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Please don't say nigger on this board.

Yeah there's better ways to try to fit in, at least around here.

>>7894855
exactly.
we're too high brow for niggers.

>>7894779
Between highbrow and lowbrow.

>>7894783
classic

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>>7894783

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4E433EF6E56EDD2DB0E903B3C21B6277

stop being a c u c k

>>7894791
Whoa, cool, thanks!

Deleuze is a schizophrenic who took his own mind to be representative of social reality.

>op reads murakami

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>the book's main character does drugs

>>7894758
>he's talking about a jabberwocky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUnqbBgYZmI

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I was thirteen and I knew it was shit.

>>7894765
my 37 year old friend bought those books for me with a hearty recommendation. she has a phd

>>7894745

i like king but that new collection was pretty mediocre

You aren't a fraud, you're procrastinating indefinitely. That isn't fraudulent, it's lazy. Chances are, you know you don't have talent and so are afraid to even start something.
You special snowflake baby bitch.

>>7894708
either enlighten me or kill me

>>7894726
Nobody cares enough to do either.

Do it yourself. Or don't.

Confucius

zniffzek

George Santayana.

>>7894658
You can try the sequel to Paradise Lost, paradise found if you like milton.

>>7894658
Godric by Frederich Buechner

>>7894658
Does Doctor Faustus Count?

You don't. You read Schopenhauer and realize how much of a greater mind he was.

>>7894630
Hegel wrote unintelligible horseshit. He was the Heidegger of his age, as it were.

You get into alchemy, and then you read his works. Trust me.

does it feel like you have no mouth, but you must scream?

>>7894622
Kind of

Notes from the Underground

>>7894561
Maybe before the twentieth century, but Pound alone makes the US a contender in the literary scene; and if you also consider Eliot, Crane, Ashbery, Faulkner, Nabokov (technically), Gaddis, Hawkes, Barthelme, Barth, McElroy, Mano, Burroughs, Coover, Vollmann, Theroux, Wallace, and Gass--my personal favorite--it becomes obvious that, for the latter half of the century, at least, America was, in terms of literature, the most wealthy country in the world. Though, I have to say, France comes pretty close.

>>7894593
He's talking about the contemporary literature.

>>7894605
Oh, well, then it's a little different.

masturbating in a jail cell to loli seduction stories.

Start with the greeks.

anti-justine

de sade a shit

Most of the oldest literature is completely preposterous and based around stories about gods, monsters, and superhuman heroes

>>7894597
That stuff was real

>>7894601

oh

The only way I can convince myself to start writing is when I suddenly catch a visceral sense of motivation about once every 2nd day or so. Then as I contemplate the idea of writing I enjoy this imagined sense of superiority over all the people I know who have made efforts artistically and who I'm going to be better than. I enjoy knowing in that moment that I am a special talent that just hasn't gotten round to action.

I then realise that this motivation to write only exists as means to be revered and respected as a great and I figure that to be truly great I must not allow this feeling to be there when I write.

I take this energy and put it into masturbation,4-6 hours, to mellow me out.

Then I am no longer motivated or capable to string a word together in any creative way so I browse 4chan and shitpost until the following surge of energy.

Overall, it's going rather well.

I've finally accepted that I'm only good at academic writing. So I'm finishing my master's and enrolling for a PhD, to become a badly-payed academic for the rest of my humble existence. I'll literally only be a footnote in history.

"I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer."

>>7894405
why do people think its either x or y? why cant you agree to a personal medium?

Huxley is already happening to be honest, Marcuse and Adorno all predicted the same scenario.

>>7894405

Orwell desu. Huxley got a lot of the social stuff right, but the digital surveillance network the US government is currently assembling is straight out of Orwell. Personally I thought Huxley's vision was also generally less true to life because of the Christcuck Mary Sue protagonist.