>>24673908
Fucking silly gopher
Silly creature will be sent to siberia

>>24673728
The Halloween Tree by Bradbury

>>24673895
Any Pynchon

>>24673871
Want to avoid any easy Sisyphus answer... How about De Oratore?

>>24673871
>petroleum straws
actually straws are paper now (caused by woke)

>>24673728
negative space

>>24674282
>nigger slop so fucking lazy
It was literal slop shat out often last minute in a serialized format to fill space in a newsletter. The author was embarrassed that there was as much demand for a novel binding as there was, and that the novel became as popular as it did.

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>>24674380
I‘m gonna need to see that sourced as Pierce then went on to record it himself which I don‘t think was pointedly in demand. If nothing else that Cosmotheism chapter seems to be taking its work pretty seriously.

>>24674301
Like italians. Or Irish.

>>24673495
>Any to add to this?

Nope. You've got it pretty well figured out.

boring basedright garbage. go talk to your friends or something. they miss you.

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happy birthday

>>24670863
He bought it for you because he thinks you're gay. If you tell him you read it then he'll know you're gay since reading is gay. If you tell him you didn't read it then you're ungrateful which is also gay.

>>24670863
the book does a great job with written comedy. imagine reading a joking instead of hearing it but it's as funny. there is a sad war story undertone that passed over my head when i first read it in college which im glad because the second reading made it different. hopefully the humor outshines in your reading

Any other books like this aside from Pynchon and Confederacy of Dunces?

>>24673189
where do you think we are

>>24674602
Sounds like my ex wife!

>>24674275
Evolution is fake btw.

>>24674564
No, not likely

dinosaurs weren't real

>forgets the mouse empire interlude
NGMI

Ok I'm 25 pages in and it's pretty good. Reminds me of Lovecraft.

Read his short stories and plays

>>24671804
keyed

It's very surface-level. If anything, the risk is that you'll find it boring: it's a very mundane novel.

>>24671739
It's perfect if you have no philosophical background. Doesn't really work as a novel per se, but it's not so much trying to be a novel, more trying to demonstrate Sartre's ideas. The part where he sees the tree for the first time is the single best description of a psychedelic trip's comedown I've ever read. I'm dead certain Sartre got the idea from his mescaline experiences in his university days. Not even trying to be funny, it's strongly reminiscent

>>24673501
I was wrong in the interim they've since made a sequel to that one so there's three now.
It had a budget of $5 million and made $800,000 at box office and got an incredible 0% on rotten tomatoes.

https://youtu.be/KaBDHMQEbKM?si=u3RMkMrYBVGhZNcN

It's free on youtube we can finally figure out who john Galt is. I'm betting he's played by DJ Qualls.

>>24672878
KEK

>>24674312
Things that never happened for $500

>>24669300
I like her prose style. It's weird and stilted and every line is laden with import crushing the characters lol.

>>24669300
She's a very interesting author. Having read all her novels, I'll say the quality of her writing is inversely proportional to the amount of fame she had when she was writing it. We the Living is IMO her best work, but barely gets mentioned, while Atlas Shrugged, a 1200 page book about trains where the male lead in the story changes 3 times based on who Rand's self insert finds attractive, is considered her magnum opus.
>>24670016
I watched bits of it in an Adam Curtis documentary and it soured my perception of her. She sounded deranged.

>>24673786
A taut, wise, and enjoyable parable. I particularly enjoyed how you opened with momentum in the words "In parting." I'm unfamiliar with the word "inedic" — what does it mean?

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It is not permitted to retrovert a faded thing towards its former splendor—the overprotective embrittler forbids her artistic appropriations from ever again truly knowing themselves (their garish and daring and blazing selves) but through the cruel and decaying mirror of the present and inexorable opposite…

“How handsome a hand rail you have made for us, my dear Captain,” said once one of the only men absolutely qualifed to recognize such sincere beauty, having been surrounded his whole life by all its pretenses.

Seaman’s rope—how does such a thing become beautiful?

A shabby chordate, flopping and flagellating in the soup, but then it makes a glance and twists so that dialectics crash off its meagerest aspects and eventually bloom into lurid colors—hues of bioluminescence and the capital letters of FEAR and LOVE.

