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>>7978663
That way you'll put yourself in an ignorant self imposed prison. Good luck my ignorant desu.

>>7978668
tips fedora

>>7978663
>I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism
Having read his essays on the Divine Comedy then this is clearly a bullshit remark. He certainly reads commentaries and criticism, and that to a large degree.

William Blake
the Jews
the Greeks
the Egyptians

>>7978684
You told him. Kek.

>>Thread close!

"Orthogonal is a science fiction trilogy by Australian author Greg Egan taking place in a universe where, rather than three dimensions of space and one of time, there are four fundamentally identical dimensions."

>>7978618
Speak, Memory - Nabokov

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>>7978325
I'll read it. Do you have Skype or kik or something?

I'm nearly through a first draft and I was just going to ask lit and people I already collected from lit through soc to do it.

>>7978325
I'll alpha read it lmao

ill read it but if you dare call me a beta again ill kill you you dick fuck

Crutter! Drilling o'er the meteledge forthcomes frothubbing drink to drunk, the drunk uproot in the kitchen as hers farther and smother sleep. Hirs panic swoops acrossed him's mind but subsidies and calmaties come fore the adults are in sleep still, no clatter nor crutter shall wakem. Sos the drunk does think and thrinks the flu'id and says oh persays I'll happen to say I do drunk for aive seen my farther do it, the workdog. Haps then that's a realeason forrit, and Ah! What a cleaver boy am I to ponderthink such a think to say toothy old farther and s'mother. Apoxy thosoo tell me' o'erwise. Too more swiggs to the throasophagumoch and away goes th'night, onwords to spir-its of knights longjohn and daze ne'er had.

"Oh, I farted" he said in his typical robotic, lifeless fashion.
He was sitting reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green was pondering his life's course. What does it mean to fart, to exude the very essence of life's dirty underpinnings, both necassary as it is disquieting to the fabric of conventional morality.
He, however was above such chad-like considerations. He was anonymous, he does not forgive, he does not forget, and with one cry he could start a revolution that would destroy his foes. The normies. There was noone on earth that he hated as much, whose existance was as sickening to his very core as the normies.
"Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" he shouted into his headphones. He does not have a microphone, but ever since his mother gave him his new red and black headphones in exchange for his good boy points, he liked to pretend that they were.
That is when he began to smell it. Something putrid. Something so foul smelling that even he had to take note of it.
"I didn't fart, I pooped!" he exclaimed, reasoning "Well, I'll take care of it once I read the next chapter of Pynchon's newest book V for Vendetta.

>>7978323
This was no fun to read

I'm not your babysitter newfag.

>>7978289
H O U se

Of leaves

Tao Lin is pretty good, start with ''Bed''

How about opening up a dictionary?

>>7978283

Don't have one at home, might pick it up in a library tomorrow.

Okay, no idea if that word has changed in recent years but,


Do you know how a God damn dictionary works? It doesn't prescribe the meaning of words, it reflects usage. It isn't a conspiracy by some word-use deciding council.

Jesus.

>Typical characteristics are disregard for social values, cynicism, and existential boredom; typical behaviors are gambling, romantic intrigues, and duels. He is often unempathetic and carelessly distresses others with his actions.

money and cahones

Wealth and erudition.

>>7978247
I once saw a hardcover of Catullus' poems both in Latin and Spanish with a lenghty and well-writen introduction in a used books shop. Sadly, I didn't have monies at the time so I jammed it between two books hoping I could return later to buy it. Obviously, it wasn´t there when I got back.
Also, the love of my life gets fucked in parties regularly and is going to die of lupus if she doesn't kill herself.
My mom tried to kill me and my father doesn't love me.
Also, sage, faggot.

Shadow over Innsmouth
and
Mountains of Madness

Both are bantz and kind of the 2 most popular stories following Cthulhu, as for what next in the Cthulhu mythology thing, I have no idea but I'm sure google can tell you the order.

>>7978248
Ok, thanks anon.

Colour out of space is my favorite.

libgen and bookzz

>>7978238
What's the name of the book

>>7978238
dickbook.com

>>7978197
you've learned russian, right?

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>>7978201
unfunny mrmr

I read Crime and Punishment before the Brothers K. I don't think reading either first would make much of a difference.

Mother Night is my favorite, but Slaughterhouse Five holds a special place in my heart for being the first one I read.

Cats Cradle is good but a bit unmemorable. Sirens of Titan is fun but lacks some of the refined qualities Vonnegut acquires later. I did not like Breakfast of Champions.

Welcome to the Monkey House has some of my favorites though.

>>7978152
Slaughterhouse 5, even though it's the obvious choice, is damn great. God bless you mr. Rosewater was surprisingly good as well

i've read slaughterhause and cradle, and while i liked them both. slaughterhouse was more impactful, but cradle was a more entertaining read. I really love the carribean dictator archetype.

>>7978143
And what is this "specific definition"?

>>7978159
the before puberty thing i guess

pls respond moderately soon

Bumping
I want to know about this too

>read 19th century critic
>they analyse the moral deficiencies of the author

I don't know what you mean by 'role', I can't relate to this term at all. What is the 'role' of an author? To write a novel? If so the 'role' of the critic is to write a critique of an author. Critics did then largely what they do now, albeit in a very different manner. The best way for you to compare modern critics to the ones of the past is to read the ones of the past. Johnson and Coleridge are the two greatest critics in history; either of those would not be a bad place to start. Ruskin was more of an art critic but immensely influential nevertheless. Pater and Arnold dominated critical writing in the 19th century. And from the early 20th, T. S. Eliot and A. C. Bradley are essential.