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All that is required to read Ulysses

>>7742184
In all seriousness, I think you'll find better responses on r/books than you will here.

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Read everything from the Beat Generation. Star with On the Road.

>you're so taught

>>7742211
yeah fuck "taut". Spelling is bullshit

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>>7742161
Literary madness a la Torquato Tasso.

> The disease Tasso began to suffer from is now believed to be bipolarity. Legends describe him wandering the streets of Rome half mad, convinced that he was being persecuted. After his lengthy imprisonment in Ferrara's Santa Anna lunatic asylum, he was able to resume his writing, although he never fully recovered.

Interestingly, there's a tango club called "Torquato Tasso" in, you guessed it, Buenos Aires, Argentina

I don't know why lot 49 gets shit here on /lit/ it's a pretty gud book

>>7742220
Yeah but it's mediocre by High P standards

Suicide.

It resonated a lot with me when I was a teenager. Just something about that moment of realization when the whole world seems absurd and impossible. The film is pretty good too just for the attractive cast.

>>7742152
I'll have to see if I can get a hold of the film.

>>7742126
i tried to read his other book, the man without masculinity, and i must say, despite the potential for patricianity, that thinly veiled philosophical essay was boring enough to consider all germans pisstaking virgins.

>>7742081
it certainly looks like shit

uninspired drivel that's been published in more than a 1,000 ways already.

>>7742081
It's a lot of fun! It's not original but that's because it has more emphasis on the remix of the idea than the idea itself which usually makes for better story telling anyways.

If you don't have a stick up your ass you'll probably enjoy it. The prose is shit tho but that's kind of the standard for the genre anyways

Both faggots. Have to go with Russel.

late wittgenstein

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Frege. He may have been a massive racist but at least he wasn't intellectually dishonest, affecting the course of western philosophy up to the present day.

Also, Frege actually revolutionised logic. The Principia was an unfortunate failure.

>>7742014

If you really have to struggle, you're just not a writer. Keep it a fun hobby to do when you feel like it, but you can never make it you're actual living if you're this uninterested in it.

>>7742019
so the only way to get better is to strive towards making a living off writing? seems like a selfish way to view the craft

>>7742051
That's not what he said. He said writing should be fun not a chore. It's not your homework it's your passion. You can hone someone, and help them think about structure and developing a style by finding a voice that is their own, but you can't make someone write more. Think about it for longer than 30 seconds, and realise if someone is forcing you to write you aren't a writer you're a slave.

If you're forcing yourself to write, you're a slave to yourself, and your ideas of what you want to be, but can never live up to.

It's pretty easy to write more. You write more. You get stronger by lifting more. You get faster by running more. You become a writer by writing more.


Being good is a completely separate discussion. I would say write first, worry about the other things later. But it sounds like you're not really a writer, just a kid trying to buy a dream nobody is selling.

be largely similar to others and act like a normal person
because if you can 'express' yourself with an uncommonly patterned scarf there wasnt much to express to begin with

Why do you want to stand out? The implication is that you want to seem better than others in order to "win" some exclusive opportunity, in doing so subugating people you've never even met. Why are you so selfish? You should feel terrible.

>>7742018
You can actually express something of yourself without completely expressing your entire being at once, anon.

Just don't wear something you like printed on a tshirt anon. Dress more like that thing.

>>7741814
tone it down bro. you seem angry. everything is gonna be okay.

>>7741826
>he visits /lit/
>he thinks that it's a place for "dignified" discussions

>>7741850
its naught thaht. you don't have any bighteing humoure in youre angerpoesty.

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>>7741811
my nigga

>>7741811
>>7741813
samefag

>>7741815
MEMEN MORI

>>7741784
>implying i can't be both

>>7741784
the spectrum goes like this:

philosophy-----literature------poetry

and if you can't into all three you don't deserve to post here.

what you're saying with your shitpost, OP, is that you don't understand poetry, and therefore are upset at it. that's pleb shit my bru hope u feel bad

does that make your post poetry?

bought it purely for display tbqhwyf

>>7741716
To be quite honest with you... fuck?

>>7741742
fampai

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>narration

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>second person narration

>>7741679
I was on the bus and there was a menopause age woman reading Marc levy
>"you plunged into his eyes, never regretting your total love"
>"your father was there, he came for your wedding"

I kicked her

When you stop posting on /lit/ for once

You don't. Writing is work, hard work.

Write with your ears.