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>>8415583
Oh so patent law. Neat!

>>8415545
how much those run you?

Ill start

>Dear

Write a dystopian story about how the world falls to shit after people read exclusively dystopian fiction and philosophy is kill for decades

Ugh fuck, the future's so shit. I can't believe that 200 years ago we ended up in a dystopian future. Why is life as hard as it is right now? Technology gave us everything, but now we have nothing. We can't eat the computers. Why did no one think of that before... That Day. The SJWs were right.

there are none because it's a shit subject to write about

O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?

For what offence have I this fortnight been

A banish’d woman from my Harry’s bed?

Tell me, sweet lord, what is’t that takes from thee

Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?

Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,

And start so often when thou sit’st alone?

Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;

And given my treasures and my rights of thee

To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?

In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch’d,

And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;

Speak terms of manage [horsemanship] to thy bounding steed;

Cry ‘Courage! to the field!’ And thou hast talk’d

Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,

Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,

Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,

Of prisoners’ ransom and of soldiers slain,

And all the currents of a heady fight.

Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,

And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep,

That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow

Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;

And in thy face strange motions have appear’d,

Such as we see when men restrain their breath

On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?

Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,

And I must know it, else he loves me not.

>>8415549

Lady Hotspur, Henry IV?

I guess you're lucky B&N don't sell books with pictures of John Green on the cover.

>>8415499
i already own all of john green's books

>>8415493
He looks like he's trying really hard not to laugh at dank memes

>>8415479
Also, Ive already sealed the deal with the publisher. but no advance until i get the story board down.

The book is based on Eve, had she lived until the present day.

you plagiarized that artwork from charles burns you stupid nigger

>>8415515
Yes and I gave credit on my sight, I am not claiming that to be the cover, hece me need for graphic artists, Its just a rough outline

The story.
>it's not all there is, but it's not going to get obsolete

what is the quantum chromodynamics of lit?

Which are the constants of motion of shitposting?

>hesiod
>something lighter

shorter maybe

If you want to read the Greeks then start with Homer, he is foundational to greek thought.

>>8415438
But it's so long and I just know I'll spend forever deciding on a translation.

kys

what was the name of that book?

Holy mother of god those tits

>>8415363
the bible

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>>8415363
It's aimed at bored housewives and the kind of faggot kids that post on the internet and try to look intellectual.

>>8415368
>>8415371
Wow, really? I'm actually interested in the matter.

>>8415324
Unless it's genreshit (in which case you're wasting your money) or something only slightly more involved, you should only listen to audiobooks of things you've actually read at least once.

I haven't listened to a lot, but the Gravity's Rainbow and J R ones are pretty good.

I find it really hard to concentrate... Honestly don't like 'em at all

I enjoy them. I tend to listen to them during household chores and other rote tasks where I can reserve mental focus. I don't care to listen to difficult material in this format. I tried some Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville but I kept wanting to go back over and "re-read" denser passages which doesn't suit the format or what I was otherwise occupied with.

The narrator certainly does make or break the work.

I find that I can listen to something I've already read and pick up detail that I would have skimmed over visually. In this sense, it can be complementary to the written word.

>>8415314
It was cute for a while but got preachy and insufferable towards the end.

So I guess Kurt Vonnegut or maybe that Robert Anton Wilson guy are authors you should look into.

>>8415314
Easily, gravity's rainbow. Almost identical ending.

>>8415458
I can see how you could come to that conclusion, but you're wrong.

OP part 2:
The reason I bother is because the unspeakable described by many as God provided me with a mind affine to quickly learn and understand abstract concepts; not just math and science, but also grammar and ortography. As nothing in life comes for free, one of the drawbacks I've had to put with is what you call social autism - I'm introverted and very literal minded; I take pleasure in discussing "distant" subjects like science, history, music, psybrology or even politics - and by distant I refer to things that do not pertain directly to what I have actually experienced, which seems to be the topic of choice for most people we would call normies - and find it difficult to handle verbal social play such as friendly, ironic bashing. Whenever talking to people, be it my closest friends or classmates, I tend to exchange factual information without pacing myself in order to keep the other side piqued, as that's the thing I crave as much as most people do with social interaction. Those idiosyncracies of mine likely contribute a lot to why I have no girlfriend (yet, I hope I'm not quarter as bad fucked up as /r9k/) or fail to enjoy literature. I tend not to care about stories. However, since my understanding of language is decent enough to write, I'm trying to decide whether it's worth for me to explore literature as a hobby. My native language teachers have praised me on multiple occasions, and my friend, who had the honor of appearing on nationwide TV thanks to her vocal talent, told me I have potential I should not waste - though frankly, my writing skills would probably go into technical writing anyway, and I have grounds to believe that all that talk of artistic potential is just a spook contrived to give me a false sense of brilliance, when in reality I'm just another 18 year old who needs to get his shit together and experience several more life crises before producing a work of actual merit, that would get forgotten anyway (though I wonder how many shit stories did your favorite writer create before producing a Hamlet, a War and Peace, a Ulysses :^) >inb4 rimbaud). Not to mention the benefits of being well read.

Pardon my chaotic style, but here's where I'd like to put my reading habits in a broader perspective. As you might have concluded from what I've written before, I am autistically disinterested in plot or characters. I usually don't care what are the participants thinking or feeling within a contrived story. If I want some crime, I just read a timeline on Wikipedia (a good example would be the 2014 Isla Vita killings, though I've read some of My Twisted World and damn, it is a good way to peer into the mind of a real criminal). My literature of choice seems to largely forgo captivating world description (or completely screw it up, like GR) and focus directly on thoughts, perhaps that's why I find pleasure in contemplating internet shitstorms or things like Ted Kaczynski's manifesto. Perhaps philosophy would be appropriate for me.

OP part drei:
When I say plot doesn't do it for me, I mean it; I hardly ever watch movies. I haven't read fucking Harry Potter. I learned to read from Donald Tru... Duck comic books. My favorite books as a kid were the Horrible Science/Horrible Geography/The Knowledge/Murderous Maths series (known in the U.S. as Horrible Books) and Captain Underpants. As mentioned before, even movies don't rouse me much, and I like having my TV turned off. I don't think it matters much, but I don't particularly like history either, and watching sports provides me almost no excitement.

Still, I feel like there is salvation for my misguided psyche. Should I get into literature no matter what? What should I read? Was diving straight into GR a good idea? I enjoyed it

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THE FUCKING STICKY, READ IT... That is where the journey begins

Also doing something you never liked to do, takes a little bit of effort, try to start slowly, and don't get immediatly with works that require mental gymnastics, because that isn't fun.

Buy a book that catches your attetion, and instead of reading it for 2 hours a day or a chapter a day, try to take a read when you're on public transport, naturally it depends, I live right outside of Vienna, and public transport is quite silent most of the time.

>aiming for a word count

I'm sure it's going to be pure gold.

Damn she's hot

>>8415232
Close to 80k at this point.

>>8415246
I know how it sounds, but it's a very reasonable thing to do if you're aiming for traditional publication.

>>8415228
yeah bro cultural marxism is bad for example feminists they destroy the western values. who els hates vegans? bacon amirite

>>8415242
I don't have a problems with feminists who work on their reaching positions which have been dominated by men for a long time, as long as it's rightfully so and not via using the gender card, but I really dislike the social media ones who think equality is equivalent to flashing dem titties. I do like titties though.

>>8415261
Several mistakes because I'm bad at explaining and using phones and i mix words and thoughts together and weird shit, probably common though, anyway hope you got my point

It really is, re-reading it right now

You don't speak russian you fraud. talk about pretentious.

>>8415289
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