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Here and there along the walls were bookshelves packed full of books, some that struck me as being...a bit odd. As I walked towards the center of the living space, it dawned on me that this didn't cover the entire second floor, for all that it felt like it; the open-air plan really threw my senses off. It was almost as if I HAD been able to somehow alter my perception though, I could see the rest of it, whatever I was using the second floor for. My silent musings then broke harshly as I realized I wasn't alone between one moment and the next. Whirling into a crouch,...
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Passion. I could feel my libido kick into overdrive and, for once, I was glad that my Voice hadn't chosen now to try and butt in with a stupid joke or comment.
Her neck was strong yet slim, her limbs graceful yet full, and her face...my god, how many poems had I written about her beauty? The fullness of her lips, the sweet shape of her face, the soft chocolate brown color of her eyes that...that...
“Wait, didn't her eyes change color or somethin' like that?” My Voice asked me breathlessly, even as her eyes did indeed darken in a whirl of black....
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After pulling my own gaze away from those raspberry-red lips of hers, I realized that she was wearing clothes - it was only those weird memories that made me think she was nude. Black leather pants, a long purple sleeveless shift with gold lace (no buttons, only those laces - some strange kinda old style?) that ended in a hoodie which she currently had up over what I knew would be dark, long cornrows. I could see the iron buckles at the tops of her collared boots, and tight gloves of black leather - the shift itself was barely a scrap of cloth, revealing interesting peeks at...
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I took a deep breath, centering myself in more ways than one and began my tirade, "Look, lady...I don't know who this Thomas guy is, but I think you've got me mistaken for someone else. Lucky bastard, whoever he is. I don't know who any of these people you're speakin' of are, but I'm certain that there's someone out there who can help you - I'm, sadly, not the guy for ya. Sorry. And my aura, or whatever, feels absolutely fine thanks - I'm just not who you think I am."
As I spoke, her eyes betrayed nothing until I...
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Any good books dealing with the Spanish civil war? Read Hemingway, which was quite good already. A Homage to Catalonia is being ordered right now. Would like to dive deeper, but prefer novels.
Movies and so on are also okay if you happen to know some.
La familia de Pascual Duarte is set in that time, and there are few allusions to it, but isn't really about it
>If I bought all my required college books the total would come out at over $430
Why the fuck are the books so expensive? I only have three classes. Do college book authors become rich as fuck?
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>>7721871
To rip off college kids
Why dont you buy the last edition for 15% of the current edition price?
>>7721871
Its an industry with no competition and no alternatives.
>>7721871
Pirate your books faggot.
Harper Lee, the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" has died. The real question is, does anyone here really care?
I for one don't but I'm making a thread about it anyway because I want to appear cool.
>>7720323
>/pol/sters shitting on Lee in my /lit/
Apparently in this day and age on 4chan you can get called a "SJW" for wanting all people to be treated equally and fairly like it's written in the goddamn fucking Constitution.
>>7720326
I have no idea what you're on about. All I was referring to is that she is a shit writer. But I guess you're living proof that oversensitive manchildren online will see what they want to see regardless of facts presented to them (or lack thereof). I mean, tell me, autist where in my post did I bash the content of the novel?
She seems like a nice person, but seriously, what's with the huge reaction to her death?
She wrote a children's book about racism, that's all.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/stephen-king-the-rolling-stone-interview-20141031
>Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. He might be able to say that Mark Twain is a great writer, but it's impossible for him to say that there's a direct line of descent from, say, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Jim Thompson because he doesn't read guys like Thompson. He just thinks, "I never read him, but...
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On Writing is better than anything Bloom put out.
Also, everyone in America knows King.
>>7720015
yes
king is not an idiot
he knows his place, the problem is with plebs that don't know king's place
>>7720019
Bloom's 'the visionary company' is better than anything king has ever written.
Not that it matters because /lit/ and the general public doesn't read poetry.
Fuck. Rest in peace David
>>7719402
Wow, he didn't hang around too long.
and but so damn...
It is with great sadness that we share the news that after hanging himself in 2908, DFW was pronounced dead only eight short years later. Our prayers go out his family.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/opinion/sunday/the-data-against-kant.html
>>7717842
>It would be absurd to suggest that we should do what we couldn't possibly do
This would explain why everyone in my Ethics class likes to fold their arms behind their head and smugly deny all moral responsibility by saying 'no I'm too busy to spare the time' not as a joke, but as a serious argument against altruism
>someone will think I'm making this up
I WISH
>>7717886
>"The Data Against Kant"
>tell us why your article is relevant to literature
>>7717842
Another old, dead, white male humiliated and dethroned! Cast down the old idols! SMASH THEM TO PIECES!
>read novel
>it's about a struggling but brilliant artist who frequently does drugs, has numerous sexual flings, and lives a bohemian lifestyle
>>7717337
Are you reading The Recognitions, anon?
I have never read a Novel like that
>read a thread
>OP is a shitty but jealous artist who's never done drugs, has relatively few sexual flings, and lives with his mom
What does /lit/ think of Harlan Ellison? I've only read The Function of Dream Sleep, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Year ago I was reading his short stuff. Loved Delusions of a Dragon Slayer, The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and the one with the psychic ants.
>>7721684
I liked The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (the story, not the whole collection).
Didn't think much of his story (nor most of the others) in his Dangerous Visions collection, but PKD's contribution was stellar. I also liked I Have No Mouth back in the day but haven't read it in ages.
If only every bad writer was as self-aware
http://www.lancemanion.com/why-im-not-successful-as-a-writer/
Fails as humor, fails as education, fails as prose.
I guess he really is a bad writer. At least he's telling the truth.
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