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I finally understand Samuel Coleridge 2017-03-01 09:45:55 Post No.9175687
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I finally understand Samuel Coleridge
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2017-03-01 09:45:55
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Last night I returned home at a rather ungodly hour. I proceeded to eat a slice of cold pizza and stale jalapeno chips before I sauntered off to bed.
Two hours later I was awoken from the most vivid and inspirational dream I have ever had by neighbors loudly Porlocking.I quickly scribbled down as many plot points as I could without my glasses/contacts in pitch black.
Awoke this morning and looked at what I wrote, pic for reference.
Is this my Vision in a Dream? I cant shake how my dreamself knew that I had stumbled on the greatest satire work in centuries.
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Bump #1
The dream was somewhat lucid, and revolved around 3 people using ordinary, innocuous sources to inspire massive social change in ancient Acre, the Levant.
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more like pothead in america
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What the fuck does any of that half baked drooling even mean
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Any of you guys read this?
Any more literature with a theme of tyranny?
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>>9175679
Haven't read that, but a few Nabokov stories I just read included Tyranny, namely "Tyrants Destroyed" and "Solus Rex."
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>>9175761
Interesting. What are they about?
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>>9175765
Solus Rex is strange, I didn't really get it fully, but it is essentially a meandering tale about a king of "Thule," who is a huge degenerate but with eccentricity, who thinks one rules with magic, and it's basically about his downfall.
Tyrants Destroyed is more straightforward. It's basically Nabokov himself venting his anger about Stalin and the Bolshevik takeover of his homeland of Russia, but can easily be read to be about Hitler as well. It's written from the perspective of the tyrant's brother, and all the resentment he habors towards his every move, going into great detail about the temperamental nature of dictators.
Both are about 20 pages and make the claim that tyrants are blockheads preventing high-minded aristocracy
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>try to read
>can't stop thinking about fucking all the girls I know in different, hardcore positions
What do? Is this normal?
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>>9175667
Jack off and then go back to reading
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stop watching porn
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>>9175667
>try to read
>every paragraph, I think about how I would have wrote it
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>tfw anything I write or say my heart isn't in it
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>>9175561
>my heart
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>>9175567
>my soul
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>>9175567
lmao
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>sitting at computer with a plan to write at least 500 words in half a hour
>spending few hours browsing /lit/ instead and go to sleep annoyed, not even reading anything
Who else /cucked by own inadequacy/?
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>>9175555
Me. Been sitting here for the past hour after reading 8 pages of a book.
We're truly cucked.
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>>9175555
Goals are a spook.
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>>9175564
i honestly dont have a problem with reading, when they cut of my internet because of not paying i could read all day, and enjoy it pretty much, but when i write i feel huge disgust toward myself and toward blank page. When i see page full of words, and when i finish work i actually feel some pleasure, and its so nice when you hot into "flow", but its so hard to start. I am crushed by meaninglessness of this act
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John Dies at the End Part 3 is coming out this fall. How does /lit/ feel about this?
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>>9175540
More like cucked.com
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>>9175540
First book was great, I also liked second book. Not really litterature but I'll read it because they are entertaining
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>>9175540
fucking finally. There's only like, 3 decent fanfic. I ran out of shit to tide me over about two years ago.
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/lit/ I'm writing an economics thesis about people's preferences for redistribution - gimme some good literary quote to use in my introduction so I seem intellectual and cultured (and not just autistically number crunching)
Tolstoy or some shit bitches love
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>>9175444
>reading the Economist
JUST
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Try the first few lines of East Coker
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>Economics thesis
>people's preference
Stopped reading there. Economics makes assumptions about preferences upon no scientific basis because it has no native tool to predict those preferences or a change in them. That is why economics can only be descriptive rather than predictive in its modeling, and why past a certain level of understanding I consider it to be largely a sport for use in debate and cheerleading until that predictive gap is plugged.
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The only fiction I consume is Anime and Youtube Let's Plays of JRPGs and Visual Novels 2017-03-01 08:41:29 Post No.9175433
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The only fiction I consume is Anime and Youtube Let's Plays of JRPGs and Visual Novels
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I think reading any kind of fiction now would confuse me at this point. I cannot picture the action that's going on the page. I need my pictures.
Yet I like to read non-fiction like pictured, along with history, science, etc.
Is there something wrong with me? Am I a pleb?
