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Post your favorite excerpt from the book you're currently reading.
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Often the one most plagued with lust is the one most capable of restraining it. The monk and the philanderer are likely to be the same person.
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>>8175264
Stoner, where Lomax is at the housewarming party and talks about growing up with his deformity. "...shame which had no source that he could understand and no defense that he could muster."
there's a lot I like, but that's the shortest excerpt.
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He glanced at her and did not answer. Then he said, "I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-- and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette at his one expression.
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What are some good books about the crusades?
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>>8175256
Like, historical?
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yeah, non-fiction
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I JUST WANT SOME COMFY BOOKS
NOTHING TOO DIFFICULT
NO PHILOSOPHY
I JUST WANT TO FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
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in search of lost time is so comfy it will redefine your very definition of the word
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>>8175193
kill yourself
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Re-read books 1, 4, and 6. Those are the comfiest books in the series IMO.
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Pode relatar, anão.
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>>8175177
What?
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>>8175177
Terá valor ou cortesia?
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>>8175180
Você é o anão do outro fio?
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Stuck in my feelings, wonder what you guys think of my first real attempt at poetry.
I believed you.
I did the thing I’m still not sure how I did,
But I did it for you.
You said it was what you needed, and I thought,
Maybe what I needed too.
Was amiss I to unbind them?
These festering wounds underneath my essence.
These ones I sealed away and shunned from existence.
Because now you’re gone, and I fear they’re too much for me to handle.
They’ve tasted the air, and grown stronger.
While I fear I’ve only grow weaker.
They’re engulfing, and consuming.
Drawing from my sanity as they spread.
I don’t understand why, except that they ache.
As they call out for some kind of sanctuary,
Some removed place,
Some forsaken memory.
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Not sure if trolling but ill entertain you. Its bad. Like fucking horrible. Read some poetry and try again. Stay away from abstractions for now
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"One"
I can’t remember anything
Can’t tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me
Now that the war is through with me
I’m waking up, I cannot see
That there’s not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please, God, wake me
Back in the womb it’s much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can’t look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I’ll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please, God, wake me
Now the world is gone, I’m just one
Oh God, help me Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please, God, help me
Darkness
Imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine
Has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
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I love it, OP! Can you comment on and crit a similar poem by me, as we appear to be on the same wavelength?
There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming, confusing what is real
This lack of self-control I fear is neverending
Controlling, I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
Without a sense of confidence
And I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take
I've felt this way before
So insecure...
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What should I read to prepare for Delillo, Roth, Updike, Pynchon, etc.? (And what order is best to read them/their works?)
What historical/literary context is important to understand these guys?
Is there any start with the Greeks meme when it comes to English literature?
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>>8175104
oh my fucking god just read it, faggot
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>post-modern
>historical/literary context
I'm having worried keks here m80.
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>What historical/literary context is important to understand these guys?
gee i wonder
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Hey /lit/, what is a good, safe-ish major that I should choose as my second major besides English? The dream is to become a fiction writer eventually, but I don't want to be financially fucked in the future, because I would feel bad since my family's not that well off and is barely able to pay for my tuition in the first place. English is my real passion, but I feel obligated to also study something "safer," hopefully without having it disrupt my literature pursuits too much. I've been thinking about Economics. Engineering, from what I've heard, has too ridiculous a workload, especially in my particular college, and would probably prevent me from pursuing literature with intensity. Medicine would make me obligated to go to Med School. Sorry for the self-centered question, but I was wondering if you guys had any similar sort of experience and any ideas to help to resolve this shit.
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Check this thread
>>8174849
Also if you're studying humanities in the US, I'd advise you to learn a new language and move elsewhere.
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Finance or economics will give you a good ratio of difficulty in major to job prospects. You can also chad your way through those jobs
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>>8175073
Anything STEM senpai. It's not good for a man to make literature his career.
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Hey, /lit/, what's the funniest book you've ever read?
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>>8175009
oh fuck off
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>>8175009
I remember reading that and always imagining the dogs as tiny puppies all throughout the book.
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Sideways at wayside school or whatever the hell it was called by louis sachar.
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What's in a suicide note, /lit/? I don't want to just make pithy quotations. What's the writer's way out?
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>>8175005
take a pencil and stab yourself in the neck
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>>8175005
A man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up ones watch, since, together with the man, the whole work is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.
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>>8175005
Buy a tiny pistol and shoot yourself through the eyeball.
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I notice an increase atheist attacks on Dostoevsky on this board. Now, I could be wrong, but this feels like part of reaction against the increasing "Christianization" of 4chan, particularly this along with /pol/ and /his/. Only reason I say this is because these attacks were not common a couple of years ago.
Is there any truth to this, or is this just a bad year for Dostoevsky for other reasons?
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>>8174911
/lit/ has recently taken interest in Nobokov's opinions of others authors and, not having read anything by Dostoyevsky, they piggyback his unfavorable opinion of Dostoyevsky.
