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It's 3AM and my slight is flickering
How fucked am I?
When I went to the bathroom I saw a red eyed demonic woman in a picture I have on a wall
Also something rustled under my window just now. It was prettty loud, I heard it over my headset music
I have only so much liquor left, how do I survive
ok guys.
I'm planning on making a short interactive comic or a small videogame (something between those two mediums).
My goal was to first to write a short story to have a guideline over what to work from.
Sadly, I'm a taco, taco, burrito señorita brown manlet and I'm not a good english writer (my grammar skills aren't top notch).
Here it's the spanish text:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K5XObLJyxru8AbfAmbaA_6LD8Xwuo1g4RwhQm9LgBow/edit?usp=sharing
Sorry bout no being an english speaker.
>>7672764
Es mierda hijo, mierda.
>>7672833
I know.
but I need to finish a lot before making something good.
do you think Borges didn't wrote crap at the beggining?
What does /lit think of Norman Mailer?
I was always confused about Mailer's scant recognition here. Posted far less than Updike or even Roth.
You'd think someone like Mailer would interest /lit/ greatly. Executioner's Song accords with the standards of their meme trilogies, but, I've never even seen it suggested.
Mailer is God. If it weren't for him I would have a much lower passion for lit in general. Probably wouldn't bother with posting on this board.
Not enough/hardly any mention on /lit/? Okay by me. You tards ruin everything.
Never read him but I enjoyed the middle portion of River of Fundament.
I'm getting kind of schizo other when people meme and not here on /lit/
for example everyone seems to hate IJ or other books while they are on the top100 list, so which books does /lit/ actually like and how do you know, while having aspergers, when people meme
what
>>7672191
The real meme is thinking that caring about other people's opinions is worthwhile
Just try reading something. If you like it good, if you don't like it, stop. It's that simple
>>7672200
He said he's getting schizo, that's literally all you need to know.
You will always envy another's life, simply because you are seeing it from the outside. It was not until I saw my life through a reflection, that I appreciated mine as well.
So basically, the grass is always greener
>>7672189
wow so deep i'll share this with all my facebook friends :^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)
seriously, fuck off
Ya, I bet she's at a superb owl party now.
Maybe I'll just rob her place.
Slut.
>What's life but an Infinite Jest?
Why did he wrote that? Wow.
Don't we have one of these going on already
>>7672171
This one is better.
>>7672245
Go read a book.
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Has any literature given you a sense of purpose in life? What are your broader goals? Wealth? Happiness? Health? Accomplishment? Knowledge? Love? How would you prioritize them? Interested to hear what you think. Suggested reading appreciated as well.
>>7672153
>Has any literature given you a sense of purpose in life?
No, but it has taken it away many times
Although one of my backup plans is to live a Hunter S. Thompson-esque lifestyle for as long as my money can sustain it and hopefully die of overdose as soon as possible
Why is literature so fucking depressing
>>7672153
Evola and Mein Kampf
My goal is to reestablish a white conservative society where men rule and without degeneracy
>>7672153
Happiness is my one goal, I would view Wealth, Health, Accomplishment, Knowledge, and Love as merely accessories to happiness that I only seek if they are necessary for happiness.
Right now I'm going for Wealth on account of how being dirt poor is endangering my Health, and being unhealthy makes me unhappy.
Also all literature did was teach me to derive happiness from reading.
Finally, The Ego and its Own.
>"What happened?"
>"Oh, Death Came for the Archbishop."
Fucking really?
>>7672030
>'Our Valiant Hamlet [...] Did slay this Fortinbras'.
Moar like Hackspeare.
Literally the first word Vlad
"I realized that I didn't make a mistake. I was made of mistakes. People are made of mistakes. This is what people are made of. Remember that people are made up of stars, our own celestial bodies, what comprises others incredibly out of reach yet twinkling in the distance, preconceived and premature, and yet we ourselves are made of the same cosmic dust-to-dust. Always remember, also, the universe was made by accident. And it all makes sense, because she is my sunbeam."
-Nietzsche
What did he tried to convey?
I can't believe we celebrate this fucking hack. Luckily, I realise that Analytical philosophy is the only philosphy worth reading. Why would I want to read the writings of mentally unstable obscurantists?
>>7671991
I simply disagree.
Why do you call him a hack?
Based on what anon?
Are you sure he said this
Source please
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Do you know some good books like the story of Max Payne? I read only the Raymond Chandler's books, but I need something a bit "heavy".
I enjoyed a lot wit Simon Kernick's The Business of Dying. Seriously, this is a good book.
James Ellroy's early stuff, up to about LA Confidential.
I think around White Jazz he got it into his head that sentence fragments was a style.
Alex Casey is pretty good. He's literally Max Payne in a different name and medium.
>>7671946
Not sure if youd call it noir as such but Norman Mailer's American Dream includes society's seedy underbelly, murder and fascination with a moll / dame type character.
I enjoyed it.
Do you hate most books that you pick up? I do. For every book I've finished, I've cast a hundred aside.
If only your mom had been so selective with sperm
>>7671930
It sounds more like you're projecting your self-loathing onto most of the things you read. No one can be that bad a judge of what they'd like.
Hello /lit/
I'm making a bunch of short stories and sharing them around my circle jerk of friends, problem is I'm running out of steam typing them.
Any suggestions or ideas to spark that inner flame again? I would stop this current story but I'd feel bad for ditching it.
An fling with a girl with psychological problems
Ditch it, if you don't think it is good enough destroy it.
Go for a long walk outside. Surprisingly helpful, Thoreau isn't a total fucking hack. Just mostly a hack.
Go to a gay bar. Not joking. The experience will shock your system in one way or another. If you hate gay people, the hatred will be a change and may dislodge you from your rut. If you're okay with gay people, going might get you hit on, which will be new. Which could help.
Try a new drug.
Get hurt. People seriously forget what real, visceral pain feels like. Honestly, feeling it will reconnect you with reality. Don't cut yourself...
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Hey /lit/.
I'm looking for poems that have a 'comfy' feeling of sadness. A type of intimate feeling that makes you feel like you know shit's bad, but you also know there's nothing you can do and that's okay. Although not exactly poetry, Bob Dylan's performance of Mr. Tambourine Man at the Newport Folk Festival in '64 and In My Life by the Beatles give me this feel.
Does anyone get what I'm feeling?
Any recommendations?
Apologies for talking about music and not being very clear.
j. d. salinger
>>7671847
He wrote poetry? I've only read Catcher in the Rye like most people. Personally, I thought it to be pretty average.
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Just read Frankenstein. It was OK. Pop culture material even for its time. She wrote it at the age of 19 anyway. So much overrated, it doesn't have much literary merit. What you think /lit/?
>>7671829
Also it is in the canon and no.5 most taught book in US according to Open Syllabus Project. How?
>>7671838
Really funny, guy.
The exact same material as yesterday
>>7671829
>So much overrated, it doesn't have much literary merit.
I disagree. It's a prime work on the topic of alienation both of the monster and of Frankenstein's struggle to succeed in his inquiry.
What is the saddest piece of literature you have ever read? I haven't read a sad book in years and want to order a few on Amazon. I just started grad school. Some of my favorite sad books are: Where the red fern grows, Night, Flowers for algernon, of Mice and Men, and the Catcher in the rye
>>7671798
If you don't mind Vonnegut, sirens of titan was basically depression porn.
>>7671798
there are some very sad scenes in James Michener's Hawaii
>>7671850
For being science fiction and incredibly ridiculous at points, that book had me feel too many feels.
