Roy Medvedev obituary: prolific Marxist writerThe historian and dissident activist, who researched and exposed the worst excesses of the Stalinist past, has died aged 100https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/roy-medvedev-obituary-death-htfl36jwb?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfRYAuPMnDJe9vpRi4jLHT8mjazgH45hvcN7WO2kd_N0T0MiN_TJ-ItNLqSH4U%3D&gaa_ts=699129ef&gaa_sig=oEZlJaCsKe-7yU27-_a_XM9Y3tc5fpB3Wx44CwwmZMwLtRrGVJadpGahcEmIRpBZcn_ADv2LwdSb-wXTXHIVxg%3D%3D
All Roys are good people
>>25089000>Medvedev was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union on 14 November 1925, into a Jewish family.You just know he would have been an incredibly staunch defender of Stalin if Stalin wasn't a bit of an antisemite.
>>25089284Probably Stalin's best attribute
A feat of language. The poetic density here is tending toward Finnegans wake
Why does McCarthy make millennials shit themselves in impotent rage?
>>25089245problematic cis white male :/ really yucky
>>25089241how would you know? you didn't understand the chapter and I did.
>>25089263It's funny you want me to believe you read Ulysses while visibly struggling with the idea of poetry and what it comprises of.
>>25089245Most of them are ESLs
>STEM prodigy>drops out to pursue English>joins navy>starts working for boeing>has crisis of conscience after doing acid>becomes the greatest author of all timewhen will waldun fulfil his destiny?
>>25077925He must really need to stretch just to ride that motorcycle and it's a tiny little roadster.
>>25086238BasedSo as a fucked up person I have a chance
>>25086063When they do weird shit without a hint of self-awareness.
>>25086521For example?
>>25077773He was jerking off, and his coomer-brain is sex-addled
>Oh my god! He's the most evil character ever!>You can't possibly imagine how evil he is!>No one could ever be as evil as him in real life>Literally the average activities of an American during westward expansion
>>25088802He is described as a giant baby
>>25088770>>25088779Triply ironic to be an ESL and try criticizing prose. And don't be an hypocrite, you criticized his use of punctuation while not knowing how to use commas
>>25088770>don't know how to punctuate>le spelling mistakeThis is why esls don't improve
>>25089254learn to interpret the general gist of an image or gif, insufferable autismo-ton 3000
>>25085956He's the anti-Messiah, the messenger of something akin to the evil false God in gnostic writings. So where the true God sent Jesus as a humble carpenter to spread love, forgiveness etc, the Messiah of the Demiurge comes as a giant, polyglot ubermensch and spreads the message that might makes right, and so on, because that is what the creator of this material universe intends for it. Not that I think it's really necessary to invoke all of that, it's enough to say that he is just the personification of a cruel universe built in violence and material 'stuff'. But it's interesting that McCarthy seems to like the idea that Men, at least some, can have something like the Divine spark in them, the ability to rebuke all that violence and build something better from it. If I remember correctly he calls it the flame or the fire or something in The Road, and the spark imagery is in the epilogue of Blood Meridian too I think (been awhile since I've read it). And that's all the stuff that The Judge seems to dislike the most, things like economics and law taking the place of pure war and violence. The former he perverts where he can; the latter he disapproves of in the vision The Kid has of him observing the counterfeiter.
>>24962299>>25016974>>>/his/18296640
>>25050427>the Mormon Church had them for almost two centuries without knowing the authentic owners of the records?
>>25084598I don't think of it as that, more as something written for a very specific purpose (which it served quite well, I suppose), and as an artifact of its time
>>25086758>as an artifact of its time1830 or 421 (or both?)
>>25086758>written for a very specific purpose (which it served quite well, I suppose)?
Book of Marlon thread 5 when
Why doesn't anyone make a 7-hour kino adaptation of this?
>>25088709Well, how do you translate celine into visual language?
Don't worry, a white hating Jewish zionist is working on a movie adaptation.
