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14493958 No.14493958 [Reply] [Original]

Why should I read her work?

>> No.14493964
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14493964

You tell me

>> No.14493984

>>14493964
that's not how this works

>> No.14494217

>>14493964
whats the appropriate term this type of female of color?
negress?

>> No.14494222

>>14494217
she looks half indian

>> No.14494226
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>>14493958

>> No.14494225

>>14494217
If anyone’s a negress that’s a negress

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>>14493958
>Watchoo mean "chocolate shake," Anon?

>> No.14494242

>>14494226
Eh look at that disgusting fat little pig...

>> No.14494248

>>14494217
Nubian/Ebony

>> No.14494488
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>>14493958
First, she's observant and often humorous.

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>>14494239
>Yo Anon Ima do my hair yoo mine comin in heh wit me?
[Voluptuous melanated pouting]

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>>14493958
Automeganophilia

>> No.14494634

read liveblog

>> No.14494654

>>14494634
is it good, or do people spam her here because of her appearance?

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>>14493958
Because you want to or else you wouldn’t pose the question. Or do you only like what you are told to like?

>> No.14494677

>>14494658
I've heard of her through /lit/, so I ask /lit/ why she's talked about here. Does that not make sense?

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>>14494654
As someone who loves reading and writing, I love also Liveblog. It was a fun project and a testament to how simple methods can capture complicated, elusive things.

>> No.14494731

>>14494654
>is it good,
I think it's good but I also think /lit/ is overwhelmingly populated by classicists and formalists who would not want to touch it. It's not Dostoyevsky. It's mostly non sequiturs and anecdotes of boredom. Here are two passages I really enjoyed:

>At one point he said something about how mom is emotional but he feels flat all the time. Without looking away, I said 'you seem sad to me.' He nodded slowly, shrugged and pressed his lips together. I wanted to do something to help. Looked around his apartment and thought about how he has thought about places for all his things to go and has arranged them on purpose. Like an area of slightly different Harley Davidson and Beatles gift-y things given to him by the same people, little statues and toys in a line on a mantle, unopened snack boxes in a line and back-ups of the snacks in the pantry, copies of CDs and self help books and manila folders stacked carefully in neat piles, affirmations and phone numbers on post-its stuck in unusual places, a large variety of pens, an expensive-looking TV which I think he bought because he thinks mom likes TV and we used to watch movies as a family, when we lived in the same house. He sometimes refers to it as 'the entertainment center' and talks about how good the sound is. On a bookcase in his bedroom, too large to fit on the shelves is a professionally colored-in, formerly black and white photo of him smiling in a Navy uniform in 1957 or 1958, I think, between two boquets of fake flowers all touching the ceiling, which feels especially sad to me -- not in a pitiful way -- in a way that makes me want to make his life better for him and wish that things could've been better.

>I asked him about the TV. He showed me how to use all the remotes and said 'one of these doesn't work, so I don't know if you want to try one of them or both so just so you know: it's one of these remotes. Uh. It's one the comcast cable remotes we have here, here on the table, see -- and here's another one for the TV. That one works pretty well. So it's not that one, it's one or the other of these two comcast remotes, here on the table, one of them doesn't -- I don't know what's wrong with it -- but one remote here doesn't work'. I said 'thank you for letting me know I'm sure I'll figure it out.' He said 'I'm sure you will, you're so smart,' saying 'You're so smart in a way that sounded like you're so smart and I'm so stupid' like he had started thinking things like this a long time ago, that his saying you're so smart' to me had nothing to do with me outside of my saying something that reminded him of other things other people have said that have caused him to think he's stupid.

>> No.14494747

>>14494677
Contemporary, clever, funny, observant, acute, dire, charged, imbued

>> No.14494757

>>14494731
Usually I run away from the sentimental, but that second passage is great.

>> No.14494822

When was liveblog published?

>> No.14494945
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:-(

>> No.14494970

>>14494945
>I gave my cat to a kill shelter
ok, fuck her

>> No.14495277

>>14494217
queen.

>> No.14495292

>>14494217
My wife would say negress.
Then i would tell he not to use that word in front of people.

>> No.14495309

>>14495292
>>he
It's okay, traps clearly aren't gay if they call them like that.

