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Hi bookfags. Like many of you, I use 4chan's various threads to answer many of life's questions.
From learning how to access the deep webz, to determining what the small bump on my dick is, you fags have always pulled through.
I'm dating an artsy chick and I'd thought I would write her a poem. I'm not the artsy type so I just want to know if this would warm a lovers heart?
>how do you search for something
>when you are still searching for direction
>a...
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That doesn't even rhyme.
If you're going to write poems, you better write about that bump on your dick, otherwise it's going to sound fake. If you think that's "gross" or something, better find another medium
>>7748445
>I'm not the artsy type
>write her a poem
Why?
The poems pretty bad, I'm sure she'd appreciate it still.
Can somebody good at English explain to me how the word "monkey" is pluralized as "monkeys" and not "monkies"
Nope.
Donke-
Monke-
Flunk-
Fann-
Trann-
The E in monkey makes it so that you can't rearrange it into monkies. It must be monkeys.
t. professional English speaker
>>7748434
To make it harder for people in the community to speak English good and get good jobs.
What are your thoughts on de Chateaubriand?
I just bought Atala and René.
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave are very good and often touchy
>>7748428
I'm currently reading "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" (book XV).
The prose is good, he lived a full life in an interesting age, and has met (till book 15) Louis XVI, Mirabeau, Washington, and Napoleon.
Here and there he omits something (like the part-time job as importer of socks, or smallpox scars in the passport under particular signs) for appearing cooler but are memories... it's like go at the house of a dude it's obvious that such dude tries to appear at his best.
I want read...
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>>7748428
I don't give a fuck what you just bought, tu faggot
http://www.vulture.com/2008/03/how_dirty_is_that_auden_poem_t.html
Greatest british poet of the 20th century
>tee-hee
Just finished reading this and if I did not have an enormous backlog of books I'd listen to the audiobook. I don't care if /lit/ thinks Gaiman is a 'meme writer' or something like that. If you liked your childhood, read this book. It's quick, it's easy and it' packs a lot of punch.
Gaiman isn't a meme writer.
He's just an ok writer who sells a lot of books and makes a lot of money.
Gamian is the 5est out of 10 that ever fived out of ten.
>>7748415
But that book was terrible.
>>7748443
Why do you think so? Not even trying to start an argument or call you stupid or whatever. I'm genuinely interested in understanding why someone would think this book was terrible.
what does DFW-esque mean?
Learn to read, the use of 'esque' there is contextual and doesn't imply any self contained meaning of 'DFW-esque'
Without any discernible talent.
>>7748417
shut yo pretentious doodie head ass up
Have you kissed Oscar Wilde's tomb yet?
>>7748407
>have you gotten aids yet?
>have you defiled a tomb yet?
no.
>>7748407
What a gay tomb.
Do you write with a fountain pen?
>I'm a venereal disease
>Like a menstrual, bleed through the pencil
>I leak on the sheet of the tablet in my mind
>Cause I don't write shit cause I ain't got time
>>7748406
>little baby tampon boy
Every time.
But anyway, I write with whatever's on hand because I'm poor af.
>>7748435
>on hand
at hand
what would you guys trade me for this??
>>7748367
i don't read snot language, so keep it.
>barbaric languages
>>7748367
who would translate Heidegger into german?
that makes no sense.
>footnotes in a footnote
>people refer to the endnotes in Infinite Jest as footnotes
>various pages long footnote
they're really not difficult to follow
What do you think about this?
>>7748269
retarded bullshit for 20-something artsy yuppies who are convinced that if they overcome their easily distracted minds they'll be the next Hemingway.
I'm writing a paper on McCandless and why I think he dropped everything to go into the wild. What does /lit/ think?
I think it was a combination of a psycho-neurotic tendency present in many young males, coupled with the fact he felt his parents were oppressing him, and the fact he seemed to be attempting to build upon his moral character.
his decision was obviously the result of a major existential crisis and disconnection from our modern society.
>>7748228
Same reason my cousin decided to go train hoping and couch surfing across Canada when his wealthy parents could have easily sent him to some pretty fine places.
>>7748228
Because he was a self-important retard who thought Walden was the coolest thing ever. Feeling disconnected from modern society is one thing, but throwing everything away to cavort around in the woods because you think it'll be "meaningful" somehow is straight-up retarded.
WHO IS THE LEAST EVIL COMMUNIST? FOR ME IT WOULD HAVE TO BE MAO ZEDONG
>>7748225
Obama
>>7748231
NAH OBAMA HAS GOT TO BE THE LAZIEST/IMOST NEFFECTIVE COMMUNIST
A great leap forward to a pit of misery.
/lit/'s opinion on this man? Is he as good as Gene Wolfe? Has anyone read any of his work?
guess not...
>>7748216
I have no read any books from either of the two authors, so I do not have an opinion.
What's the best contemporary literature? And by contemporary, I don't mean from the 70s or so. Like, what are ten books written in the last ten years that're worth creaming my /lit/-pants over.
PHILIP K DICKINSON
>>7748202
森見登美彦
>>7748202
Try the Tenth of December by George Saunders.
