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ITT: Try and write a better flash fiction piece. 12 words max.
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it's like you made this thread for me
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the result came back positive: op was a faggot
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>>8005033
>wooooahhhh some kid's shoes didn't fit so we had to sell them! so beautiful!
more like so stupid
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good punk lit?
define 'punk' how you will
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I will that "punk" be defined as empty. Thus, the thread is over.
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>>8004232
thank you for your contribution
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>>8004203
Jean Genet in all senses of the term
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Are there any romanians here on /lit/? I'm looking for the best your literature has to offer. I'm not too keen on poetry because my Romanian is basic, so recs for novels would be ideal.
I've read a short story anthology including likes such as Sadoveanu, Ion Creanga, Bratescu-Voinesti, Vlahutza, Caragiale etc. and appreciated it very much to not ask for more.
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>>8002180
If you're not opposed to drama, try Ionesco.
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>>8002188
Even though the guy was romanian, he wrote in French and most of the themes that Romanian lit deals with seems absent in his work, so I don't really consider him a part of its national literature, but thanks anyways.
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>>8002180
Cioran
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Do you listen to music while reading?
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>>8001375
sometimes. A single song on loop. After im done reading i forever associate said book with the song and vice versa. It's pretty neat.
I started doing that a few years ago when i was reading Ask the Dust, idk why but It went along with Afterlife by Arcade fire that was on the radio.
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If I'm in an area with distracting background noise, I'll often block it out with Erik Satie's Gymnopedies. That's it though. Anything else distracts me.
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No???
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How many here have actually read this?
Did you get anything from it at all?
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you can't actually be a part of this board until you read it
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I've asked some of the weird genius eccentric dudes that I've been lucky enough to know whether they've ever read it, and while a few have said that it is fun to pick up and puzzle out the language games Joyce is doing, and that the associative playfulness thing is kind of a neat take on dream states or the unconscious or whatever, they all said it's not really enjoyable to them. Mostly impenetrable, not worth the effort. These are, like, middle-aged scholars of Shakespeare and Heidegger's poetics, who are so well-read it scares me.
The general consensus has been apathy about it, I would say. Most of them are more interested in reading more serious or traditional literature. Even the guy who loves Pynchon didn't really care.
Most of them said similar things about Ulysses as well.
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>>8000239
They sound like plebs.
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How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and of reincarnation? If there is no self, who is it that reincarnates?
How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and moralfaggotry? If there is no self, who can commit or be victim to bad deeds?
How do Buddhists reconcile the doctrines of anatman and of enlightenment? If there is no self, who is there to enlighten?
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>>7980887
/lit/ - literature
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>>7980900
Yes, I'm asking the lads here who've read sutras and the like. I know they're around from previous threads.
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>>7980887
Here's your answer - your questions are invalid.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/notself2.html
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Post some character descriptions
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What are some of your favorite character descriptions /lit/?
"He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome. His hair was wiry and gingerish and brushed backward from the temples. His skin seemed to be pulled backward from the nose. There was something very slightly odd about him, but it was difficult to say what it was. Perhaps it was that his eyes didn't seem to blink often enough and when you talked to him for any length of time your eyes began involuntarily to water on his behalf. Perhaps it was that he smiled slightly too broadly and gave people the unnerving impression that he was about to go for their neck."
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>>8010776
>Perhaps
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>>8010783
britbongs man, what you gonna do?
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>>8010776
>Perhaps
>conspicious conspicuous
>backward
>____-ish
>slightly odd, but difficult to say
>doesn't show instead of tell in a character description
>cliche eyes didn't seem to blink
>slightly too broadly
Worst book I've ever read... Yours /lit/?
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infinite jest underworld ulysses gravity's rainbow stoner the tunnel the recognitions
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Make a rainbow with books you own.
No hate, only rainbows.
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can you make a thread where you DISCUSS THE BOOKS instead of showing off your shitty collection?
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>>8010649
Tienes un gusto de mierda por ese libro amarillo.
Por favor vete
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>>8010748
QUEMADO, ja ja ja
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>tfw energy eternally divided between reading the canon and trying to establish a basic knowledge of western literature and reading deeply into literatures of my own niche interests
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>tfw your niche literature is just unknown works of classics authors
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I promise you mlp erotic fanfics are not worth your time.
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>>8010521
*are definitely
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I've been feeling listless and unsatisfied for various reasons, many of my own, but I don't want to get into it.
What books do you guys recommend for helping to figure yourself or to deal with reality? I know it's a blunt and stupid question, but I'm NOT looking for shit like The Power of Now.
Help a pleb out, please.
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>>8010371
Kys.
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>>8010378
Nope, suicide is not option because it's not about wanting to die like a drama queen.
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>>8010371
Of Human Bondage. Read it.
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Is it worth it to pursue the career of an author, or is that a foolish and pernicious idea?
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That's pretty stupid.
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Do you have a gimmick, drive, and chops? Also I always thought being an author meant you'd have some extra cash to go along with your minimum wage job.
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What are some of the best cosmic horror stories? I just finished this and I loved it and would like to read more things like it. I've read the basic Lovecraft stuff.
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>>8010163
Other Hodgson stuff, of course (In TheNight Land is good), plus maybe The King in Yellow?
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>>8010311
I read he got blown up in WWI
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>>8010163
William Hope Hodgson wrote about a dozen short stories for his character Carnacki, a ghost finder/supernatural/occult detective. They are all collected in one volume by Wordsworth.
But I suspect you would enjoy some of Robert Howard's short stories. He was a peer and correspondent of Lovecraft's and prone to mimicking him in a more crude, comic-book fashion. Lots of barbarous tribes, strange deities, and magical objects - and the necronomicon.
There are several collections out there. One short story I will recommend in particular is 'Black Stone.' I suggest that this story's detail of a tribal sacrifice for a reptilian god would make many 4chan users feel queasy
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Any mexibros here? I just got done reading México Bárbaro and I have garnered an interest to learn more about the history of my country. What books would you recommend?
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Nueva Historia General de México, editada por el Colmex.
Los de abajo, de Mariano Azuela es una visión de los estragos del fiasco que fue la Revolución.
Vision de los vencidos, para el.México prehispánico.
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Los libros de la SEP, papu.Gracias por la recomendación
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El.fondo de cultura economica también publica muchos libros acerca de la historia de México o de personajes importantes, y son buenas y baratas.
Best short story collection? I have to go with I, Robot.
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The collection detailing your sexual encounters
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>>8010111
you know what i regret this post, its mean, and im not even sure it makes sense
im sorry
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>>8010123
>the day the shitposter regretted it