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>>7643681
It introduced me to Kierkegaard and inspired me in such a way that not only did I develop a profound appreciation for girls--I read it as I began teaching high school aged students--but it also provoked a desire to start and maintain a relationship for the aesthetic potential of doing so.
The relationship went for a few months and I directed in a way that was also inspired by the diary: she initially claimed that a relationship between us was impossible but through that inspiration from the diary, I developed...
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Why are fucking readers so fucking fickle? When I write simply, they fucking accuse me of telling rather than showing. When I do "show, don't tell", they fucking complain of purple prose. When I start writing simply again, they start complaining that I'm writing brown prose.
Fuck this bullshit, readers should be sent to a goddamn gulag and be repeatedly hit with rifle butts until they learn to appreciate my work.
Don't give me "balance" and "moderation" bullshit, what the fuck do they want? Do they want vivid, beautiful...
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>>7643660
sounds like you're just shit
>>7643660
FYI anyone who brings up the concept of "showing & telling" is a pleb.
>>7643660
MAYBE YOU ARE JUST AN AWFUL WRITER, ALL SIGNS POINT TO THIS
POST YOUR WORK AND LET US DECIDE
OR GTFO
Folks, sorry about this /r/ post, but I don't come here often. Maybe we can make this a 'qtddtot' thread.
I am looking for a particular non-fiction (self-help?) book. It could be about stoicism or meditation or something related.
It starts with asking the reader what they want *out of* life and how it is different from they wanting something *in* life.
Unfortunately, this is all the information I have. =/
>>7643461
Somehow I get the feeling you are talking about some kind of Shoppy for dummies, but that sounds beyond stupid.
I read this book, an excellent novella, earlier this week and I can't stop thinking about it. Did Santiago actually do it? Ambiguous endings are usually pretty lame, same with first person narratives, but you could tell from the get go you'd never get a straight answer. It was so well executed on both fronts.
I personally think he did. Seems just like every other small town where everyone is sleeping with each other surreptitiously, while they occupy a higher morality in public.
This Was my first gabo, I picked it up at a used bookstore last week. Are...
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A few short stories and Cien Años de Soledad are the only things worth reading of his t b h.
>>7643398
wtf do u know fag
i read the big three and i thought it was the worst one :|
Looking for Beat novels . . .
. . . any recommendations that aren't Kerouac, Burroughs, or Pynchon?
>>7643315
First and foremost-- Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. The beats didn't like him (Ginsberg hated him), but Ferlinghetti did.
Also the Western Lands by Burroughs. It's his last work and unlike his others, whilst being a synthesis of them all. I'd still recommend even though I think the rest he has is trash.
I saw one of my lit professors was talking about Ambrose Bierce in another one of his classes the other day.
My dick hurts
Saying that doesn't make me popular, so it must make me a genius
Rob a store
Fuck a whore
Do the time
Blame whitey for your crimes, repeat
That's all you niggers do
I still hate all you spooks and your dirty feet
Now you want to start a movement that berates the boys in blue for doing their job
Fucking niggers, looks like you just made it easier for us to form a lynch mob
Gather all your baboon faces from your baboon places
And we'll get our AKs and have our way
When the race war comes, we'll end it all in the matter of a single day
Triple K
That's who you're fucking with
White...
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Slam poetry is the lowest form of troll
>>7643285
I love Moonman too Anon.
Who else is only on /lit/ because their internet connection is too slow for anything but text and images under 1mb.
Hey George. Sorry to hear about Jeb! Hope you are having fun working on your amazing works of art.
-Sincerely, Patriots.
>>7643180
Australian here. I know that feel
4Chan users are a different breed. We have similar tastes. We need to stick together.
If you are a writer with Facebook or Twitter to promote yourself share it in this thread. We can work together on book reviews, retweets, shares & all that stuff. Be sure to announce follow back everyone from /lit/.
checkout the tinychat group /4chanlit
it might be for you
Hello $chan Literature, its is me, FatherDoubles. Let's have a discussion on my favorite book, Gravity's Rainbow.
The way Pynchon can spin a character around is great and phenomenall. My favorite character in this book would be Jason , and int he chapter when he goes into his friends house to talk about the milititary plans is both a supporting of Absurdity and postmodernism hilarity. I found it hilarious. But, as with usual, this only ,y opinion.
Please post in this chat you favorite chapter of the book that you did read and laugh while reading. Thanks...
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epic thread dubs. you high again?
Hey iq, fuck you. Stop making threads of me.
- fr dubs
Where is clover? I miss the fuck out of her - guys everywhere
I just finished my novel.
The final line is trite, sentimental garbage.
Help!
She needs more defined knees.
>>7643041
>The final line is trite, sentimental garbage.
Just call it New Sincerity
>>7643041
>needs help with last line
>doesn't post last line
>mfw
hey /lit/ i need your help finding a short story i read a long time ago. i'll greentext as much as i can remember if that helps
>everyone in the world is connected by invisible strings
>no one can see the strings
>one day the protag wakes up and sees the strings everywhere
>he himself is not tied to any strings, but everyone else is, and they don't notice
>he goes to his female friend's house and unties her...
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>>7642858
sounds like a cool short story, wish i could help
>>7642866
>cool short story
bro
>>7642858
String Theory
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Learned about this recently, strongly considering picking it up. Anything that I should read as primer beforehand, to perhaps familiarize myself with the events of the time?
[[epic /lit/ memes intensify]]
What does /lit/ think of contemporaries such as Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, and Jon Franzen? I never see any discussion of them on here, and I'm still building up a more classical literary base, but eventually I want to have someone I can talk to my friends about.
Opinions on the above authors mentioned, or other suggestions of contemporary authors that aren'tutter trash?
Eggers' short stories are good, but over any real length he wears on me.
Elena Ferrante was recommended to me recently, so I can pass on that rec (along with the advice to ignore the terrible covers)
>>7642565
>Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, and Jon Franzen
They're awful, especially Eggers. I haven't read any of them though.
Sorry to dump this stuff on you, /lit/.
I'm a fairly /lit/erate person, I'm not an idiot when it comes to writing (I do freelance for a paper, actually) and at my uni we're having a big assignment soon. I have to compare Romeo and Juliet to To Kill A Mockingbird by how the two contrast in the themes of fear and hope or love and desperation. Romeo and Juliet is easy, but TKAM? Literally nothing happens!
TL;DR I need some ideas for a comparative essay, help me, I beg of you.
>>7642261
I don't think any university would ever make you compare Romeo and Juliet to To Kill A Mockingbird.
>>7642267
well, it is. My professor is a hardass
>>7642261
Just mention how both TKAM and R&J present situations concerning hope in the face of the inevitable. TKAM has Tom Robinson, the black man accused of rape during a time when there was an enormous stigma against black people, with zero hope of ever being proclaimed innocent, while Romeo and Juliet fall in love and try to keep their affair going despite the mounting angers of both families. Both eventually climax in a permanent end, a death (of Robinson and Romeo/Juliet) voiding the entire story, ending the hope.
