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>>7630348
Does he own this beauty?

>>7630348
I have 5 copies of the Iliad and Odyssey (different translations)

I collect English translations of Montaigne.

First I got a complete works but it was too big to read on the shitter (Montaigne is the best shitter book besides Aquinas) so I got a selected essays and then it just kind of went from there.

Write a poem about the origin of

>>7629296
Niggers

write something about a horrifically large toe that serves to chillingly remind the flabbergasted protagonist, who is beyond words and description at that point, of just how small and remote he really is.

and toss in the word nigger somewhere.

A bit OOT, as I still have to read Stoner, but what you identify is exactly how I feel while skimming /lit/ critique threads goddammit. Why does everybody on here feels the need to write like that.

Kinda obvious but check out his other two novels.

>>7627969
I don't know what you mean by similar to stoner, but skylark (also published by nyrb) was very good in a simple way like stoner was. Besides some Hungarian history, which wasn't important to the plot, the book was simple to read while still very emotional.

>>7630095
I graduated a year ago, majored in English.

It's on the whole dependent on the kind of school you go to. Mine was a liberal-leaning, arsty kind of department, so there were a lot of classes in more esoteric subjects.

The intro to creative writing courses werr essentially a workshop. But I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. There were some fantastic assigned readings (I've kept the books for my personal collection), but there were also a lot of students who were clearly still in their "fan fiction" phase.

They almost always got weeded out after the first course. The capstone creative writing course what honestly one of my most difficult classes, and I'm thankful I took it.

>>7630107
> "fan fiction" phase
Yeah I get what you're saying, I have read a few myself and they just pick up popular scenarios
I'm thankful you're telling me they got weeded out, that means they changed course because they found it boring or too hard. Good thing.

>>7630107
Same anon.

You'll also qickly learn that viewing your peers as "conpetition" is stupid. You're there to focus on becoming better writer, not publicly stroke your literary microdick.

>>7621691
Thrice requesting Kinski Uncut - The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski

Requesting Flight of Lucifer by Bloom and his Anatomy of Influence, also Bloom's and Frye's books on Blake

>>7621691
What can I freeleech that will eventually bolster my upload ratio after the 20 hours run their course? Or should I just seed anything?

The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj. Also, anything by Dukaj, preferably in epub or mobi. The rest is only avalible in Polish though (The Old Axolotl is translated to English).

>>7617349
Is High Fantasy dead? Other than Sanderson, I don't know anyone prominent who is writing it atm

>>7617618
I-I am.

>>7617618
Bakker
I guess that hack Esslemont is trying his best to make Malazan even worse

bump. ;_;

A history of Cyprus

>>7633296
I always laugh at that pic

Spuks

>>7633217
one is about trying to explain the world (obviously in a very naive world) and the other one is for people who can't handle the world.

>>7633217
the mythology that has come down to us has been filtered by time
keeping a story around meant it had to be decent
even before something would be "kept" in a semi-static form, the stories would first be refined over hundreds of years, largely in oral form
so basically, they may have started just as shitty and silly as today's genre fantasy (a man tells a shitty story at a small feast) but they acquire not-silly characteristics by being forged over time
for example, there are various tellings of the same greek myths. we have received maybe 5 of any one stor as others (hundreds of variations) have been lost

>>7633159
The end bit where everything goes pear shaped

>>7633161
I also a fan of that part. Thank you for posting in my thread.

>>7633159
You just want someone to talk to.

>>7633114
flood of clichés for normies secretly desiring to be writers romanticising their failures.

=>everything gravitating around sex is pleb-tier

I really liked the show and it made me start binge reading Bukowski's work

Made me start writing again honestly. Nothing in a similar vein, but the romanticized life of a degenerate writer hit a nerve in me.

The problem with shows like this is that the people who write the show are writing a writer who is meant to be a much better write than they actually are.

I had the same problem with House. House is meant to be much smarter than the people who write the show are, and often it shows.

Define "sexual capital"

I assume you mean quantifying a value of how attractive someone is relative to a set of other people, and using that to one's advantage, but could you elaborate?

because my sexual capital feels pretty low right now, family

>>7633055
1. yes
2. prevailing in which milieu? (your question is ambiguous)

>>7632971
sure, if you like Pynchon and Wallace.

>>7632976

wut u meen

>>7632983
if you're immature, and like shit jokes.

Start with the Greeks.

Read the Sticky

>>7632939
I've done that and I've browsed around a little, and I've come up with a list of sorts, just stuff that looked interested that I jotted down

The Basics (Ulysses, Infinity Jest, On The Road, etc.)
Borroughs - Naked Lunch, Junk & Queer
Carrol - Basketball Diaries
Eugenides - Virgin Suicides & Middlesex
Gaarder - Sohpie's World
Banks - The Crow Road
Proust - In Search Of Lost Time
Gaarder - Sohpie's World

Am I looking good? I also snagged Malcom X's autobiography and a collection of Poe stories from a friends house, I don't know if it's everything by him but it seems like most

I read Owen in HS and it's really stuck with me, even years later

http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174659

Because it's a lomg poem, here's an excerpt from the closing lines:

>Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
>We are not now that strength which in old days
>Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
>One equal temper of heroic hearts,
>Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
>To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

I met a man
Only once
For the man disappeared

My blood approved
My soul in anguish
I waged a war

I simply could not win
The war was over
Before the first bullet flew

>>7632672
Because of our Judaic-feminist overlords

Beowulf is dope???

I don't want to call it trash, but, after reading it I was very confused by the praise and it's supposed influence.
No wonder why the author didn't want his name on it.