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So I've been thinking about writing a novel, here's a super quick summary of the plot, just tell me what you think.
So the protagonist is an intelligent, sensitive, young man, about 20, (somewhat resembling me but only slightly) who has recently begun to question the purpose of life. Then because of a family incident he has to make a trip to his hometown which is in another state but because he's afraid of flying he chooses to drive all the way.
On the way he picks up a cute redheaded full-breasted hitchhiker about his age, maybe better one or two years younger, who then shows him on the road trip why life is still worth living and leads him on a journey of self-exploration. They also totally get it on. Later we find out that she only has a short time to live and wanted to see the ocean before it was all over. The protagonist is of course saddened by her death but understands that her last act of kindness was her leading him on the right path.
The missing sections are filled with eating ice cream and looking at the stars at night wondering how strange it is to be anything at all.
So, opinions?
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>>9156723
Sounds gay
Go for it
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>>9156752
It's not gay, they're doing it, that's the opposite of gay
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That is some Young Adult fiction material right there. Do what you like OP.
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What do you think about Erasmus of Rotterdam?
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>>9156650
cool name.
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I actually read The Praise of Folly yesterday, didn't expect it to be that funny. would really rec it, it really is genius.
he really is criminally underread on /lit/.
>>9156665
his full name is 'Desiderius Erasmus'
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>>9156650
shitty uni
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What does /lit/ think about Dr. Sadler's videos? As someone new to philosophy I've found them quite informative so far.
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>>9156351
>/pol/ BTFO
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>>9156351
Haven't watched any in a while but, yeah, he's incredibly based.
And there's nothing worse than a /pol/tard who knee-jerks only and cannot engage with ideas in a neutral sense. This is a sign of low intelligence, according to Aristotle.
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>>9156351
what a patrician. i remember him speaking to his class and asking them questions, which they were unable to answer in a general manner, and he essentially blamed it on their prior education. shit was cash yo. he still went on to teach em though.
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I'm an American, and to broaden my horizons I'm going attempt to read the best novel from various European countries this year.
Working on the list now. Here's what I've got so far.
Italy: The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Portugal: The Maias by Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros
Ireland: Ulysses by James Joyce
Spain: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Poland: The Doll by Boleslaw Pius, or something by Gombrowicz (Cosmos or Pornografia)
Norway: Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Please make suggestions.
>If you think I've got the wrong book for a certain country, just say so. Don't flip out.
>If you're from outside Europe, you love someplace outside Europe, and you want to recommend something, go ahead and say the country and the book, that's fine.
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British and Russian recommendations are welcome, but not really necessary, because I already read a lot of them.
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>>9155965
Gene Wolfe for croatia
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>>9155965
pic related for serbia/croatia depending on how you feel about things
>>9156037
fuck you pinky
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why THE fuck-don't we, "talk" about: NORMANMAILER;?
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because you're making me laugh and i can't breathe
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>>9155849
>Mailer was born to a Jewish family in Long Branch, New Jersey
Try a redpill
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The Naked and the Dead was the only good thing he wrote.
It was good though
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>read the Republic
>realise Plato was kind of a sexist ableist jerk
How do i get over this and still enjoy philosophy?
I started with the Greeks but I'm not sure if i want to continue if all philosophers are basically Donald Trump.
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>>9155789
Low quality bait gtfo
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That was socrates mate, plato doesnt feature in republic
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>>9155789
>being a genius
>not being elitist
Just accept that certain people are better than other, and that that does not mean that those inferior people have to be enslaved/exploited/killed/whatever.
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I vaguely remember a quote and I think it was by Schopenhauer.
It was talking about how every man is suffering so you should look upon every man with sympathy as company in misery or something.
Any pointers on the quote/author?
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ill tell if you give me the code
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>>9154585
>It was talking about how every man is suffering
nice projection copenhauer
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>>9154585
he expresses the "fellow sufferer" idea a lot
it's basically the centerpiece of his ethics
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Can you guys hook me up with your favorite economics books?
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>>9153337
Mankiw
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>>9153344
thanks mate
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Why is writing poetry so fucking hard?
Should brainlets like myself just isolate themselves to prose?
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sure, though you probably blow at that too.
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dont think while you write and just write
It will be crap at first then eventually get better
then be crap again
but whats changing isn't the work, its your taste being refined, and you finding yourself
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>>9152629
>Poetry harder to write than prose
Is this bait?
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Do we venerate him because he's simply the best Anglo-Saxon writer and Anglo-Saxon culture dominated the world through British imperialism? Or because he's genuinely one of the greatest writers in any language?