Snakehood is struck off of little more than a worm—all by planned chance, the natural selection of anything that can boom and bound out of thin air and dim gravity, everything which calls and falls upward to some unseen surface.

A craftsman (a captain) adorning fibrous spirals of shiny scales: Twin snakes—two hand rails—one for each side, lest perfection forgets itself:

And the dignitary only ever stroked the sinistral snake on his way off his boat; the dexterous one not jealous at all, for it was that left-handed rail too.

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>>24673884
Thanks dude. "Inedic" probably isn't a proper word, but I was trying to conjure the noun/adj version (like "an ascetic") of "inedia": existing without food or water for years, a practice which is (rightly) widely squinted at. Maybe "inediac" would be better. Anyway, cheers

>>24673915
An illuminating and intimidating employment of language as always. From my (pithy) perspective I do wish you reserved some of the 100 euro words for special circumstances, but I acknowledge your style is ornate. Some beautiful sentences here.

bomp for new anons to heed the call

>>24672600
English majors are not going to school for writing, they are going to school to study English. You probably meant English lit majors? Pretty much the same answer, they are studying English lit, not writing.

>>24672600
People that go outside are just mediocre in general. Human beings are rare among the crowds of men and women

>>24673906
>The vast majority of writers comes from at least partly a literary studies background
Nothing in my reply contradicted that. Literally said you need to have a “strong writing focus,” you’re just sperging out over being told people who identify solely as writers are boring. Which they are. And the idea of an English bachelors alone signaling a “strong writing background” is hilarious given the vast majority of those students just do the bare minimum and look up summaries online. And LLMs are just making this worse.

By the way, most well known writers held jobs unrelated to writing to finance their endeavors. Turns out having more experiences traveling the world and engaging with people outside of academia will transfer to better writing. A bachelors degree in English means less than nothing.

>>24673907
This. To study english is to hate it to such an extent that you wish to disect it laboriously and repeatedly, reducing the "artistic" merit to a collection of tropes and techniques. To write is to channel the divine and to write well is to embody humanity.

>>24673906
>the first will have a higher percentage of good and successful writers than any other group.
The first will have a higher percentage of serious writers IN ALL CATEGORIES than any other group.
More good writers but also more bad writers.

Using simple 80/20 ratios:

80% of serious writers are English majors
80% of English Majors are bad writers.

That will yield a majority of shitty writers being English majors, no matter what the breakdown of "good and successful" writers happens to be.

>>24674313
*Amerikwan

>>24674583
I just post frogs.

>>24674583
Wtf

>>24674176
I'm reading Beatrix Potter books :)

This dumbass probably read Christmas carol in July

However, I did not want to speak about why Wagnerian music surpasses the impressions made by all other art works, even Goethe's Faust and Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, even Bach’s Preludes, and even Michelangelo's “Jeremia”.
What I seriously want to try to show – not because everything Wagner created appears extraordinary to me – is that Wagner's works are the world's greatest works of art because of the profundity of their conception.
The problems that he has chosen as his subject are the most enormous that any artist has chosen, more significant even than those of Aeschylus and Dante, than Goethe's, Ibsen's and Dostoyevsky's – to say nothing of the problems of Shakespeare.

>>24674346
Musk is not autistic. He claims Aspergers because he is an insecure clown that wants his retardation and drug addled antics to come across as intelligence. Asperger men don't speak like him and they sure as hell don't love the lime light as he does. He doesn't even have a diagnosis, he is no different than every other gross nerd claiming autism to be special

Emily Post. It's a big book, but it tells you how and when to talk to people or do things so they know you aren't forgetting they exist and have boundaries
Caveat: I'm unemployable and people still think I'm weird

>>24674620
Naw that nigga has autism

You should try talking to more people. Preferably in a place you don’t go often, so if you accidentally come off as weird, it doesn’t matter since you’ll never see them again. Try different ways of imitating how people speak to one another, see what feels comfortable and what others seem to respond well with. Awkwardness is not necessarily a bad thing, some people find it endearing, or at the very least they see you more as nonthreatening instead of creepy. Talking to yourself in the mirror is also good for noticing little quirks in your facial expressions or body language, and you can try to limit or manipulate those movements to appear more natural.

