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Maman died today.
This is not for you.
BIG
But who was phone?
>"The soul is healed by being with children."
What the fuck? Did this guy never interact with a kid in his life? They're all annoying and gross. Was he a pedophile or something?
He actually did boast about fucking a young girl to friends.
Emo people enjoy being in the presence of children, because their innocence shines like a light. Not everyone sees children this way. I see them like you do OP, but I also used to work in a nursing home and old people always seemed refreshed after a visit from children.
>>8211888
>He can't appreciate a child's innocence and cherish it as an ounce of humanity in our alienating modern world
It's like you don't even have the eyes of a poet. Wasted trips.
ITT: If you're a cultured anon, write about your travels
I went to Japan
I enjoyed the maid cafe
It was great desu
but im poor
>>8211776
gtfo this thread
When did it become so cool to hate on Ayn Rand?
when they discovered stirner
Shortly after her first badly written book was published
>>8211750
Which was...?
Hey guys, I been looking at this amazing illustrated edition of Dune.
http://www.foliosociety.com/book/DFH/dune-frank-herbert
Do you think it is worth the hefty price?
If not do you know anything similar, I saw the Barnes and Noble one, but that was dull compared to this one
If you can afford it, absolutely. I would love to have this edition
> Afterword by Brian Herbert
dropped
>>8212750
yeah to be honest OP it would be worth it but this pretty much taints the whole thing
how the hell can normies stand to read genre fiction?
you can read a tight, thought provoking 150-300 pages of literary fiction where every word feels important
or you can read a 10 book series of 700 page tiny print tomes where everything is exposition or dialogue where two of the thousands of characters argue and play mind games with each other described in excruciating detail as if the reader is too stupid to infer what's going on in a dialogue
i am genuinely impressed anyone has the attention span for this stuff, i simply cannot do it
Thought-numbing escapism will always be popular.
>>8210852
i'd rather stare at a wall
genre fiction requires a constant struggle against boredom
When you don't realize sf can be literary
This... This fucking thing!
Oh. My. God. I finally found something worth reading on amazon that dosen't suck the dry shit out of a dead donkey's rotten asshole for once,
it's like The Catcher in the Rye except good, because it isn't fucking boring. and the protag is a even bigger cunt (in a good way)
seems to be free as well, for now, so read it...
or you will have to cuck as I slap/fuck your mothers!
Fuck it, if any of you can legit stop reading past chapter 5, I'll probably post my moms address! but dad don't...
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>>8210445
>ITT: a book shill attempts to pander to the notorious 4chan /lit/erature board by cussing a lot and being arbitrarily vulgar
we do appreciate honesty and literary merit, you know. If your book is truly great you don't have to make a weak attempt at "meeting us halfway" or winning us over by fitting in with the guys.
I fuckin hate it when shills try to fondle my balls instead of just selling their shit
>>8210445
worst shill
Chringiest shill attempt I've ever seen on lit tbb
Around page 104, Zizek claims that to quell descent in the 1980s, those in power pushed transcendental meditation, along with drugs and pornography, so rebels would give up.
I poked around online to try and find examples of eastern physiology being mobilized in Poland to crush dissent, to no avail.
Is he just talking out of his ass again? It'd be seriously interesting if he isn't. But given his track record on these subjects, is he just lying to me m8 ????
>>8210411
sounds like paranoid bullshit
>>8210411
>reading zizek looking for facts
wew lad
>>8210411
I know for a fact that transcendental meditation was repressed in Romania in the 80s, not in the least promoted. I dint think Slavboy is paranoid though, just full of shit.
Why are novels which are deemed as "classics" always written in a pretentious poetry-like prose? Trying to read Lolita but can barely understand the first page
Because you are a retarded frogfaggot
Lolita suks, don't read that bullcrap
go away baiting frogman
>Start to read Schopenhauer
>"First Aspect: The idea subordinated to the principle of sufficient reason: The object of experience and science"
u wot m8
Plato and Aristotle -> Descartes -> Hume -> Kant -> Schopenhauer
Start with the Greeks as always.
>>8210084
u thought you where a focken genius m8?
Schopenhauer is a big boy philosopher, not entirely sure where the "he hates big words" meme comes from.
Are any of you actually any good at writing?
>>8208507
is anyone on /o/ good at designed and manufacturing cars?
>>8208507
Define "good" and "writing".
>>8208507
No, but it doesn't take an engineer to appreciate a well designed machine.
When will the world recognize the genius of Nick Land?
What, you're still blogging? Jesus Christ.
>>8207225
>implying Nick Land would promote on such a lowbrow board.
>>8207240
>implying Land hasn't accented to the pinnacle of his intellectual acumen to not post on such board
>your hometown/region/state
>best writer who was born there
>recommendations
I’ll start
>Belluno, northeastern Italy
>Dino Buzzati
>The Tartar Steppe and Il colombre, a short stories collection (pic related)
>Madrid, Spain
Cervantes
Calderón de la Barca
Leandro Fernández de MoratÃn
Lope de Vega
Quevedo
Francisco Umbral
>>8203063
>noMateo Alemán
>>8202884
>Australia
>theres fucking nothing
Dostoyevsky
László Krasznahorkai.
>>8195287
David DTF Wallace
>>8195291
Dunno man. It makes me want to go join the gestapo and to do a shakedown on his entire family, and then to send them to the camps despite not finding anything.
>Vladislav the Gorgeous Hillock
I mean: what the fuck?
>>8195287
Theodor von Dostow sounds much better imho. Why did he not like the Germans so much? Can you think of one single German character of his who is not an asshat and a jerk?
>medieval fantasy
>one character occasionally makes modern references
Does this ruin or enhance a story?
depends
TH White's Merlin did it well
>>8214933
Merlin or a time traveler are the only ones who can do this. Sanderson's Hoid might well do it in books yet to be published.
