Shaking The Spear EditionPrevious: >>25424340
>>25425722I'm going to bed, tell me a bedtime story /lit/
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head
>>25425728Any specific genre you prefer?
there are people who deserve to be bullied but i don’t have the energy to bully them
>>25425730f/f bdsm
I got rid of my bionicles at 15 because I wasn’t a manchild.I also stopped beating up the autistic kids because I had an internal sense of pride that starting ego fights is largely effeminate behavior. Imagine that, 15 years ago.
>>25425732>*dick sucking noises*Sorry, what?
>>25425730No>>25425734Not me
>>25425737Having bionicles was gay as fuck, like tekniks, real straight people played with lego.
>>25425722I'm tired and I don't want to brush my teeth or do the thing I'm supposed to do for my scalp, should I do the things or just go to bed?
>>25425728listen, i’m going to tell you a story that actually happened, not too long ago, in a city not very far away. it was late, the night clubs were closed, anyway, my mind wandered until i saw myself in a garden, surrounded by heat of two types: one humid and suffocating, the other one fiery, burning my hair and fingernails. that’s right, children! it was the garden of eden, where adam and eve invented humanity with the twin fires of love and hate. i had to escape …
>>25425743I got rid of legos and mega blocks too.I just naturally moved away from childish hobbies into like guns and sports.
>>25425748>I just naturally moved away from childish hobbies into like guns and sports.>t. person who wrote this
>>25425740Ah, well... ok i´ll dig up something else.>>25425734Here you gohttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Library_Illustrative_of_Social_Progress/Exhibition_of_Female_Flagellants
I asked the dude who manages viruses and network security.He said really the only cases where people actually go far enough to fuck with phones and the like are exs.Totally assblasted, neurotic, obsessed exs that have nothing in their lives other than being a gigantic nuisance to the person that buckbroke them.
>>25425744Do the things
>>25425753Can I pay you to do the things for me?
>>25425743bionicles were fucking sick. also lego own bionicles. i still remember driving home from legoland as a kid & all i could think about was opening the bionicles we bought at the gift shop
Is zero bigger than three?
>>25425744go to bed
>>25425757Bionicles made you gay.Legos made you a manTekniks made you trans.
>>25425740Here you go. My voice and accent match Sean Connery exactly btw so keep that in mind as you readhttps://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/f1124y-001/resources/Young_Goodman_Brown.pdf
>>25425750I love money.I also hate brown people.
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I STILL don't get what people mean when they say "prodigal son returns". I've looked it up several times, but the way people use it seems different, and often more casual.
>>25425761hate to say it but legos are a bit reddit.
I used to think the premise of a VR mmo was childish because the primary theme of it is that this loser gets to be some apex chad entirely via nerd shit and fuck a girl in it, but then I saw the thugs who essentially just did world pvp and kill people and take their shit and then it clicked with me.
>>25425743Bionicles literally were LEGO.
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>>25425750I'd read a romance book between a man and a ship.>>25425768A prodigal son is a "useless" son, its a biblical reference to a story Jesus told Luke about a son who moves away from his family, asks his father for money, wastes it all on alcohol, whores, and gambling, loses everything, returns home in shame and says that he will work off the money he wasted to his Father.In modern terms they are calling you a money pit, it can be literal but it can also be sarcastic.
>>25425769They are, anything plastic is basically slop for the masses at this point. But my God, was lego peak in the 90s and early 2000s.>>25425772Yeah, the gay part...
>>25425775Thank youI often see it used in cases where a person returns to their original place or situation from any sort of journey or occupation without any sort of negative connotation, is why I didn't understand. But you're right, it's probably used sarcastic or whimsically in that case, which is why I was confused.
Also digimon is autistic and has no cute girls in it so nobody cares
Is there any source, anywhere, that details how much great literary minds from previous generations read on a daily basis? I am dying to know the answer so I may model my life on it.
>>25425778plastic gets a bad wrap. you shouldn’t eat or drink out of it, but the ‘lasts forever’ angle isn’t all bad. when i was a kid staying at my grandma’s house i used to randomly dig up old toy soldiers and stormtroopers my dad buried in the garden decades ago when he was playing with them as a boy.
>>2542578310 minutes; 20, if they were bored.
