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>>7889235
Elaborate?

>>7889235
This and they tried pandering too hard to nonreaders and children who exclusively read comics/manga. It just came off as desperate.

>i only watched the tv series

try reading the book, faggot

>>7889244
Is the book worth it though? I know >muh classics, I was going to get started with it, but the plot for Natasha made me ragequit

>>7889224
is the series good? strongly considered giving it a shot a while ago

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>>7889148
as I scrolled /lit/ early in the morning sipping bland coffee from an almost invisible styrofoam cup, which I'd used the day before, and had argued about it's environmental effects on newborn babies in China with a new age tea drinking co-worker, mirroring the asstastic quality of the coffee, I stumbled on a lonely thread with an image that might have been the Last Supper at some ppint in it's digital lifespan, now run through hundreds of ones and zero's that algorithimized it into an OP's smart and insightful commentary on religion. Quite honestly I've seen better filters back in day old Instagram. The image now resembled an amalgamation of a Bacon and Bekzinski, degenerates of a bygone era now gone thanks to beauty and depth of modern art, which OP might not quite be in touch with thanks to his/her/xer homophobic tendencies. I quickly typed down my thoughts on it and the deplorable concept of the thread but just as quickly realized my writing skills are nonexistent and that I should not even bother with a (you). Thank G*d I stopped myself from that timesink.

Someone left The Last Supper in the washer

>>7889285
It's called "Satans Last supper" It's from 1950.

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>>7889045

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>>7889045

The by the

the almost parodistically extensive use of the phrase "stretched his/her legs"

>>7888976

There's nothing wrong with it. Except the sequels and all those horrible cash in similar YA novels that tried to emulate its success.

Why did Americans need the title to be changed to 'sorcerer's stone' from 'philosopher's stone'?

Nah the most important one is deciding whether it's worth living at all.

OT though, I believe the universe to be indifferent. You might perceive some things to be friendly or hostile to you but it's largely relative unless directly expressed.

>>7888961
>>/sci/

>>7888961
This is not remotely related to literature. Please delete this thread and then yourself.

I smoke like a degenerate. I ruined, like, three books because of ash and cig burns.

>>7888932
Were they good books?

>>7888932
Adds character.

>>7888905
>reading to gain confidence
Go to the gym.

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Cioran - On the Heights of Despair

>>7888905
Quit fapping it's the only thing that's ever helped me

>>7888857
Inherent Vice, Vineland, or V.
I read him in this order: TCoL49, Vineland, Bleeding Edge, V, Gravity's Rainbow

>>7888866
Thanks famlam. Should l re-read V. before jumping into GR? I've heard they''re connected somehow.

V. is better and more difficult than GR anyway. Pynchon's past tense usage in V and Lot 49 is more representative of his style than the present tense of GR

>She looked. Quick. Miss Kenn out of earshot. Sudden bent. Two kindling faces watched her bend.
>Quavering the chords strayed from the air, found it again, lost chord, and lost and found it, faltering.
>—Go on! Do! Sonnez!
>Bending, she nipped a peak of skirt above her knee. Delayed. Taunted them still, bending, suspending, with wilful eyes.
>—Sonnez!
>Smack. She set free sudden in rebound her nipped elastic garter smackwarm against her smackable a woman’s warmhosed thigh.
>—La Cloche! cried gleeful Lenehan. Trained by owner. No sawdust there.
>She smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren’t men?), but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan.
>—You’re the essence of vulgarity, she in gliding said.

>John Eglinton, frowning, said, waxing wroth:
>—Upon my word it makes my blood boil to hear anyone compare Aristotle with Plato.
>—Which of the two, Stephen asked, would have banished me from his commonwealth?
>Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man’s blood they creepycrawl after Blake’s buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

>Womb? Weary?

>He rests. He has travelled.

It still sends chills through my spine.

>implying I care about a glorified children's author or le funny drug man's processes

Interesting. I had heard about Thompson, but not about Stevenson's habit.

Should be a good exercise in concentration as well.

Exactly how long is a 'passage' and a 'huge passage'?

>>7888637
It's hard to understand what you're saying, anon. It's not very coherent.

If you're really so perplexed as to how homophobia and racism can exist in the developed world, just examine your own attitudes. You're making judgemental statements about other human beings based on their behaviour, saying they act like "petty little children," for instance.

In the same way, a poor white person who grows up around black people might find himself completely fucking perplexed and angry at how these people act.

Someone might have bad experiences with homosexuals and being gay myself, bad experiences with homos are not hard to come by

I think you don't have a well-developed sense of how people outside of your circumstances think, and are very much only familiar with a multicultural, liberal democratic viewpoint, which is why you don't understand the perspective of people whose views don't line up with your kind of "live and let live" ideology.

I dunno, I might be completely wrong anon. I just think my thoughts are so distant from your own it might be hard for me to properly engage with what you're saying.

Being polite is not the same as being a saint. Polite people are cruel and mean spirited in a polite way. These people are not "racist" or "homophobic" because they have learned that these things are impolite, not because they are saints ready to die for their neighbours.

>>7888637
Teach highschool and you will know people are monkeys, as photo shows. My first year teaching highschool out of college a kid spit in my water bottle and gave me mono, teaching me to never, ever leave my water unattended on my desk. These are lik 17, 18 year olds and they suck. Actually makes you want to sterilize most people.

He applied to art school, being inspired by surrealism, and that night tucked his watercolors carefully into his suitcase for Savannah, Georgia.

>>7888600
Sticky hands reminded him of the razor that slit his arms a few days ago. "Why can't I stop masturbating to her panties" he thought, removing the panties stapled to his head, zipping up his pants.

and the worst thing about it all was
I NEVER LEARNED TO DRAW PERSPECTIVE!

it shows

After years of false starts, read the history.

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>>7888571
>as i lay dying was written in 6 weeks

He's a period piece.

>>7888585
So he's not worth reading?

>>7888568
try picking up one of his books and looking at the words printed inside. sometimes they mean something that appeals to certain people. you might be one of them