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my bitacora to be honest

>>8710653
Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas...not necessarily about drugs but linked desu

I guess Huckleberry Finn for Missouri

>>8708454
Mason and Dixon for Maryland

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>>8708454
Tom Wolfe for Virginia

Here's one called Clarity:

There was
White
On the
Rocks.

The gray
Obstacles,
Rough and
Daunting

Diverted
Countless
Clear
Drops

From the
Turbid
Rapids.

The stoneless soul
Took no notice.

>>8707224
lmao nigga how are you spose to read this shit are you just supposed to pause like an anime characther or somethin hahahaha get tf out with that shit broke ass nigger

This morning, in the bathroom, on the mirror, within the reflection, I saw a stranger. I stared into a timeless moment. Perhaps, only it was staring, piercing into me. Regardless of perspective, and anything anthropomorphic, it was a sobering realization requiring reflection, and examination, which I felt in myself and through itself. In such a brief encounter, where no words were exchanged, I felt it all indescribably intertwined: I saw a mystery, heard an answer, tasted a conscience, smelled a morale, but describably touched nothing. During this standoff-of-sorts – (the kind between two cowards, who have no plan other than to react to the slightest change in wind or wrist as any agitator does) – there were no words filling my head weighing it down, or flowing through my consciousness carrying me to a higher away. There was only a wish wished upon by a tightening within. After some point where I lost any bearing, or starting point to continue as I normally would have, I turned around and left in the startled robotic fashion, a la mode with the complexity of the high strung 21st century, with a series of scenarios entertaining me: for the lights to have quivered, a sound to have spooked my standstill, the roof to have crushed itself around me, or for that figure to have done something different than me! As with all fantasies, these allowed me to return to myself and the orderly, for they were exactly what I was doing. They were the normal of my ideal, a rejection of the mysterious whole.
This gaze I gave, and was given to, I recognized as the longing look brazened by those solitary watchers – who, in these moments, are never moved by another presence in their present, unlike most people. For most, when they wish to ignore someone cannot bring themselves to. They have to arm themselves against the inner turmoil brought about by someone else, and after the battle against wish and intention, have a shriveled and sour sight across their shrinking face from the hole they’ve dug, when really they should have acquiesced to their feelings, but they’ll justify it by saying it would have betrayed their true wishes, higher intentions, or larger goals. Some may think of these looks as two sides of the same coin. Worn in a window, above the viewing and their vista, is their search, and projected onto the expanse, to which they’ve submitted their tomorrow, is their hope. Through and among the shadows they passively search, oblivious to their hope for something to enter. If something happens to enter, their desperation, portending melancholy, manifests and captures what they’ve been waiting for: a possibility for the synthesis of the real and their ideal. Their infrequent returns suggest neither happened.

>>8703053
you can't start it with that pic, the while. point of the read/expected/got thread is to tease people by not posting it. it's like intellectual foreplay.

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>>8703053
>tfw the OP drops the corn

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>>8699326

>>8699489
where are they now?

>>8697002
fuck off sebastian and fuck your ugly ass face

>>8697002
no

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7040816-clifford-sargent

I got memed into Ulysses, and am thoroughly enjoying it at the moment.

>>8717783
Have you read any kant

>>8717783
Anyway you don't need to unless your interested in german idealism as a whole. Just watch some lectures on youtube

>>8717796
The Prolegomena and some of the Critique of Pure Reason. Should I read all of it?

>>8717768
so which contemporary poets do you like?

>>8717772
Ookabooka Mavagina

Chatterjee Niggergay

lowercase vaginabrown

Gayaids Asianbrown

Rich Ipster

Homotrans AIDSmcbrown

AIDS mcAIDS von notfromhere

ETHNIC UNCONVENTIONAL GAY MAN AIDS

Womynsstudies Browngayaids

>>8717777
hehe clever >:)))) sure showed them!!!

>>8717546
Minima Moralia, Theodor Adorno
>https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1951/mm/

The society of the spectacle by Guy Debord
http://www.antiworld.se/project/references/texts/The_Society%20_Of%20_The%20_Spectacle.pdf

http://libcom.org.libcom.org/files/Comments%20on%20the%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle.pdf

>>8717546
So God is a cuck?

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this

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Aggravated sexual assault

Ok my turn, why am I in prison?

>>8717344
You killed 200 womyn

Anally and vaginally raped.

>>8717250
Synchronicity

Frequency illusion, sometimes called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJRCGKvOHA

>>8717250
frequency illusion

>>8717215
think harder. Try to be as precise as possible, just when you think you can't describe further or flesh out more, go even further. Then after that try to condense it as much as possible, if possible.

>>8717222
Really? I thought my problem was that I was too wanky...granted it's not a plot driven novel in the slightest so it's supposed to be built on wank..

>>8717225
well I haven't read your writing so idk what you're "problem" is. Just by your post though it sounds like you're writing is concentrated too much on free association and you want to change that. In other words instead of your prose "clicking" you inflate it with verbiage to mimic the "click" you are searching for but you realize that its not "true" or working. In order to solve that you need to think harder and expand your vocabulary probably. Did I misunderstand?

>>8717120

i used to do those goodreads challenges that avgd. around a book a week but found myself getting too worked up about keeping with schedule and would choose to read books that were shorter over ones that i was more excited about.

abandoned that this year. ill probably clock in ~30, but i think the quality of choices has improved.

I've got around 200 for this year.

A good year, maybe 100. A bad year, 25. Depends on what I've got going on in my life. Girlfriends and school slow it down, off years and being single give me a lot more free time

>this guy is me minus all the defining traits
so true

So he's... Not you?

>>8717111
>>8717137
/thread

It takes me far more than a month to read any book

>>8716926
lmao

Give yourself ten minutes to think about it. Then you won't have to post.