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>>9814873
Do you read lyric poetry? If not, read lyric poetry, and epic cannot be written without the lyric.

add a character named jimmy who has a brother named timmy

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>>9814873

Omeros is a good place to start.

>>9814535
1. Learn alphabet and sounds
2. Duolingo
3. Move to russia

>>9814535

Give up. This language is difficult even for native speakers.

t. Ivan Ivanov

>>9814535
buy a bottle of Smirnoff, continuously feed yourself shots, speech and mannerisms will come first, language will come once you start responding to people

>>9814474
>What's the most patrician literary reward?
No, pic very much related.

>>9814474
Maybe the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

>>9814481
75 % of the laureates are literally whos.

>>9814205

I've only read the later stuff, Battlefield Earth and part of Mission Earth series. I believe these were all ghost written and released under his name as an income stream for Scientology.

They weren't bad. I lost interest in Battlefield Earth towards the end, but the beginning was quite memorable.

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posting the rest of that fabulous picture just to bask in its glory.

l ron hubbard had some fucking style.

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>>9814205
have you watched the master?

bretty good

That's why Hesse wrote the book for you to read, my man.

---> C. G. Jung

>>9814107
But I just want a friend to guide me and give me emotional support.

Plus I need a lifting buddy.

>>9814018
They would fall into the column of "pleb / average joe".

>>9814013
>t. tormented dullard

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>>9813972

>>9813972
hopefully we get a white male conservative of the heterosexual bend instead of this identity politics obsessed cunt

>>9813977
Ah yes, the old "book critic I vehemently disagreed with is stepping down and I'm glad, therefore I am a Kekistani faggot" argument. Please stay on topic, sweetie :)

>>9813943
Go to /r9k/ with your shitty feel threads

>>9813943
read Bible

>>9813943
You don't even need to read the bible. Going to a WASP church as a kid would have been enough.

>>9813929
It's metal as fuck.

It is lesser Shakespeare. Just compare it to Hamlet, a play in the same genre yet infinitely superior. I personally enjoy it a lot but its objective value is clear.

Being probably his first play it is "lesser". He starts to feel out themes he would refine in later plays (for example revenge in Lear and Othello).
It's more distinctly verse than his later plays, using lots of end stop and rhyme.
The characters and situations are not as fleshed out and realistic as they will be in the later plays. For example, the rape of lavinia. She has her tongue and hands cut off and when her uncle finds her he breaks into a long poetic monologue instead of helping her!

Also, Shakespeare's language and imagery evolved over time.
Compare Marcus's monologue after finding lavinia (II.iv) to The speech of aufidius in coriolanus (IV.vii), Shakespeare's last play.

>>9813705
youll get that from any of michel foucaults books

>>9813705
>>9813712
TRY THE REDPILL

>>9813705
>is there some book that can pat me on the back for my views?

I hate echo-chambering faggots like you.

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>>9813576
Why am I so superior to women, ethnic minorities, and degenerates. Then I take a redpill and doze of to a sweet conservative sweet involving pic related i.e. a white family of virtue and male dominance

>>9813576
I keep myself up by overthinking sleep and how there's this stretch of time in the world where I basically cease to exist and how essentially like dying that is, y'know? Heebie jeebies

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Should I go easy with these?
Feel like its becoming adictive

I don't read

I don't read books, I mostly make jokes here based on amazon algorithims and wikipedia summaries

>>9813574
I am illiterate, this post was made with voice to text.

>>9813422
Jealousy, academics are all failed writers and are horribly bitter

>>9813422
They destroy it so that greater literature will rise from its ashes like a phoenix. It would grow stale if they didn't destroy it. We should be thanking them.

>>9814406
Or not.

>>9813290
Micro dose

>>9813290
Tolerance would be still high.
Don't waste time writing and reading on LSD: it is useless, and the connections you make are too vague for you to remember them in the long run (or to translate them if you write them down immediatly).
It would be better to create experiences on LSD (which would imply you leaving your house somehow), and then write about them days if not weeks later.
Example: it is really easy to believe on LSD that you'll 100% die in a few minutes from now. That feeling, and the idea of death that arises, are very close to the actual experience of being close to death, which means that from now on you'll have a way to describe it when writing.

>>9813290
You would feel it even if you took it the day after.
But yes, you will.

If anyone would care to read what I deem my best short story so far, I would appreciate any thoughts or comments.

For convenience reasons, and because it is slightly too long to fit in a single post here, I got a link:

saunter.shaula.uberspace.de/overcast/

I have posted this in the last thread as well and excuse my sorry ass for double posting, but I only got one comment and that hasn't satisfied my self-concious mind.

>>9813302
I really tried and got to the part where you describe the protagonist as stomping like the hulk and call an attractive woman a "thing", and then I skimmed and eventually l stopped doing that. There's a chance I'm way off the mark about this being bad writing and I'm just hopelessly missing the point, like there's some joke I'm not entirely in on, but nonetheless I wasn't interested enough in what you were writing to figure that out. I thought your prose and dialog was trite and in your face and I was turned off almost immediately. I hope this is taken as constructive, because you're obviously, just considering technique, a totally fine writer, I just found this piece uninteresting/bad/cynical to the point of cringing.

>>9813447
>>9813302
And I found the postmodern gimmick your were employing in the beginning (at least that's what I was buckling in for) totally overplayed and just a gimmick at this point.