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I think you'd benefit from reading an analysis of the book. See what you caught onto and what you didn't. Then read your next book with a relaxed but keener eye.

>>8419665

Are you saying I should've been more fascinated by how the writer tried to show how obsessed people were with buying stuff? Please elaborate. You can yell at me. I want to learn.

>>8419696
No not necessarily. I can't really know what you extracted from the book but if you're just getting into reading it's good advice. Just mull over any book you read a little you know. See other opinions.

embrace it

Do you know who cares too much about the opinions of other people? Pretenders. Just do your thing man.

You don't be ashamed of doing whatever you like doing that people may call prwtentios.

Lots of people are just revolted by attempted displays of intelligence or earnest passion for creativity; they're just scared of being called pretentious or failures and so never try themselves.

C O L L E C T E D P O E M S

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>>8419614
This is the patrician's choice

>>8419640
that looks great anon, thank you. My problem is deciding between more poems or less poems with plays and prose.

looked up to the alien at first because he was badass and intelligent and compassionate

then he turned full retard with his little nudist cult

p gud muh human condishun :^)

>>8419610
I know, right?

>>8419620
yeah, early into the book I was like

>I'm going to strive to be a better person and become more disciplined.

It was truly an unexpected turn in the story

>>8419572
Because you're a retard.

>>8419572
Joyce is the Jackson Pollock of literature. FInnegans Wake is worse.

>>8419578
He didnt read it.

>>8419572
In the early 20th century people were very preoccupied with being complete shitheads in the artistic world so we have stuff like this.

I find Don Quixote funny as fuck

Can humour be taught?

Does anyone know where I could get a big zip file or something for an artists entire work? I looked on slsk for this painter, but, they don't always have everything.

>selfish generation begin to connect with one another the concepts and language they wish to communicate become more essential, more intimate.

If our descriptions shrink it will only be because our attention span shrinks.

Diction is for accuracy in conveying a certain feeling and experience. Patient readers know that a drawn-out description is probably necessary to describe a very particular experience that would simply be impossible in only a few short phrases.

I think you're correct in that authors may easily be able to refer to a specific feeling if it is prominent in a culture, but there is a limit to what building blocks we already possess.

If you're talking more on an abstract scale, I think music is already our most minimal medium for drawing a sentiment. Though even in that department we continue to limit the medium with our ever-shrinking attention span.

>>8419694

from an evolutionary standpoint, you cannot communicate with a reader if they haven't already experienced what it is that is being communicated. Then whats the point? A writer putting finger puppets on your soul and enacting a punch and Judy, for what reason other than to converse the souls. When reading, a feeling is not created or imagined; it is simply remembered, and the reader makes a connect.

A writer could describe an abstract dream place by building blocks of language, using common objects or shapes; say, 4 cubes stand each 2 meters by another emanating moons, the lining of the outer cube is blinding chrome and the moons are a pale green.

And you could imagine 4 cubes, with chrome frames and 4 green moons. But what's the point unless it mean anything unless the reader becomes those 4 moons or knows the meaning of a moon in relation to them. Unless they know intrinsically the significance of 4 moons.

There is a universal language that is spoken by some but heard by little.

You say patience, who has patience anymore? Humanity longs to kill patience; all creations are to appease the single moment. Nobody invents slower ways of doing things.

I say, in the future they won't be dreaming in books but living in books! Yes, the book become like as if a drug, but not with these words of the world.

Music is a perfect example! People don't want a concertio, they want to connect, and they don't connect by appreciating Mozart but by unifying - all communication is to unify. We argue ultimately not because we want to be right but because we want to to come together. The selfish one does not realize that though because they are selfish.

The word draws ribbons in the soul, yes, but there is one soul, and one true word. And the word of the soul cannot be the word of the world, for here is consistent death!

>where we're going we don't need roads

>>8419548
I would say the Bible.
>very cool creation myth
>creeping things that creepeth
And then there's like a list of names for a few dozen pages

>>8419587
You talkin' about the movies or the books?
I never read the Back to the Future books, but the movie sequels were GOAT.

The first movie taken on it's own actually feels kind of brief and rushed, if you don't think of it as the first part in a trilogy.

The epic BTTF theme in the driving to the lightning scene is also kind of contrived excitement, that I only noticed the first time I saw the first movie without planning on watching the sequels afterwards.

>>8419480
mediocre. The reason poetry sucks so much these days.

>>8419480
Love him
Great poetry died with Pound

>>8419481
>>8419484
lol

looks le kwerky. i like it.

>>8419487
Yeah I hope she makes it big. How neat would that be?

>>8419474
bump4her

>>8419439
her music taste > her lit taste but both are passable at best

Murakami is shit, but otherwise she has good taste in books. The fact that she's got Ovid there should tell you that she's a keeper.

yep OP has pretty good taste

They are mostly right about the problems but absolutely delusional about solutions.

>>8419427
They're right about a lot of what they say about Leftists. They're wrong about the Jews, they're wrong about Nationalism in the 21st century and they're wrong about racism. Not that I'm not racist, I just think it's a lot more complicated than ridiculous notions of 'black' and 'white'/

Neo-reaction in general is a bit tedious

>>8419514
For a moment I thought you weren't racist there. Phew.

>>8419413
lmao shut up idiot

Looks like you know how to read?

>>8419419
Yea I at least have adopted parents

>>8419407
I don't

>>8419407
What has worked for me is just to sit and try to get work done anyway. Even if it feels awkward and forced. Eventually the feeling goes away and the fog lifts. In order to beat lethargy you just need to be active.

>>8419407
By crawling out of your mangina long enough to get shit done.

1

Gather around, for we go in hell
We'll make a plan
To let this day meet our demand
With our hearts intact and
Our hands geld high
We'll rue the day
I know we will

We make it over and down the hills
Through shrapnel and led
Through echos of yell!

2

Love your brother
Carry him in your arms
If his blodd washes your face
Remember him, by his heart
But not by his dare
Or by his unfortune
But know him respected, know him by good work
Know that he died for us, and lived by his word

standing in the bleak darkness in a fuel station at the beginning and the end of everything alone

we are all meat on the highway

jaundiced pig feet meat, cold and lifeless in the drizzle as men look on. the sternum snaps under the pressure like a man breaking a crab claw in half

red all over from a gash staining all red like a warning siren. mouth no longer a mouth but a gash into the meat

covered and hauled away like uncooked pork saved for later

finish filling your car with gasoline and head out into the darkness of eternity once again, a ship of the dead amongst the stars

this is the world of eternal night and we are all living in it alone

>>8420675
I wrote you a haiku

I call it "Etiology of an Anon"

Ahem


"Though your poems suck
Its snowing on Mount Fuji
Some things never change"

~Fin~