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Very few reasons to live 2017-07-20 08:22:10 Post No.9782776
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Wot wald Derridar thing of finnkans wakeup?
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probably something pseudo-deep and obscurantist
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This guy looks like he's sexually frustrated.
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>>9782788
yeah he looks like he's rubbing one out in a public park in that pic
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Is it actually worth it to participate? Will it make you a better writer? If yes, in which ways?
Feel free to share your experiences if you have any
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>>9782651
I'll never make it. My entire life is a fucking joke. I am a joke. I'll never amount to anything. I'll never produce anything worth saving. I'm a degenerate virgin loser who'll be completely forgotten 2 months after his death. I'm fully aware of that.So, did you participate?
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I can't believe it's been another year. I feel like I've been moving forward but I'm facing the same problems I was last year. I hope there will be resolution or some kind of achievement to speak of.
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Any books by people or the characters in the book were molested when they were younger? I have already read No Longer Human; I just want to read something I can relate to.
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>>9782619
In some theories, Catcher In The Rye. My ex read nothing but "dad, no!" memories.
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>>9782704
Thank you for the response.
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"A Little Life"
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What did he mean by this 2017-07-20 07:29:08 Post No.9782604
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What did he mean by this
Maximilian Fremati
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It's a good message, but it's not moral absolutism right?
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why's he wearing that dumb hat?
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Don't trick us into discussing nihilism.
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>>9782604
That's the most banal shit I've ever read. Please don't tell me that this guy has a career.
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Has anybody here read this? If so what are your thoughts on it?
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Q: How did William Simpson go about writing?
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>>9782394
he power bombed a six pack of steele reserve talls, then blasted three nuts out to midget porn, smacked the hell out of his wife, then his head was clear enough to pick up the pen
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Is Book of the New Sun aimed at teenagers? I'm enjoying it so far, but I've only enjoyed adolescent fiction before and the main character is ayoung adult.
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the only fiction books I've read before are Darren Shan, rate
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Read this, don't find it very interesting at all
Can someone explain what the appeal is supposed to be?
Story isn't very interesting, is it just very deep and I'm missing something?
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>>9782300
It toys with the "young fantasy protagonist" cliches in ways that you'll have to figure out for yourself.
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Any good recommendations for shit from other dimensions, cosmic horrors, or just shit that can't be explained. I enjoy Lovecraft, and films like "The Thing" where the horror cant be explained. I. Currently reading IT, so far I'm enjoying it.
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>>9782280
Its a bit different than Lovecraft, but I suggest Cyclonopedia by Negrastani. Cities of the Red Night by Burroughs is also good.
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William Hope Hodgson's House on the Borderland is great. His Night Lands is fucking epic, but like a serious dose of LSD...
The Fantasy Masterworks series has them in one book.
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>>9782379
What genre would you say Red City is? I going to be going to a bookstore later on.
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Is this the Half-Life 3 of books?
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>AGoT was HL1
>ACoK was HL1's expansion packs
>ASoS was HL2
>AFfC was HL2: E1
>ADwD was HL2: E2
>TWoW is HL3
>Dunk & Egg is Portal
>the show is Team Fortress
>fandom/lore is G-Mod
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kys
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You must mean Infinite Jest, which is also the Dark Souls of literature.
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So somebody last night in a thread that I think was about the New Yorker raised an interesting point: that it might be helpful for /lit/ to have somebody in some sort of editorial position somewhere in publishing, whether that was at a major book publisher, an independent press, a literary journal, or something along those lines. They brought up Ezra Pound and how, without him, we probably wouldn't have gotten Eliot, Hemingway, or Joyce, since Pound was the editor who promoted their work.
So, anyone come here who's in a position like that?
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I don't see what you see in Pound; he was a fascist and anti-semite.
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>>9782266
I agree. That's why we need him.
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>>9782374
To distance myself from my idiotic attempt-at-bait
was Pound too smart for others with his Cantos?
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>tfw I am the overman
What now?
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Nothing. You're done. It's over, man.
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Become a Knight of Faith.
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>>9782196
Aren't the knight of faith and the overman basically identical? I've never read Kierkegaard.
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I'm dumber than a pseud.
I went to a Poetry Slam and criticised the "poem" afterwards but got BTFO
He just said "Yeah, well why don't you write one"
I read Descardes, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche but never have I felt so struck in my life.
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slam poetry is performance art, not literature. serves you right for going to the cesspit of anti-intellectual narcissism that is a poetry slam. was their polemic about being persecuted? or was it about menstruation or anal sex? those seem to be common topics anytime i find myself listening to a slam poet.
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>>9782152
Well why don't you? Go back and perform it for him.
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Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam.
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I like to read, but sometimes I think what's the point I'm going to forget all this **** anyway. Any one else feel like this?
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No. Because I like reading.
The motivation to read is reading itself.
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>>9782087
You could just enjoy what you're reading now instead of worrying what you'll know later.
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>>9782087
What's the point of doing anything if we're going to die? Just enjoy what you are reading when you are reading it. Stop thinking and read more.
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Anyone else think that he was clearly really fucking smart, but that his plays have none of the "super deep profound truths" that people (hi Bloom) always say they do? I mean I can appreciate his poetic and linguistic brilliance, but the stuff that Shakespeare shows about humanity is pretty typical, not especially illuminating fare
>inb4 le it was deep for his time meme
not an excuse. the point is that people say that he is one of the profoundest writers EVER, including recent times, when he was mostly just high IQ, clever.
I might just be a pleb though, what do you guys think?
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>>9782039
oh didn't mean to link that thread, my bad
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>>9782039
The thing about him is that he says basic human truths using such creative language, that it makes them appear more insightful than they actually are. It's not a criticism, since aesthetic beauty is the purpose of art imho
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I'd have to agree OP, not much to add but I did notice the same.
A bad translation of Dostoevsky for me is superior than the best Shakespearean prose.
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Hegel's dialectic is """problematic""".
>(1) a beginning proposition called a thesis, (2) a negation of that thesis called the antithesis, and (3) a synthesis whereby the two conflicting ideas are reconciled to form a new proposition.
Isn't this basically classed as a golden mean fallacy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
...because it only works if both sides of the argument have worthwhile ideas, which is not always the case (no matter how much you argue about socialism vs capitalism, capitalism always comes out on top).
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The real problem with the dialectic is that it conflates logical contradiction with contradictory forces in the world.
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>>9782002
i hope this is just bait, but in case it's not, thesis, antithesis > synthesis was described by Fichte and has nothing to do with hegelian dialectics.
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FUCK OFF
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HEGEL
wtf i love gene wolfe now
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I don't get it
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Gay
