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>>8278232
where are you from

>>8278236
vancouver canada

>>8278262
i'm from van and just started the whale yesterday.

the paranoid schizophrenic in me wants to place some kind of import on this.

>>8278224
my birth desu

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>>8278224
*takes up writing professionally so i can prevent my own birth*

>>8278224
Reading NL atm desu is funny senpai, banter is on point.

I would pick Alice Munro fuck dat bitch

>>8278135
smoke meth before every attempt

>>8278135

Set it aside.

He Nietzsche'd into thinking that madness was some sort of state conspiracy against (certain) individuals, rather than a legitimate condition.

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>>8278153

S I N G L E U P T H E L I N E S
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I've read both. I prefer GR, but I think they're about about equal in quality. I prefer the time period of GR over the time period of M&D which is why I prefer it. The last section of M&D is the finest Pynchon I've ever read, though. That whole section, the Hsi and Hso story, and the story of the Worm are my favorite parts of M&D. My favorite parts of GR... I love it all, so it's hard to say. I found the end of the Tchitcherine and Enzian storyline to be fucking great. Slothrop's journey to get the package of hashish was great, the British candy episode, the limerick spouting soldiers, the party scene with Bodine and Major Marvey... The only parts I didn't like reading was the poo eating and the castration scene.

>>8278139
>the British candy episode
funniest part in the book imo. "Major Marvy sucks!" had me rolling too.

The old is new once more.

I finally did the unthinkable and posted my short story on DeviantArt.
Could I post the link to its chapters here so you can give me some criticism? It's a very short and sweet fantasy story so it won't take much of your precious time.
Or post it chapter by chapter here? Or something.

>>8278084
>DeviantArt
No sorry we don't like scum here. Reddit is where you want to go.

>>8277816
Mainstream comics are for manchildren. There are some manga/comics/graphic novels that are equal to modern literature. I was deeply moved by the anime Ping Pong and the manga Kokou no Hito. They are actually experimenting and trying to break new ground using effort rather than imitating the canon or trying to appeal to millenials like a lot of modern lit.

>china mieville

I agree that picturebooks are the correct format for socialist preaching, but I've reached the age where I'm looking for something more sophisticated.

Are they seen as inferior to prose round these parts?
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my bad

"βορβορου ούk έσμεν"

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yo faggots sharpen up

I haven't read his books.

I read that book last year and don't remember a single thing about it. It was a few essays or collected articles I think

I read Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. It's like really really watered down DFW, desu.

I read 50 pages of But What If We're Wrong and wanted to shoot myself in the foot. He has no intellect.

Mom's gonna freak!

so what do you guys think of the book? i'm reading it right now. i loved the movie and i'm loving this one.

this is actually the first book i'm reading in the lit starter kit, next one is 1984.

>>8277624
you're such a psychopath! xdxdxd

>>8277521
Zen Mind Beginners Mind

Another question: I assume I have to start with OG Buddhism first, right?

>>8277521

I would suggest studying Buddhism in general first.

Did someone use a lot of sharpness? Image looks bad.

>what's that you said about fantasy being for nerds, you faggot?

>>8277417
4u

Infinite jest
Blood meridian
Ulysses
Gravities rainbow
2666

These 5 books make a skill rainbow starting at amazing peaking at cannon masterwork, and back down to amazing

>>8277415

harry potter series
a song of ice and fire series
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
ready player one
the martian

>>8277415
saved. Golden picture

I like ASOIAF series as well, they're quite entertaining. Also, if you'd like them, check out Zelzany's The Chronicles Of Amber. He was Martin's mentor, and The Chronicles Of Amber books are much better than Martin's ASOIAF series.

>>8277347
>The placement of that comma
>Liking asoshit

Not surprised

>>8277347

Who else bought and read them ten or so years ago so now your editions don't have "Now an HBO original project" or some bollocks like that.

Just learn german

Snow is great. His translation does not try very hard to keep Rilke's syntax or prosody, but what he comes up with retains all of Rilke's concepts and emotions. I doubt that Rilke would write in English the way Snow does, but just looking at the stuff one can tell that all the soul is there. It's remarkable really. I actually marvel at his translations from time to time and have started basing my own poetry on how his translations turn out.

do you think people who can read the original would read the translations? please...

>>8277287
Not true.
There is no female Mozart since women don't give a fuck about music unless it gives them control over men.

>>8277287
>Jack the ripper didn't self identify as a trans woman

Pretty triggered TBQH

It's a fucking embarrassment and the only reason she is famous is she is a semi literate woman who was anti-feminist and anti (then) fashionable theory at the right time in the culture wars. She's a half-retarded Allen bloom, who was himself Neely fully retarded. There's a reason she teaches at a shitty art school and is only discussed by people who shutout on 4chan and men's rights forums