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>what is escapism

>>7404024
>he wasn't born into the landed gentry or jet-setting business world
Just quit now before you humiliate yourself further.

>>7404024

>that picture

I'd wager to say 35% are xanax addicts, 15% are oxycodone fiends, and some 10% are functional alcoholics.

Keep at it

>>7403954

Mindfulness meditation. Proven to reduces mind-wandering and enhance concentration.

http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_english.php

Adderall is for idiots. If you need potent psychostimulants to concentrate, you're dumb.

>>7403954
meditate prior to reading

>>7403947
Kadath and all that other dream shit. Yo. That shit is whack.

>>7403995
This is correct for stories
His best work is the short story Rats in the Walls

>>7403947
Anyone else feel that there's still much potential in the framework that Lovecraft set? I've been reading "Gyo" by Junji Ito recently and it strikes me how the core is so Lovecraftian, yet freshly served (pun intended).

tb.h I wish my life was like The Secret History by Procopius

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>>7403875

Comfiest book ever.

>Mah Vermont Autumns

I wish mine was like The Secret History of the Mongols tbhonest

>>7403867
That man clearly has a hispanic phenotype. It's not the movie's fault you're a pleb uneducated in race science.

>>7403867
The man the character is based on was Mexican, and that fellow looks pretty Mexican.

Dr Gonzo was described as Samoan.

take it to /hist/ nerd

>>7403829
>Imannuel Kant is the most boring philosopher ever and Critique of Pure Reason is the most boring book ever written
prove me wrong

ftfytbhfam

>>7403829
>prove me wrong

But i Kant

Gone Girl, gotta be

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come on faggots if you want to be writers and shit you better start training those expression skills

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the novelization of the hit motion picture.

>>7403750

It would be preferable.

>>7403750
Either that or you manipulate people into thinking your psychotic delusions are a shared human experience.
that is, be an artist.

>>7403750

Philip dick made bank on sharing his.

>>7403739
because he found the most verbose way possible to say 'fuck everyone and everything do what you want'

>>7403739
he spook a lot of people.

>>7403739
>having a hero to idealize
Spooked as fuck, man. Read his book again.

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Chaos and fire aren't just destruction, they are rebirth.

I'd rather see men become great through pain and misery, than live uselessly in satiation and luxury.

>>7403689
They all suck T B H FAMILIA

nigga do you fucking sit around reading dictionaries

Webster, pleb

>>7403644
>and all the system is designed to use you as the workforce of particular interests.
And this design is successfully keeping you from following your ideals of adventure.
Why have you allowed this?

Stop whining.

fuck off, go back to twitter you platitudinous cunt

Ideals are for minorities.

>>7403510
>predictions
It will never be released.

>>7403510
More genre shit

2018, posthumously

Don't read that anti-semitic trash

>>7403489
He's antisemitic?

>>7403490
no but you still shouldn't read anti-semitic trash

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No but check out my team

>>7403400
D-U-B-S

well done anon

truly

the pinacle

of literature

>>7403410
patrish names and team anon, one of those better be an arcanine

>>7403425
Only just started mate; trainer name is HOMER.

Got a Charmeleon (ACHILLES) Pikachu (APOLLO) and Geodude (AJAX)