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Why does this board continue to pop out such gay and useless threads? Literally how to throw your time in the toilet and flush it

>>9103114
Why do you stay here?

>>9103114
This was a very creative response to the prompt, Anon.

shut up tool you don't even know what's a free verse

>>9103101
found the open mic free verse talentless hack in one post

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Since we're doing poetry stuff, can someone explain to me about haikus? I know they're supposed to fit that particular syllable standard, but what other criteria are they judged on? And has that changed significantly over the years?

If you don't know how to write and have no ideas for the setup, why do you want to write something?

>>9103873
Maybe OP wants to express himself so that he can live a good life, and so he's asking for tips on how to begin to do so effectively.

>>9103877
>writing
>expressing yourself

pleb

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>>9103029
Literally writing as masturbation.

wtf I love Ulysses now

>>9103029
I had the same experience with the Cyclops chapter that's apparently a spoof on Irish epic poems.

I think Joyce just couldn't get something bad down on paper.

>>9102896
Man, I learned english reading books, now I read only in english and I regret nothing. Well, I miss some russians, but that's it, and they are translated anyway

Just learn French and German and you're good for like 90% of the stuff that matters

>>9102896
Too bad there ain't a way to learn other languages.

let's help an anon who needs our help

For a start please structure your sentences better
I kept reading it as "help someone who has a good research proposal template"

>>9102862
you can research this dick and can start at your moms house

Before the Gates of Excellence: The Determinants of Creative Genius

>>9102839
Portrait of the artist

>>9102839
The Recognitions

the only thing I've ever found was an atm receipt, the balance was like -1600. I very rarely buy used books though.

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>>9102630
>I saw this question on Reddit
>>>/r/eddit

>>9102630
Not much - bus/plane tickets, receipts, some kind of weird European money once. I try to leave a piece of card with a little note or doodle when I donate one.

Somewhere in the middle.

>>9102627
Neither.

thats funny, just today i thought to myself i'm going to read slaughterhouse five. its pretty ok so far.

give me a reason to read it then, faglord.

>>9102554
Which is your favourite between this, Augustus by John Williams and Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (that is, the Roman LARP trilogy)?

>>9102573
shits on the Germans

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somebody else's cat from /lit/
I thought it was funny

>>9102314
I doubt my cat even knows how to read desu :/

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my cat died last month
;_;

>>9101655
the American populace has never been smarter and more redpilled. See Trump winning for proof.

Enjoy the next 8 years, cuck

>>9101694
oh

>>9101655
Yeah, it is. Just read it anon.

>>9100772

please begin by randomly looking up clips on the Artzie Music channel.

>>9100772
start with plato then go full aristotle

>>9100772
The Greeks? Have you ever even been here before...

>>9100534
The reddest of the red pills. So based.

Just bought Homo Sacer after the last /lit/ thread on him and some other European thinkers. What am I in for?

Also looking at getting into Girard, Debord and Foucalt.

>>9100538
>>9100551

Reading Homo Sacer right now. I feel like a lot of it's going over my head, but despite that it's really great work. I've never read anyone with his kind of erudition before; it's unbelievable.

>>9100482
It's very erotic

>>9100482
It's not very erotic

>>9100498

that is because you're not reading the right stuff