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Is he proof being smart does get you laid?
He was a total babe.
He was such an interesting mother fucker, like, I don't even know his work, reading about his life is fascinating as it is
Being smart, physically attractive, charismatic, artistic and other things.
“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ”
What did he mean by this?
>>8015727
>Because one can never discover any bottom to them
He had a small benis.
He was a pathetic fucking virgin neckbeard who wasn't cool enough to GET
WITh
THIS
the bottom is called hypergamy, dearest freddy boy
>Fantasy
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General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
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General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>what are you currently reading
>most confusing sff
>characters you hate
That's a pretty decent cake my dudes
>>8010109
Because imgur bullshit meme is the OP image, I'm hiding this thread.
>>8010139
I'm offended, Kim
HEY YOU MERRY AUTHORS AND LOWLY JOTTERS
Gather round and share some campfire stories. Remember, it don't mean a thang if it ain't got that prose.
This is absurdly fun to write and to read back to myself, but I want to know if others have as much fun reading it as I do reading books that use this kind of style.
I'm compiling a little lexicon of the portmanteaus and whatnot I'm using, so if you can't figure out what the words mean yourselves, I can supply definitions if you're interested.
I dont write in english
which book should i read if i want to be able to make smug, smarmy ass references and comments alluding to literature or philosophy in reality?
>>8027721
i like you cat pic lol
>>8027726
feel free to save it
>>8027721
If you can't figure that out by being here for 5 minutes you should give up. Even pseudo intellectualism isn't for you.
Why did Orwell hate the Irish so much?
>W.B. Yeats once said that a dog does not praise its fleas, but this is somewhat contradicted by the special status enjoyed in this country by Irish nationalist writers
>ORWELL was a Socalilist tho!!!
Orwell went to Spain to fight for his most deeply held belief, yes. Unfortunately, that belief wasn’t socialism but the nastiest, most puerile of the tribal hatreds English babies learn in the cradle: anti-Catholicism.
The revolution in Catalonia was...
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Why does everyone on /lit/ think it's so fashionable to be a Catholic? That's why people hate Catholics, because it's the vainest, most earthly sect of Christianity.
>>8027661
>because it's the vainest, most earthly sect of Christianity.
Except it's the exact opposite.
It's best to be against ALL religion.
Do y'all remember the "fashion forward" black chick, Lark Voorhies, from Saved By the Bell that came down with bipolar. Well, she's written some books.
This is the cover and title of one of them.Since you can't see the title I will post it below and all punctuation is hers. I post some passages and tell me what you guys think.
>True Light: A, superior, take, unto, the, premier, haloing, of, tenuation. Readily, available, True Light, provides, resource, into, time's, motifed, and, vestuved, authenticate, revelation.
>>8027203
I for one am in
I can't post any more. I may truly vomit.
Anyway, there's bible passages and more of her "commentary."
So, what do you think? Was this worth a thread?
I have a friend who is schizo and this is what his book sounds like.
>it's easy to write a manifesto when you're insane
Is the Quran just a piece of biblical fanfiction ?
Is it to the bible what "50 Shades of Grey" is to "Twilight" ?
>extrapolations and personal revisions on already existing material
>obvious pandering to audience
>no better than the original
>endorsement of violence and humiliation
>muhammad is making himself into a massive gary-stu
>>8027126
Old Testament is the original series. New Testament is the sequel.The Quran is the reboot; Muhammad (PBUH) improved on the franchise by getting rid of the filler, creating a coherent narrative and retconning away most continuity errors and blatant absurdities.
Yes it is.
Okay, so I've got to write a cultural critique short story kind of thing. A story with meaning i suppose. I have no ideas, I need help
Something to do with social media
>>8027114
Critique your own culture for producing you
Do bare minimum of searching around to find some decent summaries of Barthes' Mythes articles
Understand the methodology --> apply it to something by copying him
welp
It was a good run.
>>8027092
>Gass
>good
Loving Every Laugh
Oh god its true. he will be missed
Hey, /lit/ new poster here.
I'm sure you've had this discussion before. I just finished reading this book for the first time ever. Overall I found it decent. It got rather dull and redundant until awhile after the second half of the book.
Unfortunately I'm already passed my depressed edgy teenager stage. But I was curious, for those of you who read this during your mid/late teens, did it affect you in any way?
No. I found it incredibly dreary, as I still find New Yorkers to this day.
There's something wrong with those people.
It's the greatest YA novel with The Great Gatsby.
YA garbage. John Green sucks the shit out of my ass.
Who is the Viper of literature?
zizek
>>8026966
>Who is the Viper of literature?
Viper
Stephen King
Thoughts?
Looking for good paperbacks on history from prehistoric to today (could be in one volume or several).
>>8026852
Stop being a faggot and read this
>>8026854
>Wells
Why would I want to read a nonhistorians history?
>>8026877
Are you an idiot? Historian is just a fancy word for writer. Like novelist.
Is literature/art that inspires negative emotion (disgust, boredom, anger etc) valuable in the same way as art which appears beautiful and inspires positive reactions?
Is decadent/talentless/bad art necessary in order to appreciate good art?
Very very interested to hear what you guys think, feel free to ridicule or pick apart the question or shitpost
>>8026832
Good art has to be great to be good, while bad art can bad just a little bit bad and be good.
I don't think positive/negative applies to quality and effort.
You can write about something super depressing but still do it beautifully.
>>8026886
what
Who Lord Byron here? The real GOAT
This nigga loved his dogs too.
"Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming bitten and infected. The poem is inscribed on Boatswain's tomb, which is larger than Byron's, at Newstead Abbey, Byron's estate
>>8026840
Sorry, senpai, forgot to post the poem.
Epitaph to a Dog
Near this Spot
are deposited the Remains of one
who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
and all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery
if inscribed over human Ashes,
is but a just tribute to the Memory of
Boatswain, a Dog
who was born in Newfoundland May 1803
and died at Newstead Nov. 18th, 1808
When some...
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Lord Byron is the most underrated of all the poets. For example, this is sometimes seen as trite, but it's only because there have been thousands of people riffing on it poorly over the centuries.
She Walks in Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every...
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