They'd both still be alive if they were friends, right?
>>24797009Based knower
>>24797009>>24797023This. It is nigh on impossible to stab oneself in the chest twice through one's clothes. Unlike other methods of suicide it is one of the least common for the reason that the force and determination required to do something like that to yourself are not very common. It's like how your jaw posseses the power and your teeth the sharpness to bite your finger off, but no matter how angry you are you will never bite your finger off.
>>24796994Elliot Smith's music fucking sucks and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't. It's Gen X/Millenial I am so le sad with acoustic guitar and whispery vocals. all his songs sound the fucking exact same. It's dogshit. DFW on the other hand was a true artist despite his tendency to have some le quirky chungus stuff in his books.
>>24797523>le quirky chungus stuff in his booksLike what
>>24797009Dfw was murdered by his wife
When is she going to write a (hot) book about Gaza, October 7th, TKD in general?
>>24799218She's likely got a whole stack of such letters sitting on a desk somewhere - material for her next slop book.
>>24799203Her posturing about Palestine is insufferable. I'd nail her ugly 4/10 face though, no doubt about it. She is also mid as fuck as an author, how intermezzo got such rave reviews is beyond me
>>24799279I liked the part in Yellowface where the white author knows she's made it with the progressive crowd when people with #FreePalestine in their twitter bios start following her
>>24799279She supports Palestine because she is Irish. Her government has supported Palestine since the 80s.
>>24799279intermezzo is goated
>functioning alcoholic
>>24798111I wonder what equivalent term they'll come up with for stoners once weed's been normalized.
>>24798111i was able to maintain a job for a couple years when i was an alcoholic, barely though. the alcohol like leaks through your pores somehow, so you basically always smell like vodka to people, no matter how hard you try to hide it. also, if you don't drink for a certain amount of time, then you get panic attacks and start hyperventilating and youre arms go numb and are prone to having a seizure, so you always have to have booze handy just in-case. and you also have to walk everywhere or take a taxi everywhere since if you get pulled over, then you're fucked
>>24798134>youre armsyour arms
>>24798134Your post is mostly true except the driving part. In my years of functioning boozing I only got into 3 car crashes and only killed one motorcyclist, maybe.
>>24798111I feel it's a reasonable descriptor. I've held down a job with a little real responsibilty and my own place for over a decade, I keep up with the parents, and I maintain cordial relations with a few older relatives who still care for me. Pay the bills and so on. The key to peace is to drink alone, a deeply pleasurable activity in itself, and not mix the drinking time with the outside world, and especially not to mix it with interaction with others. Every problem always starts with interaction with other people.
Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
>>24799130I'm halfway through Ulysses, something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and unless things change it honestly still feels like a chore. We get it, there's a bunch of Irish and life sucks except for Bloom I guess and stream of consciousness and so on. On a particularly confusing section atm. I get the Homeric references and some other stuff but I suspect that he really did disappear up his own asshole while writing the thing. Still plan to re-read it in the future. I remember doing Portrait as a kid and reading it the wrong way, flipping to the back for cultural reference footnotes every single time thus breaking up/ruining the reading. I like how the stories in Dubliners work together, have a note project going on that one to be finished later.
>>24799152>but the rest of his work is too stuck in a post WWII mindset, which has simply decoupled inexorably with the modern world. Pynchon is becoming a period writer, someone you read to get an idea of how people used to think.I think this has the right of it.
>>24799208>and life sucksBut it's a celebration of the beauty of (ordinary) life despite all the hardship and also a love letter to western intellectual culture. He imbues a single, ordinary day, with the wealth of all western culture up to that point in time, and that day is just like any other day, and that beauty is always there to be imbued by an Artist. At least this is what's being attempted. It's an utterly mundane day with an entirely ordinary hero, and yet every waking moment is imbued with symbols that link all of our races (broadly used) past to that mundane pressnt.
>>24797419the pinnacle of Wisconsin literature. far and above the rest of the canon and their third-rate settings.
Got this last Wednesday and I’m only 50 pages in.
Are women(females) really reading books about jacking off animals?
It got brought to my attention and I skimmed it a few months ago. It's nothing new.>furry setting where most people are anthros or stock supernatural creatures>relatable broke college grad self-insert takes on a job collecting bull sperm in a lab >falls in love with every female-targeted love interest ever, not even worth describing >but with horns>she jacks him off a few times for business and then they fuck and get married or whateverMore of the same. The only takeaway you should ever have from female erotica is the same one you should get from feminist literature. Every female's greatest fantasy is that circumstance forces her to be in service of a powerful man who dominates her. A healthy woman will also want him to eventually love her, but never at first. They want to be put in their place and then have their feminine worth validated by securing their love. Every action or opinion or retarded article to the contrary is just an unconscious shit test from a creature that cries about being catcalled and cries about not being catcalled. No, they are not aware of this. No, there are no other valid interpretations. Yes, it's just that simple and has been since the dawn of time.
>>24799129the sheer amount of sales from this sort of literature is really tellingeven straight up porn for men has a lot of different flavors but for women it's all the same shit
>>24799129But why is it always beastiality?
>>24798470There's a fundamental difference.One is a five minute fap.The other may take hours and months to complete.The neurological effect will be worse in the latter case.
