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15/03/27(Fri)08:06 No. 17409 [Reply]

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Hello, /lit/erates.

Could I have some constructive criticism? I accidentally wrote an overly involved thing while responding in a thread. It might have potential?

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I grew up in an extremely Southern Baptist household, which meant that I also grew up thinking that ritual cannibalism and live burial wasn't weird. You may take every stereotype you're now thinking of and then apply it to the first ten years of my existence. Young earthers high on Jesus, the Spirit, dodgy epistemology, and an ensuing even dodgier understanding of the hard sciences. We were the chosen few and demons crept in every shadow. Little hawks that knew it was the most noble to join the service of our country (for She was Blessed) or the Lord. Perhaps they were the same thing.

It was a gradual descent from this all-consuming light, but eventually when my eyes adjusted to the dark I was quite dissatisfied with the gaps in my knowledge re: reality. I hid textbooks I stole from the public high school in the ceiling of my church's youthroom. They supplemented and frankly surpassed my homeschooling on the four days of the week I was there. It was a simple matter to stand on stacked chairs and poke a ceiling tile aside with a yardstick. There was no insulation in that layer, which was fortunate.

I still love mythology. When people talk about their gods, they talk about themselves, except for when they talk about their government or dreams or truth. It's ugly and fascinating.

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So, the homemade bomb club is a result of zero parental supervision, mutually enabling pyromania, and unscrupulous fireworks stands.
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15/04/09(Thu)01:29 No. 17415

Psh, Pshaw! You Southern Baptists with your organized national structure and you're endless efforts to mollify the PC Psychos; how can you summon up the gall to actually classify yourself fundamentalists? Now, I grew up in a zealot Missionary Baptist household in the rural South, and my only contact with Outside Civilization was our trips to the nearest vice-filled City...a cotton-farming burg of maybe a thousand souls, sixteen miles away; we made this journey three or four times a year for the first sixteen years of my life. Yes, William Faulkner wrote stories about boys like me.

Which didn't mean that by the time I was fifteen I hadn't decided that all that religious fluffernutter that had been ramrodded down my throat was complete bullshit; I kept my incipient Atheism to myself until I was big enough and fast enough to outrun my Dad if he decided to kill me...and to whip him if he did manage to catch me. The folks never really accepted my (lack of) beliefs, though; vindictive people, Baptists.

As for a critique of your written account, I am really left not knowing what to make of it; how is growing up in a repressive, fanatical household (which I can sympathize with) have to do with your delvings into the exciting and colorful world of Improvised Explosives (which I can also sympathize with)? What we have is a beginning and an end (just like in the Bible, remember; "I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA..."), with nothing connecting the two. We go from Prayer Meeting to pipe-bombs. We need another two chapters, maybe more, to tie the narrative together into a whole.

I would be interested in reading the completed tale. I will leave you with words spoken to me often during the tail-end of my formative years, "Kill a Commie for Mommy" (for whatever reason, my Mom never developed any true-blue, red-blooded affection for this sentiment; Baptists...go figure.)

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15/04/21(Tue)03:25 No. 17419

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Seems a little long winded. Know what I mean? The prose is good, nice and meaty. Add a dash a dash of youthful desperation, synthesize a story arc, maybe give it a little more scope. Your experience is a relatable one, to me and doubtlessly many others, so if I were you I'd attempt to add a bit of something. A sinister suggestion of unanswered possibility perhaps. Pick an experience out of that vast wealth of sensory knowledge and supply it with that acidity you felt when you were knee deep in it and see what comes.

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22/08/16(Tue)21:50 No. 18279

bump

Ask the faggot prince anything T. Capote 22/07/22(Fri)20:00 No. 18269 [Reply]

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Well, you know, 7chan, I sometimes think about you. Now don't get ruffled I think about what you might want to talk about. Let's not get mad about anything just ask a few questions and I'll ask some of my own. Is that alright?

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22/07/24(Sun)07:05 No. 18275

>>18272
ask me anything, broheim. I'm here for you.

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22/08/01(Mon)18:35 No. 18276

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>>18269
What would you call my fandom, Faggot Prince?

