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bottom's dream if you drop it on your toes

Have to say my diary desu

>>9659127
any physical copy of a book makes you feel its pages

sesquipedalianism obfuscates pellucidity

>>9659133
in writing, yeah

but with reading, having a monster vocabulary makes it a lot easier to go peak to peak

Thus Spoke Zoroaster/Human All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil

TH White's The Once and Future King, which now that I about it, can be said to liken to the life of Napoleon Bonaparte

The Forgotten Highlander

where are you from fellow spaniard?

Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Horacio Quiroga, Julio Cortazar, those mexican writers...

>>9658996
I'm actually from the us but my parents are from central America

use libreoffice's export to PDF function

>>9658985
I dislike metafiction.

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I't's a movie, but it fits your description. Never read any books with such a premise. Maybe The Time Machine (Wells)?

>>9659044
Nah, more like something that takes place after the proliferation of the internet and personal computing. I want pages of people being awestruck, frightened, confused, and paranoid.

I want it to be more about what happens AFTER the pastos travel to present day, so it can treat the premise somewhat seriously. Like, it doesn't matter how the Lumiere Brothers got to 2017, what matters is that they're watching The Fast and the Furious movie on the big screen with Dolby surround sound. Just have a simple explanation for how it happened or be purposely vague. then seriously explore what would really happen in such a situation.

>>9659102
>after the proliferation of the internet and personal computing
There aren't many stories about this era yet at all. Not where it matters.
There's a Shamalama Dingdong movie with that sort of thing happening as the tweest but it's not really what you're after.

No man can be my equal in anything save height, so these superlatives must also apply.

>>9658757
Participate in social gatherings while remaining antisocial. Watch and observe people carefully. Your person of average intelligence generally tends to put on air around their insecurities when in social situations. This can be cued by knowing that, again the average, tends to think about, based on the social scenario, their best interest and the person they care second-most about's opinion. It doesn't have to stop at only second, but the idea here is you want to always have an idea about a subject and their object of attraction in a situation, whether you're involved in the situation or not. This object can be any noun of any form. Seeing the strings is the easy part though. It's plucking them without being seen is difficult. You have to either be willingly conniving and tactful with your words and actions (as subliminally as social cues and body language), or, as I've done, become adept at internalizing a goal to the point where you can unconsciously manipulate those around you without really "'trying'". The second works better amount strangers because it'll give you a strange air about you that most anyone couldn't pin point as anything other than a level of 'innocence'. The first works better with those you know because you can guide your actions from familiar to more and more your desired outcome without rising suspicion. But doing the first method often to someone will eventually tip them off as being manipulated. Only the second method acts as a total acceptance of persona.

Read Machiavelli and stop misinterpreting his work

>>9658757
The Prince will only teach you how to write effective satire

stoner

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I would recommend you to grow a pair and do your best.

the greeks ran.
i would hesitate

to clarify: don't look for this non existent book ina goose chase. u can recommend books if u want, <s>but no promises I'll read them.</s>

oh it's <strike> i assumed <s> would be strikeout idky

jesus, your autism is too much. get out faggot

I don't know. My e-reader only shows percentages as read lol

>>9658667
I read 40%

I try to read something definite every day, be that a chapter or an act or a canto or an essay. Sometimes I read more. Sometimes I don't read at all. I read one-and-a-half books a week on average according to goodreads.