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>>7872616

ure mom

>>7873398
fookin ell

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same thing she saw.

>>7872578
You can discuss plays.
Vagina monologues is vulgar and not funny (watched about 5 minutes before walking out)

>>7872578
ever * is it*
Shoot sorry for the typos. I really shouldn't be on 4chan with my shitty phone.

>>7872588
Oh ok. Just asking since my friend asked me if I wanted to see it with her. Will probably skip if it's crude humor to the point of not even being funny. Also I heard there was controversial rape thing with two lesions or something.

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>>7872229
>more enlightened
she just NEEDS to take the brown pill

IMO the greatest poets of our age have taken to music. Nevermind and Highway 61 Revisited are achievements in language and storytelling that truly stand their own against the works of older wordsmiths like Pound or Whitman

Kurt Cobain:
Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an old enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o

Bob Dylan:
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What ?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done ?"
God says. "Out on Highway 61".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjAVqLhXuo

>>7872229
I think they are just playing a different game. Lyrics have a different aesthetic context than poetry does.

Things like delivery and complementary instrumentation put different demands and liberties onto the musician than they do the poet.

On the one hand, I would say that it gives the musician the opportunity to be more experimental and bend and break the rules in ways that poets can't because they don't have that extra context to fall back on. On the other hand it has the potential to foster laziness and produce the ridiculous amount of shitty songs that exist.

Also it is more focused on the visceralness of what is produced that repetition becomes acceptable in a way that doesn't work with poetry.

Richard Pevear and Lara Volokhonsky have recently translated Karamazov, Notes and Crime and Punishment. I enjoyed all three and they come in nice editions.

learn russian

>>7872228

Ah, I think I read their edition of Notes from Underground and liked it immensely. Is their version of Crime and Punishment better than Constance Garnett's?

>>7872252

I'm reading them for a college class, anon, ain't got no time for that

mason and Dixon

>cuz goodreads score

>>7872177
>disliked
The spy stuff is horrid. Good thing that he eventually gave up Le Carre.
All that shlemmshpiel on Benny was just as boring as the character itself.

op here: honestly this book really wasn't that great

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>>7872073
>novice lever

Here's a pretty basic "class 1" lever you can start with.

>>7872085
thank you, i will study it all day untill i can move the earth with it

>>7872073
Don't feel the need to include stock fantasy themes because 'elves are fantasy, you gotta have elves!'

Don't feel the need to try subverting themes for the sake of subversion either.

Don't write in overly formal olde-tymey style just because you're in a faux-medieval setting

just DO it

the famous ones are all good. fun lesser known ones are

a predicament - or the scythe of time
the angel of the odd
some words with a mummy

poe was actually quite humorous in a lot of his stuff

Loss of Breath desu senpai

Ligeia is my personal favourite.

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Heart of Darkness is on my list although it does fall on the kill myself side of the spectrum.

non-hard-mode answer: The Snow Leopard by Peter Mathiassen

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Have you written a crime-murder mystery trashley?

>>7871824
Please answer my question.

>>7871819
Editors and agents definitely won't

beta readers might but probably won't

Le pedicabo faec

38 latin stories accompaniment book for wheelock's latin. using it to refresh myself. haven't read latin works in a good long while.

Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

he is very bad at prose
he panders to the "i le fucking love science xD" neil degrasse tyson crowd to levels so nauseating that it spoils his stories

>>7871672
>he is very bad at prose
good thing you are too!

>>7871892
This is a 4chan post you pretentious fuck

after i'm dead my shitposts will be world famous

>>7871663
It's not like I published anything.
It's a race where he already ran a lap,and I still haven't moved an inch.
I will beat him in the race,just give me more time.
t.Turtle

>winning awards
>actual achievement
>thinking they are the same

I personally think JG writes what he does just to pay the bills. It's easy for him and he enjoys the process of writing, he can keep going to the bank, and he has scores of teen qt3.14s fawning over him. Why would he stop if that's why he's doing it in the first place?

It's like you don't understand that true achievement and fulfillment is an internal issue of virtue and no amount of external validation can change it.

He wasn't a philosopher

>him
>philosopher
At least not in the same sense of the word as it is applied to Plato, Kant and so forth, but I think his best 'philosophical' work was the one which was about philosophy in bedroom. I can't remember the title, but it was the less overly vulgar, edgy work that he crafted to shock everyone, most of it being pretty dry and boring once you get over the fact that much of it is extremely disgusting and abhorrent. I didn't even read most of 120 Days of Sodom as you could cut away entire sections from it and the work would neither fall in quality or improve as indeed it is quite literally trash, and I'm not saying this because I am concerned with morality or the lack of it, rather his mode of writing and the insistence on being an edgy fuck all the while managing to be a bore.

If you want to read somewhat of a libertine, try Casanova's memoirs. That is very good stuff, through out the entirety of it. He is much more cultured, interesting and intelligent. His life was also much more interesting, if you compare the both, and Casanova was the man of his time par excellence, while de Sade was almost an idiot.

>>7871596
Alcohol!

Fuck off /mu/ your board is shit

Bitch please

>>7871489

But /mu/ is only my sideboard.

That's what you get for pirating ;)

Nigger

>>7871454

Damn, beat me to it.


Stop being spoiled OP. The words are still legible yes? Read the goddamn book and stop whining on a japanese imageboard.