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Does anyone have a link to where I can read "Why They Read Hesse," online for free?

Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.

Lol, that's better.

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>>1324883
Wow, I totally have to read that. I love both these authors.

Shit, I know what I'm doing tonight.

>>1324872
You're doing a shitty job of it. Back in my /b/ days...
what's with all the newfags?

>>1324548
This is actually my favorite Hesse novel. SIddhartha was the first I read. You can really read Hesse's work in any order, but from Sid to N+G should be an easy transition.
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>>1324655
And actually I think Demian lays the groundwork for a lot of Hesse's later works. At least the character archetypes he would pursue in pretty much all of his novels.

>>1324863
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nubile
>used of a young woman

I didn't give a shit the whole time.

>>1324854
Yeah, if you're going to string adjectives together you'd better not use a thesaurus to do it.

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>>1324833
Is this Stephen Pinker's pen name for fiction?

>>1324826
I'm not sure that is good advice.
I would say practice, practice, practice.
But maybe, don't try to publish anything till you are 25.

Was it Eric Blair who voluntarily went homeless and traveled around Europe just to accumulate material for his writing?

>>1324773

This comes up about once a month here.

>>1324799
*worlds

har har typos

The best audiobook ever made -
War of the Wells, the Dubstep Mix.

http://lostinasupermarket.com/2010/07/war-of-the-worlds-dubstep-mix/

Justine.

>ottermode
Well, I learned a new word tonight. That I will never get to use outside of 4chan.
You see, this is the shit that needs to be on that vocabulary test everyone is claiming to have aced.

That's some serious Dungeons and Dragons shit right there.

>>1324274
Well that doesn't sound like me at all.

>>1324260
*you're
What's a Yank?

This explains a lot about the condition of my bed. Someone must be hiding dandelions in my sheets.