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>>8618770
Sounds like a Trump quote

Dylan is God-tier btw

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>>8618775
It's an actual Dylan lyric tho

>>8618777
So what? He's still written a lot of great songs

aungalbaugen

Anal gangbang

terrible thread desu

>>8618703
Yeah

>>8618703

Ban threads w/o argument pls.

>>8618711
>ban threads I don't like

>>8618671
Have some talent

>>8618671
You will never be able to do this.
In order to write an award-winning play, you have to have something meaningful to say. As the only thing you have to say is "I want to win lots of awards", you will never win any awards.

>>8618671

>>8618671

Adapt (plagiarize) an Arthur Miller play and make it about contemporary LGBT issues.

Ex. Death of a Salesman. Leave the aging father as a white man, but instead of two sons, he and his Asian wife have two adopted daughters (black/hispanic) one of whom is a lesbian and the other a gay transman. Instead of "attention must be paid," you have "privilege must be check." Themes still deal with the father's growing irrelevance as he has aged, but instead of it being about his business life, it is a commentary on traditional "racist" American culture. He doesn't understand hia daughters and they don't respect him. Death of a Whiteman.

Enjoy your kudos.

>>8618668
Pretty obvious isn't it?

Can we make 'what did he mean by this?' and 'really makes you think' posts a bannable offense already?

>>8618674
But why is this the essence of all philosophy?

>>8618705

Because you can't be sure about anything. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>8618625
And so on and so on and so on...

>>8618626
It's you isn't it?

>that guy in the seminar who snorts a gigantic hardened booger down his throat every 30 seconds nonstop for 3 hours

Where does he keep getting more boogers? I'm not talking about a runny nose here. I'm talking I can hear a fist-sized, rock-solid booger being wrenched out of his nose and careening down his throat. Doesn't this violate the fucking law of conservation of mass? Where is he getting fresh, diamondilium-crystallized mucous tumors every MINUTE? How doesn't he realize that what is he doing isn't polite?

It's a race you'll never win anyway. Enjoy the scenery.

>>8618583

Reading isn't a competition.

>>8618676
Only losers think like this

Depends what the story you're writing calls for. Are you writing something more personal, or something grander in scope?

>>8618501

yes the novel has a main character that is hiding something from the reader.

I'll be using the supporting characters to reinforce the suspicion.

I was thinking of writing in the perspective of one of the supporting characters but that limits my setting to the places only he/she goes.

>>8618466
You can write in both if you want, and even if you stick to first person you can change people.

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>tfw the meaning of any text is translation/deconstruction
>tfw the margins define the centre
>tfw you look like a mtg planeswalker
>tfw you fucking ruined literature

what good has ever come of faggots reading derrida? nietzsche claims hesse & miller. bergson has nabokov. derrida has... danielsskkwky?

>>8618462
I'm not sure I even understand what you are asking, but Derrida didn't consider any text to be specifically "literary" (unlike his colleague Paul de Man). For Derrida, there is no essential difference between reading fiction, the text of society or philosophy, as long as you can get interesting play out of it.

That being said, he does have interesting literary analyses. I recommend his reading of Paul Celan's "Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen" and Kafkas "Vor dem Gesetz".

>>8618456
Derrida is for faggots. Only read his essay on "gravity/Einstein theory" to realize that the only speak shit without even understanding it (also, read Weinberg's reply to Derrida)

that and the fact that a lot of people find his work extremely inaccessible

no,

it made people very intrigued and ignited speculation about him. people read his books, and fell back cackling, and thought, hmmm what's he gonna do next, this trickster?

>>8618556
kek

>>8618426
21:30 for the definition of pomo lit

Yeah, he was an unquestionable wreck of a human being. This is pretty depressing. The real question is if his works will stand for posterity.

>>8618437
I worry for the kids that look up to him.
These kinds of people don't seem like very valuable role models to me.

Faulkner had a good bit with this.

my hentai manga desu

Would a pinecone do? Beautiful Losers.
How about a unicorn horn? Not Wanted on the Voyage.
Perhaps a bear's penis? Bear.

>>8618259

More importantly, are there any good western novels that don't have famous movie adaptations tied to them?

>>8618277
McCarthy

Edward Abbey

>>8618220
Start with the Soviets.

>>8618234

>a meme

People were consciously aware of the phenomenon long before the 20th century.

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>>8618220

The book is interesting, but it's written in a boring way. At least that's how I remember it. I'm going to get back to it soon.

>>8618233
Thanks, I guess I'll try to read it during the day, so I won't fall asleep.

>>8618214
I read it and overall it was pretty good, the prose is very dry at times and sometimes he goes on talking and I have no idea what the hell he wants. Personally it took me a while to finish it because of that.