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>what time is it?
It's just after 5pm.
>what are you eating/drinking?
Tins of cheap beer
>what are you doing?
Waiting for my mother to finidh getting ready
>what are you listening to?
My father chatting on the phone to my grandmother
>what are your plans for the day?
We're going to my cousin's birthday party
>how are you today?
I'm alright
>what are you reading? (is it comfy-tier?)
At Swim-two-birds. (Yes, it's very amusing)
>how comfy are you?
6/10, should be a nice evening but family gatherings are never without stress.

>what time is it?
10:08 mountain time

>what are you eating/drinking?
Water and an occasional sip of Luke warm black coffee

>what are you doing?
Sitting at work reading the "first pages" of books I want to read on Amazon.

>what are you listening to?
People clicking away on their computers and the air flowing through the vents.

>what are your plans for the day?
Go to my dad's after work to change the breaks on my car.

>how are you today?
Bored. But other than that I have nothing to complain about.

>what are you reading? (is it comfy-tier?)
Religio Medici by Thomas Browne

>how comfy are you?
Maybe a 6 or 7 put of 10. It's casual Friday so I don't have to wear the monkey suit and I get off at noon (comfort for my mind), but I am still in a stuffy office right now. I have no worries or stress weighing on my mind.

>>8308621
>the grateful dead
My man

>>8308602
Pynchon liked a lot of weird stuff so this isn't very specific but Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and a bunch of other stuff by Burroughs inspired him.

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.

Air Force Gator

Anything Asturias.

The President is his most popular work, but my favorite one of his is Mulata. He got the Nobel for Men of Maize though - but Mulata expanded on the style that Men of Maize exhibited, it's just that Mulata was published years after he got the Nobel.

That said, I'd say the Banana trilogy is his most politically important work. Yes, more than The President.

>>8308512
was joyce a meme back then too?

>>8308530
When was he not?

My diary unfortunately

>>8308277
I'm an alcoholic and a bad writer. Not sure if I can answer your question though.

>>8308277
is it necessary to be a good writer if you want to be an alcoholic

That's what the editor is for.

fitzgerald couldn't spell for shit

A good story will suffice for YA if you throw some angsty teen shit in there

Good writing and prose are essential to be true literature

Spelling can be corrected easilly enough

Also what's it like in Korea? Which part are you from?

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Figures

>>8308040
>"redefines... cancer..."

that fucking got me

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>>8308040
>but who get da money?

You know something I just found out?

All of Joyce's three major novels have been adapted into film.

>>8308035

None.

>we will never see Blood Meridian directed by Stanley Kubrick

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Reminds me of another Italian man with bold opinions...

He also says it might just be because it's easier to get a lot out of.
Pretty sure his favorite Pynchon book is Against the Day now.
Bookchemist is based.
I wonder if he's ever come to /lit/

>>8307991
Yeah, he's better than Cliff le Sargeant t b h. BTF likes to straddle the edge and comes off hella superficial in his reviews. Also, the fact that he's 26 and looks 47 gives me the heebie-jeebies.

>>8307889
>read
ever "wrote". meant to say wrote.

Try some Auden

>>8307876
Good for you, anon.

We're more creative at being asshats.

The skill is adaptable.

>>8307790
I consider it an invaluable war memoir because it is more objective than any other memoir I've read due to others always having a blatant anti-war agenda.

>>8307790
It's pretty good.

>>8307790
yup

>>8307720
I think Kafka's The Castle captures absurdism perfectly, The Trial almost as well.

L’Étranger is a novel about the absurdities of life :)

It's amazing

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