>>25088762Max Lawton?
>>25088709It would work well in a one season show made up of 7-8 episodes rather than a single filmif you look closely all great movie adaptation from novels come from forgettable, short novels. it's tough to translate a complex novel to a 2h film and not lose a lot of its essence
>>25088709Because you haven't bullied Bela Tarr enough?
Books that survey big brained mathematical concepts like spinors/matrices/topology (ideally physics math) but for retards but which do not oversimplify to the point of just being basically lies to make retards feel like they understand a thing they do not?Looking for intuitive understanding to borrow/steal ideas/thought-frameworks for use in other fields, but not going to actually spend 3 years become a stemfag.
>>25086805pretty rare to find a person having sex who didnt start out masturbating (but i guess one cant expect a good analogy from a mathematician)
>>25084651Gödel's Proof by Newman, Nagel, and Hofstadter. You can also try Roger Penrose's books pertaining to consciousness but honestly there's no real shortcut. If mathematical concepts could be explained in layman's terms that everyone could understand then they simply would but like my professor used to say "if everyone could do it so easily then it wouldn't be worth doing."
>>25086805I was forthright in my post my only interest in this is to apply it in other contexts.I was upfront that I understand most of it will be midwitted nonsense akin to a ND Tyson yt popsci video that uses so much metaphor that it’s not only completely wrong, that it’s actually worse than just not knowing anything.That being said recently I watched a 3 hour lecture on spinors after the idiots on Reddit failed to explain what spin 1/2 actually means for an electron and it did catch my interest, especially if there are real world implications for spinors (even if they probably don’t behave like that below the floor of what is observable).I do not actually care about the math, except to steal some concepts and use them elsewhere. If it isn’t useful elsewhere, I’m not interested in it. But I can see how spinors for example might be useful in finance or other probabilistic thinking.
>>25085009I think a lot of its numbers and I find numbers menial and trite.
>>25088978>numbersYou mean grade school arithmetic? Higher mathematics has more things in common with philosophy and theology than with number crunching (all done by computer nowadays)
>He has seen his father's penis only once. That was in 1945, when his father had just come back from the War and all the family was gathered on Voëlfontein. His father and two of his brothers went hunting, taking him along. It was a hot day; arriving at a dam, they decided to swim. When he saw that they were going to swim naked, he tried to withdraw, but they would not let him. They were gay and full of jokes; they wanted him to take off his clothes and swim too, but he would not. So he saw all three penises, his father's most vividly of all, pale and white. He remembers clearly how he resented having to look at it.ok man, that's an extremely normal thing to write
>>25089102You copied it. It's a somewhat fictional memoir, full of awkwardness and moments of great beauty. Later, the writer gets the Nobel Prize for other stuff which ain't extremely normal either.
>>25089102You're telling me you've never seen your father's penis and felt weird about it? Not even once?
boy sex
Why did all those writers lie when they wrote about so called "love"?
>>25086785You'd think a rage-fuelled retard soulmate would be easy to find around here.
>>25086588They were writing an ideal that could inspire people to be better. In the past they understood that even though ideals are inherently unrealistic, it was still worth depicting and striving to achieve them. Now everyone is dead inside so the modern man sees an ideal as nothing more than a lie, rather than something to continually work towards throughout his life.
Faulkner was the only one who didn't lie about it
YOU'VE BEEN STRUCK BY A SMOOTH CRIMINAL
>>25086588They were writing when women were still socialized by people that loved them and not by mass managerial organizations like the government and corporations, and before said organizations atomized society and eroded social norms.
I'll start with Salman Rushdie, the most evil author in the free world.
>>25086697His bodyguard pushed me off the sidewalk onceHe'll answer for this
>>25088049>"Moth goes into a doctor's office"
>>25086721foucault vs. chomsky has aged like a 1961 château cheval blanc
>>25086697Muslim larpers are the lowest caste on /lit/.I blame the Geunon cult.
