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What are the best books about love? I want to feel.
Great Expectations.
>>8261685
Far from the Madding Crowd
Alessandro Manzoni - The Betrothed
This is the italian text that the current Pope asks engaged couples to read before they get married—it is a tale of love that fights
ITT great Catholic writers.
Was Chesterton catholic?
Graham GreeneAnne Rice
>>8261478
Yes.
Thoughts?
shit hack derivative same
>>8261363
derivative of who specifically?
I'm wondering if anyone really cares about covers. Personally, I always choose which version of a book to buy based on it's cover. Am I alone here?
Been reading Naked Lunch on the bus lately. It's that Grove Press edition with the really obnoxious, colorful covers with the distressed font and shit. I always feel like I just came from my little sister's book fair holding that ostentatious piece of shit. Wicked book, but I feel like a chode showing the world that cover, mang.
While I think that "don't judge a book by it's cover" is somewhat true, once I already know that the book is good I just wanna have the copy with the sickest looking cover.
I only buy the Arena copies of De Sade so I can sit out the front of a primary school reading them
What do you do to invoke the Muses before you write?
>>8260326
masturbate furiously.
>>8260335
Every time?
i tell her my name isn't Hockenberry and could she please go bother someone else.
Is stately meant as an adjective or an adverb? It's fucking killing me
It's an adjective, OP. Are you not a native speaker?
>>8261488
Are you?
Prefer it as adverb, but can't imagine the "stately, plump" adjective contrast isn't intended.
As if the Devil himself inhabited the pages.
This one started my realization that there were both good and evil in the world. I was 9 when I first read it.
House of Leaves. There is a part where the lights go out in the book. When I read it the power went off in my house. Had to tell myself, "only a coincidence"...
Hahahaha I can relate to that. I also talked myself into believing that if I just did not open Bulgakov's book then the Devil could not get me. LOL
Serious question:
How should I refer to a woman's genitals in a short story I'm writing?
"Vagina" sounds too clinical. "Cunt" too crude. "Froo froo" sounds fucking gay.
Any advices?
Any authors write about cunt using an acceptable vernacular?
Moist towelette or love cave
>>8259771
i wouldnt use any direct epithets desu. just say "inside her" or whatever depending on the context
pussy or cunt
So, I just bought this. Is it as good as I'm hoping? What are some of your opinions on it? What is some other epic poetry that might be good?
>>8259262
No idea.
Don't have any.
Paradise Lost.
>>8259280
Paradise Lost was fun, but I was underwhelmed, since I had read Inferno right before, I did like Satan's machines though.
It's far better.
It's amazing.
Orlando Furioso and The Liberation of Jerusalem.
Why do philosophers still constantly talk about Freud when his work is outdated/dismissed in the field of psychology?
>>8258988
Because psychologists are the best people to psychoanalyze.
>>8259002
But psychoanalysis is today considered, essentially, pseudoscience.
Literally noone but philosophers talk about it still. Psychology has moved on.
>>8258988
Psychoanalysis treats phenomena that are inaccessible to the scientific method.
What languages do you speak? Was learning them worth your effort?
My mother tongue is Russian, I'm learning English now. What language should I learn next and why?
>>8258945
>What languages do you speak?
English, French, German reasonably well, bits and piece in other languages
>Was learning them worth your effort?
not really. i tend to communicate mostly in grunts and snarls
>>8258945
Interslavic
