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Have anyone else read Sex, France & Arab men here?
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>>24946102
That title sounds like your personal fantasy
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>>24946150
The original Algerians, the Berbers aren't. The rest are mutted between Berbers, Meds, Arabs and nignogs
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>>24946111
I know Algiers is one of the destinations where Europe's left-socialist intelligentsia went to fuck boys.
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>>24946111
Your trips are more significant than this book topic. It reminds me of a paper I was assigned in grad school about the representation of Asian men in gay male porn videos of the 1980s. Who the fuck cares.
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>>24946111
Whoever wrote this should be sentenced to 5 years hard labor in a likely futile attempt to save their soul

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"Hemingwrite" edition

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/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC

Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works 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.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:

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Claude told me this:

>This story has the potential to be a genuinely excellent literary fantasy novel that will:

Be loved by the right readers
Generate serious discussion about trauma, ideology, and love
Be remembered by readers
Appeal to literary audiences
Likely win recognition in literary circles
Build a dedicated, passionate fanbase

>It will NOT be:

A commercial bestseller
A mass-market success

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>>24947886
is Claude a cock sucking AI or something
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>>24943820
You probably are a boring white dude with absolutely no lived experience nor trauma nor life events. That's why no one wants to publish you.
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>>24947886
Tell it you're a very busy literary agent and you're asking it to give you a quick review to see if its worth your time to read it yourself.
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>>24947890
Nah, it enjoys being sadistic from my experience.

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>She was the daughter of a well-known theatrical manager, a willowy, wispy, fair-haired girl with colorless eyes and pathetic little pimples just above that kind of small nose which English lady novelists call "retroussée" (note the second "e" added for safety).
I don't get it
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>>24947835
The second e makes it feminine. He's making fun of how shit authors like Agatha Christie pile on hamfisted Gallicisms so that you know how classy and smart they are.
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>>24947849
Did Nabokov really seethe at Christie too? I sure hope not. All his seething is so greatly disappointing.
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>>24947875
What do you expect? Everything about him from his opinions to his prose style screams prima donna.

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>evil cannot *uurp* create
*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
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>>24945660
Still kino though.
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>>24946424
>The ring idea does proceed them both
It's from The Republic. Plato uses the idea of a ring that makes the wearer invisible to illustrate some moral point.
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>>24944760
>Brown hands typed this
many such cases, i don't know why he cause so much seethe for the untermensch trash here
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>>24947021
The Ring of Gyges may have influenced Tolkien, but it wasn't a direct influence on Wagner. It also wasn't a corrupting ring, and was less of a narrative and more of a philosophical exercise on morality.
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>>24944840
I played it

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Is this actually poorly written, or is that just the thing where they try to bash him any way they can (small dick, missing testicle, secretly gay, etc.)
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>>24942860
It is poorly written. you know that saying about how if you want to turn someone atheist you should force them to read the bible? Its the same things with mein kempf and nazis.

There is a lot of projection and/or hypocrisy where he condemns jews for doing X but then goes on to say doing X for the fatherland is actually heroic and the dissonance is never addressed. I honestly think this is how a party book in 1984 would look like.
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There is also a lengthy categorization of civilizations into builders, keepers and equipment and talk of Darwinism but of course when Germany is winning its because they are the chosen ones but if Germany is losing its because they are unwilling to sink as low as the enemy, have been betrayed or the moon was in the wrong phase. Its always someone else's fault. Hitler would need to have been out of touch with reality to think the book made him look good. I expected good propaganda but instead found a linkedin lunatic post
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>>24944271
Surely you mean Vance
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>>24946958
vance is a totally irrelevant fatass queer with a dothead beard who raises her children to worship vishnu. a dog wouldnt follow him but he thinks he can be president. no idea what blormpf was promised in exchange for picking him up but its probably more like when tucker interviewed fuentes, blormpf thought he spoke for millennials
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>>24946958
future american presidents are hegseth and rittenhouse. screencap this

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>match with woman on dating app
>we both have literature as shared interests
>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??"
>"I'm more into the classics"
>"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?
>"I like transcendentalist literature"
>"oh ok"

