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Who else got his soul saved by this guy?
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I got mine saved by David Hume
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>>7715194
H-Heraclitus anyone?
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epictetus does it all better.
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when did the understanding of poetry started to be separated from prose?
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Since the very first poem, I imagine.
I believe poetry has been around for a lot longer than prose, simply because verbal language came before written language.
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>>7719398
holy fuck someone else on /lit/ loves robotech
:') oh happy day
I'm mid 30s. grew up on robotech. watching "orguss" right now which is the real third super dimension fortress series. nowhere near as good as robotech macros saga which is the best.
Got the urge to do some experimental writing, What do you think of this? Also what are some other experimental writers, I feel like what I'm really looking for is text art. BTW the point in the piece below is to create the illusion of it being a multi-layered, post modern story about, possibly being gay, without actually being one. I was wondering how long people would read on if there were enough clues and enough there to make people think it might be about something.
KEEP READING
Firstly some acknowledgments: This is a short story, and I am the narrator, though to what degree you will never know; also, I am a pedophile.
I am not a pedophile, merely a homosexual, though would the two be so different merely 60 years ago?
But this is not what this is about; what this is about cannot be explained yet, you doubt me I’m sure, having stung you along this far, you feel this is all a game to me.
I can assure you that it is not, but to what degree?
To answer this question I must introduce 4 characters
1. The Wendigo – A Native American legend pertaining to a shape shifting spirit that feeds on human flesh.
2. Arnold J: my first love; my father; a mechanic from Western Pennsylvania.
3. Trudy: Our antagonist? Hardly.
4. 45TH American president Ronald Regan.
Now, Characters 2 & 4 have been consumed by the Wendigo, is that significant? This is your mission. Our antagonist sits on a park bench, reading from a book entitled Keep Reading: The Power of No. She is remembering her childhood.
Let me, the narrator, now go on to place myself inside the story, my name is Keep Reading: The Power of Stephen Smith. I am not dead.
Now, if you were paying attention (my life depends on it dear god) you will know that the above will help you workout to what degree this is a game to me; what type of game I will come out and tell you: It is a game you’ve never heard of, but here are the rules…
There are two players: the Homosexual and the Wendigo, either can be the narrator.
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>>7718873
youre the homosexual right?
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>>7718873
I didn't take long for me to realize there is nothing to it. I dislike this sort of drivel but I suppose it isn't the first of its kind and my preference means nothing. However I will tell you that you should keep writing if only for the satisfaction I imagine it to yield you as it does for me. I wouldn't read something so disconnected from itself but others would; write as you like, there are enough readers that someone is statistically bound to like whatever you write.
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I'm interested in metaphysics, epistemology, and logic. What do I read of Plato and Aristotle?
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All of them if you're not talking out of your ass about your interests
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>>7718766
KANT
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>>7718795
I'm just asking about Plato and Aristotle. I'll read Kant eventually. Ok, anon?
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What does /lit/ think about this man? 2016-02-20 00:03:11 Post No.7718221
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What does /lit/ think about this man?
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I started reading "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" which is basically a compilation of his short stories and I enjoy it so far. What do you think /lit/ ?
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>>7718616
this honestly, murakami is terrible
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There's a reason Borges is referred to as "the Argentinian Murakami", and it's not because his predecessor is bad.
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What font is that yellow shit? Asking for a friend.
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>Asking for a friend.
It's okay if you want to know, OP. We won't make fun of you.
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WallacePlebSans
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>>7717948
WallaceSansDiscernibleTalent
R.I.P. Harper lee
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>>7715995
It is too bad that her senility was taken advantage of last year to publish a book she had no desire to see published. Big book publishers are money-grubbing trash.
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should have died before go set a watchman T b h
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She died literally 10 years ago. Do you even fact check , bro?
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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics"
Was he right?
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>>7710392
I dont know what he means but it sounds promising
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I don't believe he wrote that. Not enough name dropping for that to be the Spanish Murakami.
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>>7710397
"For a long time I believed in democracy. Now I don’t believe in it; at least not in my own country. Perhaps in other countries democracy can be justified; but in the Republic of Argentina I don’t think we can trust it . . . Democracy [is] an abuse of statistics . . . No one supposes that a majority of people can have valid opinions about literature or about mathematics, but it is believed that everyone can have valid opinions about politics, which is more delicate than the other disciplines . . . Yes, it seems that to destroy liberty is bad. But liberty lends itself to so many abuses. There are certain liberties which constitute a form of impertinence."
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Ich hab' mein Sach' auf nichts gestellt (als auf mich) 2016-02-20 13:41:31 Post No.7720324
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Ich hab' mein Sach' auf nichts gestellt (als auf mich)
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>I have put my cause to nothing (but myself)
What cause do you live for? What ideal is guiding you?
Writing good prose? Building a more stable society?
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I'd like to, one day write a symphony or a grand opera. I know enough about music theory but I lack skills in orchestration.
Anyone want to write me a libretto?
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>I read this book during my lunch breaks at the cafe of Barnes & Noble in Chelsea, NYC. I think I finished it in five sittings, with great big tears rolling down my face. While everybody around me was busy quaffing scalding hot lattes, I was trying to muffle the sounds of my agonized weeping into my scarf. Luckily, this is not seen as strange behavior in Manhattan, so I was able to finish the book unmolested.
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A significant or memorable experience...
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Saging your dumb-ass thread.
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I'm sorry you haven't experienced anything yet. Try throwing up
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Or growing but that works too. You'd obviously describe two glasses of milk. Why
Why is everyone pretending to care that this middlebrow hack with no discernible talent has passed away? Surely not for his nonexistent contributions to great literature?
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clearly a juvenile
>tfw writing a first draft and suddenly wanting to change a whole character before I finish it
What do?
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>>7719880
Thats literally the best time to do it .
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>>7719895
The shit is I'm not sure about changing it or not
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>>7719989
Consider each angle on paper first, or play around with "beta" drafts of the divergent paths. Cut as paste as needed
Annotations—yay or nay?
A friend of mine expressed that annotations are "impure" and taint interpretation of a given work. I disagreed; I feel that annotations are helpful for some's thought-process and can be regarded as (if of worth) a valid extension/interpretation.
What do you all think?
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>>7717395
You should probably annotate, but it's not that big a deal.
your friend is a moron
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>>7717410
Yeah, he kind of is.
It made him angry (for some reason) that others would even dare to annotate. He said that it's a way of presenting something unnaturally different from the way it is unaltered. Though I told him that an unaltered text always exists and he went into some bout about pricing of used books or the prevalence of annotations in used copies.
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I do it slightly, but only with paperbacks and on my kindle. I feel like I'm taking a class when I do it, though.
>The 46th word from the beginning of Psalm 46 is "shake"
>The 46th word from the end of Psalm 46 is is "spear".
what did God mean by this?
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'Francis Bacon'
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>>7716797
Go to bed Tommy.
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God didn't write it in English