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hey /lit/, any books similar to pic related? I really liked the religious theme surrounding the story. I'm thinking of "The Exorcist",
PS. No entry level reads, please. I'm done with Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and the likes.
>>8152766
what about Fuk- Off by Yuri A. kunt?
Lol I'm actually watching that as we speak.
>>8152766
Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer which is about how to hunt witches. The witches in the movie are basically what this guy thinks witches are in real life.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller which is about hysteria surrounding witch sightings, which is touched on briefly in the movie (I suppose you could interpret it in a specific way to make it spooky)
Have you read Dream In The Witches' House by Lovecraft? Thats pretty similar shit
Has anyone here ever had anything rejected by a publisher? If so, what did they say?
>>8152628
One guy knew by my writing that I was from /lit/
>>8152908
The highest compliment. I look forward to your publication.
>>8152628
The same 40 or so copy and paste emails about not taking on new clients or the novel not fitting with what they were looking for.
fuck 'em, i'll get there eventually
Name a time another time a corny genre fiction writer wrote down his descent into mental illness and sold it for profit as eloquently as he could.
I don't think you can
>>8152396
*Name another time.
Fuck I should drink some coffee
>>8152396
So he thought he saw some Ayy Lmaos while tripping on acid or something? And got it published?
PKD's entire life.
>Buy an almost complete set of classics (34 books, something like 60 authors ranging from Homer to Dostoevsky) for $100
>Faggot professors add a shitty twenty page commentary that could be found through a simple wikipedia or sparknotes
>Sells one of the classic's that I paid chump change for, for $60
so what nigger
>>8152624
>bumping an hour and a half old thread just to say this
>>8152630
first day on lit, he kiddo?
Symmetry is born from neutrality. At all medians, branches and roots extend. Insides and outsides. Tangible and intangible. Under. Over. Up. Down. This is basic, yes? This writing is typical, no? Questions within vagueness surrounded by analytics and rhetorics. But bury your head underground, and do you see any less? Or do your eyes simply hear less noise? Does your mind cease to imagine what happens to your body? In this case, what has become the roots and what are the branches? That cold blooded brain takes over and are you you anymore? Does the anticipation and uncertainty if what may become if your body drive your being into implosion? Slow down and let your eyes hear the nothing. Let your body see the warmth and the pain and the pleasure of entropy.
There is a part of the brain that can be given conscious control. Or more accurately, can be ignored consciously. This part of the brain--it's name isn't important, right? You have it. I do. Others do, we all do. Those who do this learned it without seeing it. And certainly never heard it--us responsible for your individuality. It creates that barrier in your eyes that tells you you are apart of everything and less a part of it. Abstaining from this function, your head buried deep, you no longer hear anything. Your eyes, your ears, skin, nerves, tongue, polarity, all of them hear nothing. But you still see. You see all that you've heard. You only know what you've heard.
Ahh, but you are neutral! Well, wait. You are neutral right? I mean, after all you aren't one mind are you? And you certainly aren't perfectly symmetrical. For perfect symmetry is one unit of neutrality. But you're a root! Or a branch? Yes, you're that! Not this, but that and certainly not that but this. And in any way, I'm more than certain you're not married. I know this because you aren't one mind! You're a neutral being, and it's a lovely gift to be unwed. To be but eyes between lovers and the despised, buried beneath the dirt with no eyes but sight. You try and see this but your love sees that. And that turns into this as the despised doesn't like being ignored. Soon the world is a whirlwind cooked under a thin crust.
Oh how fun it is to say soon. I've only ever heard it, and can't quite see without it. But even so, I've never really heard it. It was always an echo. And trying to see an echo, is quite something! Do you see it? It's there but it's not! A world dancing corporeal then incorporeal. A blink maybe? Oh who really knows. Your head isnt buried under the dirt. You don't hear anything. Or see. Youre in-between, and no where at all. Yet more buried than the dead man's head will ever be. Hearing a world in a pupil of neutrality.
>>8152263
why do this bad thing to poor doggy :(
>>8152263
Don't do drugs.
And make sure you double check your spelling cuck.
>>8152263
>does acid once
>*~*freEEeeeE YOUuUrrR MiiIIIinD*~*
If what you were saying was innately profound you wouldn't have to try to convince us with "intellectual" rhetoric
I don't like either of the current poetry recommendation charts and want to make a new one based on eras/styles/movements. Does anyone want to help?
I kind of get Dylan, but 2pac is just another meme, right?
>>8152108
>does anyone want to help?
not really but if you have questions i can answer
4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry
Taking a shot in the dark here, but has anyone read anything by Rainbow Rowell and what did you think?
The entire English department at my university is obsessed with Rainbow Rowell, and after about a year of people urging me to read this, I finally did, and I thought it was shit. It's like the Mumford and Sons of books or something.
Transfer to a better school
>>8151827
I have no idea how I uploaded a pic of John Cena instead of the book I referenced, but this is the book I'm talking about.
>>8151827
>is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels
Her first name really is Rainbow and she writes YA. That ells you what it should tell you.
So was Meursault always an absurdist?
Or did he become absurdist when he knew he was going to get executed?
>>8151781
Nihilist-turned-absudist
>>8151781
Yes, you can tell by the whole arab part.
>>8151781
idk famm but 2bh it was pretty good nigga
Was Mr. Dubois wrong about literally anything?
Starship Troopers general I suppose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKftiJS30Cs
This is the best sci-fi if there was a sticky for sci fi this would be the pic. Fuck he did a good job on this book for its day.
The novel is a fascist piece of shit.
What do you guys think of Alan Moore? I really enjoyed his Crossed series.
>>8151545
I actually like him more nowadays, since he started writing prose and became a half-mad hermit. Voice of the Fire/Providence > Watchmen/V for Vendetta. And hopefully Jerusalem will be the best yet, though I dunno what he's on about with that cover.
the lost girls is my favorite comic of all time. shit had me in stitches. especially the family that all fucked each other and had the dog humping a leg while they were running train lmao
All literature is, in fact, literal magic.
Discuss.
ohhhh haha now I get why thomas pynchon is so wacky
>>8151227
Is Gaddis, Gass and Pynchon the ultimate meme-trio of writers?
>>8151546
stfu
What does /lit/ think about Philip Larkin?
Studied The Whitsun Weddings in high school. Didn't like all of it but some of them were really good and I still think about them sometimes.
>Why did he think adding meant increase? To me it was dilution
Why do people think he's racist?
I think I remember studying 'Toads' and 'Toads Revisited' in Sixth Form. They were okay. Very political though, which I didn't like so much.
couldn't get past the first page. what a giant pile of insufferable bullshit. my God is it ever boring. what is it even about? why the fuck does he have all these pictures and graphs. utter trash.
You got memed
Is this guy worth reading?
I honestly got interested on him while watching Aku no Hana since poetry never was my cup of tea.
I'm going to my nearest bookstore in a couple of hours and books in my country are expensive as fuck so I'd be very thankful if some good-hearted /lit/izen could enlight me about this.
Yes. He's fantastic.
Lots of people criticize him for being gloomy but they are filthy optimists.
I'm not usually one of the ">reading translations" people but I could never find English translations of Baudelaire that were half-decent. If you have any French knowledge whatsoever, I'd recommend reading the English translations of his poems side-by-side with the original French.
>>8151083
Read it in French or don't read it at all.
Should I read The Odyssey before Ulysses?
Does it make any difference reading Joyce's other work before Ulysses?
You should read the Odyssey before any other western book, actually.
>>8151066
Should I read Illiad first or?
