I.Dreaming of apples on a wall,And dreaming often, dear,I dreamed that, if I counted all,—How many would appear?II.A stick I found that weighed two pound;I sawed it up one dayIn pieces eight of equal weight!How much did each piece weigh?(Everybody says "a quarter of a pound", which is wrong.)III.John gave his brother James a box:About it there were many locks.James woke and said it gave hime pain;Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>25511119IV is thinking or the "hmmm" thinking sound I think
>>25511697Interesting. Yeah that could be right, good call.II is surely a box on the ears. (The locks being locks of hair.)
why do so many of you have hobbes' leviathan
>>25511649Is this a pokeymans reference or something
>>25509748Excuse me, i cut mine. And why are you as a man looking at another man's hands? You want a reacharound or something, faggot?
>>25511673You/he literally posted a picture that only includes a book and his pasty goblinoid hand complete with shaggy, overgrown white fingernails with a splotch of what (I can only reasonably assume) is stinky doo-doo poopy from his own prodigious, festering asshole. I mean, just look at the background... he clearly lives in filth and squalor. It's not that big of a stretch to assume that he's a pig. "A picture is worth a thousand words" as they say.
>>25511673>You want a reacharound or somethingI mean, sure! What’s your location?
>>25511673I'll reacharound your neck with a fucking knife to slash your fucking throat open and watch you bleed to death in your own blood, piss and shit MOTHERFUCKER.
If heaven doesn't have books I'm not going.
>>25509301>implying hell has books
>>25509301Perfection on that side of glory means you have complete knowledge of everything. No more reading needed.
>>25510619Maybe they do in limbo or purgatory
nobody is going to heaven, at the second coming of christ, the elect will inherit the earth
>>25511147Yeah, we're all unconscious until then, right?
>>25509875Actual slaves in the Roman Empire would often have the same attitude. They would chide slackers for being bad slaves, believe they were getting a good deal when they finally got manumitted to become a "free" debt serf, etc.
>>25508051Must be a breadwinner posting on 4chan.com
>>25508083magatards do this, too
>>25508160So? Maybe those Palestinians had it coming. Who knows?
>>25511440Whats wrong with that anyways?
>it will be out when it's out. we like that. great work ethic.
>>25510861Based
>>25509615>be me>work a lot>suddenly, strike it rich, really rich>stop workingCan’t be mad.
>>25509615If you've ever read any of this fat faggot's books, leave /lit/ immediately.
>>25509623what does psychicpebbles read?
>>25511608Reddit posts and internet news articles mostly from what I've seen
What book satisfies all these criteria:1. longest2. single-volume or multi-volume work3. fiction or nonfiction4. under a single title5. by a single author6. that you've read?
>>25509866it says "young" not "child"
>>25509101Hundred Years War series by Jonathan Sumption
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry - Michael Spivak
>>25510566>spine images arent flushI couldnt take itHow could anyone do this
>The Freeman's Journal described Time and the Gods as "the product of a somewhat bizarre, but not infertile imagination". The review read the work allegorically as a statement on the decline of faith, and attacked it as materialistic, decadent, unhealthy, and unpleasant.
His friends used to call him The Dunce.
The Chudman's Journal
>>25510280>materialistic, decadent, unhealthy, and unpleasantnow i'm hooked
The supernatural parts of this are very much like a bad trip. Floating Dragon is this but more literally (floating cloud of sentient not-LSD terrorizes a small town). Any other examples?
>>25509805You're welcome!
>>25509521Ramsey Campbell's Alone With the Horrors has a lot of short stories that feel like you're just halfway coming down from a trip and everything is off in a weird way.
>>25509594ok
>>25509521August Strindberg's Inferno
>>25509594well yeah it's horror
"Just Be Yourself" editionPrevious: >>25492962/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below for practice; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Expect critique, not praise.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.>Beginner guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25512234yeahmaybe I'll my psych if she knows anyone else who's had their muse silenced on meds
>>25512313Oh, don’t get me wrong. I hate artists too. Also my point wasn’t that you used AI, it was that you’re so lazy you can’t even spend time prompt engineering to get what you actually want.
>prompt engineering
>>25512710I'm NTA generating those book covers. I'm prompt-engineering something else at the moment, and am confident I know what I'm doing, but that's a separate issue.
>>25512907>>25512907>>25512907
>Read Ulysses for the first time when I was young>"Hah this guy is a buffoon">Reread it now that im older>"He's literally me"How did Joyce manage to make such a relatable character
If Ulysses was written today Bloom would have been woke and probably jewish as well
>>25510904I feel like Joyce would be horrified back into Catholicism if he lived in the modern world. He'd still be a pervert and an iconoclast but he'd see where atheism led us and he'd be repulsed by it. He is basically speaking through Stephen when he talks about Catholicism and Protestantism in Portrait. "Why would I trade a falsehood that is logical and coherent for a falsehood that is illogical and incoherent?". He rejected the Church when it was a bold new thing to do, but now in 2026 I think he'd see where that leads and realize the Church probably had a point. He never truly hated it in total, he seems to have always maintained at least a certain fondness for it.
>>25510854>Would you let your girlfriend write love letters to other guysIf it were anonymous, sure>and jerk off to them If she didn't get caught, sure>there is no saying that stuff doesn't lead to him having intimate relationships with other girls>who says he isn't going to go back to the beach tomorrow and fuck Gerty right there on the rocksshut the fuck up
>>25511000>one of usno
>when I was young Uhhh huh
If MD came out now would it be considered woke?
