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She so wants that whatever on her head to be her dfw bandana trademark

>>7908818
mean post :(

>>7908803
is it true she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie to support her lit career?

I sure fuckin' hope not.

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>>7907211
that picture

Someone answer me plz

>>7907211
what character is this?

>>7904995
>Corncob Tortilla YeCarthy
>good prose

r/copypasta
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid?
u/prozac5000236d, 9h
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid? heh I remember when I was just like you. Braindead. Lemme give you a tip so you can make it in this cyber sanctuary: never make jokes like that. You got no reputation here, you got no name, you got jackshit here. It's survival of the fittest and you ain't gonna survive long on 4chan by saying stupid jokes that your little hugbox cuntsucking reddit friends would upboat. None of that here. You don't upboat. You don't downboat. This ain't reddit, kid. This is 4chan. We have REAL intellectual discussion, something I don't think you're all that familiar with. You don't like it, you can hit the bricks on over to imgur, you daily show watching son of a bitch. I hope you don't tho. I hope you stay here and learn our ways. Things are different here, unlike any other place that the light of internet pop culture reaches. You can be anything here. Me ? heh, I'm a judge.. this place.... this place has a lot to offer... heh you'll see, kid . . . that is if you can handle it...

>The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. It satisfies every childlike curiosity, every muted desire, whatever there is in him of the scientist, the poet, the primitive seer, the watcher of fire and shooting stars, whatever obsessions eat at the night side of his mind, whatever sweet and dreamy yearning he has ever felt for nameless places far away, whatever earth sense he possesses, the neural pulse of some wilder awareness, a sympathy for beasts, whatever belief in an immanent vital force, the Lord of Creation, whatever secret harbouring of the idea of human oneness, whatever wishfulness and simple-hearted hope, whatever of too much and not enough, all at once and little by little, whatever burning urge to escape responsibility and routine, escape his own over-specialization, the circumscribed and inward-spiralling self, whatever remnants of his boyish longing to fly, his dreams of strange spaces and eerie heights, his fantasies of happy death, whatever indolent and sybaritic leanings, lotus-eater, smoker of grasses and herbs, blue-eyed gazer into space – all these are satisfied, all collected and massed in that living body, the sight he sees from the window.

Nabokov

>>7899487
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, which is an assembly of some of the finest short stories ever written.

Lugones, Arlt, Bernhard... the list could go on

>>7899487
Absolute Love - Alfred Jarry

Let me just take the opportunity to recommend the novel "Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson. The ideas are great, the prose is smooth, and the plotline is rip-roaring.

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Bumping my request from last thread

Any fun military sci-fi with a waifu protagonist?

>>7899418
Ivory Javelin

I think I would do neither of those things.

Well sure that would be ideal to live with the love of life and all that it comes with pain and all.

one must imagine Nietzsche happy

This is only a few sentences, but I'd like to know if the writing is any good

He could see today that the girl was enjoying his readings. He had recognised the girl the first time she was in his class. He was familiar with that face, freckled, blue eyed and inquisitive and serene and her short dark hair. He had fallen asleep thinking about her.
One day she was sitting on the entrance steps after school had ended and the children had all gone home.
Has your mother not come to pick you up, he had said.
No, I don't know where she is.
He had downed a sizeable shot of whisky before coming out and finding her here, and it began to warm his empty belly and he felt a calm excitement, fiery, yet peaceful, peaceful. He looked out, beyond the steps where they were now standing, where the sun was setting in the greying sky, as the rain slowed down to a patter, and he felt moments, mere seconds pass by, knowing that what would come next would be a good.

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I posted a paragraph in a thread and people said I should write more. This is the first story I've written and so any help improving would be greatly appreciated.

http://pastebin.com/fubB54r2

I posted this in the other thread, I can post some more of it too if anyone's interested.
http://pastebin.com/4Jutzs7u

Dude, i was looking for some rad 80s movies to torrent for a nostalgia session and i realized that dude has had more movies made of his shit than mother fucking philip k dick and ya'll like dick so why u don't like king? shit he didn't even die yet either, living legend status, dfw will be forgotten, angsty tennis is not going to matter in the future, but spooky tales are timeless

How long has it been since king wrote a decent book?

>>7907955
I don't think /lit cares for movies. I don't mind King, I liked his weird western The Dark Tower up until Book 5.

>>7906528
i like this. where did it come from

>>7906528
i don't like this. please put it back.

Hope that means something to you because it is nothing to me

>>7906032
a raisin in the sun
their eyes werewatching god
anything by toni morrison
that frederick douglass book

>>7906032
Pimp Iceberg Slim

>>7906037
Seconding Pimp and adding Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed.

>>7906036
Trash propaganda

there's an extremely simple solution to your 'problem'

Most library books I get I reach about a quarter until I get bored. I rarely really get engaged in a novel.

everyone on lit does this

How many languages does Harold Bloom know?

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>>7900748

I'm a college undergrad (in a stem field) and will graduate in a few weeks. Although things could be worse, I feel a bit lost, hopeless and dazed in ennui. I feel numb and detached to almost anything and everything as opposed to my previous keen and more excited self. Maybe that's because I failed to build any meaningful relationships or experiences for myself in the past 4 years which have been pretty dull and uneventful.

Literature that deals with this feel? Is this a natural consequence of loneliness, cynicism and social seclusion?


Also, I am going to start stoner since I've heard good things from /lit about it. What should I go in expecting?

Is this the so-called new sincerity; has it finally found its place in commercial music culture?

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/twentyonepilots/stressedout.html

>I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But now I'm insecure and I care what people think.


Is that the new hot thing now or what?

>I'm writer.

>I'm writer.

>>7888682
>>7888683

I'm a writer (sorry)

>>7879498
What about you actually read Stirner.

>>7879498
>According to Zen, the ego is a spook.
>How would Stirner's philosphy change with this realization?
According to me, you're a majestic Canada goose.
How does your philosophy change with this realization?

I don't think you've read der einzige and his essay properly at all. Stirner understands that his own spook-casting-off methodology is itself spooky and that there isn't anything special about overcoming the spooks of others. He says that he must also be overcome, but he never implies that overcoming all spooks and then his own is some kind of transcendental humanist goal.

none. getting used to socialising will help your anxiety

>>7905110
Art of Seduction

>>7905146
/thread