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To clarify, I meant better writer in your first language only -- So in other words do second/third languages carry over to your first language?

probably. i think about language differently and my writing has improved since learning japanese

>>7838657
You don't truly know your native language until you become multilingual.

I dunno. I don't read commies.

Puissant is not obscure. You'll have to do better than that.

>>7838645
It sure as hell is. I knew what it meant before reading the book, but it's awkward seeing it multiple times on a page when "powerful" or "magical" or even some sensory description of how it felt oh so PUISSANT would be better. But no, fuck you, reader.

I'm googling around because I'm asspained, somebody compiled a list for another of his novels:
>eructation
>sciolist
>aspis
>gonoph
>teratology
>punter
>comprador
>perisaltic
>oleaginous
>grot
>spiv
>wide-boy
>nous
>sortilege
>bathetic
>contumely
>zoetrope
>oneiric
>argot
>chary
>pusillanimous
>chthonic
>autopoiesis

To name a few.

>>7838526
start with the greeks

nietzsche didn't even think he himself was an oobermench

>>7838526
At least his character arch is beta to alpha, which is admirable.

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>>7838493
... We're all God's children.

>>7838493
yes
if the movie is anything to go by

Absolutely the worst book I've ever read. If you're older than the age of 12 you should be ashamed of yourself.

>>7838449
The cheap-o Moleskine knockoffs work great since the paper is usually rougher and I write with cheap shitty biros.

>>7838458
i think OP is asking what style guide we use, not what kind of paper you buy.

chicago style or off yourself immediately

I got a Leuchtturm 1917, but I realized that it's too nice to creatively fuck around with. Get something that looks like shit and costs a dollar. You won't be afraid to sully something pretty that way.

no, gimme your milk money

>>7838401
bowing is a spook

>>7838407
he doesn't have milk money. just steal the wallpaper.

>>7838395
your looking at it friendo :^)

>>7838395
>besides reddit

stopped reading there

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FUCK YOU

>>7838368
calm down bic boy I'm sorry.
>being this mad

>>7838360
Don't you need to know how to read to be able to write?

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>>7838241
>tfw a My Little Pony fanfiction is longer than your magnum opus
Being the writer of War & Peace must be suffering.

>>7838249
which fan fic are you talking about?

>>7838249
>he thinks War and Peace is his magnum opus, let alone good

top kek

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>>7838196
>King Lear
>shitty

Et tu, plebe?

>>7838210
King Lear has been nothing but complete shit.

>>7838179

I remember it being marketed at Scholastic book fairs as being "the new Harry Potter." I judged it as a lame rip-off of Harry Potter stuck with Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, and Garth Nix books.

>>7838179
I remember reading this series. Knock off Harry Potter, but I didn't mind at the time. I remember the books being designed so that they were the thickness of a Harry Potter book, but there was so much empty space between the lines that I could finish them easily and feel smart for having read a book with so many pages so quickly.

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>>7838185
>>7838183
Knock off Harry Potter? You two are delusional. What does this have anything to do with Harry Potter besides length? Comparing all big books with spaced writing to Harry Potter is the most pleb thing I've ever heard.

This. It isn't funny or edgy nowadays. It's just diarrhea.

>>7838156
>>7838177
why do you guys hate it?
Burroughs' cut-up method is great in that it isolates and alienates the seemingly insignificant senses and gives them a chaotic sense of fragmentary beauty. His adoption of methods from science and detective fiction and then jumbling them up gives the language a strangely literary quality.

I also think its important as a book of speech-act theory, where language becomes a tool with a performative function of disorder, eliminating the systems of control that Burroughs attacked, but on a linguistic level

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It reads like book by someone who has been told they're clever their whole life, and feel the need to share their cleverness with the world.
Clever as in burger sense of the word, not bong.

Also discussion/thoughts on the stories Conan.

I fucking love the Conan stories. Such absolutely delightful writing.

There's a lot of creativity in them, too. You could tell that Howard was always trying to mix it up. Conan isn't even always right all the time.

>>7838256
As someone who has only heard of Conan in passing, were should I begin?

>>7838076
>a state or attack of uneasiness or unreasonableness

yes i googled it. yes i saged.

What are some good writings about friendship, its nature, maybe some portrayals of what good friends are like? Interested because I don't think I've ever had those; I don't even know what friends are, really.

>>7838653

Pinecone t b q h
Also Camus' Plague is about bros.