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Insert City is a bad name for a city.

Also the whole thing is terrible.

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The word seemed to hang, suspended in mid-air in the distance between the front and passenger seat. And let me tell, you that cat seemed like he was a million miles away from me. I thought of Lonnie shambling along with his checks, barely awake, barely blowing his wig about the next fix. I looked into the tarpit eyes of the large man holding me at gunpoint. His brown hair sat on his head like a mop, slightly curling at the ends. He had on a ten dollar vine that bulged and rippled around his large body. His benny was tattered and bloodstained, the lapels crooked and one of his pockets hanging off by a thread. The six cylinders I was staring at shook slightly. ‘Drive, chum, unless you want a hole blown in your mug’ he snarled. The loogan pressed the warm barrel into my face to show me he meant business. I gunned the starter of the tired Ford while a pang of sickness assaulted my cells. We joined the traffic behind a Hog that was trundling along. The driver was a shine who had 3 broads in the car. For fear of voiding my bowels, I kept my eyes ahead of me trained on him. As we drove away from the wailing, which I now realised was an alarm; the shine in the car in front of us backhanded one of the girls and made a crunching left turn as two patrol cars shrieked down the blacktop towards the bank. Out the corner of my eye I could see the big fella peeling C-notes and double sawbucks off a roll. Like a musician, his fingers swiftly and skilfully counted the dough once, twice, three times. I couldn’t help but notice that a few of the notes were stained with the unmistakable spray of blood.

Boy, was I hot for a fix! As we dragged down the main I kept thinking of Lonnie, croaked on the floor of the bank, clutching his unemployment checks to his shabby topcoat. I’d known Lonnie for a long time and he was a right gee deep down. He’d recently got out of a five year bit in the joint for a strongarm robbery at a grocery store- He was hopped up on H and a skinful of bathtub gin he’d made during the dry years. Since Prohibition had ended the year before, his entire stock was now a dead weight. Lonnie had come into some scratch from a well off squarejohn relative for his birthday. This relative wanted nothing to do with the strung out Lonnie- He was in the public eye and associating with junkies and petty hoodlums was a sucker move. (Lonnie never did flap as to who this relative was, despite my insistence.) Therefore, he sent Lonnie a few greenbacks here and there, enough to keep him placated but nowhere near enough to break said relative’s bank. Lonnie and some small time gun punk had been cruising the clip joints in a hot Duesenberg Model J, banging stuff, and drinking bathtub. In his altered state of mind Lonnie flashed his scratch everywhere, and the gun punk had his nose open for it.

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Randy old Lonnie gets a hankering for a girl, naturally, so the gun punk tells him:

‘I know the best tail for the best prices chum, you just follow my directions in this fine automobile and you’ll be a satisfied customer. I gotta say pal, I’m glad you came along, because before now I thought no-one in this town had class…’ Lonnie was flattered by the punk’s words and suckered in by the bait drove into Niggertown as per Gunpunk’s directions. After picking up the gaggle of whores they buzzed over to a cheap flophouse. Lonnie led the chattering whores with the elegance of a blind shepherd to the room..

‘Let me take that for you, birthday boy. I’m gonna go park the boiler and we’re gonna show these babes what real men do’ said Gunpunk as he took Lonnie’s coat. Lonnie got down to business with the whores, the skullful of stuff brewing like a mad potion in his head. When all was said and done, the whores were demanding to be paid. Lonnie gulped. The gun punk had not returned, and in his haste to satisfy his chemically induced urges he’d neglected to take the bankroll out of his coat.

‘You better have some scratch for us, you ugly sonuvabitch. We don’t turn tricks for free, especially not to ugly saps like you.’ one of the broads cracked.

‘Yeah, I thought you was mister ice cold pimp? He ain’t a real man!’ another chimed in Lonnie lashed a hand across her face.

‘Bitch, I’m all the man you’ll ever see. I can get dough, if it’ll shut you filthy bitches up. Just wait here.’ Lonnie barked at his cadre. He took a skinful of hop for courage and set about the street with his pistol to find the gun punk.

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>>9179999

>9 influences
>9999

Oh shit son

>>9179999
Nice unexamined life (and quads) you've got there.

Summa Theologica

dude Nick Land lmao
robots and new Darwinism duuuude
free will capitalism liberism conservativism Fusionism I'm-so-redpilled-ism!

translations (frogface on the left)
ehm what's so bad about translations?
you have to read the originals to experience ORIGINALITY
to experience AUTHENTICITY
to experience THE TRUTH
b-but I want to read so many books from so many different countries, how am I supposed to lea-
READ THE ORIGINALS
o-okay but I think I don't have the time right now to learn so ma-
READ THE ORIGINALS

man I'm so edgy I'm gonna read Julius Evola hehe look at me I'm so edgy
I also read Hitler on wikipedia 'cause I'm a nu-male and of course I need to look at reality from so many points of view hehe

START WITH THE GREEKS
okay but what if I prefer the twentieth century because it's closer to m-
START WITH THE GREEKS
ooookay but at the moment I'm really into French novelists of the 19th century, I'd really like to finish them bef-
START WITH THE GREEKS

read Marx? get out of here you fucking commie you came to destroy our peaceful world made of freedom and family unit
did you know your favorite alt-right thinkers were all trained on Marx's texts?
shut up you terrifying commie you're just a faggot you're the scum of this planet