>>25425783can tell by the question you won’t ever be a great literary mind
>>25425756It would be extremely expensive
>>25425780Generally "prodigal sons" only reappear either for more money, business that they have with the person, or the person saying it kinda resents them for leaving in the first place.Lets say for example you never really talk to an older friend or mentor and the only time you appear is to either help them with something or to ask them to do something for you, it can be used that way, which in that case they are saying you should visit more often in a very round about way and kinda insulting way.
>>25425788Yeah, yeah, "you should naturally be reading as much as possible without needing to be told", you've a point, but I would counter that many greats from old generations had inspirations and models they emulated their own habits upon. Plus, y'know, the benefit from a prodigious university and schooling, which I do not have. I'm sure you learn that kind of thing there.
Retard
>>25425782>and has no cute girls in it so nobody caresThe monsters are literally the cute girls, modern day digimon has cute little animals evolve into giant mommy milker women who barely wear anything.
>>25425790Makes sense, much appreciated!
>>25425792actually no I was more concerned with the fact you were looking to mindlessly replicate a page per day count rather than what they read or maybe what they said or just how they felt. just a vague comment on whatever mismatch led you astray down the road of ‘the arts’ when clearly you’d’ve been more good to society in STEM or something.
>>25425794case in point
>>25425799Disgusting
>>25425767What if he's Jewish?
>>25425800It's a hit with young teen boys for obvious reasons
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>>25425798But it all begins with the act of reading the books, so having some kind of inspired goal in how much time I ought to be dedicating to that per day would be an immense help in becoming who I want to be.
>>25425803Okay but why are you watching it then
>>25425808I don't, I just saw one of the most recent games and realized that all the digivolutions for the female digimons were goonbait
>>25425807it doesn’t begin with reading books. it begins at birth. montaigne said something about how knowledge is useless (and even a bad thing) if you don’t already have the inbuilt thing in you. ‘those who see clearly but not straight’.
>>25425813Well now you're just deploying sophistry. Okay, you've insulted me, you're the victor. Let's move on.
>>25425777>The main character Fairfaxe is from a kind of bipedal vulpine race called the Bisktritt - a rural, downtrodden, mostly-ignored race of creatures inhabiting the unwanted lands of Mede Hnare.>But the Fairfaxe character is the exception, having been plagued with a kind of rampant, unhappy intellectualism since his youth.>He's an elderly, reclusive sort, having lived in solitude for decades, disheartened by his lack of success in philosophical writing, and perpetually disappointed by the crude behavior of other Bisktritt.>As you would expect, he is soon drawn into a tangle of reluctant adventures and frantic confrontations with the wider world - a world he had never before bothered to even visit, let alone participate in so severely.>In a sense, he's a kind of ultra-rational reverse-Quixote. His reluctance, suspicion, and over-thinking is so constant - and yet often so justifiable - effecting a parallel of how intellectually-infected folk are jostled about in this relatively anti-intellectual world.
Okay, but none of this changes the fact you’re a porn moderator and you use your “abilities” to essentially makes revenge porn when people make fun of you instead of like make money or something.
>>25425816it’s a good point i’m making if there’s something in you willing to listen.
>>25425821Just trying to figure out how much time I ought to dedicate to reading per day, anon.
>>25425824the only answer is you’re asking the wrong question.
Anything, else retard?Do something good this time.
>>25425829Man, if I wasn't 5'8 120lbs I'd beat you up.
I used to want to jerk off all the time, now I can barely be bothered to do so it might be age but it might also be the fact that I'm kinda stressed out as fuck.
>>25425836ouch. & if you want an answer from one of the immortals, shakespeare said:Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
the fear of failures leading to death affecting the effort put into avoiding that in the first place is some really fucking gay self fulfilling prophecy bullshit
>>25425846I enjoy reading. The problem is modern life is rife with an abundance of other activities and distractions. If I had some motivation by way of a model of how the greats did it, that would immensely aid me in focusing on what's important, ie literature.
>>25425852JL austin said in another context ‘importance isn’t important.’
>>25425857Most people learn their good habits from others is my point.
>>25425862alright beginning to feel like i’ve spent too much time repeating myself here. reading isn’t an objective ‘good habit’ it’s meant to mean something personal to you. most people with real feeling for literature have enormous appetites and consume books ruthlessly, none of them did it because apparently coleridge read twelve hours a day.
