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ITT covers you liked that the publishers replaced and now you can't get it anymore unless you find it used
Gonna post a few
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I know its not very good I just needed somewhere to post it 2016-05-30 09:08:33 Post No.8100420
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I know its not very good I just needed somewhere to post it
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Im scared of you and everyone
and wouldn’t you be overdone
The so slight so lice a linger
Tell you all right might finger
Trusting long sloppy bet
Turning Evil East Coast West
Return and chill to the western landed
for a year then re publican
in and out of rain and dry
to learn the drugs and culture why
I’m over back tight near the home that brought us in
alone, turned out, residences those for never being
borne without’
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>rhyme
not poetry
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>>8100429
what is it?
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Anyone here speaks portuguese?
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Are green texts a form of literature?
Are there people on the other 'pleb' boards who have writing talent but do not realise it.
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Pickles are delicious but
>eating them warm
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>>8100378
>tumblr_inline
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>>8100378
i always loved those pastas for hypotetical "the big bang theory" episodes, where a very dumb joke would trigger an apocalyptic end of the world scenario. that anons writing was tight and funny.
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Nobody likes to do the crossword with me... wanna help me /lit/? Please don't cheat
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Popp
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>>8100371
What is this for?
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>doesn't even post it the right way around
How do you justify breathing?
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Why Darconville's Cat takes it?
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>>8100363
who is the draconville's cat in that story, the guy or the girl?
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>>8100381
The cat is speaking to the reader.
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Darconville has better prose
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Name a book that presents a great mystery and doesn't let you down when it's revelead.
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>>8100241
Inherent Vice
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>>8100241
My diary desu
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I got just the thing.
Best kind of books.
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ITT: good autobiographies from surprising people.
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>>8100158
The only time i will ever say i love mankind is in reference to the wrastler. Hes a fucking boy and a half
also inb4 my beautiful dark twisted world by ellie rodgies
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I've read this book more times than I'd care to admit. It's so god damn enjoyable.
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His children's books are surprisingly good too. One would have the Rock's stiff chairshots would have turned his brain into mush
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Authors whose most famous works aren't necessarily their best 2016-05-30 06:00:09 Post No.8100113
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Authors whose most famous works aren't necessarily their best
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Examples taken from this thread: >>8099477
Hemingway (Old Man and the Sea)
Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
Tolstoy (War and Peace)
Dickens (Tale of Two Cities, Christmas Carol)
Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment)
Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer)
Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels)
Anything else you guys can think of?
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that man has no dick and neither does the woman
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R.L. Stein (Night of the Living Dummy)
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>>8100122
That picture famously leaves out the male genitals because it was considered inappropriate to send into outer space.
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I don't understand Chomsky's reaction here, can anyone give me insight?
https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse
Pic unrelated
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>>8100017
>samharris.org
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>>8100024
It's an exchange between the two.
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What's not to understand?
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Why isn't normal for screenwriters to publish and sell their unproduced scripts? Why isn't it normal for audiences to buy and read them? There are plenty of people who do this stuff with stage plays.
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because it hasn't caught on yet, you fucking moron.
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>>8099922
i have no idea but i can give u my half assed speculation like everyone else on this board if you want
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What can you say to someone who finds themselves in this situation to make them at ease with it?
>There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In order to escape the beast the traveler hides in an empty well, but at the bottom of the well he sees a dragon with its jaws open, ready to devour him. The poor fellow does not dare to climb out because he is afraid of being eaten by the rapacious beast, neither does he dare drop to the bottom of the well for fear of being eaten by the dragon. So he seizes hold of a branch of a bush that is growing in the crevices of the well and clings on to it. His arms grow weak and he knows that he will soon have to resign himself to the death that awaits him on either side. Yet he still clings on, and while he is holding on to the branch he looks around and sees that two mice, one black and one white, are steadily working their way round the bush he is hanging from, gnawing away at it. Sooner or later they will eat through it and the branch will snap, and he will fall into the jaws of the dragon. The traveler sees this and knows that he will inevitably perish. But while he is still hanging there he sees some drops of honey on the leaves of the bush, stretches out his tongue and licks them. In the same way I am clinging to the tree of life, knowing full well that the dragon of death inevitably awaits me, ready to tear me to pieces, and I cannot understand how I have fallen into this torment. And I try licking the honey that once consoled me, but it no longer gives me pleasure. The white mouse and the black mouse – day and night – are gnawing at the branch from which I am hanging. I can see the dragon clearly and the honey no longer tastes sweet. I can see only one thing; the inescapable dragon and the mice, and I cannot tear my eyes away from them
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>>8099916
just be yourself, bro
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>>8099921
spittin truth desu
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>>8099921
I think this is THE problem of the 20th and 21st century. No piece of literature is worth anything unless it says something about the issue contained in that fable.
Everything else is a distraction.
Living in the 21st century is like finding yourself in a store with all the money you'd need to buy anything you want, but finding that nothing in it is worth actually buying. What's the point of fighting for social or economic equality if even if you achieved it you'd still have nothing to live for? The presumption is that unhappiness exists because people lack the means to get what they want. I'd argue that unhappiness exists even where the means are plenty because there's a lack of goals worth pursuing.
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Anybody else absolutely love this guy? Everything he writes is virtually flawless. His characters are always hyper-realistic, his prose is always just enough, and you always feel a little uncomfortable when reading anything he's written. He just had this perfect sense of the human psyche.
I think my favorite work of his is Next to Nothing. How about you, /lit/ friends? Any thoughts on the man, his novels, or his poetry?
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nope. not me.
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>>8099766
Yes, a favorite of mine. Exceptional writer.
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>>8099766
I've never read anything by him but physically he always looked like a deformed Faulkner to me.
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What do you think about pic related /lit/?
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>>8099684
mostly the television adaptation DESU
whose theme song sounded like this (in words)
THE LITTLE PRINCE
IN OUTER SPACE
WILL CATCH A SHOOTING STAR
AND SAAAAAIIIIILLL AWAAAAAY
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>>8099684
It frustrated me as a child because I couldn't understand the ending. Then as I grew older I started identifying with the boy and it started meaning more to me
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>>8099684
It's good for learning different languages and it is super cute my man.
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What famous people are surprisingly well-read?
http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/the-430-books-in-marilyn-monroes-library.html
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>>8099530
I don't want to sound like that guy, but it was probably for show or curiosity.
All i've ever heard of her was that she was incredibly dense.
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Ivy league /lit/ major ?
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>wow a woman who reads??? how surprising lol
Misogyny in disguise, OP.
If this was a male, even a male actor mostly known for being attractive, you wouldn't think twice of it.
The average woman reads more than the average man, this is a well-known statistic.
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How hard is pic related to read, my main men?
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>>8099477
b-b-b-b-bummmpin
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>reading any Nabokov aside from Lolita
I have no sympathy for you
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>>8099915
Uhhh but the book in the OP and Pale Fire are considered masterpieces