/lit/ writes a novel!
/lit/ writes a novel? wut?
yeah let's make a beautiful puzzle of random stuff written by different kids!!

how do I get published?
why would you want to get published?
well because, you know, I have this thousand-page tome in muh drawer it's so deep and speculative and postmodern it's so Veeky Forums
okay but why would you want to publish that?
lol why you even ask it's pretty obvious I deserve to get published because I wrote this tome I'm literally like DFW wew
do you not think there are thousands of others writing tomes right now and trying to get published?
what? hahahah no no no no what? sorry what are you talking about, I'm clearly the only one c'mon
okay but, again: why would you want to get published
well dude okay, if you insist... I want to earn money, live on my writings, doing interviews, sign autographs...you know, stuff like that!

LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE
b-but..
LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE

why haven't you read the western canon yet?
sorry what's the western canon?
lol what a fucking pleb you are everybody knows what's the western canon
yeah but I mean what books do you mean by western canon?
THE WESTERN CANON YOU STUPID IDIOT

START WITH THE BIBLE
what if I don't give a fuck about God and Jesus?
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY YOU ABSOLUTE PLEB GO READ THE BIBLE RIGHT NOW

Wow, this board has become increasingly shit over the years.

>>9179892
bluepilled nu-male cvck

>>9179857
Diphthong

"upset" or "upsetting"

Whenever someone says "upsetting content" or "that made him very upset" I have a hard time containing myself

Oh, also "catty-corner"

>>9179776
Sent mine in this afternoon.

166,000 words. Good luck to you, and luck to me.

Just remember, Earnest Hemmingway wallpapered his room with rejection letters. You're are a true author now, whether you get published or not.

>>9179789
Thanks a lot man, and good luck to you too. My first book is around 80,000 words, and if memory serves the second is around 40,000, so more like a novella perhaps. Here's hoping we make it! If you don't have something to drink, then GET something to drink! Weekend or not, it's a night worth celebrating!

Also, on a bit more of an optimistic spin on things; Harry Potter was J K Rowling's first book, and though it initially didn't sell well we all know how it turned out. Then on the annoying side of things the woman who wrote 50 Shades of Gray had that as her first book, and I think it started out in self-publishing.

Oh, whatever happens, whether poorly selling or best-seller, I just hope to get officially published. How amazing that would be! Once again I say, here's to us! Going to down this half bottle, and then try chugging down another Labatt Blue. Devil take tomorrow, but I'm taking tonight!

>>9179776
cheers anon.
having some beer over here.
good luck.

e/lit/ist is a nice name lol

>>9179740
shut up and deliver the fucking goods, anon

super pretty please

>>9179722
Andrew Roberts

>>9179735
Cheers. Perfect

Bulgakov's biography of Moliere is top notch, but I'm not sure if it's ever been translated.

Watch 1000 hours of porn without jerking off or getting a boner.

Just read some stoic philosophers you fucking loser, holy shit.

>>9179727
ok where do I start big cat

This part cannot be slighted or the blackness will take over, and then the reel begins playing in the mind, that hideous tape that nothing seems to erase or edit or alter, the tape that zooms in and out of scenes so swiftly the body feels vertigo, and the eye focuses in disbelief on a pin, a small metal grenade pin, and the entire universe--yes, all of it--wrenches to a halt to consider one simple question: Is that pin straight, or is that pin bent? --Charles Bowden, "Being Max Cleland," 1999

He turns the empty glass in his hand, and considers biting off the rim. --Raymond Carver, "What Is It?" 1972

I shall sit at the calcified knobs that once were his knees and summon the courage to ask of Zim the question burning in my soul: Why does Joe Torre wear a wristwatch in the dugout? --Scott Raab, "Zimmer," 2001

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itt: op learns to adopt his own values

Why is it that you care so much what an "intellectual" is that you have to go to an anonymous image board specialized in anime & porn and write an autistic thread about it?

Nobody cares about your shitty numbers, STEMautismo

>>9179604
You'd like Houellebecq then.

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>book has sex scene
>author doesn't include the waking up, crying, and furious masturbation

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>book has sex scene
>author doesn't include pictures.

>>9179494
notepad, microsoft word

if you use anything else you're a faggot

writeitnow, zenwriter, or scriviner

>>9179610
Dont make me sick your dick.
>not using stone tablets and chisel

>>9179484
yes, there are some really profound sentiments, but you probably wont catch the depth of their drift

>>9179484
and its like the home stretch towards the finish line, everything furling apart towards the source of all, the ramblyunctous female, to finally arrive home in Mummys sweet flutter headed arms

>>9179615

I am disinclined to believe that it will ever be possible to speak of Ulysses without 2deep4u posturing.

only wake, really

>>9179444
Vico's a pleasure, fun stuff.

You don't "have to"

>>9179398
Probably one of the Greeks or Romans

Jackie Chan.

>who is the most /fit/ writer/philosopher?
Yukio Mishima
>manlet
>gay
>ends up killing himself
Everything checks out.