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>>8595838
fucking fuck i hate these threads because someone always posts "stoner" like they were just hit with an sibyllic fit of humor

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>>8595838
The collected works of Thomas Pynchon.

>>8595855
what about the Lord of the rings. don't the 2 little midgets get high with gondor the wizard

Yes

only recently bond has a weakness and it's not even physical

Meh, kind of, but not really.
There is a difference between a character being good at something and being a marry sue

>>8595725
He's a projected fantasy of the writer, an ideal of masculinity. So if that's a Gary Stu to you, sure. But I thought Stus and Sues were supposed to be bland and have a "default" personality. James Bond has a striking personality.

>>8595625
stoner is a fucking bitch boy

>>8595625
stuck in an already lost marriage, and she knows that this is the rest of her life, gets icreadibly jealous of stoner when he gets attached to his daugther, when it's "her domain".

She was a stone-cold bitch.

10/10

Right up up there with the opening of Lolita,

>>8595620
ty

>>8595600
what's the plot of your novel? I'm interested

Personally he convinced me it's still possible to write literary SFF. The Book of the New Sun and Latro in the Mist are the only two I've read from him, but I thought they were phenomenal. I'm keen to try Peace, how is it in regards to his other work?

>>8595599

Okay, here's what you need to know about Peace: it's essentially a book that pretends to be another book. It seems like it's just a grumpy old man remembering his life growing up in the midwest with some fairytales thrown in, but if you're paying attention something...happens in the midway section that means that essentially you're being lied to.

This book is the best example of the unreliable narrator ever.

>>8595589
There are two posters that have convinced themselves that he isnt just competent fantasy, which of course is all he is.

It speaks more to the paucity of half decent fantasy novels more than any real criticism to Mr. Wolfe

France, 1922. Joyce after another eye operation.

(Photo from the Rosenbach Museum and Library)

>>8595346
>What to read before Ulysses
Just read it, it's not hard and the references aren't even that important. (Odyssey)

>What to read before Finnegans Wake?
No point reading anything before it besides for Ulysses.

>>8595495
What about New Science and the Egyptian Book of the Dead?

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>sincerity
What a load of cucky bullshit

he is right desu

I saw that on reddit too. dum plebs

>>8595304

A betters question to ask,

Should I just do 20 years in the military and retire at 38 with a pension of around 3,189 a month plus healthcare and dental?

>>8595328
Nah, if you're American just go on welfare

>>8595304
Do lots of drugs until your brain stops thinking and only feels.
Avoid sloppy drugs like Opiates. Go for Psychedelics.

Supplement it with reading books about spirit energy crystals and Mahayana/Theravada Buddhism. Zen is too strict and no fun.

I think it is more of a lifestyle switch than a mental switch through reading/studying.

>>8595390
Fuck off ashtray

>>8595283
Teddy is a genius and a tragic story of being born feeling inferior and getting mindfucked by the CIA in college. He was also a very brilliant mathematician and many graduate students run across one or two of his papers during their research.

>>8595779
He's right, though, everything he says is right.

>>8595279
>why not use metric

Paper is 8 1/2 x 11 inches. You've lost this battle for all eternity, eurofag. There's nothing you can ever do to get metric measurements used on paper

To make it easy on the eye and to have uniformity.

If you don't want to use MLA, use Chicago or APA or your shitty university's system, as long as you are consistent throughout your paper and don't mix styles then it's all good. If you have a problem with using MLA, ask your teacher if you can use another one, just don't come to /lit/ to whine about your personal preferences. We already have too many threads like that.

>>8595878
Where else would I go to wine?

>>8595859
Amerifat here

>Why does this board exist? threads

??

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people want to believe in a world where anything can happen.

they don't want to imagine they're stuck in the four-dimensional Newtonian universe of cause and effect.

they want to believe in magic, because magic gives you results with no effort.

>>8595899
>they don't want to imagine they're stuck in the four-dimensional Newtonian universe of cause and effect.

Ever heard of qauntum phisics u dumbas

>>8595128

Read a book, nigger.

>>8595128
day 1 goal: read one page
day 2 goal: read two pages
day 3 goal: read three pages
etc.

You can read more than your goal on a given day, but you have to at least reach your goal

When you plateau, drop back 10 - 15 pages and start over

I a couple months you'll be reading a shitload

>>8595145
I should add that this is assuming you don't plateau before 10 pages. If you do that, you're a scrub and should go back to v games

>>8595095
i like the one where chocolate is that one god's penis blood, the one by the sports court

>>8595098
Tell me more about this tale

>>8595109
when you win the game, the god comes along and sticks the sharp side of a horn into his dick and then pours hot chocolate into each of the winning players' cups from the other side of the horn and they are all happy in the afterlife

>>8594990
There's probably a few of us capable of writing great-tier works. Fascinating to think. Whether any of us will stop shitposting long enough is another question though

>>8595050
I assume he meant the internet conciousness which will publish its highly acclaimed first novel in 2085.

>>8595057
>internet conciousness

I don't understand.

>>8594965
We would be able to do this if it wasn't for /pol/tards shitting up every thread getting triggered

>>8594965
We're all made of materials that are billions of years older then us

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>>8594965
Sounds good, a /lit/ YLYL