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>>8253703

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>>8253703
Or anything Greek,

or anything difficult really

Simone Weil wrote a great essay on the Iliad

In my mind he sort of just splintered into a couple of feebler versions of himself that then sort of evaporated.
I think i had a decent idea for it but i've forgotten it now, Maybe without the war and the system to fight against the Slothrop of the book ceased to exist

>>8253699
He became a legend. Everybody remembered what he did, but not him doing it or that it was him that did it. He is the unknown soldier.

ver did racketenmensch go?

>>8253609
k the man in dick castle high phil a classic america novel

>>8253617
could you explain better

>>8253630
Dick, the castle man Philip. K?

>>8253600
take a week off and then stop being lazy

you have to do editing yourself.
then an agent will also help you edit if you find an agent that likes your work.
then if the agent gets you a book deal with a publisher, the publisher will also have an editor.
none of this should cost you money, as your agent and publisher make money on the sale of your book. if an agent is asking you for money up front you probably shouldn't trust them.

basically stop being lazy, editing is part of writing.

>>8253600
I wouldn't trust the average freelance editor as far as I could throw them. Your best bet is to just wait a couple of months till you're less burnt out on the fucker and get back at it.

>>8253548
>tolkienesque
>posts dwarves from the hobbit movie

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>>8254152

You could always try The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, OP. They're probably the only "good" ones, in fact.

>>8253542
Haven't read it, but I once met someone with that image tattooed on his arm and I told him it reminds me of Lacan's borromean knot. So have a free bump I guess.

>>8253542

bump

>>8253542
>tugs braid
>smooths skirts
salright

Lombardo

Ilium by Dan Simmons

>>8253520
because its easier to find someone better than you nowadays

>>8253520

>Picture of Shakespeare
>Why are our literary skills so worthless and ignored in the current age?
>Why are our literary skills worthless and ignored
>Why are our literary skills
>Our literary skills
>Our

Please, anon. Stop. Let it burn.

>>8253537
>Please, anon. Stop. Let it burn.

What's wrong, pleb?

Too incomodious for you?

>>8253486
If you interpret DFW as an IRL incarnation of Otto then it's not a lie in that sense. Though really Otto was Gaddis's caricature of himself.

Who cares? Ot-to deserved to die.

>>8253486
What? He didn't die, or kill himself. He was picking bananas at the banana plantation and then got robbed of his fake money and that was all

skepticism of the external world is a logically incoherent position because in doubting the existence of a world, you doubt the world as you experience it, which assumes there is a world that you experience. so it's a circular question in the same way there's circular logic to believing there is an external world.

>>8253541
not really. That argument gives a dream the same credence as reality.

>>8253478

I'd agree with this guy >>8253541, though I'd formulate things differently.
Skepticism is inherently self-refuting. I don't need to refute any position that can't be coherently established in the first place.

Sam Harris is building quite the philosophical tour de force. His books aren't a series, per se, but one may consider them each as parts of a greater work--- la fine della filosofia, one might say.

Ciao!

>>8253495
I was thinking something more like remaining universe, characters, plot, etc...

>>8253508

Ah, but you see, Harris has crafted a universe wherein the characters are gods, ghosts, history, and the roiling mass of humanity. And the plot is ever so intricate. One joins Harris as a prime actor in this universe, tearing down the false gods of Christianity, Islam, and free will.

Along the way you will meet mystics, learn to meditate and let go of the self. All of this begins with a simple letter to a Christian nation.

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>>8253396
Only because he didn't write it.

go to bed tao

Asian male here, what does /r/asianmasculinity think of Tao Lin?

Yeats?

>>8253575
*Keats

ftfy

>>8253578
Retard

>science fiction series
Sorry, this is a literature board.

>>8253391
>reading genre fiction
You deserved it desu

>>8253398

Oh. I always thought that reading fiction helped improve one's imagination, creativity, vocabulary, reading comprehension, visualization, and abstract thinking.

You've really opened my eyes, thank you.

Tractatus logico philosophocus.

pluto - the greeks

Max stirner