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He's the king of fedoras and degeneracy.

>>7814110
>progressives like Foucault
:-S

cool so just because he inspired those people he should be focused on

what about the people who inspired him

why not focus on anyone after him

what makes him so great? is it that he inspired all those people? doesn't that imply that he is great because he influenced greatness? if thats the case then why not study his descendants?

if its the source of the influence that is great then why not study the influences of nietzsche?

>>7814090
Read this first: http://www.aaronvandyke.net/summer_readings/Guattari_Felix-Mary_Barnes_Trip.pdf

Has land done anything besides scattered blogs?

>>7814430
books and essays
no reason a blog can't be a philosophical work (though I wish he organised it a bit better)

My diary desu

>>7815315
Evangelion x Gravity's Rainbow crossover set in the south that isn't readily identifiable as a fanfiction.

The most epic work of literature. Ever.

but a necessary and inevitable one.

its like saying that perspective vision, the way we see the world due to the human eyes anatomy, is false. it is indeed not the "objective" state of things, yet it is the way we see them and, despite not being "true" (note the irrelevance of the question), it is practical. or have you ever seen a child failing to walk just cause he sees in perspective?

>>7815105
"Philosophy too focused on concepts and not logic was a mistake"

ftfy

Haha I like cocks
-L. Wittgenstein

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"no"

>>7813992
Maybe you should stick to Penny Arcade

>>7813992
desu that fathers and sons comic is pretty fucking funny

>>7813881
Being in the war

>>7814018
This
Nothing matches actually being out there, but you can't do that.

I recommend reading, watching, listening, and absorbing everything you can about the war before you try and accurately capture it.

>>7813881
Visit eastern Ukraine

That's just depressing. At least he got to talk with Groucho Marx.

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>>7815101
Who wasn't ?

>>7815122
Wittgenstein. :^)

Man, I'm gonna read the shit out of this book once I finish Brothers K

ondaatje is all that comes close in terms of modern authors imo, but it's a different poetic style.

it really is the perfection of modern prose, reminiscent of evelyn waugh

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>>7813786
>contemporary prose

>>7814946

If you're actually asking yourself this question, you're probably pleb enough to enjoy them, so go ahead and read them.

>>7814946
well youre wrong in comparing them to lit yes. theyre just for a quick giggle m8

Homestuck is literally the Ulysses of the 21st century. It's incomparable, inimitable, and perfect in every way.

“HS is supposedly a story that is also a game. In games, the characters die all the time. How many times did you let Mario fall in the pit before he saved the princess? Who weeps for these Marios. In games your characters die, but you keep trying and trying and rebooting and resetting until finally they make it. When you play a game this process is all very impersonal. Once you finally win, when all is said and done those deaths didn’t “count”, only the linear path of the final victorious version of the character is considered “real”. Mario never actually died, did he? Except the omniscient player knows better. HS seems to combine all the meaningless deaths of a trial-and-error game journey with the way death is treated dramatically in other media, where unlike our oblivious Mario, the characters are aware and afraid of the many deaths they must experience before finally winning the game.” -- The James Joyce of the 21st century, Andrew Hussie

Just...wow.

/r/ someone write this.

>>7813780
It seems to be that this is a major problem in literature, or rather, with the supply chain of literature. There aren't really labels you can put on a book to make it stand out from your average tumblr-core writer. There's no platform onto which one may receive the upcoming good writers.

>>7813780
I prefer to follow them on foot, because I blend into a crowd pretty easily. Also, it allows for greater mobility.
I tend to find them by googling around and figuring out what general area they live in, and then I hang around somewhere it seems like they go. I manged to follow Houellebecq a while in Paris because I figured out he liked to shop at the large grocery store in the XIIIeme. I followed him around the aisles, peering around corners to look at him. He shopped very slowly at times, carefully checking any breads or cheeses, lightly feeling them through the packaging with his fingertips. His trip through the freezer section was pretty quick, he seemed to really know what he wanted there. A lot of Asian carryout style stuff. On the way out I had the balls to ask him for a light, but left it at that because it was a violation of my rules.
I also managed to follow Philip Roth for a while, but I happened on him by total accident. I was buying a bagel, then he came in. I almost thought I was mistaken, but the waitress sperged and asked for an autograph. I managed to follow him for about six blocks after that, but when he went into the subway I saw him pointing me out to the cops, so I cut and run.
I've followed a few others, but those two were my favorites.

>ywn be published

>>7813766
>book 19

yo what the fuck

>'post successful' is the closest you will come to a literary career.

Don't.

with a different murakami

the rubbish bin

>>7814807
Why can't you just write something you'd be proud of?

>comfort zone, the post

>>7814807
That's how he weeds out people who suck and aren't confident in their work. Don't come here thinking you'll get a hug box because other spergtards frequent these lands.

>>7813669
Gass, McCarthy, and Pynchon are not modern writers. The modern writer with the best prose is James Joyce, bar none. Illiterates disagree.

>>7813702
I think you mean Modernist. Don't play ignorant, it is obvious what OP means

I like Coetzee. It's very simple but also very calculated and powerful. McCarthy is great, obviously. Carpentier. Nabokov. Saramago. Kundera. Bellow. Rushdie. There are tons.

>The whole third act is sad as fuck.

Refresh my memory; what was the third act?

>it depressed me

Hit a little too close to home didn't it?

>>7814841
Daily reminder there is nothing wrong with Ignatius, and he is better than nearly every character in this book