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jorunalism is dying and if you get into it youll just end up writing shitty buzzfeed clickbait unless youre willing to risk your life and travel to warzones while getting paid fuck all

>>7749415
this is what i'm afraid of, though i know you can do a lot with a journalism degree i just think it's more fitted to be a part-time job nowadays.

>>7749415
Or you'll be writing political articles which fit the agendas of the companies who fund the websites and publications.

>>7749400
that is one incredibly bad dude.

Wow, I thought I was a delinquent in highschool but this guy takes the cake.

that's good writing

Why do you even need to make a speech? It seems stupid.

>>7749259
Obviously:

O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead! — nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month, —
Let me not think on't, — Frailty, thy name is woman! —
A little month; or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears; — why she, even she, —
O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer, — married with mine uncle,
My father's brother; but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month;
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married: — O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
But break my heart, — for I must hold my tongue!

>>7749291
i agree, but his kids (late 20's) are doing speeches
and i (late 20's) was asked to give one also, so im obliging

I don't see any greeks in that pile you womyn reading transfaggot

>>7749197
apologies for the orientation

>>7749197
boy. you're gonna be overloaded after all that. i'd just read a few of them at a time and try to refresh yourself with a few more modern and a few less modern. start with poe or dickens.

it takes longer for a story to develop then a page

>>7749191
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ARGUING AGAINST THAT GUY REGARDING BOOK OF THE NEW SUN vs MOBY DICK. holy fuck. thank you based borges. to answer that, Petersburg by Bely. never been blown away quite like that.

>>7749198
>implying that one reads for 'story'
>implying that the transcendence of the author cannot be revealed in a single paragraph and done consistently through a book
>what is Proust Madeleine scene?

>>7749159
I always laugh when i read bukowski and remember there are people who consider it poetry, let alone "good"

>>7749159
Lewis Carroll. The hunting of the snark in particular.

Jonathan Swift.

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>translations

>>7749121
I would assume German is better suited as a language. Don't know anything about specific translations into either.

>>7749127
>limiting your ability to read to your ability to learn languages

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>it's more of a foible brahaha

>>7749083

I read that it's because he's self-conscious about how much he sweats. Apparently the guy perspires like a stuck pig bleeds.

https://youtu.be/drLEdNmbvsA?t=270

my diary to be truthful

my micropeen nigga

>>7749073
Ornament and Crime

>>7748975
>not reading mort d'arthur
how fucking pleb can you get?

why did arthur let lancelot bang his woman?

Read it when I was a kid. I remember really liking everything but the Holy Grail sections, which was sad because I really liked Galahad but it was just a weird tale.

Lancelot and Guinevere was my first introduction to cucking I suppose.

>le spooky ambiguous evil meme character

mccarthy a shit

"andandandandandandandand"

Yo I'm never gonna read this book. Ruin it for me in exactly 27 words

>>7748923
>>7748931
Fuck you both its a good read

>>7748903
The woman pushed on the baby's stomach and sucked its penis into her mouth; it was thinner than the American menthols she smoked and a bit slimy, like raw fish. She was testing to see if the baby would cry, but the little arms and legs were still, so she peeled away the plastic wrapping over its face. She lined a cardboard box with towels, laid the baby inside, and taped the box shut. Then she tied it with string and wrote a made-up name and address on the side in big print.
>dropped

is that your diary?

>>7748903
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>>7748852
if you reply to my christopher moore thread, i'll reply to yours.

>>7749190
But anon, you've already replied to my thread.

If you've ever been to a carnival or fair,
"Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All"

If you like David Lynch movies,
"David Lynch Keeps His Head"

If you like tennis,
"Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry . . . [not typing the rest of the title]

But, regardless of what you like, read,
"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again "

Sorry if you were looking for another essay about fiction / pop-culture. I've only read his first collection.

>>7748844
Good suggestions, gracias

Big Red Son is amazing

>>7748747
so is poetry

>>7748754
yo wot m8
yo fkin sh8
go fk a cr8
shitb8

>>7748762
>yo
>not u
1/10