/lit/ - Literature

Yes
I wrote to a historian and asked her to write a book on a similar topic to a book she's already written but include more details because the book she had written was fairly sparse and very poppy
I didn't get a reply but it was just an email
In retrospect I probably came off as an asshole, I did thank her for making the info she did include available in English

>>20353890
I called Thomas E. Mails a few times. He was pretty helpful to start with and then at the end of I think the 3rd conversation told me "I get paid to answer these questions". I didn't really need him after that anyway because I wound up going to most of the reservations myself and learning directly.

>>20354113
Perhaps you should’ve used E mails.

>>20353890
No and no

>>20353890
I tweeted back at Steven King but it was after he tweeted something really stupid and got thousands of replies.

I asked Nick Cave what the female voices are saying at the beginning of The Mercy Seat
I didn’t get a response.

>>20353890
Not an author, but I emailed the Olivia Tremor Control to ask them a couple questions about the weird instruments listen in their liner notes. Got a reply from Will Cullen Hart, he was a total bro about it.
Pic tangentially related, rip in piece The Bill Doss

>>20354149

>>20353890
> Michelle Mouhtis
> Ramapo Valley Road
> Mahwah, N.J.
WTF? I live right next to this bitch? What do?

>>20354964
Give her a quarter and tell her to go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off her face.

>>20353890
I had a 6-7 email exchange with Noam Chomsky during the Venezuela Crisis around 2015. He is a straight-forward, unequivocal conversationalist/debater. Was a highlight of my mid-twenties.
Will be a massive loss when he passes.

>>20354964
>NJ
>wat do
Move

I wrote to Thomas Pynchon one time. But I cannot give any details.

>>20353890
Yeah I once sent Chomsky an email with some /lit/ copypasta, and he asked me to never contact him again (I now have a weekly ritual in which I send Chomsky copypasta, often sneed stuff, using new emails each time). I regularly send scat pornography to Zizek (mostly through email). He responded to me once, mocking my past-time and stating its unique exclusivity to Capitalism (such a thing wouldn't be done under Marxism, Fascism, etc). I found that hard to believe, stating that in the counterfactual world in which my society was Socialist, I would be an even greater shitposter (or shit-sender).

>>20357382
Oh yeah I once sent Nick Land a photo of my ejaculation over a photo of him, and he said that it wasn't remotely enough ejaculate.

>>20355874
Lmao

>>20354967
Based Uncle Buck.

>>20357382
>He responded to me once, mocking my past-time and stating its unique exclusivity to Capitalism
too real to be fake

>>20353890
I wrote to Zizek but he never replied. Then he was invited as a speaker at my university, and he took questions after the event. I asked him about his thoughts on 4chan, and he said something like this.

>Now what you have in the case of 4chan is a macabro expression of ideology similar to Yugoslavia in the 1980s. If you have not heard of the lasting fashion, like pepe the scatological toad in which past visions of uber and undermen are sublated in a surreal manner, you are told to go to ray-did or tumbler because you aren't part of the tribe and commune and so on and so on. *sniff* There is an old East German joke in which an engineer gets sent to Siberia and he tells his friend beforehand that in his letters all that is true will be written with blue ink and all that is not with red and so in the first letter what is written on red is that how great the Gulag is and how they get new clothes and women and so on - in red ink. Only thin that is missing is blue ink. If we see this in the case of 4chan *sniff*, this is precisely the case. We have all the red ink we want - mehmehs, endless jokes and freudian ironies which go a long way to show us a creative and modern men. But there are no memes to show true pain, the truth of 4chan which is that it does not hate the Other, but rather, itself to the point of it unable to consider crippling solitude without turning it to a joke of having "no gf" or drawing a comic of two fellows you have here in the illustration. These men eat up ideology, shit ideology and make nonsensical machines out of ideology so that they don't see ideology, but an entertaining process of alienation and so on.

>>20357426
>But there are no memes to show true pain
He clearly didn't lurk long enough. Yeah we joke about it but that doesn't mean people don't deal with real pain on here.

