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That picture with DFW holding a box of cereal while Bloom looks condescendingly through the window.
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I vote for this with DFW getting blown and all better authors than him who don't get as much attention as the fat guy
or Pynchon
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>>8353724
Franzen had the hair, so put him on the left, and DFW on the right, I'm a genius!!
Hey, /lit/! I'm going to make this thread into a poem for my avant'garde collage epic that im writing. Say anything, and you'll be in my upcoming masterpiece!
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Fart
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>>8353633
take the redpill, sheeple
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I'm going to kill my self because if this
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>walk by local bookstore
>see poster for book club
>they're reading pic related
>surewhynot.jpg
>show up
>it's all a bunch of old ladies past the age of retirement
>one of them read stoner 50 years ago when it first came out
>literally a meme pioneer
how do i become this patrician /lit/??
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>Read "Selected Tweets" by Tao Lin
>Wait 50 years and pray book stores have not been abolished
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>read stoner when it first came out
Get that GILFs number
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tell her "I'm a stoner, I'm a stoner, I'm a stoner"
and dab on dat bitch
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Look at this rare one. Post your rares.
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>>8353589
>pimpin
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>>8353589
That's literally that scene from Suttree. Those are both whores.
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>>8353589
lmao they are eating tortillas!
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"I was a semiconscious writer in the beginning. Just sat and wrote something, or read the newspaper, or went to the movies. Over time I began to understand, one, that I was lucky to be doing this work, and, two, that the only way I'd get better at it was to be more serious, to understand the rigors of novel-writing and to make it central to my life, not a variation on some related career choice, like sportswriting or playwriting."
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>>8353587
Is this even possible today? Or do I have to live in a holiday inn and wear a denim jacket?
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Get off 4chan and get cracking, /lit/.
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>>8353587
Look at this dude. LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD
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What do you listen to while reading, /lit/?
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>>8353586
ur mom's ass cheeks clappin on mah dick my diary desu
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do NOT to listento music while reading !!
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>>8353586
John Cage - 4'33"
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Is this book correct about classic egotism?
Would Ayn Rand approve of the hyper Capitalist shithole we American's live in today?
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If Rand were the same Rand born 1905 living today - yes
If she were theoretically born of a younger generation but of the same mind, probably not
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Ayn wasn't an egotist at all she was a typical run of the mill sociopath
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>>8353590
I think it's an interesting question to pose....because I feel like a lot of capitalist are second handers......look at all the monopolies we have, hidden under the guise of free market...I think she'd be very upset.
How do I write good stuff? No meme posts please I just want to stop procrastinating
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>>8353538
Practice and read.
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>>8353538
Do it. Just do it. Don't let your dreams be dreams, yesterday you said tomorrow so just do it. Nothing is impossible. Just do it. If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.
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>>8353549
/thread
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Who are the most beautiful stylists in the English language?
Shakespeare, Melville, Joyce, Faulkner all immediately come to mind, but what about some lesser-known names?
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Chuck Tingle
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>>8353480
Nabokov.
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David Foster Wallace
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I just spent all afternoon, literally from somewhere around 3pm, to right now at 8pm, reading 100 pages of a difficult book. Fucking hell lit, I am so tired, my eyes can barely focus anymore, my brain can't absorb and I'm worn out. I wanted to read another 100 pages by the end of the day though.
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>>8353476
Geez, you don't have to read the whole book today, watch a movie or something.
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>>8353476
What book are you reading?
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>>8353493
I'm not telling you because 1 spoilers, and 2 I don't wanna get memed.
What's the point of fanfiction if it's highly likely very few people will actually read it?
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>>8353471
what's the point of avant garde fiction if it's highly likely very few people will actually read it?
really made me think
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What's the point of masturbation if no one will have sex with you?
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Well if you're lucky, LOTS of people will read it. I've actually had more people read my fanfiction than my original fiction, at least up to this point.
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Is this even worth reading? Came in the mail today
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>>8353464
Why the fuck would you order it in the mail if you aren't going to read it?
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>>8353464
If you're on drugs, then maybe.
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>>8353464
that's a fat thumb
are you fat OP?
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Why do people call this a difficult book?
It's totally plainspoken, you can breeze through 50 pages in an hour.
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>>8353412
because it's boring as fuck.
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>>8353412
Because they aren't geniuses like you
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Why do people call this a difficult race?
It's totally plainrunning, you can breeze through 10 metres in a second.
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NT: Reading feels.
>start really liking one character
>everything about his personality reminds of you (even through he isn't a shallow relatable character, but someone with a real personality)
>you see how your actions relate to his, how you normally act the same way and has the same mentality
>he kills himself
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Alternatively:
>start really liking one character
>everything about his personality reminds of you (even through he isn't a shallow relatable character, but someone with a real personality)
>you see how your actions relate to his, how you normally act the same way and has the same mentality
>find out the character was written to mock a certain type of personality that should be looked down upon
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Alternatively:
>start really liking one character
>everything about his personality reminds of you (even through he isn't a shallow relatable character, but someone with a real personality)
>you see how your actions relate to his, how you normally act the same way and has the same mentality
>find out the character was written to mock a certain type of personality that should be looked down upon
>you kill yourself
>realise you're a character in a novel reading about yourself
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Everyone get high and write some fucking prose with me. A commentary on the moment my girlfriend came downstairs from the shower.
She rockets into the room clad in towels and a single pair of glasses. One towel on her head wrapped in a sort of half-face mask the other around her waist. Of course, the slit up the side was a wonderful addition to the regalia of the Shower-sworn warriors - her skill in combat lacked quite considerably. Her weapon of choice poised over head, I paused to take in the moment of pure existential peace I was in. Completely at ease - I had accepted my imposing doom wholly and paused to stare at the beauty that was her recently showered, glimmering breasts. They stood like kings on ever-lasting vigil majestic and stalwart. If god were real, this would be considered his Mona Lisa. A moment perfectly casted. The perfect souls to model the emotion. A girl, scantily clad preparing to scalp the very picture of punk skater stoner boy with a toilet brush (which probably is covered with herpes and would actually explain a lot of things). And it was modeled to the point where no director, no cinematographer, no paint artiste extraordinaire could replicate it if they had eternity. The very soul of Ironic Elegance.
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>>8353317
What? Was wearing more than one pair of glasses a possibility?
Fuck off.
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>>8353317
Fucking hell this is bad
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>>8353349
>this
OP IS A FAGGIT