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>>24958425Thankfully I never was read to date anyone and women didn't talk to me anyway so I'm golden.
This old, aggressive, snarling, rude, old black man has taken up hanging out in the same area of the library where I like to read. There's tons of drug addicts and homeless people and unwashed refuse types who hang out there, that's whatever, I have no issue with that. What separates this guy is he watches his videos on his phone on a volume loud enough to where others can hear, and he's even rolled up a joint at the table, causing the entire area to smell like weed. Then, when he saw me looking at him for this, it must have set him off because he started mumbling all kinds of profanities and aggressions -- to me or in general? not sure, I was definitely ready for it to become violent but I just looked away until he left and fortunately it didn't. Anyway, it's really pissing me off having this guy around, because he's causing other normal, kind people to stay away from the area as well, and silly as it sounds, I like reading around people. Guess I'll have to start reading in a different part of the library... lame.
>>24958439Report him to the police
>>24958443There are a couple security guards they have for the place, and the staff are usually good at catching people eating or watching videos too loud. I guess I'll just have to deal with it unless he fully crosses the line at some point. Hopefully he moves to a different area.
i'm incredibly boring and i don't have anything going on in my life or any experiences to share with others so when someone polite enough to try and start a conversation with me i just avoid talking about myself and i just ask the person clarifying questions to seem like i'm present but i don't have any feelings or thoughts about what's happening. then this sort of artificial politeness of mine after a few minutes starts to strain the other person's capacity to sustain their politeness and then i start to get anxious that they'll think i'm a vacuous douchebag and so i try to find a way to terminate the interaction somehow but i am autistic and i don't know when conversations are supposed to close so in aggregate i quickly become the creep/loser that floats around the perimeter.i have no personality, however, paradoxically, apprising people of that is socially repulsive and comes off as a narcissistic defense mechanism but not apprising people of this just results in them perceiving you as retarded or boring.so every social interaction just turns into pain no matter what and drives me further away from everything. the only time i can have a conversation is within an artificial context ie. a therapist. i can't even escape and be alone because i have no hobby or even curiosity. then the response to all this is that i can't have no personality because i exhibit self-awareness but your own self-awareness isn't something you can actually use as a substrate to communicate, it's just results in narcissism. but then if i try to accept this as just who i am then people have justification to treat me like a loser. i'm a mentally ill ragdoll. im completely alone. what the fuck am i supposed to do
Do you have any literary tattoo?
>>24957937Kitchen
>>24957361Poor Edgar spent his short life looking for a sugar mamaHe was born and died too soon
>>24957937NTA but I work as a software engineer and literally every woman I work with is tatted.
I love books, but I have a distrust of language. I would never fix a sentence or phrase to my body. I inherently dislike people who do.Maybe just “mom” haha. That’s a classic.
I stabbed myself with a pen on my knee when I was in first grade and i still have a point of ink beneath my skin. Does it count?
little saint james is where consent was manufactured
>>24958089Like Hakim Bey, we must oppose an age of consent because it is fascistic and contractual.
>>24958359LSJ is a TAZ
What is an ereader with:-7 Inch B&W Recessed 300dpi Screen-Physical Page Turn Buttons-Not Amazon-Purchasable newI would like to buy one.
>>24954389I only know of expensive ones that meet your requirements.
>>24955347>what's a luddite?Anti-technological progress people. Sometimes they're correct and other times they're retarded.
>>24947268no I e-rent them from my local libary.
>>24947268I am all for ebooks but it has to be noted that you have increased retention from physical books due to the possible involvement of spatial processing (you can't recall an exact passage from the book but you can recall what part of the page it was on, say bottom left, and what part of the book it was in, all represented as a spatial relation inside your mind)>>24947476correct
"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/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.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:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24958318It's hard to write compelling exposition. I recently read Demon Copperhead and based on its intro I wanted to try and imitate the sheer amount of soul it radiated, but I find it difficult as shit to do so in a way that doesn't add useless text.>>24958324I can cut out at least half the fluff writing, maybe I'll try that in the morning.
>>24958341Forget exposition. Just make the reader want to know what happens next
>>24958341I'm with him actually >>24958344And I would suggest that the first 8 paragraphs are unnecessary and should be cut out. Start with the night of his transformation. That's where story begins to capture attention, so that's where it should start.
