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>>7735432
Eddie Willers from Atlas Shrugged is half-Mongolian, but white-passing.

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actually wait, doesn't this violate the fanfiction rule?

Levin and Kitty are basically the same age when married. That age is 27.

>>7735396
ha gay

>>7735396
burn everything but proust, don quixote, and plato.

toss the morrison and mccarthy in the trash. the donquixote is a shit translation. rest are fine but the atwood would probably bore you.

Riverside. Riverside. Riverside. Always go Riverside. The serious literary critics (Bloom) use it. It contains every one of his plays with brief introductions and essays, and non-distracting footnotes. You can get a used copy for $30 or $40. Always go Riverside.

>>7735573
Thanks anon, I'll check Riverside out

I've been researching the same question, I've settled on Riverside or Norton. Leaning towards Riverside, although the essays in Norton are supposed to be good.

>>7735343
it's garbage

you have to read the original scroll man it's not supposed to be in chapters like it's a novel

On the Road is the most unabashedly American novel ever written. If you want to know how modern American literature started then I would finish it.

If you don't want to be a pleb then you should put that down and read the greeks

“Sweet mother of God…”
Snake arrives at his destination, but what he witnesses is no Metal Gear… it’s a grotesque bioweapon chained to the ground. It produces high-pitched screaming noises and tries desperately to escape by flailing its gnarled talons. Snake finds cover behind a wall and calls Sonic on his codec.
“Sonic, it’s Snake. I found X, but it’s entirely different from what I expected. I’m going to need your help on this one.”
Sonic arrives carrying two P90s he looted off the guards. “Kept you waiting, huh?”
Snake grins. “That’s my line.”
“There’s no use in hiding,” a mysterious voice calls out. “Show yourself, Snake.”
Snake and Sonic ready their P90s and slowly leave their cover.
“Ocelot!?”
“Ha, I see you brought a friend! Misery loves company, huh?”
“Ocelot, what the hell is that thing?”
“Fuck this,” says Sonic, as he began spraying bullets at Ocelot.
Suddenly, X emits a deafening roar and uses its talons to block the bullets.
“Hahaha, won’t even let me talk, huh? Don’t worry, I’ll be quick. You see, I’ve captured scientists from around the world to work on a new Metal Gear based off RAY, but one of the researchers found an anomaly in the space-time continuum. We examined this rift extensively and came to the conclusion that it led to Hell. That’s right, Hell! Suddenly the plan changed. Why build a Metal Gear when we can just arm demons? And thus, we created Metal Gear X, the ultimate bioweapon. The best part is this is just one of thousands of demons in Hell. But enough talk, I really must be going. Enjoy X, I’m sure it’ll grant you a swift and painless death.”
With that said, Ocelot presses a button and the chains shackling X dematerialize. He escapes through a hidden door while X slowly rises. Sonic and Snake start shooting at the monstrosity but it blocks all of the bullets with its talons. In retaliation it stomps on the ground, disorienting the two.
“This is no good!” shouts Snake, “I’m about to run out of bullets.”
Just then, the room fills with a blinding white light. As the light dims, the figure of Silver the hedgehog appears.
2/3 (oops)

“Silver?” Sonic blurts out in disbelief.
“Sonic, I sensed you were in danger so I came here to help. You take care of X, I’ll seal the rift to Hell. Take these!”
Silver throws a sack of Chaos Emeralds toward Sonic, who then turns into Super Sonic.
“Snake,” says Sonic, “get out of here as fast as you can. I’ve got this.”
“I’m not leaving you behind!”
“You may be strong Snake but you’re no superhuman, nor are you well equipped. Take your gun and leave X to me.”
Snake swallows his pride and retreats as Sonic heads toward X. Silver delves into the pits of Hell to shut the gate. Thanks to the infinite power of the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic manages to destroy X is one strike. Silver isn’t as lucky.
“Sonic!” he shouts, “I can’t return once I seal this gate; it’ll take all of my power. Go catch up with Snake, the amount of energy required to seal this will cause an explosion that will engulf this room in flames.”
“Silver! I’m not losing you! There has to be another way!”
“There is no other way, Sonic. It has to end like this. Now go!”
Sonic pleas with Silver to come out, to no avail. Silver has made it clear that this is the only solution.
“You’re really set on this… Okay Silver. Seal the gate. I’ll keep you in my memory.”
“Sonic, it’s been great knowing you. Keep fighting the good fight. Semper fi, my hedgehog brethren.”
The gate slowly shuts as Sonic leaves the base.
“Silver…”
A deafening explosion.

3/3

i got $5 to write all that

>>7735326
Truly, a literary masterpiece.

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please take your sketchy contrarian news sources back to facebook

>>7735269
This assumes that men and women have any more than a vague sense of commonality across cultures in their interests.

Could you be more specific?

>>7735269
VS Naipaul, Norman Mailer, and Marlon James have all criticized the female taste in literature and writing abilities...banal is a word thrown about.

James: While she recognizes how much she was pandering to the white man, we writers of colour spend way too much time pandering to the white woman … astringent, observed, clipped, wallowing in its own middle-style prose and private ennui, porn for certain publications.

>>7735293
Of course, women of color do nothing but read about gender and race broke. Down from a woman's usually simplistic and typically Marxist view.

Never have, never will. Pastiche of memery isn't a novel.

>>7735279
hey I worked really hard on my David Foster Wallace fan fiction that was in A Boy Called Wolf and people said they liked it!

>>7735289
mind linking that again
>>7735219
give it till next september, at the earliest.

>>7735197
Crafty, but we ain't doing your homework for you kid

>>7735217
nigga pls

>not listneing to John Williams as you read John Williams
Shigu

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>>7735100
When did /lit/ get to be this shit?

>>7735095
Anyway, for pic related, I'd say Charlie Parker's cover of "I've Got Rhythm".

>>7735145
>When did /lit/ get to be this shit?
When you came in, cocksucking nigger

>>7735079
Well memed

WHEN, LONG AGO, THE GODS CREATED EARTH

>>7735221
In Jove's fair image men was shaped at birth

The style, the meaning, and the characters

>>7735054
the plot, desu

and the prose

>ywn discuss Pan-Slavism with qt Russian aristocrat girls

>You will never marry a girl 14 years your junior and take her to your estate where she will become a pregnant cow and show you through a difficult birth how there must be a God

Sjw shit

>>7734935
Reddit videos

>>7734951
>>7734981
Go on...

Plebness by proxy

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

>>7734930
Attachment to the 4chan zeitgeist