymous 2017-03-05 12:54:38 Post No.9189975 [Report]

>>9189870
But then I'd have no job.

Anonymous
2017-03-04 10:21:02 Post No.9189394
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 10:21:02 Post No. 9189394 [Report] [View this topic]

How does socialism and communism solve the problem of every man wanting to own something?
What if a person wants a big juicy yacht? Means, either everybody would have a yacht, or nobody?
What does Marx say about it?

Also, should I read Chomsky on Anarchism, or is it pure shit not worth?

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 10:22:54 Post No.9189406
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>>9189394
That would be selfish. Everyone is equal and has a right to live reproduce successfully and without struggle.

Anonymous 2017-03-04 10:24:07 Post No.9189411
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 10:24:07 Post No.9189411 [Report]

>>9189406
Your post answers nothing.

Anonymous 2017-03-04 10:25:30 Post No.9189414
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 10:25:30 Post No.9189414 [Report]

How do you reconcile with that fact that thousands of life's presures are completely outside your grasp?
As to yuor question, in communist utopia you could always get a ride on a publicly owned yacht, does it NEED to be in your private possession?

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2017-03-04 08:38:24 Post No.9188997
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 08:38:24 Post No. 9188997 [Report] [View this topic]

ITT ugliest words in english language
I'll start
>Earth
is the whole people make when they're retching. What a disgraceful way to describe our homeworld

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 08:41:09 Post No.9189008
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 08:41:09 Post No.9189008 [Report]

I like Earth, but Terra is better

Anonymous 2017-03-04 08:49:06 Post No.9189029
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 08:49:06 Post No.9189029 [Report]

>>9188997
>2017
>earth
>not orb-garden of brilliant fecundity

sounds so much better desu

Anonymous 2017-03-04 08:58:45 Post No.9189057
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>>9188997
i-it means dirt, m-morty!

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2017-03-04 07:14:14 Post No.9188705
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:14:14 Post No. 9188705 [Report] [View this topic]

>shit writer
>shit opinions on better writers
Why do people take this hack seriously?

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:20:02 Post No.9188728
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:20:02 Post No.9188728 [Report]

A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:32:40 Post No.9188768
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:32:40 Post No.9188768 [Report]

>>9188705
>Nabokov
>shit writer
I'm already regreting starting to reply to this shit bait, but I already wrote more than half of the reply so I might just as well post it so other people can see how shit your thread/bait/opinion is and learn for future posts like this.

Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:36:36 Post No.9188782
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>>9188768
pretty much this, sage

Anonymous
How the hell do I make warewolfs scary? 2017-03-04 06:53:42 Post No.9188619
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How the hell do I make warewolfs scary? Anonymous 2017-03-04 06:53:42 Post No. 9188619 [Report] [View this topic]

My editor says she likes my ideas for angels,witches and vampires but my wolfs are a not 'disturbing' like the others.

?

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 06:56:28 Post No.9188633
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 06:56:28 Post No.9188633 [Report]

>>9188619
Make them feminists.

A Poem 2017-03-04 06:57:13 Post No.9188637
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A Poem 2017-03-04 06:57:13 Post No.9188637 [Report]

Literally just copy and paste. It's not that hard.

Anonymous 2017-03-04 06:58:13 Post No.9188639
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 06:58:13 Post No.9188639 [Report]

Less is more
Avoid using the word "werewolf"
Be gruesome and sparse

Anonymous
2017-03-04 04:01:29 Post No.9187909
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 04:01:29 Post No. 9187909 [Report] [View this topic]

I ONCE HAD A GIRL
OR SHOULD I SAY
SHE ONCE HAD ME

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:42:36 Post No.9188810
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>>9187909
I'm going to meme this man into getting the nobel prize YOU'LL SEE

Anonymous 2017-03-04 07:48:52 Post No.9188833
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>>9187909
Is this book old enough to read yet based on that guy's roommate's criteria?

Anonymous 2017-03-04 10:23:46 Post No.9189409
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>>9187909
WHEN
SHE SAID DON'T WASTE
YOUR WORDS THEY'RE JUST LIES
I CRIED SHE WAS DEAF

Anonymous
2017-03-04 03:59:29 Post No.9187898
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Anonymous 2017-03-04 03:59:29 Post No. 9187898 [Report] [View this topic]

Is there any good poetry about >tfw no gf?

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 04:46:11 Post No.9188098
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Petrarca (Petrarch for anglos) was probably the most widely known and influential poet until Baudelaire came around. I've read a couple of his sonnets and I could barely hold myself back from crying like a little bitch while doing it.

Anonymous 2017-03-04 05:38:39 Post No.9188302
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>>9188098
I'm reading/studying the Canzoniere right now and it's crazy good. The guy basically invented all the tropes and metaphors about love.

But please suggest English poets too. Some people believe it makes no sense to read poetry in translation.

Anonymous 2017-03-04 05:51:51 Post No.9188357
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my

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 11:48:06 Post No. 9187383 [Report] [View this topic]

What the fuck was his problem?

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Anonymous 2017-03-04 11:54:00 Post No.9187393
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>>9187383
he wanted to be nabokov but could only write genre fiction

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>>9187393
Don't insult Wolfe by comparing him to that slavic bourgeois monkey

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>>9187393
>he wanted to be nabokov
Nabokov? In what way Nabokov?
Of course one shouldn't expect shitposts to have any basis but this is really hitting the spot between nonsense and, I don't know, plausible nonsense