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10564024 No.10564024 [Reply] [Original]

You can watch the live stream of any book being written in history. Which one do you choose?

>> No.10564030

da bybol

>> No.10564049

>>10564024
As I lay dying.

Faulkner at night in the factory he worked for, writing on an overtuned barrow. What could I ask more ?

>> No.10564056

LO

>> No.10564062

>>10564024
Uh, none of them? I don't even want to watch myself write.

>> No.10564073

>>10564024
Oblomov

>> No.10564084

>>10564024
Daodejing. Laozi sitting on top of his water buffalo, grumbling up a storm.

>> No.10564085

>>10564024
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Supposedly Stevenson was on cocaine when he wrote it and finished it in like two days

>> No.10564097

>>10564030
>not the Quran

C'mon, Mohammed (PBUH) literally sitting in a cave while an angel dictates to him. What's not to love?

>> No.10564099

>>10564024
infinite jest

i really wonder what that guy was thinking...

>> No.10564238

>>10564097
>Implying Mohammed wasn't a broke uni student making up that bullshit for a living.

>> No.10564248
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10564248

>>10564084
>Daodejing.

>Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that allows the wheel to function.

>We mold clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that makes the vessel useful.

>We fashion wood for a house,
but it is the emptiness inside
that makes it livable.

>We work with the substantial,
but the emptiness is what we use.

>> No.10564970

>>10564085
Shortness is of the essence here. Perhaps On the Road, written on a roll (of toilet paper?) of paper in a little over a week. Or maybe it was Dharma Bums. Can't remember.

>> No.10565018

Any of Hunter S. Thompson's later works as long as the camera follows him around as he does drugs, drinks, and breaks the law.

>> No.10565127

>>10564248
>we build sophisticated hard drives
but the space inside is where we keep our porn

>> No.10565137

>>10565018
yeah, i agree.

>> No.10565147

>>10564970
i believe it was On the Road, and it wasn't a roll of toilet paper. Kerouac attached a bunch of sheets of normal paper together so he wouldn't have to put new paper in the typewriter every time he finished a page.