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>>7974094
When he fully surrenders to that specific spook

>>7974105
deus ex pepe? nice

>>7974109
>deus ex nillius pepe

FTFY

Paul Muldoon

>>7973522
not obscure enough, childe, for I am already aware of the great Muldoon

steve roggenbuck

yeah he fucked me
t. lemoney snicket

What do i look like?? Tee hee, nobody knows

you'll never get my picture!!

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I can't wrap my head around the fact that such a well known and loved author can be so elusive. Understandable 10-20 years ago, but it's 2016 -- doesn't he have groceries to buy?

That picture doesn't make me cringe, OP. In fact, I find it kind of amusing.

>>7972397
is it that wrong though?

oversimplifications are useful things for people that are only starting to get into a matter

>>7972457
Some panels might be mixed up, but the themes are correct as far as I can tell.

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>might is well

>>7972260
not the same thing, pal

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>>7972222
>if but, and as well

Upvoted and subscribed.

>want to seriously get into literature
meaning
>i don't really like reading but i want to read anyways to look cool to my internet (or real - wait do i have real friends?) friends

>>7972176
This.
If you seriously want to get into literature you need to read. Start with the western canon. You know you're not supposed to read ALL the books, right? You know literature is not a competition, right?
>get overwhelmed by the amount of books you have to read
>tfw give up and read the same pleb books over and over again
That's like (but not really) being thirsty but instead of drinking water you only drink your urine because, you know there's the oceans, right?

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yeah. cool, man. idioms are cool.

>>7971561
I'll cross that bridge when I come to it

>>7971561
Nah but I intentionally through in obscure terms I learned in my "Intro to Philosophy" class I took this semester.

Love explaining to these plebes what secular eschatology is.

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Yes.

His As I Lay Dying adaptation was fucking awful.
Child of God was okay.
His test video for Blood Meridian was shit.
The trailer for The Sound and the Fury looks like full retard.
His poetry and prose is fucking shit. I've read it. It's trash.
He's a man who has adapted to lit very late and has very little actual experience in writing outside of an expensive education, and it really fucking shows.

>>7971533
Basically yeah, but many great authors started out like him. Trying to prove that one can often motivates one to do so, and he's got all the resources that a human being ever could.

Palo Alto was shit, As I Lay Dying adaptation was okay, his new movies look on par to be okay. But he's putting in a great deal of work and going to improve. He could yet be great

>>7971533
He's a pretty face and nothing more.

>>7971435
Rich imagery of americana between '10-'80, dont know why; the bits and pieces of this I found in Libra I really enjoyed.

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Simple and clean orchestration of characters and prose in the vein of ancient myth and epics


>Narcissus was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis noticed this behavior and attracted Narcissus to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus lost his will to live. He stared at his reflection until he died.

When the author seems to reach out through my skull and touch my pineal gland.

>>7971425
A lot of Hawkes stuff is pretty dreamy (not sure if that's the right adjective in this context, his books feel like a dream), particularly the Beetle Leg and the Lime Twig

>Is there any pizza like an apple?
>Is there any fruit like hamburger?

That is how dumb you sound

Just watched that last night, good fuckin movie

The diner scene spooked me hard

What about that bird one.

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>>7971328

i listened to vincent price read ligeia and im not sure if it was actually good or if i just thought it was because of his voice

>he posts the books he reads to instagram

OP you're a faggot

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>any philosophy book that's about ethics

LITERALLY KOTAKUINACTION, return to said website

>>7971303
>any philosophy book that's about ethics.
>posts a philosopher very much interested in ethics.

Pls

>>7970878
Depression isn't real you moron, but go ahead, keep scoffing down pills and reading self help books made solely to make money.

If you want to really get out of that funk, then actually contribute to your happiness by working on your hobbies or interests, taking with people helps too but don't bore them with the typical 'I'm soooooo sad :(', just shoot the shit with them.

Most importantly of all, fuck off to >>>/adv/

>>7970946
Thanks for the contribution to the thread

Maybe he noticed about the great joke that life is

>>7970527
It's all just a Neverending Joke to him

>>7970528
Some sort of eternal send-up

If you get lost reading something like this, then you probably shouldn't be reading at all

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>>7969735
>genre fiction

>>7969745
the book is notorious for its fucked up structure though