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OP: the faggot

>>9633165
>i'm trying to write an opera
Good fucking luck. Also if you're libretto isn't in verse form just give up trying to set any music to it

Do your own philosophy homework, Boris. This is a literature board.

>>9633017
His wakeful conscience exhausted him, but the same rushing thoughts kept him from peaceful rest.

the hook in the beer represents u can get hooked on beer

relly deep, relly makes u think

>>9632995
If it's perfect it probably has both of those criteria

Yeah I dunno I think if a story has something to say then its good.

Stephen King made some pretty scary stuff with good plots but they're not perfect.

>>9632995
Mood and imagery are much more important than plot in horror

An ace in the military, Rupert Aceae knew acedia. His hands looked acellular, looking stiff from war. He was aceous of the stereotypical “veteran,” wearing his dog tags and wearing a shirt depicting acephalous reading. His teeth acerbated you. They were too damn shiny, like he cared. The acerbity of his nature was Achaean in intimidation. He had those squinted eyes like he was suffering from achalasia. Guy was smart though. Would ache and make his own story for it. Would turn the game you were playing into some a cheval festival. He achieved some great achievements while in Iraq, like some damned Achilles. His Achilles heel was his own ego. Acidic acid-head. Buys LSD in town, his acidophilic sheets. Pictures of ack-acks were on his wall, and when acknowledged, Rupert would show the acme of his career with hand motions.
“Iraq. 2004. Bit of acne on my forehead, as my crew flew over the Desert. I was acock in my seat, looking down at the acre-foots below me. Already smelled some damn acrimony before I got in the plane. Knew it was gonna be bad. So our planes lift, you know? Aircraft carriers and the air crew from airdromes had no air condition, so the air force would wait to land on the airheads and out of airlock. The sky was often filled with aurbusses and airburts shreiked. As cats are ailments to ailurophiles, ailerons through air was my ‘aha’. Like acrobats our planes flipped n’ soared. Nanners took the 09’, swipin’ by the aconites and the acorns. Zoomed past air acold. We bombed them acorn worms. We heard the acoustics zoom inside our ears, already acquainted with it.”
The listener would then, most likely, acquiesce in acquaintance. It’d take an aquired sort of patience to listen to his monologues. He’d tell you things like, “acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is for the gays. God’ll keel em.”
Acquisition of his trait labeled you an asshole. Maybe something lesser.
Rupert was acquitted from the military for his acrophobia.
His teeth were separated by an acre-inch.
He came up to me, which made me notice his acrocentric posture.

>>9632843

Are you trying to include as many words beginning with 'a' as possible? Also, what do you think is good about what you posted? What were you trying to achieve?

>>9632843
the worst thing ive ever read

Dude, fucking do whatever you want, nobody cares. Why don't you experiment a little and tell us the results in a few months, jackass?

>>9632707

Sorry that was unnecessarily harsh. In truth there is a consensus on audiobooks here: It's not really reading. You can't focus as well, you retain less information, and you can't immediately re-read sentences you didn't understand.

But it's not pointless, you can listen to lectures and get a lot out of them for example. I would not try to do this while playing video games, but go for it if you think you can do it.

>>9632699
That depends on what type of audiobooks you're going for. Short stories/light genre fiction could probably work just fine, but any heavier material is a pain in the ass.

What works for me when playing videogames is listening to lectures to build, for lack of a better term, passive knowledge. You're probably not gonna be able to talk about the subject, but when you encounter it later down the road you'll understand what is being discussed.

Robert Fagles provides an excellent translation of all three books; his translations are probably the foremost along with the Hackett versions. Do note as well that before reading the Aeneid, you may want to read The Death of Virgil by Broch. It's a long and intensive read, but the poeticism is rewarding. You may well want to start it before reading all three.

I have never read Tolstoy and therefore can't help you with your other question.

>>9632926
>You may well want to start it before reading all three.
is it so? Before reading all three?? That's news to me.

Thanks for the input.

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They're good quality books and the introductions are great. Yes Fagles is a good translator.

There is one problem with them though.

>>9632569
Bad choice of picture, that's not how religious zealots decorate their interiors.

Also why chase pussy if you have heroin?

>poor heroin addict
Go back in time and neck yourself

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>>9632647
excess pleasure

Oh, and also, how much money do you get a year as a writer? I'm notlooking to be a millionaire, i just want to be able to buy a house a car and have cable witth espn.

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you should read this

it's got great advice on how to be a writer

>>9632591
cool, thanks.might check it out, but i dont read a lot of books desu.

>>9632497
How cool is to see a wall transforming into a jungle?

why did you let her go

>>9632503
It made me want to piss

>>9632414
Who the fuck looks at a fantasy map and thinks "this author clearly didnt consider plate tectonics"
You must be especially autistic.
Besides, do you have a complete enough understanding of plate tectonics to look at a landmass and say "that wouldnt happen?
Also isnt westeros just the UK flipped around a bit? Anyone have that pic?

>>9632444

What I mean is that said map looks "suspicious", it´s just not natural-looking. No, I don´t have a very complete knowledge of plate tectonics but one can recognize better attempts by intuition.

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>>9632401
all I've read we're the rainbow stories and that was a fun time. I wish I looked fucks up so I could penetrate places like he does.

>>9632401
I'd like to. It annoys me how many feckin' tomes Vollmann writes, because I like his writing and the topics he chooses, but goddam if they don't take weeks/months to finish

>>9632428
I enjoy spending so much time with his characters, tho. Big books are kinda intimidating at first, but reaching the end of one of these big books is an unparalleled feeling.

S H I T P O S T

my twisted world

>>9632370
If you're a female, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

And if you're a male, The Sound and the Fury.

Both should do the trick.

who cares

>>9632217

I doubt anyone is stupid enough to think it isn't... which makes me wonder what the purpose of this thread is.

yfw the next nobel goes to Tarantino

>>9632210
>falling for the faux conservative jew
Nrx is bullshit. Instead of espousing such simple-minded elitism we need to mobilize the masses into a blood-hungry mob. Radical populism and caesarism not aristocracy and accelerationism, ok? Praise Schmitt (and Spengler).

Recently went through and read some of his tech essays again, they're interesting in light of his current venture.

I heard through the grapevine that the main purpose of his blog was to attract the right element to this venture, which i guess would be anti-usg subversives. Which i guess implies that this is the information weapon he talked about.

>>9632210

the issue with moldbug's writing is his audience

it's either someone who already knows the problems of neoliberalism or a neoliberal whose dissonance circuits see yet another libertarian-turned-fascist white dude

>>9632230

also this, if it walks like a neocon, talks like a neocon, owns some Thiel funded startup like a neocon, and bitches about zoning laws like a neocon, it's probably a neocon