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Who's the most /lit/ writer from my state?

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if you could write one last letter to someone you had loved, still love, or any other form of unrequited love, what would it say? this thread is dedicated to grieving.

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>tfw nihilist on accident
>tfw can't decide if I should strive for knowledge or meaning

I'm freaking out please send help

Pic unrelated

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>2016
>some people still bring up Freud unironically thinking his opinions have merit

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it sounds pompous to fill a character limit.
how bad is it?(also has not been spell checked yet so fuck off)


i had my brother pegged for a complacent junkie reduced to vegitivity in withdraw.
after his response erupted through canals and tridents of china nerve-endings i was left fumbleing for affirmation of what he'd done, without an answer.
my brother squatted on the wrinkled charcoal hide of the loveseat, me across from him reclining on on the rocking chair legs lazily dangling.
the cards were set and he was stressed i could see it he was in no shape to contest. I tossed sickly gnomes at him so fast skin and flesh soared without eachother. befor it could even touch the table it was cut down with his dagger. i diddnt think anyhing of it throwing another out along with a burning imp without caring what happened to them i had more.my brother broke his dagger on the blazing wretch and it didnt seem to do anything too, until a flurry of steel came down and grinded both of them in halves of thinly strung together chunks of rotting and cooked flesh. that was just about when i realized what was happening.i wasnt overwelming my brother,i was giving victims to his traps. and it didnt matter either the deck i built was slow and his was calculating and prepared.

after the early game my stream of cannon fodder had come to a drizzling halt. and with nothing left to slow him my brother charged.with the very same look of determination he'd had the whole time he lunged with a dagger scratching me and what was a fraction of my life.iwas very confused but i figured he was stuck so i threw my last hope on the board a hulking oaf drenched in seawater and wearing necklaces of seaweed.i thought i saw for once my brothers look of stressful determination fade but i couldnt ever be sure it was just for a second and right after after the final trap had been set.My giant immeadiatly shoved back into my hand,two wild slashes savaged my will, both sharpened by preperation, a duo of tiny shivs followed and lastly a behemoth just a normal guy in reality but charged by my stupidity.it was over with nothing to defend me next turn the assassins attack would be fatal.i surrendered looking up at my brother waiting for the determination to give way to gloating of victory.

after my brother had helped me build a new deck and showed me how to make one myself we traded wins and losses with eachother frequently. but when i did win i never thought i was better. i just remembered his look of humble indifference and knew in victory and defeat we were both equallly liimitless veins of potential.

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What are the classics that I should read in order to be well versed in Japanese and Chinese literature? I'm talking about the eastern equivalents to the Odyssey/Iliad/Bible, etc. Should I read Tale of Genji? Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Who are the important classic writers in each country?

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You cannot have Mathematics without Symbol. You cannot know or speak of a single Mathematical thing without Symbol. You CAN have Symbol without Mathematics though.

Therefore Symbol is basal, not Mathematics. This is an inescapable fact. All empirical and rational roads lead to this inevitable conclusion.

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We finally made it.

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Hey lit, anyone has any novel you've written yourself but don't particularly care for? Preferably longer than 45 pages. I need to design the cover and page layout of an amateur work for my editorial design class.

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There are is a community library in the catacombes under Paris. Name one more literary cred thing.

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I'm dropping out of college. I have barely even begun. It frightened me too much as someone in there late 20s hanging around 19 year olds. No one to converse with similar ideas and interests. If there is I don't know where they are, I feel too small in the large open campus and too introverted to make my way and sift through the many people wondering about that seem at least moderately happy. Happier and friendlier than I.

Do I travel around the world and write on my own? I can barely leave my house every other day though, its getting worse. How can I have self guidance? I feel like I need people to constantly hold my hand but I have very few of these wonderful people in my life. I don't want people to hold my hand though, independence seems like a far off goal. Not even autistic, I just feel like I am regressing back to child. I don't want to feel lost and scared.

Can someone help? In anyway. What books show a similar situation perfectibility non fiction. And all honesty I just want to read and write but becoming a writer in a world of them seems daunting. Is it okay to think writing will make me happy when in the back of my mind I know it wont. Selfish is what I think of myself when that's all I want. Does medication help? I think if the chemicals in my brain fake me being happy I could actually accomplish something but I do not know. Sorry for the rant I know not personal blog, I have never done this before.

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Why is this regarded so highly? Its the edgiest high schooler tier book I can think of.

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Memes aside, I want you to answer in full honesty: Why does this board recommend starting with the greeks while there is a much better option?
The Russian and soviet literature is far more relevant to modern times and has much better prose, and are more /lit/ in generall over the old boring Greek stories. I have been browsing this place for a while and noticed that people discuss Russian works deeper and more often than they talk about the Greeks.
Pic is the only chart I could find online. It lacks some important stuff, but if upgraded, can serve as a much better introduction to our board.

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was he pretty much a greater intellect than Wittgenstein or Heidegger

he is the true GOAT 20th century philosopher

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I started reading/translating this book in german and I have some questions to ask:
Why do germans put the verb last? Or is it just a Hesse thing?
I get the feeling that half of the phrases are just pretty writing, can someone confirm that this is a poetically written work?
Was this a good book to start learning german? Or Hesse in general?

I have studied compulsory swedish for 6 years with thin results (due to the compulsory nature of it), but I've always been intrigued to learn german