>> No.14495780

>>14494822
2018

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I always wondered if Meg The Inhaler's Panda Express book would count as "burger punk"

>> No.14496086
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how comfy is this apartment tho

>> No.14496091

>>14494970
Cats are expensive dude

>> No.14496109

>>14494970
least she didnt drown the feral furballs like rupi kaur did for amusement when she was bored in rural punjab

>> No.14496208
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Megan has written much more than Vice and Liveblog. Pic related should help, but some of these are hard to find. I've yet to find anywhere that has Pear Noir, let alone that specific issue.

>> No.14496448

>>14493958
Decide for yourself

>> No.14496461
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>>14493958
you souldn't, she's alive AND a woman

>> No.14497183

>>14496208
https://thoughtcatalog.com/megan-boyle/2011/03/most-depressing-wifi-hotspots-in-baltimore-md/
Is a great read, a wholly distinct style from the Font of Meganicity

>> No.14497195

>>14496461
dumb frogposter

>> No.14497216

>>14496208
Go to sleep too late. Wake up too early. Eat bagels in a strip mall with someone you had a class with at community college. Spend lunch breaks wandering grocery store aisles. Meet your mother at a diner. Attend “bar night” with some co-workers. Leave last. Smoke a cigarette. Paint your nails blue. Have sex right away or don’t have it at all. Look up flight prices to exotic locations. Write a craigslist ad and don’t respond to any of the replies.

Talk to people. Nod your head. Review conversations you’ve had. Suspect there’s something wrong with you. Take personality tests, expecting if not answers then at least a diagnosis. Move into a house with two men who become best friends. Go to the movies by yourself and pick one that starts in 15 minutes because it starts in 15 minutes. Buy an ice cream bar from the concession stand. See your roommates. All of you have tickets for the same movie. Bite your ice cream and grin at them.

Sublet a one-bedroom apartment. Buy a plant. Sleep in clothes. Pop zits. Talk into a miniature tape recorder. Photograph your kitchen. Drive to 24-hour grocery stores. Set three alarms. Listen to books on tape. Read until your muscles are cramped and it’s hard to be comfortable. Use old gift cards. Think of baking something. Think of fixing your bike. Take notes in biology. There is a class of bacteria that only survives in extreme climates like deep-sea hot springs. After class ask your professor what they’re called. He says “Archaea,” and looks like he wants to start a conversation.

Get little cuts on your hands from things no one else does. Edges of doors, Post-it notes, a pineapple. Feel like you need to pay people for interacting with you. Masturbate standing up in the living room looking out the window. Stare at an open sore on your finger. Rub it with saliva and watch the surrounding skin redden. Wonder if you’re allergic to yourself. Notice alien, almost slapstick qualities of your naked body in the mirror.

Move into your mom’s condo. “We’re just eating it because it’s here,” she says about a cake. At night she clamors around the kitchen, looking for pecans. She warns you of a man she’s seen in the bushes. After she goes to sleep, exercise in her condo’s small gym. Jog on the treadmill and watch six astronauts on TV receive time-delayed messages from their families. One astronaut is preoccupied with his watch. Run past the bushes on your way home.

>> No.14497248

>>14497216
Remember dates you’ve had. Take baths. Think of the empty space between atoms. Feel your pulse beat under your skin. It sounds like an ellipsis. Drive to see if “20 miles in one direction” is the same 20 miles back. On the radio, bursts of static interrupt traffic reports like sarcastic applause. Remember parties. Look at the phone as if it has a delicious meal it’s not sharing. Eat watermelon in your car. Stare at your fingers on the steering wheel. Wonder how you’re always driving towards the horizon without vanishing into it. Spend two hours in a craft store searching for something you keep forgetting. Examine a cardboard cylinder of pink bath salt. Imagine a team of three miners shaving minerals off giant pink stalagmites in a prehistoric cave, surrounded by air no one else has breathed.

>> No.14497261

>>14493958
you shouldn't, she's a stupid slut

>> No.14497270

>>14497216
>>14497248
Cringe

>> No.14497279

>>14496461
smart frogposter

>> No.14497331

>>14494217
stinky

>> No.14497354

Is Mexican Panda Express worth reading?

>> No.14497358

>>14494945
So, the average hateably directionless woman.

>> No.14497420

>>14497358
Megan was ferried by the zephyrs of our epoch, Anon. She hasn't had as much say in things as you might think. Plus there's her MKULTRA background.

>> No.14497463

>>14497358
That's on you to "hate" the average directionless woman. I wonder if you "hate" the average directionless man? I wonder if you hate Prufrock or the Underground Man or DFW's narrators?

