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I think I would do neither of those things.

Well sure that would be ideal to live with the love of life and all that it comes with pain and all.

one must imagine Nietzsche happy

This is only a few sentences, but I'd like to know if the writing is any good

He could see today that the girl was enjoying his readings. He had recognised the girl the first time she was in his class. He was familiar with that face, freckled, blue eyed and inquisitive and serene and her short dark hair. He had fallen asleep thinking about her.
One day she was sitting on the entrance steps after school had ended and the children had all gone home.
Has your mother not come to pick you up, he had said.
No, I don't know where she is.
He had downed a sizeable shot of whisky before coming out and finding her here, and it began to warm his empty belly and he felt a calm excitement, fiery, yet peaceful, peaceful. He looked out, beyond the steps where they were now standing, where the sun was setting in the greying sky, as the rain slowed down to a patter, and he felt moments, mere seconds pass by, knowing that what would come next would be a good.

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I posted a paragraph in a thread and people said I should write more. This is the first story I've written and so any help improving would be greatly appreciated.

http://pastebin.com/fubB54r2

I posted this in the other thread, I can post some more of it too if anyone's interested.
http://pastebin.com/4Jutzs7u

Dude, i was looking for some rad 80s movies to torrent for a nostalgia session and i realized that dude has had more movies made of his shit than mother fucking philip k dick and ya'll like dick so why u don't like king? shit he didn't even die yet either, living legend status, dfw will be forgotten, angsty tennis is not going to matter in the future, but spooky tales are timeless

How long has it been since king wrote a decent book?

>>7907955
I don't think /lit cares for movies. I don't mind King, I liked his weird western The Dark Tower up until Book 5.

>>7906528
i like this. where did it come from

>>7906528
i don't like this. please put it back.

Hope that means something to you because it is nothing to me

>>7906032
a raisin in the sun
their eyes werewatching god
anything by toni morrison
that frederick douglass book

>>7906032
Pimp Iceberg Slim

>>7906037
Seconding Pimp and adding Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed.

>>7906036
Trash propaganda

there's an extremely simple solution to your 'problem'

Most library books I get I reach about a quarter until I get bored. I rarely really get engaged in a novel.

everyone on lit does this

How many languages does Harold Bloom know?

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>>7900748

I'm a college undergrad (in a stem field) and will graduate in a few weeks. Although things could be worse, I feel a bit lost, hopeless and dazed in ennui. I feel numb and detached to almost anything and everything as opposed to my previous keen and more excited self. Maybe that's because I failed to build any meaningful relationships or experiences for myself in the past 4 years which have been pretty dull and uneventful.

Literature that deals with this feel? Is this a natural consequence of loneliness, cynicism and social seclusion?


Also, I am going to start stoner since I've heard good things from /lit about it. What should I go in expecting?

Is this the so-called new sincerity; has it finally found its place in commercial music culture?

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/twentyonepilots/stressedout.html

>I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But now I'm insecure and I care what people think.


Is that the new hot thing now or what?

>I'm writer.

>I'm writer.

>>7888682
>>7888683

I'm a writer (sorry)

>>7879498
What about you actually read Stirner.

>>7879498
>According to Zen, the ego is a spook.
>How would Stirner's philosphy change with this realization?
According to me, you're a majestic Canada goose.
How does your philosophy change with this realization?

I don't think you've read der einzige and his essay properly at all. Stirner understands that his own spook-casting-off methodology is itself spooky and that there isn't anything special about overcoming the spooks of others. He says that he must also be overcome, but he never implies that overcoming all spooks and then his own is some kind of transcendental humanist goal.

none. getting used to socialising will help your anxiety

>>7905110
Art of Seduction

>>7905146
/thread

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>>7905055
The book is shit though.

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Brazilian Penguin's cover of Canterbury Tales.

>>7905058
Really? Fuck I ordered a copy yesterday looks like I got memed

please go back to /his/

>>7901792
never been, don't intend to now

hurrdurr nietzsche is a edgy meme xdddd
just because he's mentioned here so often doesn't make him less great.
he's still a dank philosopher.

The same could be said of any manner of death that follows an unexceptional life, and eventually even those who have had a profound influence over the culture and society of their time will be forgotten.

>>7901436
Not so, because influence echoes

>>7901595

you really think anyone is going to care about dfw or hunter Thompson in a thousand years? how bout ten thousand?

what about a million years?

a less extroverted Tao Lin

You don't identify with a writer. You identify with things which are said in his or her book(s).

Faulkner
mostly because I had a somewhat similar upbrining/ grew up in the deep south

I thought it was awesome. Love the way the writing in the boxes always had some visual echo in the art, for example, somebody says "Chew on that" and there's a chicken leg with a bite mark in it in the foreground. Stuff like that. Also how parallel stories would comment on each other, like when Dr. Manhattan is in the TV studio and the dialogue there is "incidentally" commenting on Night Owl and Silk Spectre's fight with the thugs in the alley and the subsequent sexual tension. Lots of cool stuff. Not to mention the chapter that is, in a number of ways, symmetrical. A host of things which show that a lot of thought and deliberation went into both the writing and the art. A smart, beautiful comic.

>>7891746
Good, but the sort of thing that achieves a bad effect, in that now a good 70% of comic writers are out there trying to deconstruct the nature of superheroes, with none of them even getting halfway to the success that Watchmen does it.

>>7891808
This. Watchmen is fucking amazing. Still, it does not make it literature, so would you kindly
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