/lit/ - Literature

>>4888891
yeah i guess so. i think that witnessing death has a strong effect on people.

>>4888859
because i would probably traumatize myself and i would be wasting any potential effect me and the person i killed could have on the world by killing them.

>>4888812
>>4888838
maybe. i think it depends on the circumstance.

>>4888802
not so much the legal or stigma as much as i've never had the desire. why would i risk so much on something i have no desire to do? it's like if you wagered your life so you could go to a paper plate factory.

a family of hobos travels west and ignores everybody's advice.

>>4849854
not him, but do you consider yourself the average? i would argue that women like you are rare and a commodity.

>>4849726
are you seriously upset over him saying that when you use the same fallacious arguments in your posts?

>humanism intensifies
and
>not having read sun and steel
are hardly reasonable arguments, yet you are upset by other people using unreasonable arguments? you're being very hypocritical.

>>4849675
now i understand why people on this board dislike you. thank you for the discussion.

>>4783765
i liked it. i think it's probably a good bridge between normal novels and hard to read/long novels. i feel like i would be more confident reading something like moby dick now that i've read IJ.

>>4773608
it's like a self-parody thing that some of the boards have done. they're pretty funny.

>>4773530
i saw a guy reading Blood Meridian outside of class and we talked about McCarthy for several minutes. it was good.

>>4628404
That makes sense. I knew he was emotionally fucked because of how he interacted with his dad, his "subjects" and his weird link between Joelle van D. and moms but I wasn't sure what his motives were.

Thanks for all the help.

>>4628333
I started it a while ago just to see if I could finish a book that's infamously challenging. I know it's not an extremely highbrow book but I'm glad I read it and wouldn't repurpose the time I put into it if I had the chance to.

>>4628321
What I don't get about Orin is why he did all the stuff with the entertainment.

Also I found this while waiting for a response. Best ending explanation I've found yet.
http://fictionadvocate.com/2012/08/01/the-infinite-jest-liveblog-what-happened-pt-1/

So I just finished pic related. I'm thoroughly confused but what I've been able to gather from the internet is:
Hal ate the mold DMZ is synthesized from in the "MY SON ATE THIS" scene and it finally synthesized when he got off of marijuana
What I wasn't able to get was
How Don Gately is tied into everything, is Joelle Van Dyne actually disfigured, everything with James O. Incandenza's wraith (did Ortho Stice see it at the end?), everything about John Wayne I.E half the book.

I'm glad I read it because I feel like I've finally accomplished something as far as literature goes. I just want to tie together some loose ends.

>>4535968
i think the reason atheists get a bad rep is because of the vocal minority. same with feminists, homosexuals, or pretty much any way of thinking/feeling that is relatively new or not the norm.

People think that because they're different from other people they have to explain to the others why they're superior for being different which hurts feelings and inflates egos.

I've never put any real thought into this but I feel like this is at least partially true.

tl;dr
people want to feel special

CRAZY SKELETON PARTY

worse than homosuck

>>1340223
That looks like a useful tool, thank you.

well...I'm going to be honest here, I used to have a Myspace, where I posted some of my work trust me, I'm ashamed of it...but it helped me find out what people did think of my writing, before I tried to publish any.
>>1340215
I was told that by my girlfriend's grandma, who was friends with Ray before he died and went to his funeral. If anyone else had said it I wouldn't have believed them.

...is this a slow board or am I asking the wrong question?

>>1340199
if it helps at all I've been compared to Raymond Carver, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Carver

And before you ask, I won't post any here. Because I know /lit/'s opinion of any author that isn't a DWM

Hey /lit/ /co/mrade here, I'm trying to find a good magazine to try to get some poetry or short stories published in. Any suggestions?
Picture unrelated, it's just me.