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This is the problem with the younger generation. They talk out of their ass like they'd recently had chipotle pumped straight into their colon.
Go back to highschool, kid.

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>>7626100
hey, he's a teenager. they don't get taught this at school, because, you know, school is a tool of mind control and doesn't teach you anything worth knowing - but teens learn from observing that strategically it is safer to shit on something rather than praise it. a nervous babby doesn't want to risk saying "I thought the great shark hunt was pretty funny" in case some other babby attacks him for it.

One of the things you have to deal with in this business is being
whipped on by brainless freaks and special-interest pleaders. It
never ends. On some nights they gnaw on your doorknob, and on others
they plot rotten lawsuits and fondle themselves like chimpanzees in
rooms lit by 25-watt bulbs.
- Hunter S Thompson, "Revenge of the Fish Heads"

RIP Doyle

>>7622929
Tao Lin pls go

Greatest human bean to be alive. So proud to know him personally.

>>7622951
see >>7622948
Those hamsters sure are sad.

>>7616693
live and talk and breathe and laugh

>>7616693
I could never be with a woman like her. Maybe you're just as retarded? Or are you there just for that sweet, tasty pussy juice?

>>7616693
Unless yours is similar ditch her.

>>7630413
why not make the change you want to see. Did you really think this thread would help?

>>7630320

I feel some sort of imperative to point out to the board that the author's last name is pronounced horn-eye'. A significant name to know in personality theory.

>>7630337
It's good to show off your knowledge of the subject, but do you have any idea where I can find it?

Hey OP I have this book in my flat. If you're in the UK I'll post it to you.

kill john lennon

>>7630229
/thread

>>7630222
Salinger would get memed 6 months at a time by different meme philosophies and religions. plus lived in a compound and surely used piss bottles

he was /lit/

>>7630195
>Greeks and Romans excelled in scientific areas

Sure thing bro. Earth is made up of cubes made out of triangles.

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>>7630346

It had the opposite effect at times. Often when there's a major crisis in Rome, there's a vestal virgin trial. These were religious trials where they accused them of losing their virtue or leaving the fire go out, as an excuse to explain the political or financial turmoil of Rome. Since this didn't fix anything political or financial, Rome often just fucked up more after they buried a virgin alive.

Fun fact: the charges against vestals for breaking Rome's contract with the gods by lost virtue were charges of "incestum", where we get the modern word "incest" from.

>>7630192
>>>/sci/

>>7630160
The relationship between Faria and the count was one of my favorite things in that book

anyone?

>>7630188
I agree

>>7630160
Basically the Greeks. If I had all the seminal poetry, philosophy, history, biography and drama from Ancient Greece, I'd be sorted.

>>7630098
>tfw all new literature is being controlled by a small group of moms

Translation: less white people.
Gee.

>>7630101
>>7630098
This is good; you shouldn't write for an audience that doesn't even read.

>>7629936
Nah. The fantasy genre is in the public eye right now, so we're gonna get a bunch of Game of Thrones clones until it dies down

John Crowley

please respond

>>7629853
my mom liked A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz. other than that she just reads the russians and british foppery.

>>7629950
>my mom liked A Fraction Of The Whole

>may
I can't have this goddamn ambiguity hanging over my head, guy. Does it or does it not? Will it, or will it not-- this willy-nilly business does not amuse me, my boy, and I don't know why you'd come in here and pussy foot around the business as if it could be about anything else! Do you think I want to be in my kitchen in two hours, preparing myself the fourth meal I've had since I became awake twenty-five hours ago, pondering this post as I reach for the milk in the fridge? Wondering if this book really /does/ discuss fluid identity, as I pour myself a bowl of oatmeal and pop it into my microwave? Do you? Huh? Too many variables, man, I just can't take it.

"Gimme da soap, Job!"

and but so

Buncha phonies

>>7629653
Turgenev is one of the few classic russian authors I haven't read. I really do hope he's as incredible as many people say. I'm really looking forward to it.

I just don't know what translator to read.

>>7629679
I'm reading the penguin classics one. I've been blown away by the prose so I assume its a good translation.