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Well anon, I don't think we have access to this kind of information

First time I hear about this.
It seems unlikely but it wouldn't surprise me. Some parts of La Recherche are surprisingly perverse.

>Proust would enter a brothel and ask the Madam if she had a hat pin and any rats. If the Madam informed him that she had both, or could obtain them, Proust would then request that the pin and vermin be sent up to his room. Once Proust was in his room and comfortable, a rat would be brought in by the Madam, in a makeshift cage, along with, preferably, a pearl-headed hair pin. Proust would then instruct the Madam to puncture the rat from its back through its belly with the hair pin. As the pin slowly went through the rat, Proust would masturbate; timing his ejaculation to occur at the exact moment the tip of the pin pierced the rat’s belly, so that its blood and his semen fell in time.

>tfw only read authors who are still alive

>>7652687
the only day we absolutely -need- to have a joyce thread is handjob memorial day, aka bloomsday.

>>7652689
a sad existence you must lead

What is that, Crash?

>>7651774
he literally just said it was a short story you stupid fucking retarded faggot piece of shit god damn

>>7651801
It says "short story" nowhere, you dyslexic sack of shit.

>>7651643
Because europeans have taste, thats why.

>>7651643
The conservatives think they're too radical (or rather, don't think beyond the great realists).

The progressives think they're politically unsound and thus irrelevant.

How do we prove to Europeans we are cool with our dense post modern masterpieces?

>>7650335
>initials are GG
>He is a white cracka and his name is a cracker too
>Greenetexting

This guy is a meme supreme, 0/10 OP may god have mercy on your soul

>>7650335
Accomplished in an artistic sense of course.

>>7650335
David Foster Wallace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U2zJOryHKQ

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>infinite jest
>it's one long joke

>reading ij
>10pg subfootnote

well it was nice while it lasted

lmao that picture is autistic as fuck

>waaah people who I don't like do what I do but worse

Just ignore them senpai

The founders of literature are so disenfranchised with the state of their community they invested so much time into that they left altogether to start a new one?

>>7655893
go back to r9k please

>>7655867
>tfw I've sat in my basement having wonderful day dreams for the past six years
>tfw I only started writing down all the thoughts in my head two days ago
>tfw I am so far behind but holy shit does the future seem bright

>>7655867
post it blyet

>>7655877

I'm feeling good atm and if I post it I will most certsinly be brought right back down to earth

Oblomov.
Diary of a Superfluous Man.
not necessarily as funny or as interesting, but definitely one of the sources of the literary archetype. I know there are quite a few more, gimme time to think.

>>7655467
also, i wouldn't say Don Quixote was that type of character at all.

>>7655476
Don Quixote is the archetypal picaresque novel

What is even the point of it?

>>7655398

It allows you to use custom reading and other software on your paperwhite, allowing you to use other formats than mobi and azw3 for example.

>>7655404
Is that it? Most ebooks I pirate come in those file formats anyways, and if they don't it takes a second of converting. Seems like an unneeded bother

>>7655380
I do it all the time. Are they good enough for others to read? No.
Still, in my deepest fantasies I sometimes dream of publishing my book of short stories.

>>7655385

Shit I submitted one for college creative writing course rip

no it's lazy writing.

>>7655356

Comic Sans because your work is a joke.

Times New Roman is the only viable choice.

>>7655377
I can water your vanilla ice cream down a bit if it's too intense for you

Obscurantist?

Abbotting.

"His entire budget speech was wall-to-wall Abbotting, but at least he didn't try to Howard us."

>>7655355
Obfuscate?

>>7655113
It is possible that you've read the best books for people of your age, but ten years from now, the chances of you still admiring the same authors are very low.

>>7655122
Last line of this is moronic. Either phrase it better or be less wrong.

>>7655113
I don't feel anxiety at all

>>7654872
that's like crispin glover in back to the future.
he's like, i never show anyone my writing. what if they didn't think it was any good. boy that crispin fucked up his career asking for too much money for part 2.

>>7654872
so beautiful ! :p
i Can really Identify

>>7654872
But that's not poetry.