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And in the end op was still a faggot

>...and so he built a machine that could control time-- The Time Machine.
h.g. go 2 hells

>>9007812

>being this bad at memeing

Jesus Christ OP either kill yourself or go back to read it.

More like /pol/ meets crazy Hindu fanatic.

>>9007721
I've just read "Pilgramage" by her in my local library.

It has got to be the weirdest thing I've ever read.

Savitri travels to all the places Hitler grew up and imagines herself simultaneously being him and a Hindu god.

There is also no stop repetition of how Aryan and vegetarian she feels.

Without checking Wikipedia, I would have thought it was a hoax

>>9007713
>Everything I've read by her

Wait... you mean you needed to read more than one piece by Savirtri Devi to figure out that the "Hitler was the Kalki Avatar of Vishnu" woman is crazy?

Quite the """""earnest"""""' man, huh?

>>9007716
Just die pls

>>9007710
Yeah, me too. I bought For Whom the Bell Tolls, because I got it mint for 10 cents and I love the title. But it just so boring and tedious. I don't even remember what happened. Was there something about a convoy being attacked by monkeys?

Hegelman is Bestman
now apply his method to material conditions and have people misinterpret it for personal power gains

>>9007884
I enjoyed this

That's called depression in the real world.

>>9007646
>stop having emotions
Read Jung to realise this is impossible and you will only become unconscious of your emotions, leaving them to wreak havoc in your life without you being able to do shit about it.

Look every young male adult goes through the 'I should kill my emotions' stage. I hate to be that guy, but in the end you'll do more harm than good and you'll have to acknowledge and deal with your emotions and with life. Not sure how old you are, but give it like at least until 25. If you still can't deal by then just kill yourself.

does op ask stupid questions one at time or two or more simultaneously?

>>9007634
This is a good question. I like to write a draft of a novel (or a "batch" of short stories) and then put it aside to, so to speak, let the paint dry on it a little. Otherwise I get burnt out and can't look at the work objectively anymore. In the meantime I work on another large project or group of small projects. It might seem counterproductive, and it sure makes publication go a lot slower, but lots of writers have done this in the past. I found out recently that John Gardner had written four or five novels before his first one saw print, and after the fact all his prior novels got published as well. So be patient, have heart, ignore first post.

>>9007634
lit tends to write zero books at a time

Ultimate DUDE LMAO author
>DUDE WHAT IF YOU FOUND THE COIN AND JUST STARTED THINKING ABOUT THE COIN AND LIKE COULDNT STOP THINKING ABOUT THE COIN AND EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE TURNED INTO COINS WOULDNT THAT BE WEIRD MAN LMAO
>DUDE WHAT IF THE WORLD WAS LIBRARY LMAO

>>9007635
>not realising the coin was his love for the dead chick
why are you even here lmao

>>9007635
lol you are a retard

phillip k dick is like a mental escher painting
especially the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

>>9007594
george perec is the only one i can think of which bears some resemblance

House of Leaves

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>>9007589
Makes them feel better about the fact that they have not and will not ever be famous for anything.

>>9007589
Just looked into him. Why does every book he write have to do with some insecure boy who meets a Manic Pixie Girl?

C H E E R I O S

>>9007542
>>9007542
Yeah, but i didn't find him all that impressing, allthough i did like his dark humor and often rude language, i felt like it was often lacking 'more'. Anyway, i read it in Dutch so i don't have clue about translations.

None of them are particularly long or hard (that i know of) so you can pretty much start anywhere.
The man who found a job (de man die werk vond) is one of his first ones and remained popular. Other than that i'd recommend Ex-drummer (was made into a pretty good movie, that has value of it's own allthough you'd miss out an the flemish accents, which really give it character) and the beautifull puking girl (Het mooie kostende meisje, idk if it's translated yet.)

I'm curious tho, why are you intersted in him and how did you find out about him if you're not Flemish? While i'm at it, i think Dimitri Verhulst has a similiar style but delivers better (just my unprofessional opinion tho). I know his 'Helaasheid der dingen' got translated as 'The Misfortunates'.

>>9007542
I've read two books of him but didn't find Brusselmans to be all that special to be fair. His writing style is decent as are his books.

I do agree with anon>>9008955
who says that the Flemish accents play a large role in his prose. It's a shame that so many Flemish writers (except for Miquel Bulnes, marvelous writer btw) feel the necessity to write in obscure accents according to the examples set by Claus and Boon.

Anyway, one of the special things about Brusselmans is his vulgarity. It's one of the things he thrives on in the media as well. Although many writers take on a 'posture litteraire' for stuff like that, his gritty vulgarities might actually be real.

Apart from that, he stands out for is his mixture between reality and fiction. He really likes to toy with the notion that fiction is not reality and vice versa.

How did you come across Brusselmans? Most of the people here (in the Netherlands, that is) probably only know him for his dirty hair and remarks about his love for pussy eating in TV shows.

>>9007542
I've seen his guest appearances on 'de slimste mens' and that was about enough for me

Well ok, here he presents his ideas clearly. The evolutionary psychology stuff sounds really weak. I don't buy it at all that males who believe/use/whatever the archetypes somehow make it on top of the hierarchy.

>>9007465
Sorry, I was focusing on his autistic facial expressions the entire time.

>>9007465
>The evolutionary psychology stuff sounds really weak

It's way more expansive than evo psych. The evo psych plebs thinks that time starts in the African savannah, which is obviously a completely arbitrary starting point.

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>>9007347
>Why dont you humble yourself and pray so God can open your eyes so you can belive in the Gosple of Jesus Christ and live a life affirming humbe lifestyle?

...and possibly become the Kierk of 21st century?

>>9007347

>I'm 24 and all of these edgy 20 year olds piss me off so much

Great thread, dork.

>>9007347
>Why dont you humble yourself and pray so God can open your eyes so you can belive in the Gosple of Jesus Christ and live a life affirming humbe lifestyle?

Yeah gee all that not-believing-in-God is so postmodern nobody has ever done it before.

>>9007322

figured

it was a basically new copy for 2.50 so i pounced

>>9007320

try rolfe humphries

trust me

>>9007325

I wish I could buy a trap for 2.50

I would buy several of them

>>9007292
>written by humans

>>9007292
>written on earth
Oh DEAR!

>Penguin Classics.
>Not written by penguins.
>Not selected to be published by penguins

Dialogue

I don't think there's any 'wrong' way to convey emotion apart from "He was angry" or something like that, as long as you vary the way you do it, it shouldn't get boring. Things in books usually annoy you because they're repeated too much

>>9007316
But with Joyce you get this sense of emotion when reading the work, a sense of disappointment or shame.

I can't tell if this is just a projection or if it's actually there.

>>9007286
I'll work on my dialogue, thanks.