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lol gay

>>8108820
Thanks friend

>>8108802
Painfully dull and obvious.

>>8108799

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co7TqAJTBWM

>>8108799

>Opinions on Jean-Paul Sartre

Serial paedophile, along with Simone.

This discredits his work in perpetuity.

>>8108799

>It is hard for me to to understand how such an eloquent and clever man can justify so much that is clearly evil.

The French will say any old shit if they feel it might be shocking enough to turn the disaffected heads of their countrymen.

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>>8108767

He's superb, but /lit/ will hate him because he wrote for a broad audience and there was actually a point to his philosophy. Recommended.

>>8108767
I like his talks. Have only read Man Woman and Nature, but I enjoyed that also.

you want to jump into this guy's gass tunnel?

lmao

What a fat fuck.

>>8108682
Depends, if you're looking for challenging, thick piece of mysanthropic brilliance.

If you're not a fag.
But then go for omensetters luck.

>>8108570
Baited. But fuck you though.

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>>8108570
>tfw you only read philosophy and literature

pick up a man's subject OP

>>8108583

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>>8108525

>What makes writing good?

Is it obscure and needless convoluted?

>What makes writing bad?

Is it popular?

>>8108525

Truth + good craft.

>>8108527
I'm being genuine.

>>8108529
What exactly do you mean by truth?

What makes writing "well crafted"? It's easy to point at a painting and say "Yes, the brush strokes emulate a tree perfectly." Even if it's not a evocative or inspiring painting, you can see that it is crafted well. How do you do the same for writing?

It went swimmingly.

>>8108433
did you make bank?

>>8108442
I made the mommies wank.

>>8108338
I'm currently working my way through Dickinson's collection of poems. So far I've been reading it for periods of 15 minutes tops, marking stuff I like, and setting it down while I do other stuff or read the novel I'm working through. Hers are so short though, its hard to read it for very long just because it means I'll go through 50 poems

I keep one in my backpack and read a few poems between classes if I can find somewhere quiet (and sometimes away from people so I can read quietly to myself).

Going through a collection of Kipling right now. Its okay.

>>8108456
Kipling’s greatest fault was that as a master of his craft he could o anything and thus may of his poems are spiced with dialects and the kind of wordplay that precludes them from being read more then ones.


As for reading . If its a poem Im familiar with where I know the stress and beats I usually just read whenever. But in the case of new poems I prefer to sit down alone and scan them multiple times before I feel satisfied. Then again im horrible at reading the stuff out so im probably not the best example out there

>implying i would dirty myself by socializing mud-skinned ethnics and jews

>>8108321
Careful on those edges

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>>8108320
>he doesn't read fiction

>>8108285
i dont have autismt.

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>>8108285
Yes, I occasionally read articles about new medical treatments and research etc. It comes from wanting to know the original sources behind lots of shitty newspaper reporting like the Daily Mail's THIS THING CAUSES/CURES CANCER etc.

Reading a bit of basic statistics helped. There is also a really good introductory ebook/website into how medicines are tested, called Testing Treatments, that describes the methodology behind medical tests. I have online access to the journals (Nature, etc) where articles are published. Also Ben Goldacre's books Bad Science and Bad Pharma do a good job of explaining why everyone should be interested in reading research like that.

>>8108295
>haha wanting to know how things work, instead of just sitting around thinking really deep thoughts about them, is "autismt"
yeah fuck off you iimbecile

I read them when there's something I'm looking into out of interest.

For example I read a few studies on Indole-3-Carbinol yesterday.

It gets downright comfy near the middle when he's in that town, but it craps the bed soon after.

The hooker with the hungry vagina was alright though.

>>8108055
Shiiet

Seemed like a cool premise with gods and stuff.. but so far nothing really cool has happened yet

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>>8108064
Its basically a road trip novel. If you liked the movie Road Trip, you should like American Gods.

If you dont like Road Trip then I suggest killing yourself.

what?

my question is--what is poetry, and why.

>Best poetry
Shakespeare, Milton, Dante

>Most essential poetry
Bible, Shakespeare, Dante

>Best poetry for beginners
Wordsworth, Hardy, Browning

>best poets
above

>Best poetry by poetry by movement
what the fuck does this even mean

>Meme poetry
Keats

>Trash poetry
everything post-1930

>>8108021
>Best poetry
The Book of Psalms, The Song of Songs

>Most essential poetry
LORD Byron, Tennyson, Shelley, Romantics, Heroic Epics, Shakespeare, Rubaiyat, Goethe's Faust

>Best poetry for beginners
Poe, Rubaiyat, Pope, Dryden, Spenser, Browning

>Meme poetry
Kerouac, beats, modernists, free verse, hip hop,

>Trash poetry
Hwalt Hwhitman

Eragon, GoT

>>8108000
i used to read dragonlance.

i then read lotr, which sucked.

then i read the worm ouroboros. it was good.
maybe read that? it could be good. FFT was probably the greatest of the ff in terms of writing and gameplay.

>>8107971
>not liking beat poetry

>>8107971
>thinking any of those words are genres
Even the trash is too good for you.

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>genre: transcendentalism


Corncobby Americana - and not much else. I'm a superior poet to Walt Whitman, but where is my recognition?

>>8107904
*guy's

>>8107904
It's supposed to be a fun road trip book and not much else.

magneto?