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>> No.6252773 [View]

Getting on With James Urbaniak

it's a really good podcast

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>>6252299
>not writing adverbially

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>>6237567
Grandma Grandma your so cool
you do aerobics in the pool

you drive a giant Oldsmobile
with a great big steering wheel

and play with all your grandma friends,
bridge, mahjong, and rummy-gin

you have a thousand plastic bags,
you've stashed among the kitchen rags,

and when blow your runny nose,
it's in your blouse the tissue goes

Grandma Grandma your my pal,
sorry I used the guest room towels.

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>>6235327
Pynchon's still pretty much the boss of the English language, even with his recent stuff taken into account

no writers have exploded that I'm aware of, but maybe I'm not as hip as I think I am.., no, no I'm really hip, I can say with certainty that no writers have exploded on my watch

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>>6235186
whatever homo, the movie is patrish at it gets, anyway you need to go back to /b/ with that reddit shit, like it's fucking 2009 in here

>> No.6235269 [View]

>>6235224
Il Miglior Fabbro was a platitude offered to a great discerner of talent, a magician who knew how to shoot stars to their rightful place

>> No.6235221 [View]

>>6235134
Like 24 or so.

>> No.6235218 [View]

>>6234416
T.S. Elliot is like literally, literally the only poet worth reading.

Literally.

And he's not even that great either, he just looks fucking hot compared to clowns like Wordsworth.

>> No.6234551 [View]

You might like flatland. It's a story about geometry... and love. .

http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/
You might also check out this guy. I'd recommend the short story As Above So Below, it's about the Mandelbrot set

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>>6216170
you realize she is probably your mother right, and the people you think are your parents are your grandparents

>> No.6231258 [View]

>>6231167
no way, lit is either the guy whose roommates don't even realize he is there until he disappears leaving a bunch of cryptic postcards as grand statement that every one forgets almost immediately, or that autistic guy lurking the book shop talking his JFK assassination theories

or that guy forcing his friend to read Joyce as he throws his possessions of a bridge

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>>6229698
I shan't ever tell you. But know this; my reasoning on the matter is unimpeachable.

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>>6229519
no it is terrible

>> No.6229578 [View]

>>6229441
It's a scene establishing Brigadier Pudding's (the WWI officer in charge of the White Visitation) psychological axis after his calamity at the battle of Passhendaele, and why he is so incompetent/impotent in managing the White Visitation (paranormal/psychological warfare research), and how Pointsman (the evil Pavlovian) was able to thrall him and carry on with his sinister Pavlovian plans.

Plus including such a aggressive and disturbing scene helps keep the puritan riff-raff away, and honey traps philistine moralizers on award committees.

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>>6226470
no good books were published, probably a good one was finished at some point, but that probably wasn't published

>> No.6226725 [View]

>>6226439
the 4th 5th of Lolita is the worst, the last part picks up, you get the big reveal and the funny murder/trial back story

Dune's good too, you should read that next

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>>6226626
typical upper middle class white woman, ready as ever to excuse herself from the class hegemony and its idols on the hyperbolistic grounds of a vague unified female oppression, all the while taking it upon herself to chastise others while enjoy the luxuries and privileges of her station without any regard or any real awareness

Not to mention her schadenfreude habit, gawking at the poor and their low brow cultural atrocities from the distance of Sick Sad World, letting the misery of others fuel her apathy, while she in turn uses their suffering to buttress her own vacant indignity

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>>6216205
It's considered an allegory for the mammalian transgression of evolution, our Eden was a soft reptilian space, where the body suffered no alienating thermal disunion, no canabalistic consumption of lac, no distressing internal gestation, we were then qualities of the earth, bare extensions of it from first moment to last, no need to succor upon the pure for redemption for we succored all heat and all surrounding matter without guilt or thought

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>>6213243
American Psycho isn't bad because the violence comes from a very superficial place, regardless of how graphic it is. It's the equivalent of hearing new atheist blaspheme; no matter how hard he tries to make it piercing it just comes off as shallow and mundane. Now a real apostate, someone like Joyce, whose identity is intimately wrapped up in a forsaken theology, they can work blaspheme in ways that make even a non-religious persons of a certain quality squirm.

And that's what McCarthy can do with violence. The sorts of violence he envisions and the places they are brought forth from are pretty damning and distressing, even for the highly cynical. The violence isn't just given to you, it is an extension of things much deeper and much more rigorously put forth. Really it probably is the most deeply violent book written within the past several hundred years.

>> No.6213448 [View]

>>6213429
you do drugs, maybe recreationally, maybe habitually, if you don't it's cause you don't have any friends

maybe the first person in your family to go to college

some might consider you a bit attractive, though not excessively so

>> No.6213437 [View]

>>6213422
Raised by indulgent middle/upper-middle class parents.

Probably a bit of a homebody.

>> No.6211439 [View]

>>6211142
He's one of the principle independent agitators in The Zone, wanted by pretty much every remaining axis faction and ally power trying to take control as the Reich collapses.

The questions he's asking and the things he is looking for cause him to be drawn along through the spheres of a bunch of internetworked zone characters. It's not so much coincidence as it's being a notorious bugaboo doing notorious bugaboo stuff causes you to encounter other notorious bugaboos.

>> No.6210508 [View]

>>6209842
basically every important thing you need to know about Tolkien happened somewhere in The Nibelungenlied

>> No.6209169 [View]

>>6209130
you operated an unsuccessful BBS in the mid 80s
you perceive cowboy boots differently than most people

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