>>25087648lmfao finally a great post on this forsaken board
Finished it. At page 600, I thought that, surely, this could have been a few hundred pages shorter. Then I thought of a conversation I had with a buddy a few weeks back. He was halfway through Moby Dick and asked why it was mostly cetology chapters. I told him that, among other reasons, the book forces you to search its information for meaning as a thematic reflection of the characters who do the same thing. Impose your ethos upon the impenetrable fog, see if it lifts. Ellmann does not hit the prosaic ecstasy of Melville, but I do not think that is her aim. Sure, we can draw the line from her family to Penelope, which gives credence to housewife rambling, but I think that it's structure is more akin to Moby Dick. It is a book of obfuscation. People talk of hypnotism or submerging themselves in the voice of it-- a kind of eyes-glazed analysis, really, especially when there's a few interesting plots to puzzle out of the book. For example, if you read this, and I were to ask you about the daughter, you better have an answer or I'll know you let the book pass you by. I still believe it could be trimmed, and I prefer DOT, but it is a fine book, and, at least, more daring than most. I enjoyed it.
>>25088383Joyce was a degenerate. I don't want to read that smut. Why would I read some alcoholic coprophiliac trying to make clever references to the Greeks, the Bible and Shakespeare when I could just read the Greeks, the Bible and Shakespeare?
>>25089032You started out with "I wonder," so either subrosa or rhetorical, I wasn't sure which but had intended to answer, so eventually did. My answers are more for me than you, that they are of use to you is a side effect of my using you, a win win sort of situation. We all have those authors in our past that we will never return to, some because we moved on and some because we learned our lesson after rereading one of those books that was important to us and discovered the memory was far better than the reality. The past is a risky place to visit, no telling how such a trip will affect the present.
Still writing like a pseud. Now with hints of faggotry. Must be british.
More like Sucks, Notveryshort kek.
>>25089070Kek, checking back in on the thread? What a dweeb
i underline words i need to look upand then i don't look them up
>>25088697>he doesn't read with Google open in front of him to Google words he doesn't know
>>25087279Of course, if you don't take notes yngmi
>>25087279Yes. >write a brief summary at the end of each chapter >underline words and description that strikes me as particularly beautiful >note whenever I find symbolism or sense foreshadowing or a theme >translate things that arent in English >occasionally call out the author or the characters for being a fucking idiot.
>>25088715>reading in front of a computer
I am once again asking for a book that explains why exorcism is almost entirely absent from the OT and is a central theme of the NT, clearly written to an audience familiar with it.I am once again asking for a book which goes in to the developments in scholarly Rabbinical & popular Jooish thought in the intertestimonial period that made writing Jesus & Co in the NT this way possible, and why the audience would have been familiar with an exorcism and not found it to be a strange or obscure concept.I am once again reminding you that this is not an attack on your religion which I have plenty of respect for or an opportunity for you to shill your sects supernatural explanation or your thoughts on whether or not God exists, this is a purely historical question which is more about the audience at the time and what they were familiar with than the Bible itself.I am once again reminding you that if you bring up one obscure example with Solomon and purposefully ignore this obviously interesting discontinuity you are a massive faggot.
Anyone ever read this or watch the lecture series? It was recommended to me by a seminary professor as an introduction to philosophy. It's pretty highly reviewed.
A very good layman's introduction to philosophy. It's basically the History of Western Philosophy, but from a Christian perspective.
>>25087666>666
Books about how usury conquered the world?
>>25088438Still here, you samefag. Quit doing that on my board. Usury is bad and I contributed a book to the discussion. All you’ve done is slide and same fag.
>>25088799>still doesn't know how to detect samefagsI mean, how long have you had by now?lrn24chan newfag.
>>25088702>the fed is politically independentLMAO
>>25088693>You just need to have the right people in charge using the tools in the right way.LOL, no shit, But politicians are in charge, so this never happens.
>>25088980trump appointed powell too dude, and just look at gold fall off a cliff after he announced warsh, it's a good pick.
