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What do you think of John Updike?
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I have never heard of him, so I would be indifferent.
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I don't know why you would read his books if you live in a Western country. Just be mediocre and keep a journal and you would have your own personal version.
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Great artist senpai. Look into his short stories, to begin with
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Is passive voice really that bad?
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it's not bad at all
dont listen to high school composition memes
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>>8298413
The celebration?
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I'm waiting for my noise cancelling ear pads to get here so I can finally start reading gravity's rainbow. I'm really nervous you guys.
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>>8298407
>being an autist
>reading GR
Sounds about right.
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>>8298414
I don't wanna get distracted senpai.
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What about smell-cancelling nose buds?
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How do I into buddhism 2016-07-19 19:45:57 Post No.8298377
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How do I into buddhism?
Or better yet some Buddhism interpreted through a western thinker, ie Schopenhauer.
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Go back to esoteric Buddhism
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Believe in pseudoscience
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you go to /his/ faggot this isn't literature
is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace a good novel?
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>>8298363
According to liberal sophomore college males, yes.
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>>8298366
why does everyone imply that that's a bad thing?
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>>8298381
Because sophomore kiddies think they're hot shit and get their minds blown by the most pleb books and ideas.
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Are there any books that will make me transcend beyond the need of a gf?
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Al-Jehad my infidel
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The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel Zapffe. Only ten pages. Thank me later, here's the link:
https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah
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How many hours do you write per week?
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>>8298314
for having such a nice schedule you seem to get hardly anything done, wage slave life is rough, i know it all too well.
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>writting
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>>8298321
Working from home is not that bad, senpai.
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Why is Lolita a recommended read?
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>>8298243
sage
(a decent example of heightened prose mostly. there's better nabokov books/books in general though)
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H.H. was right when he said that all Nymphets do not grow up to be attractive. Look at Sue Lyon, the girl who was casted as Lolita in Kubrick's adaptation. She seemed to have lost her charm as she grew up, (she still looked fine).
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Well, that was fucking depressing. I'm not sure I could even call it great, it's well-written and everything, but damn...
Anyone wanna post their thoughts or did you get enough of that when True Detective was airing?
I've also been reading Teatro Grotesco alongside this, and that's very good and imaginative.
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I'd be depressed too if I looked like thomas ligotti
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Relax, it;s too early to decide whether species suicide is the only option. Even if it is, it would be epic tragedy. Read some Nietzsche and wait at least 2000 years.
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I'm too sleep-deprived to read anything intelligent, so I'll download this book and tell you why it's for plebians.
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Thoughts on this guy?
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>>8298158
I only read Blink. It was ok.
I started Outliers but it wasn't particularly interesting.
He's decent at what he does.
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>>8298158
He's well marketed, I guess. I think of him as a Canadian Alain de Botton, churning out factoids and insight for the affluent.
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>>8298158
He looks like shit. Like all the food hes eaten for the past 8 years has been infected with HIV.
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Just finished The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. What Hemingway should I read next?
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>>8298145
Absalom, Absalom!
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The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast, or For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Your agent gives you the opportunity to travel to ONE country in each continent (except straya) in order to improve your literary skills.
Where do you go?
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austrailia
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Either North America or Antarctica.
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>>8298138
>Antarctica.
that's a good idea
if you have a notebook where you just write down ideas you think are worth saving, post a page or two
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>>8298115
>his notes are readable
how did you do it op
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>>8298115
If by notebook you mean folders on your computer and by ideas you mean Pepes, then yes
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This is my cursive, not exactly proud of it. Experimenting with a way to write a vertical calligraphy in Arabic, thinking about shorthand. I like typography but I'm too much of a rebel to concede to a design.
I write all sorts of nonsense in my journal.
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>he reads fiction written after 1979
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>he hasn't read krasznahorkai
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>he reads fiction
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>he reads
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I was a little worried about something.
When we think on Greece and Rome, for example, or Elizabethan England, most of the echoes that are on everybody’s minds is their great books and works of art. Most other things faded and dissolved, and only the really worthy survived. This is a good feeling, to realize that, of several egos and vanities, only the real great ones are “alive” today – all the mediocrities are now only emptiness.
But in our modern day world, with thousands of books and pamphlets, thousands of TV shows, thousands of movies, thousands of Youtubers, thousands of games, thousands of recordings of every single small detail of every single mediocre life: what guarantees do we have that only the truly worthy in our generation and generations to come will survive?
I mean: let’s imagine someone writing as great literature as Shakespeare or Tolstoy on our modern world. Let’s imagine something like War and Peace being published on this very day. Isn’t all the trash (thousands of bad movies, books, cartoons, tv shows, youtubers, facebookers, etc, etc, etc) going to steal space that is due to this masterpiece? Isn’t all this freedom of everybody recording every single minute of their existence and the possibility of every single piece of crap “expressing” themselves going to prevent the greatest works of art to really survive? If someone was writing poetic plays in the level of Shakespeare today, who can guarantee his/her works would find space to breath among the jungle of junk that is produced daily?
How the new generations will select what is worth among the giant piles of cultural trash?
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>>8297983
>How the new generations will select what is worth among the giant piles of cultural trash?
Professors will tell us.
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>>8297983
>youtubers, facebookers
this are the worst
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>>8297983
Is that Hadrian?