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OFFICIAL POETRY OF /LIT/ THREAD
Share your poems /lit/. I'll start.
The king left a swift
The day it was late
He presented a gift
To his then unknown mate
But it was a he
A boy in girl's clothes
Avoiding the fee
So nobody knows
The mate was a peasant
A boy lowborn he
Yet the king kindly lent
The boy his own key
>>8205135
0/10
But don't give up
>>8205138
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I'm still new to poetry. Do you have any poems to share?
>>8205143
No I don't. Tried to write some and it was all shit so I'm taking a break from writing poems.
>Nietzsche
>>8204993
William Gibson
>>8204993
>Pessoa
hal incandenza
So does this book actually work or is it only for the neurotypical low self-esteem pseudo-normie who needs a pick-me-upper?
To sum the book up
Kiss EVERY ONE YOU KNOW'S ASS
Lick the sweat around the base of the asshole
Then pucker up and kiss that hole.
Its shit.
It's kind of outdated, it must be useful for the ultra autistic only
>>8204852
Im autistic and I thought it was all common sense desu
Is anyone else eternally torn on how to organise themselves? If I make a list of things to do then I cuck myself by forcing myself to do stuff. If I only do what I want without structuring my time with schedules or predefined goals then I'm sure to be cucked by capitalism.
In general I suffer due to not having a sign telling me what to do.
>>8204604
The solution is quite simple. You must cuck your cuck so that cucks no longer cuck your cuck. Then you may cuck cuckfully without being cucked by cucks.
>>8204604
signs are spooks, idiot.
My problem with Stirner is that he built off of Hegel. I think that Nietzsche was more successful because he built off of Schopenhauer.
>>8204604
Why do you think that capitalism will own you? Only Marxists this way. You own most of what you work for. Capitalism is forever in favor of the individual. If you choose the schedule then you own the time. If you are on a schedule because you 'must' be on it then you are being spooked. If it fulfills your end then surely it is in your power.
http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/why-i-stopped-reading-books-by-privileged-white-men
Thoughts?
>>8204342
I think I'm not in the mood to impotently rage against people on the internet.
dumb.
that was easy, next please.
i think it's good to read widely, but purposely cutting out large swathes of quality literature is silly
Does the author of this book insist on using "could of" "would of" "must of" as a style choice or is he a real dummy?
are you retarded
>>8204279
What, you think it's the first person narrator?
Yeah, he decided that the big dumb crazy Indian has this single hangup. All the rest of the spelling, grammar, and punctuation would be perfectly fine.
Or maybe the author is just a dummy.
>>8204331
Or maybe writers in this period used colloquial forms of speech in their writing for various reasons. Read Trout Fishing in America or Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Also
> big dumb crazy Indian
so you haven't even finished reading the book yet, why don't you do that and come back.
/lit/ humor thread
I've always hated Nietzsche, but since I hadn't read any of his work before, I never said a word against him. But now, I've already read Thus spoke Zarathusta and I'm currently reading Human, all too human.
And what the fuck.
How can people actually agree with this dipshit? In Human, all too Human he spends a fuckton of time glorifying rebellion without justification. He himself says that rebellion is a childish thing, something that all young people feel at some time, and he says it's also something great to mess with the sacred, to disrespect...
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One day anon, one day.
I can tell you that you are a shallow reader, you can go from there.
I laughed my fucking ass of while reading this post.
Do us a favour and start with the greeks. Learn a bit about philosophy and as the poster above me said: learn how to read.
>>8201356
>le meme the post
At least you tried.
Hello /lit/ I just got this book what should I expect?
a good book
>>8201200
Just open up to the man
Some of the best writing you have ever read
One of the best books in the modernist canon
One of the greatest books of the twentieth century
etc. etc. It's not nearly as good as Ulysses, but what is?
What is the absolute worst book you've ever read?
Hamlet
the lost world
>>8198548
bunnicula
>age
>location
>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
29
Vienna
Sekida Training / Zen Training
I'm not far, but I really want to get into meditation and this was recommended. Seems reasonable.
Technically, I have started a lot of books, but most are textbooks.
>18 - x
> l o n d o n
>started reading "do androids dream of electric sheep" before I had exams and just picked it up again. Very interesting so far.
23
paris
The Bride of Ice and Some ether
I've started rewriting a paragraph of a short story I'm working on, but the rewrite is coming out too purple to me. What is /lit/'s opinion?
>First Paragraph
The harbor was quiet. Splashes of water attacked my legs in broken intervals, and bursts of dry air crept down my neck and chilled my spine. I sat on the precipice of the dock, growing more impatient with each moment that I wasted waiting. The aging wooden planks creaked behind me, prompting my head to turn with a sudden jolt. “You made it,” Frank joked. He knew...
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>>8193609
There's nothing wrong with writing that way if the story warrants it for whatever reason. Does it?
>>8193615
Well I'm trying to make the narrator come across as pretentious and haughty, hence why I did the rewrite in the first place--i didnt feel it was coming across as such. However I feel like prose that's overly purple doesn't get anything done, and I don't want to end up writing 10 paragraphs wherein nothing happens.
>>8193627
If your narrator is a pretentious windbag or you're trying to set that kind of mood, wasting time with grandiloquent descriptions of everything that take forever to actually get anything done is perfectly fine. Though I'd advise against having that sort of thing in your first paragraph or two if you intend on trying to get this published because agents and/or acquiring editors tend to have no patience at all and will likely ignore your submission if the first two paragraphs bore or annoy them.
http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8334
Alright I'm having troubles on finding the book Armageddon that is related to what I just read on this link page.
Google isn't helping me on this and I really would like to read the novel itself but all I'm getting is stupid documentaries and history shit but that is not what I want.
I want to read the entire novel of the Armageddon that I read on here and I would really appreciate it alot if you guys would help me find the actual novel that I am looking for that is related...
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https://www.wattpad.com/story/56605018-armageddon
um ur welcome asshole
I started reading Ulysses when I was in my early 20's and in college. I never made it. And over the years, I'd try and try. I probably read the first 50 pages a dozen times.
at 62 I decided I was going to finish it come what may. I won't say it was easy and I took a good month off in the middle of it. But 10 minutes ago, I shut the book on the final "yes" and can now say I read Ulysses,
What I can't say is that I enjoyed it. Because I really didn't. The first part of the book was actually pretty good, but then, when Joyce stated playing with literary conventions, writing in different styles from different periods, went on a prolonged chapter (lasting about 150 pages) which is one long hallucination, there really wasn't any relief until the final chapter, Molly's soliloquy (which is one long run-one sentence with no punctuation which goes on for about 50 pages.
I'd never recommend this book. I find it vastly over rated, over rought, and pretentious in many ways. It was in vast need of a good editor.
But, yes, i read it, yes. slogged through, yes, and yes, finally, yes got to the godamn end. YES!
Is he the new meme author? I just picked up Conspiracy Against the Human Race and I'm a few chapters in.
So basically everything we do is for external affirmation, otherwise life is pointless?
And what's the deal with Cioran? What are his essential works?
is there a small subset of teenagers who post this shit every day or did people actually fall for the linkin park-core meme
Ligotti's been big here since True Detective season 1 when Pizza plagiarized him and name-dropped ad nauseum because he thought that made it ok. His fiction is better than his antinatalism
Cioran is better, read A Short History of Decay and The Trouble With Being Born, and continue from there if you like him
