Recently lost my girlfriend.

>>8601277


think hes a Dunefag

>>8601277
this desu

>>8601277
it's from dune you fucking woman. only a woman wouldn't recognize this. get fucking raped.

>>8601265
Kull Wahad... I want more...

>>8601521
not that guy but to be fair all sci-fi prose is all pretty cheesy

>>8601529
is there a single beautifully written work of sci-fi out there?

>>8601521
>spook
>"real" books
>genre junk
Go back to screencapping DFW interviews, pseud

>>8601544
Ok, so instead of sperging out because of the evil awards committees or whatever, you could actually tell me if there is an actual beautifully written work of sci-fi out there, because that's what I asked, not for you to complain about a conspiracy of English academics.

>>8601567
so let me rephrase my question so it can get past your retard logic: what would be an example of a work of science fiction that is no longer considered science fiction because it has good prose?

>>8601265
There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn’t they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it’s the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it’s worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There’s a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.

>>8601625
How the hell can you mistake black people for not being materialistic?

>>8601613
Nice argument (Y)

>>8601647
>At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night...