>nooo nooo the heckin bardarino loved the heckin jews>shylock says jews laugh when they are tickled, as part of his plot to steal a pound of a man's flesh, therefore shakespeare was siding with himIs there anything more cringe than Merchant of Venice revisionism?
>>23397658You're making the mistake of thinking the person you are talking to has actually read the entire play, instead of that one snippet from the one Shylock speech he was taught to memorise in Hebrew school.
>>23397746me: i'm alleyn's
>>23397050What's wrong with not caring about politics? There's nothing cringe about letting retards kill each other over power and control while you do your own thing.>b-but it affects y...It ends the moment you bomb their buildings, fuck with their systems and kill their leaders if they make it their mission to fuck with you personally. That's not really a political statement either, it's just a natural answer to being pushed to the edge.
>>23397086>muh nuance How many baby dicks do they have to suck, how many subversions should they do, how many countries should they be kicked out of before you might, maybe, just maybe, start to consider there's a pattern? The whole>jews aren't a singular mass, chudIs such a dishonest argument. Nobody ever claims that. But if dogs shit on your front lawn day in and day out, you don't go, "I shouldn't blame all dogs!" and let your front lawn become a public toilet. You notice it's just something they do and do something about it. At the very least avknowledge it, you don't even do that
>>23397733it matters a great deal to the tourists on this board
>J-Just read Infinite Jest, bro!11!!!1!
>>23397812What's your issue with IJ? I think it's a pretty good book, though I like Oblivion and parts of The Pale King better and think that those books contain his best work.
>smartest conservative intellectual
>>23393374What are people still mad that this guy completely trashed George Wallace?
>>23395311>trans conservativewhat the fuck do they think they're conserving
>>23397702They're probably libertarian to some degree
>>23393374the only thing modern american conservatives are conservative about are propping up israel, a militarized war economy, and unwavering support for monopolistic capitalism. also something about punching down at everyone who isnt white & straight
>>23393374I’d say contemporary wise that Nick Land is the smartest conservative.
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>>23392633The quote of the pic you posten comes from Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami.
>>23395047Salammbô>>23393877name of the Rose / the Accursed Kings
I really love the geometric buildings in the distance, it's so incongruous with what you see in traditional ukiyo-e, yet it's from the proper era.
I remember staring at this wallpaper for ages as a kid, it just looks so comfy. I've just finished Treasure Island, it was OK
Post your favorite quotes and aphorisms from the books you "have" read. Text from all genres can be used.
>>23397386Not to forget 17th-century Holland (see pic). And there’s 21st-century USA as well: In the morning before it was quite light he walked out of the compound and down to the river. He walked out over the plank bridge on its stone piers and stood looking down at the clear cold waters of the Casas Grandes running out of the mountains to the south. He turned and looked downstream. A hundred feet away in water to her thighs stood the primadonna naked. Her hair was down and it was wet and clinging to her back and it reached to the water. He stood frozen. She turned and swung her hair before her and bent and lowered it into the river. Her breasts swung above the water. He took off his hat and stood with his heart laboring under his shirt. She raised up and gathered her hair and twisted out the water. Her skin so white. The dark hair under her belly almost an indelicacy.She bent once more and trailed her hair in the water with a swaying motion sideways and then stood and swung it about her in a great hoop of spray and stood with her head back and her eyes closed. The sun rising over the gray ranges to the east lit the upper air. She held one hand up. She moved her body, she swept both hands before her. She bent and caught her falling hair in her arms and held it and she passed one hand over the surface of the water as if to bless it and he watched and as he watched he saw that the world which had always been before him everywhere had been veiled from his sight. She turned and he thought she might sing to the sun. She opened her eyes and saw him there on the bridge and she turned her back and walked slowly up out of the river and was lost to his view among the pale standing trunks of the cottonwoods and the sun rose and the river ran as before but nothing was the same nor did he think it ever would be.― Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Crossing’(Of course, you have to wonder if Cormac was thinking of Joyce when he wrote this. Things might not be as independent as they seem. As C. himself said: ‘The ugly truth is that books are made out of books.’)
