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What books should I read in public to attract women?
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>>24953283
Not if I duct tape the first two to my head, anon.
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>>24953260
Just don't read Dorian Gray. You won't become a pussy magnet if you read it, you become a bussy magnet.
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the room
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There are single women in my area (desolate Northern European countryside).

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Do you guys ever check out little free libraries
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>>24953104
subhuman reseller
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>>24952635
I've thought about checking one out but I never walk around my neighborhood, and I feel ridiculous driving 3 streets over to look for books.
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>niggas who have never read anything that wasn't suggested by some bourgeois professor trying to explain why they don't read
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>>24954499
Keep seething, tranny. Not my problem retarded rich fucks giveaway valuable books.
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>>24952839
Most likely an activist who grabbed it to burn it or throw it in the trash. The people who install the free libraries in their neighborhoods routinely check them for "problematic" books.

"Chanukah" edition

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Please limit excerpts to one post.
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Simple guides on writing:

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>>24954944
>after reading for an hour
there's your mistake
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>>24954874
>>24954343
Post a burner email and I'll reach out to beta read
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>>24954779
I'm not reading your AI slop buddy
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>>24953740
Some very nice rhythms and imagery here. But the problem with trying to describe an intense situation with equally intense language is that it can't help but fall flat, especially if you (the author) are vacillating between the immediate, visceral experience of the character (described in their own imperfect language) and the distanced omni pov that allows for flights of 'purple' poetry. Try writing it in first person, staying in scene and uncomfortably close to the action e.g. no reveries/flashbacks to flight school exercises, other flights he's taken, etc.; unless your pilot character is some opiated flaneur, you might find some more useful and 'real' language to graft into the 3pov draft.
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>>24955321
*also, please read Catch-22, notably the bomb run sections where Yossarian and co. are hurtling through flak.

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Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
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>>24955222
I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to understand what death means, doesn’t spend all their time thinking about it.
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>>24955233
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>>24955294
alas poor yorick
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A male Bison
trapped in a hotspring
on a June morning
died
from boiling water,
Moments later
his female companion
sought him out
not having witnessed his demise.
Attached are pictures and
an address you can go to.
once there you can ask to see the footage
but know in advance: we are planning to
shred the tape, once everyone gets a
chance to see it.
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On the afternoon of June 23 2013
or maybe even earlier
I disappeared without a trace.
Name: Bishop, Joseph
Born: London, 1999
Height: 184 cm Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown
though I still write on passport forms black.
In summer I'm found wearing a blue jacket with white patterns,
black shoes, for winter - a jumper, scarf, coat, gloves
business suit - only when absolutely necessary.
As a rule, I'm reserved and friendly
I attack only if I'm provoked
and even then - not always in time - and not always the right person.
I have no visible distinguishing marks.
Lately, I've allegedly been seen in Szigliget, in Edinburgh,

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whatever emerald fennell does with this will be an improvement over the source material
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Scrotes like you wouldn't get Bronte's beauty.
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>>24953687
I was deeply disturbed by this book and thought it was seriously cruel what Emily did to the characters in this book. It was exceptionally good at evoking emotional responses from me despite those feelings mostly being anger and betrayal at what I was reading
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>>24955261
Being cruel to characters in order to evoke pathos was very normal and in fashion at the time. Emily subverts though by making the tormented characters all assholes, instead of a tormented saint as was preferred. We also see things through the perspective of the tormentor and that his tormenting is driven by his own torment
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>>24953687
Needs more violent murders. The Japs did it right.

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For much of my life, I have been attracted to various political ideologies and philosophy, but now I have realized that all forms of idealism lead to failure. From the philosophers of antiquity, such as Plato and Socrates, to Hegel, none of them ever worked and they lived in fantasy worlds. When one cannot accept reality and does not believe in religion, one believes in philosophy and political ideologies, only instead of God they speak of the Übermensch, the world of ideas, the will to power, the spirit, etc.

This is why I consider myself a pvre materialist.
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The only "philosophy" that works in practice... is freedom. Simply put, no one will look out for your interests as well as you will.
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>>24954676
Freedom is a vague concept and changes from culture to culture, for a Chinese freedom means being able to start a business, feeling safe, etc.

For a Westener, freedom is saying the n word on Twitter while capitalism collapses
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>>24954783
>capitalism collapses
lol
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>>24952931
>This is why I consider myself a pvre materialist.
You are still idealizing.
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>>24954783
>for a Chinese freedom means being able to start a business, feeling safe, etc.
>For a Westener, freedom is saying the n word

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Doubting Shakespeare's authorship is a very cheap way to, I guess, look intelligent. I wouldn't call it intelligence because my brain is far too advanced, I'm too smart, to doubt Shakespeare's authorship. I know you're sitting there going
>Smart people know de Vere was using a pseudonym!
No. I need a commoner, I need the son of a glovemaker, in my life to feel content. I need him to be writing greatest literature without a fucking education, having illiterate parents, and small Latin and less Greek. I can't just sit there,
>Oh, and Francis Bacon left a hidden cipher!
:/
It's for people with slow brains.
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By the way we have plenty examples of de Vere’s writing and it’s all mediocre shit that doesn’t match Shakespeare’s style at all. We also know Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and her husband only helped her edit a small parts it’s 2025 not the fucking dark ages the eggheads can analyze language using ever more sophisticated tools to tell these things. It’s also how we know Shakespeare was penned by 1 man with the exception of a couple of collabs.
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>>24954681
Hehe get fooked
t.phonefag
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>>24955228
>1 man
Yes and he's name is Francis Bacon.
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>trust the experts
nope. all (((history))) is fake and gay
whoever shakespeare was, he certainly wasnt shakespeare
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>>24955253
Stratfordian skepticism is an elite cope to pretend that they didn‘t get wiped at their own game. The institutions have incidentally become right on this point in the past half century because the lack of evidence for any goofy conspiracy is so overwhelming that they would obliterate all credibility to keep it up.

sansa edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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>>24954418
Mr. J do it for free?
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You ever notice how much rarer it is for female SIs to have kids than male SIs?
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>>24951633
Most fanfic writers are women and most men don't read at all
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>>24951633
>Why is asoiaf discourse so gynocentric
is it?
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>>24955234
>SIs
Sergeant Instructors? Small Intestines?

