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@matt_olma If you can’t see the humor inherent in this clusterfuck of a cosmos, idk what to tell you. If we saw the world for what it truly is, we would be laughing hysterically all the time.
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Yeah, well, y'know, that's just like uh your opinion, man
Katılım Mayıs 2011
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@HereticArtwork @JaycelAdkins There are a handful of publishers whose work you can almost universally trust. Deep Vellum/Dalkey, New Directions, NYRB, etc. They release and re-release new stuff all the time.
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I feel, if you aren’t into gooner literature, the modern literary landscape does not hold much of interest.
I’ll stick with Great Books.
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@sb_wight @MichaelFKane There is a huge amount of material in high quality prose that is neither dialogue nor “description” in the way that you mean. Idk how in the world these people could read a book like The Tunnel, in which the prose itself transcends such categories.
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@MichaelFKane Not advocating for reading nothing but the dialog, but I am going to defend 'an' on one thing: it sounds like they have aphantasia (no mind's-eye). I have this and it 100% lessens the importance of descriptions that go beyond the necessary, because we can't visualize any of it.
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This is equivalent of grown human beings bragging that they don't like to eat vegtables.
fooler initiative@metroadlib
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!! WHAT?!!!
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today i've seen:
- should men wear shorts?
- bob dylan can't sing
- barefoot running shoes vs cushy running shoes
- women be shopping
- men are cheap
YOU PEOPLE ARE SO BORING IT'S CRAZY
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@georgecursor No. If someone like this is even picking up your book at all, you should be embarrassed.
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These are the idiots I'm supposed to spend 3 years on a book for?
You get 2 days tops and you should be thankful I even bother to write it.
fooler initiative@metroadlib
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!! WHAT?!!!
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@mauddweeb @ChrisExpTheNews Idk “cool” or “fun” or whatever, I’m not a zoomer. You do have a good username though
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@Apocryphal_Book @ChrisExpTheNews what do you think Lindy means
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It’s actually more Lindy to listen to a story than to read it
Sav Shawz@shawzsav
Hot take but listening to an audiobook is not reading and it’s actually insane to think otherwise
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Books are timewarping psychic communication and symbol magic.
alz@alz_zyd_
There is nothing magical or special about books. you can get arbitrarily smart without ever finishing a book
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@Tsylverblair @Homersampson You should be intentionally writing to a very small audience. Wanting to be a bestseller is for mass commercial genre trash
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@Homersampson The majority of people I know don't read.
The ones who do read, it's probably around 2-3 books a year (I know because I ask them about what they are reading and many will still be working on the same book a few months later).
As an author, this is all quite depressing.
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The average person does NOT read (or even contemplate reading) 10-20 books a year
zara ꨄ︎@kqteharker
the average person has a reading goal of 10-20 a year but in a community where reading is your main hobby, of course people are gonna read more idk why this is such an issue 😭 if u wanna read 20 books a year that's okay. reading 50+ is also okay and entirely feasible
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“Time is a flat circle” is such a dumb, meaningless phrase
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If you know me you know that I just share little stories about human interactions (often at McDonald's where I do a lot of my writing). For some reason this one:
1) Blew up.
2) Lots of people are saying is made up for engagement despite it being very mundane. (Infuriating, affront to my honor. I don't lie for engagement.)
3) Lots of people are taking as me casting the Gen X man as a hero.
4) Is making lots of people extremely frothing mad under the idea I am a leftist/Democrat? (Why?)
5) Is making lots of people tell me my story is pointless/boring and wasted their time. (What do you want me to do about that?)
Very confusing times for the Cairo's Local McDonald's discourse.
Cairo Smith@cairoasmith
At my local McDonald's they don't have a cashier because they want everyone using the touch screen terminals or app. Yesterday, a Gen X guy came up. "I just wanna order a black coffee." The McDonald's girl is up to her ears in drive-thru orders, but she sighs and comes over. "Okay, I can ring you up." "YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE DOING. They're trying to replace you, automate your jobs. That's why I won't use the screen. I'm trying to help you." "Okay sir." She gives him the coffee.
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@OedipasKvass I’m on my first time right now. Maybe 50 pages in. This part was so good that I involuntarily and audibly went 😮💨 in the middle of the coffeeshop
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Not every page is like this, but it sometimes blows my mind how dense The Crying of Lot 49 can get.
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Yes, yes, very monastic and privileged of you to find God in the silence, but can you find Him in the horrid deafening cacophony?
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Spotify is a specific piece of tech for which I give zero fucks about data privacy. Sell my music listening info to whomever will buy it. Monetize my auditory taste. Tell Meta that the guy who spends way too much bandwidth on alt-J sent you. I’m just a Geese casual? So be it.
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I already wrote this as a screenplay for a Twilight Zone episode in college. I called the device the “iCon” (short for Conscience), and it ended disastrously. So if you want to do the “I invented the Torment Nexus” thing, go ahead
Melo ⭒@wyomelo
Idea: AI earrings that whisper to you and help you make decisions
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