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>>9150024
because people are cucks for british accents, culture, and etiquette
but its really because he's good. remember that the chinese got buttfucked by the brits, but eventually kicked them out. they love shakespeare, even if they don't love brits themselves.
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>>9150035
This.
Shakespeare is loved in places where there is no love for the west.
He is good.
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>>9150035
I'm aware that he's great, i'm just wondering if his status as one of the immortals has to do with the fact that the English language has become the Earth's lingua franca more than anything else. Like is he on the same level as Virgil, Proust, Ovid, and Cervantes, or do we not think so because we can't fully experience those other authors who lose something in translation?
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Have you ever tried to impress a girl with your writing? Did it work?
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>>9146268
Is that the girl from mad men? I had a crush on her in high school
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>>9146280
Yeah, it is. She's cute.
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I impress everyone with my writing, bitch.
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Feel free to post poetry here. Whether you've written it or someone else has. Feel free to critique others work or post your own to be critiqued. Or to discuss methods, tips, and ideas to help improve your work or comprehension as well as discuss other works from well know poets and their processes and idea.
Also, every so many hours I'll be posting topic words or themes which you can use to practice if you're having trouble getting the ball rolling. Anyone who does this, I will try to give them a critique since I will also be posting work with each suggestion (which I will begin in a follow up post). Feel free to also critique others doing this if you decide to post.
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I'm thinking to start, I'll give a theme. For this, I'm going with:
>Aestheticism
It's a great theme to start with because it's nature very much pertains to poetry as well as modern society.
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I'm going to post my most favorite bad poem. This comes to the world courtesy of French poet Claude Vigee, and is deliciously terrible (and ridiculously fun to read out loud).
April
I am born of turbid blood:
My nature is double.
Kittens of the birch trees
rain through my green night.
On trunks sundered
by the frosted moon,
my solar pollen laughs:
stars, wind, and sand.
Mother-water fills my valleys:
O uterine blackness.
But the foamy thickets,
green gold on my summits.
Doves and genistas,
ride my whirlwind!
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Altazor, Cantor Séptimo by Vicente Huidobro.
It makes more sense in the context of the other poems in the book. So much Aesthetic that it abandons language.
Al aia aia
ia ia ia aia ui
Tralalí
Lali lalá
Aruaru
urulario
Lalilá
Rimbibolam lam lam
Uiaya zollonario
lalilá
Monlutrella monluztrella
lalolú
Montresol y mandotrina
Ai ai
Montesur en lasurido
Montesol
Lusponsedo solinario
Aururaro ulisamento lalilá
Ylarca murllonía
Hormajauma marijauda
Mitradente
Mitrapausa
Mitralonga
Matrisola
matriola
Olamina olasica lalilá
Isonauta
Olandera uruaro
Ia ia campanuso compasedo
Tralalá
Aí ai mareciente y eternauta
Redontella tallerendo lucenario
Ia ia
Laribamba
Larimbambamplanerella
Laribambamositerella
Leiramombaririlanla
lirilam
Ai i a
Temporía
Ai ai aia
Ululayu
lulayu
layu yu
Ululayu
ulayu
ayu yu
Lunatando
Sensorida e infimento
Ululayo ululamento
Plegasuena
Cantasorio ululaciente
Oraneva yu yu yo
Tempovío
Infilero e infinauta zurrosía
Jaurinario ururayú
Montañendo oraranía
Arorasía ululacente
Semperiva
ivarisa tarirá
Campanudio lalalí
Auriciento auronida
Lalalí
Io ia
iiio
Ai a i a a i i i i o ia
>his collection of non-fiction isn't littered with posted notes
It's a great tell that the owner either is a pseud with a collection of unread books, or a pseud who speed read it once to be able to say he did.
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>>9158447
I just write in them. I don't use post-its.
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>>9158457
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This is almost 4.5 stars on Goodreads. 2017-02-26 02:38:09 Post No.9158386
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This is almost 4.5 stars on Goodreads.
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Anyone read this?
How is the writing? Is it good?
It gets compared to War and Peace a lot, so it must be good.
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>>9158386
one of those goodreads reviews said it wasn't all that good, so i decided not to read it. i'm a better person for it, i think.
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It's p gud.
Another Soviet novel about Stalingrad is Days And Nights by Konstantine Simonov.
It was a big hit and wasn't confiscated by the government.
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>896 pages
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Any books about manhood written by non cucked authors?
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>>9158200
masculinity is a spook
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>>9158200
my diary (I'm redpilled and hence a REAL man)
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>>9158200