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>>9637375
Well after she's done eating it, in about a day it will come out exactly as it started.

more like infinite digest

>>9637421
more like incomplete digest

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
mass hardens,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence;
and home to the mother.
You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly
long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.
But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening
center; corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there
are left the mountains.
And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught – they say –
God, when he walked on earth.

>>9637351

This isn't meant to be page poetry, right? Maybe spoken word poetry.

Advice: hold onto that passion, make things a little less 'pointed' (ie. detach your personal baggage)

Unironically, a good start. I hope you find some relief from your anhedonic depression through writing. Keep going forward, don't dwell on the negativity in your life (but this neednt mean you ignore it, embrace it, take strength from it)

>>9637161
>not loving Bob Dylan

https://vimeo.com/150077648

based bobby D

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>>9637161
>tfw are the single most distinctive poetic voice alive, and random autists on a Micronesian crocheting channel insult your contributions

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>>9637150
i mean these one is short story
here you go with the template

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>>9637051

Go look up a medical definition of autism and fuck off with your meme laden pseudo literary criticism.

>>9637068
Guess that's one "no....."

>>9637051
I found it to be really enjoyable in some parts but those parts were way too small as opposed to the tonnes upon tonnes of pretentiousness. I stopped reading it after 200 pages or so. If the book was half or even a third of it's size then it might have been better.

>>9636929
Because he's an atheist and thus against the redpill.

Redpill basics:
>women must be stripped of their civil rights
>be a Catholic
>call for genocide

Larkin is against all of those

>>9636929
>This man's life and work epitomizes most opinions and attitudes that I see all across 4chan
That's not any kind of recommendation. This site is increasingly a festering pit and the only bright spots are when people completely avoid being 'typically 4chan'.

Larkin's great, though.

>>9636976
>This site is increasingly a festering pit and the only bright spots are when people completely avoid being 'typically 4chan'.

I hate Larkin but this is true.

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because it's been rewritten by retards who weren't trained in koine greek
the rewritten by other retards
the rewritten by other retards
the rewritten by other retards
the rewritten by other retards
the rewritten by other retards
then rewritten

>>9636639
>the rewritten meme
Whats next, the romans invented it to control its population?

>>9636651
more historical fact.

>>9636613
I like reading in my bed

>>9636616
Same, thats what i usually try, how do you set up?

Standing at my lectern is the most comfy.
Sitting in a hard backed chair with a table is next.
Then a rocking chair or glider.
Then laying on my back.
Standing without a lectern is not very comfy.

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>>9636576
> No, it is not unreadable. For most of its 700-plus pages it’s so crazily, scarily, sumptuously readable that you hate to put it aside even as the last paragraph thunders down on your head. The unsummarizable plot centers, to the extent that it centers at all, on Tyrone Slothrop, an American who comes to the attention of British intelligence during World War II when a map indicating the locales of his sexual encounters with London women shows that they correspond with the places struck by German V-2 missiles. Can his erections predict the random distribution of agents of death? From there we proceed into a massive continent-wide effort to construct a V-2, which is itself an occasion for a fantastic multitude of meditations upon the human need to build systems of intellectual order even as we use the same powers of intellect to hasten our destruction. (Did we mention that this is also a comedy, more or less?) Among American writers of the second half of the 20th century, Pynchon is the indisputed candidate for lasting literary greatness. This book is why.

This seems like a pretty good list actually.

>>9636576

It's fine.

Also in case anyone just skips to the list and complains it's all new books: it's not literally the best novels of all time. It's their list of the best novels released during Time Magazine's publication.

Also, related

http://entertainment.time.com/2011/08/30/all-time-100-best-nonfiction-books/

Expected a lot more POC/womyn liberal nonsense. The list isn't terrible.

>Fiction.
I grew up of this when I was a teen. You should too.

>>9636523
I seriously hope for your sake you don't mean that.

>>9636531
I sincerely mean it. They provide little of intellectual worth due to their genre fiction nature.

>>9636460
Except it's really easy. Universal happiness is not the main goal to personal happiness, therefore no one will realistically strive for it.

You don't have to defeat it, just disregard it and move on.

truth is an error

read nietzsche until you realize life without god is meaningless

then read jung

>>9636337
or i suppose you could go the other way and read jung until you realize god doesn't exist, then read nietzsche and be a nietzsche-quoting tryhard

in the end though you will eventually go back to thinking about god. mainly just depends on how you get there

You don't need to read Jung, just watch The Shining

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N-No, he's just a good children's author, honest!

I think he loved Alice, but wouldn't have ever acted on it. Is it wrong to love a child? Does that itself make one a pedophile?

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>Pedo
Yes unfortunately, even though age of consent was 12 at that time, he went for even younger like Alice.

>>9636181
si nadie se anima.

https://pastebin.com/atVEuDF2

Trump

>>9636220
Está bien pero le falta un poco de poesía.

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>what's the matter kid?
>water too cold for ya?
>mmmmmwahahahahahhahah

>>9635935
>doesn't get the hidden meaning
pseud detected

>>9635939
what is the hidden meaning?