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Which authors, if any, do you think browse here?
I personally suspect Pynchon. Who else would be making 10 threads a day about him?
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hot sweaty abs thirsy my penis in and out of her juicy vagina while staring down at that lovely cobbled belly
i'll be holding her hands down and looking at the firm bumps of her biceps and thursting in an out hmhmhmhmh
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>>8910685
I want that girl to rape me.
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>>8910685
The author of my diary desu
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So not to sound crass but why do people read the shit anyways? I'm halfway through and I feel like killing myself. I also bought war and peace for no particular reason.
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>>8910554
because they aren't plebs
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If you read to the end you'll get a tip on how to do it
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Why does Infinite Jest purport to be both, in David's words, a portrait "for and about" the young white male mental landscape, and also a universal and "all-encompassing" portrait and indictment of mental illness and addiction in the US?
Does David see the white male experience as the universal one? Or does he feel that he has such an intellectual grasp on the matter at hand that it gives him the leverage to whitesplain all minority experiences?
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please eliminate whitesplain from your vocabulary
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>>8910484
He's reading David Meme Wallace, he may as well use meme vocabulary
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>>8910503
>david foster wallace is a meme
i love this meme
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Has there ever been someone with more penetrating insights into both the human psyche and la condition humaine than pic related? How can a man be endowed with such a intimidating mind? Was it the fruits?
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No it as the milk
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>>8910451
>Was it the fruits?
yes, and they were low hanging
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>author expects you to decipher a page of printed braille
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>>8910258
You CAN read braille, can't you anon?
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>>8910258
What book does this?
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>>8910485
Books for blind people mate.
OP must be blind or something
Happy new year
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Let us all pay tribute to the most human poet who ever lived
https://youtube.com/watch?v=i4pN0zn16jk
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>>8910126
Keats is better
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>>8910147
Yes, but he's not more human. Burns, save perhaps Shakespeare, is the greatest who ever lived at depicting human sympathy, human joy. It's why he's loved the world over.
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Pushkin?
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Asking for a friend... obviously.
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>>8910103
i download them @amazon.com
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I downloaded a pdf one and minutes later a cop was knocking at my door
be careful, OP
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Poringa.net
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do you guys like reading more or less than you like insisting on your own intellectual superiority based on the books you've read
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What makes you think I read at all? I just consume the summaries.
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>>8909861
I just like reading because I find it enjoyable. If I wanted to appear intellectually superior I wouldn't do it on 4chan (no offense, I love you guys, but still). So to answer your question, in short, I like reading more for its own sake than anything else.
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>>8909904
>If I wanted to appear intellectually superior I wouldn't do it on 4chan (no offense, I love you guys, but still).
i like you managed to be intellectually surperior in your answer
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how do i write a thing
i've always wanted to do like a page a day but my writing isn't good yet and may never be and that's demotivating to me
also i secretly want to get rich and famous and despite wanting to use writing as a means of self-expression it also feels pointless if i don't have anyone to impress
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>no replies
it's because i'm secretly better than all of you, isn't it?
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>>8909855
Thats not why ya silly. It's usually slow on Saturdays, more so on New Years Eve (which by the way, Happy New Years). So the rate of or willingness to respond will be slow.
How to write a page a day? Well if it hasn't been working so far, maybe change the concept a little? 'Every day I will write about "this" or "that"? You can start purely descriptive, then edit out all the boring shit. If you feel yourself getting bored halfway through, begin to include some of those intrusive thoughts.
Kind of like when I realize I should get off an image-board on New Years..
But back to the subject at hand. Things are hard to do because they seem harder to carry out than they actually are to perform. This seems like a total banality, but it becomes scarily true once you realize that 'that' feeling of "god, its gonna suck finishing this. Or doing 'that' next" never goes away, even as you're doing the thing.
It can eventually diminish overtime as you get better (when it becomes more of a habit, it becomes 'less' of an activity you have to consciously make happen), but it never fully goes away. Sometimes coffee or booze helps to block that voice out, but it comes back. But that voice is necessary to the process. If you sitting down and moving pen is one hand, you're nagging procrastinating voice is the other to a dance you'll be playing with awhile.
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>>8910056
Not him, but i find this is really helpful, man. THX A LOT.
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what books capture the essence of American Exceptionalism?
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The United States Constitution
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>>8909696
the Bible
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The Art of the Deal
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I am an aetheist and I enjoy this book because _______.
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>>8909667
Its the best book ever, actually.
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>>8909667
It's interesting, well-written, and culturally relevant
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I enjoy history
I enjoy the poetic prose
I enjoy the message of redemption and forgiveness
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post your favorite piece of /lit/ and get judged
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>>8909559
is actually quite nice
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o&t=853s
His Maps of Meaning book is really good by the way.
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>>8909552
>mfw he could BTFO anybody on /lit/ in a debate and people still shit on him here
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https://youtu.be/YnEFt20qe0o?t=965
O-oh. Women will not like this.
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he has cancer
would you like to read a very person letter I wrote just now and probably won't send?
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personal*
i'm drunk
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>>8909523
IF IT WEREN'T IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS IT WOULD BE JUST FINE.
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>>8909531
my e's are lowercase come at me
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Why does Tolstoy or Shakespeare for example have more merit than say Stephen King?
Is there some kind of objective measurement of literary worth? How do you determine this?
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>>8909513
fucking READ THEM. Their superiority is self-evident to everyone who is familiar with them - fuck you for thinking its worth anyone's time to fucking spell it out for you
there is no reason this thread should exist.
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>>8909522
So anecdotal evidence is an objective measurement of worth?
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You can't fully objectively measure the worth of literature because its worth only exists based on the impression it gives the reader.
It depends on what you want to get out of literature. I'm not familiar with different scales of measurement for what could be gained from reading, but at the very least you can see that certain books are written with a higher quality than others. More effort was put into them, and they simply come together better.
For me I would say the worth is a combination of entertainment it provides, quality of the writing, and its contribution to humanity's understanding of the universe.