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Post your anything you have written while drunk. Talking the truth means double points.

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I don't want to see these stupid and fucked up tearstained face again.

My first love, where are you hiding? I've beaten up your soul, I forgot.
You can't always get, what you want.

My best pal, why did I never found the self-esteem to search for you?
You can't always get, what you want.

My sister, why did you married these guy? Last minute panic?
You can't always get, what you want.

My fucked up dreams, why do you bother me so much?
I can't always get, what I wanted.
But I'd love to see: my high flying bird.

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Ich will dieses dümmliche und scheiß verweinte Gesicht nicht mehr sehen.

Meine erste Liebe, wo versteckst du dich? Ich trat deine Seele, habs vergessen.
You can‘t always get, what you want.

Mein bester Kumpel, warum hab ich nie die Kraft gefunden, dich ernsthaft zu suchen?
You can‘t always get, what you want.

Meine Schwester, warum hast du diesen Typen geheiratet? Torschlußpanik?
You can‘t always get, what you want.

Meine beschissenen Träume, warum quält ihr mich?
I can‘t always get, what I wanted.
But I‘d love to see: my high flying bird.
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>>7590716
Once upon a time
I came upon a crime
the crime it seemed to me
was your awful poetry
I took your ass to trial
and beat you by a mile
You joined the prison thugs
the judge and I got hugs.

-Darin Skeks
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>>7590726
Well, I laughed, so thanks for that.
I must apologize that I'm not the guy for peotry normally. But sometimes, when I just have the urgent need to express something, and I'm drunk, I try it anyway, although I don't really know about metric and so on. But that's why I don't named these thread 'Post your most aestetically poem'.
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If the archive wasn't fucked, I would find/post some dank limericks about hot dogs I wrote while shitfaced. I was writing one for part of a job application and drunk/stoned me got carried away with it.

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Do you have to be depressed to write well?

I think so.
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>>7591506
I think so.
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>>7591514

Well at least you're right.
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Nah. You have to have been depressed at some point in your life though.

your diary desu
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>>7589759
You don't want to read that depressing shit.
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I wrote a poem in my journal once that I liked. Posted it last month. I really don't keep up with writing in it as much as I should.

'find my icy bones
in the cold-drowned woods
where the air ceased breathing'
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>>7589775
No but I doLet's all cry together

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Name anything of merit or worth ever written by a Canadian.
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Anything written by Munro
>inb4 women
>inb4 short stories don't count
>inb4 Nobel who
>inb4 I can't read
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>>7588058
Why do so many funny people come from Canada?
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The secret prize on roll up the rim cups

Honestly I think Ondaatje is our best living writer but I haven't even read Munro or 90% of "can lit" so who am I to say? Rawi Hage is one of my favourite writers but both he and his books are decidedly hybrid Lebanese-Canadian. I guess being born in a war torn hellhole gets the literary juices flowing.

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>LAST READ
Augustus - Williams
Dryden's Aeneid
Invention of Morel - Casares

>CURRENTLY READING
History of Madness - Foucault
Why Read The Classics? - Calvino
Death of Virgil - Broch

>TO READ
War at the End of the World - Llosa
Scorch Atlas - Butler
The Female Quixote - Lennox
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THANKS FOR THE REPORT.

SEE YOU IN A MONTH.
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>>7587739
I WILL RETURN WITH MY REPORT IN ONE MONTH
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>what has been read
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Einstein's Dreams - Lightman (aka Invisible Cities: Reddit Edition)
Kitchen - Yoshimoto

>what is being read
The Sportswriter - Ford
The Moon in Its Flight - Sorrentino
A Death in the Family - Agee

>what will be read
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard
Chimera - Barth

ITT: we post our 2 favourite poets, writers and philosophers and we judge others. I'll start
Poets:
>Leopardi
>Mallarmé
Writers:
>D'Annunzio
>Dostoyevsky
Philosophers:
>Nietzsche
>Sartre
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>>7585444
You don't read a lot of philosophy

>Poets:
Rilke
Emerson
>Writers:
Joyce
Ovid
>Philosophers:
Shestov
Schopenhauer
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Poets:
Blake
Chaucer

Writers:
Tolstoy
Tacitus

Philosophers:
Plato
Heidegger

>>7585444
You've got a bleak outlook on life, but believe you can persevere through it.

>>7585463
You've got a bleak outlook on life, but believe you can sniff farts through it.
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Poets:
Crane
Donne

Writers:
Melville
Hawthorne

Philosophers:
Heidegger
Aquinas

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I am interested in this topic but I do not know where to start.
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>>7583065
start with the greeks
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>but I don't know where to start

Reddit is a safe bet.
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7th grade would be my guess

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What are some of your favorite opening lines from a book?

"You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born."

from "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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>KER-PLUNK! My turd slammed into the toilet water, showering my hairy ass with piss-water. In some act of divine mercy, the utter mess of chipotle-infused garbage I had eaten the previous afternoon had managed to solidify itself into one giant log, rather than tormenting me for hours as a greasy stew. I knew that this was somehow a lucky day. A red letter day.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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>O'er
>whisper'd

Why do poets do this bullshit?
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Because it was two hundred years ago
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>>7597245
Metre.
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>Over
2 syllables
>O'er
1 syllable

thas it

"I got worms, boy—had 'em ever since I was a kid. But I won't get rid of 'em 'cause I like the way they make my asshole itch." His hand came up to pat his belly. "I gotta drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of pizza pies and French-fried potatoes to keep a gut like this and all them little fuckers fed. I got a hairy ass and it sure cakes up crusty. But I just don't believe in wipin' when I got a freaky little son of a bitch like you to eat it out for me. HOWL"

I don't get it.
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>caring about the least interesting beat
at least kerouac was cute
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degeneracy
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I'm pretty sure Ginsberg didn't write this ...

Im looking for something in this genre what works well as an audiobook,or even better than reading it maybe.
Something like the house of leaves?

When I say like the house of leaves I mean something what gives you that creepy eerie feeling.But works well through audio.
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>>7597072
If there's a John Dies At the End audiological tape, then that would fit.
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I imagine that I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream would be good.

Definitely The Fall of the House of Usher. It reads like it was made to be heard read aloud. He even wrote the final phrase in all caps in the original script, ostensibly indicating the reader should hear it in a booming, horror-movie-preview-guy type voice. If an audio version included a couple key sound effects, it would really be terrific.
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>>7597082
That was a fucking awful film.

What /lit opinion on Henry Miller writings?
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>>7596899
One of the great moderns, on par with Joyce.
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I enjoyed the two Tropics and Black Spring
got bored with The Colossus of Marousi even though it's supposed to be one of his best
never finished Sexus. I wasn't all that impressed with it.

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What are your favorite uplifting, powerful or even violent poems? What poems fill you with awe?
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>>7596732
How many poetry threads do we need?
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>>7596735
I am truly very sorry my kind sir, excusez-moi, I shall no longer blatantly waste space that rightly belongs to your literary confessions threads.
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>>7596732
My favorite poem is the love song of j. alftred prufrock by T.S. Elliot. I don't really know why. It just is

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Ok so Ideologylit said they'd respond to all submissions by Jan 15th, and I haven't heard shit.

Anyone hear anything?

That prize is rightfully mine.
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>>7596531
Emmet, pls respond
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They shut down ages ago senpai.

Sorry
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>>7596758
Proof or it didnt happen

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Does anyone in /lit/ have their own Max Brod?
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No. I have no friends.
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>>7596685
Or slaves.
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No but I think my mom will be a Thelma Toole.

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