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isn't it true that these stories, in spite of everything, mean nothing to you? That's just the nature of the times. I can't read your poem cause I'm listening to a song but I will in a second

>>9788163
I don't understand it. It sounds nice out loud, though.

Rate my super short scifi story

The SS Placenta carries sleeping, breathing vessels into the long night. The inorganic crew can handle any problem, including a security breach, refurnish old units and equipment, and above all, firmly believe that their destiny and purpose is to ferry the old souls to the new garden.

Preserved in a living fluid that can keep the body chemically 'frozen'--a mass of viscous liquid with limited cognition that quite literally fills the human to preserve both fat and muscle, in order to 'meld' with the host brain and explore the mindscap--which allows for a mutual albeit outwardly parasitic relationship--electrochemical stimulation and homeostatis are guided by self-sustaining pods that feed the liquid, which in turn feeds its host--the ship charts a treacherous path through storms too terrifying to imagine on an ocean where everything floats and heavy things just stretch it out.

Before the cargo is awakened from its deep sleep the liquid will retreat into a containment chamber inside the pod. After many years it is predicted this will not be a fufilment issue 'since the living liquid'll be drunk as all hell and gunning for cold turkey when that shit pops open' [sic].

>>9788010
People who ironically say cuck are way worse. Cuckolding is actually a pretty nice fetish desu

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>It is only when you see miners down the mine and naked that you realize what splendid men, they are. Most of them are small (big men are at a disadvantage in that job) but nearly all of them have the most noble bodies; wide shoulders tapering to slender supple waists, and small pronounced buttocks and sinewy thighs, with not an ounce of waste flesh anywhere. In the hotter mines they wear only a pair of thin drawers, clogs and knee-pads; in the hottest mines of all, only the clogs and knee-pads.

>>9788013
this. I love seeing my girlfriend with strong black men filling her with cum.

>inb4 impotent rage from ugly neo Nazis

reading in a sex offender chemical treatment facility?

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reading while working as a guard at an african ethnic cleansing camp?

>>9786888
is this with sam harris?
yeah, he schooled him harder than chomsky there. really shows the limits of harris' intellect.

certified genius

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This is his girlfriend as well just to add insult to injury. Sam Harris got BTFO on all fronts

>>9786437
there once was a man from madras...

I know one sonnet by heart, it is not an enjoyed party trick.

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>tfw know Voluspa by heart in the original

your mum

>>9786420
my

>>9786420

candide
white noise
hunger
stoner

>>9786111
*How many

>>9786111
I'd stop thinking of it as a time requirement to put in and get carried away reading stuff you actually want to for hours

>>9786111
Homer never read a book.

>tfw found the secret thread

So we can all agree that sci-fi > fantasy right?

>>9786011
sff books have the fucking worst covers

>>9785304
why does he wear the bandana?

>>9785306
To keep his hair from going everywhere when he welcomes to you to the water son.

>>9785306
MUNDANE?

>>9783006
What are some consistently good /lit/ webcomics?

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>>9783020
Hark a vagrant

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>>9783020

>>9782722
other honorary mentions:
>to kill a mockingbird
>great gatsby
>john steinbeck
>george saunders
sorry burgers

It's like a three-hour read, man.
Why not?

infinite jest
because is trash memed my dumb american college kids
finnegan wake
i am too stupid for it

this movie is depressing af
just to let you know, that's offtopic and soon the janitor's will 404 your ass.

>>9782611
Do we even have janitors? I feel like nothing ever gets deleted here.

>>9782605
Gas-kun was the guy with a box full of his space opera books or something right? If so then I am pretty sure he offed himself.

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I have the ekenas chair and foot stool.

the leather poang chairs are dope

>>9782482
I also read inside barrels

call up your nakama and go on a sea adventure to find the one piece

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>ywn become famous for saying dude bro nuffin matters lmao

>>9781520
Ask and you shall receive. Ask God; we only ate the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, not the fruit of life.

No, just be sure to make a list with the names of all the characters so you don't forget their names, there's a ton that are important to the plot.

>>9780459
Thank you, anon.

Yes. You need familiarity with Sergey Nechayev, Marx, Chernyshevsky, Svetozar Marković, Nikolai Leskov, Voltaire, Diderot, Goethe, Hegel (and hopefully Kant), Schiller, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Robespierre, Schopenhauer, and Stirner. (either due to allusions within the work, or due to needing to understand the basis behind ideologies presented by characters within the book.) Read Dostoevsky's previous works of: Poor Folk, The Landlady, The Village of Stepanchikovo, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Idiot. You should also be intimately familar with the history of Russia from 1672-1917, familiar with the gospels and tradition of the eastern church, and Russian folklore. The dynamics between characters and their social positions in Tolstoy's work should be like second nature to you before you read Dostoevsky deconstruct it in Demons. And if you can read it in the original Russian it's leaps and bounds better than any English translation i'm aware of; the German translation by Swetlana Geier is pretty much the only acceptable translation. Constance Garnett makes some scenes very awkward and stilted, but overall she has the best english translation if you must.