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What are some publications that still publish cyberpunk short stories? Print or respectable websites

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Why does Tom Wolfe have a beef with Chomsky?

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>>72219208
How can /lit/ even compete?
You guys always make fun of the other media boards, but these guys are making super hot oc and basically, y'all are fucking boring.

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I WANT A NEW PYNCHON NOVEL SO BAD IT'S THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME FROM KILLING MYSELF

PANDAEMONIUM OF THE SUN

WHEN
H___E
E___H
N3HW

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I've recently gotten into reading about philosophy but woudl liek to transition from stuff read online to actual books.

I'm a big fan of the existentialism type stuff, but would like to read more philosophy breaking down human relationships and diving into the different stages of them, if such a thing exists. preferably one centered on friendships, but absolutely nothing centered on romance for the time being.

any suggestions with a why? nothing is more intimidating then a list of books and being told to just read them all/.

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Is he our guy?

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So am I interested in seeing whether there's a correlation between beliefs and one's choice of literature, which is why I'd like to see a list of your favorite works and the ideology (if any) you subscribe to.

I just sampled my boyfriend who is very much a conservative (he's even a vociferous Trump supporter, ugh) and here are his picks:

>Faust by Goethe
>Paradise Lost by Milton
>Hamlet and King Lear by Shakespeare
>The Divine Comedy by Dante
>Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Here are mine (I am a liberal):

>The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
>Native Son by Richard Wright
>Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
>Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Remember, as taste is relative and subjective there are no "right" answers, so feel free to chime in. Abuse will not be tolerated (my own boyfriend even berated my list, but he's always been abusive and has harsh rhetoric so I'm used to it, whatever).

Thanks :)

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What are some books where the protagonist is forced into a period of personal development by bad circumstances?

I've always been fascinated by those prison books where they narrate getting into working out, reading tons of books etc either because they need it to survive or because they're bored. But anything that hits a similar note is welcome, doesn't have to be prison-related.

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After a mild pulmonary infection, tended too little and too late, had suddenly turned into a severe pneumonia that took its tool of my entire body and laid me up for at least three months at nearby Wels, which has a hospital renowned in the field of so-called internal medicine, I accepted an invitation from Hoeller, a so-called taxidermist in the Aurach valley, not for the end of October, as the doctors urged, but for early in October, as I insisted, and the went on my own so-called responsibility straight to the Aurach valley and to Hoeller's house, without even a detour to visit my parents in Stocket, straight into the so-called Hoeller garret, to begin sifting and perhaps even arranging the literary remains of my friend, who was also a friend of the taxidermist Hoeller, Roithamer, after Roithamer's suicide, I went to work sifting and sorting the papers he had willed to me, consisting of thousands of slips covered with Roithamer's handwriting plus a bulky manuscript entitled "About Altensam and everything connected with Altensam, with special attention to the Cone." The atmosphere in Hoeller's house was still heavy, most of all with the circumstances of Roithamer's suicide, and seemed from the moment of my arrival favorable to my plan of working on Roithamer's papers there, specifically in Hoeller's garret, sifting and sorting Roithamer's papers and even, as I suddenly decided, simultaneously writing my own account of my work on these papers, as I have here begun to do, aided by having been able to move straight into Hoeller's garret without any reservations on Hoeller's part, even though the house had other suitable accommodations, I deliberately moved into that four-by-five-meter garret Roithamer was always so fond of, which was so ideal, especially in his last years, for his purposes, where I could stay as long as I liked, it was all the same to Hoeller, in this house built by the headstrong Hoeller in defiance of every rule of reason and architecture right here in the Aurach gorge, in the garret which Hoeller had designed and built as if for Roithamer's purposes, where Roithamer, after sixteen years in England with me, had spent the final years of his life almost continuously, and even prior to that he had found it convenient to spend at least his nights in the garret, especially while he was building the Cone for his sister in the Kobernausser forest, all the time the Cone was under construction he no longer slept at home in Altensam but always and only in Hoeller's garret, it was simply in every respect the ideal place for him during those last years when he, Roithamer, never went straight home to Altensam from England, but instead when every time to Hoeller's garret, to fortify himself in its simplicity (Hoeller house) for the complexity ahead (Cone), it would not do to go straight to Altensam from England, where each of us, working separately in his own scientific field, had been living in Cambridge all those years [ . . . ]

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Can we have a CRINGE /lit/ thread?

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so I'm reading a few "simple" philosophy essays to introduce myself to philosophy, I'm planning the to start with the greeks and building my way up to focus to existantialism and continental philosophy generally.
should I read some introduction on logic too or is it unnecessary for what I want to study?

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I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

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What is the worthless faggot with no redeeming qualities who masturbate 24/7 and is thoroughly unlikeable of books

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>she falls in love with a man named Dick Diver

fucking dropped

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50 Shades of Grey has NOTHING on The Fountainhead.