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Aphantasia
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>>9175440
>Aphantasia
I don't know, I can make mental images of real things, like my father's face, houses that have been in (and haven't stepped foot in for many years) and universities I've attended.
Yet it hard for me with words on a page.
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>>9175459
Autism
Seriously, this is a side effect of autism.
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Who here remembers Hank the Cowdog? 2017-03-01 08:38:40 Post No.9175422
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Who here remembers Hank the Cowdog?
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>>9175422
I remember Hank the Cowdog.
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>>9175422
I remember the character Hank the Cowdog from the Hank the Cowdog series of children's novels.
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>>9175422
NO, he was a detectiVE FUCK YOU OP
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What do you think about this book? Personally i expected more.
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I just finished it last week and was dissapointed as well. It seemed to be touted as a profound book that will wrench at your heart but i never got those feels
it was entertaining and i enjoyed the read dont get me wrong, it just was nothing more than that.
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I didn't like Catch-22. After reading Gravity's Rainbow and being caught up in the brilliance of that infernal machine, Catch-22 seemed too staid and sober. I like it when my books are 'on' something, you know. If a book can be described as 'x on [drug],' then I'm pretty much on board immediately. Probably a result of doing lots of drugs and knowing how good a time they can be. Gravity's Rainbow is on acid for sure, and one could argue that many of Pynchon's other books were 'on weed.' Some novels are 'on wine' or 'on whiskey,' but Catch-22 didn't seem to be on anything. This didn't sit right with me, so after I got 100 pages in I had to put it down. Luckily Gravity's Rainbow was nearby (as I always make sure it is), so I opened that up to compare, but the difference was apparent immediately. I serendipitously opened it to the part where the man goes down the toilet, and within seconds of reading I was hooting and hollering and howling as only Pynchon can make ya do.
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>>9175407
Exactly, i found it funny and absurd but nothing more than that.
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Guy doesn't even use punctuation wtf
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Punctuation is overrated when you're intelligent enough you don't even need it
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>>9175406
>I don't need an um tell a in the rain - only stupid people get wet
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>tfw Judge Holden rapes the kid at the end
I'm going to be hiking this summer for 5 months. Only able to jerk off to books on my kindle, what erotica should I bring? Any favorites? Open to anything.
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>>9175364
Maybe you should take this time to line yourself out, read something worthwhile, and not fap
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Write an accounting of your adventures while you are there and try to masturbate from imagination only.
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>>9175453
Point well taken. I don't masturbate that often but I do enjoy some erotica so I figured I'd ask.
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Hey /lit/
I want to start screenwriting, but I don't know how to write comedy "properly".
Is there a book out there that dissects the nature of humor and explains what people find funny and why?
I don't want to write jokes that will fall flat.
I know Drama; basic story structure ect ect but I dont want to start writing until I learn the innards of humor(because Id rather know how to write something funny before I start trying to write something funny. Because comedies make made dosh)
So, someone please tell me about some book that takes a critical and methodological look at comedy.
>tl,dr
I dont think what I think is funny is actually funny to the majority of people, so please give me a book that reveals why funny things are funny.
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Say something funny.
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>>9175438
Yes, but how?
How do I recognize the prime time for a joke?
How do I construct a joke?
How long should a joke go for?
Are there different types of jokes?
If so, what? Are there any vital components in jokes that make them "jokes"?
How many jokes per minute is too many?
Is there a pacing that must be applied to jokes?
What?
Who?
Where?
How?
Why?
I need answers. I want and need to go full autism to learn the secrets of comedy so I can make mad dosh by pumping out screenplays so I dont have to scrub toilets any more.
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>>9175361
Not a book. But this video dissects some of the "funniest" scenes in movies and explains why they are funny. And psychologically explains why people laugh at them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5SsDEWWIU
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So philosophy (and probably literature too) just turns into useless theoretical bullshit when it doesn't have to build anything for a market, when it doesn't have to deal with customers and face the kind of rejection that people who have to deal with a market does.
Most philosophers and writers are just useless leeches who run to the government scooping money out of my people's kid's brains.
Molyneux is one of the greatest western philosophers for this reason, he provides something of value, he deals with a market. Molyneux follows the ethical principles of his own philosophy instead of putting his pasty, pale hand into peoples pockets.
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>branlets
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Number of arguments ITT: 0
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Anyone know a good book on grammar? I was thinking of pic related but am unsure its quality.
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You should try this one
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>>9175294
I'm more interested in English grammar.
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