>>7789640
No not at all finish the book retard

From what I've been able to gather, this means one of two things:

1) They've rejected it and forgotten to tell you
2) They're genuinely considering it for publication

If it's been SIX months, double their standard response time, it's fine to go ahead and send them an email asking about the status of the story.

no 1 wants to read ur biography of ur gay orgy's dude....

>>7789629
This happened once, and I ended up being rejected, but they gave me a good response.

>>7789624

>

A tree cannot produce its fruit year-round.

Write only when you want to write, or else you'll end up shitting all over sheets of paper to hit arbitrary targets.

>short stories
>valuable

>>7789624
Where do I find essays?

I saw that on reddit too xD!

>>7789623
I hoped in vain at least /lit/ will not fall for the anti-reddit meme because /lit/ wouldn't be visiting cringeworthy bullshit corners of reddit next to all the great academic ones.
/Lit/, please stop with reddit stuff. We're not /tv/.

>>7789673
how's it going reddit

Nothing can save you.

Immersive/fun books to distract
>Watership Down
>Hobbit / Tolkien
>Narnia
>The Black Company
>John le Carre (can be a bit depressing)
>Gene Wolfe

Books to find meaning if the usual existential shit doesn't work
>Emerson's Essays / On Nature / + American Transcendentalism in general
>Tennyson (In Memoriam)
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>>7789609
be a man and embrace it. then, again, you're almost certainly just another troll that doesn't even understand what the term existential means, so...
saged

He is free to be a scoundrel and he choses to be one.

>>7789590

The intellectual (or hyper-conscious) person cannot act except in contradictory terms since he understands the perspective of the Other person that he is expected to be in opposition with. As D states: "t was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot...
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>>7789590
Nobody else felt embarrassed. He had to be embarrassing enough for the whole world. I typed that as a joke, but it's sort of interesting to view him as a savior figure now that I think about it.

juss get an e-reader and download every version like me

Its the version that includes an alternative ending: .k. Is a nazi vampire

>>7789537
The Castle was unfinished.. The regular version of The Trial is pretty complete within itself. I wouldn't bother with some kind of hashed-together updated edition if i were you, it will probably only detract from the experience.

King Lear. It turned me from a normal happy human being into JUST

>>7789405
>I think it's really eye-opening
>but never mind why
>>7789848
>but continue to never mind why

>>7789405
it's pretty great, I keep coming back to this book every year or so just to refresh my head even tho Crimethinc havent released anything better. Some years ago this was the bible of the anarchist scene in my city.

>>7789905
It's really making me question my own moral ethics and beliefs

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Goooood Jab! I'm a faggot! I love boys with big penis

>>7789378
John Green, Stephanie Meyer, Ready Player One, and other shitty authors because Salem is shit.

An author equivalent of Salem needs a nickname instead a human name.

And self-published.

>>7789380
very nice

I'm reading it at the moment, the hardest part is all the references to Flemish painting and religious stuff. www.williamgaddis.org/recognitions/ will help for any references you're stuck on. You should be fine though, go for it.

>>7789376
Grasping its symbolism and messages and references is extremely difficult, yes, but most of the time the prose isn't too bad. I would recommend reading it ASAP. You should also check out Gaddis' chum--William Gass.

>>7789414
>>7789434

Thanks for the replies, lads. Nonetheless, one last question:

Between The Recognitions, Hopscotch, The Tunnel and Infinite Jest, which one would you indicate me?

>>7789343
>Did the man change his environment, or did the environment change him?

That's not a paradox because both can happen and do happen in this case. They're not mutually exclusive.

Christians are taught this with a bible passage as well: Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

>>7789351
Interesting, thanks.

I've got one more: Is there a paradox involving an inability to trust one's own mind?

>>7789326

Probably Poe.

>>7789399
Then Coleridge.

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>>7789318

>Yfw

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The tarantula rattling at the lily’s foot
Across the feet of the dead, laid in white sand
Near the coral beach—nor zigzag fiddle crabs
Side-stilting from the path (that shift, subvert
And anagrammatize your name)—No, nothing here
Below the palsy that one eucalyptus lifts
In wrinkled shadows—mourns.

And yet suppose
I count these nacreous frames of tropic death,
Brutal necklaces of shells around each grave
Squared off so carefully. Then

To the white sand I may speak a name, fertile
Albeit in a stranger tongue. Tree names,...
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>>7789318
I love that OP