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>>8996733
స్మెల్లీ పెద్ద పాయువు పుస్తకం

>>8996733
Just finished it about half an hour ago. I thought it was pretty funny and it made me think of this board a lot. Not all that great, but a fun one-time read.

Have you read it? If so, your thoughts?

Pretty good. I like the backstory to it.

>Guy writes book, sends to an agent.
>Agent says he likes it, but he thinks it should be edited down.
>Guy flips his shit, says he'll never do that, then kills himself.
>His mom gets it published over 10 years after his death, and it wins a Pulitzer.

I can't help but think that....maybe if he listened to the agent, he could have won a nobel.

nah, it's the equivalent of trying to cure ilnesses with ancient snake oils instead of using state of the art medication

>>8996693
Except pretty much all philosophy between the Greeks and the 21st century has been shit. Like taking anti-biotics for a virus.

>>8996642
No, you don't have to. But it's a good place to start.

>>8996693
t. analogy expert

>>8996643
Just the answer I was looking for. Thanks.

>>8996630
Ironically no

That is dramatic irony

Learn basic literary techniques

>>8996565
Look up words you come across that you don't know...

I have collins 1997, is that too old? (For real -- 'blamestorming'... really?)

Owning a dictionary is the mark of a pseud. There's no reason at all to own a physical one in two thousand & seventeen.

Have you been to the English deer park?

>>8996491
Fuck yeah. I was thinking about starting this thread yesterday.

Let's talk about Man Without a Shadow.

Sure, The Outsider is pretty great. Have no time for his occult related bullshit, though.

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>>8996428
verbose

*BRAAAAAAAP*

*SHHHHPLURT*

>>8996378
So essentially, black humour is popular among pseuds?

Who would've thought.

Ridiculous. I'm about as intelligent as they come (not bragging), and I never thought Dave Chappelle, for instance, was at all funny.

>>8996378
I like a good gallows joke as much as (or more than) the next man, but it gets old and a lot of the time it's le edgy or brutal 'humor'.

>>8996361
absolutely pointless

the only people who would be "impressed" by this are the kinds of people you do not want to associate with

In any normal circumstance, virtually any poem is only a google search away.

>>8996361
>Whats /lit/s stance on memorizing poetry?

Acceptable only if the poem memorized is one you wrote.

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>>8996370
>committing beautiful things to your memory is pointless

>>8996349
REAL men are anti-semites. Try a redpill

>TS Eliot was an anti-semite and a general all around asshole

Oh boy

>>8996349
I thought this was general knowledge.
I also saw traces of tonio kroger (Mann 1903) in those opening lines but I don't know if Eliot read that story or not.

>>8996321
Go for it. Take a chance live a little.

>family

No. Nothing good can come of it. There is literally no answer which can help you in any way.

So no.

Instead, go to Evil Editor's blog and look at what he does. Then, write a query letter and send it to the blog. Take the feedback.

Meanwhile, post a fair use excerpt on AgentQueryConnect. They'll tell you the truth.

>>8996381
I'm not talking about letting them read it for tips or notes. Let's say I get it published or decide to print up some copies myself. The book contains child molestation and shitting and transvestites and retards eating dog pop and rampant alcoholism and castration. It's not the sort of thing you want your grandmother knowing is going on inside your head, you know?

No... why would you come to that conclusion?
He's a warm, family man who had his hand forced by the unforgiving economic and social climate of his time.

What's autistic about him? Have you even read the book? Or are you just reacting the literary tropes about his character, that he was driven mad by revenge?

>>8996290
no, but herman melville was

>>8996296
>muh moby dick has to pay for what he has done
But hes just an animal blindly following his instincts
>REEEEEEEEEEE

i can't remember the last time i cried. kill me now. i'm already dead inside

>>8996264
Don't understand the love for this book

For me main one is probably Les amities particulieres when I was a young teen, don't shoot me

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>>8996264
You know in movies, where the main character is holding his dying buddy in his arms, and crying, and then he makes a dumb comment, and the hero laughs, even though he's still crying?

That kind of crying.

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with mumma and puppa joyce

what a dapper man

just go at your own pace, mate; it's not a race! :)

>>8996357
a couple weeks ago i started reading at like 10 pages a day and now im doing about 150. At this rate I will soon be able to read all the world

>>8996375
one day you'll make us all proud

(you know the bit I mean)

>>8996110
It was dancing, dancing.

>>8996130
+ rape