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There's a workshop of sorts on /lit, in the form of the critique thread. People regularly share their writing and receive feedback of dubious quality. Still, I find it more productive than threads like this one, which usually just attract armchair writers and editors who like to talk about their work but rarely put their words where their ideas are.

Not to bash your intentions or anything, but I've seen a lot of threads like these that don't really go anywhere.

I try to write everyday, even if I only have shit to write about.

Reading a lot is essential, of course.

I want to live in a house with other writers. I want to drink with them all and turn the building into a temple

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>>8346071

>>8346164
Mais l'essentiel est incompréhensible

>>8346071
pas un beau parleur francais but looks like google translated

operator, connect me to the MOOOOOON

>>8345965

>pa-patrician

>>8345965

stately,

>be Uruguayan
>never read any Borges

I think Sabato is the best Uruguayan writer anyway

>>8345919
this

1. french
2. looks less cluttered, apparently

In orginal Ulysses manuscript he used '~' and '#' in place of the letters 's' and 'h'. Editors wanted to use quotations as well but thats where he drew the line.

>>8345629
is this real?

You just aren't in the mindset. That's fine. Don't need to sperg out for no reason.

>>8345580
Ppl with Ph.D.s in rhetoric and composition and currently getting $$$$$ for tenure track Jobs fools

>>8345580
Tell us your critique, explain your position.

>>8345100
It didn't age well. You've probably grown up with popular culture that made the same points, etc.

>>8345100
Just drop this garbage and read Infinite Jest. It's basically Delillo, but with blackjack and hookers.

Yeah, that book is disappointing. From what I've read about it, Mao II seems more up to speed.

But, really nigga, 6 months and you aren't even done? Maybe it's time for a new hobby.

>>8345057
the bible is great desu

>fantasy

How about you grow up kid.

>>8345059
>implying it's well written.

is this worth reading as someone who doesn't particularly enjoy fantasy books?

>>8344161
It's not strictly fantasy. I would call it "theological science fiction".
And it's leagues above any other fantasy novel

>>8344161
It's fantasy at times, sometimes goes into SF.

Still, being "fantasy / SF" is not what defines the book. It's pretty philosophical and discusses some interesting themes. It feels more like the Bible than flippin' Lord of the Rings.
Severian can get really rambly at times though. But you'll learn to live with it. Sometimes it's funny like when he asked Agia if she wants to hear a story he discussed with Thecla, Agia says no but Severian tells the story anyway because he wanted to hear it one more time. He can get really autistic.

>>8343221

Notes from the Underground

>>8343221
Dublineers.

Moz' facial expression

>>8342521
he was wrong about women

>>8342521
he was wrong about women

>>8342523
>>8342541

I knew you he couldn't be right, he's just a depressed misogynist.

>With lipth she lithpeth to him all to time of thuch on thuch and thow on thow.

What did he mean by this?

>>8342415

>abcedminded

Indeed disserves ignobel prize for that expressing aline. but "though he might have been more humble, there's no police like Holmes"; endeed Choyce's honesty clears everything.

>>8343500
>Indeed disserves ignobel prize for that expressing aline

Brékkek

Also wondering about this, I study full time 8-17, sometimes an additional 2h a day, go home, cook food, go running 3 days a week. Weekends I hang out with my gf going to the theatre or museums and stuff. I even don't own a TV and I barely manage to squeze in 30 pages a day which allows me to read like 1 book per month.

Public transport is book-reading time for me (~2 hours per day). I don't take my car on purpose

>>8342069
I read on the journey to and from work. Takes me 1 1/2 hrs each way on the bus so I usually get 40-50 pages a day.

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>this is now a sandwich thread

Stirner already did.

>>8339748
The Soviet Union already did

>>8350902
Read up on mu'tazila school of Islam
They were basically enlightened as fuck

Didn't care for Quran and favored rationality and reason, nowadays 'mu'tazilite' is used as a pejorative word for moderates by the ISIS folks

>>8350913
*Response to question 3.

>>8350913
>mu'tazila school of Islam
Thanks lad. Why don't they make a comeback? For moderates in Turkey and Syria n shit it must be quit tempting to claim to follow that ancient school while us it to bring moderate progress:
Does that make sense?