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What's her name, /lit/?
Write a passage about her.
>her
heterosexuality is not /lit/
LOLA GTFO MY DREAMS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I don't need to write about her, she is writing me.
I'll start
>>7949713
How are Dost fans annoying? Do they actively talk about him or something? I mean I really like Dost, but I hardly talk about it.
Rupi Kaur
>>7949731
150 years of endless praise for him and his ideas, as if the man was the groundbreaking philosopher rather than a well spoken journalist.
Is anyone here trying to write a novel while working a full-time office job?
For the first few months it was ok but now my energy and focus are completely drained. I work from 8:30am to 5:30pm with a 30 minute commute each way. The work is glorified data entry and most of my day is spent not working. Staring at a screen for 8-9 hours and killing so much time is really getting to me. It seems time-killing is an essential aspect of office life but I fear I'm wasting the most productive years of my life being a submissive cuck for the sake of security.
Please...
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>Please no college-aged kids or highschoolers.
Why?
Work + College is a tough schedule, so can be highschool, but it's almost summer and lots of highschoolers and College kids are working full time jobs. Just because you're balding you're experiencing more legitimate misery?
I've written plays while working a couple of part time jobs (48 hours total). Fortunately on one of those jobs (night watchman) I could write for about half my shift.
I'm thinking of converting one of my plays to a novel, since no theater wants to hire a cast of 15 for an unknown writing about foul mouthed drunks and drug addicts.
>>7955893
If your wasting that much time at work, just work on your novel at work?
Recently turned 18. Looking at my life in retrospect and realized that I'm on the path to degeneracy.
>Don't work
>Do too many drugs
>Spend most of my free time on the internet
>Lack motivation to study
>Jerk off too much
What are some books that will help me legitimately improve my life?
Forgot to mention. Plan to spend most of my summer isolated to introspect and read.
>>7955637
Go hiking for a few days and meditate in nature. Self-help is a meme. There is only your will, your aspirations, your compass, your understanding.
Also, get the fuck off of 4chan and go talk to someone. Now.
>>7955644
20 year old here. Whatever you do, don't spend your summer isolated. Join a book group, at least find someone to share a joint with ffs.
Fuck this is hard to read. The writing style is weird. Does it get worse?
>>7954888
Yes. His style is fucked.
>McCarthy
>Hard
McCarthy is a pretty entry level writer m8
At barnes and noble. What should I get?
Black Jewels Trilogy
>>7953697
The latest issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
>>7953697
the hell out of there.
Who /Nick Land/ here?
>>7933923
>Nick Land
Was it autism?
>>7933926
I have autism ergo maybe.
>>7933923
not even nick land takes nick land seriously
whats some of the shit you read in highschool?
and dont lie - its called highschool-tier for a reason.
Scott Sigler, Palahniuk, King. Started reading Herodotus in first year of college & haven't looked back since.
I read nothing but genre fic (Pratchett, other stuff I can't remember) in lower years levels of HS because that's what my friends read, I realised I didn't like it and gave up on reading, read random shit between then and Year 11.
Then, I read Blood Meridian on a whim and realised what I'd been missing out on. After that, in my last 2 years I read more McCarthy, Faulkner, Kafka and Borges' short stories, Pynchon's and Joyce's easier stuff, and lots of Hesse.
>>7951190
Highschool was the most pretentious time in life. I was really influenced by the elitists on here. Dostoevsky, Sartre, Tolstoy, Kafka.
Five years ago.
First time I read C&P was at Saturday school.
Anyone read Vollmann? He writes a fuckton and I believe that he is easily the greatest American author of generation X. Anyone plan on reading the 2000 page unabridged edition of The Dying Grass that comes out this year?
Vollmann is wonderful. I just picked up The Ice-Shirt today.
Will read him when I finish my massive backlog. 3000 page book about violence anyone?
No one ever tells me anything about his books other than they're long, and po-mo.
Why is Marxism so attractive to the academic class?
Why is a bourgeois institution so intent on patronizing the working class?
>>7950014
brownie points
>>7950014
>hy is Marxism so attractive to the academic class
once maybe
>>7950033
>implying most career academics in the western humanities aren't openly marxist
Post peices of literature that women will never understand.
Kipling's poetry will outlive those who call it misogynistic or racist, and it will outlive these concepts.
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.
Sound and the Fury t b h
lit humour thread
post only the most amusing
neil gayman lol
ITT: Shit-tier classics
>>7949077
>Shit tier posts
>Shit tier taste
>>7949077
>shit tier people
>shit tier elitism
>>7949103
First post, best post.
Why are people so smug about the fact that they read books?
The same way that people shitpost.
>>7945175
For the exact same reason that people here posture and nurse an illusion of superiority.
It's a way for dumb nerds to feel important even though they're not getting any likes.
>>7945175
-a lot of people don't read books, so it's harder to find people to connect with about reading- putting your interest out on the internet helps you find likeminded people
-people think reading books makes you intellectual or interesting
Anyone into cinema theory?
I've read Bazin, Tarkovskiy, Deren, a bit of Chion and a bit of Daney. Anything else interesting?
I'm french btw, if it helps to pick some books.
Read Deleuze. Cinema 1 & 2. You're extra lucky that you get to read it in its original language
>>7944796
b-but it looks really fucking hard, I don't know that much about philosophy & I think Deleuze makes a lot of references to psychoanalysis and semiotics.
Anyway I didn't consider that, I'll take a look at these. Thanks anon.
Read Bresson's Notes on the Cinematographer
Read Tolstoy's What is Art
