>Waking up to a loud splash rarely means something good is happening. It’s never “SPLASH! I am the wise old fish!” or “SPLASH! Welcome to the water!”
Is there something wrong with me? I was told it would be depressing.
Fuck me I'm struggling with this one. I've made my way through some decently challenging material but I guess wasn't ready for this. Seventy or eighty pages in. I liked the very first exchange and the crazy physics teacher but haven't latched on to anything else. Is this a persevere kind of book or a revisit it in a year kind?
>>9642045
Don't worry and keep going. In another 50 pages or so you will know the schtick of every character and everything will be smoother.
you could try the audiobook, by nick sullivan. it's an astounding achievement, and it sounds like a play; he gives each character a distinct voice, with distinct mannerisms, and it aids in parsing through the book greatly.
I had an idea for a book a while ago where the two party system had completely broken in the US do to political turmoil. One aspect of the book was that churches were now officially sponsored by political parties, so there was stuff like "The Republican Church of Christ" or "The Democratic Party Congregation" etc. The book centered on 4channers who invented their own political party and religion and were gaining massive support. I abandoned the idea very quickly because I wasn't able to create a coherent narrative beyond my basic ideas, I wasn't very experienced as a writer, and I just thought the use of le ebin internet mee-mees would have just been cringey. It just stayed as an idea I never acted on, but I'm realizing now that if I had written and released this book, I'd be admired for my premonitions of the alt-right and all the kek garbage. But if I tried writing it now, it would just seem like piggybacking off this shit and I'd look even worse.
Anyone else have experiences like this? Where you realized that certain crummy ideas you had in the past actually would have been well received, but it's too late now?
>>9641960
Write it man. Along the way you will change it enough and find new themes. You can write and rewrite, do not be afraid.
Moments ago I discovered that moreso can be used instead of especially or particularly.
E.g., Adam hates applies, moreso red apples.
Vs., Adam hates apples, es-pe-ci-a-ly, red apples.
Or., Adam hates apples, par-ti-cu-la-ri-ly red apples.
What literary discoveries has /lit/ made recently?
>>9641894
>What literary discoveries has /lit/ made recently?
Hitler's Mein Kampf and Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
Fucking based
Are there youtube channels that go through all the chapters in a book and talk about them?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIgR4OyOt31isknkVH2Kweq2
I once thought about doing this, but I'm not a good reader. Definitely would like to see it done right.
I dunno, maybe you're going to post yours?
What part of speech is but in this sentence: 'Nothing but dust remains of ancient times'. Is it a conjunction? What do you call it?
preposition
>>9641786
I thought it might be a subordinating conjunction
>>9641770
It's not a conjunction – it's the exceptive 'but.' It forms complex quantifiers: 'Nothing but dust' as opposed to the simple 'nothing.' Not sure if there's a special name for them beyond that.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23752096
How's your reading of Futurist literature going, anon?
>you come home from work
>prepare dinner and turn on the tv
>as you sit to have the first bite you hear that the zombie apocalypse is here
>you noises outside and you check the window
>big horde comes towards your house
>you quickly go to your pc, you grab an usb drive
you only have time to download 5 books, which ones do you choose?
Please kill yourself as soon as you get the chance.
>>9641725
I download 5 copies of my diary desu
Have a wary Dies Mala, everyone. All of the main narrative events in James Joyce's Ulysses happen on this date, June 16th, in 1904. What a curious day.
>>9641710
My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.
You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore’s glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover’s fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling’s cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.
Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.
Is it worth the long read, did it red pill you, or change your life (as I hear it does).
PS. How much would you pay for a first edition of the book
Would there be any interest in a ISoLT/RoTP readalong over the summer? I'm starting Swann's way todayin English because I've lost what French I had
>>9641646
Sure, I'll read it again
Post a prosprective schedule and see what interest it generates.
What the fuck do I do if I can't find a download of this shit?
Library, if uni ask and look up inter-library loans in case they have it elsewehere
>>9641497
I'm confused
How are things going right now, writers of /lit/? Anything to report? Any successes? Any failures?
I've got a bunch of short stories and one short story collection out for submission. Some of the response deadlines are close, so I'm hoping for good news on at least a few of them.
I made the mistake of vanity publishing many years ago.
Now I receive rejection letters from people/agencies/companies who know (more than me) what will do well. I won't lose faith that one day I'll get picked up. I'd love to be the next big name in fantasy, but I won't hold my breath.
As long as you're loving writing, you'll be okay in the end.
Have you listened to his latest podcast episode? He is mourning the death of American cinema full on.
>>9641299
he's a fucking faggot fuck beeee
>>9641299
He's always doing that.
>>9641329
Yeah but I feel like it's much more serious now. If you listen you'll agree.