>>20353890
Lots of times, I used to do it a fair amount back around the turn of the century.
>>20355895
Kek. I am remembered! Tommy is getting old, I will upload them after he dies. They will not be of great interest to anyone but me for the most part, they were not exactly deep personal correspondences, just talking about writing, but they have some worth.

>>20357382
You and I and so alike. I made a bot that sends Jordan Peterson random images of lobsters everyday.

Twice. One wanting to give thanks while asking to see if a key theme was influenced by another author. The other was trying to get a book signed to impress a girl.
Both didn’t respond ;_;

>>20357426
>ray-did or tumbler

Donna, I wrote you but still ain't callin'
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em
There probably was a problem at the post office or somethin'
Sometimes I scribble addresses, too sloppy when I jot 'em

After reading Conspiracy Against the Human Race, I emailed Ligotti saying that reading the book made my wanna kms, and he replied "same".

>>20354624
But that happens almost every day

>>20355813
Post them chud. You won't. Because this never happened.

>>20357735
Even Ligotti admits he's a lying coping faggot dweeb. Amazing.

>>20353890
Mike Ma gave me some tips

>>20353890
I wrote to Benjamin Foster a couple months ago, I wanted to know if his 2019 translation of Gilgamesh included some of the more recent findings of the poem.
And yes, he kindly replied that he included all but one minor addition in the book

>>20358090
What kind of tips? For instance, Jordan Peterson once gave me very specific instructions on how to clean my foreskin irl. I legit thought it was a meme.

>>20357426
>ray-did

>>20357426
>If we see this in the case of 4chan *sniff*, this is precisely the case. We have all the red ink we want - mehmehs, endless jokes and freudian ironies which go a long way to show us a creative and modern men. But there are no memes to show true pain, the truth of 4chan which is that it does not hate the Other, but rather, itself to the point of it unable to consider crippling solitude without turning it to a joke of having "no gf" or drawing a comic of two fellows you have here in the illustration. These men eat up ideology, shit ideology and make nonsensical machines out of ideology so that they don't see ideology, but an entertaining process of alienation and so on
Does that make us ubermensch?

>>20357392
Anon I thought your post said "Lmo" at first glance, but upon reading it again, I see now that it really does say "Lmao".

>>20353890
I wrote an email to Aaron Ceak asking him when the new edition of Alchemical Traditions would be released, and it was long overdue it's slated release of 2020. He said hopefully by early 2022, but it's still not out yet.

I am going to send Gerald Murnane a letter.
I just haven’t figured out how to.
Should I contact the publisher for details or just forward a letter to him care of the publisher?

>>20358275
I should add I don’t want some lefty intern at a Melbourne publishing house to determine if my letter is “ok” to be forwarded to Mr. Murnane.

>>20357989
You ready to be served? Pic 1/3

>>20357989
2/3
Not going to air out the entire conversation because I think that would be rude. But he replies to emails from casuals.

>>20358373
Jesus Chomsky sounds like the average reddit fag

>>20358383
Post a rebuttal to the points he made, because I struggled.

>tfw got to meet my favorite loli manga writer
>had to speak to her in Japanese since she doesn't speak a lick of English
>she was still super nice

>>20358373
Are we even sure.that Chomsky is University educated at this point?

>>20358456
He literally outfoxed me on my libertarian retardation. If you have a rebuttal, I'd love to hear it.

>>20358373
>your work has validated many of my conservative and libertarian views

>>20358466
I know, I know. But it was true at the time.

>>20353890
I wish I was famous enough that strangers wrote me letters

i send obscure myths and folktales from my third world country to etnographers i like

>>20358460
My rebuttal - Have sex Chom-cel.
That's what I would've told him.

>>20358552
Post your home address and I will write you.

>>20358589
That’s pretty dope
Maybe I’ll get random myth emails from anons one day :)

>>20353896
Was it Mary Beard?

>>20359008
No