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>>7693073
mods pls

>>7692939
Are you belgian by anychance ?

Dimitri verhulst is a perfect combination between cynical, accesible, hilarious and beautifull prose without becoming a Bukowski rip. Glad to see one of my favourite Belgian writers mentioned here.
Also: How the fuck would you translate "De helaasheid der dingen?"
Great title if you ask me. Same with "Nothing, no one and fairly quiet", "Love unless otherwise mentiond" and "Goddamned days on a goddamned globe".

>>7692949
OP here, I'm Dutch

>>7692875
.pmuB

>>7692875
anthropology was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. he was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

How to be an anthropology:
>read Mauss while pacing reverentially in a perfect circle around Durkheim's Elementary Forms, then give Mauss away as a gift to someone
>read Sapir in Chinese
>read Boas in a multicultural crowd
>read Levy-Bruhl while sitting on a copy of Frazer
>read Levi-Strauss while bulking and getting a lot of tattoos
>read Geertz while cutting, and write a cipher to your tattoos' collective inner coherence
>finally, climb onto your roof, and start screaming POSTCOLONIALISM POSTCOLONIALISM POSTCOLONIALISM while surgically altering your gender

Eat your own spoon t b h

>>7692849
Yes

>>7692849
I ate

I see the story has been also published here http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Zelazny-1.html
Any download of this book is available neither.

up

bump2

Who actually needs to be?

>>7692833
I'm ancient in fluent greek and I'm not a robot

english, spanish, french with basic russian, mandarian and german aint bad desu

would like to have a bit of latin and ancient greek tho

>>7692794
off the top of my head note from the underground, crime and punishment

>>7692794
What's the pic?

>>7693056
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar's_Feast_%28Martin_painting%29

>>7692755
Dunno. What versions do you own?

>>7692767
If I owned multiple versions already why would I ask here and not just read them instead?

I own none, hence the reason for seeking advice.

>>7692755
I think you should read the best one

>>7692708
The beginning of 2001 is awesome, I would read a whole book about Moon-Watcher and his tribe.

>>7692708
Best: Rendezvous with Rama, The City and the Stars
Worst: Imperial Earth, The Deep Range, 2061

>>7692787
I bought Rama a couple of days ago, really enjoying it so far.
Best: 2001, Worst: The Trigger.

>>7692565
i think we generally don't do such things but that's just me

I don't watch TV...

Only anime.

Deep

>>7692514
>>I get off next stop
Disgusting. Right there in the bus?

>>7692514
8/10

Stop browsing this anime board

What utopia is this?

>>7692421
Scandanavia was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. he was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

>>7692422
Thanks anon. That was very helpful.

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you're going to have to actually read the eddas and reread them. they're dense and move quickly and you'll need to go back over them a few times. annotated versions are helpful.

in addition to tracking down a good translation of the eddas (i'm reading an out of copyright public domain translation), i'm going to reread the d'aulaires version because i haven't read it since i was a kid. it's super simplified but the pictures will make me nostalgic.

>>7692392
Osteen was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. he was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

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>>7692395
>was

>>7692392
Sounds like plebian shit.

you just write. there's no other way of writing

It helps to begin with an idea or situation you find interesting or important.

>>7692301
it helps to outline events. write a few lines about what your character is doing today

anon is going to the bar
he needs to get cash out at the ATM first
he gets anxious because the bar is full of chads
he goes home to fap about the voice of the ATM machine

then fill it in,
it was a disgusting normie day, anon scraped off the cum stained sheets that had cemented itself to his body hair overnight. the curtains slightly ajar, letting a sliver of light into the room, illuminating the floating dust particles. anon thought to himself, "I really should clean up my moms spaghetti that I spilt all over the floor." wading through the piles of peepee poopoo, he made his way to the bathroom, popping the giant poopoo boil on his face with his favorite lancet, he sat down to poopoo peepee. got dressed, whatever normies do in the morning, stepped outside.

the sun bore down on him, the heat of the light feeling like a heavy weight upon his body. "why do I even leave the house?" well lets go get some cash so i can numb the pain of existence. heading to the ATM, he spied a cute loli and considered molesting her. inserting his card, he chuckled to himself about how only moments before how easy it would have been to slip is benis into her bagina. the soft cooing voice of the ATMs prompting voice evoked memories of the last girl he'd managed to capture. the gentle voice called out to him, touching his very soul, "anon-kun, h-how much cash do you want? I just want you to be happy anon-kun." pressing a few buttons, the machine proceeded to rattle and vibrate, culminating in an ejaculation of cash.....


you get the idea. you can expand out the story from a few events. just describe the characters and what they're doing.