/lit/ - Literature

>>3907940
I sincerely apologize if that's like cliche or sorandumb or something. I'm new to writing and I thought that naming a character Pepsi was kind of interesting. Haven't read Pynchon much, except for the first half of Lot 49, which I need to finish sometime. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read my shit

Pepsi Garcia is not well. His chest is covered in vapor-rub and used Kleenex surround his bed. A tall glass of opaque orange juice sits next to his glasses on his nightstand. He’s coughed up what felt like a metric tonne of phlegm and his nose is leaking like a broken faucet.
In rough times like these, he avoids going to the doctor. He believes it isn’t worth the mental and monetary cost. The mental cost is the anxiety associated with the master-slave dichotomy that he associates with the whole doctor-patient rapport. To Pepsi, it was like turning a short story he wrote in to a college professor, who happened to be someone like Thomas Pynchon. Turning in a part of your pathetic Self to be harshly judged by a master of their craft. And in the case of the doctor, he was literally turning his physical Self to be judged by what he imagined to be complacent nods, knowing smirks, telling sighs of a doctor who regarded him as one of many Selves turned in, nothing more than grease in the apparatus that was his career.
The monetary cost is about $107.
It was precisely 1100 hours when Laura pulled into the guest parking garage of Pepsi's apartment complex. She had with her a brown paper bag of several VHS tapes with titles written in a sort of Sharpie calligraphy. She got out and felt the frigid bitterness of the autumn air. Something smelled smokey – like burning leaves.
Pepsi heard the doorbell ring and quickly sat up, then cringed at the chest pain that comes with doing so. He walked slowly towards the door, enduring two more ringing blasts of the doorbell, then mustered the strength to open it. The aforementioned frigid – or perhaps this is what people called crisp?- bitterness of the autumn air slammed into his face. Laura walked in, practically hugging the bag, and took a seat.
“Yo. I heard you were sick so I brought some merchandise that we could watch together. I managed to snag a copy of Sorry All Over the Place and a few other gems.”
Pepsi rubbed his head. “Yo yourself. And I appreciate the sentiment but I'm fine. I think a little atonal jazz and dry toast will put this cold behind me.”
Laura frowned. “Come on, I take all the time to drive here and you blow me off like this? Don't be an asshole. I'm staying whether you want me to or not. Oh, and by the way, Spencer wants to see you when you start feeling well.”
“Oh Christ. What does Spencer want?
“Don't know. His tonal incantation kind of made it sound urgent, so I would feel well soon if I were you. You know Spencer.”

portrait of the artist as a gay man by tybrax

>>1430835

>book IIII

>>1428442
Because people lie doesn't quite make it a troll. There's a difference between that and using it to make people angry. Rand is the best definition of this.

It's meant to modernize race. Isn't the modernization of race issues to bring attention to them to learn not to repeat the past and quit inhumanity against other races?

Ignoring political correctness and assuming that the message itself is more important than not offending someone, doesn't something as simple as an ethnic slur say much more?

>>1428368
If you're going for most talked about, I suppose that's good, but realize half of most talked about are good books and the rest are constant trolls by /lit/ or things to claim to reading to lead to pretension/status.

I would not read a book based on a game.

That is all. Because it is a game does not make it special. I would rather play it because, infact, most game settings/stories are shitty. This does mean they aren't enjoyable, but they aren't in any other form.

Shatlas rugged

finite in jest

Day of the Triffids

>>1426521
What defines quality? It's an abstract that requires an opinion. Even lauding critics for something still does not mean a work is inherently good quality, if we can define that.

>>1425676
Hey I'm on this sorry road too. ... I think I've grown numb to existentialism.

Asking /lit/ for a writing opinion is to ask a dictator whether or not he likes your new political philosophy.

Isn't the importance of race in the 21st century to get over racism? How will denying that the issue exists - or existed via censorship fix the social issue?

If anything, taking a name away from something will only make it more present as an idea.

>And why was I required to read this?

Because the morality of children is innately evil and abusive. It is deductible that even in blank slate ,we are innately evil and abusive.

At school did you read any good books

The only city school system that banned brave new world over accusing it of being racist towards indians by use of the word savages

Yes, the best city in the country no doubt. It's cold out and it's going to rain the rest of the week. Why is it great, exactly? I can't figure this out and I live here.

/a/ shit

>>1419543
Sorry, I meant that decent translations AKA not nazi sponsored probably aren't the internet, but regardless

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/n

Scroll down and find Nietzsche (durr). It should have everything by him that's public domain.

The translations available as public domain are probably the ones done by the third reich

If you can look for the Walter Kaufman translations

Your life is already sad, why do you need a book?