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>>8386282

template?

>>8386282
Amazing, you have great taste in every medium on there. Mad props for Fallout 2 and Caligari.

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>>8386287

>>8386236
pls don't

Send it to me

>>8386236
jesus christ $5 that's a thrift man's dream. one time I found a yeshica T4 at goodwill for $4. jizzed in my pants

>>8386234
Pretty gud short fiction stylist, haven't read his big pessimism manifesto though. Funnier than people give him credit for, too, even if it's a really black humour.

I'd be hesitant to call him "edgy" in a dismissing way. If you read interviews with him, he comes across as a completely sincere individual who isn't just posturing as a "disturbed" author. His fiction starts to get monotonous if I read a whole collection of it, but it's very interesting in short doses. He's maybe a little overrated in horror circles but contemporary horror doesn't exactly have much competition.

>>8386234
making money out of the whole antinatalist thing, that is to say out of insufferable edgy teens. pretty smart, but a total hypocrite at the same time.

Just read the "Western canon", thats enough white noise to stultify anybody permanently

t. black girl who for some reason browses this board

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>I'm a huge nerd

when's it gonna get here, fuck. it's been out for delivery all day.

How bored were you this summer?

Do you like to cum into your panties?

>>8386228
Not very. I've been planning on reading since the beginning of this year.

>>8386233
No, because I am a not a girl, nor a faggot.

>>8386218
600 words is not even a preface OP.

>>8386218
Nigga you're 600 words into a piece of microfiction if you're already trying to get attention for your piece that you started thirty minutes ago. You will not flesh out anything and expect it to be hailed as the epic of our generation.

If I write 600 words on my main project in one day, that would be a month-long low. Come back here at 35k cohesive plot and character list, and tell us that you're a third of the way done writing and haven't even started the editing process.

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>>8386218
Pic related was probably the only attempt at that by someone from this board that was actually finished so far.

Whether it succeeded or not in any sense is... debatable.

Never read it but if you wanna read pure boring scum than read Steppenwolf. Really popular among intellectuals but drags on and on

>>8386219
Huh never heard of it. Maybe you're just not patrician enough to read it? Do you even know what it is? Are you sure? Please respond quickly

>>8386207
This is actually a pretty mediocre book. A weak plot and message (I understand Wilde cared little for these, but whatever) fleshed out with fairly pedestrian florid description. Wilde was an amazing comic playwright and short story writer, I have no idea where this claustrophobic miserable little book came from. Wotton was quite funny, but he was too obviously a caricature of the decadant aesthete.

>>8386197
I'm an editorial project manager, which means I'm basically a middle man between publishers and freelance copy editors. I spend more time reviewing edits than actually editing. So I'm not exactly Gordon Lish.

If you have good self-discipline to hit deadlines, you could make a decent living as a freelancer, and you would have a lot of freedom once you are established and have a fairly reliable stream of projects.

>>8386965

How to get in as a freelancer?

>>8386977
Make sure you know Chicago style, and it wouldn't hurt to know APA (I'm assuming you are American). Being able to follow a style guide is more important that being a grammar wiz.

Scour the internet for job postings. Look on Craigslist. Set up a LinkedIn profile and connect with as many freelance editors as you can. Some of them can probably give you good leads.

It will take some work getting yourself established. Project managers prefer to assign projects to freelancers that they know to be reliable rather than using somebody new. So you're going to have to really work at finding projects and establishing yourself at first. And you'll need to be willing to edit some very boring and/or just plain bad books starting out.

Alternatively, if you are young, you might look at internships with publishers rather than going the freelance route.

>>8386170
:v

I get the appeal of shitposting or making silly threads. I do it myself every once in a while? But when you pushed that post button, what were your thoughts? Did you think it's funny what you wrote or clever? Or hilariously random? Got to /s4s/ and take some shitpost lessons.

>>8386181
>I do it myself every once in a while?
scratch the "?"

>>8386083
If you only read excerpts from Revolt Against the Modern World and his theories on race (derived from theosophy more than anything) it can sounds somewhat appealing to the alt right.

Evola, along with Spengler is quite often misrepresented by these "alt right" people.

>>8386095
Hello Mount Stupid

>>8386083
>Can you tell me why Ebola is so popular on the alt right?

>"Evola’s thought can be considered one of the most radically and consistently antiegalitarian, antiliberal, antidemocratic, and antipopular systems in the twentieth century."[2"

Hmm, I wonder why he's so popular.

Turgenev

The Long Goodbye
But basically all of Raymond Chandlers novels. You'll feel better afterwards.

I'm reading oblomov right now. It's hilarious.

FUCKING ZAKHAR CLEAN UP YOU WORTHLESS FAGGOT REEEEEEEEEE¡!!!!!

>>8386003
The very easiest way?

>>8386007
sure

>>8386003
Hegel, ofc.

subvocalization, my dark friend

Oh come on, she doesn't look that bad. You know you would.

read something old from your native language

>>8385976
The number of possible neural connections in one human brain exponentially exceeds the number of atoms in the known universe.

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>The number of possible neural connections in one human brain exponentially exceeds the number of atoms in the known universe.

>>8386015
I see the scientists you meet are the same caliber as your paraphrase.

>>8385964
because /pol/ can't read.

>>8385964

OP's premise seems to me to be false. Take at least four camps who regularly consider Marxs' relationship to modern and contemporary literature.

In addition to 1) subsequent Marxist literature, which is of course a literature unto itself, 2) continental philosophers and "philosopher-types" have regularly been citing Marx in the course of doing their own projects since Marx was a thing, even if they don't particularly "like" him or agree with him.

Third, 3) fashionable bougies just such as ourselves regularly consider the same matter. Why else is /lit/ far and away the most conventionally left-wing board on 4chan, and why else are Marx threads regularly created, however much another segment of /lit/'s userbase may deride them as being either stupid or irrelevant? The point is that here we have a third group of people who literally adn regularly do what OP is questioning.

Fourth, take for example American conservatives, and American conservative pundits in particular, for whom it is convenient to correctly point out that a wide array of 20th/21st century academics and writers regularly cite Marx. They too are correctly aware of this tradition, just as the above groups are, although for them it is again usually an opportunity to illustrate the object of their discussion as evil, wrong, irrelevant, etc. I don't think Glenn Beck got hung up on Marx-as-such, but he made a big thing about The Coming Insurrection when it came out, which does cite Marx in a scattershot fashion, and clearly has among other things a conventional, even old-school Marxist ethos.

>>8386081
Suck my cock, commie faggot.