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>>8211559
Also came across this masterpiece. Random highlight page coming up.

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>>8211561
>"But here was this hound, product of no trial and error process, lacking lust, unhampered by ancestral fears and instincts. And I wondered if in this hound of the hedges were not to be found the apogee of all that life could ever promise. For here were beauty and gentleness and grace; only ferocity and sex and guile were lacking. And I wondered: 'Is this a hint of the goal of life?'"
>Doctor Lao reached in the cage and patted the hound's head. The beast soughed like the murmur of wind in sycamore leaves.
>"What the hell is the Chink talking about?" asked Quarantine Inspector Number One.

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>>8211559

Most people react poorly to times of crises

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>be absolutely beta male
>write shit after shit boring story about your boring beta office life and your beta insecurities
>write in your will that you want your shit stories destroyed so the world will never know about your embarrassing works
>""""""""""""""""friend"""""""""""""""" immediately publishes them after your long painful death with tuberculosis

Welp! Poor beta Kafka

Kafkaesque

The Iliad would be an obvious answer

>>8211427
Hard mode: written after the Vietnam War

>>8211427

Have you read it?

Genesis, first half of Exodus, Kings, Judges, both Samuels, Esther, Job, Ecclesiastes

The Gospels, Romans, Acts, Revelation

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>>8211412
>the bible is literature

>>8211416
>no Song of Songs

>>8211409
If you're seeking advice from elitists, you already know the answer.

>>8211415
Elitists give better advice than sycophants.

The problem is that /lit/ is made up of elitists who for the most part don't read.

>Can write good dialogue and have a good understanding of characterisation

these are your only strengths, from what you've said

>Can write detailed plans of novels including extensive character notes and detailed plot outlines

anyone can

>tfw bad prose

if your dialogue is actually good and not just not-cringey, you have potential. try minimal prose, like Erlend Loe or something. if it's terribly bad and not just bland, try plays instead.

Commentary on the dying counterculture movement in the 70's.

>>8211392

That the Joker, an agent of non-teleological chaos, i.e. a hippie, would be superceded by Bane, an agent of a teleological simulacra of chaos.

The story is all about how the freedom loving movement of the 60s was betrayed and exploited and turned into yet another tool of the powerful. "Go away little hippie" because he knows what the detective hasn't quote figured out yet. They lost.

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staring picture here

Intense

a quick psychoanalysis reveals you just want ol' noam's cock in your bum, my dear boy

because Pynchon padded the novel with his personal erotic writings under the guise of 'maximalism' so he could beat DFW's 1079 page count

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

>>8211354
I like this pasta

Don't have room to save it anywhere though

I wish Pynchon played VtMB and wrote a book about it.

Suttree

No Longer Human, it's the entire subject of the novel.

>>8211318
Catcher in the Rye

my diary desu

>>8211308
I read it at 16 and was scared to death of being caught reading it. I thouhgt the ending was pretty soap opera tier. I was very closeted myself so I could definitely relate to the protagonist, even if he was an unpleasant character.

>>8211308
the ending soap opera tier? how's that?

it was gay

You didn't even have the idea, you just heard it somewhere previously and thought it original

>>8211241

You are silly

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>Have a brilliant for a thread:
>>Have a brilliant idea
>>Discover someone else has already done it
>Discover someone else has already done it

Fuck you, OP.

WOAH IS THAT AN IMAGE OF NONE OTHER THAN PEP-PAY THE FROG? IVE SEEN SO MANY FUNNY PICS OF HIM ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. THANKS FOR THE SHARE @8211181.

>>8211181
If you honestly thought those were all dull then you just have no business reading.

Giles Goat Boy
Middlemarch
The Magic Mountain
2666
The Golden Bowl
Pride and Prejudice

>>8211163
Sipser's book, while a comp sci book, has plenty material on logic.

>>8211163
The book is called logic primer. Its intro level

>>8211163
W2C that robe famalam?

Nah it's true

This is a poor post, almost dirt poor.

>If you give her a smile, she'lol give you her heart.

if only... ;_;