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800k words, out of print, author distanced himself from it. No one has ever finished it. Definitely seems like a good read and not a meme

Stop reading about life and go out and live it. Every experience is worth a hundred stupid literary novels.

>>7522597
>author distanced himself from it
I heard about the first two things but never this. Care to elaborate?

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>>7522578
>he thinks this is a meme

get the 1995 penguin anon, blueprint cover.

>>7522578
not a meme

>>7522596
thanks

>>7522557
A friend's older brother had that album. I haven't listened to it in years, but remember enjoying it when I was a child. Are you familiar with Rick Wakeman's Journey to the center of the Earth?

>>7522607

No but I'll give it a listen. If you're interested you really should listen to War of the Worlds, it's all up on youtube. It has everything from cheesy 70s prog to genuinely depressing parts with Richard Burton hamming it up.

>>7522557
I loved this but ive only listened once.

I tried listening to his sons "remix" of the album and honestly felt like it was sullying the original and coudnt finish it

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>he's still stuck on Origins

You'll never make it at this rate.

>>7522473
I'm reading The Tunnel and The Recognitions, which are both better than everything but the top 5 on the list.

>>7522483
see
>>7522482
you're just ahead of the meme train, but its coming

>>7522418
If Michelangelo had the desire to write he'd be 10 times better than you'll ever be

>>7522438
That's only because he didn't have access to 4chan.

>>7522418
>Is writing more exhausting than painting, drawing and sculpting?
No, but it is, often times, more personal, more organic: language is consciousness, after all.

Both, my man

>>7522313
Tell you what, I wrote my Thesis on Machiavelli and I'll condense it all into neat little research notes that you can more or less copy/paste for an easy B+

That being said, I'll need half of the money up front so I know that you aren't fucking with me

>>7522329
How do i know you wont rip me off?

>>7522303
>lit-starterpack

Fucking kill yourself faggot

(spoiler) Stoner is fine though (/spoiler)

>>7522318
I've already read Infinite Jest, The Brothers Karamazov, Lolita, Notes From Underground, and many more. Don't fuck with my intellectual intelligence, bro.>>7522328

>he thinks the author matters

>he's writing a novel but he can't describe the plot

>>7522047
>he thinks the author doesn't matter
Like wearing glasses without the lense. Art is an extension of the artist: it is interpretation of reality externalised; and, therefore, it is essential to critical analysis of the art.

>>7521996
can I get some music as well

some guy recommended me an album (which I've now forgoteen) which was I think heavy metal but with yoga.

>>7521996
please

>>7522026
pretty please

>>7521988
Why be so fucking negative, there's a new year beginning. Discipline yourself to write between 500-1000 words every day. You're worth the effort.

Fuark OP, I'm turning 24 in March 2016. Tell me what it's like to have officially lost your youth, soul, spirit, freedom, and brio.

Happy birthday, OP.

To be honest you're probably destined to fade into obscurity and work a shitty job, but that's what pretty much everyone does so you have nothing to lose by writing.

Plenty of writers got published when they were way older than you.

And remember, everyone and everything will perish and nothing will have mattered, so mattering a bit less for a few seconds is no big deal.

>>7521981
>"I do things like get in a taxi and say, 'The library, and step on it.'"
It's said by a precocious anxiety-ridden 18 year old. And it's brilliant even if you dislike it for... well, what exactly? Edginess? Ego?

>which would probably be offensive if it wasn't so incoherent
It is coherent on a close read. You wanna say you didn't read the book or? You skimmed through then made this thread?

>hilariously faulty understanding of organic chemistry(DFW later admitted that he just copied most of the information on drugs out of a pharmaceutical textbook)
Anon, most of the chemicals are made up. It's fiction. Wallace never admitted any of this.

This thread is a very poor and cancerous b8.

>>7521981
>>frequent and casual use of the word "fag" + multiple transphobic portrayals of transvestites and the ambiguously-gendered
stopped right there

>>7521981
>DFW claims to have never read Pynchon.
can you link me to a quote of some kind on this?

also i think you were trying not to enjoy infinite jest or went into it with the wrong expectations. i think its a pretty outstanding novel myself.

The world keeps a moving
but the Iliad stays the same

>>7521920
Agreed. I wish I had been born in the 1920s when real literature was being written- now it's all meme-meme bro irony get anomie tumblr crap. I feel like I was born in the wrong generation; literature, what happened?

I don't want to sound like a shill but icycalm talks about this in his art essay. Literature has degenerated. Artfags have taken over. /lit/ is completely fucking unwilling to even entertain the idea that the point of literature is entertainment. This opens the door to all sorts of shit.

They appreciated men of intent, and with flaws. There wasn't a single Greek hero besides maybe Theseus that didn't piss the Gods off in some way.
if you were fighting and winning, to the Greeks, great. If you were losing and dying, just as good. If you're sitting at home doing nothing, well, how many Greek heros did that?

>>7521822
>assholes like Odysseus

They didn't have 3000 years of ideology weighing them down.

>you'll never plunder maidens, pillage palaces and boast on you boat
>no mixing wine in the crater
>no sacrificing oxen for a safe passage on the water
>no fucking every king's daughter on the coast of the Mediterranean
>ever

Massification was the most prominent and most repulsive aspect of the modern zeitgeist they were championing for other reasons, and they wanted to find ways to deal with it

>>7521722
Eliot wasn't a fascist, he volunteered as a fire warden during the Blitz in London during WWII.

Pound was a massive fascist AND invented Modernism, so it just appears that lots of Modernists were fascists.

>>7521910
>Eliot wasn't a fascist, he volunteered as a fire warden during the Blitz in London during WWII.

lol That wouldn't exclude him from being a fascist

>Rail against mindless, materialistic consumer plebs and their filthy acquisition of things

>spend lots of money on pretty hardcover books, lust after other people's bookshelves

Zizek hardly has a hatred for consumption.

>>7521510
Wow, did Schopenhauer really say this? God damn

>>7521538
this is true