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I don't know any normies that have read or heard of Murakami desu.

>>8724833
youre retarded lol murakami is pure normie middlebrow housewife/"hipster college girl"/:indie guy" tier. its what people who read hunger games in high school go on to read in college

>>8724843
>>8724815
You realize the same could be said of this board with shit like Dostoyevsky and Kant?

>>8724738
>>8724738
>>8724738
“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”

>>8724738
Henderson the Rain King: "It is all a matter of having a desirable model in the cortex. For the noble self-conception is everything. For as conception is, so the fellow is. Put differently, you are in the flesh as your soul is. And in the manner described a fellow really is the artist of himself."

"And Reality... me? I love the old bitch just the way she is and I like to think I am always prepared for even the very worst she has to show me. I am a true adorer of life and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down."

Poe's Philosophy of Composition

"Of the innumerable effects, or impressions, of which the heart, the intellect, or more generally the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on the present occasion, select?"

Letters to a Young Poet

"For the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place."

"All feelings are pure which gather you and lift you up; a feeling is impure which takes hold of only one side of your being and so distorts you."

Dubliners

"He came to speak to the business men and he would speak to them in a businesslike way. If he might use the metaphor, he said, he was their spiritual accountant; and he wished each and every one of his hearers to open his books, the books of his spiritual life, and see if they tallied accurately with conscience."

Sons (the good earth trilogy)

"Nor did he like the old tales, but he read most ardently the newly written tales of love that is free between man and maid, and he dreamed of well-born maidens who were not courtesans and yet were not shy and timid before men, but like men are with men except they be maids still. Yet he knew not one, for as yet such freedom was more in books than in truth."

Anne of Green Gables

"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair,' said Anne reproachfully. 'People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is. Mrs. Thomas told me that God made my hair red on purpose, and I've never cared about Him since."

Short stories of Mark Twain

"He was a man of unsteady habits, and gave way to violent fits of passion. The girl declined his addresses, and he said if he did not have her no one else should. After he had inflicted the first wound, which was not immediately fatal, she begged for her life, but seeing him resolved, asked for time to pray. He said that he would pray for both, and completed the crime."

"All things change except barbers, the ways of barbers, and the surroundings of barbers."

Virginia Woolf essays

"He was one of those ambiguous characters who haunt the boundary line
where one age merges in another and are not able to inhabit either.

"Here then, in spite of all contradictions and all qualifications, is something definite. These essays are an attempt to communicate a soul. On this point at least he is explicit. It is not fame that he wants; it is not that men shall quote him in years to come; he is setting up no statue in the market-place; he wishes only to communicate his soul."

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Noam Chomsky.

>>8726179
>Khmer Rouge

>>8726182
We've been over this, /pol/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3IUU59B6lw
I'm so happy I have this well-referenced video that I can just copy paste whenever this subject comes up instead of giving a dissertation.

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I’ve done you wrong. I’ve been unfaithful to our commitment. Not through extraneous relationships, as I could not live having stabbed your heart with such cruelty, but rather by not being there for you. Not in presence, but in comfort. I know this now, and I am a fool for having been deceived by my emotions. They speak truth to me now, I swear it. I can feel it. I know you’re not perfect. I don’t need you for me to live. But I want you to be there by my side, to make life worth living. I look for eye contact as you deviate from your linear path through the shore to make your way towards me, but is futile, so I stop before you think I’m begging for it. You sit by my side, not a word is said. You put your hands around your knees and tilt your head to the side, looking away from me. I’ve always been a fool, but I always try to do what I think is right. We wouldn’t be here if I lived idle. I feel your pain. I remember the words that were said. We both exaggerated. We both- Oh shut up. I put my hand on your back, I don’t move it, and unsure that if I do you’d leave. Might as well try. I push your shoulder towards me. As you get closer, I voice comes out my mouth and it’s the reaction that prompts you to get up. I see a tear shine, by your cheek. This is it. This is where you leave me. The sun is almost gone. The ship remains unreachable. I stand up and see you leave. Walking away to never come back. My heart races. The ocean quiets. The cold and the wind stop. All I feel is a painful feeling in my chest pushing me to become unbridled, to let go of everything, adrenaline rushes, my head is clear, all I hear is my breathing, all I feel is my heart pounding incessantly at my chest, waiting to get out! I run after you! I hold on to your arms! I turn your body towards mine and my determinate stare forces yours towards them, to where you can’t look away! Oh everything that could be said! Oh everything that needed to be said! Everything that has been felt these past few days! Everything leading to this moment, and I take you, my lips move fast towards yours, they cushion softly against each other, just perfect enough for you to feel what I feel!
The stars shine, and the moon now reigns. The beach keeps beating my guitar with the sand in the wind. The boat now has a light on, barely visible from where we stand. A light in a sea of a dark blue world.

C+
You try too hard and you don't try too hard.

>>8724811
What feelings did this elicit to you?

>>8724682
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Hempel#Principal_works
try Hempel

Deductive: work your way backwards from a series of specific assertions to a general root truth (what Thomas aquinas tried to do in summa theologica)

Inductive: start from a simple truthful assertion, and arrive at new assertions by extrapolating circumstances. Try a discrete math textbook for practical applications

>>8724682

francis bacon

my diary desu

You mean melodramatic feel-good trash? John Green could be of your liking

le stranger

man-children in general have been characters since marcus aurelius nab

>>8725399
insecurity: the post

Bitches don't know about my valve

>>8724592
What's your novel about?

>>8724598
Pretty much as many various thoughts and perspectives as I could think of, more so that than any coherent narrative/plot (one of those), attempts at poetic prose, stream of consciousness.

But I am open to meeting someone/s who maybe has extravagant similar style or writings of their own, that can read through what I have written, and be inspired to add on and fill in places, and give criticisms, and make the work their own (very much hopefully improving it).

Just seeking a more heads are better than one situation. But not in the circumstance as I have seen another anon post a google doc of their collective 4chan writing where some people are good and took it seriously and some people just wrote the equivalent of drawing dicks and farts and copy pasting bad song lyrics.

If anyone is interested email me: [email protected]

Literature in Spanish or literature from Spain?

>>8724543
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Literature_by_origin

>>8724549
In Spanish, nor necessarily from Spain.

>>8724514
The idea of poor people suffering is hilarious when you think about it

>>8724514
We still live in a judeo-christian world that fetishizes the poor ("blessed are the poor...") and weak.

>>8724519
Kek

>>8724369
A dog jumped over the net.

Read this again and again until you just imagine the scene instead of the sounds of the words in your head.

>>8724373
>just imagine the scene
most pleb thing I ever heard

even reading the sentence out loud would waste far less time than visualizing it

>subvocalization
>bad

Do you even understand how language and memory interact with each other?

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Write in Romanian.

I agree, write in Romanian. That way we can meme you to greatness here as a patrician, obscure foreign writer..
I guess good primers in English lit would probably be Dickens, Henry James, Hemingway. That should hold you over for a while.

Also, don't want to detail your thread, but any Romanian lit recommendations?

>>8724396
>>8724406
I feel like I can express myself better in English + because I am too autistic, I sometimes cringe myself when I write some romanian words.

>>8724315
Gormenghast

>>8724318
Just purchased the entire trilogy. I'd better be good, anon.

>>8724315
Invisible Cities m9

Just write like a nornal pernoe you autistic fuck

Wtf is a wonderfoot

As far as I'm concerned all nouns are capitalised, like in German.

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>>8724219
What would you call this particular trolley problem?

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The Tim Cook Trolley Problem