>>25425867That's what I said in my first reply and you said no! In any case, one can always do better. I'm trying to do better, if need be. And Proust and Joyce didn't have the distractions of the internet and television.
Aw that was funny
>>25425868remind me what your first reply was, something about being 5’8? either way >do betteris the wrong mindset. either you want to read or don’t. if you force it you’ll get nothing & anyone who reads you will get worse than nothing.
>>25425876sigh
I can finally say that I'm genuinely content with life.
>>25425879I tried
I find that people who preach humility can be made to abandon their position immediately with enough oppositional hubris and derision.
>>25425898Thanks for being my interlocutor for the evening
>>25425899Try me, you negative nancy.
>bruh be humb->Well I think you’re retarded, and your thoughts have no worth and I’m just better than youLet’s see that retard be humble now.
>>25425722heidegger is making me interminably ill
>>25425836Hello will you be my lit gf and let me feed you hotdogs>>25425824Gene Wolfe said in one of his essays collected in Castle of Days that the three most important things to do to become a writer are:>Give up and stop writing. If you can actually stop writing for an extended period of time then you're not meant to be a writer. >Read for tens of thousands of hours>"Just write" or similar.
More and more I feel like I'm on the lookout for excusable opportunities to share the story I'm working on with /lit/. I know blatant self-promotion is against the rules, but I'm lately always on the lookout for opportunities when I can slide it in.More than anything I mostly just think /lit/ would like what I'm writing. I AM a /lit/ user myself, and I write primarily to satisfy my own tastes and interests, so I have the somewhat-presumptuous idea that the average Anon on here might enjoy reading what I've written. And so often Anons on here bitch that nobody writes good stuff any more. I guess I feel dared to rise to the challenge of /lit/'s tastes.
>>25425900there’s no fun in interlocuting with so matter-of-fact a mind.
>>25425913Don't do it, sharing your work early never ends well
If I actually wrote something it would be deliberately grotesque and I wouldn’t share it with anyone.
Just go read GRRM
Just did my once-every-five-days shit, now I don't have to worry about it for four days :)
>>25425950I shit so much throughout the day I sometimes wonder if I don't have undiagnosed IBS or something. But I ultimately manage it just fine, and I think I'm willing to live with it over the alternative of being constipated, which sounds hellish.
I DONT MIND THE SUN SOMETIIIMESTHE IMAGES IT SHOWSI CAN TASTE YOU ON MY LIPSAND SMELL YOU IN MY CLOTHES
>Poetry indeed seems to me more physical than intellectual. A year or two ago, in common with others, I received from America a request that I would define poetry. I replied that I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, but that I thought we both recognised the object by the symptoms which it provokes in us. One of these symptoms was described in connexion with another object by Eliphaz the Temanite: 'A spirit passed before my face: the hair of my flesh stood up'. Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. This particular symptom is accompanied by a shiver down the spine; there is another which consists in a constriction of the throat and a precipitation of water to the eyes; and there is a third which I can only describe by borrowing a phrase from one of Keats's last letters, where he says, speaking of Fanny Brawne, 'everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear'. The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. ---- A.E. Housman, The Name and Nature of Poetryshiii
>>25425950you shit too seldom, personally I take a shit every day and it's the highlight of the day for me
>>25425971eat more fiber nigga damn
>>25425981Do black people have a high finger did they eat?
>reading literary essays from the 30s and 40s>writer discussing Flaubert and Virgil>quotes both in original French and Latin, no translationoh what a different time
tfw reading Faulknertfw getting immense enjoyment from it
>>25425989Hey me too! I read As I Lay Dying the other week and loved it so much I immediately checked out Light in August and I'm loving that.the writing in Light in August is pretty close to the ideal version of how I'd like to write fiction, so I suspect it will be a novel I cherish and study for many, many years to come
>>25425995cool, I'm in the middle of Sound and Fury atmgonna get to his other stuff after that
>>25425996I'll definitely peep that one soon, I believe the library also has that and Absalom! Absalom! Though I might take a small break after I finish Light in August. I prefer variety over powering through a single writer or thinker, else you may find yourself lost in the landscape of their poetic imagination or logical construction.
