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Short story thread, post your short stories and get some advice from others
I'd rather not have you steal my story
>>8084583
"For sale: baby condom, never worn. "
Alright, give it to me guys. Don't hold back.
>>8084599
btw everything which you post on 4chan is lost, if you want to publish it as a part of a larger story or as a short story itself and they check its authenticity it will be found out that it was already posted on 4chan i.e. at best it already was self-published, at worst that it's not even yours
>book starts with a sentence fragment and ends with one related to the first one causing an infinite loop
>>8084564
is this a common theme among books that I have somehow missed or are you just being a shitlord
>book features an uneducated pleb narrator that is still more intelligent than the reader
>>8084569
>he hasn't read finnegans wake three times in a year
I've been going through the Booker Prize winners and shortlists for interesting reads. Just finished pic related and have Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Patrick White's The Vivisector, and Keri Hulme's The Bone People in front of me. Any others of note I should grab, not necessarily from the Booker list, but of comparable prestige?
Inb4 prizes don't dictate quality. I don't need the reminder.
>>8084547
The God of Small Things by Arundutti Roy (I think that's her name).The English Patient by Michael Ondaatji also won the award I think. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee was pretty influential in him winning the Nobel Prize, but I think he also won the Booker for it.
What do you think about the Booker Prize being open to non-commonwealth entries? I hear a South Korean took the prize this year after her novel was translated.
>>8084547
>Inb4 prizes don't dictate quality. I don't need the reminder.
Are you sure you don't? It sounds like you do.
>>8084582
I'm pretty sure that's Han Kang's book. I'm fine with it being outside the Commonwealth. It injects some much needed outside influence into the game. I've read both God of Small Things and English Patient, preferred Ondaatje really. Probably just because he reminded me a bit of Pynchon or Gibson. I've only read Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee, I'll have to check out his other work.
>be on car trip with family 2 years ago
>be on highway
>pass by busy exit
>at the time my nose was buried in I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
>get to the climax
>suddenly, my sister gasps
>apparently she had seen some motorcyclist's head broken open from an accident that had occurred just moments before
>mfw I was within a few hundred yards of a guy's sudden death whilst reading IHNMBIMS.
>>8084531
so what you're say is that you were reading "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" and your sister saw a man who had no mouth and wanted to scream, while you yourself felt you had no mouth but you wanted to scream?
Harlan, we know it's you posting these threads. Give it up. Nobody gives a shit.
And when are you going to get off your fat yiddish pudooshka and release "The Final Dangerous Visions", you fucking dog-in-the-manger? you've been sitting on other people's work for, what, over forty YEARS now?
>>8084531
I wish I could read in a moving car without getting motion sickness. Why is it that I don't have any trouble reading in a moving airplane? And the few times I've ridden in a train, I didn't read but I feel that if I did I wouldn't have had any problems, what's with that?
Grammar Q
I have seen this used in first rate writing, is it acceptable and how does it effect how the writer ends the sentence.
The dog was dead: its eyes were closed; its paws still; its nose dry:indicating it had stopped secreting the mucus which living dogs secrete constantly.
^ just off the top of my head so a bit nonsensical but grammatically OK?
>>8084474
Incorrectly copied from a grammar forum; the title of the post was colon within a colon, hopefully that explains things.
>>8084474
Yes and no. It depends on what you consider the proper usage of the colon.
>>8084474
absolutely not. even if you get off on a technicality it looks and reads like garbage. why is grammar so hard for people to understand
What's his catchphrase again, /lit/?
gabba gabba hey
> acid-green
> sez
>match qt on tinder
>"you talk so well and you use such nice words anon"
>"yea im actually a writer"
>"wow thats really cool"
>she unmatches me the next day
What went wrong /lit/?