>>23394290Well it's not, I fucking love it, retard
>>23388236I'm 21 and get it just fine, it really isn't that deep, and in case you haven't noticed "everything is meaningless", "billions must die" and other nihilistic memes are more popular than ever, contemplating the emptiness of our world and lack of meaning isn't an activity exclusive to elite thinkers/old men.
>>23397734>I'm 21 and get it just fineThe rest of your post says you do not get it. Save that image and your post and read it again in 9 years ;)
I'm happy that I read this as a teenager.
if Evola was aware of Kaliyuga in the 30s why did he write Ride the Tiger only 20 years later?
You asked this question already.He figured he could fight it, got crippled for his trouble, and learned the hard way that the only way out of the Kali Yuga is through.
You know ideas for books can have long gestation periods right?
>>23396884>bread (carbs)ok>"cheese" (carbs)ok>drink (carbs)ok>french fries (carbs)ok>sauce all over everything (carbs)ok>meat (actual edible food for humans)NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS UNHEALTHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
https://youtu.be/cIwRQwAS_YY
>>23396884Insanely stupid question.If Karl Marx was aware of capitalism in the 1840s, why didn't he write Das Kapital until the 1860s?Do you think Gibbon sat down to start writing Decline and Fall the moment he first heard about the Roman Empire?
Can anyone truly be a postmodernist? It seems to me that those who use postmodern rhetoric, just want to replace the current modernist structures with their own. They might even hold a linear view of history, which culminates in the liberation of "opressed" groups. This leads me to believe that its all a big psyop to force our compliance. Any books for this?
>>23397243This is not particularly talking about Foucault. It's more of an observation based on contemporary leftist politics and academic spaces , where they appropriate postmodern concepts to tear down existing structures, yet through this they advocate for more modernism
>>23397243Unironically yes. Foucault was a huge faggot and his philosophy was a cope for that.No faggotry=No post-modernism
Both Modernism and Post-Modernism are dogshit movements hell bent on hampering the geist — especially when compared to Romanticism. There is no beauty left in the world because faggots like Foucault slaughtered it and cast away its chopped up limbs into separate, color coded bins beneath a rose-tinted looking glass.
I AM LE WACKY IRONIC SELF AWARE GUY WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN A GRAND NARRATIVE BUT WE NEED TO LIBERATE LE OPPRESSED A CATEGORY I CANNOT ADEQUATELY DEFINE NOR CAN I ASCRIBE A MORAL IMPETUS FOR THAT CAUSE AS I DENY A GRAND NARRATIVE AND RUN AWAY INTO MORAL RELATIVISM AND DENY ANY ESSENCE TO ANYTHING BUT HERE'S WHY WE NEED TO DO THIS LEFT WING POLITICAL THING BECAUSE I JUST REALLY REALLY LIKE POOPY SHAMEFUL BUTT SEX BUT DON'T WANT IT TO BE SHAMEFUL I DECONSTRUCT YOU NUTHIN PERSONELL *obscurantism*
>>23397235Good summary and thanks for the reminder that postmodernism is total garbage nonsense(most of it).
I wanna read the bible for the first time. What version doesn't shill the jews in the translation? And any other things I need to know before I start reading. Thank you
How about just getting into literally any non abrahamic religion? That way there's no cognitive dissonance
>>23396927Yikes buddy. Wonder how often you go around thinking you're too smart
>>23396348KJV or NKJV. NASB is evangelical and literal but not pozzed, NRSV is ultrapozzed
>>23396401the rsv is giga kiked, Isaiah 7:14
Get an authorized KJV pew Bible. Check for details, mine has zero footnotes, only introductions. Basically no way to insert any modern ideas into your reading that you don't bring yourself. The book will explain itself through context with enough readings.
Post /lit/ charts. I'll start.
>>23397641Oopsies forgot to crop sowwy :3
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>>23397647Do you actually know about these noir novels?
>>23397712I've read some of them and know others by name but I saw the chart in a recent thread.
