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>>8470528
I am sorry. These people, I read in your story, these people talk like my son. Very angry. Always shouting. I think bad diet, not enough sleep. Always very upset because he need more rest.

Very simple , I say you need take these people in your story, make them go to sleep

What the hell is this some kind of written anime American parody ???

Read something that isn't garbage and copy it. Stop reading schlock.

>>8470526
That isnt bookchemist?!??

burn all booktubers
give them AIDS

>>8470526
Who's this pinhead?

>>8470428
Have you got any pets??

>>8470437
Had a cat named Bobo, don't have her anymore

>>8470428
What books have you noticed being sold the most, recently?

The World Artist at her easel. One stroke, Tlon. Two strokes, Rome. Three strokes, Lyon. Four strokes, Chrome.

I have forgotten my mortality, my whited sepulchre. Unaware of my arrogance, the sea still rages, rages. Invisible to us, a falcon's cry punctures the heavy atmosphere. Reverberating against the perfect and impenetrable walls of our minds, the call reminds us that we are deprived of our shadows. The horrors of naturalism surface with torrential vigor, yet appear immaterial to our mechanical thoughts. We can read but not write. Forever finite.

Shaking, I shut my eyes tightly, hoping to regain a semblance of volition. Is this what Mizoguchi felt, immolated within the flames of sublime ennui? I see him, but I do not kill him. He snatches the sword, cuts my self in two. Startled, I awake to realize she is watching me intently, deep eyes targeted at mine. Long eyelashes flutter in the breeze, locks of black hair tremble. Her expressionless gaze hits the side of my face.

No doubt she feels it, the smoldering call to return. No doubt she realizes it, it will be impossible. Laughter, as we know, was lost. But it has reappeared, nestled against the oaken wood, bound parchment, four walls, two corridors, one truth, aleph.

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no comments/criticism? /sci/friend here :)

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Word of advice: just because something is meaningful to you doesn't mean it's meaningful to others. I don't know you, and even if I did, I wouldn't give a flying fuck about your emotions. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Your personal expression is dogshit; you 'feeling things' is not interesting to anybody but you and maybe (MAYBE) those you have a close relationship with, but even that's iffy. Write something compelling next time, and keep an audience in mind other than yourself. You did write for an audience, right? You're not that self-absorbed, right?

>>8470392
not enough detail anon. tell us more about this weapon.

"Is weapon of choice was a HK g3 magna-blasto with retractable stock, 9-inch steel barrel and chambered in 5.56 ammo an fairly common ammo type in the City, pop. 12,347, a popular gun in the neighborhood, often sold out in the wintertime... 'is gun of choice"

>>8470392
using the wrong caliber is a good way to keep people interested

Fix your grammar first.
"Is [His] weapon of choice was a HK G3 with retractable stock and chambered[-]in 5.56 ammo [, a ] fairly common ammo type in the City."
If your reader can't handle one short sentence about a firearm, I doubt they'll read your story.

I think I'll just stumble across all the money I need to survive for the next four years, along with a house. After that, I just need to write the great american novel, publish it, get famous, and I'm good.

I doubt many wannabe writers here expect to make a living from their work if it gets published.

>children who think being published means any sort of money whatsoever

Nabokov was paid 40 pounds for the first full run of Despair, his 5th published novel.

>>8470381

I want to drag my limp heavy penis across her bushy brows.

>>8470407
I want to do the same with you Anon

>>8470417

I'm known in my small flyover state as having good bushy brows.
I would not object to such flattery.
If you sit on her shoulders we can make it happen anon.

>>8470213
I got super disappointed as it went on.

it turns into percy jackson and the olympians without the olympians

>>8470213
You'll feel cheapened and used by the end, believe me. It's just a transparent screenplay bid.

>>8470213
It gets worse as it progresses. Overall it's meh on genre fiction standards, but not the sort of read that would have you regret wasting your time on it.

Should've just ended with this book. Sequels were totally unnecessary but then again it brings cash and movie adaptations.

I had no idea! So I asked my GF who is an English Professor and she said (E), because they have more of a "z" sound than an "s" sound.

>>8470250
The answer is actually (B) ]/spoiler], but don't ask me why, I can't explain.
I wish it was a simple rule like verbs ending in -ed.

bump.
Exam in a couple hours.

It's not that hard. What was your trouble?

>>8470286
The language mainly.

>>8470315
Something you'll just have to get used to. Aristotle is dense, but he explains what he's discussing in detail. Pay attention, consider what he says if it doesn't come to you immediately and take notes. you'll be fine

>>8470192
Reading from it.

meh most good books can be rented from a regular public library anyway

>>8470198
Yes, I will do that

yes

also do research into bacchic/orphic mysteries and the greco-egyptian figure of hermes thrice great

Algis Uzdavinys has an introductory compilation of Neoplatonic and Pythagorean thought entitled The Golden Chain: etc. I highly recommend it. From the authors mentioned there you can then look for translations of their main works if they catch your interest. You can probably skip the theurgists and >>8470401 unless you're inclined to actual mystical praxis though. If you are inclined, however, I would also suggest The Chaldean Oracles and The Greek Magical Papyri. Something like Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic by Stephen Skinner might prove helpful for decoding these as well. And all of Uzdavinys's other works are quite illuminating as well. There are a few minor misprints in some of these titles but no major translation errors as far as I can tell. I majored in Classics and Philosophy for three years before dropping out and might also suggest learning Latin and Greek. My skills are atrocious but there's really high quality printing of a lot of Greek and Latin titles if you know your stuff (Loeb and so on).

>>8471152
i'm familiar with loeb and i just picked up latin: an intensive course. i hope to learn it for about a year then try reading some texts in that language before moving to greek (maybe some catullus poems).

i'm more inclined towards understanding the development of certain philosophical ideas over time (basically the history side of it all). do you reckon that i should dip into what you and >>8470401 said? i'll definitely pick up the cynics, pyrrhonics, and neoplatonist works but i was wondering about the others you guys mentioned. i'm mostly reading as a side hobby so time is really not much of an issue. thanks again for the suggestions lads. i'll be checking out the uzdavinys book for sure.

What does "being a meme compared to something" mean with regard to one or the other thing, OP?

>>8470153

Friendly reminder to lurk before posting.

>>8470116
enlighten me.
I have the book laying around, was going to read but had some priorities... Never got to it.

And as the book is seldom discussed on /lit/, could expand on it?

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>>8470021

In the same way that /lit/ likes to jack off our their pomo abstract bullshit, Reddit likes to jack off over their infantile YA bullshit.
Just leave 'em alone, and let 'em enjoy what they enjoy. To be honest, there's more of a market for that anyway; they've got a higher chance of success.

You literally gain nothing from making this thread. It's pointless negativity. You might as well whine about the friend zone.

I really do not understand why people go to reddit with preconceived opinions and expect any different.

Just don't go to reddit if you like 4chan. The two have widely different cultures.

I'm looking for something to read that is essentially "A History of Defensive Architecture".

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>>8469945
Here's your supreme edition OP.

>>8469956
I plan on reading Pope's one day, but it's a pretty stark deviation from the original, so I'll be reading someone else's first.

What edition is that, btw? Looks nice.