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>>12205924
As someone who knows very little about this, let me tell you one thing: marketing is all up to you. Advertising is the only real way you'll see any success at first, even if you have to go to Plebbit to get the ball rolling.

Does it impact your chances of trad publishing down the line? Negative or positive

>>12205892
Not really. Taking your book as an example, it could serve as a great example to disprove future apocalyptic claims. If someone tells us a list of reasons why the rapture is coming in 2025, for example, we might be able to show them that a lot of their arguments were applied in the past and shown to be wrong.
This doesn't mean we'll convince them specifically (most of the time, these people aren't willing to listen to reason), but nonetheless we could educate others who are standing on the outside.

>>12205892
Not for a historian. Pro-slavery literature from the antebellum South is still being analyzed and cited in scholarship, for example.

>>12205892
I dont think so. Your example would no doubt make a humorous comedic read.

>he thinks the rapture wasn't in '88
>he thinks the elect are still on Earth after '88
>he thinks we are aren't awaiting God's wrath
>he doesn't realize that the 1980s were the tribulation

May God have mercy on our souls.

>>12205983
this. you will need to read this. absolutely.

>>12206434
Dont you have a paper to get done before christmas break?

>>12205817
Id say just look at who your father was and how he was as a father and what you'd add and subtract from that. Happy to hear, btw OP, congratulations, hope you two have a nice father/son bond/friendship in 19 years

>>12206462
Thanks anon, but I'm crapping my pants.
I didn't have a father. In the sense that I have no living memory of him. He died not long after I was born.

>>12206480
Ok then i'll say let your kid be a kid and discover the world, but warn him about everything dangerous and dont give him too much autonomy

Don't let him think education and saving money isn't important when the time comes, in fact id save maybe 10% of his allowance at first so that he'll start saving already as a kid and just teach him the importance of all that

Those are my biggest gripes with my own father, he gave me too much autonomy and didn't let me in on what a huge life improving benefit saving money as early as you can is.

What he did right is

Read to me big illustrated childrens books at an early age and told me about the value of friendship and all that. Good luck anon, i am not a father but i'm warming up to preparing myself. If only i could find that gf or have my ex be miraculously interested in me again, she' was my dream future divorced mother of my children. Have a good life OP

From the
>"John Huston's"
to the awards, consider me triggered

>>12205731
start with the greeks

Read his facial expressions. What is he trying to tell you by his countenance---what is he using words for to cover up deep inside?

>>12205731
a book

>>12205731
He and the bible are the starting points of literarure so, nothing, thats who you read before you read plato and aristophanes and ovid and especially virgil

>>12205731
You don’t really need to read anything before him. One thing is he doesn’t really give any explanation of the various gods, but those are easy enough to get a handle on with googling. If you wanted to you could Homer and Hesiod in tandem with one another, as they inform each other and work as good compliments.

>>12205683
is this the discord run by the funny looking chink neo-liberal redditor who insists that people who dont have the reading habits of women (ie only read fiction) are brainlets?

>>12205674
They aren’t difficult in the slightest if you’re not a low iq sci-fi pleb

>>12205781
Didn't think so, are they worth reading?

If you can't think of another way of getting this info to the reader then just tell the bare essentials, don't get too specific and lengthy. The difference between an info dump and just getting info to the reader is how specific you get. Only tell what is absolutely necessary.

Finish writing your first draft before worrying about editing it.
Have him use his powers. There should be no shortage of potential lies people would want him to detect. The other one less so, but maybe drop something like "dueling a paladin" as an idiom for a futile pursuit, or an ignorant Tough Guy challenging him to try to prove himself.

>>12205568

>>12205568
Plato was a nigger. Read Heraklit instead.

Some book about the pre-Socratics. Skip everyone but Parmenides and Heraclitus if you're lazy.

>>12205568
stop fucking procrastinating and just READ THE FUCKING BOOK. IF YOU'RE CONFUSED WHILE READING LOOK IT UP, THEN CONTINUE TO READ THE FUCKING BOOK. HOLY SHIT YOU DONT NEED A FUCKING KEY TO OPEN IT.

