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If you're sub 105 IQ you should resign yourself to menial labour or just kill yourself and stop wasting my resources desu

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>>8428704
>>8428702
>they fell for the IQ meem

>>8428704
>resign yourself to menial labour
>resign

Manual labour is the most noble of work though.

Much of my time is invested in stand up comedy. Writing became important to be when I learned that a well written joke gives you more wiggle room in your performance. There's a lot of tricks like using (((((high energy))))) and crowd work to make up for it but building a well written set gives you a firm foundation.

Some of the best joke writers I know are English majors but look and act like complete trolls with no confidence on stage. It keeps them from experimenting with more difficult material. Knowing how to address the crowd allows you to take more risks in joke structure and I don't want to waste the slight advantage I have.

>>8428729
Why bump a shitty thread? Don't you have some writing to do?

This isn't even close to "being on the path to becoming a great writer"...

You're a fucking retard, go get a job in marketing or something. It's where you would have been pre the internet acting as your own personal yes man.

You poor sucker.

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>>8428656
Sounds like you need a friend, buddy :)

You're never alone in the ummah though. Just saying.

>>8428658
>>8428658
>>8428658
This. Only solace within human condition is creating something meaningful or sharing your experience, and therefore making it meaningful.

Are you fluent in existential thought OP? Read some of that stuff, whether you find it entry-level or not. It's described with perfect attention to detail there *how* to put the meaning into existing matter, I only listed to pretty universal and proven-to-work examples.

>>8429400
two* pretty nice examples.

No, because just having people be gay isn't good story material.

>>8428647
Yes, The Divine Comedy. Specifically the 7th circle, sin against nature.

>>8428647
Jeanette Winterson. I wasn't such a fan of her most famous one, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, but The Passion was excellent.

>>8428605
a brave new world, fahrenheit 451, we

>>8428692
451 isn't that good, and Bradbury was a fucking idiot.

>>8428605
Tbqhwyf I kind of thought White Noise saw the postmodern world as being dystopian or post-apocalyptic. Not in genre but in spirit.

>>8428605
The Handmaid's Tale

Borrowing thread, anyone got the PDF for pic related, I have tried searching around for a while and no luck so far.

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>>8428679

Don't you get on a watchlist for downloading Tiqqun books?

In what way does Hitchens display "incredibly simplistic patterns of thought" ?

>>8428578
You have to understand that Hitchens was a serious alcoholic for the last 20 years of his life, I think that was a big part of it

Plus he always hung onto unrealistic thought like Trotzkyism, which came with his environment

>>8428578

Agreeing with >>8428581 but I'll bite you fag. Most anything you've seen him in or read of his has been for the layperson. He has to be simple--which doesn't equate to simplistic. Watch old videos of him as a young reporter, totally not famous, and he's almost too obtuse and winding in his thoughts to be enjoyable. He slimmed it down to be palatable and now you, presumably, can't read between the lines and are butthurt about it.

Also you're baiting I'm guessing, but, heeyoooo any Hitch thread is a good thread

>chapter 1 starts on page 36
>introduction is bigger than the actual text
>uneven page edges
>book is an ebook

>introduction written as if the reader has already read the book complete with spoilers

>real person on the cover representing a character

>any written on the cover that's purpose is only to sell the book like "winner of ___ award"

>"dear reader"

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>Adverb

I like my Diary, you should read it sometime

>>8428571
You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Anon's Diary’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

>>8428566
Can you please tell me specifically what you got from Gulliver's travels? I am thinking about rereading it soon

Not if you need the credits.... dunbass.......

>>8428560
I don't, I can pick any class in any major I like as long as it's upper-division

>>8428580
for >>8428575

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These ones tend to be pretty good.

>>8429906
What are they? Quirky little comics?

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>>8429915

Yes and no. They're pretty straighforward overviews. Not really a comic. The illustrations are kind of wacky, but not in a memey way. Just look up previews on amazon to see what they're like.

Grist for the mill.

>>8428479
Well done, I cringed.

>>8428488
In a good way?

>>8428456
If YOU'RE writing the short story, then YOU should be the one to come up with the phrases that YOU are going to be writing. /lit/ is not going to write your stories for you.

>>8428456
You need simpler words. Having these sophisticated phrases for something that is horrifying will take me out of the experience.

>>8428465

* "Upon closer examination, I came to know that the strong-smelling parched membrane stretched before me was, in fact, the gutted vaginal walls of a dead woman."

"I accused her of the following: that she enjoyed the lustful weight of Turks pressing upon her, that she enjoyed the unholy lifeforms they injected into her and finally that she had done this a thousand times."

"He had an eyebrow-raising attraction to those dull husks infected with the Great Pox, along with the nasty itch to brought to all those afflicted with it."

Does this affect you?

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>>8428334
>reading books

holy shit he fell for the meme

>>8428334
Pretty similar, but there's a bit of Carpenter's Gothic in there too. Also the play excerpts and legal briefs mix things up a bit.

>>8428451
As a lawyer, I've loved the court opinions and other legal discussion. Gaddis gets it exactly right while really skewering my profession. The man had uncanny insight and must have really done his research (legal theories/common law rules he discusses are actually correct).

What order would you recommend from here. I have all of his books but this is the first one I've read.

I love bukowski! Hes extremely entertaining. I prefer his novels over his poetry though. I recommend blue bird and genius of the crowd as some of his most profound works in poetry. Take care anon.

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widely panned as shit by psuedo intellectual wishy washy fuccbois old man buk is actually quite the interesting man. influenced by celine, he was a genius in a deformed shell, bitter, angry, resentful, synonyms compounded into irony. he speaks about things in such a way as to revolt the senses of the intellectual and triumph the common. the beer shits, the hemorrhoids, the gentle farts of his lovers. yet there is the bluebird and all that.

altogether a lovely man. widely imitated not replaced he was too authentic, he earned his street cred and he deserves his spot. wherever that is. probably some cheap dead rent house in L.A. that's already been torn down.

go look up that video where he kicks his woman. a beautiful smile but a hard heart. RIP.

>>8428321
That was my first into to Bukowski and I hated it. The stories repeat themselves too often. I personally found his novels very amusing however. Save for Women, Hollywood and Pulp. I haven't read the latter two but I have read a grrar majority of Women and always run into a moment ehwre I realize everything I am reading feels meaningless and much less interesting than something like Factotum or Ham on Rye. Never really got into is poetry much. Doesn't seem like he really separated his poetry from his prose.