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>>8355089

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

>>8355102

this comment shows how postmodernism is actually just an abortion of modernism that needs to end

>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
>Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
>Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
>Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
>Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
>Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
>Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
>Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
>Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
>Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
>James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
>Proust was 25 when Pleasures and Days was published
>Mishima was 23 when Confessions of a Mask was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 21 when Less Than Zero was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 23 when Rules of Attraction was published
>Kenzaburō Ōe was 23 when Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published
>Emile Zola was 24 when Contes à Ninon was published
>Balzac was 20 when Cromwell was published
>Baudelaire was 24 when Salon of 1845 was published
>Hitomi Kanehara was 20 when Snakes and Earrings was published
>Stig Dagerman was 23 when Ormen was published
>Strindberg was 22 when The Outlaw was published
>Ibsen was 22 when Catiline was published
>Milan Kundera was 24 when Man: A Wide Garden was published
>Adam Thirwell was 24 when Politics was published
>Ned Beaumann was 25 when Boxer, Beetle was published
>Norman Mailer was 25 when The Naked and the Dead was published
>Eleanor Catton was 22 when The Rehearsal was published
>Robert Walser was 23 when Schneewittchen was published
>Noah Cicero was 23 when The Human War was published
>Jorge Luis Borges was 24 when Fervor de Buenos Aires was published
>Tolstoy was 24 when Childhood was published
>Johan Harstad was 23 when Amublance was published
>Mira Gonzalez was 21 when i will never be beautiful enough for us to be beautiful together was published
>Mira Gonzalez was 23 when Collected Tweets was published
>Kim Insuk was 20 when Bloodline was published
>Evelyn Waugh was 25 when Decline and Fall was published
>Ben Brooks was 18 when Grow Up was published

>Luna Miguel was 22 when Bluebird and Other Tattoos was published
>Luna Miguel was 23 when La tumba del marinero was published
>Nathaniel Hawthorne was 24 when Fanshawe was published
>Masuji Ibuse was 25 when Yu Hei was published
>Philip Pullman was 25 when The Haunted Storm was published
>Alice Hoffman was 25 when Property Of was published
>Aaron Sorking was 24 when Removing All Doubt was published
>Sergei Yesenin was 25 when The Scarlet of the Dawn was published
>Michel de Ghelderode was 23 when Voyage Autour de ma Flandre was published
>Patrick Modiano was 23 when La Place de l'étoile was published
>Rupi Kaur was 21 when milk and honey was published
>Spencer Madsen was 23 when You Can Make Anything Sad was published
>Ellen Kennedy was 19 when Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs was published
>Jordan Castro was 21 when Young Americans was published
>Andrew McMillan was 21 when every salt advance was published
> Barney Norris was 24 when To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill was published
>Tennessee Williams was 25 when Candles to the Sun was published
>JD Salinger was 20 when "Young Folks" was published

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autism

You could have literally googled "arguments for the existence of a god" instead of shitposting, fucktarded tumblrcunt.

>>8354996
Fuck off. At least make some dumb equivocal statement of a failed attempted at making a point instead of trying to drag the thread down and devolve it into an aimless nihilistic abyss.

>>8354996
I'm not looking for arguments on the existence of god, I'm looking for why people believe in god, because there's literally nothing but bullshit equivocal arguments for the "existence of god". I'm looking for the psychological reason of how someone could be retarded enough to believe in god. Fuck your precious little dogmatic beliefs, destroy them, stop holding them in your hand, like a little piece of glass ornament that you can't stand to let shatter and drop on the ground. It isn't real, you're protecting nothing, just give it up.

My gf loves Ken Follet.
She recently decided to break up with me without telling me. I'm supposed to still be her bf but she tells everyone she's single. What should I do, /lit/?

/blogpost

>>8354911
Have not read either of them, but they look like decent books.

>>8355471
>Gf broke up with you without talking to you
If that's the case, she's exceptionally immature and of poor character. She's not worth anyone's time or emotions, move on.

>>8355471

>She recently decided to break up with me without telling me

She's just immature, like the other anon said. Use this setback to make your character grow bigger, this is the best "comeback" you could ever hope to give her.

Kawabata is GOAT

superior to Mishima whom /lit/ memes largely because of politics/life as opposed to actually reading his books. not to say mishima isn't good.

I thought a Thousand Cranes was a bit boring but still enjoyable

Snow Country is great
I liked the universe scene at the end

>>8355576
Why compare them at all

When the guy doesn't get the girl.

When Mowgli left Baloo for some girl.

A Boy and His Dog, I laughed though desu

>>8354873
Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won.

Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
Henry IV
Henry V
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
A Midsummer Night''s Dream
Twelfth Night

>>8354896
>Henry V
This tbqh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM

>>8354831
On the topic of lovecraft, I bought two books today:
The Dunwich horror
The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories.

Anyone read them before?

>>8356035
Basically everyone.

His works are all public domain and freely available online.

I simply printed off the short stories of his I was overly fond of at the library and stapled them together.

Reading long blocks of text on a screen gives me eye-ache.

>>8356057
I don't read very much. However I got a job last month and I've been paid so I don't feel like playing games as much when I get home. Also I wanted something to do during lunch so I bought some books.

Are they any good?
I assume so.

Also the call of Cthulhu is a really nice looking book.

It's too much to type out one-handed

So did Allen Ginsberg

The answer is that no one wants to talk about how flawed the idea of statutory rape is considering there are 14 year olds more mature and considerate than some adults will ever be in their lives and some people on the upper end of their 20s with the judgement of a child. I'm not saying fucking teenagers isnt a morally gray issue but it certainly is not the same thing as fucking children.

>>8354763
The difference is Ginsberg was a hack who openly and proudly ripped off Whitman's schtick

I like how your post seems to imply that being a writer, a musician, or a painter consists in frequenting the corresponding 4chan board

>>8354593
Well are you actually good at any of those, or do you just assume it'll work out?

>>8354593
Then be all of them

ok I guess this board is so full of retards we can't come to any meaningful conclusions

>>8354574
Cool, bye!

Total surrender to God.

Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes was my favorite I think. I'm a sucker for open endings. Although I think he just wanted to subvert our expectations instead of insinuating anything too sinister

>>8354389
What's your interpretation of A perfect day for bananafish? I didn't get it.

>>8354481
Seymours interaction with the girl was weird to be sure, but I thought the shock ending was the only thing to get. The story was purposefully kinda dull and strange to show how former soldiers couldn't fit back in with society after their experiences in war

>>8354351
Anthem by ayn Rand

>>8354351
After Dark by Murakami
Metamorphosis

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>>8354351

The greeks

>>8354274
finnegans wake
my twisted world
infinite jest
critique of pure reason
fault in our stars
harry potter

>>8354278 is memeing you but you deserve it since you're too retarded to even look at the sticky

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>>8354258
Haha good bantz

>>8354374
>>>/tv/

aussie scum bag

>>8354258
I noticed Orwell doing this often in Homage to Catalonia. Got a little annoying after a while.

I don't understand why you would do this though. It's completely redundant.