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In what position do you like to read in?
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Doggy. You can lay the book right on the ass.
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>>8361003
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Do I need to pick up smoking if I'm to become a writer?
They just taste bad and make me cough. Do I just keep trying?
/lit/-smoker general
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Smoke a pipe, cigar or joint instead. Or don't smoke.
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You just can't be for real OP.
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Yeah when I was 14 I thought they made me look like a grown up as well.
The novelty soon wears off.
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DUDE "NIGGER" LMAO
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>>8360931
more like
DUDE, MY SISTER'S ASS LMAO
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CORN on the COB
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>>8360931
nigger
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Creative writing masters student AMA 2016-08-04 20:24:50 Post No.8360821
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post: Hey guys, I'm a 23 year old from a well to do family completing his masters in creative writing AMA
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Do you really think you'll get published?
And do you know of any success stories from your university ?
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>>8360821
Bait
But if not, is it hell being a white male in an MFA? It was in mine, famalam.
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no earing
no infinite jest on the shelf behind you
poor poor effort man
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Is Absurdism the end game of philosophy? Also, what are some essential Absurdist works, other than the obvious "The Myth of Sisyphus?" Any anti-absurdist works one should read to understand opposing arguments?
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We've been through this. Stirner is the end of philosophy.
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>>8360849
stirner is literal trash for shut-ins who have never been in a street fight, killed and eaten an animal, been inflicted with a life threatening medical condition, or even created a piece of art.
It looks good on paper the same way self help books look good on paper
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>Is Absurdism the end game of philosophy?
Yes, until you aren't a teenager anymore, that is.
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anyone else have bad reading stamina? anything longer than 200 pages i get bored of by halfway and usually end up skimming the last 1/4
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What a lewd pic. This is a blue board, OP.
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I can't even read 200 pages in one sitting most of the times...
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don't read it in one sitting then
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I'm about 50 pages from the end of 1984 by George Orwell, and I couldn't help but think of the parallels to our own world. Why do we have these terrible election cycles that politicians allow to happen, which divide our country and insight so much hysteria and insanity among the population? Could it really be that this is what the founding fathers put forth, and that we're running on this pattern because we believe there must be order, no matter how imperfect? Or is it all a charade, and things could be better, but there's someone in power who wants to prevent all of us from becoming too independent minded and free, and free thinking? I think it's just a randomness, ideologies clashing, it's just my natural instinct to put some meaning behind it, find a single "cause", when really it's infinite factors working together at once. It's a nice thought, to think there's something to blame for all of it, when in reality I know that it's because everyone, not a single person or organization, is responsible for the madness that ensues throughout all of our society. Whether or not there's corrupt, lying politicians, parents who indoctrinate their kids, everyone is mad and unsure of what exactly is going on.
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I met a girl who said she liked intellectual books that make you think and gave the example of 1984. Even though she was cute, was a pleb. She could have taken a textbook on politics to answer the same questions but she did not. You remind me of that girl OP.
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>>8360741
This. OP is probably just a cute little girl going through babby's first over discussed realizations
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Read about Mockingbird, he may have been under US payroll during the 40s and certainly his estate was immediately after his death. Pretty funny.
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let's talk southern gothic
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>>8360664
It's alright. Faulkner's southern Gothic work is undoubtedly my favorite. Though, in my opinion, Victorian Gothic is a lot better.
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>>8360680
would you agree all southern gothic literature is about loss?
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>>8360664
kind of an open-ended thread topic, OP.
i'm currently reading Flan's A Good Man is Hard to Find. i'm enjoying it very much and it's making me want to read Wise Blood, which I am made to understand is mama Flan's masterpiece, which leads me to the sentiment that Wise Blood should replace Blood Meridian on our Southern Gothic Trinity, because Blood Meridian isn't southern goth.
Butcher's Crossing is also on my reading list.
Probably goes without saying that Warlock is too.
that's all I got.
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>He reads the same book more than once
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>>8360653
>He doesn't read books worth rereading.
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>he reads books
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>He moves his eyes trough characters
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Who was the greatest poet of the 20th century 2016-08-04 19:37:28 Post No.8360652
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Who was the greatest poet of the 20th century
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of any language in your opinion?
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I don't want to say.
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Eliot or Yeats.
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>>8360682
Eliot as well...The Waste Land is by far the most influential poem of the 20th century...
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A challenge.
Find literary devices that aren't hyperbole, simili, metaphor, or other BASIC stuff in this random article I found from 2009.
http://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff_vanish2/
Winner gets $10 paypal, will deliver.
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You think we're gonna do your homework you dipshit?
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>will deliver.
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>>8360605
you want 10 dollars or not
Now that the dust has settled, can we agree that reading for the prose is the most plebeian way to appreciate literature?
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>>8360576
No one reads just for prose. Reading has multiple dimensions, prose is one group of dimensions
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What's it called when you look at something in context of the whole, rather than just at the part it is?
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>>8360576
>prose is one group of dimensions
Yes, and it's also the most plebian demension.
who is the 'best' fiction writer of the last twenty-five years?
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Probably me.
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>>8360413
your diary desu?
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>>8360416
Don't have a diary. Just answering the OP as best I can.
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what should i read now
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>>8360365
The bible
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>>8360408
i dont like fiction bookds
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>>8360442
Ow I cut my peepee on that edge
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I'm new to poetry, what books should I read?
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Start with the Greeks, then skip to Tao Lin.
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>>8360356
none poetry is gay as fuck.
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>>8360356
Get a good anthology, like Norton's