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Phil Fish
SHIT!!!

if you look at what's left of publishing, it's a mug's game. i can't see how any serious businessman would risk money on publishing anything that wasn't by Stephen King.

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>>7394488


>should I try to self publish on the internet

No. My last experience reading something that was self-published pretty much confirmed for me that traditional publishing is the way to go.

>>7395607

Pynchon, Franzen, and Toni Morrison are all still writing books, and doing so through the traditional publishing system.

>>7394481
>translation

no

>>7394481
she did her own translation

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NDP684

New Directions

Marthiel/ Jackson Mathews

Both the original French and various selected translations.

Read French first, then translation, then French. Then repeat periodically unto death.

Poetry > Philosophy... for now... [forever or until Lucifer takes me away]

Hate that he's hackneyed, but I do love the stuff [even has a fucking cartoon]

Image: not related but not some random painting I found on the internet, I have seen it in person... "Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven Years of Age"... Jean-Étienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702 - 1789)

Original > Translation... [both will be referred to, nonetheless]

Le Voyage is. Lives will have been lived after you have been concerned with it.

>>7394456
>self confidence relies on thinking i'm superior to others

hello teenager how are you

self confidence relates to philosophy because you can sit up and say "nothing matters. There's no point behind life, i provide my reasons to live as I so define them." you go out and you do your thing because it's what you know you can do and what you want to do and you know you do it the way you want it done. If other people don't like it, that's their own problem

Ubermensch style

>>7394456
Self-confidence is when you own Others, you make the play they react. Self-confidence is an attitude you insert into your external being in the world in which you neither fear nor fret over possible subordination of your projection into the outside.

>Why does my self confidence rely on me thinking I'm superior to all others?
This is because the confidence I mentioned is at the expense of the Other, you don't neccessarily subordinate them but the nature of being-in-the-world inevitably (given enough time) results in one dominating the will of the others, making him a Subject to yours.

>And when I don't think I'm superior to others, I develop somewhat of an inferiority complex.
This is just the vice-versa.

Put a cuter picture next time, anime girls hardly ever go wrong.

>>7394477
so my thoughts of feeling superior to others is confidence? having a conversation with others and thinking that i am in control, and that they are... somewhat below me, that's confidence?

It's a really comfy and funny retelling of Le morte d'arthur.

Makes me think of Magneto.

>>7394673
Same. Can't think of this book anymore without picturing that.

>hurr fantasee need elves durrrrrrr
>hurrrrrr le funnee quirky spoilered text DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Judging by the quality of your op post, you're an annoying autist. Please go back to reddit or /v/ or whatever other shithole you usually visit and give up on writing.

Embarrasing

>>7394400
>I want to write a fantasy story
Don't. Do not ever, ever write anything. Even if your life depends on it, regard the pen as a serpent, for, should one drop of ink bleed into paper, the whole of society will suffer.

not writing

>>7394398
don't take yourself too seriously.

>>7394398
write

>>7394275
that's because he's an UNRELIABLE SCUMBAG NARRATOR and you've BOUGHT into the lies just like you're supposed to. He's a professor and incredibly intelligent, so he's spinning everything to make you sympathetic.

The man is a child rapist and kidnapper

keep reading you weak-willed punkass

>>7394281
I'll rape you!

>>7394281
>UNRELIABLE SCUMBAG NARRATOR
If that's the case, that's quite the spoiler. However, you've made a solid case for me to stick with it.

Does he drop any fictitious accounts of Lo getting handled by anyone other than him? I don't care how depraved it gets, as long as it's only him and Lo.

>>7394265
>lootcrate
>rpo
fuck off subhuman

>>7394331
Op is baiting, not very well though. I agree with this poster.

>>7394331
seconded.

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>>7394247
You know what the whole Schwarzkommando thing reminds me of? How we used to troll about this here being a catholic board, and then one day real ones popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, like they'd always existed.
A-and then the antinatalism fad landed for a couple months... Eerie...

>>7394342
>How we used to troll about this here being a catholic board, and then one day real ones popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, like they'd always existed.


That's some Hegelian shit right there.

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>>7394342
Maybe if we start joking about reading books, eventually someone will read those books?

Wait...

>>7394112

Is mass euthanasia of the poor, intellectually challenged and undesirables the best course of action on an earth with finite resources?

probably some practical ethics

trolley car problem maybe?

>>7394119
Yes, that sort of thing. I've already got that one though.

No.

No.

are you fucking retarded m8?

heh

make one for joyce

>>7393957
Just fart in the soup

yep

yeah

uh huh

yes

yes

We have this same thread with these same questions three times a day

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>>7393718

Im new here. I searched the catalog before i posted and there wasnt a kindle thread.

I just finished God Emperor of Dune and want to finish the last two books but my eyes are sore as hell from reading on the goddamn computer screen. I assume kindle reduces eye strain. And if i can pirate books ill probably get one

pic unrelated: its Michael Obamas balls slapping the front of his pants when he was dancing on Ellen

>>7393614
Because he knows about all that popular culture that I also know about.

>>7393614
Soft-spoken, educated, attractive

Because he chose to be, at least publicly.
The studdering is half planned, half genuine.