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it's fine. the text is a little small but in a 1000 page book you want that so that it's not 20 pounds. adequate margins if you want to take notes or whatever

>>7635251
we got another one

>>7635251
>getting meme'd into reading trash for white upper middle class 19 y.o. college freshmen

lel

>>7634511
Of course she isn't.

>>7634511
Yes, but for wrong reasons.

>>7634511
>hetrosexist

no

>>7634145
I want to know too, because i read another book from the publisher and oh god the translation was awful.

>>7634173
Harmony?

>>7634183
All you need is kill
I also want to read Harmony and Battle Royale.

>>7634078
>Excellence is an art won by training and habituation

>>7634090
Are you saying I should just make myself write more?

>>7634104
No, I'm telling you to build a wall. Literally go out into your garden, pick a spot, get some bricks and get building.

You can't call yourself a man until you've built a wall

>>7633450
never use a dictionary, it's Haram.

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I mostly disregard the word and guess it's meaning from context. If that doesn't seem possible and the word relevant, I go to
www.dict.cc
for a quick fix

>>7633469
>>>/pol/

i havent been here in months why do we hate the memes now

>>7632707
>>7632710
Get with the times, gramps. That's the way these puppies operate. You love something until it gets too mainstream, even if it's just memed on /lit/, then you turn around and act like you always hated because it's cool

Contrarianism is hip, daddy-o

I say let it burn. I'd rather the plebs be visible than have people who pretend to like Pynchon/Joyce but can't speak a single intelligent word about them.

One day this board's gonna go, no sense trying to cling to the past.

A man places items of increasing size in his rectum while contemplating the recent death of his estranged grandmother.

A man posts on a website asking the frequenters for ideas, after he dismisses them all in humorous fashion we begin to gain insight into the man and perhaps into self-worth in general.
fuck off. You can write about anything. How does anyone ever run out of ideas?

You know, that's what scares me about the prospect of university. Most of the time, they will have you read more than 10 complete body of work in under a semester and will ask for no less than 10-15pages of good work, and 3-5 pages for poems.

My tip to you, op, is to take a step back and put ALL of your efforts into reading great classical work, like Racine or Baudelaire if you're a frenchfag. And also write every day, no matter what it may be. Make a schedule if it pleases you: ah! Today is monday? Then poems it will be. Essay thursday? Sure why not.

Doing this, no matter how shitty it is, will build you a personal "bank" of ideas to work and rework at will, characters of your own that you will take back here and there, like Valère or Cléante were used so often in Molière's work.

Also pick up workshop courses, maybe you think your writing is great, but compared to others, you may reconsider very quickly and also meet likeminded poeple, just like Beauvoir did.

Writing is a dedication, not a chore.

zorba the greek

Some Garcia Marquez short stories maybe?

>>7635026
Here you go, anything by: William S. Burroughs, Milorad Pavic, Julio Cortázar.

Harry Potter is a pretty clear knockoff of Warhammer 40,000.

Dune is a clear-cut ripoff of Star Wars.

The Aeneid.

You do know that many great novels were published serially, right?

I suppose I would write one book and then my publisher would tell me if it had cash cow potential and then I would write many.

episodic storytelling is one of the oldest forms of narrative senpai

>>7633771
define modern, you SJW cultural marxist feminist cuckold (I am redpilled)

How is that painting considered the first piece of modern art? Did the artist put it in a little glass bottle and piss in it?

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I'm too ineloquent to tell you, but I can tell you that the answer to that is in Milan Kundera's "The Curtain".

>http://www.enotes.com/topics/curtain

"The Curtain is a collection of essays by Czech novelist Milan Kundera, author of L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être (1984; The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984). The seven essays have a stream-of-consciousness quality. For instance, Kundera may begin with an observation, find a parallel between that and some incident from his past, consider how that incident reminds him of a moment in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857), draw a connection between Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes, and so on. The Curtain reads less like a textbook than a lecture on such a book, taking ideas and then expounding and digressing. A familiarity with the subject matter at hand (François Rabelais, Gabriel García Márquez, and others) is recommended. ...

... The third essay relates how Flaubert was criticized by one of his contemporaries for not writing a more uplifting story. Painters or musicians can be commissioned by the Church or wealthy patrons to produce a work of art that furthers some particular agenda, and they can still produce something of genuine artistic value, but literature does not work that way. A novel must be an honest portrayal of the way people act and think, whether that shows them to be moral or not. This exploration of the human condition occurred in literature decades before existentialism took hold in philosophy and in fact laid the groundwork for that strand of philosophy."

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>>7634621
*sniff* the fact that you criticizes my method of delivery *sniff* only shows a lack of substance on your part
this is what many call *full on NSA style beard search* an ad hominem

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who here on /lit/ could actually debate Slavoj and win?

>>7634512
Really just grab some friends with acting experience (we've all got at least a few) and direct the shit out of them until they do what you want. You can use an iphone 6 as a camera and apple earbuds as makeshift lavalier mics, it's much easier than you'd expect. Look up a movie called Tangerine, it was shot completely with iPhones

>>7634512
I saw a long time ago a movie similar to your concept, it was an old french student movie from the 60, with a clear situationist influence, I think it was called "them rock" and its really hard to find on the internet

>>7634564
Sadly, I really don't have any friends, it's just my first year of university so I'm having a tough time meeting anybody. I've heard of Tangerine, thanks, I do have a nicer camera though so I've been thinking of using that for quality. Do you have any other tips for meeting actors? Do you think I could/should do it myself? Why or why not? What should I keep in mind if I do? Thanks again.

Most popular culture in the world of that time, second language for russian nobility.

The language of the Elite, in Dublin it was the same

>>7633637
Do translators just assume that the audience knows French?

se on paskaa

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No, Jimmy.

>>7631102
It's horribly outdated and racist.