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Every sentence has as much meaning as we can extract from it.

>>7336365
Thanks, but I'm looking for a more technical answer. Which words change meaning specifically? Is there a grammatical term for this inversion of meaning? It's not irony or sarcasm, so what is it?

>>7336376
I'm no expert, but I think is just a badly written sentence.

The bar for entry is really low. If you're really smart, though, you'll just start your own outlet rather than submitting. The word itself, submission, doesn't that concern you?

>>7336340

If you want to be pedantic, offering any of your intellectual output to the outside world is a form of submission,

you're never going to get into tin house through the slush pile

the big literary journals are pretty much all agented

Methods of Logic by Willard van Orman Quine

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>>7336245
Reminder that Chomsky constantly attacks other thinkers for not being scientific enough despite his most famous theory never ever being discovered or any evidence of it being found

>>7336258
you probably don't acknowledge anthropogenic global warming as a real phenomenon either

Daizai Osamu - Ningen Shikaku (usually translated as No Longer Human)

>>7336220
The Myth of Sisyphus to be honest (desu)

Ordinary people by Judith Guest

>>7336080
I just noticed how similar these are to the environment in Dark/Demon Souls.

Dante's Inferno

>>7336080
bump- this art is fucking fantastic

>>7336028
Bump 4 interest, to be honest family, i like you all more than a friend

>>7336028
>>7336032
You don't, poetry is not something you can learn to read in isolation, your reading of it will be a a refracted mirror to the entire collection of your knowledge, understanding, experiences and your idea of all art.
You don't learn to read poetry, you just learn and then you read poetry.

>>7336050
You are saying that their aren't techniques to poetry? ok..

He was pretty much batshit insane.

If he was alive today he would be sharing "live life love" posters on pinterest. Run of the mill satanist/individualist/free love/"i'm a feminist" guy but with schizophrenia.

>>7335859
I don't know much about Blake, only that he promoted polyamory, but only with a single man and many female lovers.

>>7335806
This is old.

I primarily don't like that it's adding to the idea (along with all the no-fear editions) that Shakespeare in the original is too hard to read for students.

It's not unless you're a nigger.

Its a gimmicky book targeted toward pre-teens, it doesn't need to be taken so seriously

Is that wil Wheaton

>>7335798
Do you know what reverse image search is?
That's Neil Hilborn

>>7335801
Lol wtf are you looking at that's clearly will wheaton

Heroic doses of psychedelics.

>>7335719
Terrence pls go

For writers block, I never have it. If I'm imagining a scene in my head then it naturally progresses, and I don't come up with new things or instigate change in what I'm imagining, it just logically flows, so I don't have this problem.

I also never have a problem with not wanting to read if I'm reading something by my own choice.

If you remain diligent, your focus will improve. I definitely didn't start out this way. It took about a year of devoting 3 hours a day without exception to reading before I could read straight through without getting bored or distracted. Discipline is a skill in itself.

wait until Hypersphere gets published, then put us on the map in English, instead of Portuguese like the spic who wrote about TLOTIAT.

>>7335663
Yes

Define "original."

It's a reading starter kit--a mediocre one at that--it's purposes is to get you into reading, not film.

Maybe one would find a film better, but that would be due to poor reading ability.

For a good starter film: Seven Samurai directed by Kurosawa.

>>7335569
yes: american psycho, clockwork orange.
movie were better: 1984 (John hurt version), electric sheep (blade runner)

>>7335587
Clockwork Orange movie is shit. The book is galaxies better, if I may be so frank (iimbsf).

>>7335541

drugs and addictoin is actually really boring, but I don't know what you are on about there are a ton of books about that

>>7335541
People without other passions or outlets are far more likely to become addicts than other people who try the same drugs. It's just against the odds that addicts would also be good writers, though of course there are notable exceptions and "good" is somewhat subjective.

>>7335541
You never get over addiction OP.

It's something that lives with you for the rest of your life, an endless battle on all fronts, waiting for you to lapse in judgement, jut once, to reclaim you fully.

Don't do drugs, mkay?
How was my prose guys? Did I do you proud /lit/?

congratulations, senpai, you fell for a meme

It gets much more confusing, don't worry. ilymtaf

it doesn't.
that's kind of the point.
but i would urge you to read on, if not for the personal reward of reading what is considered a masterpiece of modern literature, then for being in a truly small percentage of the reading population that has actually read this book back to front.

the book does have many interesting thoughts/sentences in it, further down half way, though.

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>>7335423
>bought a Kindle
Congratulations family, you fell for a meme.
You know you can just read over peoples' shoulders (for free) on the bus and they can't legally make you stop, right? Knowledge is free, dumbass.

>>7335423
1. Download Calibre ebook management software
2. Download tens of thousands of books for from various torrents
3. Never read any of them
4. Eventually sell your kindle

Just kidding... just make sure you actually use it to read. and actually download calibre...

Calibre is indeed a must, if you own a kindle.