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>>7934909
"Where there's a goat there's a farm."
-Galvin Steucemire, The Secret Life of Steuce (1906)

>>7934909
"It has occurred to me through my vast exploration of concessions that indeed fluid cheese is the best cheese."
-Timothy Bressua, Coming to the Land (2008)

''In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence '' - Aalewis, r/atheism.

"lol memes"

give up

"Do homework"

Shameful self-bump.

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Igual que vibran los primeros rayos
donde esparció la sangre su Creador,
cayendo el Ebro bajo la alta Libra, 3

y a nona se caldea el agua al Ganges, 4
el sol estaba; y se marchaba el día,
cuando el ángel de Dios alegre vino. 6

Fuera del fuego sobre el borde estaba 7
y cantaba: «¡Chupame la pija!»
con voz mucho más viva que la nuestra. 9

Luego: «Más no se avanza, si no muerde
almas santas, el fuego: entrad en él
y escuchad bien el canto de ese lado.» 12

Nos dijo así cuanto estuvimos cerca;
por lo que yo me puse, al escucharle,
igual que aquel que meten en la fosa. 15

Por protegerme alcé las manos juntas
en vivo imaginando, al ver el fuego,
humanos cuerpos que quemar he visto. 18

Please critique:
Lights from buildings above illuminate the skyscrapers stretched like giant’s fingers towards the open air, begging for rain. The lights, like manufactured stars, only served as a fake night sky. They never turned off. The city is always bright, no matter what time it is. Lights from above, and from below: flashing traffic lights, billboards in profile, helicopter searchlights seeking their victim with heavy fingers, probing the ground. Bright neon signs, bulbous and crass, blind me with their glow, their incessant hum ringing in my ears. A never ending twilight, stretched out over this unreal city. Night is laid like a blanket over a resting city. Lights burn holes in the fabric, buildings poke through it with sharp spires, wearing it away like moths. The lights never turn off, the buildings always glinting and winking; large candles waiting for that extinguishing gust of wind. I walk the streets at night, watching, looking, observing. I see how they never turn off, never go out, never end. They burn. I walk the streets often, tracing invisible lines up and down avenues and boulevards. There is no particular destination. I stumble from place to place, empty location to empty location, aimless. A trashed newspaper blown about on the wind. The wind blows much of the trash all over the city- the soiled clothing, used fliers, remains of food long gone moldy, the torn shoes, crumpled and soggy boxes, worn blankets, old bags. It grabs it all, depositing it in clumps throughout the city without prejudice. It searches every tight corner, every small nook and overlooked alley, finding every secluded spot and spreading trash everywhere. I, the old newspaper, see all types of garbage. I see the soiled clothing hanging from the weak bones of the poor. I see the musicians and artists hanging up their fliers, trying to find success while sacrificing for their “art”. The food tossed out by careless families who have plenty to spare. I see the torn shoes shuffling about, one foot after the other while the red-cheeked and razor burned faces turn from the wind. There! In the alley, the crumpled boxes holding wet garbage, sheltering stray cats and sometimes people. I see the old bags blowing in the wind like me, hags in bags pushing their squeaky carts haphazardly through the streets. The wind moves us all.

>>7942747
> equivocates between "reading" and "reading novels"
> obviously 'learned' logic from a film strip

Probably bait but reading enhances your mental and emotional development more than movies and games do. It's not just about telling a story, its about reading closely, comprehending and feeling all that the author is imparting. His soul is literally on that paper.

With games and movies its much too easy to get distracted by all the fluff and spectacle, not so much with books. Its you and the text.

>>7942747
>frustatate

Alot but not as much as I want.

>>7939451
/thread

>>7939440

I just finished reading Illness as a Metaphor by Susan Sontag.

>>7938295
>king dies of poison in the ear
>rumors of his son's homosexuality
How the fuck do you not get this?

"Here hung those lips that I kissed I know not how oft."
-Hamlet, speaking of Yorick.

>>7938295

The gays and the Jews are always trying to rewrite history where everyone is gay. Hamlet wasn't gay. Neither was Shakespeare.

They've been trying to prove Shakespeare was gay for 400 years as if it would somehow justify them being gay. And the Jews can't stand that the greatest writer that ever lived was a straight white cis middle class male. It infuriates the both of them. They can't accept it.

And I'm not even a /pol/lack.

>>7938260

No. He's too difficult.

>>7938260
I liked V. and Lot 49 a lot.

Disliked Inherent Vice and GR. A lot.

What's the low-down on Pynchon? I ignored him like the
>David
>Foster
>Wallace
threads, but I noticed a book by him in the local library the other day and I might check him out.

How very un-Christian of her.

The same reason everyone else does. It's not just a /lit/ thing.

Because the free market is always right, but most people haven't realized this yet.

Also all governments are useless bureaucracies. Oh, and labor is useless without job creators. If we didn't have job creators, we'd all starve.

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>Berserk
>display the raw brutality of a medieval era

18+ site

>>7935246
Game of thrones t b h

>>7923044
I've only read half of valis and honestly i'd recommend skipping it. It's just a christian-gnostic dump out of the mouths of stupid characters that remind me of my friends when I was twenty. I'm always interested in those lenes of thought about consciousness and god, and despite the interesting subject matters, pkd (again speaking from only having read half of one of his books) is a terrible writer.

>>7923061
lines* not lenes

>>7923044
Anytime I see a thread about him I want to derail it and talk about Bladerunner.

Havnt read any of his books

>yeah I'm that guy

>>7930006
What do you mean by left-wingers? Liberal or socialist?

Way too much Zizek on there. Nice to see Paulo Freiere, though. Fromm's nice to read, but I disagree with many of his moralistic ideals. Lenin is absolute trash. Neoliberalism is a joke as well.

Where's C. Wright Mills, Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky, and Pierre Bourdieu at?

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>>7930006
Read Stirner, too.

>>7934917
I study archaeology so ancient civilisation's perceptions of the world form most of my inspiration

>>7934917
causation, causation, causation

You don't include an isolationist nation of proud ivory tower elves because something something 'tolkein did it it must be good,' you include it because X led to that situation Y. If you don't have a good reason for X, you shouldn't include Y. Worldbuilding is less a matter of drawing a map and more a matter of timelines and falling dominoes.

>>7934917
Get inspired by history. Have a solid understanding of geography, meteorology, physics, economy, technology and languages.

Also preferably ignore all other works of fiction, world building in these ranges from bad to worse.

If you can help it, don't bother with creation of your own world at all.

>>7933027
>putting our heros and our enemies in the same list
are you trying to humanize those lefty cucks or what?

Fuck off tripfaggot

>>7933027
Who is that semen demon in the bottom right corner? I want to pseudo all over her lectual

>>7929338
I think a lot of them are. Middlemarch probably tops it for me, because of just how long it was, and how much I still wanted to read it despite sitting there for 5+ hours at a time.

Libra certainly is.

>>7929338
Finnegans Wake. Every time I picked it up I would turn back the page I was on and think "wtf, I don't remember reading any of this".

I don't know. I'm boycotting women authors

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>>7927386
Tits or gtfo