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>>8970705
>porn is used to control de masses etc etc etc
you have to dig much deeper than that if you want a good story

>>8970705
>Jews
>not the capitalist elite that happens to include a decent number of Jews
Remember little prole, so long as the people exploiting you look kinda like you its all okay!

>>8970705
You could write a non-fiction book for the "alt-right" crowd or American Protestants depending on which you' agree with more. They're basically the new New Atheists. Come off as somewhat intelligent, and you'll be right as shit.

When Pride and Prejudice are presented in a confrontation.

hahah MEME ahhhaha MEMEMEM ahaha MEMEMEEMEMEMEAMMA A AAMM ACBJKLS..ZZ ASSSBJSS

When Sense and Sensibility have an argument.

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Just talk to your parents dude.

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>>8970579

Alright, I'll have ago:

You will love me from a cage
I hate you, you ugly fucking whore
We will burn together

wew, I didn't know I had this in me. I'm scaring myself. I don't know if I can look in the mirror again without seeing a demon that can case out such blasphemes.

His name means "Umbrella Dolphin"

>>8970538
In Serbian?

not as popular as who? i think he's pretty cool. turns the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into "The Prague Cemetery" and doesn't afraid of anything.

also he wrote a short story called "Granita" that was a GMILF parody of "Lolita".

>>8970504
I normally do my reading in your mother's bed, after I go to town on that pussy. Naw im sayin?

My kitchen table or a cafe

All that effort to play some casual pleb shit, and be seen doing it in public?

Whoooa check it out guys, I built my own home movie theatre so that I could watch the Transformers movies and the Shopping Network!

Fuck this kid. I hope someone smashes that monitor over his fucking head for playing such casualized garbage.

Better ask this on sci
And try khanacademy.org

A textbook tb h

Harry Potter 1-4.

>>8970232
Is that in the book?

Clearly something is being left out of the story since no one got nuked. He would nuke them if what? Was it saber-rattling taken out of context? Be very skeptical of Zinn - he is not even subtle about having an agenda.

>>8970232
You're seeing a similar insanity right now regarding the rush to instigate WWIII with Russia because someone leaked emails from the DNC. Be glad Trump was elected so that this can hopefully be prevented.

>>8970219
My diary, desu.

>>8970219
Growth of the Soil

>>8970219
Mason & Dixon

>>8970172
don't. seriously don't. he really fucking sucks. long empty flowery sentences with alliteration and shitty similes and LOLSOWACKY formatting shit is not good literature. Proust is long flowery sentences done right. Gass knows how to imitate the rhythm of a good sentence, but nothing else. He sucks. Don't waste your time.

>>8970172
anywhere you stupid retard.

who is he

>>8970102
get wheelocks

it'll take care of all of your q's

You're a meme if you think you can learn a language well enough to read native poetry without years and years of study

wheelock is solid as the other guy said, it's what we used when I learned it in school

Okay, but first you should read Infinite Jest for the necessary context.

>>8970089
You have to understand a few things that are very important. When we talk about David Foster Wallace, we’re talking about a man whose I.Q. could not be measured. Past 200, I.Q. tests get imprecise. We don’t know whether we’re dealing with a man with an I.Q. of 200 or 300 or what. We can’t measure it. When it comes to Wallace-tier geniuses, the standard tests simply don’t apply. You see, Wallace could have entered any field he wanted. He was a real-life Will Hunting. He could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer, or both, if he wanted. He could’ve been a pioneer in physics. He could’ve been a codebreaker for the NSA. But no. He decided to be a writer. He decided to devote his life to aesthetic beauty and to illuminating for us the way to live. That was the beauty and the tragedy of his life. In one way, it’s a blessing to have been born in Wallace’s time, to be able to hear his voice in interviews, to hear him delivering his famous commencement speech, which is already transforming people both intellectually and spiritually. On the other hand, I will surely die before we know even half of the secrets buried within the labyrinth of Infinite Jest. That I consider a curse.
It’s been nineteen years since Infinite Jest was published and scholars have only begun to come to terms with its full implications. This is what you must understand. Wallace reverse-engineered not only the novel, but all of Western literature as well as language itself. Packed within Infinite Jest is Hamlet, The Brothers Karamazov, Gravity’s Rainbow, Ulysses, and everything else. Hell, it even serves as an overview of human history, from dawn to today. It’s a book you could spend a lifetime studying. A lifetime spent in bliss, no doubt. It would be more worthwhile to spend one’s life reading and rereading Infinite Jest than to achieve being “well-read” in the traditional sense.
I don’t say this to intimidate you, but to encourage you. You must understand that, on your first time through, you will not understand everything Wallace is trying to communicate to you. Don’t worry. He knew things about life that we won’t discover for decades. Your job is merely to get on the road. In the decades to come, we may, if we’re lucky, discover scientific applications for the new ways of thinking Wallace gave us. We may have to throw out science altogether. We simply don’t know. For now, we have to be content with our vanguard roles. We are the ones who will break the ground and loosen the soil for Wallace’s future interpreters. This is not only our pleasure, but our duty. And for that, as Wallace famously said, “I wish you way more than luck.”

>>8970089
Oblivion is his best work as it is his only work where he's honest and not trying to make himself feel better. IJ is a bloated masterpiece with some boring as fuck parts but mostly a great story. Pale King is well regarded here but don't start with that. Dont start with brief interviews either as it's him at his worst in terms of "look everybody im a fiction genius and care about women". Its good and I like it but it can be reduced to that sometimes. His essays are top tier albeit sometimes I dislike his hoky journalism. Like in the Lynch piece he's just trying too hard but still has great insight and knowledge. I guess you can say at his worst he is that way, as in trying too hard but insightful at the same time. His fans are the worst part about him though. He was pretty much right about everything he said about irony though, something his fans misinterpret horribly

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>>8970061

If the winner are shit tier it doesn't mean the competition you're up against is, necessarily, shit tier: it's possible, even probable, the editors and judges the editors pick are shit tier and only recognize a certain kind of shit.

It's just like the oh-so-smart sophmore writer who thinks they can write best-sellers: you can't write junk if you don't have a junk mind that enjoys what other junk minds enjoys and so has a built in junk prose calibrator.

>>8970104
Hey, thanks for replying! I'm kinda new to this forum but I hope mansplaining isn't as common as you've made it seem.

>>8970061
What contests?

>>8970049
N J Wildberger and S Mochizuki. Shunned by the mathematical elite because they question their art as they practice it.

Sam Harris

>>8970049
Tim Maudlin, David Albert, Peter Lewis, John Earman, Nancy Cartwright, etc etc

>>8970045
I dunno man that's not a lot to give a good recommendation off of. But Haruki Murakami is pretty good with broad normie appeal. Just pick whichever one sounds the best but (in general) his older and longer works are better.

>>8970045
The Landmark Herodotus

>>8970070
I have read Norwegian Wood, looking for something more like Wolfe I guess

>>8970034
Ha

Read Zettels Traum

>>8970034
I'm halfway through this right now. It's good