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>he hasn't built a scene or description around using the word "palimpsest"
What do you even think you're doing? All the greats have done it, anyone with a smidgen of ambition has done it, and you -- you think you can get away with not doing this, kid?
get out of here with your antediluvian antics
>using the world palimpsest ever
all that tells me is ur a fuckin nerd who played a bunch of dungeons and dragons games on his pc computer
>>7708212
You're confusing it with 'fuliginous'.
Is it just a women thing or is it for all? Because being a straight man of 24 I genuenly enjoyed the Three Comrades, though it filled with platitude and has no interesting thoughs.
why are all straight men retarded?
>>7708163
What are you up to?
Do you keep something that's like a diary but not quite?
Say that you're inspired to write about your five-minute experience. You detail it in third-person and then store it. You may or may not ever say that the character is you. Over time you amass a collection of isolated micro-stories about yourself. That time you were paranoid, the moment you experienced six different pans while walking; whatever it might be.
Is this just disjointed memoir writing?
Seems like you have all the pieces for your puzzle. Time to put them together.
what's the diff between this and just ctrl-fing a regular diary with 'I' -> 'he'
I had a dream today where I found a comic book with stirner as a character and it had a whole bunch of illustrations of him and I was so excited to share it.
What are some books like the Iliad and Odyssey?
>>7708101
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Aeneid
>>7708101
Beowulf
ITT: Words that have passed fully into irony.
I'll start:
Wonderful
>>7708061
OP is totally not a fag
its all in the context
>>7708073
delete this now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kINdkdNOKHo
On Camus' Myth of Sisyphus. Cute watch :')
Thanks for sharingsincere btw
Are there any other pre-Lovecraftian spook merchants worth reading?
THIS IS NOT A THREAD ABOUT THE LITERARY MERIT OF B-LIST SPOOK MERCHANTS
Ambrose Bierce and Arthur Machen
>>7707970
Ta hun i'll have a gander
The collected works of Poe are worth reading once.
I read a book, I can't remember the name. Some or all of this might be wrong. Halp.
It's fiction.
Two people (female/male) knew each other as kids/teens. I think they lose contact and regain it later in life.
She's beautiful, I think at some point she's described as being essentially physically perfect.
I think the dude's job has something to do with the sciences, maybe he works in a lab.
At one point there's a description of why skin ages, it's fairly scientific. I think this kind of sciencey explanation of something happens a few times in the book.
The guy doesn't the girl out when younger.
There's something about how the girl is so beautiful most men are intimidated by her, so only a certain dickish type of man asks her out.
I think she ends up living in a commune or some hippy shit.
>>7707928
atomised
particules elementaires
>>7707929
Thanks, it's been bugging me all day. I love you.
>>7707930
i'm surprised you didn't remember it (or i guess you did in a way)
they're really good, nuff said
>writes detective novels
>name is printed bigger than the book's title
>once wrote under the pseudonym "Galt"
>awarded a "police star" by the cops in hamburg
>Wears rimless glasses in 2016
>fascinated by contemporary germany
>probably would have browsed /pol/ if he weren't 40
i think you wandered into 4chan good buddy
Anyone read Kybalion?
>>7707902
Nope. But I have read pic related.
>>7707903
interesting care to summarize/highlight?
>>7707902
Yes. It's not super but you need it if you want to know where Paul Foster Case was coming from.
I-is this legit? Was he joking?
http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/david-foster-wallaces-surprising-list-of-his-10-favorite-books.html
He wasn't "joking." He genuinely loved The Screwtape Letters, liked some Stephen King, and taught Thomas Harris. He simply listed his favorite pop fiction rather than his favorite works of literature. Obviously, if you know anything about him, though, it was literature that was more important to him.
>>7707932
/thread
>>7707836
inb4 nabokov-dostoevsky
What are some books similar to this about dehumanization and such? I want to write an essay on the subject.
>>7707802
Blindness by Jose Saramago
but it's also really shit too
bump
>>7707866
thank you
Lord of the Flies
The Metamorphosis
I never read any classics in school as a child. I to be honest, I can't remember doing anything in English classes remotely useful- but I read a lot. Mainly fantasy.
At university I stopped reading for a while, but a year or so ago I began again, found Ursula Le Guin and Gene Wolfe; from there I realized I was dissatisfied by a lot of the writing in the fantasy genre. Now I have looked into the authors they were inspired by; I have now read around Borges, Woolf, Dickens, and am now interested in reading War and Peace.
Come on then /lit/. I want to read this for the first time, and would like to know which English translation you recommend.
I've seen the shit flung at the fantasy genre for its bad writing, sometimes unfairly, but often it is justified. This then, should be an ideal question for you all. The book's already there- it's just a matter of which translation has the best prose.I still like fantasy. But realized that I also like writing for the sake of the language, and that, sadly, is lacking- especially in more modern fantasy offerings.
Briggs
Or the revised Maude's
Maude, no question
Learn Russian language, all the translations are a joke and you are practically not-reading Tolstoy but the translator
What a piece of shit. Read it on the toilet- I feel that my time could have been better spent staring at the wall
i think so too
>penguin classics for a contemporary autobiography
Genius or absolute madman?
>>7707735
He most likely paid them off.
both
moz always wins
the only book to get the Classics label on its first printing, Moz is hilarious
the book is actually pretty good as far as rock star memoirs go
it's witty and bitchy and occasionally has these bursts of profusive and melodramatic emotion
I knew it was going to be good from the first page where he goes off on this spiel describing how pathetically awful his thoroughly average English upbringing was. There's a bit about babies being "mercifully aborted" and spared the hell of life. Great stuff, classic Morrissey.
