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>>9883648
I can't really visualize the exterior of buildings/interior layouts, so I get lost whenever a description appears, and even more if it's integral to the story. Am I a brainlet?

>>9883658
don't worry. i can't ski or swim. but i have a big dick

>>9883706
Hey me too, let's slap our big dicks together and talk about life.

I only laminate specific pages. I actually do some bookbinding as a hobby, so I hand-laminate them with my own mix of plastic and then restitch them into the book. It's fun. It feels weird to imagine the laminated pages of these books enduring when the books themselves, and my own dead body, will have long since rotted away. I think about that a lot.

I do that with my textbooks, otherwise not really

Do I look like a faggot to you?

When will women learn that they are not welcome here?

>>9883481
The fun of it is that it's up to your own interpretation. What do you think when you get an ad in the mail?

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>tfw one or two nights of shitposting on /lit/ and you create a trend of anti-Gass threads
i did specifically say i thought his writing was fine (not my cup of tea) but rather that i just didn't much like the themes he writes on. and i didn't like his brand of perversion.

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>>9883488
i think "hey its like that thing that william h gass wrote lol."
>>9883513
is that you in that pic? youre so fucking hot. id be up to fuck.

If you want to forget everything 3 weeks later sure

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No at all.

What is photoreading?

>>9883136
Why do you need the 9th?

>>9883141
Not actually sure, really. Is there much difference?

>>9883156
I imagine it would just be a different cover and page numbers, maybe not even that

Read more often. Do you have to rest after 10 minutes of reading? Then take a 30 minute break and then read for another 10 minutes. Rinse and repeat.

Reminder: no one is innately good at reading for extended periods of time, just as no one is innately good at basketball. You train yourself to do it -- you build the skills, you build endurance, you build critical thinking, and so on.

>>9883130
Ok, i'll try, thank you good anon

learn about self discipline, also ask yourself why are you deciding to do this thing that has distracted you rather than read. Not now, but when you experience it. You'll start to automatically go back to reading after a while.

>>9882945

> google search
> "arthur c clarke" city despair

first result is your post.

second is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_Stars

learn2internet, pls

>>9881572
you won't understand it at all and then you will come on here and try to make memes of it like a retard

this is why philosophy should never have cool titles or covers. god i fucking hate the internet sometimes

>>9881572
Yes

If you have schizotypy, then yes

Melancholy percussion seems off. How about strings instead? Or do you insist on life's ensemble being a brass band rather than a full orchestra? Is this a military thing, like life is war?

Next, dotted with ... brass might be more effective if you move the punch of the drums here. Something like 'punctuated by cymbals' if you want to maintain the copper/brass coloring.

Then, lives tend to fade to a single note then pause, trailing off rather than rupturing in applause, so I'm not sure about this bit.

But the idea is there, and it's good, so keep it up. Is this the first sentence of a story or a mediation on music/life, or is it a standalone maxim?

>>9880794
Goddamn, that bitch got some fuckin arms
Does she do Starting S?
Wht program does she do?
Does she curl?
Fucking massive pythons.

>>9881568
Thanks for replying; I was asleep, hence my late response.

Admittedly the instrument types were selected due to me not having much knowledge of music. I figured that to pace a life, percussion would be optimal, due to it involving drums and the like. I chose brass for the "dotted fantastic" moments because I love the amount of emotion that brass can add to a piece.

The "end with applause" portion was to represent a funeral, because applauses tend to be short, just like a funeral is. The movement onto the next piece is to showcase how quickly people move on, and possibly even forget you.

It's just a standalone maxim.

Thank you for your comments and suggestions!

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Kobo, escape the botnet

>>9879526
how'd it break? drop it?

>>9933076
Define "exist."

>>9933076
In the realm of the mental world, obviously yes. Because you couldn't ponder it otherwise. Not necessarily in the physical or Platonic mathematical world though.

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Makes my brain hurt :^(

>inb4 hemmmmingway
lmao you guys know he was a closet homo and a major pussy, correct?

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>>9932652

Junger

>>9932433
I know a girl who's favorite book is the Iliad

>>9932433
We just had this thread
but
Schopenheurs "on women" is one of the few

anything with a page count over 500
anything involving more than six characters
anything involving multiple timelines
anything non-linear
anything written before 1950
anything with an intended audience of adults
anything german, french, russian, or polish
anything that presupposed even a high school understanding of history, art, music, or culture
anything that uses latin phrases

This isn't even Reddit, or I don't think it is. What terrible forum or message board is that screenshot from?

>>9932113
http://squid314.livejournal.com/348160.html

trigger warning: disrespect for the canon

>>9932110
What is this current trend of mining stupid posts from some unknown forum years ago to mock a group of people? Literal strawmanning and adds nothing to the conversation

>>9932107
Trucker, Writer, designing pringles machines, one of those people that goes around collect sounds for sound effects, video game alpha tester, football mascot, apple

Working any kind of shitty jobs. Waiter, lumberjack, mechanic, etc. In the past, writers worked these shitty jobs to scrape by while they wrote their masterpieces. Nowadays, they can get a professor position or teach writing. A lot of modern writers lack the kind of human experience gained through these low class jobs, and their art suffers as a result. Melville never would've written Moby Dick if he had been a English professor or a writing lab instructor.

>>9932107
dick sucker