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But what if the writers occupation isn't the second third or fourth main conflict of the story? What then, dipshit?

You tried this yesterday and it didn't work. Twy a new troll bub.

>>7810973
Though it's important to write what you know, when you end up writing a story basically about yourself, you've missed the whole point of literature.

you're retarded

go back to /reddit/

You have no taste kill yourself

>>7810938
Oh man, sorry to hear that OP. I really enjoyed it, and enjoy Bolano in general. You could probably chalk it up to a difference in taste.

Maybe try The Savage Detectives, and see if that's more your taste? If you don't like that one either, it's likely Bolano just isn't for you.

>>7810931
>When the Way is lost, there is goodness.
>When goodness is lost, there is morality.
>When morality is lost, there is ritual.
>Ritual is the husk of true faith
>the beginning of chaos.

for ritual, read tradition

Living in caves, raping women and killing each other while sacrificing sheep to statues

>>7810931

It is a line of defense that prevents us from falling for the degeneracy of the modern world.

>>7810926
a moifucking chink cant be the pber yo uu

>>7810926
I actually agree with you.

>>7810987
kind of a good example up until the later years of his life anyway, when he was functionally dependent on his advisers and not quite 100% there. Also, kind of shows why the Nietzschean Ubermensch can be a totally shit ideal in reality.

>>7810886
>Is this obsession with one of the main causes of postmodernism still ongoing in real postmodernist academia?

wew

>>7810900
Then postmodernism a shit. This is all a meme isn't it. I should have been born a century ago but the matrix did a poopie cause of the y2k bug, that's it.

>>7810908
why don't you care for postmodernism?

I don't care for the nazism obsession either, mind you, but you can simply ignore it - because postmodernism.

>>7810873
I would argue it's more someone who's fundamentally flawed and sadistic. Autism is a lack of connection through a lack of understanding, he understands the world but takes it all to himself. It's as if he blames the world for hurting him and then he hurts the lowest among us.
Not autism Anon

Literally not

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>mfw someone jostles me on the street

>>7810850

>Dude... heroin lmao

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>>7810850
My other half reads his stuff, she enjoys his books though she found Shark was a particularly difficult read.

hes literally the biggest cunt who ever lived

wewlad

>>7810805
If you cannot see how it's a masterpiece then there's no real point in discussing literature at all with you m8. It's like you didn't understand a single word in the book...

>>7810805
>>7810806
>References and self aggrandizing
>Masterpiece

It's shit. It's only famous because it was one of the first medieval and surviving European political satire book of it's time.

>>7810726
to better myself

A better self= better world

To achieve peace through understanding.

I'd rather commit suicide than live in constant mental/emotional/spiritual turmoil.

I think that's cool, maybe you should work on the rhythm ?

The Eater of Dreams 1/2

A warm and forward wind hums through the treetops.

The black hand children run when they see me, crouched as I am at the top of a baobob.
‘Cours! Allons-y! II y a le mal dans cet arbre!’
There is an evil in this tree.
Am I an evil?
I lift my spindly fingers to wave.
But they do not notice, their backs disappear into the forest, fear in their wobbling shrieks.
And I continue, dead-eyed.
Continue to scratch and to scratch and to scratch and to dig and to dig and to dig. Nails chipping and cracking with every drag across the bark.
In hope of grubs and insects.
In hope of finding something.
Here is one that’s square, and subtly less alive than the others.
Swallow, feel the beat hit me.
What is it.
Where is it.
How will it affect me.
My pupils balloon and fill my strepsirrhine eyes.
The hair on my bulbous knuckles bristles.
My internal organs retract and dehydrate.
I cling to the trunk as the world whips around me.
And as the larvae drags me through the cracks in reality.
Across the great gulfs of absolutely fucking nothing.
And into the twilight realm.
The sleeping realm.
The kingdom of rapid eye movement and dimethyltryptamine trances.
The stars are portals which solar winds pour out of like a smoking gun barrel.
The moon is a fermenting orb of liquid ambrosia and aqua vitae and potentially semen.
The distant lights of fires
Across the canopy.
Messages between dark eyed men and women
Who sharpened stones in fear of the coming night.
And I am that coming night.
I am at odds with all that was.
I am one with all that is.
My tongue be forked.
My eyes be fire.
My baobob be a nebula.
My heart be the drumbeat under the quantum strings of the universe.
This be my land.
Where the rain is black.
Where the snakes bite with sugar.
Where the birdsong has rhythm.
Where I am the King of Kings of Madagasikara, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God.

2/2

And now,
Where the children run screaming toward me:
Please, Daubentonia, please eat our dreams.
Our dreams, they terrify us, we cannot live our lives but for the fear we feel when the sun goes down and our lids grow heavy.
Wherefore are our dreams so uncivil and barbarous, Sweet Daubentonia?
Wherefore must we dream, and not stay awake forever?
And I thunder in my arboreal tongue:
Whoever said you were asleep when you dream?
What dost thou mean, foul cannibal ape?
I don’t know, I’m just trying to sound portentous.
Eat the dreams, little monkey!
And they proffer them to me, as sweets and jewels illustrious in their glad and glucose-rich fruition.
I feast, because it is the only thing that pulls me along.
How do they taste, prosimian?
They taste like you are very afraid.
What fun, we are so very afraid!
As you should be, for the storm is coming. I see the inferno and the lightning. I see God killing the infidels.
Fucking God, always with the killing infidels.
Tell us more, little ape.
Order and purpose are fallacies.
Brilliant.
If I were you I’d end it now.
That’s the plan, tree-rat.
Tie stones to your feet and jump in the river or eat unknown fruit or just put your fingers in electrical sockets.
We were thinking ropes. They follow us everywhere. Nooses from the branches of rainforest trees.
Great idea. Let me know if it works.
We are very afraid.
I don’t care any more.
Goodbye, night demon.
Oh, I’m feeling it.
We are going to run now.
Come up and get me.
No.
I’m in your area.
Goodbye, we are broken.
I gave you the fever, aye aye.
You gave us the fever, aye aye.
And they run again.
The sky fades to blue.

I drift back.
The gulf of reality closes.
The tree coalesces under me.
My tongue is flat.
My eyes see dark.
My tree is rotten.
My heart is a pitter patter in silence.
A faltering one.
A candle waiting to be blown out.

I was at one with all that was.
I am at odds with all that is.

A chill and backward wind hisses through the treetops.

I just bought Necromancer. Starting it tomorrow after the last 25 pages of Gravity's Rainbow.

>>7810729
>necromancer
Yeah I meant neuromancer. Silly phone autocorrected it.

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>>7810737
Same...I didn't even realize.

this movie was so inoffensive I actually liked it

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>>7810693
The Go-between by L.P. Hartley
It's got very similar themes and it was also turned into a great film in 1971.
Plus, Colm Toibin wrote the Introduction to the NYRB edition.

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>>7811006
pic rel looks like he is plying Who am I

>man being held hostage by books i've read lately.jpg

>>7810405
jej

What's your point, OP?

a lot of them are pseuds with fomo

>>7810383
Shoo retard, shoo

>>7810390
Answer my question first.

>>7810311
That's not John Green, that's John Grey.

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>>7810317

He really is #dftba