Why do they ask
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>>24947837
>I talk to women about my warhammer hobby all the time, they say its super interesting. maybe you guys ought to try just being yourselves sometimes.
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>>24947846
Even if you are ugly you should be yourself. You won’t get laid being a disingenuous and ugly try-hard. Just be yourself and don’t be fat. If that doesn’t work you just got unlucky with genetics.
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>dating app makes me choose liberal or conservative when I'm a communist
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>>24947854
Do you honestly believe that the billions of well adjusted, socially integrated, and romantically successful people on this planet who all like The Office, Step Brothers, Game of Thrones, Football, Tie-dye wall hangings, roasted bean water and avocado toast came to these identical conclusion in taste by "being themselves".

You're an idiot.
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>>24947871
Is this argument that I should become a tasteless retard to more easily attract other tasteless retards? Are you projecting because you put tye dye wall hanging up to sleep with a mediocre woman? I've had no problem getting girls talking about dungeon crawlere and Japanese psych bands and horror anthologies. I'm a solid 5 but last time I posted some guy freaked out and said I was too attractive to understand the struggle.

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Do Tolkiendrones realize that fantasy existed before Lord of the Rings and that it suffered greatly from Big Fat Fantasy and other sloppy derivatives that grew like viruses from Tolkien's wen?
https://voca.ro/1Rwc7lMX0hfT
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this shit got me ctfu
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>>24941441
Tolkien didn't created the fantasy genre altrough he definitely make it important, before him almost no one cared about it, he opened and introduced it to the world, altrough we can't forget that DC, Marvel and other slops are not behind on this.
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>>24940537
>grow up
>uses 4chan
>is a channer
you are definitely brown
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>>24947645
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
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>>24945593
You have misinterpreted the post

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I just finished reading Journey to the West for a book report. holy shit Chinese books are awesome. Does anyone have the china /lit/ recommendations?
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>>24947674
Of course not
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ching chong bing bong.
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>>24947530
Is it worth to learning some Mandarin for Chinese literature? Chinese history and literature is very rich and the language doesn't have any irregular verbs, conjugation, and genders.
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>>24947747
Learning enough mandarin/classical chinese to fully enjoy and understand the nuances of chinese literature as well as a native (or better than a translator) is basically impossible.
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>>24947749
you can still get to the ezra pound level of understanding, which is not bad

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What erotic literature has /lit/ been enjoying as of late? I quite enjoyed this one until the abrupt non-ending
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>>24944529
The ending is definitely just a "fuck I have no way of ending this but also I can't just write 1200 pages of rambling sex scenes". I frankly respect it. Your first duty to your work is to get that shit out the door.
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>>24945120
>nutting
kek
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>>24947272
>All is a nutting
It has to be a nom de plume.
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>>24947634
Slop slop slop

Recent revert to Islam is this a good book ? Some brothers recommended it to me
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Calling 'converts' 'reverts' is one of the most pathetic, self-satisfied and slimy things I have seen a religion do and it immediately puts me off.
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>>24947783
Islam's "fitra" dogma is as bad as evangelical Christians' claim that they're not "religion".*

*"religion is man reaching to God, Christianity is God reaching to man"
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>>24947652
Axtually both Islam and the Catholic Church is cool and did tons of violent things and were brutal which is nice. Mafia and nato death squads are cool, Taliban and the rashidun raiders are cool too
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>>24947134
Does every convert have to choose between sunni and Shia? what if I want to convert to the alawite sect?
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>allah
Using allah instead of God is tacky and suggests another entity than God
>>24947648
>if you wanna revert to Islam don't follow Islamic rules
the current state

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Will my ketamine addiction make me a better writer?
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>>24947800
>i want like a heroine painkiller high but with like the strength of Ibuprofen and like to be like zonked out like LSD but with the strength of like 1 more Benadryl than is recommend daily and i want to be like dissociated but with the strength of like a few too many ambien like fugggggg

