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ITT: We describe mundane and everyday things with ridiculous embellishment or exaggeration.
I'll start;
It was hot that day and I became more perched with each step on my journey. By pure serendipity I came upon a dispenser of canned refreshments. This automatic vendor required money to be operated, which I duly presented. The machine purred and wheezed when I inserted the coin and pressed the button, yet no beverage came out. “Come on you bastard,” I said. There was no reply. Unrelenting, I proceeded to hammer the side of the device with the open palm of my hand. All while eagerly eyeing the product tray expecting the receptacle of liquid which would deliver me from my thirst. When no such reward presented itself I became increasingly frantic and desperate, hurling insults at the byzantine contraption that stood before me. After a short while it dawned on me that my efforts were fruitless and that I would need outside assistance in retrieving the prize within or at the very least reclaim my lost funds.
I proceeded to walk inside the establishment nearby which by all likelihood owned and operated this piece of faulty machinery. Expecting justice to be done I entered within...
>>7711095
>practicing purple prose
but why
>>7711095
I'd rather point out the flaws in your paragraph.
>perched
>misuse of serendipity
>palm of my hand. All while etc. should be part of the same sentence
In addition to those errors, I suggest you google "comma."
>>7711112
Oops, I meant parched lol.
English is not my native language and I'm trying to improve. Sometimes I do these types of things to try and improve myself.
how can i, anon, become "smart"?
be born with a genetically high intelligence and be raised by a family that nurtures that intelligence
>>7710635
i have a high IQ, but i never had that 2nd part so i'm effectively a retard
>>7710648
same
Whether its too soon or not, whatever. It's here if you want to share.
Share, offer advice, critique
>>7696739
>a poem
Amethysts comes pretty handy whenever you have to channel Christic vibrations....
Billy Mays Infomercial Transcripts 2001-05
(incl. esoteric exegesis by renowned Sufi cleric)
14.95 USD at Barnes and Noble
Clear Quartz irradiates Buddhic energies.
Paris attacks were a staged media event. no doubt no doubt.
As a Capricorn, I feel an instinctive attraction to Peridot.
The Role of Linguistic Fascism in the Liberal Cult of Transgenderism.
Zircon is linked to Chthonic forces and the Goddess archetype. This was widely known among the early Christians.
Should I make my place names real or fictional? I was thinking about basing most of my story in the French overseas collectivity Saint Pierre & Miquelon. No real reason why but it would allow me to use some nice Basque names and have beach scenes. Will I get sued by the 6,000 people who live there?
>Opening paragraph of my experimental novel
Entrance Boris. Light-illuminated Boris down at the table sat him. Fie, thought Boris. This one's a snoozer (Boris). Boris the newspaper is flips it up now reads it sees the article about the mayor coming to town. Light through the window reaches the eggs and the eggs in the light now Boris can see the salt and pepper on the eggs and the punctured yolk with the orange spilling and flowing and headed for the toast!
I'm curious, what does /lit/ think abut Immortality?
>>7715014
Haven't read it. Would you recommend it?
>>7715021
I enjoyed it but it depends on what you're into. At some parts it can be a bit slow but if you don't mind that I would say go for it.
Hey /lit/, what are some good books about cults? I'm interested in books about specific cults, the psychology of cults, or even books on how to run cults if there are any good ones around.
>>7714959
If you're on 4chan you don't have near enough charisma to start a cult. Don't kid yourself.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological Perspective
Anson Shupe, Susan Darnell - Agents of Discord: Deprogramming, Pseudo-Science, and the American Anticult Movement
Catherine Wessinger - How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate
Phillip Charles Lucas, Thomas Robbins - New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective
David G. Bromley, J. Gordon Melton - Cults, Religion, and Violence
Susan J. Palmer - Children in New Religions
Susan J. Palmer - Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions
Eileen Barker - The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?
>>7714959
the bible
the torah
the quran
Tell me, /lit/: Is there any reason to finish a work that you know is utter trash?
