>>24848903
put a shotgun in your mouth and pull the trigger

>>24848148
that font looks so fucking annoying to read

>>24848916
textbook rage.

>>24848873
So 0,1,2?

>>24848940
wrong again dumbass

>>24847265
i watched bottle rocket last month and that movie was so fucking awesome, and you can barely even tell that its a wes anderson movie

>>24846540
why do you think it's amazing? genuinely interested. I started reading it and his descriptions are quite immersive, but the first setting of a kid tennis player read like (and was) a pretentious self-insert. His outburst infront of the faculty was quite funny though.

>>24846549
>>24849092
anderson is a good comparison. fun is subjective but it's definitely comfy

>>24849092
You can't relate because you're not a generational hyper-genius. The rest of us are.
Simple as.

>>24847142
I find sincerity repulsive.

>>24848659
He's going to be remembered as the honorary genre writer to make it into the canon, as the man who basically invented modern genre fiction and somehow got his writing style adapted into every university creative writing class.

>>24848659
No, and if you think he is then you're a simpleton.

>>24848662
kek

>>24848659
he's the "writer's barely disguised fetish" meme, using horror.

>>24848659
>The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Does that answer your question?

>>24847054
Having lost his tail, sgt. Gary "Skinny" Seymour plunges into the seedy side road. About as Kingly as They are relenting. A horrid smell wafts down the street, yet Skinny is insatiate enough to check his pockets. A few quid.
He enters the establishment. A quick scan across the room, no fairer sex. Oh shit, the man at the front is Bola Stilus. Hide behind the trash can. The odour is somehow even worse than Bola's hairdo, still bearing that awful Juggernaut hairdo and that ghastly pencil above his lips.
"What exactly do you think you are doing?" he sez. Heart stops. Then settles down when he addresses the man behind him in line. Like lambs to slaughter. "You're breathing down my neck, man!". The man only harhars in response.
"Your order, sir", Bola grabs his bag and leaves, missing Skinny. Nuggies and chips, Gary reckons. Or it could be drifting from the bin. Famished regardless.

When he drifts down he first avenue like the lunch he just let loose down the sewer, in the biological mouth and down the porcelain in record time, he spots Bola again. Waiting for a bus with his pal. Is he with Them too? Doesn't look the part, seems more of a fairy than a fed, but you never know.
He points at Bola's crotch: "Y'know hun, I have never done it in public yet, but if you insist..." he makes a ring with his fingers and yo-yos it back and forth from his mouth. Stilus recoils and zips his fly back up. "Definitely a glowie", Gary thinks.

>>24847054
Subjective

I was feeling pretty snazzy that day. I’d just gotten my hair trimmed and my mustache touched up. I decided to treat myself to some McDonald’s. The one on King, with the good ketchup packets. Somebody there might learn a thing or two about style, too. I winked at myself in the mirror and headed out the door.

I was at the front of the line and had just ordered my usual. That cute girl was working the counter today - I think she noticed my hair. I was about to say something to her, but then I felt this disgusting moist warmth on the back of my neck. I turn around and there’s some greasy bastard standing there, polluting my neck with his breath.
“Dude, manners? You’re breathing on my neck.” I said.
He just looked at me. Suddenly I got a really bad feeling, my heart started to beat faster. I noticed my order was ready and grabbed it and got out of there.

An hour later, I was telling my buddy at the bus station how close I’d been to getting her number. He chuckled and told me my zipper was undone. What could I say? Envy always tries to downplay other people’s success.

>>24847561
Nice

>>24847486
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>>24847519
Kek, brilliant.

>>24847054
McCarthy
He turned the horse down King Street towards the building at the end of the promenade. When he arrived, he grabbed hold of the saddle curl and loosened his boot in the stirrup and swung his leg over, dismounting the horse. The building was large in front of him and the two yellow swoops intersected like paling beams of dusky sunlight and where they crossed they marked an unintentional destination before him. He hobbled the horse to the paloverde pole and lifted the hat back on his head and walked towards it. A small Mexican with hair fashioned like a monk and a thin mustache stood at the front of the line.
Deja de respirar en mi cuello, he said to the man behind him.
No te estoy respirando en el cuello.
No tenéis el aliento de Dios, sino el de los demonios.
The monk then grabbed his pollo and his papas a la Mexicana and turned around and walked towards the boy.
Caballero.
He said as he smiled and tipped his hat to the boy and walked out.
An hour later he saw the monk standing, waiting for something to come that was late in the coming. His brow was furrowed in contemplation and he looked beyond in the distance at the sun dripping like candlewax below the peaks of the mountains at the edge of the horizon. His friend pointed to him a zipping motion, but the monk furrowed his brow yet more and lifted his hand to smooth his mustache and ignored him and looked on.

>>24847966
>>24848075
The thing is there are millions of these crap books and only one in a million get lucky and catch on. Please don't add more slop to the world, just play the lottery instead.

>>24848909
Probably because they put out for the right people, and then maybe blackmailed as a bonus incentive. There is no such thing as luck, it's just causes we don't understand and coinciding of events.