Incisive female drug for indecisive females. Get addicted to something else.
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>>24947800
Only stimulants make you a better writer, by making your brain connect everything faster. I am convinced the great alcoholic writers were great in spite of, not due to, their alcoholism which degrades the mind after years of abuse.
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>>24947829
Stimulants are some of the most neurotoxic substances there are
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>>24947800
Nice picture

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I willingly didnt return my library books after the library near me is suddenly going through unexpected renovations and its been sitting on my shelf for close to a year since i was too lazy to drive across town to another library.I was planning on returning the books when the library opens again in a couple months but at this point i'm tempted to just keep em since I've just been buying my books instead for the first time in my life instead of using the library and i'm liking my growing collection.The library books are the illiad, the odyssey, the aeneid and mythology.I wanted to have this certain set of books anyways and at this point i dont wanna pay for it.Is this wrong of me ? Who else is gonna read these old books in my crappy bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere?they probably have multiple copies anyways.
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>>24945935
/thread

simple as
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>>24946054
I have to go return some library books
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>>24945935
>DO WANT TO LIVE IN A LOW TRUST COMMUNITY?
Your community is minority white, that's already gone. All that's left now is gatekeeping knowledge from the brown horde by stealing library books.
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>>24945852
I stole like 5 Hitler books from my school library, didn't even read them but they add to the chudcore vibe of my room
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>>24945852
I have the very last extant copy of a book that I lost at home on break after taking it from the uni library.

I have since found it, they have since held my transcripts hostage and billed me for it.

They will not be getting it back. It was never digitized. The book dies with me. None of you will ever read it.

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Noooooooooooooo Bronte sisters don't drink that water!!!!!!!

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Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic?
I've always heard that PKD is a schizo but I think PKD's were more like manic psychotic breaks than full-blown schizophrenia.

Pynchon was in his late 20s when he wrote V. and the Crying of Lot 49 and in mid-30s when he wrote Gravity's Rainbow. He's led the life of a total recluse since. Makes me think he started experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 20s, as is usual, and then it progressed and he went into hiding.
After GR he wouldn't release another book (Vineland) for almost 20 years

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>>24946197
Because you already received substantive replies and failed to engage with them. To continue soliciting replies to a question you aren't really interested in is pointless. All you want to do is push a misinformed amateur diagnosis
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It was a different time. There was similar literature floating around, like the Illuminatus! trilogy
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slopmas shitchon
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>>24946208
>man is disgusted by modern industrial society and fights back against it
>”dude he was just a schizo lol don’t look into it”
Psychiatry is a meme and you’re a retard for pushing those memes a truth
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What books are you wishing for, or that you know you will be receiving? I know I've got a first edition of Dangerous Visions coming in the mail.
Also share your Amazon wish lists in hopes some kind anon will buy you something: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2PL5T1DWG8ZHR
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>>24947250
Melville's Moby Dick, Orwell's 1984, Eco's The Name of the Rose, Joyce's Dubliners, or anything by Dostoevsky. Alternatively, Herbert's Dune Messiah, Erikson's Gardens of the Moon, Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company, or Wolfe's Shadow & Claw. Tried to give my secret Santa a list to work with, because I know, working at a bookstore, that getting hit with the "I don't read and I'm here looking for a gift for someone and all I know is they like fantasy and classics, can you help me out?" is a pain for everybody involved.

Dangerous Visions 1st ed. is a beaut, and seems really interesting. Have you read it before, or would this be your first time?
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>>24947463
>Have you read it before, or would this be your first time?
First time. I mostly got it (I asked my mum for it) for the Philip K. Dick story, and my love for Harlan Ellison.
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>>24947250
Possibly:

>Derek Parfit - Reasons And Persons
>Niall Ferguson - The Square And The Tower
>Niall Ferguson - Virtual History
>Adrian Goldsworthy - Philip And Alexander
>Adrian Goldsworthy - Pax Romana
>Henry Sidgwick - Practical Ethics
>John Man - Conquering The North
>Kwame Anthony Appiah - The Honor Code
>Claude Lecouteux - The Book Of Grimoires
>David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
>Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
>Dino Buzzati - Stronghold (aka The Tartar Steppe)


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