I don’t think a book can teach you how to mask, anymore than a book can teach you to make money or become more well liked. There is a lot of good advice swirling around, but if you can just internalize even a bit of it, and then expose yourself to as much social interaction as possible, you will see progress.

>>24674598
took me a long time to realize I (probably, most likely) have Aspergers. When I was young, Aspergers didnt exist, and autism itself was lumped into studying retardation.
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They recently lumped aspergers and autism together, and thats incorrect. Spend any amount of time around *any* high IQ aspie then spend time around real autistic. There's no comparison. I have been hearing how I "remind people of that one brilliant but weird PhD they had in college" most of my life. As an aspie, I feel the entire range of human emotions, bar none. They simply don't show automatically on my face like a normal person. Also, my body language is the same. My emotions and mood don't produce the body language. Studying the moden personality nomenclature, I'm an INTJ.
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That's my raw materials to go through life. A stanford IQ tested IQ of 145, six foot tall, not ugly. More or less a chad-lite, physically.
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Academically, I always was a star. Its socially the problems creep in. And once out of both college degrees, well... the social situations get in the way of work. I spent my life coming up with "rules" that are coping mechanisms.
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You need a face. A go-to face. It needs to be so automatic to slap that baby on, and it better be a one size fits all face. Lift one corner or one lip up, hold it for a while without saying anything. Then lose it and go back to it later.
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You can't ignore people. That creates more issues. Always give the little wave to anyone you know. A nod, a smile, anything. Never initiate conversation. If a normie wants to socialize? They'll initiate. Do not carry the conversation. Let them start it. They pick the topic. Nod, smile, shrug and react to all their drivel. If they pause, ask a question about their story. How ugly *was* that dog sweater in that funny story. Let them tell you their planned jokes about how ugly the sweater was.
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You're only part in the conversation, is to take it all in and react. if they pause, ask for further information. Its their topic, they like it. Any time they try to shift the conversation to you? Little bit of nothing, deflect, back to them. In reality, you say little, you give almost nothing away. Yet, they do all the talking and remember you as being a "great conversationalist" and "polite".
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>>24674194
>It's made of dead trees and mass produced at a printing press, it doesn't have mystical properties.
Wrong, reading transcends the medium by which it is delivered while being affected by it. Reading as allowing you to experience something that you cant find in the materia of the book is mystical

>>24674194
Why should he have to enjoy himself? There is plenty of value in gaining a thorough knowledge of a work that goes beyond the immediate enjoyment which one gets as a byproduct of reading. If anything, insistence on enjoyment may prevent true fulfilment

>>24674496
Get ye gone, demon

Bump :3

>>24674780
Commit suicide faster with your false, evil beliefs faster Eurocuck.

>>24674696
Good post. I’ve been getting into this recently and my sense is that this intellectual tradition is basically forgotten outside theological circles versed in classical philosophy. There’s basically nothing from the culture wars of atheism vs theism debates from the late Victorian onward about it, as I mentioned above macintyre remarked that the god of the enlightenment was invented in the 17th century. I want to find the materialist response to this intellectual tradition, I’m not sure where it is, maybe Feuerbach and Marx since they came out of the Hegelian tradition which was deeply familiar with this theology. But I’m not familiar enough.

>>24674784
Have fun at the creationist museum this weekend after stroking to Bibleman movies. Maybe they’ll let you ride on the dinosaur despite your weight.

>>24674742
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>>24674036
I love posts like these. How can "men of science" fail so spectacularly to know what science is? It's a process and methodology, not an ideology; I dont know is a fine answer. But presupposing the solution and tailoring your research to support it is not scientific, it's dogmatic.

>>24674801
>wahhh my anti-moralism materialist doctrine is actually true you science hating chud

>>24673012
Reich really tapped the social imagination of the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Ve4rrnfz0

>>24674017
I imagine Burroughs didn’t want his works to be associated with brain dead Gen X druggies and deviants aka the cringe nirvana fucktard fan base

>>24674719
You're imagining wrong because he invited those people round all the time and scared them with his chosen needle gauge for heroin

>>24674727
would he have switched to fentanyl if he lived in these time?

>>24674763
Afaik the massive needles were a stuck in my ways old man habit. Fentanyl existed back then too, it came out in the 50s.

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>>24673931
Now kiss

>>24673055
doxology

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>>24673954
ewww

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