>>24958311>>24958388i agree, the story should start with the transformation, but i actually dont think you have to cut very much. it makes way more sense if he starts thinking back on his life after discovering that shes hung herself.
>>24958433Yeah whatever crucial information is held in the intro can be reworked in flashbacks or fleeting moments of self-reflection, scarcely sprinkled throughout to kindle curiosity. Lingerie exists for the same reason; playfully suggest there is more to discover.
For all his pontificating and self-help guru shtick, he was a narcissist and a moral monster. His writing wasn't even good.
>>24958444funny ur still seething 20 years later. he owned you bro
>>24958444>which Karr said is "about 2% of what happened."Leaving out the 98% of her doing dumb shit to deserve it. God I hate w*men.
>>24958475DFW killed himself for a reason. He couldn't live with his demons. He was a piece of shit.
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24946217Not really. One Battle after Another has none of the humor or the surrealism or the subtext of the book it's based on. It really just takes the basic plot of "Retired hippie has his daughter taken away by the government stooge her mom had an affair with" and does something mostly unrelated with it. Hell, the book was more of an anthology, that was really only one plotline that went through it.The movie is some boring facsimile of Pynchon that feels like it was written by a guy stuck in the 00's and directed by a guy stuck in the 70's and neither of these guys has a clue what Pynchon's appeal actually is. Real Pynchon is not only one of the best english speaking satirists of our time but his work is pretty much the ultimate map to 20th century western parapolitics. Anderson clearly doesn't understand either. If you want to watch a movie that feels like Pynchon, go for Dr. Strangelove, Southland Tales or even Eddington.
>>24948662I didn't get the impression that the movie was that gung-ho about leftist political violence, if anything Leo's character almost conveyed the opposite. He was a true believer until he got a kid and now all he wants is for her to do well in school and the ability to light up a bowl and watch old French movies in his meager hovel. The rest of the French 75 who didn't quit either got a prison sentence or a bullet in the head for their trouble, and Sean Penn died trying to impress a bunch of corny old men in Lacoste quarter zips so that he could join their special Christmas club. The only person who emerged unscathed was Leo because he stopped playing cops and robbers and got out with his daughter and tried to stay as far away from that world as he could. Also Benicio Del Toro made it out OK, and he actually took action that didn't involve planting any bombs or shooting anyone
I thought PTA did an amazing job with "Inherent Vice" - I'd thought of Pynchon as unfilmable but he really managed to capture the feeling of being inside a Pynchon novel. I'll watch this one but that would be hard to match or repeat.
>>24946217OBAA is pristine Pinecone in cinema form. You sense his signature wit in each cut. P.T. Underboob read him well.>I'm getting fucking paranoid man, I'm getting fucking paranoidJust like a character in a Thomas Pynchon novel!>I'm gonna say it... greeN ACRESLiterally getting away with saying it, a not-so-subtle nod and staple of every literature great>What is it, he, she, they?No trouble staying contemporary>(over the phone) "You're violating my space right now!"Ditto>black nun: "Don't ax for the fuckin Wi-Fi, okay?"Just lolComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What I found most interesting was the othering of the transsexual character and also of the trigger warning character. The transsexual was the one that gave away his friend to the police. The trigger warning character was depicted as dislikeable and unhelpful. So for me this film represented the divorce between the domestic terrorist leftists and the 2010s social media leftists. It was like a clarion call to all the "real niggas" that it was time to stop going along with all that "gay shit".
Look everyone! It's a new /lit/ thread!
>>24958314Vaginas are scary
>>24958314>implying a listening componentNo ones discusses the ideas of female thinkers or the work of female writers.Trannys screech their voices are important, chuds scream they're whores. But no one bothers discussing them.
>>24958314imagine the bdussy brehs...
>>24958330The vagina is clearly in view.
Chelosky thread
This book changed my life for the better
>>24957136I'm surprised that lighthouse withstood the force of that TRVKE
>>24951011The genetic bottleneck in question was the Neolithic Revolution
>>24947641This. Honestly it's a psyop to get people to have less vaginal preventative sex. My wife cums better from penetration.
>>24950204>with decaying nigrescent tapeworm caviar spilling from the creviceGave me a giggle.
