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>>8010844
Did you read it in the original Japanese? I'm currently reading it in English, and am not loving it too much. I think the way that Mishima is translated to English makes his prose kind of awkward. If you read it in English, which translator did you use?

As for additional recommendations, I would go for the other Japanese greats. Kokoro by Soseki is my personal favorite.

>>8010858
English version- translated by Michael Gallagher. I loved the writing style personally- every is described in such a beautiful and spiritual fashion.

>>8010858
I've never had this problem before. Japanese is a pretty simple language so it translates well. It's only when it comes to their poetry that their translations are awful.

>>8010839
Looks like a pirate in a fashion mag ad

Can someone point me to something he wrote about the internet? He seemed to have no understanding of it.

>>8010839
Those two rocks look like 40%-opacity copy-pasted cutouts of someone in a dark sleeveshirt facepalming, in the thumbnail

>>8010645
>introduction warns you that there won't be an ending

>>8010645
What's this thread about? Cliches, or... ?

>>8010882
>idiot anon doesn't know what shitposting is

Why compare him to Marx at all?

I've only read the Protestant Ethic. His ideas about capitalism becoming a cage are cool and all but the rise of social and liberal institutions after the second world war sort of make the context of capitalism different from the one in his time (and also Marx and Hegel).

Although one would argue, little has changed in developing countries, but Europe and North America have seen drastic changes in worker rights since the early 1900s

>>8010522
Strong critiques of capitalism.

You mean Italian?

>>8010471

Sure, italian, my bad.

They translated a bunch of latin works and wrote in latin occasionally so that was an oopsie.

Ariosto
Tasso

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>>8010462
that room looks like it would be a pain to keep warm at night in winter

i like vita sackville west's library. i visited there a while ago

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>>8010462
My reading space is usually a corner in my office, OP (pic related). Doesn't really photograph that well because the light comes in the window over the shoulder, which means photos are backlit pretty harshly.

That said, it's a pretty comfy spot.

>>8010938
what're you. like 45. why are you here.

>>8010409
This makes me want to never fuck a woman

Did he actually wrote this?

It meant that he was stiflingly entangled in love with a woman.

>>8010362
Yes, and he said that the Jabberwock was the negroid race, the the jubjub bird were the Jews.

Bandersnatch was socialism.

>>8010362
I don't think so.

Can we turn this into a Lovecraft thread?

>>8010466
I'm game.

I would say my favourite aspect of Lovecraft is when he is writing about alien and prehuman cultures e.g. when he is describing the murals left by the Elder Things in Mountains of Madness, or uncovering the ruins left by a reptilian race in The Nameless City, or recalling the fall of Ib's conquerors in The Doom That Came To Sarnath.

The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath is unreadable however.

I was going to buy it from amazon but then forgot about it if that helps

I read the first 4 pages or so and then got bored.

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>>8010304 (samefag)
I liked this better.

>>8010253
Novelty

>>8010253
jew tricks

because they knew that film is an inferior medium that's limited by commercial and monetary issues so film critics pretended that the director was the "writer" so that film could have the prestige of literature.

They're all the desperate attempts of a virgin edgelord to shock his contemporaries.

>>8010180
maybe to a resentful pseud.

>>8010173
>What are Nietzsche's books
The books he wrote.

>and with what book to start?
First, you need to be familiar with ancient philosophy, read enlightenment philosophers thoroughly (Kant in particular) and Schopenhauer.
The Birth of Tragedy is a good book to start, but I'd skip to Antichrist or Beyond Good and Evil.

>>8010167
It might just be because I grew up around Irish people who talked all types of retarded but I can read Ulysses just fine.

He didn't mean anything. Literature is a scam on the middle class.

>>8010167
Most likely Joyce was drunk or high on metamphetamines while writing it. Luckily he started making a bit more sence in his more entry level diddly called Finnegans Wake.

Freud got it right,
Oh your buttocks, oh so tight
Because it is mother's day,
I will prove you dear Momma,

That your son is naught gay.

Mothers day is in march

>>8010151
Kek

idk, maybe the one where the guy literally has no dick

Hemmingway*

Ernest Hemingway

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Step 1. The pitch.

Come up with a few ideas, and then decide to go with one. For example

1. A cat finds out he likes dogs

2. A witch must save Christmas

3. A man must drink 9 sodas

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Step 2. Pick the pitch, and come out with a rough outline.

Now this will be the best part for most of you. You guys never finish shit. You start a million projects, and when the initial excitement wears off, you start getting lazy towards the end, and just start something else. As Gay Man says, you need to write, and you need to finish things.

This rough outline will help you the most with that. I know you heard Stevey KINGS just writes as he goes and would never preplot something out, but you should if you have problems finishing things.

It doesn't have to be super detailed. Pick a cool first sentence, describe the crux of the story, and have a vision for the final scene, all while trying to have some allegory behind the tale.

I'll go with the soda pitch.

1st sentence= "The modern human body can hold approximately 6 1/2 sodas at any given time, and I'm staring at 7 empty Dr Pepper bottles, and two full ones, while trying not to vomit."

The crux of the story is a man must drink 9 sodas or terrorists will kill his roach. The themes deal with how dangerous consumption is, and why we can sometimes do self destructive things for love.

The ending scene will involve the death of the character while watching his pet roach live.

>>8010018
>>8010023
>>8010049
pls stop