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Anyone else found this really frightening?
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Yes, but that's the point.
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>>9994321
When I was a kid and before I came to believe John of Patmos was probably retroactively writing about events much closer to his lifetime than ours.
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Sure. Like >>9994330 said. It's all to frighten people and keep them in line. Oldest trick in the book.
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>Norman Mailer
>John Updike
>Saul Bellow
>John Irving
These guys were considered the greatest authors of the later half of the 20th Century, but nowadays no one ever talks about them. What went wrong? Are they too old, white and male for the liberals and too politically radical for the conservatives? Are they the victims of changing styles? Were they never that great in the first place?
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>>9994263
Liberals are scum.
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>>9994263
I often hear about them. You probably won't if you expect to hear them talked about on your 'redpill' boards and websites (and non-existent social circle).
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>>9994263
/lit/ fucktards and kids under 21 don't talk about them. who cares what they think
I love updike and bellow is one of my favourite authors
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>shorthand forDavid Foster Wallace,oneof the most intelligent writers who ever lived. Most famous for his novel 'Infinite Jest', which requires a min. IQ of 131 to decipher
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What am I reading
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>>9994269
Urban Dictionary definition of DFW
Books that made you wanna [You need a 4chan gold account to see this spoiler]
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>>9994217
fucking epic. redpilled as fuck
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favourite artist
favourite poet
>jean louis david
>john keats
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Thomas Cole
T.S. Eliot
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Are there any other examples of someone writing a worthy spinoff/sequel to a universally-adored work centuries after and having it succeed at a similar level?
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The Quran
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>>9994129
The New Testament
Faust
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Anybody read Hobbes, specifically the Leviathan? Thoughts?
We just went over his idea of materialism, and religion in general. I thought it was extremely interesting, and was actually the one take on Christianity I liked.
To try and summarize; He said that there is no external heaven. There also is no Hell, and that Hell is actually just being in nothingness for all eternity. So basically what atheists believe happen when you die.
Because he was a materialist, he said that we have no souls, we are simply a body that is made up of various mechanical parts. When we die, we die and live in Hell (nothingness). Eventually, when God returns, he will resurrect all people and create what is now a barren, lifeless earth, into a Heaven on Earth. From there we will live endlessly.
Thoughts?
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>>9994123
Schmitt says that the most important line of Leviathan is "Jesus is the Christ."
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>>9994652
nice
thanks for your insight
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> Thoughts?
sage
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What did the greatest American author mean by this?
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>>9994088
HOLY FUCK REDPILLL HAHAHAHHAHAA
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>>9994088
TSATF is the greatest American novel I have ever read.
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>>9994209
It's wonderful isn't it? Quentin's section is my favourite. His memories of he and Caddie slay me. The knife to the throat suicide pact and the twilight-coloured smell of honeysuckle and him wrapping his hands around her neck while saying "Dalton Ames" are some of the most moving moments in all literature for me.
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do you think Penelope was a reliable narrator?
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It's not self-evident that she was telling the truth, though Margaret Atwood's personal views seem to indicate that she is supposed to be truthful.
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/lit/ should I join the military? To keep it lit related, does suffering equate to becoming a greater writer (with training ofcourse)?
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What if Marx was actually the biggest troll in history and exactly planned the entire impact of of his writings on the 20th century just to fuck with people?
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Marx applied a rigorous critique to classical political economy, by following its basic concepts to their logical conclusion, and went from there. This was achieved by studying Smith, Ricardo & gang for years when he realized philosophy wasn't good enough to comprehend human society. I guess being a scholar is now trolling.
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>>9993935
No, you're thinking of Machiavelli.
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How to write a decent romantic subplot? 2017-09-07 10:30:01 Post No.9993832
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How to write a decent romantic subplot?
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How do I write a decent romantic subplot in a novel that doesn't belong to the romance genre? I really want to include it because it'll contribute to the character development and whatnot, but I don't want it to become like a tumor and kill the main story. How do I do it?
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ever enjoyed a romance in a movie or a book before? figure out what you like about those ones and include those elements in your book
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Right, I know that, but what worries me is if they occupy either too much or too little of the story. A lot of romantic subplots in fiction are criticised for either being under or overdeveloped, you know? I want to avoid that landmine.
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Anyone here read this?
Never wanted to get /lit/'s opinion so much. It seems like the book you'd hate when told about, but which you perhaps be softened by? Or perhaps not?
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Haz any of you used an auto dictate software? I've been trying to get into my writing but honestly anything comes up when im in front of the screen, different thing is when im thinking or speaking so i figured out thag maybe it will be the best to work this way, if anyone has suggestions for something in spanish (latin) forWindows and android I'll appreciate it.
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Is beat poetry/fiction a good lubricant to slide into Gravity's Rainbow? 2017-09-07 09:32:09 Post No.9993524
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Is beat poetry/fiction a good lubricant to slide into Gravity's Rainbow?
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I'm reading Jack Kerouac and can see some similarities of style with that of Pynchon's GR (I only previewed the first ~20pgs of GR). Is beat the way to go when easing into GR?
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>>9993524
In Slow Learner, Pinecone said he thought On the Road was a great novel ... not sure he feels the same about it now
I'm sure he was aware of Cassidy, Ginsburg and Burroughs, but he's a maximalist. The only thing that prepared me for V and GR is Ulysses