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I know the things you never see! You never see a really tall fat Chinese guy with red hair! You never see a guy walking down the street reading a book that closely follows a Hitman!

No Country for Old Men

Then again, seeing as how that book is literally just a reformatted screenplay, you might as well just watch the movie.

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>>8082556
>Book published 2005
>Film released 2007

>gillian anderson was 25 when she was a TV star
>I'm 42 and never accomplish anything

if everything has been done before, why not just kill yourself?

art is hedonistic, fuck other people

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>>8082269
this basically, but OP

Unless you find pleasure in writing, don't write.
The chances are if you treat it as therapy, a hobby, whatever, you will produce something of value for yourself, whether its to see how far you can take your imagination with language or just to dump the existential weight you've been carrying around for years. If you have close friends that aren't bored to death of you talking to them about whether or not your experience has any value and that you're just human shit just fuck my shit up senpai etc etc, share it with them! Talk about it together and then move on to your next project, enriched knowing that, if nothing else, your work resulted in a stimulating conversation with a good friend.
Cut the pretence, forget the literary heraldry that sits on your shoulders because it's only going to ensure you never write anything interesting. Instead, channel the respect you have for literature into yourself and see what happens.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, i'm speaking to you as someone who has spent years boring my friends with the petty dread and fear that surrounds trying to write. A combination of me reading "Letters to a Young Poet" (a dialogue between a master and a novice of poetry- well worth reading if you need motivation) and just sitting down and fucking with words fixed that pretty quick. Good luck mate.

>>8082089
Is it?

>>8082089
Yes, it is.

I've read some pertinent critique to its first volume. It's not in English though and I can't be bothered to translate it.

>>8081955

Is that his actual quote? No way.

idk if it's a quote, but it's a way to equality between social classes

>>8081958
>>8081966
To George Sand:

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois, the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone, that is to say the literary men, who are the people, or to say it better: the tradition of humanity. (10 May 1867)

>>8081662
...Shocker?

>>8081672
it was what canadians felt when the usa occupied them :^)

>>8081681
lol stupid canadians got rekt

>>8081393
Super commie realizes that he is eating form the trash can, and the name of the trash can is ideology.

>>8081393
He is immortal. He has always been. All he seeks is a way to die. Eventually he befriends a ghost who fucks him up his own dick

>>8081393
He rules the world and concentrates all efforts and resources into finding a way for him to die.

I keep mistaking these for exotic packs of cigarettes

>>8080993
They do have that kind of paper tint.

>>8081098
your smell, how is it? emparadado? you piece of shit? IT'S FUCK TO YOU

time for the daily "how do I buy W&M without selling my kidneys" thread

you can't except by pure chance

Drive a hundred miles.

>>8080783
Get an electronic version.

Anyone wanna look up when his dad and granddad died so we can ballpark this? Maybe get a pool going? A basket of bananas for the winner?

>>8080453
Pynchon will probable pass his title to a certain talanted friend of his, so that we will never know of his death.

Ok his dad lived to 88, we have about another decade to go

>>8079839
Who wrote this garbage? Sounds like something an emo 13 year old girl would write after cutting herself.

p good, keep it up OP. made me think

>>8079839
Why did you post a picture of what I assume is yourself along with this garbage?
>useless punctuation
>shit structure
>content is meaningless

0/10

>>8079656
you are right
i don't even know how to make a screenshot that long :(

>>8079656
y'all's critical eye for good writing is dirt

couldn't make it past 'dogs'

>>8079038
>he wants a story
>he wants a main character

stick to mass market paperbacks at the grocery store

>>8079038
Yes infinite jest is a meme. I shitposted about it here for years and then I actually read (300 pages of) it. Truly a meme.

>>8079042
i thought it was going to be one of those "every chapter different mc different plot same world" kinda deal.

but the prose/style/whatever seems to change every chapter and sometimes its very hard to read without cringing desu.

is this "art" the same way the cia paid andy warhol to make art?

>>8078729
>Talk about whatever you want
Do you feel personally responsible for the furry fandom?

Wheel Of Time, yay or nay?

>>8078786
It's basically fine, but really long, generic, and got ended by Sanderson.

His short stories are GOAT

>>8075651

They really are great! I've read Rani Jadi and it's really good and unique.

>>8075651
Btw, have you read Borislav Pekić? I'd like to pick up some of his novels, he seems really good.

>>8075271
Conisder Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.

it's a bit shaky in places, but it shapes up really well. the other Culture books paint a picture of a future that i would really like to live in, which is more than you can say for most SF today.

when you've finished this, go read Player of Games.

An adventure. Banks said he'd like to have seen it filmed, and wouldn't even mind if they messed the story up as long as they got the action scenes right.

Also there is a cannibalism scene so be ready for that.