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>>7715034
I have that book but I haven't read it. I'll let you know when I do.

>transcendental meditation
Sorry to say that it's just a money making scam designed to profiteer from centuries old knowledge. You'd be better off looking into either vipassana or samatha meditation. Although these have a foundation in sectarian Buddhism, the message most practitioners give (in the west at least) is surprisingly secular, and benefits from not being a system that requires you to pay for some esoteric 'knowledge'.

Start with a daily mindfulness practice. Of you can handle that, you can move on to advanced transcendental shit.

I highly doubt youll be able to find a good translation of Scottish phonetic dialogue and slang, OP, and if you do it'll probably miss out on a lot of the bantz

>>7714770
filth was my first welsh too, the first 50 pages or so took me ages to read as i was slowly getting used to the slang, but once you've come across the same slang a couple times it's easily remembered, and a lot of it's repeated throughout so there isn't a great deal to get used to.

keep on going OP, the scottish slang is what makes his writing humorous and the payoff is well worth it. (the book is also fantastic)

>>7714770
I'll bet Welsh is no Parson Evans.

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>>7717059

>"Hey pal, want to see yourself proven wrong?"

if you're going to frog post at least be funny

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>Reading books on pages
>Not having transcendental thought-forms transcribed directly into you consciousness

>>7714597
Priest's Tale. That and the Scholar's Tale were the only really good ones. That means half the book was sht and wasted potential.

The cyborg love story

>>7714832
It had the workings of two good stories, but it felt like a weird blending of genres.

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Saludos
PD saludos

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>>7717344
cuál es el propósito de tu pinche threadsillo?

you didn't include a pastebin link

I write on my tablet a lot, works just as well as a PC and is way more comfy.
If I you have to choose between a laptop and a tablet though, I'd go for the laptop, since it's just more versitile.

As for reading, just get a second-hand Kindle Paperwhite, the old ones are fairly cheap on eBay and I really love mine.

>>7716879

Just buy a thinkpad X220 f a m

u fukn cunts

>>7716240
Not the response that you want, but I really enjoyed Adam Rapp's theatre work, and was considering getting this.
Does he actually have good prose?

>>7717201
I enjoyed it very much, his prose is top notch.

Edgar Allan Poe

>>7715411

>Mah 6 Gorrillion.

His work was shit.

Pablo Neruda was very likely assassinated by the Pinoche regime.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/05/201252172550321452.html

god fuck you
Nihilism is the rejection of goals as irrelevant human construct
You are thinking solipsism, look it up you massive flaming fucking moron

>>7715351
The inherent problem with nihilism is, taken to it's logical conclusion, that nothing exists beyond your perception of it, meaning that the people you love, the things you do, the poems you write, none of it exists, and all existence is pointless.

So yes, do you what you want. It won't fill the emptiness that was created when your innocence was torn away from you.

>>7715362
But they're not mutually exclusive

Why don't you come up with more outlandish ideas then?

>>7715186
If that's the case you can't be much of a visionary.

Do some speed and rattle off a shitty detective plot that tangentially explores all your philosophical insights and technological predictions.

Have your Mum read it fer spelling mistakes then send it off for publishing and start work on the next immediately.

>>7715051
like all children's works that have stood the test of time, it is a work aimed at children that can be read and appreciated by kids and adults alike

>>7715209
Basically this.
I also felt it was more adult oriented with some of its themes. I'd read it at any age at any stage of my life, it makes me happy

Watership Down is a pleasure to read, simple as that. Adams didn't go for an experimental novel, his choice of subject is simple in nature and never overcomplexified; therefore its immersive beauty can be appreciated by a wide range of ages.
It would be a mdediocre novel if not for the rooted theme of rabbit behavior.

>>7717299
i am certain that this propaganda is circulated in the east to prevent the peasants from revolting

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>>7717308
Just like abrahamic religions in the rest of the world. Opiate of the masses, slave morality etc. you get it

>>7717332
except those don't actively discourage creation

>>7717286
>snowballfucking

>>7716691
adjective verb or adverb for short

>>7717046
They're modifying "Zeus", so they're obviously adjectives not adverbs. But there has to be a special name for this particular type.

>>7716691
Deverbal adjective where the original verb has an adverbial modifier