Post your literary fantasies
penic
and also dicke and bals
>>8886180
getting published
>>8886180
I dream of writing the next Finnegans Wake, something so obscure that only a handful of people can understand it. I dream of writing something that makes millions of people become so confused and overwhelmed that they submit to me and call me a genius. I dream especially of having the girl I love read it and getting such a feeling of confusion and inadequacy from reading it that she immediately calls me and talks to me in a completely overwhelmed and intimidated manner betraying her submission to my absolute genius.
Why do you write? Why do you want to write a novel? Why do you want to want to write stories?
>>8886093
For myself.
For the art of it.
For I find them within me, keeping me company. Why not learn to play again?
>>8886093
Gives me something constructive to focus on.
It is a difficult but enjoyable labor.
I dream of things and long to preserve them somehow.
My inner life needs a sort of waste system, to release pressure or steam or what have you.
My only audience when I write is my future self, to have a portrait into my mind in the time that I wrote it.
Anyone have those image guides to philosophy that were in volumes? Can't find them on the wiki or elsewhere on the internet
nada?
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I really need this, especially for Greek philosophy
Bump, me wants
What are some good books on pre-Christian European religion that I would be able to find online for free?
>>8886082
They call it mythology these days.
+1 for OP's question but piratable epubs are okay too. Is that what "for free" means?
>>8886137
Yes
Look what came in the mail.
You're a good boy for getting Lookout Cartridge. Have you read any others by him?
>>8886052
Just smugglers bible. It was great. I put down the book I was reading and cracked open actress in the house. Hooked me within the first 3 pages. I'm a suckered for this kind of stuff.
Never read this guy, have heard of him though, am definitely intrigued. What's a good place to start? I figure I'll read some of his shit here and there until Women & Men gets that yung repress. I'm thinking of doing Cannonball, or maybe the Short Stories?
Who is the Ken Levine of literature?
he looks like a much uglier version of me
>>8886144
are you charlie day?
>>8885989
kek he looks like that guy who posts pictures of himself on /r9k/
Why haven't you read this yet? Are you seriously daunted by its length?
note: having only read Swann's way doesn't count.
Doesn't look like I'd enjoy it
I'm conciously losing time not reading it so I can have a better appreciation of it later.
>>8885979
Huge backlog and I'm unsure if the translation preserves him well enough
Anyone read her? Any good?
What a Jew You can immediately tell she's a classic 70s New York Jew. 70s New York Jews are one of my favorite subgenres of Jewry
>>8885957
True she's a Jew but I wanna know if she's a true Jew
>>8885941
You couldn't have chosen a more flattering picture. It really captures the Jew in her, ya know?
is this any good? i want to read it but 400 pages of a man staying generally in his room sounds like it could drag on, or is it not just that?
It's good.
Goncharov spends a lot of time giving backstories to the people who visit Oblomov, it's not just a long description of him sitting down.
He does a fair bit in the second half of the book too
>>8885933
He's more active than you think. I'm not finished yet, but it's not what I expected. Great book though.
Its quite good. I actually found the bits set in his room the best
Can an openly misogynistic writer have a successful career in our time?
Several of them do.
>>8885917
Only with the so-called "alt-right" fanbase (aka /pol/, /r9k/, /r/thedonald, /r/incel, etc.)
>>8885917
No.
was he on drugs when he wrote this
>>8885886
>people before the 1960s
>doing drugs
>>8885886
was you on drugs when you reading it
>best to read when stoned
He was on a potent mixture of eccentricity, alcohol, and Irishness
>sister been studying creative writing for years
>I got into reading again last year
> Started with The Great Gatsby and most recently finished Brave New World
>"Oh i can't get into anything by dead white dudes they were too boring"
Jesus christ.
>>8885862
So what does she read?
>>8885867
Mostly Jk Rowling.
is your sister cute?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti9zdpLlXf0
what does this video get wrong? (I'm assuming it isn't possible to so concisely summarize his work)
>>8885797
Nothing, at least as far as I'm aware. Its more a criticism of common misinterpretations than an overall summary.
Nothing pisses me off more than plebs who think Nietzsche promoted amoralism and nihilism.
>>8885797
He misunderstands Master-Slave morality
That dude looks like Matt Damon
oh shit I'm dumb it is Matt Damon.
I'm still posting this, already did the CAPTCHA
Any cheaper e-readers that are comparable with the Kindle Paperwhite in terms of batterylife and general quality (build, lag, software, etc.)?
That is a skinny fucking waist
>>8885750
I'm really goncerned
Kobo aura
I need some cheering up. What are the funniest books you've read?
hard mode: No memes recs or post-modern irony
Confederacy of Dunces
Areas of My Expertise and the sequels
Drabby Parker's Whiplash Ride through Dominavidson's Haunted Backtard
>>8885704
I liked John Dies at the End
gravitys rainbow, its seth mcfarlane on crack and acid.