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Blast HardCheese

>>8773696
Wolfgang Wolf

Fart Neckmeat

Oboy
Here we go again

Gass Gass Gass
I wish you'd stop posting Gass

>>8773674
Not sure what this has to do with my topic.

>>8773671
More like hot lard

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>>8773625

Figure out what kind of person attracts your admiration. Not just superficially in their mannerisms but concretely in their view of life, their goals, their beliefs. Then emulate them, ask them what would X do in this situation.

Read their biographies and their quotes, see what makes them tick. I would avoid "self-help" books.

>>8773625
>>>/r9k/

>>8773651
Thanks, I'll do that.

>>8773580

I don't live in America.
I'm glad the urbanite culture of lumbersexuals isn't mine to endure.

>>8773580
tl;dr?

Can't read the article due to paywall

>>8773593
tl;dr
>the modern dividing line between "genre fiction" and "Literrrrature witha capital L" should be removed.
>Modern "Literary fiction" generally speaking is written for an echo chamber audience of snooty , bi-coastal critics and professors
>This artificial divide has led modern "literary" authors to adopt unorthodox and artifical prose styles because their job is to sound "writerly" rather than tell a story
>Many examples of this, Corncob included

Fuck off and tell your grandmother thank you and that you love her.

>>8773564
When did I say I didn't love her or that I was ungrateful.? It's a good book at least.

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>It's a "Now a hit video game!" edtion with an introduction that implies the orginial author would have loved to play the new adaptation

The Wealth of Nations

>>8773518
What are you starting the club for, university?

>>8773518
freakonomics

>>8773494
trains

she wrote all those road atlases

>>8773499
Ayyy. Best Ayn Rand post.

Microsoft Word

I'm too lazy to find a better alternative

Scrivener and open office depending on how long and complicated it is.

I use dark room. Keeps me focused.

It's pretty gay. Like Greek gay

>>8773446
Why is the cover spooky skeletons?
The image would be more haunting and not as cliche if they were actual men.
That being said, it's still a great cover.

>>8773472
Thats what I was just thinking about. Pretty rad skeletons. Whats the book about? Manliness stuff?

>>8773436
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jIGzc7ks6g8g1Y-PoDPSafYbFcU2quRlQxPdbgij_M/edit?usp=sharing

If you need an excuse to write, you'll never write anything good.

>>8773453

A lot of great writers wrote cause they were in debt though or wanted to make a living.

I get what you're saying though it's a corny thing which turns writing into more of a social event like going out to the movies or comparing baby photos.

>>8773423
This country, in my everything, is he man

>>8773423
japanese john green

>>8773423
Why don't you?

>>8773411
we always treat women too well
anything by de sade
anything by french libertines in general
joyces fart letters
that one diarrhea passage from GoT
GR shit-eating scene
Hillary's e-mails

Houellebecq
My Diary Desu
Zizek
Gass
Chuck Tingle
anything on fanfiction.net

Babyfucker
Hogg

Baudrillard was a hack like many post-modernists who misunderstood science and tried to adapt it to philosophical/theoretical conventions and only exposed himself as a charlatan.

>>8773389
Don't start with one of his books, start with the Jean Baudrillard Reader, edited by Steve Redhead. It provides a survey of the various topics Baudrillard writes on, and also shows how his thought evolved over the decades. If you can get a grasp on Baudrillard's somewhat maddening writing style, and also like what he is saying and some of the concepts he describes, then move to his books, and follow the topic that most interested you.

>>8773489
Thanks.

>>8773361
>proceed to pretend like you understand them

I get it is a joke, but understanding context of the Greek writers, particularly philosophers makes understanding them quite straightforward; one therefore while reading Greek literature needs to have a moderate understanding of Greek vocabulary, history and culture, which by itself can take years.

>>8773388
This is nonsense, one can easily get a sense of the topography of Greek thought in a few years but understanding Plato, Aristotle, and Homer is anything but straightforward. If you think you've figured it out, you haven't.

I'm dragging through Plato's Cratylus dialogue and I'm almost finished, but it is honestly the least interesting one I have yet to read. Any thoughts on it? Insight? I wait until I finish to read up on it, but are most of the proposed etymology jokes? It seems so silly that I can't help but wonder if Plato was either just using them humorously as examples or outright mocking the manner that Socrates would examine things

yeah that sounds right

>>8773307

How about homosexual lover?

>>8773326
You clearly didn't read the story.

Or you don't know what a homosexual is.