>>25511260yes. literally labeled gay sci fi by queer author NY Times best seller
>>25511260It's gay shit so yeah, I guess so.
>>25511260they was just wrestling LIKE lovers, they were not literally lovers
>>25511462
>>25511260>faggots
Let me guess, you need more?
>middle top: deleuze or guattari or baudrillard>center right: beckett>center: derrida>bottom left: can't place himif you recognize any more it's because you're a faggot
>>25510124None of those are representative of my taste; just thematically linked writers (albeit cioran is a bit at odd here)nigger
>>25510124shut up tranny
>>25510124>anti-Duras sperg ruins another threadWe get it. You're a pleb.
But I need merely one, the only one, the lonely one, the unique one
Why are extant ancient Greek novels about testing idealized love between refined, aristocratic main characters in exotic timeless landscapes, whereas extant Latin novels such as Apuleius' Metamorphoses and Petronius' Satyricon portray vulgar, unrefined characters navigating lower-class roman milieus and are rather experimental?
>>25498339I was surprised how much graves bowlderizes it. During an early episode where a traveler recounts having a witch urinate on his face Graves merely said she "staled"
>>25498339>>25507751Oh I'm not reading Graves' translation then.
>>25497959I wish I was a shepherd in a pastoral paradise with a cutie shepherdess gf
>>25501777TRVKE
>>25498029Maybe it's still lying around somewhere and hasn't been found.
Best Novels since 1850 and only one per writer:>01 Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)>02 Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)>03 Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821): "Bratia Karamazovy/ Brothers Karamazov" (1880)>04 Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)>05 James, Henry: The Golden Bowl>06 Joyce, James: Ulysses>07 Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)>08 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)>09 Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)>10 Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability>11 Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights>12 Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada>13 Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)>14 Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Maybe not the greatest but also favorites:>Gombrowicz: Pornography (1960)>PerezGaldos, Benito: Nazarin (1895)>Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1985)>Abe Kobo: Woman in the Dunes (1962)>Buzzati, Dino: Deserto dei tartari (1940)>Unamuno, Miguel: Nebla (1914)>Oe, Kenzaburo: Silent Cry (1967)>Singer, Isaac: Moskat Family (1950)
>>25511380>Best Novels since 1850 and only one per writer:>07 Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)>08 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)
The Best Novels of the 20th Century:(Only one novel per writer, in chronological order)>1. Thomas Mann (Germany): "Buddenbrooks" (1901)>2. Henry James (USA): "The Golden Bowl" (1904)>3. Joseph Conrad (Britain): "Nostromo" (1904)>4. Luigi Pirandello (Italy): "The Late Mattia Pascal" (1904)>5. Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain): "Howards End" (1910)>6. Boris Bugayev "Andrey Bely" (Russia): "Petersburg" (1912)>7. Franz Kafka (Austria): "The Trial" (1915)>8. James Joyce (Ireland): "Ulysses" (1922)>9. Marcel Proust (France): "In Search of Lost Time" (1922)>10. Italo Svevo (Italy): "Zeno's Conscience" (1923)>11. Andre' Gide (France): "The Counterfeiters" (1925)>12. Francis-Scott Fitzgerald (USA): "The Great Gatsby" (1925)>13. Arthur Schnitzler: "Traumnovelle/ Dream Story" (1925)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25511402>(...)>41. Hugo Claus (Belgium): "Amazement" (1962)>42. Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962)>43. Doris Lessing (Zimbabwe, 1919): "The Golden Notebook" (1962)>44. Beppe Fenoglio (Italy): "A Private Question" (1963)>45. CarloEmilio Gadda (Italy): "Acquainted with Grief" (1963)>46. Ismail Kadare (Albania): "The General of the Dead Army" (1963)>47. Janet Frame (New Zealand): "Scented Gardens For The Blind" (1963)>48. Julio Cortazar (Argentina): "Hopscotch" (1963)>49. Saul Bellow (USA): "Herzog" (1964)>50. John Barth (USA): "Giles Goat Boy" (1966)>51. Jose Lezama-Lima (Cuba): "Paradise" (1966)>52. Miguel Delibes (Spain): "Five Hours with Mario" (1966)>53. Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (Colombia): "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25511405(From this point on, it is very tentative) >89. Su Tong (China, 1963): "Wives and Concubines" (1990)>90. Abraham Yehoshua (Hebrew, 1936): "Mar Manni/ Mr Mani" (1990)>91. Dacia Maraini (1936): "La Lunga Vita Di Marianna Ucria" (1990)>92. Imre Kertesz (1929): "Kaddis a Meg Nem Szuletetett Gyermekert/ Kaddish for a Child not Born" (1990)>93. Jane Smiley (USA, 1950): "A Thousand Acres" (1991)>94. George Cusnarencu (Romania, 1951): "Dodecaedru" (1991)>95. Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "The English Patient" (1992)>96. Daniela Hodrova (Czech, 1946): "Theta/ Masks" (1992)>97. Andrzej Zaniewski (Poland, 1940): "Szczur/ Rat" (1993)>98. Vikram Seth (India, 1952): "A Suitable Boy" (1993)>99. Yoko Tawada (Japan, 1960): "Inu Muko Iri/ The Bridegroom Was a Dog" (1993)>100. Cesar Aira (Argentina): "Como me Hice Monja/ How I Became a Nun" (1993)>101. Amin Maalouf (France, 1949): "Le Rocher de Tanios" (1993)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
lol women
>>25502929>>25502844IQ is a retarded metric that's completely meaningless.
>>25511115Midwit cope
>>25502844You don't seem to know what average means.
>>25502808my gf cant even finish short stories...