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>>24847966
>>24848075
this is exactly the same as seeing a retarded video like hawk tuah going viral and thinking 'i'll make a retarded video and go viral too!' no way won't. you'll make a retarded video and be lost in the sea of 1 trillion retarded videos uploaded that day and get 7 views. you'll write smut equal and comparable to viral smut and get 20 sales after an aggressive ad campaign. the success has nothing - NOTHING - to do with the quality of product, of which there are, in the romance category, not thousands, not hundreds of thousands, but literally millions of near-indistinguishable works. unless you can market like audra winter - which isn't calculated but rather the culmination of narcissistic personality disorder and a planetary sized ego - luck is the be all, end all. so go ahead. write that shit if you want. you will never, ever make a buck from it.

>>24847802
Rey x Kylo fanfiction.
>>24848871
it's done in illustrations to show who wants it and who's surprised by it. In real life guys close their eyes too because it's weird staring into a girls eyes from 1 inch away.

>>24847802
Normie woman falls in love with autistic gigachad.
Light romcom. I liked it.
It gets spicy toward the end, albeit nothing exceptional.

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I always see this guy in the b section on used book stores while I look Bakker stuff. Is his stuff any good?

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>>24846418
same

>>24846387
>A unique feature of the folding-stock variants is the butt hook. With the stock extended, the hook can be pushed in and turned 90 degrees to the left or right, to fit under the user's forearm. This is to enable the shotgun to be fired with one hand; e.g. while abseiling/rappelling, or from a vehicle window while driving. The hook can be released from the buttplate completely by turning 180 degrees.
it's a pistol brace

I’m almost done writing my first novel and my biggest fear is that when it’s done, and out in the world, nobody will care.

>>24849087
>writing for others and commercial success/recognition
ngmi

He didn't. His attempt to force that meme was hopelessly overshadowed by "big chungus"

>>24847976
Why didn't he walk on water and cure some cancer in a child instead of making some rinky dink miracles like his followers claim?

Sathya Sai Baba's followers have attributed to him a range of miraculous abilities, including the materialisation of Vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects such as rings, necklaces, and watches. He was also believed to have performed spontaneous healings, resurrections, and exhibited clairvoyant abilities. Additionally, claims were made regarding his ability to be in multiple places simultaneously (bilocation), as well as his omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience.[9][10]

Sathya Sai Baba's devotees include members of all religions. In 1972, Sathya Sai Baba founded the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust.[11] Through this organization, Sathya Sai Baba established a network of free, general,[12] and superspeciality hospitals,[13][14] medical clinics,[15] drinking water projects,[16] educational institutions,[17] ashrams, and auditoriums.[18][19][20][21]

Sathya Sai Baba faced numerous accusations over the years which include sleight of hand, sexual abuse, money laundering, fraud, and murder. However, he was never charged with any offence,[22] and his devotees strongly reject these accusations, considering them propaganda against their guru.[23][24][25]

>>24847976
>I have all the answers because god speaks to me. And only me!
Tale as old as time.

>>24847976
I judge those books by their covers

>>24848672
Yeah but most of what you read is slop so it doesn't really count

>>24848672
if you're 2004 years old you can scarcely call yourself gen z, more like gen bc

>>24848672
you put more feces lit in your head instead of just reading few good pieces over and over?

>>24848672
Why can't you guys capitalize?

>>24847597
https://archive.org/details/drawings-from-the-gulag-danzig-baldaev_202412/mode/2up

>>24838983
Read

It Happens In Russia: Seven Years Forced Labour in the Siberian Goldfields, 1951. Vladimir Petrov.

The USSR was an anti-human horror.

>>24847637
No, it was just a Western bureaucratic state reaching its full unlimited potential, and people who did all of that were so-called honest cogwheels. Whatever their personal immediate political goals were, revolutionaries were a product of mass education system carrying the flag of Enlightenment and 19th century journalistic discourse on Reason and Science. A lot was written about that in the last 100 or so years. Bolsheviks literally learned how to play RTS game in real life, starting from how not to starve the peasant units — and saw no problem with that.

Any time someone is implying that things portrayed by Soviet/Russian artists are strictly about USSR, you are being misled into thinking that it only happens in some more or less distant bad place which has nothing to do with you and those around you.

>>24838983
"Civilizations" take cultures and distort them to better control their populace. The USSR behaved as a failing state from day one so the corruption of its early culture (it did have a small sputtering start) was strangled to death for fear of inspiring disloyalty. The US is fast approaching this stage. Though its culture has been sickly and gimpy for decades, it will get worse. US literature? HA.

you want to eradicate non conformist ideology and you send these people to a place that is characterized by nature's most fundamental preservation agent: FREEZING. The Gulag archipelago was so fucking based man.

>>24847231
you don't philosophy to conserve the state of israel. there are plenty of reactionary philosophers now however

I wish I could kill everyone who disagrees with me

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Libtards and the left expend a lot of energy defining their identity according to their political beliefs and a lot of time patting themselves on the back. What a bunch of midwits.

Conservatives spend all their time in a futile attempt to make the clock run backwards and blaming the other for their various spiritual and sexual failimgs.

