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Anyone here into reading mystic thinkers? I was reading about some Heidegger and found he basically stole pic related's ideas for his own agenda: anti-representation, muh presence and the like.
I just bought Teresa D'Ávila's Inner Castle. Looking forward to read it.
>>7859341
R u Christian?
>>7859350
I was. Then I became an agnostic. Then suddenly I'm reading a lot of Christian related material (literature and philosophy) and my interest is returning, but I wouldn't say I'm Christian now.
post a work of art and people recommend a similar book.
>>7857065
Werther
>>7857065
This is literally the cover to my edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales, so I guess that.
I'm already reading Moby Dick (this image reminds me of the Nantucket town before Ishmael and Queequeg set sail), but other books in a similar style to this painting would be most appreciated.
Let's have a new chart thread.
but why, it's the same shit everytime
just check the archive
>>7856982
Just go and look at the wiki. They're all collected over there.
Come on, you know you've written a few poems, anonkin.
i'll start.
>dream-weaver
>arms are that of memories
>& wings that wrap around us
>between the holes in our bodies
>where flesh-spiders crawl
>& all this time, i've been eating
>the little grey pieces of love
>that fell out of...
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it is
spit frothing on my tongue
blood pooling in my toes
oh, how angry I am
no one knows!
>>7856242
made me think about suicide (as if i needed any help, amirite)
>>7856248
I'm sorry :(
What's his endgame?
To bring about the degradation of the west, the same as Twnety One Pilots and Halsey are doing, by implementing materialistic, nihilistic, and apathetic themes in his works. He is subliminally morphing our youths into assimilated and alienated hedonists.
To write the kind of books that require daily threads on the Literature board on an anime website
>>7870706
Look at that face.
It's the face of a man who thought "I'll just do it for a little bit for some quick cash and then get on to more serious work."
It's the face of defeat.
Instead of telling people about how it's all water, he's telling people about how Twilight, Harry Potter and Shakespeare are all on the same level.
what was the Judge's fucking problem?
he was bullied
The judge: evertything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent
Me: take a chill pill
me:: have u ever done,, Weed
Judge: No. Tell me what it is, so I may destroy it.
me: a ha dude you aint gona want to when u knaow. and knowing..is half of trying... have a puff man
Judge: A... puff?
me: (tokes) watch (tokes) ok do that
Judge: (gripping bong) I... fine. (tokes)
Later that day!
Judge (naked and dancing): WOOO! FUCK THE COPS! FUCK THE COPS, YEAH!
You may remember me from such posts as "World War Three"
My campaign closes today, in a few hours, and anyone who nominates the book gets a free copy if it succeeds. Kindle Scout is a great service; look into it! If I get enough nominations, I get a publishing contract. I've had wonderful feedback so far. Why don't you tell me what you think?
You can read a bit about me, and 5,000 words of the book, and a synopsis. I will bump with fan art! :D
It would take very little of your time, and it would mean a lot to me.
The campaign is here:
https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/13B4CQVVAZ420
Thank...
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My friend, Rhiannamation, loves the book. She constantly draws me fan art about her favourite characters. Here is the main character, Fetch Underwood.
Here is Ruby introduced in Chapter 2
Although Rhianimation prefers her with hair to match her name
Are there any books out there that will keep me from pulling the smooth trigger of my .45 kissing my temple
>keep me from pulling the smooth trigger of my .45 kissing my temple
i'd just as soon do it, with that prose
Don't let the others win. We need you soldier
>>7870283
>of my .45 kissing my
if you lack the sensitivity to see why this is gross you will never produce anything of literary quality
>>7870312
it's not nice to lie
Post an image and people recommend you literature based on it
>the rape of hylas
apollonius, ovid, propertius and everyone since who wrote about it?
>>7869955
>implying men can be raped
Writer thread:
Times you had to write something that really hurt to put in a story.
I'm writing a really brutal abuse scene and I feel fucking awful about it. I keep tearing up and needing a minute, and then just keep making it worse. Like, fuck.
ur so deep
I'm having the opposite problem.
I don't know how to make characters anything but catalysts for the story so I wind up not being attached to them and then the story peters out.
>>7869394
You gotta think about why it has to be that character in there, instead of just a prop.
Give 'em a backstory even if you never write it down. Give them hobbies and shit that no one will ever know about. Then give the reader a reason to care if they die.
Post your favorite Joyce sentence
I AM THE BOY
THAT CAN ENJOY
INVISIBILITY.
>>7868997
> I could see down in Margate strand bathingplace from the side of the rock standing up in the sun naked like a God or something and then plunging into the sea with them why arent all men like that thered be some consolation for a woman like that lovely little statue he bought I could look at him all day long curly head and his shoulders his finger up for you to listen theres real beauty and poetry for you I often felt I wanted to kiss him all over also his lovely young cock there so simple I...
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>>7869135
Will there ever exist a greater writer, nay, a greater man?
>>7868997
Sunset found her squatting
Oh boy, I sure am enjoying the Charles Dickens novel I'm reading. I'm definitely not reading it just because I'd be seen as a pleb if I haven't read it. No way, just huge amount of enjoyment!
Dicken's inst patrician. Dude wrote fluffy serial novels for housewives to read in easily digestible installments.
>>7868951
Just read his Nell Trent book. It's not normie. It's literally otaku moe shit.
Did you know that Kafka envied Dickens for his ability to write an engaging story?
"I have been reading about Dickens. Is it so difficult and can an outsider understand that you experience a story within yourself from its beginning, from the distant point up to the approaching locomotives of steel, coal, and steam, and you don’t abandon it even now, but want to be pursued by it and have time for it, therefore are pursued by it and of your own volition run before it wherever it may thrust and wherever you may lure it.
I can’t understand it and can’t believe...
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ITT: Tell us about that story idea you've been thinking about writing and we'll discuss whether or not it is shit and why.
>>7868678
I have an idea where there's a good guy from a peaceful village and with a love interest but then a bad guy comes and threatens his way of life so the good guy goes on a journey at the end of which he fights the bad guy and defeats him and then he goes back home and settles down with his love interest
>>7868685
Oh I forgot, the good guy also has a mentor/father figure that the bad guy kills at the beginning
One of the last practitioners of ancient Greek religion is cursed by Hephaestus for promoting an iPhone in the god's name for a gag Apple ad. (Heph prefers Android, obviously.) Now he can only express emotional pain in the form of jokes. The worse the pain, the funnier the jokes tend to be. Book follows his new career as a comedian as he spirals into ever-deeper despair.
Is this a good book?
No.
>>7868663
/thread
Best prose I've read since Ulysses
Non-American here, should I read Infinite Jest? CAN i read Infinite Jest?
Do you sometimes finger your bum when you wank?
If yes, this is the booke for you!
>>7868314
that book is the subject of the biggest marketing campaign in the history of literature
Even DFW suspected this
The viral marketing campaign goes on, and 4chan is part of that
>>7868314
How self satisfied will I feel after completing IJ? That's how you sell me the book. Will it make me into one of the glorious beau monde literati?
