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>upper-middle class! david foster wallace! black woman!
the definition of the hack
She so wants that whatever on her head to be her dfw bandana trademark
>>7908818
mean post :(
>>7908803
is it true she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie to support her lit career?
I sure fuckin' hope not.
What are your favorite supernatural fiction novels?
>>7907211
that picture
Someone answer me plz
>>7907211
what character is this?
Which author has the most amazing prose in the history of literature?
Is there an author whose work you've read and you said to yourself... Fuck, that's amazing?
Could pic related could be an example?
Who else?
>>7904995
>Corncob Tortilla YeCarthy
>good prose
r/copypasta
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid?
u/prozac5000236d, 9h
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid? heh I remember when I was just like you. Braindead. Lemme give you a tip so you can make it in this cyber sanctuary: never make jokes like that. You got no reputation here, you got no name, you got jackshit here. It's survival of the fittest and you ain't gonna survive long on 4chan...
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>The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. It satisfies every childlike curiosity, every muted desire, whatever there is in him of the scientist, the poet, the primitive seer, the watcher of fire and shooting stars, whatever obsessions eat at the night side of his mind, whatever sweet and dreamy yearning he has ever felt for nameless places far away, whatever earth sense he possesses, the neural pulse of some wilder awareness, a sympathy for beasts, whatever belief in an immanent vital force,...
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Nabokov
I read all these one, and I need more like this, please.
>>7899487
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, which is an assembly of some of the finest short stories ever written.
Lugones, Arlt, Bernhard... the list could go on
>>7899487
Absolute Love - Alfred Jarry
>>7882053
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>What are you reading right now?
>Your favourite ye old fantasy
Let me just take the opportunity to recommend the novel "Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson. The ideas are great, the prose is smooth, and the plotline is rip-roaring.
Bumping my request from last thread
Any fun military sci-fi with a waifu protagonist?
>>7899418
Ivory Javelin
>“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
Well /lit/ what do you think ?
I think I would do neither of those things.
Well sure that would be ideal to live with the love of life and all that it comes with pain and all.
one must imagine Nietzsche happy
Post whatever you're currently working on ITT and have other anons provide feedback.
Don't be shy, share an excerpt from your writing and let us know what you've been working on lately.
This is only a few sentences, but I'd like to know if the writing is any good
He could see today that the girl was enjoying his readings. He had recognised the girl the first time she was in his class. He was familiar with that face, freckled, blue eyed and inquisitive and serene and her short dark hair. He had fallen asleep thinking about her.
One day she was sitting on the entrance steps after school had ended and the children had all gone home.
Has your mother not come to pick you up, he had said.
No, I don't know where she is.
He had downed...
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I posted a paragraph in a thread and people said I should write more. This is the first story I've written and so any help improving would be greatly appreciated.
http://pastebin.com/fubB54r2
I posted this in the other thread, I can post some more of it too if anyone's interested.
http://pastebin.com/4Jutzs7u
What's Stephen King's best book and why?
Dude, i was looking for some rad 80s movies to torrent for a nostalgia session and i realized that dude has had more movies made of his shit than mother fucking philip k dick and ya'll like dick so why u don't like king? shit he didn't even die yet either, living legend status, dfw will be forgotten, angsty tennis is not going to matter in the future, but spooky tales are timeless
How long has it been since king wrote a decent book?
>>7907955
I don't think /lit cares for movies. I don't mind King, I liked his weird western The Dark Tower up until Book 5.
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. Its community.
>>7906528
i like this. where did it come from
>>7906528
i don't like this. please put it back.
Hope that means something to you because it is nothing to me
What literature will help me understand the "black experience" of life?
>>7906032
a raisin in the sun
their eyes werewatching god
anything by toni morrison
that frederick douglass book
>>7906032
Pimp Iceberg Slim
>buy a new book
>don't read it
Anyone else do this? I got dozens of books lying around which I haven't even read
there's an extremely simple solution to your 'problem'
Most library books I get I reach about a quarter until I get bored. I rarely really get engaged in a novel.
everyone on lit does this
Casual literature discussion
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QTDDTOT: Questions that don't deserve their own thread.
How many languages does Harold Bloom know?
>>7900748
I'm a college undergrad (in a stem field) and will graduate in a few weeks. Although things could be worse, I feel a bit lost, hopeless and dazed in ennui. I feel numb and detached to almost anything and everything as opposed to my previous keen and more excited self. Maybe that's because I failed to build any meaningful relationships or experiences for myself in the past 4 years which have been pretty dull and uneventful.
Literature that deals with this feel? Is this a natural consequence of loneliness,...
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Is this the so-called new sincerity; has it finally found its place in commercial music culture?
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/twentyonepilots/stressedout.html
>I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But now I'm insecure and I care what people think.
Is that the new hot thing now or what?
Today I read David Foster Wallace for the first time.
I cried. I swear.
I'm writer.
>I'm writer.
>I'm writer.
According to Zen, the ego is a spook.
How would Stirner's philosphy change with this realization?
>>7879498
What about you actually read Stirner.
>>7879498
>According to Zen, the ego is a spook.
>How would Stirner's philosphy change with this realization?
According to me, you're a majestic Canada goose.
How does your philosophy change with this realization?
I don't think you've read der einzige and his essay properly at all. Stirner understands that his own spook-casting-off methodology is itself spooky and that there isn't anything special about overcoming the spooks of others. He says that he must also be overcome, but he never implies that overcoming all spooks and then his own is some kind of transcendental humanist goal.
What books will cure my social anxiety? I only have it in new situations and when I have to do interviews or talk about myself in front of people I don't know.
none. getting used to socialising will help your anxiety
>>7905110
Art of Seduction
>>7905146
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