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>>7640195
>what would it be like?
6 people in a starbucks mumbling about Infinite Rainbow.

>>7640195
When I went to see The end of the Tour, there was a guy quietly standing alone in line, a few metres behind reading Gravitys rainbow.

Everyone else in the theatre were 'artsy' rich kids.

I've no way to know for sure, but I know for a fact that a few of you guys are from Melbourne, so just maybe.

I met someone who drunkenly mentioned /lit/ memes in a small country town in Australia. They seemed cool

>>7639315
don't be so sure about that...

>>7639315
Big fan of Thompson, just finished reading kingdom of fear, pretty good biography, gonzo is such a unique style. The dense politics were a bit much especially for an Australian but I still could appreciate it however

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It's not really important except for the final draft given that when you change your formatting it changes sometimes.

>No Like —this? Option
What the fuck are you doing, family?

>Like--this?
I usually do this, and then I find and replace "--" with "—".

But that's only if I really care about what I'm writing. Otherwise, I just stick with "--".

>that neck
Yes

>>7639103
Moby-Dick had a pretty memorable one for me.

>>7639133
"And with that, the whale was dead."

>>7638617
nobody?

karl korsch - marxism and philosophy
history and class consciousness - georg lukacs

>>7640325
woops misread 'cultural theory' as 'critical theory'

anyways, you're barking up the wrong tree. 'cultural theory' is even more broad then 'critical theory' and critical theory is really fucking broad, because 'culture' (and 'theory' t-b-h) can mean many radically different things to different people

you're better off starting from the basic sociology with foundations in philosophy and moving on from there

the end of the world news was a lot of fun

A Night to be Trifled With

After reading a Clockwork Orange why would anyone read further work of Burgess?

>>7628014
no, at least if you start with norwegian wood. that book is terrible

>>7628016
hey i'm half way through that now. it is mildly enjoyable. but it's not very good.

Fuck

That's the one I picked up

Y'all can mention your age and country too if y'all want.

>What proportion of your current net worth to you believe you will end up spending on books before you die?
4 percent.

H.P. Lovecraft used too many adjectives. I read one of his stories and counted which word would have the most adjectives attached to it. Counted one with four.

>>7643125
he's not a journalist he's an artist he can use as many adjectives as he wants, nerd

>>7643128
Wew

what is synopsis? stop scatposting famb.

Why are you reading that shit?

>>7642873
This. It even gets worse.

>>7642873

I came here to post this.

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As a nihilist, I find your use of "edgy" to be quite amusing. Surely there must be other words lesser minds like you can use to describe those above your intellectual capacity?

>>7642850
God that pic is funny.

>>7642850
I am just trying to gauge possible trends.
4chan is obviously not the place where they'd manifest in any early or meaningful way, but strands sometimes can become pronounced

>>7642807
Become a phrasemonger. They don't even have to be witty.

Like this.
“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”

You'll be rich too. And people wil sing your praises.
Monger the phrases!! I can not emphasize this enough!

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>>7642824
Forgot image.

pussy


boobs

Hungry
Pizza

>>7642644
I just came so nothing.

>>7642446
a very thin thread made of autism

>>7642452
Basically this.

The way I see it, as David said in IJ, "to be human is to be gooey" and all that assorted stuff. All those things revel in knowing melodrama and a disregard for "cool" posturing. They are upfront (read: sincere) about what they are.

At least in most of those examples. Lost in Translation, Garden State, Rushmore, all revel in pathos (the first two, expressly as the feelings of their creators). I wouldn't consider PTA as new sincerity; his films are too, I don't know, stylized? Sure.

I mean, you could argue that Lost in Translation and Garden State (arguably two of the most prominent "hipster flicks" of the 2000's) all try to play at some sort of chic factor. Lost in Translation with its neo-New Wave ambitions and Garden State with its attempts at capturing some sort of young adult zeitgeist. However, the creators willingness to portray themselves (Sofia Coppola implicity, Zach Braff explicitly) as lost and alone makes them "sincere" movies.

Dogme '95 was an attempt to do away with all the pretensions that come with cinematic style and go in for a very raw style that could be seen as a sort of more sincere style, but calling it a movement with a "manifesto" is about as pretentious as you can get, really. I wouldn't really consider those movies part of it, so even though they are more "cinematically sincere" than, say, Lost in Translation, at their core there is a greater sense of pretension which disqualifies them from new sincerity.

None of that probably makes sense, I was just rambling my reactions off.