I have 50 pages or so of a novella I'm working on, and I hate everything about it. The characters are stupid and disgusting, the setting makes no sense, the concept makes even less sense-I've also lost any sense of enjoyment in writing it, and find it a painful exercise.
>>7714951
so you edit it to be less shit
are you retarded
>The characters are stupid and disgusting, the setting makes no sense, the concept makes even less sense-
I want to read this.
>>7714956
You're not seriously implying all works are salvageable, are you?
I don't think you realize how bad this novella is. I'm so bored with it I've forgotten most of what I wanted to do with it anyway.
i dont know if requesting books is against this boards rules so if it is please let me know so i can delete this thread
im looking for any books, preferably realistic fiction no science fiction or fantasy about existential crisis or angst. any emotional subject matter will do
something i could relax to, but get lost in. the more thought provoking the better
and having a physical copy be easily obtainable would be a huge bonus
thanks in advance
also i dont have a related image so enjoy some art by Analia Saban
>>7714935
Paul Bowles
Comfiest anxiety inducing American writer
Let it Come down
the Sheltering Sky
the Spider's House
Delicate prey
Pages From Cold Point
>>7714955
>Comfiest anxiety inducing American writer
just what i am looking for thank you
art by Ryan McGennisken
Hey boys
1/4
How's my library?
2/4
3/4
patrish af
What are /lit/'s thoughts on Atlas Shrugged?
There are like 5 threads a day on this.
>>7713880
Well, the title is good. That's about it.
edgy libertarian nonsense/10
Share your favorite poem
I'll start. I know mine's cliche, bu the reason i started this thread was to find some new poetry.
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Mine's a long one so I guess I won't paste it.
It's Allen Ginsberg's 'The Lion For Real'
I find it easier to listen to than read -
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Ginsberg/SFSU-1959/Ginsberg-Allen_05_The-Lion-for-Real_SFSU_02-27-59.mp3
>>7713576
That's only part of a poem
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
Do you agree with him? Does he have a point? Why does he hate Dostoyevsky so much?
He sounds like a retard
He was memeing you dips
>>7712894
Balzac, Honoré de. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes
Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing
Maupassant, Guy de. Certainly not a genius.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole
Nabokov : shit tier genius
>tfw have come to a point where I can only jack off to written erotic stories that specifically cater to my fetishes
>tfw there are no stories out there that really do, and the ones that do are terribly written
i never asked for this, bros
>>7712765
Describe fetishes, and I may be able to recommend some smut.
>>7712765
Stop jerking off every day you fucking fetishist dumbass. inb4 you're that vorefag who went ballistic the other night
how bout you start fucking people, son.
you should see my diary lol
>Say it to Father will you I will am my fathers Progenitive I invented him created I him Say it to him it will not be for he will say I was not and then you and I since philoprogenitive
What did he mean by that?
He was desperately communicating that he was a hack. Nobody listened.
>>7714734
nabby pls
>>7714728
I think an approach looking for concrete meaning is misguided. Stream of consciousness is based on the way our thoughts actually work, which in actuality, aren't always perfectly coherent, especially under stress.Quentin committed suicide the same day he had this thought.
That being said it's Quentin referring to an independent thought kernel, Father, and revolving associated thoughts and concepts around that sphere. Will you/ I will is clipped remembered dialogue, fathering his father is some freudian bullshit probably having to do with his inability to reconcile his love for caddy and his place in the family. Quentin is in a permanent struggle for dominance, one that he ultimately loses. Not just vs. time, but vs. his father and his sister's suitors. He loses. This thought clip is a reflection of that conflict in the half thought forms that flit through you in every moment. Philoprogenitive, meaning to be more successful in the fathering of offspring, is an extension of this. He wants to be more than his father, when ultimately, he will be nothing.
That's what I think. I read this about a year ago.
Was it rape?
>>7713978
yes, anally and vaginally iirc
Always is.
He rapes his sister, Pheobe
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