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Le mur

>>7363630
At the startre

>>7363630
the greeks

>>7363593
What's your original language? I speak English, so I might give this a twirl.

>>7363599
I'm guessing French.

>>7363593
i learned english shitposting here.
me cannot fail

>>7363568
Steal NotPynchon's ideas.

>>7363568

Think of a one sentence answer to the brief > copy and paste quotes that support that answer > put in sentences to link the quotes

Congrats you have bullshitted an essay/Done it how everyone else does it anyway

Bump only cuz that face is priceless

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>"What be 'Be'? You cain't say that 'Be' be, cause you saying 'be' to talk about 'Be', and it don't mean nothing to say that 'Be' be dis or 'Be' be dat. 'Be' be 'Be' to begin wit'. So don't you be saying 'Be' be 'Be'. You wanna talk about 'Be', you gotta talk about what ain't be nothin' at all. You gotta say 'Be' be what ain't 'ain't-Be'. Now when you ain't be nothing at all? Dat be when you be daid. When you daid you ain't be nothing, you just be daid. So 'Be' be somewhere between where you be and where you ain't be, dat is, when you be daid. Any time you say 'Be' you is also saying 'ain't-Be', and dat make you think about being daid."

dying to the self is not something that is done once and over with.

life and death are of supreme importance. time swiftly passes and opportunity is lost.

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honestly, what does this quote mean?

>>7363216
all of coelho

is this bait or are you really that upset about a Seuss book?

>>7363216
I don't get pop culture's obsession with Dr. Seuss. I mean they were OK books in preschool and kindergarten but why are they so popular and why do adults discuss them?

Essentially, yes.

>>7363131
I'd like to point out that storytelling as an art form existed long before written language. The art of creating engaging characters, gripping stories, and profound meaning is a very broad, general concept that transcends medium. Movies, books, theatre, etc; these are all ways of exploring the same basic concept of story. Therefore, I find it more useful to focus on what makes stories work rather than what makes books work.
I will agree that reading books is always a good thing for a writer, as it broadens the mind and exposes the author to new storytelling techniques. But the same can be said of movies, comics, and even video games. To reiterate my previous point, storytelling transcends medium. I find it more helpful to understand stories in the abstract rather than focus on writing mechanics. You can have the strongest mechanics in the world, but still fail to tell a story because you didn't have a grasp of tropes and their application.
TL;DR storytelling skill > writing skill.

>>7363891

maybe if you want to be a storyteller

but if you want to write, particularly today, you need to read

>>7363116
>Anagrama
>No Gredos
Mátate.

>>7363296
This

>>7363296
>Anagrama
>No Editores Mexicanos Unidos
>Mátate.

Here they are:
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You may pepper and salt them as you please

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>>7363108
>quotation marks

>>7363120
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>>7363002
>>>/reddit/

Interesting concept

Trump -- that damnable chump -- with his clumpy hair and general frumpy plump, lectern trumped up to hide his slump -- a slump indicative of both grump and growing need to dump (or perhaps merely rump-trump; for which he couldn't plum or plump) -- bumbling and bumping, and plummeted with a flump to pump his lumps, so that they rumbled and crumped against the lectern trunk, and then, knees numb and head spun -- having succumbed to the rum he'd drunk -- proceeded to trump -- Trump, the fiscal monk, trumping and trumpeting his tired grump:

"What country, friends, is this?"

The assembled crowd was still.

And then louder, grumpier -- and, he thought to himself, picturing himself rampant before the lectern, as though dispersing, one wispy lock at a time, into an out of body experience -- Trumpier:

"WHAT COUNTRY, FRIENDS, IS THIS?"

And then someone, a hick, or a shill, or someone with an automatic rifle in their pants -- but not a Mexican; eh eh, no way esse -- in an event not recorded since before the civil war, managed -- perhaps from the sheer Trumpy nature of the question (Trumpitude; Trumpbit) -- to pull their metaphorical head out of their ass, and see beyond their own skin, an act reminiscent, almost, but not quite, of the Golden Trump and his/their omniscience, and shouted back, self-attuned reverie abandoned, broken, cunted:

"THIS IS GOD DAMN FUCKING AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

>>7362927 Mah /lit/ dadday is Dostoevsky

>>7362927
Burroughs he might not be around OFTEN but he gets the job done.

Papa Pinecohen

>>7362852
Sounds trite

Will read. baka if you don't eagerly anticipate every new novel from Delillo and Pynchon, even when they're not masterpieces they're still very good.

>>7362859
so do you

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>>7362717
Pic related. It's short, it's easy to read and it's philosophical.

Just lurk more, charts get posted often.

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>>7362717
Here you go mate.

5cms was pretty mediocre tho. Good looking but shallow without proper characters who lacked character. It made me feel but just about few minutes after it was over.

No. Those studies are garbage because they include shit like iPad, Kindle Fire and such.

Every study I've seen was only with screens, not with e-ink, like in your picture. I read on both a kindle and paper books and see no noticeable difference in my comprehension. However, E-books are very portable and you can carry around a whole library, anywhere you go.

honestly i disagree with the studies

i like my kindle because i can bring so many books with me at the same time

but i also like having physical books because they just feel good in my hands

>>7362632
So you occasionally buy fancy things. I don't see the problem. Everybody likes a fancy book now and again. Or did you buy eight?

>>7362632
https://www.mormon.org/free-bible

You should

>>7362632
If you are going to spend $100 on a book, that is the one to get.

Fuck

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die