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>taught literature at a young age
>published her first novel at 9
>world-renowned blogger
>half chink

What's you excuse /lit/?

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>reading stoic subreddit threads
>More than half of the "stoics" are trying to justify their desire for sex. Casual sex at that.

So wtf happened to society? It says in plain English that Epictetus and Rufus didn't condone sex outside marriage and not for pleasure sake.

Do people not have self control?

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little-death dejection that isn’t beautiful that isn’t noteworthy that isn’t unique that isn’t powerful that isn’t empowering that isn’t patient that isn’t real yet isn’t not real yet doesn’t help

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>he's a good world builder

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Hey /lit/, a girl I sit next to and chat with in class told me I should read this book. I kinda like her, but all I really know about her is that she likes horses.

I'm not sure what to do, should I just go ahead and read it?

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What're some books to help deal with the fact that you are the bad guy?

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Where to start with this hack, /lit/?

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Do you think part Pynchon's point (at least in his GR and pre-GR era) is a position that all the people that are paranoid are missing the scarier reality that no one is in control? Because i'm kind of conflicted about it. That seems to be an accurate reading of Lot 49 and possibly GR in so far as that everyone trying to control shit is incompetent but I don't think his short stories and V really bear that out and the fact that people actually are following Slothrop seems to oppose that reading in my mind. I can't remember who even planted that seed in my mind, but it just seems like bullshit the more carefully I read him. It seems like he's a lot more open to real conspiracies existing but aware that they never really pan out the way they're constructed in the minds of the paranoid.

Also, I don't think you've ever talked about Gaddis and I'd be interested in your take.

PS: I'm not going to fuck you, so don't hit on me. I'm bi but I think we're generations too far apart to make it work even if you would make me laugh. Feel free to ask me shit about myself if you want to try and live vicariously through someone that may be the only extant example of a culturally erudite, non-autistic millennial (23) on this board or the internet.

PPS: Don't worry about your trip. I'll know if it's you by the way you write.

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>having discussion
>friend off handedly mentions "you read ayn rand, you're opinion is meaningless, you are a child"
>others clap
can someone explain why ayn rand is bad?

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What makes this guy so good?

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>tfw want to read Joyce aloud but can't do a good Irish accent

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A while back I read "Trilobites" by pick related.

The first time I read it, i literally had to take a step back reexamine my own writing. It wasn't that it was the greatest thing i'd ever read, it was that I'd found writer who was able to make me feel what i want to be able to convey in my own writing.

I've picked this story apart probably eight times since then. Each time i go back through, i find something i missed. I don't think a single other story has taught me so much about writing as this one.

Is there any writer you read that you finished, sat the book down, and said to yourself "Okay, how fuck did they do that? Because that's what i want to do."?

In other words, what story by what writer changed the way you wrote more than any other?


Here's the Breece D'J story for those interested. I highly recommend it. He don't fuck around.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1977/12/trilobites/376288/

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>think of a good idea for a novel
>write the opening paragraph
>realize I have no idea how to structure the story
>give up

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>I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences. This is an unspeakable torture during which he needs all his faith and superhuman strength, and during which he becomes the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the great learned one!—among men.—For he arrives at the unknown! Because he has cultivated his own soul—which was rich to begin with – more than any other man! He reaches the unknown; and even if, crazed, he ends up by losing the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them! Let him die charging through those unutterable, unnameable things: other horrible workers will come; they will begin from the horizons where he has succumbed!

Why aren't you following the advice from the absolute madman himself?

Take the litpill

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Spanish-speakers of /lit/, what are some of the most iconic poets of the Spanish language?