>>24847254
>philosophy without epistemic humility
Now that's a fucking disaster waiting to happen.
I bet these people are Act-Utilitarians too.

>>24847569
and this is what I mean by Knausgård's strain of contemporary autofiction literati and how they glorify not reading or not having read:

>Ever since 1998 his books have been recommended to me, most often The Elementary Particles, by one friend in particular, who says the same thing every time I see him. You have to read The Elementary Particles, he tells me, it’s incredible, the best book I’ve ever read. Several times I’ve been on the verge of heeding his advice, plucking The Elementary Particles from its place on my shelf and considering it for a while, though always returning it unread. The resistance to starting a book by Houellebecq is too great. I’m not entirely sure where it comes from, though I do have a suspicion, because the same thing goes for the films of Lars von Trier: when Antichrist came out I couldn’t bring myself to see it, either in the cinema or at home on the DVD I eventually bought, which remains in its box unwatched. They’re simply too good. What prevents me from reading Houellebecq and watching Von Trier is a kind of envy—not that I begrudge them success, but by reading the books and watching the films I would be reminded of how excellent a work of art can be, and of how far beneath that level my own work is. Such a reminder, which can be crushing, is something I shield myself from by ignoring Houellebecq’s books and Von Trier’s films. That may sound strange, and yet it can hardly be unusual.
Knausgård - In The Land of The Cyclops, Michel Houellebecq's Submission

it's a very common theme and after a while it gets harder and harder not to notice it.

>>24848506
listen, pigfuck I don't make the rules. If you say shit like maximalism and minimalism and you're not a home decorator, I am going to assume you are a faggot

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>>24847671
>is Gaddis somewhere along these lines as well?
The Gaddis of The Recognitions is more of a Classicist in the “encyclopedic knowledge” spread throughout the book, interested in Western high culture (classic art, literature, classical music, theology, and philosophy as the major sources of the allusions in the book, for example). In a way his testament to the Western canon, but also used as source-material for a grand sweeping satire that, among other things, is about the inauthenticity and unoriginality of some of our modern culture and its members; also an Eliot-like portrayal of its decline into a wasteland, having degenerated from its great roots.

The way Pynchon makes his books “encyclopedic”, on the other hand, in his doorstoppers, is more interdisciplinary (with STEM allusions), also more focused on the specific historical times and places he’s portraying, and not as limited to just Western high-culture/a sort of classicism. The major way is through the historical minutiae and knowledge he infuses in the novels of his that can rightly be called “encyclopedic” (GR, M&D, AtD), from the pop culture of that historical time/place, to the slang and use of language, to the current events, news stories, and common knowledge that’d be known by those people or predominant in their minds.

Then, besides that, relevant scientific fields or knowledge shows up, like from engineering, chemistry, biology, psychology, neuroscience, astronomy, geography/surveying, mathematics, etc. An especial hobbyhorse of his is the *history* of science, including antiquated scientific theories or beliefs.

Then, finally, on top of that, the smorgasbord of whatever else Pynchon feels the need to include that becomes relevant to the story; like the occult, cults, and (beliefs in/practices having to do with the) paranormal, some specific point of the law, or anthropology, some non-Western religion’s beliefs/practices, or whatever. Gaddis does this a bit too but the bulk of the allusions are to Western high culture, thought, art.
So I wouldn’t box Gaddis with this claim:
>… loops around into a conscious acceptance of the novel as a division of the author's mind,
If anything, instead, Gaddis has a more modernist-like lofty view of the novel precisely being able to transcend the author’s and readers’ ordinary limited minds/selfhoods, their subjective limitations, but instead becomes a grand panorama that’s all the greater of a true portrayal of the world, through its experimentation and allusive depth.
Notably, Gaddis based the structure of the novel on Hieronymus Bosch’s triptyches, for what it’s worth (besides the framework of the Faust legend & its roots in the Clementinian Recognitions, an old Christian text). A vast sweeping view also with lots of details, meant to suggest complexity and panorama of the modern world.

>>24848518
>pigfuck
> shit
do we have to use that kind of language here? this is the home of the world's /literati, not some common saloon

>>24848591
Yer one of those faeries or niggerlovers I reckon, he spat.

>>24843875
tatiana tibuleac

>>24843713
Die, roastie

>>24843679
Clarice?

>>24841802
Never thought I would see Tatiana Țîbuleac here. By the way, we went to the same school. Good author.

Honor Levy.

>>24847621
the cantos btfo your fav

>>24848972
my fav is finnegans wake so no

ezra pounded in the ass

>>24847615
Neither can I. Doesn't really mean anything.

Aesthetic tastes and politics are inseparably linked, always have been and always will be.

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>>24841296
Cope, he likes it

>>24843510
What about in science fiction or other genres?

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>>24748733
What kinds of holidays and celebrations might take place in such a region? Hope everyone here had a great Halloween!

>>24847409
>What kinds of holidays and celebrations might take place in such a region?
Maybe a celebration when the rainy season is over?

>>24845963
It’s all fantasy, nigga