The wax is dripping
Flame of no return
Flickering lights
Shatter as the wick turns
Ashes are spinning
Need to settle the urn
Sitting alone in the kindling
Watching the candle
BURN!! BURN!! BURN!!
On poetry community website-
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/wax_792129
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>>8060282
That poem sucks, it doesn't even rhyme. And it's not saying anything other than describing the process in which a candle burns.
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>>8060282
What do you think of this two liner poem?
I cried and cried when I left Phoenix. So much I used a box of Kleenex
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>>8060282
black holes & protons
are on the mind of the man
who thinks of the spaces
between the atoms.
me? i think of
which fast-food place
i'll go to for dinner,
then whether to surf
the net for porn erotica
or just watch espn 25.
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When is the movie Jaws going to be novelized? I mean it was a box office hit that spun off three stellar sequels.
Crappy movies have been novelized, why not the Jaws series?
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>>8060274
this level of shitposting...
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>>8060294
What do you mean?
What do all of you aspiring novelists do for work?
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>>8060226
I sell my body.
The sad part is that I'm not even joking.
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>>8060247
You holding up?
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>>8060226
Nothing. I'm a NEET.
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What is the moust profound book you have ever read? Or a book that really touched you and stayed with you. For me it has to be this gem right here. I basically have it memorized.
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I've never read it, but I remember some kids had it for required reading in like 8th grade so I've always assumed it was garbage like To Kill a Mockingbird.
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>>8060221
Atlas Shrugged is also rather good.
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>>8060225
Read it in Grade 6 and don't fully remember it but it was alright all things considered. Of course that was me in grade 6 so take that with a pinch of salt.
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Were his novels even that well written?
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>>8060199
No way. Minimalism is nothing compared to the jazzean streams of sweet mind flow by my favorite author and auteur James Joyce
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>>8060203
>James Joyce
>Ulysses
DANK JOKE
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Americans can't into literature.
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Who here really enjoyed
>The Little Prince
as a kid?
It's still my favorite book to this day. I just wish the author had given the characters actual names. It's also quite sad what happened to the author,
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>you're a horrible person if you can't see that this blob is an elephant in a snake
What a shitty book for kids what the hell is this supposed to teach them
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>>8060204
How did you extrpolate that from the story?
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>>8060204
>he can't comprehend a children's book
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How is this book of Dr. Seuss's /lit/? How would you compare it to his other literary works?
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>>8060172
The Lorax was mad better.
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>"stars on thars"
smooth, smooth.
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>>8060245
It has a great message for children. Adults could go with reading it too.
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Why does Of Mice and Men make me feel more than The Brothers Karamazov?
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>>8060119
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>>8060119
The characters are meant to be relatable. They are specific groups in America so nor relevant to today etc
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Of mice and men is a fantastic story, don't feel bad. People shit on Steinbeck because he is easy to understand but he was a great writer
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Would you be flattered or embarrassed if a novel you wrote became a high school english class novel?
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I would be embarrassingly rich.
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>>8060100
likely you would be embarrassingly dead like all of these on the op pic
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>>8060090
I'd be flattered that the education system deemed my novel worthy, but frustrated that multiple generations will grow to despise the book (assuming they actually read it, which they won't) and that hipsters on /lit/ will call it entry-level for not being Finnegans Wake.
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>quicksilver in the baby folds of her stomach
What did Nabokov mean by this?
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>>8060022
>Vladimir "Corncob" Nabokov
>>>/reddit/
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literally
quicksilver was injected into her belly to engulf her stomach
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>>8060033
>t. faulkner
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Every time I sit down to write something, it inevitably turns into smut. I don't know why or what I can do to stop it but eventually I'll get bored and start imagining the characters having kinky sex in my head.
Can smut be good literature?
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>>8059996
go back to /a/ or /b/ or wherever the fuck you came from
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>>8060019
More like /u/ or /d/ with the direction my stories usually go but seriously help me out here. I just wanna write good stories.
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>>8059996
>Can smut be good literature?
No. But if you turn that smut into cuckold erotica and market it towards middle aged women you'll become a renowned writer in no time.
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>finally read Hegel
>think all is well
>notice that I suddenly think everything needs a dialectical synthesis
>every time I encounter a problem I just look at its elements and think "yup, this situation is still lacking its dialectical synthesis"
>tfw Hegel turned me into a fucking retard
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>>8059954
>everything needs a dialectical synthesis
When I pointed out that Hegel uses dialectics I was called out for not having read Hegel. Fucking pseuds.
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>>8059962
Ironically they're the pseuds for incorrectly regurgitating the "I'm so much smarter than you" trivia that Fichte is the one who actually said the thesis-antithesis thing.
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ideas dont lack for a synthesis, they simply continue along trajectories until they meet their antithesis
Can /lit/ suggest me some intelligent anti-islam works in the same vein of the anticlerical authors of the 18th and 19th century?
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>>8059918
Anything but the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
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Nicholas of Cusa's Cribratio Alkorani f a m
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Best editions of the Henriad?
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Basically title. Looking to get into the Henriad and wondering which edition /lit/ would recommend.
Each play being a separate volume is a must, and notes would be handy but aren't a necessity.
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if money is no concern - letterpress shakespeare
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>>8060005
>500 dollars per play
Whose the fuck is buying these?
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>>8060005
They look sexy as hell, i'd just need someone to do me a solid and lend me several thousand pounds.
What is the best biography of Hitler?
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>>8059905
Forget everything- read Hitlers Revolution. You can find it on amazon
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maybe Ian Kershaws
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my diary desu