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Create a short 13 word peom regarding shadows and existence.
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Not gonna do your homework
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>>7736086
Were I not in
the dark with you
making love
I'd be gone
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>>7736086
sitting in barn cooked beans
down the alley grows
a bag of potatoes
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poetry critique thread
post your shitty poems and have them shat'd on
try your best to critique others.
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Dr. Pavel, I'm C.I.A.
He wasn't alone
Outside the plane in Scottish day
Uh, you don't get to
Bring friends
They are not my friends.
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Sulla marched on Rome.
-xception is the Phaedo (...
[see: texts on Alcibiades]
saviors of the polity
"I am leaving out scads of things" ---always these qualifications, nothing set in stone.
[see: Hesiod, Homer, Whitman's Leaves of Grass]
...Inferno
...Heracles
the living rags
justice
eros in Symposium- lust- bastard
(601C) "half spoken"
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“The Woodcutter”
The woodcutter lives alone
In a cabin, in the forest
Surrounded by birch.
He’s lived his whole life
all alone
Chopping wood.
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Is it any good? I don't normally read sci-fi, but cyberpunk seems cool.
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>>7742208
I don't know. Why do you ask me?
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>>7742208
No idea.
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I am currently writing a novel entitled: Femmetopia, set in a dystopian future whereby females control every aspect of society. I hope that it can become as influential as Nineteen Eighty-Four when it's published.
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pretty sure this has already been done
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>>7736817
you're on the wrong side of history
we're all on the wrong side of history for not taking the requests of obnoxious dyed-hair cunts seriously
give up m8, we lost
in a few decades there'll be mass market novels and films depicting people like us as evil monsters
those works will be mandatory reading for our grandchildren's public education
we lost
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>>7736817
I hope it's not like one of those hacky webcomics that show "shitty things men do to women but genderswapped"
it's definitely an interesting concept but I've never seen it done properly.
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post your metaphors of silence
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A beach where all the sand has melted to glass.
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My house when I get home from work desu :c
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A snuffed candle that is smoking
What were his final thoughts?
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>>7722581
"My belt is too tight."
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>>7722581
>"Pynchon, I have failed you."
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*sniffs fart*
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Has anyone here ever emailed Chomsky? Apparently after his assistant filters out insults and shitposts, Chomsky spends hours a day answering emails. He'll answer almost anything, unless you're just asking him about something he's already gone over in some book or speech that you could easily research. I once emailed him asking him about his views on prescriptivism vs. descriptivism (couldn't find anything about it online) and got a response the next morning. Seems like a nice guy. Probably only has a few years left, so I'm glad I got to talk to him while he's still around.
ITT: Discuss your past experiences with Chomsky and/or his books, speeches, etc.
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I want to ask him about artificial intelligence but I am not sure about the approach
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>>7738422
Everything you've said is true. Chomsky is an excellently nice guy. We're kind of pen pals it's nice
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Yup, and he's a dismissive prick. He's also an arrogant moron about a lot of things that an intellectual of his stature should REALLY know a lot better than he does. And I say this as someone who agrees with him almost 100% on obscurantism and Lacan and Zizek.
Something happened to him. He went up his own ass in the 90s and never came out.
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> mfw Brazil is a powerhouse of philosophy and literary criticism that is deliberately ignored by the west because their academics would have to accept being 50 years behind the eternal Brazilian genius
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>>7737713
I don't know if you're right, but Portuguese is a godawful language.
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>>7737713
>Brazil is a powerhouse of philosophy
Kek, you are out of your mind.
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This is the reason no one takes Brazil seriously.
Instead of attempting to be ideological equals, the huehues have this unironic desire to be numero uno.
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Is there a more Reddit author than this man?
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Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Philip K. Dick, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins /thread
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>>7737475
DFW.
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>>7737475
Tolkien
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>Confessions of a Failed Writer
> I read day and night, and simply cannot fathom doing something with my life other than writing. Because I lack the enthusiasm for anything else, I'm afraid to take a regular job because I know self-loathing will eat away at me until I commit suicide.
>I've no money, live with my father, and spend the majority of my days locked in an airless bedroom surrounded by balled-up sheets of paper, empty coffee cups and books I'm trying not to rip off.
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/i-spent-two-years-writing-a-book-that-nobody-read
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He just reminds me to not be a bitter loser, but damn, the fact that this guy wants to herald some kind of New-Sincerity-tear-down-literary-artifice stuff is pretty telling. He's so fake he wants to be hugely sincere, and he's so narcissistic that he thinks he's the special snowflake that can do it.
I need to lie down.
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>>7737141
2 years, please. You have to be ready to write 10 shit novels beffore a passable one happens, sometimes more sometimes less
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>>7737148
wrong reply, whoops
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Are there many good modern authors who didn't study literature or the humanities in general at university? Or even some that didn't go to university?
>tfw stuck doing comp sci when I should have done arts
I'll start off I guess:
>vonnegut
>mccarthy
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>>7741244
You should just drop out of uni all together. You need life experiences to write interesting literature and the average CS guy probably is the least likely to have anything interesting to say or write about
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>>7741251
Then I will just be a NEET, and that's even worse
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Ted Chiang is a CS-guy (his main job is technical writer) and he writes the best SF at the moment.
Lots and lots of great writers didn't study writing, like Conrad, for example.
Studying writing is for American children who can't grow out of their child-like society, or postmodernists who feel forced to navel-gaze more.
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>reading fiction
How is this any different than watching mind-numbing television or playing fictional video games?
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Depending on the quality of the literature, it is no different.
Same with nonfiction.
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>>7736366
>playing fictional video games
but i play real video games.
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>Living life
How is this any different from watching mind-numbing television or playing fictional video games?
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>And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean
was he right?
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How many dicks can you dip in your cereal before it stops tasting good?
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>>7736145
depends on the color of the dick
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>>7736145
The more dicks in your cereal the better it tastes, you misogynist.
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who is your:
favorite philosopher?
favorite poet?
favorite novelist?
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john green
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jack red
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>Philosopher
Aristotle
>Poet
Pound
>Novelist
Gass
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>For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
Did you agree?
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inb4 semen demon, she's called kittens, there are torrents and galleries of her.
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>>7735633
ashley > rose > pupinia > kittens > cracky > boxxy
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>>7735633
>her