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Can someone please translate this piece of text that's in Armenian, into English for me thank you
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The pleasure of being cummed inside
>First things you do when you buy a book
I always check to see what percentage (kindle) it ends on. Generally the last 20 or 30 percent are Notes, Index and References etc.
Look through it
then I tend to read it
>>7985764
ugh, e-readers? i like to feeeeeel the book, sniff it a bit, take it out to dinner, make it feel special. then i take it home and make passionate love to it. i love the feel of the paper cuts on my dick. i love the smell of my seamen on an old, yellowing book.
>>7985764
I cut the pages at my university press
Hello again fellow wordsmiths and literary maniacs,
I humbly beseech you with a co-author request for a short 250pg 6x9" paperback and ebook to a book dedicated to the life of the Tile Lover of /v/.
That's right you read that right a book is in the process to both examine the life of a "tile fetishist" and tell such a creatures life story.
Classified in the biography-fiction section or "Tile Pattern Erotica" section of any library near you - that's right, there's no shame in exposing the tile lover.
At any rate, any of...
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I'm looking forward to working with you on this comedic and utterly cringe piece of modern art.
Stay on /b/
>>7985753
Staying on /b/ is extremely mentally unhealthy for the most part.
As moot so eloquently put it: "/b/ is the nuthouse."
Since there is some real comedic and cringe elements behind "The Pattern" I thought my friends here would appreciate, I had to share.
You know I'm on lit, pol, x, and g more than i'm on b and remember, we're gentlemen on this board.
Anyone read Master and Margarita? If so what did you think? I liked it a lot. Also anyone have any citable essays or critics writing on it/context or Bulgakov himself?
As a russian I really appreciate him for being one of the easiest/lighter classics of my motherland. I really loved his use of devil related lexis which ironic as hell. And his henchmen are just great
I just made it to the scene where Woland gets rid of the theater director. I'm butchering the names but it's pretty good so far.
>>7985641
awful cover
Which works of literature will best let me understand neurotypicals?
>>7985605
The Peaceful Pill Handbook
>T.S. Eliot
>smelly prose
>T.S. Smeliot
literally wtf is The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock anyway?
>muh obscurantism
>>7985580
Who the fuck are you quoting?
>>7985580
I'm shit at poetry but found Prufrock totally accessible.
>>7985615
I can either take it for its face value projection of a creative introvert's (borderline autist's) take on the world and social conventions (with of course the quintessential 'I'm a good poet look at me' crap grinded into this exalted nihilist mortar). Or a means to which Eliot soon found amusement as the masses rushed to decode just why the fuck he put an extract from Dante's Inferno in his poem. Touche smeliot
Do I necessarily need any prerequisites on Nietzsche to take anything of value out of pic related?
And if so, where would you recommend to start?
I just started reading it and I'm already struggling with the concept of the Übermensch.
>>7985575
the greeks
Your reading order is all whack if you start with that one! Start with Human, All Too Human
The Twilight of the Idols may follow, I don't have a good copypasta right now
>>7985593
I think Twilight of the Idols is a better intro to his thought, HATH is loaded with good stuff but can get tiresome. I particularly liked his advice for writers and how in the first fifty or so pages he basically writes out the entire basis of Freud's body of work.
>sci-hub has been dead for a couple of days
>>7985527
http://sci-hub.cc/
Can authors have a respectable family life? I ask because I'm 26, have a 3 year old daughter and find myself having constant conflict between my writing time/freedom/space/quiet and the pressures of my gf and child (to be honest its more the gf than the child) ie. constant moaning about never going out together and doing family stuff , even though I do, constantly belittling my writing attempts as pathetic, ie. I'm not living in the "real world". I should add she tricked me into a child and I've been living with the consequences ever since. You guys know how hard it is as a starting off writer with many failures and rejections and the criticism I get from home isnt helping, also I feel trapped and held back by chores, I am wondering whether I should break ties and move on. Honestly this thread is not a joke, I'm happy to provide further details but looking for honest advice please.
No I hear you OP. I'm in a similar position myself. I'm currently worldbuilding for my first novel and having a kid to look after really does distract me so much, it's hard to stay on track. Sometimes I'll be 'in the zone' writing some really epic part of the book and my wife's son will come in and ask if he can 'axe me a question' which of course I always do. But then when I try and get back to my writing I forget where I was and have to wait until inspiration strikes again. Good luck you my man.
I think you should grow up and be a family man.
There's like a 99.999% chance that your gf is right and that your writing attempts really are pathetic.
Just being totally honest.
>>7985525
post some of your writing so we can know if you should actually keep doing it
What are his books about and are they worth reading?
>>7985508
he started the 'start with the Greeks' meme.
they're all about his mongoloid conception of greatness. They essentially all diverge on greatness.
And no, they are absolutely not worth reading
>>7985510
That was Goethe, whom Nietzsche admired
Hey /lit/, I know you're supposed to have an outline for a story before you begin writing, but my only problem is I'm not exactly sure how to make an outline. What should an outline look like and have in it? What do your story outlines look like? Have any tips for making outlines? Thanks /lit/
Pic kind of related?
Write a logline. In about 25 words, identify the protagonist, his situation, and what challenge he faces.
Figure out the word count you need. This usually depends on the market you plan to submit the story to. Say a magazine wants stories of about 4,000 words.
Work out a three act structure. It's actually four acts but whatever. Each of these should be about equal in length.
Act 1: 1,000 words
Act 2A: 1,000 words
Act 2B: 1,000 words
Act 3: 1,000 words
There are plot points you need in or between each act, but that's a bit much to...
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Simon pegg uploaded a picture of worlds end following the monomyth. That might help if you're familiar with it. Shouldn't take much googling to find it.
ITT: we post great modern thinkers of our time.
>>7985475
u fuken kiddn me m8
I dig David Tacey. His books are expensive af though.
How many of you steal books? I see a lot of greentext stories of people doing so on here. For you book-thieves, do you think you are justified in doing so? Where do you steal from?
bookzz.org, completely justified
physical book theft isn't even an issue, I just go to the store and read the book then leave if I want it that badly
https://xkcd.com/294/
>>7985468
I fucking love this one. The way you start to feel and then with the very last panel and that NO and that fucking face! Gets me every time.
Yeah I do. I bring a backpack to book stores that don't have security cameras, and when no one is around, I take whatever I wanna pick up, store it in the backpack and leave.
The last book I stole was Persuasion.
Hey /lit/ I have a big final tomorrow which is over this book, and some others. Hardest book we read this semester so any major themes or concepts I need to remember?
Do your own homework, faggot.
>>7985474
It's called getting other people's interpretations and ideas, nothing wrong with that. Besides I thought the book's great, and will have no trouble discussing it.
>>7985467
decline of the Southern Aristocrat family
dysfunctional family drama
incest/doubling
nihilism - from Mister Compson and from the title
race relations
Christ figure stuff with Benjy
more Christian themes in Reverend Daddy's sermon
futile male attempts to control female sexuality
who's an idiot? (hint who tells the tales? yes, even Harvard boy with the big vocabulary is an idiot in a way)
How hard is JR?
Incoherent dialogue. You need a notebook to remember who's talking.
>>7985405
not very difficult if you have any perception at all