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>>8174920
>/lit/ has recently taken interest in Nobokov's opinions of others authors
That's been a meme for a while, but I don't think anyone takes it seriously. I further don't think that is the reason, since there a lot of posters are viciously slandering Dostoevsky as a person along with his writing, and Nabokov never did that.
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So I've been studying engineering physics for a couple years, which is what Thomas Pynchon studied at Cornell before he switched to writing. There were many references in the book that only an engineer would understand, especially around the middle at Mittewerke. Stuff about calculus, electromagnetism, manometers and fluid mechanics etc.
I really enjoyed the book because I saw many references to things that I would never have expected to see in something non-scientific. Did anyone else experience the same thing? If not, did you learn it or just skip/ignore it?
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Pynchon wrote it so anyone would get it, not just le engineers.
>couple of years
>thinks he knows anything
l- e - l
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>>8174854
Try not to fit in too hard, redditor
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I experienced the same thing but instead of the engineering stuff it's with the sex and boner and pooping stuff.
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Dickheads Unite/ P.K. Dick Appreciation Thread 2016-06-18 02:28:47 Post No.8174752
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Dickheads Unite/ P.K. Dick Appreciation Thread
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Who is your favourite science fiction author and why is it Phillip K. Dick?
Discuss your favourite PKD novels and short stories.
I'll go first.
I read Man in the High Castle when I was leaving High School and it opened my mind up to his later works. I'd have to say my all time favourite would be Ubik, but I recently bought The Dick Reader and I will be crushing short Dick stories all summer long. It is literally going to be the summer of Dick.
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You get inspired by the thread I asked about used books?
My favorite and also the first book of his I ever read is Flow My Tears The Policeman Said. I still need to read UBIK.
Time out of Joint is better than Man in the High Castle IMO.
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VALIS
has anyone read the exegesis
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J. R. R. Tolkien is my favorite author
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I have developed a mental list of things to keep track of when I write. I have come to consider these traits of bad writing. Anything to add or dispute?
BAD WRITING
Style:
-Overuse of adjectives
-Doesn't withhold information smartly
-Too many similes, metaphors
-Too much pumped up "voice" or showboating that draws attention to the writer himself
Substance:
-insular, solipsistic; doesn't engage with the larger world or big questions
-Has no moral core
-Nothing changes in some way, nothing is learned
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>>8174731
This isn't a bad list of things to avoid when writing. I don't think there's much to dispute.
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i disagree with separating style from substance, the imposition of interacting with 'big questions', like that's a real thing, and the 'nothing is learned' thing, that's preference.
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>-Being female
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Late night writing feels.The man stared up at the moon, the dirty sidewalk falling away from him. Years fell away. He was young again, fourteen and screaming at the same pale light. Running down an alley with the three closest companions man could ask for. Screaming at the moon, daring it to remember his courage and recklessness. He was seventeen. The moon guided his path home, his car shooting down the parkway, away from the waves, back into the city. It was the last day of classes. He was eighteen. A drunken classmate sang 'Beyond the Sea' atop a half-cleared prom table. A blue feeling had crept into the young man as he watched his classmate give inebriated honor to the late Frank Sinatra. Later that night, they had kissed and drank and made love, the merrymaking enveloping them, immortalizing them. The moon kept careful loving watch, doting upon her young. Later that month the man had spoken long into the night with a deadman under the moon's gaze. The conversation spilled breast-to-breast until she had to retire, allowing the sun to bear the watchful burden. He was twenty. Walls melted, primordial crimson creatures marched to the beat of their own drums, far too difficult to handle. Twenty-two, entering hallowed halls. Solitary footsteps echoing at night, serving the city. Twenty-four, they had strode into her room, late on Christmas night. The lights were dim, burned low. A cigarette was hastily ashed, a smile breaking across her face. Was he a man now? Or just pretending? Do we ever cross a threshold into adulthood? Are we all children? And then she began to cry and hold him and beg him not to leave. She asked why his mother hated her so, what had she done wrong. She clutched him as if the world would stop turning otherwise, her tears burned into his coat. They had closed the door behind them, walking back to the car in silence. The moon watched above but was no longer the tender gaze of protector. She was now the silent watch of chronicler. Of timekeeper. Of observer. Cold. Impartial. The moon receded. The man was alone on the sidewalk, averting his gaze now. The cold ache burned his chest and he could feel nothing else.
How do I get rid of this feeling /lit/?
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my diary desu
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>holy fuck I can't concentrate everything I write is gibberish I should go to bed but's kimda too late
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>>8174732
Maybe. Was trying to capture my drunken melancholy walk that happened half an hour ago. Wasn't really meant for anyone else other than me.
I'm just...scared of this feeling. It starts in your chest and spreads like ice. Pulling you back. And you drown in it. It isolates you and makes you feel alone.
I thought no man was supposed to be an island? Why do I feel like one?
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What's the last interesting thing you learned from a book?
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about The Suspended Step of the Stork
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>>8174686
that you're probably a 100-120 IQ turbo-pleb
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>>8174686
People keep oysters in barrels.