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>>8056067
He is though

>>8056071
same lmao

I think him being my dad would be too overhwelming (imagine having to argue with him about what cartoons to watch every fucking day). He'd be perfect as wacky a uncle though.

homework thread?

Both were written by the title author's husband.

>>8056029
Not exactly

>>8055976
A big part of The Road is idealism and what makes men function. The Man needs someone to need him to keep going, and so he has a bit of a codependent relationship to his son where not only does the son need him, but The Man would probably sink into despair if not for the way his son needs him to live and the faith he has that civilization can recover. In that way it's also about faith and how we need faith in one thing or another to function. It seems unlikely that The Man is religious, but his faith in an indestructible "fire" in certain men is what keeps him going, because he believes he and his son have this flame.

>>8056000
>"Turn from those that need you and lose what defines you."

>>8055976
Women don't have the fire and should never be trusted with anything important.

just BEE yourself op

>>8055932
You're fucked, if you can't draw from experience and observations then your not thinking. Asking someone to help you with conversations is like asking someone to be your friend. You can't get help like that. Consider thinking about experience and conversation.

>>8055932
By pounding loads and loads of audience pussy. If they like your "depth" in a sexual way, they won't accuse you of being pretentious.

This is what "paying your dues" as an author really means; laying prodigious amounts of pipe.

>>8055895
I like him a lot but after reading Soumission, Whatever and Elementary Particles I felt like I needed a break for a while before I read the rest. There's a lot of overlap in themes. Enjoyed all three of them though, Elementary Particles the most.

>>8055911
Go for The Map and the Territory, it's different.

>>8055895
Wish people would stop using this gay retarded meme that was taken from a shitty overrated sci-fi movie and used to describe what people consider their actual ideologies.

Just start writing nigga. You can do outlines first if that's your thing, it'll help you keep organized which is a bit hard to do with novels just because of their sheer length. But basically, just start writing.

>>8055871
keep writing short stories, but use the same characters and then format it together as a novel. it would make an interesting bildungsroman

>>8055871
go find
writing the breakout novel by donald maass

>>8055867
χαζή βατραχανθρώπων

Nerds get out.

>Google translator with modern Greek
Who are you trying to fool?

>>8055866
Good enough to have a literary term named after him.

more like j g boner (in a good way)

>>8055866
he really, really, really didnt like closed gate communities

>>8055838
not my favorite pkd

Time out of Joint is my personal favorite and hooked me from the get go try that instead

Try to read it for the philosophy. Otherwise, yeah, it's a shitty book.

Yes.

>>8055831
>Christians
>ever not cuckolds

>>8055840
>cuckolds unironically
Fuck off back to pol

>>8055893
sorry for demeaning your hobby

Butler is a genius, but I'm formally educated in critical theory so I'm probably an outlier here.

>>8055703
I love her. I thought tumblr pretended to read her and love her but in reality probably really hate her for giving a voice to cis scum

>>8055703
try again without the inflammatory generalizations and b8, faggot

God damn Poe was ugly.

No wonder his foster dad cut him out of his will.

>>8055695
s-start with greeks?

Aside from jokes, Poe isn't the most prolific author of all times, just read it

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>-,

>>8055660

>also a brief summary of Lacanian theory would be nice, people keep name dropping it and the Wikipedia page isn't very helpful
http://web.uvic.ca/~saross/lacan.html

>>8055660
>also a brief summary of Lacanian theory

You want to fuck your mother and kill your father... Topologically speaking.

Idk any good sources off the top of my head (maybe start with Foucault and go from there) but it took me a long time to figure out how to articulate what interpellation means. Basically in my understanding, interpellation is how the Self interprets and responds to the act of subjectification. If you're walking down the street and hear a cop yelling "stop, police!" you can interpellate yourself to be a bystander (the cop isn't talking to you) or a criminal/suspect (the cop is talking to you). It's usually reflexive/unconscious (if you shot someone, you probably don't need to think about whether or not the cop is talking to you) in relation to hegemonic power structures (you're conditioned to respond to the officer's authority) but you can consciously shift your understanding of yourself in response to being subjectified, which both precipitates and is in and of itself a form of resistance.

Does that help/make sense?

He's more like the german Murakami

>>8055646
Considering how heavily his work influenced Camus I would say that Kafka had a hand in setting the stage of absurdism, but in phrasing it "pioneer of absurdism" you're implying that he had a more direct involvement with the preconceived philosophy.

Indirect pioneer of absurdism, maybe

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>>8055649
>german
nice bait though

>>8055492
No. I've reached the point where the words I do not know are the words that you only see in ironic purple prose contests, rather than actual books.

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>>8055492
Neigh--having triggitancended linguigglesticks wit de "Get-Up Finneggle" quilled under Jimbob o'1-I, Eye-sea icy pan-wordbirds underta craggyracks a' flatspeak.

>icepick relambationed

>>8055503
Reply to this post with a word I probably don't know.