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>>8506444
A worthless roastwhore like all women.

They are simply inferior

I miss her so god damn much.
She actually loved me.
And I drove her away by being pathetic.
Now I've got in shape, got "cultured", am going back to school.
And she's with someone else.
She pursued me when I was a poor, fat, sad sack of shit so I figured her interest was genuine. I fell for her and I could tell she loved me. Now I'm improving myself and I know I'll never have the courage to talk to her.

who, pikachu?

>>8506429
There are probably SJWs on sites like Twitter and tumblr who thinks he's racist, so let's talk about dumb women and liberals instead

>>8506429
I really enjoyed The Nigger of the Narcissus
really the atmosphere of the ship on the night before the voyage starts
then the storm and the crews heroics
also the near mutiny and the conniving cockney chav character was a pleasure to hate -he'd probably be a Chelsea supporter if he were alive today
plus the word Nigger is right there in the title
I rate it an 8

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>>8506429

Reading Conrad is on my back-burner but I want to do it, for personal reasons which will become immediately clear.

OP's pic related is the source of the name for the big spaceship in Alien, my favorite film. Meanwhile, the Nigger of the Narcissus, which the other anon mentioned, is the source of the name for the small escape pod which Ripley uses at the end of the movie.

It's my understanding that Conrad's work gives off fully modern senses of alienation, the nautical, threats and violence, things like that. In that sense the themes are wholly of a piece with those explored in the first few alien movies, beyond the "surface" name-dropping used in the first movie (even "Sulaco" is mentioned as the mother-ship in the next movie, another word deriving from Conrad). Since Scott clearly had Conrad on the brain while directing the orignial, I would go as far as to suggest he brought some of Conrad's influence into the production of the film itself, again beyond simple name-dropping. Non-verbal atmosphere, theming as far as he could influence it within the confines of an already-established script, things like that.

I also consider it to be very interesting that Apocalypse Now was released in 1979, the same year as Alien. In a sense, this is a signal year for Conrad's adaptation into film. The next step is for me to actually read him at some point.

Actually I bet I could do this soon. I find that I enjoy reading the souce text for modern, violent flicks once in a while. As proof, please consider this autistic comparison of the original short story "Who Goes There?" versus its 1982 adaptation as John Carpenter's "The Thing".

There are at least three "texts" in an adapted screenplay which is then actually filmed and released: the original (shakespeare, homer, conrad, that one guy's story idea, etc), the adapted screenplay, and finally the completed film as the third text. I like to compare the creative process among these. The process of /making/ such a movie is thus a highly /literary/ enterprise (exchange of notes, re-writes, etc), even if the end product is a series of images and sound.

>>8506423
Yeah, I remember it being alright. Kind of outgrew it by Last Guardian tho.

>>8506459
Can't seem to stop re-reading them

>>8506423
>there has been three new ones since I stopped reading

fack

How it happened: something like a christian apocalypse but less obvious so we dont hurt christfags bibling sphyncters

this is not literature, really. it's more like autism

>>8506431
thanks for the constructive criticism

modernism

>>8506393
Postmodernism because of Thomas motherfucking Pynchon!!!!!!!!!!!the way he uses pop cultural references and fragments his narrative is fucking awesome!

And don't get me started on his prose!

Depends. I love the two great eras of English poetry: the Elizabethan and the Romantic, and also high modernism for the novel. The classical epic is good too.

>>8506373
the highway by corncob mccarthy

>>8506373
I'm a huge Rush fan my favorite books are

Law and Order by Fred Dustevsky
The Moonlight Sonata by Leon Trotsky

>>8506373
The Ill-iad by Rob Fag ft. Myooz and Li'l Ajax

>>8506350
That he has been slain, presumably

Can we ban these threads already?

it means don't forget who killed me to the audience

>>8506355
Though you don't have a definitive answer?
Why do away with threads when there is still plenty of work to be done?

>>8506293
I can, I studied him extensively for my degree in Dublin. What are you looking for from him?

Finnegans Wake.

>yfw Beckett wrote it as Joyce dictated it from bed

Joyce retained all of Beckett's mistakes and editions.

>>8506305
Just what are his best works, and what i should read

Moby Dick

In Search of Lost Time

moby dick or ulysses

I can't decide

>>8506258
Seriously, taking the redpill could save you from spending a lot of time on nonsensical and continental/brainwashing/muh feels subjects

Just looking out for you

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>>8506267
What is the red pill?

>>8506258
Don't know about your other problems, but metaphysics is at its best from Quine to contemporary analytic metaphysics.

>>8506204
First stage: liberalism and Marxism
Last stage of maturity: the redpill

...Or just read Sam harris and finish philosophy in one swoop

>>8506218
A polack knows another polack in a sec
What do you think of the latest World Peace episode? Btw Pepe the Frog forever ;)) TRUMP FOR GOD EMPEROR :)))

i dont even remember how its written i only remember that its FUCKENING BORING

Because it's in the future.

>>8506256
Everyone in the future talks like a retard?

>>8506176
José Verde

>inb4 the book chemist

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Graphic novels have little to no place in the literature world. Fucking gene wolf scifags are a big enough cancer to this board already, please let's keep le literary comiques desu out of it

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>>8506096

>if your work isn't derivative tech of the gutenburg bible your readers are plebs

>>8506092
Hellboy and BPRD riff on Lovecraft and his ilk enjoyably.

Sandman plays with Greek and Norse myth, and Shakespeare.

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing has good writing in itself, ditto Watchmen. There are layers of meaning.

Charley's War looks at WW1 in gritty, sorry detail

Judge Dredd is informed by PKD and Orwell in its depiction of a fascist police state

But they all rely on the visual component or they would fall flat. Comics occupy the intriguing realm of the quasi-literary.

>>8506036
It's called willpower.

Force yourself if you really want to read. Or just forget about it

>>8506036
You might enjoy short stories more than novels, for now. Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man for something popular, Ray Chandler's shorter stories for crime. Lovecraft for horror. Philip K Dick's shorts for sci-fi (Human Is? has a good selection of them.)

This board loves large tomes of prose and neglects the short form, probably because it's not the 30s-50s anymore. But it is a worthy form.

>>8506036
get tested for adhd
I'm not joking. My life changed for the better after my diagnosis