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Why is Hegel suddenly so popular?
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>>24954922
Oh, a female writer. I wonder what she's going to write ab-
>SEX SEX SEEEEEEEEEEEX
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>thesis: 2+2=4
>antithesis 2+2=5
synthesis 2+2=45
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>>24954500
becuae you clicked on or "liked" a Hegel post on twitter so ow its bombarding you with anything to do with hegel on twitter.
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>>24954922
Hegel fucks, he had a wife and had kids
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>>24954922
women don't understand anything about sex

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straight out the fucking dungeons of rap
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>>24955191
>t. idiot who knows nothing about human nature or history and doesn't feel the need to study any of it sincerely
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>>24955225
While this is nothing new its definately removing dignity from the human condition, I don't really want to go back to the Roman or even Modern Chinese idea that a human life is only as valuable as the amount of power in society you have and the amount of money you make.
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only thing that sucks about cheating is it's so truly taboo that I nut under 3 minutes every time.
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>>24955236
The strong love their enemies, copy their strengths and seek a synthesis that makes both more powerful than before.
The strong have instincts that leads them to grow in power. The weak have instincts that lead to things like spiralling violence that makes everyone weaker.
Even Rome and China fed and educated their conquered subjects. Mass genocide like in Gaul and Carthage were not the norm unless we go back over 6k years to the relatively short era of global cannibal warlords.

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Why couldn't they compete with American authors?
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>>24955187
Okay, Nobel prize status?
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>>24955188
Also obviously not a neutral institution during the cold war (as you might be able to tell from the fact Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky won it), but despite that they still had a good amount of Nobel prize winners for how short the USSR existed: Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Joseph Brodsky.
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>>24955130
Limonov alone wipes the floor with your American author
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>compete
they wernt allowed to. writing isnt a job that benefits the state so the writers starved and died.
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>>24955259
I don‘t read authors who fellate niggers. At least with Americans that‘s a figurative expression.

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>>24952049
It's quite good, yes. Reminded me of NGE.
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>>24953188
*fart noises*
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>>24954785
Why? Have you read both?
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>>24952049
griffiths is better
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I like the scene where Bruno gets raped. I found it funny how penis is translated as "prick"

His best work no doubt

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Behold! The brilliancy of Danielle Chelosky's genius! Terror is one of my favorites from Danielle's little book called Female Loneliness Epidemic, and it is little. It's only 4in by 7in and 0.25in thick
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>>24954771
Despite >>24954469 sperges I do agree. Danielle's writing is bad and is veiled behind sofcore porno curtain that is her writing and her bodily selfies. She definitely understands that sex sells and you are one sore sucker biting that bait hook, line and the whole sinker. You'd ironically get more subcribing to an OF whore. Or for that matter, just getting it for free on the hub.
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>>24954930
I pledged my penis to Danielle Chelosky. I can't break that solemn vow.
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I'm almost done with Pregaming Grief and it's making me want to be there for Danielle. I so desperately wish I could be the man Danielle is yearning for. I wish I could be the one to love her and make her feel secure. I feel awful that she isn't able to find love, and I desperately want to give it to her.
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women cannot be lonely
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men cannot be involuntarily celibate

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>can't win over blacks
>can't win over poorfags
>outright enemies of blue collar workers
>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies
>can't/won't win over the armed forces
>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies
>can't/won't win over the politicians

>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.

Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
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>>24953878
>actually-existing socialism, Russian and Chinese being the big ones
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>>24954378
Nta but source and recs?
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communism etc died decades a go.
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>>24950477
the middle class is all that's needed really
they built capitalism, and they can just as easily destroy it

orthodox marxists will seethe but ultimately material conditions are what guide history, not your ideological fixations.
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>>24954858
No they actually exploited their own "allies" in poorer countries and forced all poor countries to pay back their loans in USD, which was not the deal from the start, when they could not pay back they forced them to export products of their own companies interests and tricked them into decades of debt. America did it to themselves aswell but the us treasury is the only one that "prints" USD so its not as big of a problem for the us, not yet anyway.

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I'm looking for clever illustrations of what a leftist utopia/dystopia could look like, with special attention to the rough edges. It would probably be scifi.
I'm not asking for chudslop written by poltards and their likes, nor a time-wasting apologetic wet dream, but rather a sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.
For example, "The Compass Rose" by Le Guin showed interesting ideas about what an anarchist society could look like, sad things included.
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>>24954355
>sacrificed material quality of life
Yeah, but not willingly lol
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>>24953620
I'll buy it and post it in the stack thread <3

To every post giving authors or titles : Cheers bruvs, much appreciated (can't >> you, the site thinks I'm spamming)

>>24954179
This list looks pretty good.

>>24954240
They are, but they are one each, they are real, and there are plenty of things written about them.
A fictional society where the people in charge are actually selected on their altruism or their dislike of domination, and where as a result some things go well and others go to shit, was more along the lines of what I was looking for.
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>>24953192
>clever illustration
>special attention to the rough edges
>scifi
>sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.
You're looking for Red Star
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>>24953192
Honestly most thing Cyberpunk shows what space communism actually becomes.
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Was Hilter left?


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