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Reading depressing things while you're depressed is natural. Just don't off yourself, which shouldn't be too hard since you've survived life so far. Give yourself some credit for that, and enjoy the misery--at least it's a feeling

>>9186207
Its OK for you to kill yourself if you're depressed. What type of stupid question is this

Depression isn't real by the way

>>9186207
thats the best time to do it. the trial helped me through a very low point in my life.

Seriously? Nothing?

>>9186132
You post every day, we know your book is shit.

>>9186786
Honestly this is the first time I've ever made a thread about this. I've asked the same question in other threads and never had a response, so this time I wanted to make it centre stage.

I've also lurked a lot and never seen this particular question answered ever. It's always generic advice about how to write short shit and bottom-line bullshit about what publishers want in the current market blah blah blah... rather than actual strategies about what you would do to actually get a mammoth pomo book out as a new author (e.g., if you were DFW trying to push IJ as your first novel).

But it seems like /lit just can't answer this hypothetical question (i.e., assuming the criteria in the OP is true).

I've never had a real problem with this, if I did it was because it was dated

>>9186108
get a e-reader and stop being a whiny bitch

>>9186108
I find that sometimes books printed on poor material with text that isnt as dark as usual is very easy on the eyes if you read under a lamp. You don't strain as much.

>>9186105
Your issue is you still fall for the family and loved ones spook

>>9186110
DUDE SPOOKS LMAO

>>9186105
Go to the primary source, the synoptic gospels and John. Mark is the shortest read.

And then Plato's Apology, where Socrates argues the immortality of the soul, in what is actually a gripping and slightly humorous courtroom exchange.

>>9186110
You're just not a human being if you deny the power of family bonds.

It's really just a correlation/causation mistake. Smart people tend to speak several languages. Retards tend to be monolingual. Therefore plebs think that learning a language will increase their mental faculties. Unless you're still in your early teens, there's virtually nothing learning another language will do for you other than allow you to appreciate some literary works on a deeper level.

>>9186117

In some cases it will also allow you to read stuff period.

"Everything important has been translated" is a meme, and you realize this as soon as you start delving a bit deeper in whatever your field of interest is (be it literary or technical).

I think you should learn at least one other language, because in the process of learning a new language, you gain many insights into your own. Beyond that I don't see the point.

>>9186089
The spoiler'd pic was a trifle unnecessary. I was expecting a lurid tome by our Mr Tingle.

Wow, already? You must be smart :)

>>9186147
Wow, you know how to sarcasm.

Such genius much intelligence.

Pretty srue Min Kamp is still the biggest literary accomplishment of the 21st c. so far

>>9186082
It's an impressive work. Moldbug was right about the Cathedral. The institutions that shape public opinion act in coordination without a coordinator.

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>>9186082
>are we really in a black enlightenment?

Yes, just not in the way this loser thinks

>>9186045
no, stop being a whiny bitch

>>9186050
YEAH!!! What he said >:(
Move along kiddo

(How do I become le ubermensch???)

>>9186045
it just isn't literature, my dear fellow.

>>9186032
>"—A day of dappled seaborne clouds
Damnit. That's nearly my own

>What did he mean by this?
He's describing a myopic introvert's revelry in the days ambience, I believe. Perhaps I'm taking it out of context.

>>9186032
Fuck. I know Joyce is a fucking institution, but the modernists have not aged well. Very flowery and pretentious. I cringed when I re-read a portrait of the artist as a young man. Even the title makes me laugh now.

>>9186168
lol

>>9185980
Is that quote made with the online Deepak Chopra wisdom generator?

Literally the opposite is true

>>9187597
>"Hidden meaning explores the flow of space time events"
Double noice!

>>9185961
I'm wool-gathering and not writing, just like always. I can brainstorm characters and settings like the dickens though!

Me?

My active projects are a horror anthology that I'm about 40% finished with and a Fantasy novel.

>>9185955

I find Pound to come off as pretentious and hard to understand in this book. HOWEVER, give each chapter a second read. This book is mostly about poetry but can be applied to prose.

Ezra Pound is always right.

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>>9186979
>imagism
>right
Imagism is the worst cancer to plague poetry

>>9186979
He straight out makes the assumption that the reader is already familiar with a large number of poets. Some exhibits aren't even in English.

You should read "the conspiracy for the human race" by Thomas Ligotti, it's a nice, soothing book.

>>9185912
>he thinks he's being funny

The Art Of The Deal, Schopenhauer On Women, Notes From Underground, Gravity's Rainbow.

Lit really likes these books because we talk about them a lot.

>>9185803
Meant to write
>has NO faith or spirituality
by the way.

>>9185803
The dream sequence is my favourite in literature, it alone justifies the dream sequence as a literary tradition/device in my view.

It is honestly pretty strange.

>>9185800
has reading books about how to persuade people actually made them persuasive to anyone other than autists?
i remember reading similar literature and it only made me unnatural/self-conscious and worse at interacting with people.

>>9185809
Pretty sure that's not what the book is about

>>9185800
thats what happens when u use the papyrus font unironically