>>24799054Least horny furfag
Everyone told me this book was brilliant.This is just the babblings of an1960s hippy who grew up and realized all her navel gazing about the way things should be was worthless
You should read Bataille because you feel the absolute emptiness of your life being postponed for some future "project" that will never arrive. Your entire existence is built on the slavish, decline morality of self-preservation, a pathetic attempt to accumulate strength for a tomorrow you sacrifice today for. Bataille offers the path of inner experience as the only way out. It's about embracing non-knowledge, pushing your reason until it collapses into the abyss and you face the anguish of your own limits. He shows that real communication isn't between two whole, intact people but requires a wound, a laceration. Sovereignty is found in the frivolous moments you refuse to justify like laughter, intoxication, eroticism that isn't about some pure union but about filth, about the wound, about the crime that opens you to nothingness. It's about taking Nietzsche's death of God to its final, terrifying conclusion and choosing to live by chance, to risk everything not for a goal but for the sake of the risk itself, to finally reach the end of the possible, even if that end is just an annihilating, yawning gap.
Am I living a Bataillen life by descending into substance abuse and continuing to "date" this really hot girl who cheats on me all the time just because the sex is incredible
>>24799282You don't actually believe any of the nonsense that you just wrote.
It's good.
It's a good book
>>24790863>two blonde twinksWhat state? When I look up pictures of Mormon Churches, they're all brown.
>>24794792This
>>24783718someone said something akin to "if the devil were to appear before you now you may mistake him for an angel" and I find that to be a perfect allegory for the mormon church.It's members appreciate the worldly aspect of the community moreso than the theology.
>>24798714>It's members appreciate the worldly aspect of the community moreso than the theology.It is a parable of God that it is as such. And, the Book of Mormon is a word of God in that vein, of wisdom, and of personal self-expression of the Lord to his chosen.
Will reading make me a better more intellectuel of a person?
>>24798758Whatever. Believe what you want
>>24795434ESL post
>>24796401>interracial propagandasubtle
>>24799071Based /pol/ schizo
The only real tangible benefit to reading literature beside enjoying the books themselves is that occasionally something will reference a book you've already read and you get to smirk knowingly and feel special.
Do you guys think we'll ever have another genuinely powerful artistic movement that includes lots of great writers and poets? The last one I can think of was Modernism and that kicked off over a century ago.
>>24799275not in our lifetime
The infinite jest of horror is what?
>>24795882What??????
>>24791233Infinite Jest. Stop being a plotfag.
>>24796196Yeah I read it alreadyIt's not horrorWhat's the infinite jest of horrorOr maybe Ulysses or Suttree of horrorJust tell me
>>24795805Ok but what about infinite jest
>>24793719OP asked for the IJ of horror
>An ever-worsening alcoholic, Faulkner was once begged by his daughter not to get drunk on her birthday. Faulkner responded by nastily remarking to her, "You know, nobody remembers Shakespeare's daughter."
>>24798690Unironically based as fuck. Moralfags constantly whine about how "muh alcoholism bad" but it is actually one of the most aesthetic addictions. There is something indisputably aesthetic about drinking your life away.
didnt happen
>>24799243OP is Faulkner's grandchild reciting stories mommy told him
>>24799240Getting fat isnt aesthetic
>>24799240Only to kuffar dogs. Speaking of dogs, why not go full shaytan and fuck that too, it's what you people are best at .
Tomorrow morning 10:00am BST the Character and Theme requirements of will be released.Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for.You will have until Monday 23:59 BST to write and submit.You will have until Friday Midday BTS to read, vote and most importantly CRITIQUE.Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily.No word count, but anything over three thousand is most likely going to drag and no one wants to read your novel.To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).ANONS feel free to submit! We will just use the no.# on the reply to identify your story.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
“Ronny’s Axe”by NutellaSandwich>>24772961>But don’t nobody from here go down there.Ain’t nothing like a double negative to let us know we’re in Medieval Times:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative#Two_or_more_negatives_resolving_to_a_negative>He was drenched from shoulder to his waist,Awkward/asymmetric possessive pronoun.>Holy men had since descended for free samplesI am very impressed by your brilliant period-evocative phrasings, but you wiffed on this one.“Free samples” is way too corporate an idea for this setting.Follow the example of “Piers Plowman” and use ‘free tastes’ instead:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_sample#History>“Really good. I should skive more often.”You wrote it so that Adrian was “down[ing] tools for lunch” when Ronny offered him the drink, so technically he’s not skiving?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24798377some anons just have Oppositional Defiance Disorder and turn anything into a bitter battle of will, when everyone else is just crab raving and shitposting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50NdPawLVY
Whens the next competition happening?>inb4 next monthI mean any competition. Im fucking BOOOOOOOOOOORED.
>>24799216>Whens the next competition happening?>I mean any competition./wibac/, this Friday.Last month I said I didn’t want to discuss /wibac/ in /lwc/, but I don’t know anywhere else to source judges from.That said, there are 3 spots open.What say you, vampdaddy >>24785376, WouldBird >>24788780, and NutellaSandwich >>24786817?>>24796752>I don't read theseIf you did, and if there was a spot open, would you be interested in judging them, winnersclubanon?
>>24799265>This Friday Please, I cant wait that long
Anyone interested in stuff like this
>>24793862There is the Eric Wilson mysteries that describe exactly what you have said except the second book is not Quebec based.
>>24794006>there are 30 booksholy fugg
>>24794914Based..
>>24790920yeet
>>24794006This dialogue bros..
So how is that book coming along, anon?
>>24799124Watch the episode dead freight with your idea in mind.
>>2479839760k novella and 30k novel in the works, 2nd and 3rd draft respectively.had a story published in a mag recently.all this despite a brutal day job that chews up way too much time and life force.I’d say it’s coming along well.
>>24799241*novel, novella.potatoes, etcetera
>>24798433For years I thought Organon was just the name of a steroid manufacturer.
>>24799157>>24799161oh shit you're right.yeah I did see that episode and makes sense.>>24799128alright alright
