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hey its me, Thomas Pynchon

>>8526889

I think a few of us will emerge eventually but we're mostly in our early 20's.

>>8526889
Getting a book published is tough. Think about it like going to a city like Nashville or Austin, both absolutely crawling with talented amateur musicians. Most of these musicians are at least good enough for a few dollars at the door, and a good amount of those are on the level of signed/touring bands.

Obviously, the problem goes beyond just money. Its who gives enough of a fuck to listen to all of that music, even if it is all good? Publishers aren't going to be impressed if you're a good writer - there are plenty of good writers - they want your work to either be marketable or groundbreaking, two things that are a lot harder than good.

Good luck OP. This isn't meant to be discouraging, but its a tough industry Think about how many should-be classics sit in bargain bins because nobody bought them.

If you're serious about it, start self-advertising online when you're close to the end of a good draft. Release your best chapter early and get your friends to follow you on Facebook/twitter. If it seems like your book will be easier to sell, that's a significant leg up on your competition.

>>8526855
I think it would have been better if you provided the short story, OP, or if you were never born at all.

buump

A drink of water. AH hA haha ha, never dwelt a drop of water that quarrelsome. NEedless to say, it's only a matter of time.

>>8526850
YouTube?

>>8526850

Can you keep one eye on the page and one in the screen at the same time?

>>8526895
Any particular channel in mind?

>>8526942
I can probably switch fast enough between them

thats da vinci

>>8526832
No its Pynchon, depicted next to dave foster wallace who is cut out of the frame.

right about literally everything desu

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De re metallica is sort of a 16th century version of this "comprehensive labor of love" concept.

The translation into English was done by, of all people, future US president Herbert Hoover.
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_metallica)

This book is pretty much the sum total of metallurgical knowledge extant in the pre-industrial era.

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The OED is probably the pinnacle of this form. Way beyond being any one person's "labor of love", although several throughout its history have certainly made their contributions to it in that spirit.

I think the existence of the OED makes Modern English a unique landmark in the history of literature. Imagine if there were and equivalent contemporary work for ancient Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit. Imagine how, if it survives, it will color and inform the understanding of scholars of our period a thousand years in the future.

>>8526877

Do you think it will survive the trendy attitudes regarding "prescriptivism" ?

no.

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Nope.

Then why do so many people still do it? It can't be that they are all ignorant of a famous piece from the late 19th century.

not long enough.

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>>8526785
I'm about 75% done with my current. Gearing up to edit and release online a Christmas short i did a year or two ago.

Noticed how my shorts are getting shorter. Originally i was hitting 25-15 odd pages and now I'm usually beneath 10. I think my style has changed a lot since i focused more so on shorts than novels.

pretty good, i think it'll be strong enough to get published (i'm planning to send it to some magazines)

>>8526764
"That it was difficult...that it was among the first books of black humor and so forth, but, of course, we all came out of Mark Twain’s vest pocket. No one has ever beaten “The Mysterious Stranger.” But that whole world of the amount of information, what they called erudition, frightened off many people. Very very few reviewers said it is often very funny. It was a sometimes heavy-handed satire but I wanted it to be a large comic novel in the great tradition."

Most of the book isn't difficult. The last 200 pages or so are.

>>8526772
He also talks, in another interview I can't recall right now, about how he's baffled by all of the "serious novelists" who purposefully make their 1k-page tomes as dry and glum as possible, how he intentionally wrote in a lot of jabs, jokes, puns and pranks into his books not just to keep the carnivalesque atmosphere but to keep himself entertained as well (in one of his mid-70's letters, he says he's glad he's almost done editing JR because then he'll never have to read it again).

I discovered this guy last night actually.

those earlobes holy shit lol

>>8526762
Maybe. Depends on how you take it. He doesn't have any obvious flaws other than a mildly unhealthy interest in SFF, if that's what you're asking.

You are retarded

>>8526728
Yeah? Take your best shot, champ

>>8526725
You're implying there is any evidence, of any kind, to support that claim. Maybe you should offer some.

>>8526679
the pinnacle of western literature and the final expression of the spaghetti western

>>8526679

Cuckoldry.

>>8526706
this

Romeo + Juliet

The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino is also quite good.

>>8526677
Throne of Blood is the best Macbeth. This is objective.

>>8526636
You should cut open your stomach in the dean's office.

my heidegger thread was more (you)'s worthy than this

>>8526636
You have autism
>>8526652
He has autism so he'll get more (You)s. Welcome to 4chan

>le blacks are oppressed
>le womy are oppressed
>le trump wants to oppress Muslims and Mexicans
>therefore le oppressed people can't have le American Dream
Your teacher sounds like a white apologist or some neo-feminist libtard.

>>8526635
something to do with modern unemployment and the 'anyone can have the American Dream, unless you're poor/a minority/an immigrant/etc' today

>>8526635

You could try and spin it on SJWs(the woman who basically caused Lenny to die), and how they like to infest every subculture, medium, exhausting until nothing is left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmRkS1os7k

The Rescuer from Error by Ras-al-guul Ghazzali

>>8526607
The Song of Roland