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>>8457058
Post a dick pic.

>>8457058
Lurk on /u/. That should do it for you.

>>8457058
just write a normal short story and everytime you need a filler ad some erotic scene, thoughts etc.

You didn't even say what you're reading/what you've read by him. His œuvre is pretty huge, which works make you say that ?

>>8457033
All anglos know about is Les Miserables (and perhaps Notre-Dame - only perhaps, and because of the Disney cartoon)

>>8457033
He is clearing talking about La Légende des Siècles, aren't you OP?

>>8457010
The reason Sagan was so popular (and not just with autists) was because he could communicate the wonder he felt at the natural world and our universe so well, in a plebeian tone. I do not say this in a derogatory way. He was a brilliant speaker and writer who sought to engage the general public in science education and funding.

>>8457010
no
items of headwear cannot type

>>8457010
Yes. Suggest you read Dawkins next, then start ranting about bearded sky dad and the Republicans.

I am bad too but bump anyway! <3

It's perfectly fine for a school creative writing piece.

Bare in mind he's in year 12 (16 year-old, whatever that is in whatever country you guys are in)

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>>8456691
Mankind or the individual man?

Collective and personal desires may ultimately overlap, but they also may not. So clarify.

>>8456693
> not understanding how to properly interpret the use of the em dash
no one likes who you've become

Hate is another form of love.

>>8456613
Shit people, that's all.
Ask your questions and I'll help if I can anon.

>>8456613
This place is one of the last bastions of pure aesthetic appreciation. Art certainly has utilitarian functions, but too much of the world tries to reduce it wholly to those functions, thereby socially devaluing what it essentially is. There need to be groups of people who take up arms against this leveling sea. If you have questions framed in a way that implies you see literature as a tool, or a means, expect to be leveled yourself. We can't let functionalist reductionism gain to sturdy a footing, especially during such perilous times for the medium, and for art in general.

>>8456602
In what sense of challenging? Stylistically it needn't be. Conceptually, in the most limited sense of the word, it needn't be. But it has to articulate truth. And the truth is damn hard to wrap your head around.

http://adilegian.com/FranzenGaddis.htm

>>8456657
*tips fedora*

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>>8456594
Sade isn't discused often

>>8456599
nev·er
ˈnevər/
adverb
1.
at no time in the past or future; on no occasion; not ever.

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Not only does /lit/ not talk about this, they don't even mention Federman at all.

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>>8456556

>>8456556
Euler or the guy that says fuck her right in the pussy. That was a funny hoax.

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Schopie :-)

I like Delany..but no

>>8456424
It's less a racial thing and more a genreshit thing. Yes, Dhalgren has a reputation for being /lit/, but other than that he just wrote scifi and that thing about the pedophile.

>>8456429
im talking in terms of sheer writing ability

DFW is not on his level

Who are you quoting

Yeah, I agree, his poetic command of language and the phonetic quality of his work is quite outstanding,

I do things like get a book and say, "The prose, and step on it.”

Flatland with notes by Ian Stewart. It's basically double the comfy because Ian's notes feels like a smart friend going over a comfy story with you. I like to pretend Ian is my friend anyway since I have none.

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>>8456336

>>8456328
The Illustrated Man is top notch comf.
Also The Martian Chronicles, it's like the same thing but on Mars.

They're both short story collections that feel like you're at your grampa's cozy house listening to him go on and on about "back in my day" in his dated purple prose and themes that lost relevance but still entertain.

>>8456322

he's really not hard.

Hint: take him less seriously. take some self-reflection. imagine all the fun associations from his weirder metaphors.

Analyzing him like an academic is ultimate pseud. Not that his poems are meaningless, but different. Self-Portrait's long eponymous poem should be read ASAP. Enjoy it and come to your own conclusions.

>>8456322

baka desu

>>8456322
its just a compilation of post-structural theories

>>8456318
what makes it exceptional OP? sell it

>>8456319
The prose

Now post a book

>>8456325
guess it's another pseud thread oh well

>>8456251
In the Cafe of Lost Youth, Missing Person, After the Circus

the deadly percheron

Raymond Chandler is great, pretty much the defining noir writer (start with the Big Sleep) and you should get hold of some Dashiell Hammett too. The Maltese Falcon is proto-Chandler in form, atmosphere and tone, and Red Harvest is his best IMHO.