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post 'em
r8 'em
My bookmark of choice
Why would you want to look at photos of torn scraps of paper?
Write me a rhyme about sleepless nights. Make it very emotional and about struggle.
oh sleepless nights - where all my best thoughts come
what a shame that I've never had one
>>7527758
nigger your english teacher needs a gun in a mouth. Please give me some Shakespearean shit to give my year 3 teacher.
>>7527772
it's just my style
I'm suffering from minor social anxiety. I can go to store and walk through crowded area with no problem. My problem is that i still feel little anxiety when i try to express myself to the fullest. I really want to not give a shit about other peoples opinions and judgments.I'm looking for a book that will ease my suffering with this problem. My goal is that i can embarrass myself in public without no problem. Like some hobo who talks weird stuff to people. What would you recommend? The book can be a religious, philosophical, or some self help text. Thank you.
To end up like that hobo you need to be schizophrenic, just take acid, ketamine, speed, coke and crystal meth as much as you can in 2016
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
>>7527601
>My problem is that i still feel little anxiety when i try to express myself to the fullest.
CONGRATS ON BEING JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER SENSIBLE HUMAN BEAN.
I understand this might be a difficult or even bizarre question, but how does one go about enjoying literature?
Another way of asking this is: have you always enjoyed reading, and has the enjoyment always come first, or did you have to learn in some sense how to enjoy literature?
Finally, could you recommend some passages you found/find particularly rousing, and describe what/how they make you feel?
For some personal context, I have recently begun reading non-fiction voraciously (I am young and have recently found that I am interested in learning about...
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>>7527387
Any thoughts are appreciated, I'll probably repost this tonight since this is apparently a slow board at a slow time of day.
>>7527387
i would "fuck" her if you know what i mean
>but how does one go about enjoying literature?
do you not realize how retarded that question is?
>but how does one go about enjoying opiates?
>but how does one go about enjoying ice cream?
>but how does one go about enjoying buttplugs?
there's no process to enjoyment. you just do or don't.
Anyone in /lit/ has ever read this austrian nigga? What yall think bout him?
Don't see much about him over here and I think /lit/ would enjoy.
The Loser was pretty bad. I see why spergs would find identify with his boring and misanthropic view.
he is pretty good and his prose is nice
Extinction is his best book
Any slow readers here that managed somehow ro overcome that problem without taking medicine to help their concentration problems?
Pomodoro apps
3 minutes per page
Used to take ritalin 3 months ago, now I read at least 50 pages a day, depends onhow much I wanT. Yesterday i've read 75 so I could finish Ancient Celts. Back then it'd take me an hour to read 10 pages.
>>7527284
Have the pills negatively effected you or your thinking in any way?
How much do you take? How much do you pay?
>>7527262
Just kill yourself, you retarded frog posting idiot
Canadians of /lit/, how do we save the culture of our country's literature? Besides Margaret Atwood and Alice "Our Chekhov" Munro, the rest of the world literally gives zero fucks about what Canadians have written since the confederation, even when we hold the most land area of any country after Russia. The emergence of great Canadian literature would be the final step to finally establishing ourselves as a GOAT nation.
dude weed lmao
if those are the only 2 canadian writers you know, you should consider reading more.
>>7527114
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_writers
Want to submit my short story to as many literary magazines/journals as possible, list the ones I don't have to pay to submit that you'd recommend. I think this could be my magnum opus.
Have you ever been published in a literary magazine or journal, /lit/?
What kind of story is it?
Perhaps you should try duotrope, also.
http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines
fuck off
>>7526818
Sorry, that's actually a pretty good question and I should have specified that duotrope isn't exactly helping. I suppose I'd consider it experimental or metafiction based on its style but thematically or storytelling-wise it might creep into surrealism. The sort of thing someone writes after spending a year or two devouring postmodernism and then rebelling against it. I can envision lots of fiction editors appreciating its merits but saying it's not for them.
You are condemned to read one book for the rest of your life, name it /lit/?
>protip: don't think about it, just the first one that pops into your head
the bible
that was easy
war and peace
>>7526797
Don Quixote
What books accurately portray the thoughts, emotions, and struggles of women? Books that help you empathize with women?
The game by neil strauss
Ready Player One
>>7526712
Anna Kavan
>be reading book
>enjoying it
>browse /lit/
>book gets shat on
>quit reading book
What book
>enjoy books
>start browsing /lit/
>do not enjoy books anymore
>keep reading anyway in order to be able to argue about them
What book
How's your novel, everybody?
Also accepted
>chapbook
>short stories collection
>blog
>tfw have lots of ideas but don't have the discipline or experience to execute any of them properly
I'm still blogging, and have a few readers, but there's no sign it's going anywhere. Posting shit to reddit gets me a few thousand hits when I do, but again, I don't see how this is ever going to get bigger than it is. If I don't change, I've peaked.
>>7526350
Have you tried adderall?
>>7526360
Not that guy, but I've seriously considered it. I have a pretty big portfolio of commissioned work, but when it comes to sitting down and really writing something I can't focus for shit. I was always afraid it'd impair my creativity, though.
What do you do while listen to audio books?
go qt-watching on the subway
>>7526229
at subway*
>>7526241
False
On the subway
Why is philosophy such a pain to read ? I'm a curious mind and I've read about anything from scientific books to ordinary novels, yet I can't bear philosophy books and it actually makes me cringe. I feel like I'm reading a purged version of a novel with only definition of a subjective point of view. However I really have difficulty understanding why I feel this way and how to correct my point of view.
What books specifically? Some philosophical texts are easier to digest than others
Because you're reading obscurantist pseudo-philosophy from pretentious continentals.
>>7526131
I've been trying Antechrist from Nietzche, the Capitol from Marx and I remember reading Kant.
It feels like I'm just mindlessly reading a chain of ideas meaninglessly, and there's a sense of the work being incomplete as if I was just reading a skeleton. It also often seems pretentious and unilateral. I've also however read fictions from Platon and they felt like any ordinary novel.
How is it possible that the best novel of the 21st century is a largely unfinished work about tax law and middle America in the 70s/80s?
Is the state of literature really this dire?
*pushes you over*
What'd you say, BITCH?
>>7525923
Its not possible, because the best novel of the 21st century yet written is actually about literature professors, the life of an author and murders in a city in Mexico.
>>7525923
That garbage wouldn't even make a top 100
