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No because ideas are useless.

It's only happens on film because the idea is pre decided and usually shit

>>8664019
yeah, but what if I write a plot summary and pay a good writer to write the book.

>>8664005
James Patterson, but AFAIK only after he became a rich and famous hack.

>>8663970
Sure

>>8663970
The only movies that get made now are oscar bait or superhero movies. If it was a straightfaced comedy about some /r9k/ type I guess it would be ok, but lets face, this generation of directors are either James Franco or Zack Snyder types, and neither are going to make a subtle comedy about overeducated delusional mysoginistic NEETs

>>8663970
no. the book wasn't interesting, so why would a movie be? "oh, lol he jerked off to his dog" fuckin plebs, i swear. the guy had to kill himself before he even got published, the DFW of his time. if you fucks had /lit/ back then you'd be meming it into oblivion.

>>8663937
Weeb shit for losers

Love it, my favorite one is called OP-kun is a Fag desu.

Saged desu.

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>>8663937

>>8663916
read the philokalia

>>8663916
We are filthy animals.

Read de Sade, Nietzsche, Foucault, Freud, etc

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>>8663916

>>8663882
Girls have zero taste. Even if it is shit she won't know and it will make her panties wet.

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>>8663882
>prose poetry

>>8663882
>But it's shit
>Wat do /lit/
Well you seemed to have learned how to rhyme, maybe write some traditional verse and show her that instead.

Yes.

No.

Maybe.

Oh yeah, book recommendations are welcome.

>>8663843

I suspect what you're talking about is a "flow" state. This state is achievable through meditation but it does take work. If you meditate correctly (I would recommend concentration or "samatha" meditation) for 30 mins a day for a couple of months you should start noticing some results.

>>8663862
Is it something other people experience? Mind you i don't often write, nor do i talk to a lot of people who do.
To be honest to myself i'd like to know if it's special, i'd like it to be so.

>>8663783
The books are really good, the covers were a terrible marketing decision. They are definitely a brilliant example of sincerity in literature, as she takes down machismo culture and second wave feminism in favor of a sort of brutal examination of the paths to perdition that we all take, being especially careful to rip herself apart the most. I read all 4 in a little more than a week.

>>8663791
are you a woman(m)?

>>8663838
No. And again, this is why the covers are terrible marketing, they do not reflect the book and they suggest housewives buy it, when 3/4 of it is sexual awakening and predation, violent Neapolitan thugs, academic spats, and labor battles.

It's not going to make you trendy.

Worn out second hand editions stacked some what neatly because they don't fit on your bookshelf always get me pussy OP.

NYRB books.

The Dalkey Archive edition of The Recognitions.

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Based on the fact that you put Fitzcarraldo in your post, I'd recommend Pushkin Press. They are trendy in a similar way, almost like they're emphasising the boringness of the texts

>>8663721
meditate on art, according to him

>>8663722
Yet he thinks ideas (the things art deals with) are still representation, just at the most basic level (but still plural, still individuated).

Another thing I don't get: why is Schopenhauer labeled an idealist? I know he works "within" the German idealist framework, but he says Will precedes Representation, and while the world-as-representation will die with the subject, the will-in-itself will still exist. This seems pretty materialistic. Even though he implies that the laws of nature, the history of the universe, etc. are representation (formed by us according to the principle of sufficient reason), he doesn't think the thing-in-itself comes from the mind.

I think it's because Marxists and other materialists are so committed to their view of the world that works according to laws that they are "subjects who have forgotten themselves" (- Schoppy) and are blinded by their rationalistic hubris.

>>8663721
women, am i right XD?

I'll prove they exist to you if you can prove, to me, that you aren't a figment of my imagination.

>>8663697
Your imagination doesn't have the power to generate systems and substances when it has no knowledge of their compositions and how they work.

>>8663696
Try New Essentialism by David S Oderberg

>>8663416
Reminder that fetishizing muh honesty is the most pseud thing you can do

>>8663420
I'm not fetishizing it I'm just sick of not being able to differentiate between irony and sincerity because of my neurosis

>>8663416
keep reading anon

>>8663341
>hey guys, do I fit in yet? I'm smart, right? notice me

>>8663365
>i'm autistic and i'm going to let the whole wide world know about it

>>8663368
>I'm a huge fucking pleb and I've proved it here.

>>8663336
every highschooler is a pseud

>>8663336
>tfw Nietzsche never made such a plebeian statement

>>8663336

Of the first degree.
I'll just leave this here:
http://exiledonline.com/failure-to-launch-helping-james-o%E2%80%99keefe-leave-his-mommy-and-daddys-house-for-once-in-his-life/

>>8663323
Nice, would read more

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Does this make sense? and am I using this semicolon correctly?

"Now I bring them from the dark and calm where they were cultivated back into the light; the light wherein I bla bla bla bla"

(Reposting from a previous thread)

>>8663323
Not horrible OP. Try using less "I"s though and to let some of the descriptions become less personalized.