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You should pick a poet, and then read them. After that, you should read some works from another poet. Continue this process until you've read the works of many poets.

>>8692747
Begin with Moutanabi then Abou Ala' al Maari

May I recommend the Lays of Ancient Rome, Macaulay?

As soon as you make the click, you will experience:
-a rush of dopamine in your brain;
-a euphoric feeling;
-a tremendous relief. Later on, as long you follow step four, you will experience most of the following side-effects

Sounds like brainwashing to me

>>8692741
Seems interesting from my point of view but it seems like another ideology that someone thinks will solve of the world's problems.

>>8692754
Sounds like sex to me.

why itch when you can scratch?

>>8692644
Eh but I do, I have a Literature degree

>>8692644
Literature is a waste for numales.
Try science and the redpill, women are simply inferior

>>8692469
Oranges, apples, or both

>>8692469
Woolf

Left: autist
Right: genius

I don't think I've read any of her books, are they good enough to read as an adult?

>>8693469
theyre childrens book on the surface but not Hunger games or twilight teir. Tuck at least covered a very adult issue centered around a child, so Id say so

>>8693469
yeah, theyre fun and not too pretentious when teaching a life lesson, very "to kill a mocking bird" feel to them
Ill probably read them to my kids

yes, it should be half the original word count when you're done.

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>>8692370
hm....

>>8692363
No fuck off Hemingway fags need to die you must make your novel more linguistically complex and nuanced it should be double the word count when your are done editing such is the modern world dont be a luddite

Obviously you did, because you forgot this board was supposed to be about literature.

>>8692291

Fucking rekt
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Include me in the Reddit screenshot please

>>8692283
I'm 27 and I notice I find it harder to remember things. Not much, but my mind was like glue, it just sticked. It's normal.

However, I feel like I have a better grasp of the learning process. I'm pretty sure if I went back in high school I could shred classes in half the study time.

Who said that? It sounds retarded.

>>8692265
>what is history

>>8692270
It might not be "tragic" I'm thinking of, but the reasoning goes: The audience will always root for at least one side to win in a war story

or something like that

Ava bit back a scream as she heard her father hit the floor. Even through the thick walls, she could hear her mother panting “oh god, oh god, oh god.” The floorboards crept as one of them, presumably the frog-like man, moved towards the bedrooms.

This was the only chance she was going to get, Ava realized. If she barricaded the door with her dresser she could bide her time and scream for help, but the odds that the mahogany was bulletproof didn't strike her as very high. If she hid, they might not realize she was there. Maybe Luca would assume she was out with friends, or maybe he would be cautious enough to double check. She couldn't risk it.

Her mother was screaming as someone's foot hammered against the door frame. Ava got out and made her bed as hastily and quietly as she could. If she was going to be hiding, there was no sense in making it obvious. It had to look un-slept in.

“A bit of a strange time to be making your bed now, is it not?” Ava nearly lept out of her nightgown when she heard him. It was a third voice, male and rather emphatic despite the fact it was whispering, as if it were quite used to speaking into a megaphone and irrationally worried about getting out of practice. She turned to face a man in a powder blue suit who appeared to be leaning through the window. He was not much older than her, with auburn hair fell in a sheet of sinusoidal waves that just crossed what appeared to be the beginnings of somehwhat tasteful mustache. He wearing a pair of sunglasses with curiously round lenses which struck Ava as a tad inappropriate for this time of year. “Is this a bad time? Should I come back later?”

“Who the hell are you?” she gasped. “What's happening?”

“Ava,” he said, “Listen to me very closely. I can explain everything in due time, but if you want to get out of here, you will need to hold your questions and do exactly as I say.” His sentence was punctuated with a loud slam as the door to her parent's bedroom snapped open.

“Mom,” she breathed. More gunshots.

“I'm sorry, it's too late for her, but it's not for you. Quickly Ava, take my hand and hold on tight.”

There was another brief exchange in the hall. Luca was coming. At a brisk pace, Ava walked over to the man and took his hand in hers. With a little assistance she stepped onto the window sill and out to the night beyond. It was at that point she remembered she was on the twelfth floor.

To the man's credit, the fact that he was hovering 120 feet in the air did not seem to bother him, Ava was gracious for this as she was bothered well enough for two. “Go-ing down” he declared, holding her tight against him. It seemed gravity had come back from it's coffee break. The first 11 stories went by in the blink of an eye, but at the last few feet the two coasted to a stop, as such their landing could be better described

>>8692171
I entered the mall, like The Man, and walked toward the kiosk which She was working at. Starbucks, my favorite. "Hello dear", I said, "venti negro, madam, and what will the lady be having, my sweet sweetness? extra cream, as you stir into the coolness of my stark soul". She laughed, lovingly, and turned around to prepare.

"excuse me lovely", I shouted, "make sure to make it extra hot, though that must be natural for you", I smirked with a wink.

When she finished she seductively carried my beverage to my whereabout, and I slid her a hundred dollar bill, while placing another in her apron strap a la spaghetti.

"what time perchance, wouldt twone saieth ye gotteth offeth le labor m'lady?"

it was at this moment I was apprehended by two terrible creatures, Brutus Maximus Guardis Securitus, by which of course I was cunning enough to quick drop to the floor and in one riverlike motion roll while grabbing my trusty Android 7™ and declare to the delinquents they were being recorded and detained, I was performing the righteous duty of an citizens arrest for charged battery as they contacted me like a horny ram.

What I tdid naught notice wasseth my chalice had begun to topple in le commotion, and the steaming hot slow motion slurred torwords the most precious possession of mine face.

>>8692385
Sophisticated

very worth reading

not a meme at all

(lol)

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>>8692144
Worth reading and one of the better memes.

He's interesting but 90% of this board only read his wikipedia page because they were intrigued by the memes but too ADHD to read the book. That's why you see a lot of misinformation where people have no idea what he stands for.

Why don't you just read it and make an opinion for yourself. Then come back and we can discuss it

>>8692106
great man love him and i really like how he was a bit autistic and his life story. solved philosophy once and for all

>>8692306
>a bit

>>8692106
I'm looking forward to the inevitable biopic with Peter Capaldi in the lead role.

>>8692040
it's because there is a HumHum in all of us

Lolita was my introduction to Nabokov what do I read next

>>8692040
because the language is as seductive as Lolita and I cry at the end.

srs

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These people are hard at work on their novels, how's yours coming along?

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These people will be published before you, how does that make you feel?

But he worked like 16 hours a day for years at a mental Institute and then endlessly at the radio station. The fuck are you talking about

>>8691976
Also Ya, being Norwegian is easy mode for unemployment, at least then. I don't know how you could know all you do and still miss everything else, it's like you didn't read the book.

>>8691976
>16 hours a day for years

Source on this? I've read Book 5 (some rain...) and he mentions working at the psychiatric ward (near the Icelandboo girl's home) for a few weeks one or two summers, and even then he just smokes and skips his duties. And the radio station job is easy. His boss is some slacker former student and he spends his time playing some computer game with him and leaves early every day. He also worked on an oil platform, but I think that was also for a month max when he was like 25.

i have the odd feeling your place of employment may be about to sink into the ocean.

>>8691767
nah, it's a huge company that's government subsidized. ain't going anywhere unless society collapses.

>>8691777
This is why the right wing is making a comeback.