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Indoeuropean Poetry and Myth by ML West

Golden Bough by Frazer

White Goddess by graves

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>>8986977
>actually mythology
what
What culture mythology are you interested in?
by your pic i will assume that greek is the main one, so go and read Metamorphoses by Ovid and the The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus

>>8986914
the fault in our stars. it's really easy to get into and really touching. :)

>>8986914
Camus and Kafka, in english.

>>8986914
Lolita
>>8986925
no

The Iliad

my diary tbqh

>>8986885
The Last Temptation of Christ is good, and fits that description.

Any instance of stichomythia in the Greek tragedies.

And then Anon learned a new word.

>>8986869
Shakespeare.

Not even memeing.

> Hamlet. But what is your affair in Elsinore? ...
> Horatio. My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
> Hamlet. I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow student; I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
> Horatio. Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.

>>8987063
bretty good

>>8986859
benis in bagina is the only one

Numbers

>>8986859
suffering

um, kill yourself?

Just jack off and it goes away.

>>8986947
But jacking off makes you lazy.

Are all men destined to this suffering?

>>8986827
I see him riding a normal size unicycle while juggling bananas and saying HEYHEY like Krusty the clown, at the top of his giant staircase right as the rest of the family walks in the front door. He then proceeds to ride/fall down the stairs.

he lives in an average sized apartment and gets around with a walker

t. I'm him

>>8986838
Honestly wouldn't be surprised.

Start with the Greeks

Calvino.

Learning contemporary Italian will not prepare you to read untranslated pre-XX century stuff.

You have been warned.

>>8986760
Utter hack tier. Still, Dorian Gray makes for a good children's novel.

yes, i liked best his book where he goes faggy faggy fag way

My dislke of Dorian Gray is 50% for the unsubtle faggotry and 50% for meme philosopher Basil.

>>8986700
Create a short list of events, a summary. Simply write your brainstorm down.


I never start a book out knowing the plot. It always works out in the end for me. Then again, I've only written one book and it's not published. That process worked for my more recent one--and it's almost finished

Acknowledge that your writing is shit and that you're a bad writer. Then write it anyway. Just write a shit story. Keep doing that until you have a first draft. Then rewrite.

>>8986700
Don't think of your story as a giant block that flows ever onward. Write it in short bursts, like little bricks.

"He loved her, even before she betrayed him."

"The knife still sat in his drawer year after year."

"His grandchildren wanted to know why he never got rid of it."

"When Gretchen learned what her favorite lettuce knife was used to do, she shuddered in horror."

Just take tons of small pieces, and add more pieces between them. When they get outdated, you take them out. When you come up with an even better beginning or end, you add it in the front or end. Eventually, you'll add so many parts that you'll realize you basically wrote a story made of a bunch of lego sentences, and then you can bring it to an Editor to finalize it for you.

>>8986698
Because some truths you can only get through lies

>>8986698
We feed on them. Or souls need them.

>>8986698
Because fiction is just as pertinent to philosophy and psychology as well as inspiring mankind and its imagination as is non-fiction.

Let's stop acting like all non-fiction is inherently educational or even full of any useful knowledge outside of fulfilling some piece of interest you have in it.

You just disqualified Hamlet. Great job asshole.

I find it easier to relate to >40 year olds than above. So I don't see a problem with that, the problem arises when the main character is below 20.

I can only relate to old characters, because I have no vitality like other young people

>>8986623
Should I read Crime & Punishment even though I have never murdered anyone with an axe? Is it still worth it?

>>8986623
rev up your fedora

>>8986623
You should read the Book of Genesis (KJV translation) before reading PL, yeah.

>>8986591
<<<

save the best for later

>>8986591
The greeks

>>8986591
Get a light bulb.