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I wish I felt confident enough in my writing to submit to the New Yorker.

>>9695921
>Confident
Hardly.

I'm 25 and I have $2,300 and some camera gear to my name. In the three years since I graduated college I have accomplished exactly nothing. I have created a few photos, three of which were shown in a gallery but didn't sell, I have written two half screenplays and now this piece of short fiction and I made one short film that I never submitted anywhere.

Currently I'm making my living by reselling 90s acid house records that someone was throwing away at a flea market.

>>9695944

Thats more than most people will do in their lifetime, you're on the right track. Expect to fail and half ass things for a while, its the path everyone takes unless you're a savant.

>>9695788
Capital is the pleb-filter for leftists. You're on your own. If you don't make it, you join the ranks of the myriad "socialists" who "hate capitalism" without understanding anything about it or the history of criticism thereof.

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Marx is a gay fag, literally an economic manlet angry at the world and fuming at all times.

He's also a traitorous jew bastard. Read about Stalin and learn the true madman ways.

>>9695804
How is he angry?

>>9695677
>by the way my favorite books are One Thousand and One Nights, Ulysses and Don Quixote

>>9695677
In one of his short stories (i think from The book of sand) he seems to hint the idea that he actually wanted to write a book.

>>9695677
>Argentina
>white

>>9695640
Is it harder to read than being and time?

>>9695694
To me yes definitely. I'm definitely going to have to reread this at least twice to fully comprehend it. The first part of the book is arguably the most difficult. After that it gets less intense but no less painfully concise.

good hegel introduction

>informations
go fuck yourself productionist jew

>>9695512
Okay, then let me rephrase my question: How do I retain more details of what is happening in fiction books? I find it very hard to remember anything but the general gist

>>9695519
read slower
reread it

what the fuck is that

>>9695501

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

everyone has them to some extent, even now if you look for them you will find a small one.

Just need to see past that and move on with your life.

>>9695309
with the greeks

>>9695312
Serious pls

>>9695309
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast

>>9695267
He is, just for a different era.

>>9695267
Are you reading the Michael Glenny version? I am going to read Master and Margarita in a few months, and I'm dissapointed that I got the Glenny version, because people on the internet say that it's crap. :(

I found that it was a lot of fun, but it didn't really try to say all that much outside of the Pontius Pilate bits.

The Divil wreaking havoc in Moscow bits were amusing but they didn't seem to have much depth outside of greedy people getting their commupence

>>9695230
Even the guy is ashamed of this shit.

totality and infinity - levinas

stepping outside into the real world

Not that one. Com'on op, what the fuck?

>ITT: Awful book covers.

Yeah, let's not have this shitty thread again.

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I love the SF Masterwork editions of science fiction novels but I always hate their covers. They're tacky, gaudy, unpleasant to look at and very rarely have anything to actually do with the novel itself. Pic related is the copy of Ubik I have and not once does this shit seem relevant.

robert graves

a library

the sticky

>>9695198
>the most facetious level?

>>9695213
I'm drunk right now and I have no idea why I typed that. I meant to say face level.

write a blog about it

>with books to heighten intelligence.
>lists 3 turbo normie 'intelligent person' books

This is not how it works. Books make you learned person, but only by reading a shit ton of books which have things to learn that interest you.

You won't become smarter by reading one book. You simply become more knowledgeable over time by spending time reading, and only about the subjects you read about.

>>9695216
Ok, understood. Would it be best to start with any book that stands out to me?

>>9695244

Yes, just read whatever the fuck you want, never trust anyone else to tell you what to read. If it looks interesting to you and you think you will gain from it, go ahead.

The imporant thing is to read.

>>9694996
Have you read bullet through your face

>>9695004
>bullet through your face

It sounded pretty juvenile.

>>9695012
It is and it's good

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>>9694863
>Native American literature

You want folklore about a 3 centuries old country, while there're 30 centries old ones.

>>9694893
So? I'm interested.