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>>7576008
>Most off the stuff I write is funny
That's true, because your whole post is so funny and ironic. Asking on a humour website for a humour website, sheesh :-)
>I was wondering if there was anywhere good to submit things like that?
Have you heard of reddit? They have super humour, but sometimes it is quite nerdy.
>If I can...
Do you have writer's block? :-(

>>7576029
1) Seems like a good place to start.
2) What's with all the Reddit references recently?
3) I wouldn't normally write that kind of thing, but it seems to be a common format for websites

>>7576045
>1) Seems like a good place to start.
I don't know. Most of the posts on lit I don't understand, or they are just mean :(
>2) What's with all the Reddit references recently?
Oh, you don't know? Ah, I get it, you are a newcomer, too (:

Could you post some excerpts? I need a good laugh today :]

Nobody know her?

>>7575985

I haven't heard of her. Could you say some more about whom you would compare her to, what her style is, and what some other favorites of yours are (short story authors in particular) to help us get more of a sense of this author? Thanks

You can't really watch TV about books, but you can surely read books about TV.

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>>7575965
Balance. Just like the soap opera "One life to live" so are the days of our lives, like dust in the wind. Wild Stallions and so forth.

>>7575870
It's shit

I am a dirty sock, in a pile of clean socks
The sock i match with is clean, but I am dirty
I am a dirty, dirty sock.
Nobody will wear me, and because of me nobody will wear my pair
I am dirty but you can't clean me, I'm dirty beyond repair.
I was left out of the laundry, only by chance
A clean sock I would be if my owner took a second glance
No soap suds for me, no rinse and no spin
I'm a dirty sock and I belong in the bin

>>7575833
lol

>>7575831
What do you think of him first? What do you like or dislike? What is problematic in his work in your opinion?

Infinite Jest.

>>7575527

de Condorcet, Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind
Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics. A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind on Universal History Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth
Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Spencer, Progress: Its Law and Cause
Comte, A General View of Positivism
Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

>>7575706
thanks. do you know of any critiques?

>>7575527
If you want a article on the growing acceptance of transgender/queer/non-binary sexuality or fetishized sexual deviance, read Berlant and Warner's Sex In Public.

it ends with a scene of a man voluntarily being gagged by having milk poured down his throat in a sex show

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>>7575505
This book/ movie desu senpai.

>>7575505
>>7575537
gtfo

>>7575505
>not realising that the 'love angle' is very much front-and-centre, but also a fundamental part of the book

B T F O
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>>7575498
>it may have of have been of such heavy symbolic intent that it flew under my head.

rickity rekt

Sounds like a bitter old cunt.

Follow the 10,000 Hour Rule.

For example, when considering a subject, I can only think of how to write it in terms of how other writers would handle it. At best I create something of a collage of styles, but it all feels like second hand imitation.

>>7575491
So, if you're familiar with Hegelian dialectics -- that.

You'll never create a thesis, but you can create an antithesis or a synthesis. To create an antithesis, propose and then develop either a rejection of or an alternative to a thesis, so, for example, if you don't much like Burroughs, find a new approach to how he wrote.

To create a synthesis, identify a thesis and an antithesis and find a half-way between the two. So, for example, Hemingway and Faulkner are often seen as polar opposites. I think that's spurious, but we'll play for now. Hemingway is often seen as clear, but also stark and turgid in his writing, Faulkner as fluid and beautiful but obfuscating. They are both good, but if you can find a way to merge Hemingway's clarity with Faulkner's aesthetic, that would be an example of a synthesis.

Of course, that's been done. So find something new. Read some contemporary literature.

>>7575471

Bump 1/2

>>7575471
Final bump 2/2

>>7575471
He did write an autobiography and a book about his inventions

>wants le edgy hell and suffering and damnation
>doesn't read purgatorio and paradiso
>doesn't realize the way to god is by love and not through fear

P L E B

>>>/REDDIT/

Baudelaire's poetry (specifically The Flowers of Evil (even more specifically Les fleurs du mal)).

>>7575461
why are you being such a bully

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>>7575458
fuck off plebbitor

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>>7575404
another rationalism, therefore another nihilism, destroyed by pure empiricism. the trick is to notice that you do not control what you do not control, but equally what you think you control...

>>7575404
/lit/ - literature

It's dumb.

No.

/lit/ only reads white men, mainly dead.

>>7575367
No. Really.

Stop being so obtuse friend :^)

I started reading the Pale King today. I listened to an interview with the editor who compiled the book from Wallace's notes and they said some parts of it simply hadn't been edited enough, while one of the novel's main themes is boredom some parts are so boring that even the editor thought Wallace just didn't get around to cutting certain parts out. So if a part seems excruciatingly boring you could *probably* just skip it

>>7575339
>Reading the book DFW killed himself to and expecting it not to drive you to suicide
Well memed, friend.