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>Should authors ever do this?

An author who writes on levels beyond basic drama wouldn't ever think to, as each action taken has a purpose.

>>7989848
How do we make Homer apologise for all those dead dudes?

>>7989848
You're taking this a bit out of context.
It's obvious from the article that she has a self-promotional shtick of apologizing for one death every year. Once per year she lowers herself (slightly down) onto the level of her fandom, and in return they don't forget that she exists. It's a win-win.

I've been here for three years, 'seriously reading' for some five

Already feels like I'm way too smart for this shithole, and I feel like a retard compared to most people in real life. Can't wait till I can move on.

I'd call you out for using that picture, but I'm happy you are finding your way. I'm currently meming my way along this board while getting paid little for you for writing second-rate knockoffs of Barth, Barthes, Perec and Queneau.

guilt from getting sexy with his kid sister little phoebe when he wanted the teacher's d

>>8002273
the ducking problem was that he was really wanting to know where HE will go after the lake freezes over.

>>8002273
>>8002308
theres a fucking duck in the picture too wow now THAT makes you think

>>7999892
Fuck off butterfly.

>>7999892
is this real butters??

>>8001107
doubt it. posting style is off. with butters, you can just tell.

so yeah I'd appreciate if you knock it off, guy. it's not especially funny or interesting.

also Zero K.

>>8002980
If they are shitty paperback books that are too worn out for a used bookstore to take just throw them away.

>>8002980
What sort of stuff have you got, OP?

hand em out to kids on halloween

I have the first in the series but haven't read it yet. Do you recommend it?

>>8002679
>i have a book but i'm too lazy to read it, tell me to read it

>>8002679
yes, they are all pretty good. Peake was clearly out of his box by Titus Alone though

>>8002594
Dehumidifier
Vacuum sealing

>>8002594
airtight boxes you dork. jesus christ you can read ovid, and tolstoy, and joyce but you can't google search your inane question?

>>8002598
I can't afford that shit.

>>8001388
Permutation City by Greg Egan is my fave.

>>8001415
Haven't read it. What's it about?

>>8001443
It deals with the question if there are gaps in consciousness or not and if there is a difference between a simulated person and a real one. Some guy thinks there isnt because of what he has "lived" and so spends all his money on a simulation of a universe. He runs it for a bit then turns it off. His reasoning being that it will somehow continue nonetheless. It does, he kills himself, and the simulated people live in simulation for thousands of years. Shit goes wrong. Then end.

>>8001214
Fine, I'll read it, god damn. Been wanting to ever since that anon posted that prose passage from it. Is the prose that great throughout the book?

>>8001214
What is it about

>>8001253
The passage in question being:
>Sitting before my little fire, I know, when the wind blows outside, moaning in the fieldstone chimney I caused to be built for ornament, shrieking in the gutters and the ironwork and the eaves and trim and trellises of the house, that this planet of America, turning round upon itself, stands only at the outside, only at the periphery, only at the edges, of an infinite galaxy, dizzily circling. And that the stars that seem to ride our winds cause them.

>Sometimes I think to see huge faces bending between those stars to look through my two windows, faces golden and tenuous, touched with pity and wonder; and then I rise from my chair and limp to the flimsy door, and there is nothing; and then I take up the cruiser ax (Buntings Best, 2 lb. head, Hickory Handle) that stands beside the door and go out, and the wind sings and the trees lash themselves like flagellants and the stars show themselves between bars of racing cloud, but the sky between them is empty and blank.

>>8000638
No, literature has ruined academia

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>>8000638
I have a better question. What hasn't academia ruined?

>>8000646
People who actually have a brain.

Nah. We live in the age of scientism. We're fucked lads.

Hegel is literal nonsense for pseudointellectuals. Whenever I hear someone mention Hegel I discard every opinion they've ever had.

>>7999976
Did you just start reading Schopenhauer quotes and built up your philosophical views on those?

>>7997545
>definately
Less time reading about magical dicks and more time on grammar, plebkun

>>7997545
>definately

pynchon fans, everyone

>>7997545
>definately

I don't let spooks run my life for one

What does Nietzsche think about empathy?

Say I had someone I cared about and could easily relieve their situation because it would also make myself less anxious seeing someone I love out of a struggle.

What would the proper Nietzsche way to act be? The same action because it seemingly helps the individual or trying to unlearn empathy and try to pursue other things

read, watch anime, shitpost

Just some shit that has no value but makes me feel special

>>8002783
There's a tiny market for inspirational poetry supported by grandmas and Christians.

>>8002783
That picture, although cheesy, is very relatable desu. That postcoital feel of waking up after disappearing into the universe of a good book is pretty amazing.

>>8002783
Music has largely replaced poetry nowadays; there shall you seek a distinction between commercial drivel artificially designed by large record companies, pretentious garbage spewed out by humanities students and truly inspired art. Not to mention that a lot of music's artistic appeal is based on the sound of it rather than lyrical content; perhaps hip-hop is the closest thing to conventional poetry.

Then you've got "poets" like Mira Gonzalez. I read some of her work - it could work as prose if properly punctuated, but calling it "poetry" is, let me say it again, pretentious.