Thucydides is good background for The Republic.

>>12205563
best ITT right here

How do you do, fellow /lit/izens?

>>12205563
Manga is expensive what device should I read manga on?

uh bro what device are you posting from

>>12205767
i love you. Where are you from?

>>12205821
That is different from saying that the west only got them back because the arabs preserved them.
Again,very few documents were available in the west only in arabic.Almost all of the greeks(that survived) were availble in latin or greek

>>12205845
From ancient Roman and Greek libraries preserved by early Islam.

>>12205855
No Ahmed you are wrong
The greek texts never left Europe
Did arabs copied them-yes
Did some of them survived only in arabic-yes
Did the west got them because the arabs preserved them-no
I do not know how simpler i can put it

>>12205901
Also since you seem to be such a scholar you might want to go to wikipedia and change it.

>>12205755
persians and syriacs

>>12205828
>>12205825
so did he truly choose to betray jesus? or was it predestined by our lord?

>>12205535
Yes, unknowingly. But so was Jesus, knowingly.

>>12206215
Man. Sent to Hell on a technicality

>>12206228
>sent to hell
oh ho ho ho... are you pretending to know the mind of God, anon? :^)

>>12206210
everyone chooses. God does not force things. God does not need to force things, because things (your obstinate free will) force themselves. ergo, if not judas, then greater humanity, because mankind is largely a sinful and perverse collective.

>>12205496
Some illiterate people are smarter than literate people

>>12205553
>comparing beowulf to canterbury tales

Canterbury Tales is still easily readable for someone with English as a first language.

>>12205761
I didn't compare them, I just gave two examples of harder English literature than Shakespeare

>>12205748
an dey can read beter huh huh huh

>>12205619
This sounds like an excuse from someone who has tried and failed to learn a language post-formative years

>>12205458
>Alain de Botton
>Carl Sagan
>Christopher Hitchens
he won't be losing anything of value

>>12205526
Hitchens was okay back when he did general-purpose polemics and trash talk, before the whole Fedora Atheist schtick. I enjoy his books about Kissinger and the Clintons, at least.

>>12205521
Calling someone racist is only used to police non racists into conformity since racists don't care if you call them racist.
Faggot

More like Robin Incel lmao

>>12205623
Why do you racists hate being called racist so much?

*derives his cock inside OP's mouth*
Stop making /b/ tier threads, cockmongling shiteater.

>>12205447
>Searle cut Ong’s salary in about half without explanation and continued to act inappropriately, according to the complaint. He openly watched pornography in front of her, the complaint states, and asked her to log into a “Sugar Baby, Sugar Daddy” website for him
>When Ong, who is Asian-American, brought up the topic of American imperialism, Searle responded “American imperialism? Oh boy, that sounds great, honey! Let’s go to bed and do that right now!”
Lol why are all analytic philosophers like this

>>12205426
Second time this thread's dying, does /lit/ hate epics?

>>12205489
read books that invoke the muse.your invocation of the muse is your starting point.

>>12205540
so like in dante's divine comedy the first canticle he doesn't invoke the muse until canto 2 he also does not enter hell until canto 2.the first canticle has 34 cantos when the rest have 33

Perhaps the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata. The latter is incredibly long, you may want an abridged version.

Milton, Blake and Yeats.
(Blake and yeats write poems with epic themes)

>>12205410
>now

>>12205410
>i'm

sorry to ruin ur parade mr spaniardish

>>12206252
Fernando Pessoa is Portuguese

>>12205399
this guy

>>12205399
or

>>12205399
Severin's Journey into the Dark or Blaugast: A Novel by Paul Leppin

>>12205399
No longer human by Osamu Dazai
Maldoror by Lautremont
The torture garden by Mirbeau
Story of the eye by bataille

>>12205399
Story of the Eye
Justine by Sade
The Thief’s Diary by Genet
The Death Instinct by Mesrine