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ITT we write our theoretical suicide notes.
my dick is hard, they call me the bard
goodbi love friends fambly
>>>/r9k/
"I've uncovered something huge, but I think they're onto me. Will publish findings tomorrow. If I don't make it till then this is why"
It has recently come to my attention that a new publisher has acquired the rights to the Freespace license and plans to "reboot" the series, with a new developer. The fact that they have attained a few jobless stragglers from the Volition Inc. of yore does not fool me. They are trying to make a zombie out of the last unzombified thing in this world that I love. I stood by and watched as Fallout was raped to death in its asshole. I watched as everything great about it was gutted out by the meathook of Todd Howard's money-hungry dick. I watched as Diablo was taken...
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What is your personal perspective on authors? Could you read a book written by an anonymous man? How much does the author influence your reading process?
Pretty much every book I have read was determined by who the author is.
>>7648669
See anon, exactly my point. Why can't the creation let free itself of it's creator and become it's own entity? Why do we oppress the book?
>>7648679
I don't particularly feel the need.
So is there actually something to this guy's writing or is he only popular because he wrote to appeal to the plebs?
There is a very definitive difference between his appeal to the masses and his intent, and there is a hidden one. One that cannot be read in a plebian reading.
>>7648492
This. It only appears to be a meme until you read him closely and understand he truly was next level.
Chances are the Shakespeare of our time is already alive and active, but he wont be known for a few more centuries.
>>7648507
*cough* Gass *cough*
What books does your girlfriend read?
Is she more patrician or less patrician than you?
I don't have one, but if I did, she would be less patrician than me. I've never met a woman with better taste in literature than me.
>>7648391
This tbhdesuwa
Yes she reads and she's more patrician but I'm catching up.
Starting Uni soon, does /lit/ have any good books that teaches you how to learn?
Disappointing /lit/
>>7648324
yes, do breath meditation to enhance you concentration [samadhi]
you can learn more, faster and better.
a short video on the jhanas
>[YouTube] What is Jhana? By Ven. Henepola Gunaratana Nayaka Maha Thera(Bhante G) (embed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lv0PFLZ12o
>[YouTube] Bhante Gunaratana (1) What is samatha-vipassana? Part 1: samatha (embed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaFOjJtEd2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQOi9djyaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NpmB2le3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=div3NnAIoYU
and...
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>>7648501
Why do I feel like you are shilling?
What's the literary equivalent of the overture to Tannhäuser?
Dorian Gray, maybe. Maaaybe.
Tannhauser stoned was a life changing experience BTW. Would recommend to anyone.
>>7648342
DUDE
>>7648351
My apartment is actually called 'Venusberg' lel
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping
slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket
sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While...
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Lame, try reading some Plath or Gibran
>>7648244
keep it up, anon. Yeats is one of the greats.
that feel
My command of the english language isn't great.
I want to go to University but i need help stringing up great essays and improving my punctuation/grammar.
Any book recommendations.
Thank you kindly and sorry for my run-on sentences.
>>7647937
strunk and white until you can learn why you are allowed to break rules
>>7647937
you used capitals and full stops properly for the most part. you're already ahead of everyone with whom you are competing.
>>7647989
I don't read. I might have completed college but i wasn't able to get above 60% in English no matter how hard i tried. My inability to write a long essay or near the required amount. Again, whatever you recommend.
Thanks.
Lit, when you are writing, what are some things that are a recurrent themes/arcs/tropes in your work?
For me, one major one I've realized is "The results of failing to protect someone important to you.
>>7647762
Losers who drink, jerk off a lot, and fuck hookers.
There's too much irony in everything I write. I try to make everything funny from some perspective. I am a faggot.
Everyone is fucked but they keep going anyway, something like a bittersweet celebration of life.
Give me your best two line/one stanza poems, /lit/A whisper to a willow
Is just a worm to a crow
>>7647680
This one is called "Teen Love" :
Needy texts
Empty sex
>you spend your time posting on /lit/
>chad takes out girls and touches their tits
I'm never alone,
even when I wish I were.
>One must imagine Sisyphus happy
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God...
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>>7647638
I ain't even a Christfag but I find it impossible to hate Chesterson. Man Who Was Thursday is one of my favorite 'detective' books. Bet he was a total bro.
Why is Blake good? Was his mad? Is he being ironic or ernest in his poems?
>>7647273
Results of mystical experience and poetic imagination. Something 99,9% of 4chan doesn't now about, hadn't experienced, and likely wouldn't experience even once in their lifetime.
>>7647319
Why would you bother typing out that second sentence?
>>7647330
It's the cool new thing to post on 4chan about how much you hate 4chan
I have heard that Pynchon uses a lot of esoteric subject matter to provide meaning in his books. Is there any need to do outside research to understand what he is trying to say? To make it easier, I plan to read his novels in order of publication. Since it is claimed he repeatedly uses the same symbolism and develops the same ideas, this should help right?
>>7647148
Among other things he uses a lot of obscure bits of historical information. Like I had no idea who/what Lothar von Trotha, Walter Rathenau, IG Farben, and Phoebus (the 1920s lightbulb cartel) were until I read his books.
it adds more to your reading but isn't necessary
stop making these threads
>>7647148
>esoteric subject matter
dude weed lmao
Anyone familiar with Abdrushin - In the Light of Truth?
Its about several questions of life, like where we came from, where we are going, what is your purpose in life, laws of nature and creation, etc. Anyways, I'm starting this tomorrow, any opinions?
>>7647100
Ah, also 'enlightment' literature general, if you may
anthroposophy is a gateway drug to theosophy
>>7647122
sounds interesting man, saved for the future
i liked war and peace, should i read this?
Sure. The fuck is this question?
