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In reality you're just going to die, and all your precious things you spent money on will be all for nothing. Because you're dead.

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All that stuff they taught you in history class? Well I don't want to say they lied to you, but they sure didn't tell you how it really happened.

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Once upon a time, things used to be real. Now they're fake, all made out of plastic imported from china. You could probably say the same of yourself.

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No.

>>8226054
see
>>8220529

>>8226164
this.

>>8226037
my diary desu

>>8226037
anything politically subsersive because the thought police will get you to be honest family

>>8226037
just use an ereader

>>8226034
Shameless self bump

Ahl

>>8226180
what ahl?

>>8226014
Fedora as fuck. I bet you're a wiseman, or a sage.

Serious answers?

The White Goddess might be a good place to start. Very inspirational to modern neopaganism. From there, you're best bet might be to check out Gardner, he's like the founding father of Wicca. Post-Gardner wicca is slightly bullshitty but if that doesn't sate your lust then check out Drawing Down the Moon and The Triumph of the Moon. For a fun fictional story about witches, you might also try to read The Mists of Avalon. It's a re-telling of the Arthurian mythos from a feminist neopagan perspective.


But if you're not a fag or a chick or interested out of pure sociological curiosity, I would advise looking into traditional craft. Some good books to start would be The Call of the Horned Piper and The Pillars of Tubal Cain. Austin Osman Spare was also supposedly initiated into a witch cult and has a cool system of sorcery which scared even Crowley and caused him to be designated a black brother. From Spare, you can eventually move onto Chumbley who is the final boss of occultism.


A lot of these titles can be found in the mega archive on /x/'s /occultism&magickgeneral/ threads. Good luck.

-t. Wizard

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Brida by Paulo Coehlo, I thought it was pretty good

Notes from the underground

>>8225995
The novel I'm currently working on, entitled 'Floating Above the Crowd'.

Saint Simeon Stylites

>What's a good edition of this book that isn't afraid to present the original text as it is?

The original?

look on amazon
>wanted to read meme kampf

>>8225935
He meant a translation.

>>8225887
Conan. You'd like to rewrite Conan.

>>8225887
Well I like fantasy with expansive, complex, meaningful lore. Extra points if you can include the exposition of the lore into the narrative itself.
For erotica just follow your libido. If what you're writing turns you on some people will surely feel identified.

>>8225889
Yes, essentially.

I guess I'm asking what key points I should keep in mind while writing Sword and Sorcery fiction?

The same goes for erotic fiction. What makes a good erotic story?

I've done some digging around on Google, and haven't really found any good examples where someone has found a good middle ground between brutal, medieval fight scenes and tantalizing sexual content.

I guess I want to write Conan, but with more descriptive sex scenes.

paris peasant - louis aragon

Joan Miro is one of my favorite modernist painters

>>8225885
Cool- me too

>>8225836
Sure is summer, boys

>>8225836
>>8225843
It's almost like I'm actually on reddit.

Has anyone submitted to the banner contest?

Barabbas is certainly the most interesting figure in the Bible. I wish there were more on him.

Any apocrypha on Barabbas?

>>8225847
There's the novel by Lagerkvist.

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>>8225849
Weird, the cover showed up earlier today in a facebook illustration group.

>>8225798
this is not a question
fuck you

Dubs
Portrait
Ulysses
Finnegans

no easier answer in the entirety of literature

Dubliners
Chamber Music
Exiles
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Pomes Peyach
Finnegans Wake

That'll take ya a year or 3

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>>8225802

>>8225771
That book was trash, and I don't expect the movie to be any different.

>>8225796
The book is excellent, actually, but a lot of Roth's books have film adaptations.

Lol of course they show the explosion right at the start of the trailer because that's what gets audiences interested

yes

Why Buddhism and Stoicism are Both Bullshit For Pseuds Who Want To Look Deep Without Intellectually Engaging with Anything

>>8225734
>>8225751 means Confucius and I quite agree.

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>>8225751
>continentalists

it's cleanly written, self-aware but not obnoxiously so, and the theme of life being a constant stream of disappointment resonates with this generation, also, marketing.

>>8225738
>cleanly written

Explain this meme. When is it a merit, and when is it a flaw?

>>8225772
It's a flaw when it doesn't compliment the novel.