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Greatest American writer?

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ITT: comfy lit

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I know this isn't directly related to literature but I'm guessing it's very important to /lit/.

Remember that girl who had that booktuber channel which she deleted after we all commented horrible shit on it? Is this her? Was her name Rachel?

A guy on a creepshot thread on /b/ claims he has her Facebook, if so.

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Which is more tragic, the death of an individualist for a collective cause or the death of a collectivist for an individual cause?

Also, who is more worthwhile, the dedicated individualist or the dedicated collectivist?

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>schizo
>coming up with ideas for writing is easy af
>accumulating the willpower to write more than a few pages is impossible

how do you force yourself to work?

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>And he's all right now, in fact, he's a gas
>But he's all right now, he's William H. Gass
>He'll never pass, pass, pass

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I've finally decided to tackle this thing over the next few months.

Other than just reading it, what have you found to be the best supplementary sources that explain it?

-I've heard David Harvey's lectures and books are pretty good.
-and that Althusser's reading of it was fairly influential to marxist literary theory today

Any suggestions?
What was your experience with Capital?

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While I did indeed love them when I first read them years ago, why is it that the ASOIAF books had such a huge fanbase while hundreds of copies just sit on the shelf?
Was there some special type of marketing involved?

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Have you accepted him as the savior of American literature yet?

>Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation, this calyx, replaces the pupil so it no longer receives but sends, and every hair is on end, though perhaps only outspread on a pillow, and the nostrils are flared, mouth agape, cheeks sucked so the whole face seems as squeezed as a juiced fruit; I know, for once Lou went into that wildness while we were absorbing one another, trying to kiss, not merely forcefully, not the skull of our skeleton, but the skull and all the bones on which the essential self is hung, kiss so the shape of the soul is stirred too, that's what is called the ultimate French, the furtherest fuck, when a cock makes a concept cry out and climax; I know, for more than once, though not often, I shuddered into that other region, when a mouth drew me through its generosity into the realm of unravel, and every sensation lay extended as a lake, every tie was loosed, and the glue of things dissolved. I knew I wore the wild look then. The greatest gift you can give another human being is to let them warm you till, in passing beyond pleasure, your defenses fall, your ego surrenders, its structure melts, its towers topple, lies, fancies, vanities, blow away in no wind, and you return, not to the clay you came from — the unfired vessel — but to the original moment of inspiration, when you were the unabbreviated breath of God.

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If you could live in a house with a all the books you ever wanted and enough food and water supply for a lifetime but you could never have any human interaction. (No internet no visits no phone etc.)
Would you do it?

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Well, do you?

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>Who's there?
>I am
Bravo Shakespeare, it only took 400 years for your joke to pay off.

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What is the most though provoking or mind fucking book you have ever read /it/ that just blew your mind away?

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I have a final in my English class and I have no idea what to write about. The final is to write a poem.

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What is the oldest story involving a gay romance ever told?