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Where should I start with Borges? Labyrinths or Fictions?
Either, but Fictions would avoid the overlap with other collections if you plan to get them afterwards.
Who is this pimp with a limp?
>>7668418
even as a 86 year old he could still pull in the girls. He got married to this half Japanese chick at that age
To all the writers here:
Do you have a muse? Tell me about them. What inspiration have they given you? What influence have they made on your work?
pic is of no relevance
>>7668253
She's immature, boring, selfish, and simply makes me feel very unhappy.
>>7668271
bit harsh on your mum desu
He's not that bad, is he?
>>7668177
at least he's not a women or non-white
>>7668187
>a women
>>7668177
At his best, he's probably one of the best of "pleb lit," however at his worst, yeah he's pretty fucking bad.
What's the most practical philosophy?
Moral nihilism
Hedonism
Ethics
>>7668021
Edgy
What is Nabokov's philosophy?
>>7667939
Being a ''le erudite'' pleb for pleb readers.
I know he likes Bergson.
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
>2016
>not owning a reprinted first edition of Ulysses
Admire the beauty lads
tss what happened to duffy did he die or sumthin
Nice hands, are you driving to give your bear bf a handjob and swallow all his cum ?
>>7667869
The Oxford World's Classics 1922 text is better in every way though.
>Rhymes "ocean" with "commotion"
>>7667702
>rhymes bagel with Hegel with Schlegel with Schlegel (the other one)
>rhymes kegel with Smeagol
>rhymes
Does anyone else write their personal masturbation material?
>pic related, I've written a few stories about sexual encounters with her
>>7667453
Wasn't she in skins? Also link.
So, you essentially create self-insert fanfiction?
>>7667461
You could say that.
>>7667457
Yes she was. Read 'personal' can't share them if there personal can I?
Which author have you read that seems the most intelligent? Not necessarily the best books, just someone who you admire for their intellect.
The closer they are to modern times the better.
Can you give us some examples?
>>7666603
Bertrand Russell.
But I know he's fairly basic. I know there are probably quite a few people out there that I don't know of or can't read because they speak in some weird quasi-english impenetrable academia language
>>7666589
Check out Dorothy Sayers.
To all of you non-English people here, do you like to read in your mother tongue or in English?
Vietnamesefag here. I read all of my books in English because I really hate my fucking language.
>>7666117
I hate spaniards translations and books are cheaper in english.
So that.
>>7666117
None of that English crap for me, I use my momma tongue - good ole red-blooded American.
Hey /lit/ my senior quote is due soon. Do you guys have any cool quotes? Thanks!
dude weed lmao
>>7665007
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't...
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"What is real? What isn't?" - Andy Coughman
Recent purchases thread.
Bought some Japanese books that I couldn't find online.
The 3 on the top left are The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and below them are 3 Mishima novels (The Sailor Who Fell; Mishima's essay collection; Sound of Waves).
There's also Junichiro Tanizaki's short stories and Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen. Those are the ones that have a translation.
If anyone cares about the other ones, ask.
>>7664597
did dfw stage his suicide and become a japanese pleb author?
thats a whole lotta ching chong
Thoughts?
>>7663466
>no good books
Accurate
>>7663467
their easily in the top 50 books of all time
>>7663469
Maybe if you're an easily impressionable 19 year old who takes /lit/ memes seriously
All of those books are garbage
>want to read Gravity's Rainbow
>bad at math and physics, nearly failed AP Physics back in high school
what do
Read it with a guide
You aren't supposed to get all the technical shit anyways
>>7662563
>read book
>study concepts as they come
>Don't be bad at it anymore
I want the Pynchon being super science meme to die. He's not a fucking hard sci-fi writer, if there's anything you need to watch out with him it's history stuff, not science.
Whats the name of your novel anon?
>>7653946
Jawbreaker
Also Jawbreaker
>>7653948
Get fucked
>>7653946
The Suicidal & Schizonautic Saga of Pierre, the Cunt-Punter.