>> No.14497479

>>14497463
men and women are not the same.

>> No.14497519

>>14497479
but men don't have direction by default

>> No.14497624
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Legend, that, Megan The Centaurides
Bolts lightning fast by her daily Wheaties
Leap and speed records, all shattered freakies
Lapping sirens and satyrs, her galopping speedies
Returning from drills, Meg shines quite greasies
Coveralled spongers hatted in beanies
"Shampoo thorough, Leaping Archimedes"
Four Meg feet on equine legs creepies
Merest errands greet jaunty cities
Safe Centaur passage by gilded treaties

>> No.14497637

>>14497479
Male and female penises aren't that different if you normalize for grooming.

>> No.14499018

>>14497479
I didn't suggest they were.

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Leggo my Meggo, Page 10!

>> No.14499068 [DELETED] 

>>14497463
The difference is that for a woman, being directionless usually means defaulting to finding someone to provide for you.


Prufrock isn't a good example, but in the case of something like "Stoner", yes, absolutely I find it sad that you could live that way. It's not even about your situation in life so much as how you address it.

>> No.14499085

>>14497463
The difference is that for a woman, being directionless usually means defaulting to finding someone to provide for you.

Prufrock isn't a good example, but in the case of something like "Stoner", yes, absolutely I find it sad that you could live that way. It's not even about your situation in life so much as how you address it.

>> No.14499090

>>14499068
I'd argue that Stoner wasn't completely directionless as he found his passion early on, the English department. It was really his haplessness and lack of tact outside of that singular interest that made his life shit. "Academia is an asylum for those that are not of the world." is the quote from the book which sums up his character flaw.

>> No.14499169

>>14494582
She looks most beautiful here.

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>> No.14499986

>>14493958
Yea see ina down with "autofictions" jus seem like they want a book without writing it
Mmhm
Wooh
Yeerp, old hat on a new piece a ass all that is
mMh, Amen to that, scuse me
Ima get me mo them greens
"There's more to it than that tho."
Hm, then why then?
Yeah you talkin shit all evenin you neva commit to somethin and just like it. I swear these college ni-
"That ain't true"
You tell me why then, tell me why autofiction so good if you know it, cuh
Shit, Tariq, chill he a fuckin freshman.
Nah man let him speak for his self, ain't no grade at stake here
"No one said you have to love autofiction"
Shiit-, I disappointed you just capitulated, cuh. The fuck!
Man, Tariq got literary tastes now
Na you quiet dahn nah, ima make the point nah, jus sit dahn lissen: it all auto, we doing this now, this auto, auto chit chat auto banter auto bullshit auto flirtation auto fuck this that whatever. You write tho by what's after the auto, what you clean up, when you drafting and shit. That ain't auto.
Tariq I'ma call you Belfry from now on, you on that hotel shit
Fuck off me about my metaphysics, I'm trying to talk to the youth.
"You make some good points Uncle Tariq"

>> No.14500273

>>14497479
No but there is more than a perfunctory or basic overlap shared between them

>> No.14501130

>>14496208
These are really fun to read

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>> No.14502127

>>14494226

Where are the vegetables? And no, I don't count french fries and ketchup as vegetables.

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>>14502127

>> No.14502161

>>14502144
Meg earns points with me for a sound mise en place

>> No.14502168

>>14502144
>that wine
a bit on the nose?

>> No.14502205

>>14502144
Looks delicious. She should host dinner parties for girl women (female)

>> No.14502240

>>14502144

Okay, that's better. Although I don't drink wine or any alcoholic beverages actually.

>> No.14502248

does anyone have a link to the first movie she made with Tao, "MDMA", ive already seen the other two

>> No.14502261

>>14502240
Cooking with them is pretty wonderful, mussels and beer, cabbage and sausage and beer

>> No.14503321

If you smoke and you’re around non-smokers, don’t smoke. If you don’t smoke and you’re around smokers, find something to do with your hands. Don’t recount dreams, unless they can be condensed into one sentence. When telling stories about people you barely know, have met once, or invented—refer to them as your “friends.” Buy a round of shots. Buy two rounds of shots.

Memorize jokes. Nod your head, but not too vigorously. Keep your mouth open and slightly smiling. Are you chewing gum? Keep your mouth closed, avoid smacking sounds. Slouch artistically, not lazily. This is done by making sure your neck doesn’t follow the line of your spine. Adjusting your pants too much will make you look suspicious. Point to the left and exclaim “Oh my god,” then pull them up quickly while no one is watching. When people ask what you saw, say “I thought someone was getting robbed.”

