/lit/ - Literature

>>12636566
hey hey hey i was *summoned* >>12630856. and possibly baited into just looking really foolish, that too. and for that i say, Mission Accomplished. you knew i was a huge pseud already

>>12636585
true schizos do not smell at all, in the same way that vampires have no reflections. you will know a truly achieved schizo by this total absence of smell, which is uncanny

>>12636615
ok you're in. instructions on picking up your two-way radio wristwatch and other gear will be forthcoming
>ywn read a pulp serial in which Dick Tracy investigates the history of continental philosophy, and in which obvious caricatures of philosophers become grotesque crime bosses until the cops show up to save Chicago from their insidious plans and issue satisfying messages to today's youth about the dangers of reading too much
>in other words ywn read Being and Crime
>hnng surrealist and remarkably violent pulp Gothic crypto-fascism
>hnng Not Tracy tries to strike at the heart of evil and finds there only the tombs and sepulchers of god and becomes inaugurated into a conspiracy before being brutally gunned down in the streets by his replacement because that's the naked city for you
>ywn read Chester Gould's Guide to Postmodernity
>why does it feel/not feel so good
>and why hasn't Alan Moore written this yet anyways
>anyways in the end the crime is traced back to a cruel and dimly sentient difference engine/diabolical paperclip maker trying to fulfil an impossible command given it by The Maker and the Spike Machine is destroyed once and for all i think
>dark really. a cascading horror
>but teleoplexy you know. it fucks with you

you know maybe a blog just filled with weird ideas and movie plots for somebody else to make doesn't seem like such a bad idea. since obviously i have a terminal case of writer's block that has morphed into a full-blown personality disorder i will just fill it with half-baked pitches that other people can steal. i will dwell on this

>>12633708
not that rambling about Land, Enlightenment and piracy picked up much traction but there's an interesting project going on here if anyone wants to read further into that kind of stuff.
http://his309.zoekatz.agnesscott.org/blog/the-salon/

>>12635167
>why?
good question. i don't know either

>>12637433
that guy has an interesting twitter, i've read him before