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Bartleby the Scrivener

>>10015923
A good story.

>explain it to me, /lit/
I prefer not to

>>10015900
Start with the Greeks.

>>10015900
Begin met de Grieken.

>>10015900
Oresteia

>>10015511
Unplug your computer, turn off your phone. I can read now, but I used to be almost the same. The Internet is a fucking poison for your mind.

I read out loud for 5 minutes. It forces me to concentrate on the words. After that I get sucked into the book like normal.

>>10015511
Drive to a park away from your house and read there, don't take your phone.

>>10015127
why do you have that?

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>>10015141

It's a good read and also serves at a safety net. In case I can resell it for $1k on ebay.

It's also a good conversation opener. Funnily enough.

>>10015127
My collection of cowboy novels

dead as the leaves in union square
dead as the graveyard sea
the eyes of a new york woman
are never going to cry for me
are never going to cry for me

What's the problem, Anon? It's just a

Rag-a-muffin' life
To pull-you-through-that strife
Ain't nothin' to joke,
But if you'll only just smoak
Then maybe it'll be all-right?

[Chorus]
But that (oh)
Full-some pre-tentio-si-ty
That fills your -- thoughts, with me-diocri-ty
It's just (hey!)
Holdin' you back
If it would give you some slack
You might 'preciate ver-bosity

[Neckbeards and shitposters amble in, tripping over each others' feet; an unrealistically proportioned nude male of color begins gyrating his hips in an animated fashion, drawing one's eye--and yes, the Anons' as well!--toward the pendulous 'pendage which describes major arcs at pelvic-level. A passing /pol/lak, copy of The Culture Of Critique in hand, pauses to gaze 'pon the sight, salivating involuntarily]

[James Joyce:] There's!
[Joseph McElroy:] Nothing quite wrong
[Vladimir Nabokov:] With!
[Herman Melville:] Puttin' a song
[John Williams:] 'Midst suf-fer-ing and gran-deur
[William Gaddis:] And if you'll just
[Virginia Woolf:] Follow a-long
[Gene Wolf:] You might find yourself drawn
[All:] Into a world that doesn't pander

[All] [Chorus x 2]

>>10015754
Did you make this one up, Anon?

a male
writing
on the walls of a
public toilet
for men
how could that
ever
be
poetry?

>>10014927
They paint these wall to hide my pen
*Yet* the shit house strikes again.

Infinitely better.

>>10014927
No it's degenerate.

Because if you can't solve the is/ought problem, just speak as if it doesn't exist and no one will say a word

>>>/tv/

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>>10014868
problem?

>>10014348
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

>>10014372

This is the one where the main character meets THE Buddha, right?

Where he points out a flaw in the Buddha's teaching and the Buddha replies "You're clever. Beware of being too clever."

Yeah, naw senpai, I'm good.

>>10014348
No books at all. This is doctrine. I am not kidding.

>>10012179
if i try too hard, i do very poorly.
if i just want to get it out and not waste any damn time, i still do very poorly. so no, i am a bad writer.

I'm in the same boat as you. Writing is difficult for me. I think this is related to me having so much trouble expressing my ideas in speech. I think I must have low verbal IQ and high whatever-the-other-half-of-IQ-is IQ.

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>>10012179

>and I am surprised at how bad I am at it.

Really? This surprised you? Did you think you were going to be naturally amazing at an incredibly difficult form of expression?

Everyone is shit at the outset. Grind through it.

Pic related is also some good advice to consider.

Throw yourself even harder into living and experiencing new things.

>>10011855
Why though? Nothing will matter when the times comes.

>>10011863

Everything matters because the time comes.

>>10009971
WHY THEY PUT THE DICK IN THE PUSSY!?

Plz dubs

>>10009971
Why is woman in OP's pic so badly dressed? That's one important question.

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>>10005335

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>>10005337

>>10019276
>thinking artists don't want food
fuck you pay me

Just be rich, m8

Monarchy

Why would you buy a book you can't read?

>>10019244
It was $0.25. Why wouldn't I buy it?

>>10019230
It's an old German prayer book.

Certainly nothing from that hack

>>10019138
dead space books
revelations

>>10019138
Ligotti