Avoid wearing too much denim. Keep dental floss in your purse. Do not scream when bees zoom past your ear. Do not scream at the post office for no reason. Do not scream in the Arby’s drive-thru line when you realize that not only will you die alone, you’re no longer hungry.

Be open about your personal life, but do not accidentally tell the story of how you drank two bottles of wine and awoke on the kitchen floor to the smell of burning noodles on the stove. Limit your drinking to one night a week, unless you are with other people. If you notice you haven’t showered in six days or left your apartment in four, take a shower. After your shower, fall asleep for twelve hours. When people ask where you’ve been, say “Mexico.”

Do not be alarmed when your cell phone dictionary does not recognize words like “breakdown,” “clitoris,” or “antisocial.” You shouldn’t be sending text messages containing these words, anyway. Have a mental reserve of pronouns to use when you forget people’s names. None of these pronouns should include “asshole,” “jerk-off,” or “dad.” Do not write letters to the man you lost your virginity to. Do not write poetry.

Follow an attractive stranger on the street. Photograph the back of his head with your cell phone. When a group of girls are standing around you talking about their relationships, interject phrases like “I hate that,” “Oh no,” and “I know, right?” Talk about your relationship, even though you don’t have one. Say “He never calls me, I always have to call him. It’s so annoying.” Show them the photo of the back of the stranger’s head. Say “His parents are from Tibet. He thinks photographs steal little pieces of people’s souls, but he let me take this one. You know, for as much as the little things frustrate me, we really have something special.” Blush.

>> No.14503331

>>14503321
Know about history and politics. Read about music. Read about current events. Take notes. Memorize them. Get interested in something. Hiking. Sushi. Cubism. Exude “Take me skydiving with you,” not “Milk makes me gassy.” Do not lose focus in the presence of others—you might repeat yourself or laugh inappropriately. Carry a small, heavy rock in your pocket. Grip it firmly when you feel yourself drifting away.

>> No.14503342

>>14503321
Cringe

>>14503331
Cringe

>> No.14503349

>>14494217
Noirte

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>>14503342
Earnestly, Anon

>> No.14504410

In steamy Meganpolis
Wander girls galled goalless
Arrived pennyless, shoeless
Cam dorms host solace
Pic profiles sort toeless
Broadcast toots, click Aeolus

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>> No.14505891

>>14493964
Who is this?

>> No.14506044

>>14505836
>In Philosophical Investigations (1.293) Wittgenstein introduces a famous and memorable analogy: the beetle in the box. Suppose everyone has a box that only they can see into. No one can see into anyone else's box. Each describes what he or she sees in the box as a 'beetle'. I know what a beetle is from my own examination of what is in my box, you from yours. Wittgenstein points out that in this situation while we all talk about our beetles, there might be different things in everyone's boxes, or perhaps nothing at all in some of them. The thing in the box, could be changing all the time. Whatever it is, he maintains that it cannot have a part in the 'language-game'. Analogously (and this is only implied rather than fully spelt out by Wittgenstein), if I say that I know what 'pain' means from personal introspection, on the model of what he calls 'object and designation' - like the ostensive definition (or, as non-philosophers put it, pointing) that tells us 'that's a cat' when I point at the furry animal in the garden - then whatever 'internal' object Im pointing at (the equivalent of the cat) drops out of consideration. It is irrelevant to the meaning of 'pain'. It is like the beetle that may or may not be in the box.

>> No.14506093

No reason.

>> No.14506167

>>14493958
Megan Boyle's a writer's writer. If you're a reader, you might not get her.

>> No.14506181

>>14506044
>what colour is your beetle
>does it have wings
>how big is it
Was Witty retarded?

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>>14496086
tfw basically all you own are books, furniture, and clothes. I think I could fit most of my sentimental objects into a biscuit tin.

I'm tempted to get of most of the books (I own 600 ) and most of the clothes. I like the idea of being able to just pack a few suitcases and walk away from anything. It's the massive book accumulation that's holding me back from doing that.

>> No.14506313

>>14506266
take care of those books, anon. but if you must go, they understand and welcome that too.

>> No.14506364

>>14506313
Thanks

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>>14506181
why dont you say that to my carrel after office hours, punk