>>24950554Men are the objectified sex.
i don't even know how to describe what i'm trying to ask so i can't really google it but maybe you bros can help mei'm looking for works written about the entire phenomenon of how people come up with the consensus for an "ideal state" of a technology, as in there seems to be a sort of generally agreed upon golden age for every major technology that exists, like video games from 20-30 years ago or cars from the same era, for examplei'd like to know if anyone has written anything serious about it
YOU ALL NEED TO STOP USING WORDS THE MEANING OF WHICH YOU IGNORE.YOU MEAN «OPTIMAL», NOT «IDEAL».
>>24958415to be honest, i'm not even sure which word to even use because it's a mystery to me
>>24958447I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, BUT I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY STUDIES ON THAT VERY SPECIFIC SUBJECT.THERE IS A THEORY OF ÆSTHETICS THAT POSES THAT ANY ARTISTIC MOVEMENT CONSOLIDATES INTO AN EPOCH WITH THREE DISTINCT SUCCESSIVE PHASES: ARCHAIC, CLASSICAL, BAROQUE; THIS THEORY IS APPLICABLE TO EVERYTHING, REALLY.NOSTALGIA FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD IS, OFTEN, TOWARD THE CLASSICAL PHASE OF A GIVEN EPOCH, OR HISTORICAL CONTINVVM; THE PHASE AT WHICH THE RUDIMENTS HAVE BEEN OVERCOME, THE CONVENTIONS SET, AND, THE TECHNIQUES, PERFECTED, BUT BEFORE SOPHISTICATION LEADS TO FORMAL TRANSGRESSIONS, AND TECHNICAL LUDISM.IT IS IDIOTIC; NOSTALGIA KILLS; APART FROM THAT, CLASSICISM MAY BE THE PHASE OF PERFECTION, BUT BAROQUISM IS THE PHASE OF OPTIMALITY; THE PHASE AT WHICH MASTERY IS TOTAL, ALLOWING FOR FORMAL PLASTICITY.
Should I start with Eliade or Varg Vikernes for a better understanding of paganism?
Pagan LARPing is just Wicca for autistic incels.
>>24956248Varg is an atheist
>>24958207Nigga who will take urs Indians? Europe being Muslims is finez Islam is based too. Yt ppl who are pagans are larpers and it's gone bro
>>24958207How does having gay buttsex in the woods for Wotan going to protect EVROPA from muslims again?
>>24956248You should start by learning and practicing magic and animism as a magical practice, as that's where paganism (and Christianity, actually) originates.
Do you prefer fantasy, cyberpunk, or space?
>>24958469cyberpunk. space can be good but gets limited after a while and fantasy has too little opportunity for genuine universal insights
Cavaliers vs Roundheads, who had the better literature? I admit the Cavaliers have a larger amount of great writers, but Milton and Marvell for the Roundheads is a nigh unbeatable combo.
>>24953066Sidetracking here, but does anybody know of any good books on the English Civil War?
>>24958215C.V. Wedgewood is known mostly for her book on the Thirty Years War but she wrote a trilogy on the English Civil War which is also quite good. Diane Purkiss also wrote a good one, A People's History of the English Civil War, which features a lot of excerpts from letters and memoirs from folks from all walks of life and beliefs and classes
>>24958245I forgot to also mention by Purkiss, since the books blended together in my memory: The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain. Also includes a lot of excerpts from both sides and follows the lives of multiple regular people over the course of the war
>>24958245>>24958252Thanks Anon. I'll check these out
>>24958252>>24958245Is this feminist propaganda?
Books that give off this phenotype
>>24958416
Moorcock and Bakker desu
>>24958416antkind by charlie kaufman is about such a creature. very funny, a bit overlong.
hating on "nu-males" is such a 2010s phenomenon
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I do that first thing in the morning. Every. Damn. Day.
>>24958013WAHMEN COMMENT
>>24958367Nah that was definitely written by a drunk white guy baiting.t. I get drunk and say shit like that on pol
>>24957973In some ways I find that lit intruiging to read because it offers an insight into the dull mind of a sheltered chick who has spent her entire young adult life moving between higher education institutions in the US and Britain and therefore has zero insight into the real world. Every situation the protagonist finds themselves in is presented in the exact same flat emotional tone, as if the character too is dependent on SSRIs to make it through the day.
Elif Shafak moment