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T. Capote 22/08/01(Mon)20:51 No. 18277

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>>18275
Well
You see I'm hoping you ask me some questions. It's the inquisitive mind which can, at times, if it may, stir up creative um
creativeness
>>18276
Whatever do you mean? You write books? That's news to me mheh heh. You see I have a very high IQ I've been writing since I was, oh, 17.

operetta solo The+Red+Barron 22/07/20(Wed)08:22 No. 18266 [Reply]

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Tempt not separate thorns
Let to selfish aspirations long
Without need for tempered custom
In thine growing season welcomed
Nectar and powder, pollen enthroned
Closed in thine perfect flowers fused
Destroying lily fields wondrous labor
Mended seeds produced bring neither
Lily's soft beauty or thorns walled brier
New monstrous terrors forests cannot hold
The plane soon taken in love's corrupt gold
The sweetest fruit new falling to Earth
The only tree soon to be of worth

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22/07/20(Wed)14:57 No. 18267

https://youtu.be/H5i7j0VhEHw

22/06/24(Fri)20:15 No. 18258 [Reply]

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> An interviewer once said to Faulkner, "Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they've read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?" Faulkner replied, "Read it four times." He was not altogether joking.

We all agree he was just being pretencious right?

The Tao And Taoism 21/07/09(Fri)03:14 No. 18202 [Reply]

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Some good books about it? I'm not even a rookie in chinese religion. So a good start up in between other books that are well translated into english will suffice.
>Also
>What's your opinion about Taoism?
>What can i get from converting?
>How to i convert from zero?
My mother is catholic, my grandfather, my grandmother and so on are. But i've been seeing a lot of chinese religions and since i was a child i connected to Buddhism. Now i've heard about Taoism and a little to what it represents and i like and feel more connected towards that part. I only know a little about it. To be honest almost nothing but the general of it.

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21/10/22(Fri)00:19 No. 18220

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>>18202

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21/12/14(Tue)03:10 No. 18226

>>18220
It's been a long time, thanks. I'll try to follow these.

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22/06/07(Tue)17:51 No. 18251

The barrier you hit early is that the Han Chinese are very fond of painting their cultural/ religious practices as daoist.

This isn't about purism, I'm talking issues relating to the same words being used by different groups.
Quickly it becomes hard to distinguish daoist tradition from Han Chinese folklore and particularly fortune telling.

13/08/26(Mon)00:21 No. 16966 [Reply]

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Would any of you happen to know of good websites that would help a relatively poor college student who would rather get pdfs of books than pay the bullshit fees for them? I've found a few websites, but most don't really seem to have anything substantial on them.

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13/10/13(Sun)02:50 No. 17014

www.libgen dot org

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22/02/12(Sat)16:34 No. 18230 [Reply]

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If this post gets doubles then all the essayspiders will finally get a life and stop advertising.

Meanwhile, what books about the wilderness/innawoods would you recommend?

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The+Red+Barron 22/05/16(Mon)09:03 No. 18243

Essayfag is a bot so no luck there

Also have you seen that Dr. Stone anime? Lots of good survival shit in it

14/11/19(Wed)00:06 No. 17359 [Reply]

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Hello.

I need my fix of good literature because only recently have I stopped flooding my head with that fraud that is called philosopy.

Since I'm spanish and I'm counting with the fact that many of you are not pretty much anny suggestion might serve.

I'm looking for a good lighthearted adventure like Stevenson's or a raw, crude, careless one (should I say "morals free) like Blood Meridian or other Mcharthy novels.

I do not have a problem at all with touching any subject.

Inmersive novels are very welcome too, since I'm also leaving my videogame and procrastination life and thus i need good material to start exercising my imagination.

I trust you good taste!

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22/03/13(Sun)09:01 No. 18231

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Anon uploaded this on /lit/ years ago and it's pretty good. Slow start but it's one of the better things to come out of 4chan before it got cringe

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books in English theo+linn 22/04/23(Sat)17:52 No. 18239

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22/04/26(Tue)07:34 No. 18240

Sir Henry Rider Haggard:
She
King Solomon's Mines

Tony Blairs Biography Phillip Green 19/05/19(Sun)17:51 No. 17982 [Reply]

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A Journey
by Tony Blair

What do you think about it? is it worth buying?

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21/03/26(Fri)09:34 No. 18171

No. I did enjoy Kurt Cobain's journals but that was actually written over the course of time, not just some garbage pumped out to make a buck

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The Distance From Me To You Book (epub/pdf Format) Torrent 21/10/02(Sat)18:17 No. 18217 [Reply]

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thanks