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How about you fall on a blade you fucking faggot?

>>8506187
>he fell for the responding meme

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>>8505824
What's so wrong with the college meme?

STEM master race here

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0B7Z3JERdk

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>creative writing class
>poop in my pants

>>8505310
So last week?

I have read none of these nor do I care or know of any modern authors. I will however attempt to characterize the author and the basis of the drivel they have sold.

>Paul Beatty - The Sellout
Possibly black; male; novel is about some Trump-like figure that is characterized as selling his integrity for meme-fame by the support of 'backwards' and/or 'immoral' views.

>Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
Black woman; something about religion or internalized racism or whatever being the opiate of the people (and specifically, black men and especially black women).

>Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
WHITE MALE; something about rape or menstruation. Or a serial rapist/murderer

>Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen
African migrant; something about a high school/middle school girl that was raped and blackmailed, or blackmailed into stripping -- regardless she killed herself and this novel is a criticism of 'rape culture' through an 'African lens' -- whatever that means.

>David Szalay - All That Man Is
WHITE MALE with dumb hair because Meds often have such hair; something about toxic masculinity and how men are shallow for defining themselves on such things.

>Madeleine Thien - Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Ching chong; female; something about how mankind and its diverse cultures are great and invaluable and something about inalienable human rights -- possibly rape culture as well.

Feel free to judge my accuracy.

>>8504721
>I have read none of these nor do I care or know of any modern authors.
A pseud if I have ever seen one.

>>8504721
You should try reading books anon, it'll do you some good.

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>>8504368
Is the Landmark Histories series good in terms of translations, notes and supplemental material? I recently dug up old Penguin copies of Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch and Livy and I've been digging this Oxford Polybius I found for cheap.

>>8504368
>Aztec Philosophy
Is it interesting?

Also, would you recommend that Penguin translation of "Meditations"?

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>>8504368
1/9
-Ulysses
-sources on medieval european history
-history of warefare
-ada
-zitate und aussupruche
-economic history of europe
-sound and the fury
-spqr
-introducing symbolic logic
-oxford companion to philosophy
-lolita
-inferno bilingual edition
-ivanhoe

the best american female writer, yes

>>8515724
Who is the best American writer of all?

Steinbeck?

>>8515755
lol

>>8515532

When I woke up I was slowly being lowered into a pit. I could hear things sliding around softly below. I was in a well completely without light, and from what I remember, the surface was completely covered in wet and darkness, with only the occasional flash of lightning to illuminate my surroundings. Strapped to a stone slab with leather harnesses, I wondered at the remarkable wet sound coming from below. When I reached the bottom, I was injected with something that completely paralyzed me, left me numb without sensation. I could hear them stepping over something, (onto something) something soft and yeilding yet brittle and crunchy.

I was thrown into a pit where I quickly fell unconscious. I landed on something soft and quietly drifted in and out of sleep. With but a twinge of feeling restored, I could them. Round, soft shapes, naked things, things of flesh, without hair, with eyes, a nose, a head, and tiny mouths with but a few sharp, tiny teeth.

Babies. They were fucking babies.

The crunching and wet sounds I had heard were the sounds of people stepping on piles of newborn babes, their bones and organs twisting and compressing underneath the weight of whoever or whatever carried me here. They were stacked on top of each other, feeding each other, the dead falling beneath the living in a pile that had no bottom. To my horror, I realized they all were teething, and they were feasting not only upon my flesh, but upon their own.

Feeling was restored in spurts and fits to one hand, and I felt upon the brow of one a scar beneath the forehead, and I realized the reason they were so slow, the reason they were not crying, was that they had each been lobotomized, left to feel only hunger. They could do nothing but eat, they could not crawl, they could not walk, they could not even grasp, merely flail about in an effort not to sift towards the bottom. I tried not to think of the thousands of tiny bones and skulls at the bottom of this endless pit, if it had a bottom, I tried not to think of them eating my numb and pallid flesh as I lay there, cold, wide eyed and blind in the absolute darkness of the cave.

And in the final mercy, as madness completely overtook me, I could not even close my eyes as I felt a single sharp tooth press softly into the whites of my eye, and thought for a single moment I saw a tiny blue spark before I receded into infinity and the world fell away.

Thats fucked up senpai

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>>8515532
Now you see what we do to people who speak out about water fluoridation!

Yeah there are some funny moments in the book, but some moments that pierce your heart with feels

I like the one part where the dad calls whatshername "my little chicken" in a letter

>>8515442
That smartass kid is your average /lit/ shitposter.

The book is funny. The characters are so frantic and hysterical. Dosto does such a great job of conveying that that I always think of it

bro I'd nut in her

>>8515394
>through instant messaging, emails, it captures...

dropped and hopefully blacked.

>>8515394
I'm not a woman

The Pale King
Mason & Dixon
Finnegan's Wake

Finnegans*

my diary desu

/lit/ - Literature

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>no passion
>no dreams
>no goals
>no hopes
>no aspirations
>no motivation
>no discipline

i want to get off this ride

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>mfw I don't want anything so I'm never disappointed

>>8515200
My

journal

>>8515200
Diary

Critical thinking is spooky

>>8515133
I don't quite follow you, walk me through your reasoning?

>why is /lit/ incapable of logic?
This is /lit/ not /logic/. Plus, where's your proof?

I love her because of how much she angers modern people.

>>8515479
Ow, how edgy!

And wrong. Modern people loev saints.

>>8515049
there aren't any
how catholics have managed to venerate her in the past 10 years is mindboggling

I've seen it before, probably in one or two of Dostoevsky's books.

Yes

On /lit/

It's not too uncommon in French

You're supposed to edit later too

Don't do this.

It's better to spend a whole day writing half a page than 10 minutes writing 30 pages.

How will I write something now