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>>7874015
I forget.

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If I rember right he's still in his nhilistic death wish phase then, not mention he's nuerotic and unpredictable like any drug user.. He just lashes out I'd say.

Is this book more reddit or less reddit than Snow Crash?

Good literature can have elements of erotica. If you mean erotica as in genre fiction then no. Genre fiction can't be considered good relative to anything outside of its genre.

nice calabash, data.

>>7873981
I mean a book where the main selling point is the sex. You read that book fully expecting that you may fap to it at some point.

Don't leave me hanging, lads.

>>7873770
Stephan A. Hoeller:
-Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
-The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead

-The Gnostic Bible
-The Nag Hammadi Library

-Voices of Gnosticism - Miguel Conner

>>7874140
I forgot:

-This Way: Gnosis Without "Gnosticism"
and
-How to Think Like a Gnostic
both by Jeremy Puma

His views on gnosticism are a bit off the beaten path, having been influenced by Philip K. Dick and Buddhism.

Autistic fedora-wearing teenagers are already reviving it.

>>7873721
How so?

>>7873721
This is literally a meme. There is no such thing.

You can know about a spook, and thus be freed from it, while still using it for whatever reason you want.
In this case you know the idea of a Western Art Canon is a spook, and judging things through it would be spooky, but you can choose to do so anyways, placing certain works higher than others because they stretch the boundaries of that spook.

>>7873591
>this entire post
This is why we need religion.

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Literary value is just a particular flavour of fun that certain people like for various reasons, one of them being that it's a more challenging flavour of fun and another one being that it is a more prestigious form of fun, prestige being something enjoyable in its own right.

It's a certain frame that you can opt into if it makes things more enjoyable for you, elitism can be very rewarding for the ego. If it's something that you consider an obstacle you should simple not buy into it.

What matters is if elitism works for you. Ultimately it's all just muh feelsies.

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borne in le wronge genereshun amirite
+1

>>7873563
Well tell us more about yourself OP, you're clearly one of Greene's biggest fans who reads him all day erry day and feels compelled to share your love of him by posting him on /lit/ all day erry day

>>7873563
They will write shitty books like Jhon Green's books

>>7873528
Maybe if I incorporate more Jewish bidding!

No. In fact I've never written a thing outside of mandatory school assignments.

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>Implying having what you perceive as success is what we should all strive for
>Implying what is popular has literary merit
>Implying your work only has worth if it has this specific achievement, and is not only completely pathetic if less than that but those who have achieved this are untouchable to criticism
>Implying I'm not taking my time writing so my work isn't a complete piece of shit
>Implying I want my work to be popular, or even published, and not just something I want to do for non-profit and business reasons
>Implying we should be writing what will make us successful and not what we want to read or write.

kysmm

scrolling through /lit/ what do i see
a brand new thread made by the fag OP
just as i thought his concept was shite
but he mentioned battle raps so i said 'aight'
you can't fuck with me - i'm the keyboard champion
try all you want, my style can't be dampened
you're wasting my time so i gotta dip
OP keep your day job - eating dicks

my name is jeff and I'm here to say.
anyone read john green? nigga you fuckin gay.
suckin Dicks and lickin titties look at me I'm keisha damn girl where you get these titties. itty-bitty bitty baby itty-bitty boat habeeb it

Jazz is shit music and film is an inferior medium.

>>7873389
You'll grow up one day son.

>>7873408
When that day comes, I hope I'll know how to use commas.

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>People that would go on a cruise

>>7873090
>tfw losing at chess against little girl.

I don't know. That essay was honestly very hilarious, and I'm not sure if it really was 'nonfiction'

Start with the Greeks.

>>7872920

>WHY DO WE CRAVE THE FINITE BUT THE WORLD HAS PROVEN IT'S ANYTHING BUT

because you touch yourself at night

Is Don Quixote hard to read?

start with the greeks

Good luck finding time for leisure reading

Ready Player One

>>7872754
Faerie Queene

>>7872754
Hamlet

>>7872754
>>7872773
>muh arthurian legends
(He's right though)
Le Morte d'Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Mists of Avalon
The Wicked Day
I am Mordred

>>7872714
only if Dore is illustrating them

>>7872718
Or Blakes illustrations for his poetry

I bought this for my nephew. He likes it.

Total apples is implied.
>for each tree we determined the percentage of bad apples.

Could use proportion instead of percentage too.

per total apples is implied so you can say
>for each tree we determined the percentage of bad apples

first is technically correct but makes you sound mentally impaired

second is wrong

write: the ratio of bad apples to good apples

now delete your thread please