>>8084409
you went to the wrong board firstly
As if you expect to find fillet mignon at 7-11
>>8084409
Did you refuse when she asked to see your writing? Or if you had been published? And also "using nice words" can be code for "you sound like an elitist prick".
she discovered the pseudonym you publish bestiality eroticism on amazon with
So I just started reading some Dostoevsky and I finished White Nights, and it's got to be one of the most beta cuck tier stories I've ever read in my life. Surely his other works are much better, right?
more like white knights
Dosto's works often have contradicting world views so most of his important works are actually wildly different from each other.
But you're a meme incarnate edgelord who can't empathize with feelings of weakness, loneliness, whatever. Most of his protagonists are confused intellectuals who do things like beg for God's forgiveness from whores, so no I would not recommend any Dostoevsky to you.
Maybe go play the new Doom if you want to experience some alpha Chad feelings vicariously, in fact most of modern literature will probably turn you off.
>>8084362
The excerpt from notes from the underground in american psycho made me want to read Dostoevsky, so I'm wondering if any of his novels sort of run in the same vein as that.
Do you rank him above Shakespeare?
>>8084294
Yeah undoubtedly, and I say that as someone who regards Shakespeare highly
nah man he's shit with reviews to prove it.
>>8084294
no. shakey did more for language than joyce.
Just pre ordered pic related.
It's Recordings of William S Burroughs reading his favourite parts of naked lunch over punk/psych instrumentals.
What's some other obscure literary paraphernalia that you own/are aware of?
I have these obscure things called books. The text goes onto them and then you read it off of them
>>8084242
where'd you pre-order that? I'm pretty interested.
>>8084242
I own a philosophers jumper for every day of the week.
Can someone please recommend good literature with a female protagonist who
1) is realistically & deeply complex
2) has a real character arc, either with some kind of heroic accomplishment or transformation, or genuine pathos
3) isn't primarily defined in terms of, or challenged by, gender roles / some aspect of womanhood (so, her gender is mostly or entirely inconsequential to her story)
I am having trouble thinking of stories that fit the bill
Can you think of male protagonists who aren't challenged by male gender roles?
Their gender is kind of inherent to their character.
>>8084176
>female protagonist
>realistically & deeply complex
pick one
>>8084176
oh god i want to cum on her feet
also, the miss marple novels
>inb4 wah wah genre wah
is Prague the most /lit/ city?
>>8084165
a fucking ROACH
paris, london or rome
oh my fucking god lit, a picture of dorian grey is so hard to read.
>>8084160
what? no it isn't
its actually one of the easiest book in the western canon
then again youre posting a /v/ image so you probably have a double digit iq
>>8084169
YES IT IS! go to like page 42 and 43. the way oscar wilde writes is fucking fucky fuck with my brain you fucking fuck.
The good book says that he that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword, said the black.
The judge smiled.
What right man would have it any other way? he said.
The good book does indeed count war an evil, said Irving. Yet there’s many a bloody tale of war inside it.
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
He turned to Brown, from whom he’d heard some whispered slur or demurrer. Ah Davy, he said. It’s your own trade we honor here. Why not rather take a small bow. Let each acknowledge each.
My trade?
Certainly.
What is my trade?
War. War is your trade. Is it not?
And it aint yours?
Mine too. Very much so.
What about all them notebooks and bones and stuff?
All other trades are contained in that of war.
Is that why war endures?
No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.
That’s your notion.
The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.
Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
EDGY or not?
>>8083991
great post
>>8083991
Its fine but stop being this assburguers and use punctuation, indirect dialogue or fucking use dialogue tags.
>>8084014
I didn't write it. It's like that in the book.
I'm looking for syntheses of Nietzsche and Marx. I'm not certain this exists, or that it is worth searching for. I expect insults to come my way.
Nonetheless, I have to ask, what is there that attempts to reconcile these two?
Is it even possible or worthwhile?
do you even think about the threads before opening them
>>8083950
What is the point of that image?
Also Michel Foucault is the most prominant I can think of, The Archaeology of Knowledge particularly which moves you to Gilles Deleuze
