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>>8935368
I want.

It must be a publicly-funded institution that lends books to people.

>>8935368
50 books and gansta bitches

because the people who publish them need money

>>8935222
his short stories are a million times better anyway

>>8935230
Which one is your all-time favorite?

>>8935212
Nabokov made me pull the trigger and major in Literature.

>>8935212
Starting Strengyh by Mark Rippetoe

>>8935212
The Rebel by Camus. Made me a nihilist, destroying my liberalism, then made me an anti-nihilist who supports anarcho-syndicalism.

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>>8935207

If you have to ask, you'll never know

Read a lot of it and then you will unconsciously start to pick up on stuff you like and develop a taste. Then you will find poets you like. Start with New York School i guess.

uh, but that's not what philology means, it's the study of language...like classical philologists study ancient languages like latin, greek and sanskrit, etc. who ever made that pic is a mong

>>8935142
LMAO

Nice post OP.

>>8935199
>it's the study of language
no it's not. even if you go by what you describe, "like classical philologists study ancient languages like latin, greek and sanskrit, etc." that's the study of languages, not language.

>>8935126

Shakespeare

*BRAAAAAAAAAAAP*

>>8935126
Probably me tbqh

I like Twain

>>8935087
How on earth is that contrarian?

Tolstoy's a hack. War and Peace is a shitty Vanity Fair and Madame Bovary makes Anna Karenina look like it was written by John Green

You don't, dickhead. If you're having a sex scene there should be a reason for it, normally being solidifying a romantic bond between two characters. You can achieve what you need by focusing on the emotional aspect rather than actually describing any acts. If it's say a woman undercover and trying to retrieve information than you can describe how she's courting the man for example, but have a focus on her being coercive. Finish the sex scene with her getting him to let slip some information.

sex scenes are sexy

it's a problem if it's blatant / cheesy / too flowery / obnoxiously obscene etc

if it naturally fits and belongs in the story it's fine

How is this a question? Play with style. The less sexual it is the more objective your descriptors are going to be, the more distance your narration will have, at an extreme becoming summary: she sucked me off/ I fucked her.
If you are trying to write more erotic, get into detail and lean on the sensual, textures, sounds, rhythms, if you are trying for passionate sex you write the characters' bond into the act.

>>>/v/

>>8934845
>but how does one make something uncommon the norm?
You're joking right?
Amateur writers making fantasy books is the norm.
Branch out in your reading. Write as practice.

Sounds incredibly original, how did you think of it?

>>8934840

Wait people actually thought that the hallucinations he was having were real? Did they miss the part where he was high on every single type of drug for four years straight?

>>8934840
>Why do hipsters pretend to like shit that they've never read?

Because some people love to put on a front of being well read when in reality they haven't touched a book since high school. You see it all the time even on here when people just buy books to fill their shelves to show off to people when in reality a lot of them have never been opened.

People are soooooo stupid, lol.

>>8934819

americans who stood in awe of french philo did

>>8934819
No because they don't do philosophy. Some things they do are interesting but it's definitely not philosophy.

>BHL
>French

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>get invited to a party
>sit in a dark and quiet corner consuming as much alcohol as you discretely can while mentally jotting down notes on the mating habits of people
>then go home and have a few more drinks from your personal liquor cabinet as you write down those mental notes, before passing out alone

I wish I concentrated more in secondary school and got decent grades. Instead I wasted the days playing computer games and reading books completely irrelevant to the course work.

I left with terrible qualifications and my parents have raised me with a shitty work ethic. I'm doomed to the working classes, and to top it off, I'm short and ugly too, so I wont be rearing a family. This bothers me because it could've been a meaningful distraction for my intellectual short comings. Now I'm petering on in community college trying to get the grades I ignored in school, but universities never accept applicants who did dreadful in their high school/secondary exams. My life right now looks very grim. I think after two more years in further education, I'll end up joining the French Foreign Legion and commiting suicicde in my late 30's when the embarrassment of living with my mother is too much to bear, and the likelyhood of acquiring a wife is too small.

Maybe I'm exaggerating though. Maybe I'll find a woman to inject some form of purpose in my life, but the family unit just isn't the same as it was in the 50's. And I'm not entirely convinced if tradtional gender roles are obsolete form of class opression or if they're under threat by a marxist conspiracy. I have no concrete values. I'm indecisive, and I don't know what to do.

>>8934967
you sound basically the same as me

>>8934692
Stop being an autist, that's what.

>>8934692
Borges turned blind too

>>8934692

Stop drawing tenuous parallels between yourself and iconic writers.

I like mine for two reasons-
don't have to hold it open
can be nice to travel with it

If you're a poorfag nothing even comes close. Bought a used kindle for 40 bucks.

They're useful if you travel a lot and read a lot while travelling. The battery life far exceeds that of a tablet nine times out of ten because it's not running an OS and other stuff in unison with the reading app and is generally built just to display books. If you don't go places you can't take books for extended periods of time then I'd say just stick with a tablet if you already own one. They're good for elderly or impaired people too, my dad reads a LOT but has terrible arthritis and physically can't turn pages anymore so he gets a lot of use out of it.

>>8934638
Hitler was quite the dashing fellow.

Prove me wrong.

>>8934641
I have never seen footage of Hitler moving faster than walking speed

>>8934638

/pol/ really has gotta stop with this shitty "raiding boards". It doesn't turn people to follow your beliefs. all it does is drive those who browse /lit/ for other thing elsewhere, while you losers claim victory. You aren't actually turning this board into a /pol/ board, people just leave and you're all that's left.

see /tv/