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>He hasn't read the saviour of postwar American literature

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>move to new city and go to the local library to get my card setup
>lady tells how to use the card for the computers and video games
>I ask if it's the same process to check out books
>she laughs and says "no one reads these days"
>i chuckle to be polite
what a fucking cunt desu

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do you read any non-fiction at all?

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So what is the novel writing formula?
I'm asking because according to Jim Butcher, he tried writing books his own way for a while and couldn't sell them. One of his professors told him to follow the formula and he'd be successful. He did, wrote the first book of the Dresden Files, and was quickly picked up and sold.

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Do autists make better philosophers?

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Books by Benito Mussolini?
Was he a good writer?
How accurate was his autobiography?

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Any you /lit/fags know this? More books like this?

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What's some literature that deals with being a depressed pothead hippie bum?

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Does /lit/ know any good Chinese /lit/?

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I am in the market to get a full collection of Donne's poetry and was wondering if anybody could recommend a specific edition and why it would be better.

Right now I am looking at:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-English-Poems-Everymans-Library/dp/0679405585/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1465689316&sr=8-5&keywords=Donne

and

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Poetry-Selected-Library-Classics/dp/0375757341/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Maybe you all have a third recommendation which would be appreciated too. I want all the poetry he wrote but one of them has some of his prose but the other one is hardcover and I don't know anything about his prose work.

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hey /lit/, any books similar to pic related? I really liked the religious theme surrounding the story. I'm thinking of "The Exorcist",

PS. No entry level reads, please. I'm done with Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and the likes.

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Has anyone here ever had anything rejected by a publisher? If so, what did they say?

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Name a time another time a corny genre fiction writer wrote down his descent into mental illness and sold it for profit as eloquently as he could.

I don't think you can

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>Buy an almost complete set of classics (34 books, something like 60 authors ranging from Homer to Dostoevsky) for $100
>Faggot professors add a shitty twenty page commentary that could be found through a simple wikipedia or sparknotes
>Sells one of the classic's that I paid chump change for, for $60

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Symmetry is born from neutrality. At all medians, branches and roots extend. Insides and outsides. Tangible and intangible. Under. Over. Up. Down. This is basic, yes? This writing is typical, no? Questions within vagueness surrounded by analytics and rhetorics. But bury your head underground, and do you see any less? Or do your eyes simply hear less noise? Does your mind cease to imagine what happens to your body? In this case, what has become the roots and what are the branches? That cold blooded brain takes over and are you you anymore? Does the anticipation and uncertainty if what may become if your body drive your being into implosion? Slow down and let your eyes hear the nothing. Let your body see the warmth and the pain and the pleasure of entropy.
There is a part of the brain that can be given conscious control. Or more accurately, can be ignored consciously. This part of the brain--it's name isn't important, right? You have it. I do. Others do, we all do. Those who do this learned it without seeing it. And certainly never heard it--us responsible for your individuality. It creates that barrier in your eyes that tells you you are apart of everything and less a part of it. Abstaining from this function, your head buried deep, you no longer hear anything. Your eyes, your ears, skin, nerves, tongue, polarity, all of them hear nothing. But you still see. You see all that you've heard. You only know what you've heard.
Ahh, but you are neutral! Well, wait. You are neutral right? I mean, after all you aren't one mind are you? And you certainly aren't perfectly symmetrical. For perfect symmetry is one unit of neutrality. But you're a root! Or a branch? Yes, you're that! Not this, but that and certainly not that but this. And in any way, I'm more than certain you're not married. I know this because you aren't one mind! You're a neutral being, and it's a lovely gift to be unwed. To be but eyes between lovers and the despised, buried beneath the dirt with no eyes but sight. You try and see this but your love sees that. And that turns into this as the despised doesn't like being ignored. Soon the world is a whirlwind cooked under a thin crust.
Oh how fun it is to say soon. I've only ever heard it, and can't quite see without it. But even so, I've never really heard it. It was always an echo. And trying to see an echo, is quite something! Do you see it? It's there but it's not! A world dancing corporeal then incorporeal. A blink maybe? Oh who really knows. Your head isnt buried under the dirt. You don't hear anything. Or see. Youre in-between, and no where at all. Yet more buried than the dead man's head will ever be. Hearing a world in a pupil of neutrality.