What book should I read?>La Quête du Graal>Le Roman de Silence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roman_de_Silence>Ségurant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segurant,_the_Knight_of_the_Dragon>Dashiell Hammett's complete novels>Fermata by Nicholson Baker>Le Premier Homme by Albert Camus>Becket by Jean Anouilh>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino>Clarissa by Samuel Richardson>Pamela by Samuel Richardson>Tom Jones by Henry FieldingLet me know in the comments below and don't forget to like and subscribe! It really helps the algorithm in putting the post out there.
I decided to read Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Fuck you /lit/.Also that one anon was right, I can't help but reading narration in Quentin's voice and dialogue in Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio's voices.
Thank you. Also, why the fuck do good books go out of print? This guy seems like a great author in his day. Yet all his books are out of print.
buymop
Because it costs money to print books and the publisher doesn't think it will be a return on investment? Or everyone just forgot he existed? Idk
>>23396768Get an ereader.
>>23396768>Also, why the fuck do good books go out of print?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Power_Tool_Co._v._Commissioner
>>23397725Interdasting. This is the same SCOTUS that brought us "Corporations are people with the same rights as everyone else," and "Money is free speech," and yet a tax burden on durable goods that isn't shared by goods that spoil, that unfairly puts more of a tax burden on durable goods, is upheld. So now people pay to destroy what they already made, instead of being able to sell it for less.Who votes for these guys? Oh yeah. No one.
>best greek philosopher>name literally means "best of all"who writes this shit?
>>23396343Only because he is an idealistic cuck and also because of the rise of monotheism; which wholeheartedly adopted his ideas. Aristotle on the other hand is an analytical genius whose appreciation it took a little while to notice. I'd say both are equally important but that Plato's influences have done more harm than good. Chasing ideals is probably the most destructive human beings have ever been and we have only mitigated our own destruction through Aristotle's analysis, be it scientific or literary. Plato is the delusion while Aristotle brings us back to reality. Its funny that Plato only took from Socrates what we shouldn't do and extrapolated that to what he thinks we should do, while Aristotle hearkened back to Socrates by questioning whether Plato's prescriptions were any different from Socrates' warnings.
>>23396354He probably thought the front legs were hands of some sort from how flies rub them and tenderize things with then a bit. Which is actually a very imaginative description of what flies do and their identity.
Greek philosophers didn't exist. They're a myth.
>>23396378If you based your assessment of male and female anatomy on the amount of teeth on the average male and female at any given time, you'd also think that men are supposed to have more teeth than women. Because men generally have more of their teeth than women. Women tend to have worse dental hygiene thanks to quirks of their sex. So everybody "dunking" on Aristotle for "not making the right observations" is triply nigger-retarded because 1) the observations, at least at a surface level prove Aristotle right; 2) they never made their own observations to try to counter Aristotle (they just assumed it would all work out; and 3) they grossly underestimate the difficulty in understanding what the "form" of something is, especially in the light of evolutionary genetics (which Aristotle couldn't have possibly known back then). Don't be a nigger-retard. Read your Aristotle and ascend above one of the greatest minds to have ever lived. Also stop doing that stupid "durrr flies have 6 legs, not 4 legs and 2 arms" shit. It doesn't make you look intelligent at all. If that's the best you got, you're huffing nuclear copioid fumes.
>>23396343Plato's name, Aristokles, also meant "best of all"
I'm trying to write a Cyberpunk inspired science fiction story, since I love that theme. One thing I'm struggling with is thinking of a cool and original name from one of my characters. I've done about 4 pages so far and I feel like its dog water. If anyone wants to read what I got so far, I will screenshot it and share. Criticism of my writing style would be great as well, helps me try and improve.
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>>23397732examples of those little glimpses?
>>23392222Depends if you believe in life before death, after death, or both before and after death. Is eternal life comparable to temporal life at all? Or is it something else entirely? I.e. outside space and time? You be the judge.
Best argument against the afterlife: >zero scientific evidence of its existence despite everyone on earth wanting it to be real Best argument for the afterlife:>no but I had a dream one time and saw it!
>>23397741synchronicities... premonitions... archetypes
>>23397753>>zero scientific evidence of its existence despite everyone on earth wanting it to be realDo you actually know this for a fact or are you just assuming. Have you actually looked into it?
