Do you own any leatherbound books in your collection? I have been hankering for some lately to imitate my grandpa's library, but perhaps that's just the consoomer in me talking.
>>25163069My high school had a "library" that was never properly maintained and was basically just a bunch of bookshelves full of piles of books that nobody ever read. Eventually they said they were going to renovate the room it was in, gut the shelves, and either trash or sell the books inside. So, over the course of the 4-5 months before they did that, I stole several books a day from the shelves without anyone noticing.
>>25163069I recently found a soft leather bound Oxford University Press edition of Shakespeare's complete plays in a single volume from 1914, picrel is the closest I could find as I'm not at home. My copy is a little different, as it is blue, though the little flower adornments are similar if not the same. It was a very nice recent charity shop find for £5. Other than that I don't think I have any others, I absolutely adore that 1946 issuing of Gibbon's TDAFOTRE in the OP, it is absolutely gorgeous, and the pillar motif is such a good idea. I would kill for a set, though I can't justify the ~£500 to drop on it, as that's roughly a month's rent for me.
>>25163069I mean you could get Easton Press books if you specifically want leather books, but I always thought those looked pretty soullessMuch prefer the feeling of cloth-bound books
>>25163069Several. Humidity fucks them up in a matter of months. Japan isn't a leather friendly country.
>>25166768The standard Easton books look good if you only have a couple of them. A full shelf of them is cringe and makes you look like a funko pop redditor. Their deluxe editions though (like the one in OP) are great most of the time.
Hey /lit/, how would you guys go about finding out the value of your collection? I have a 2nd edition Dzanc hardcover of Women and Men from their 2023 reprint, and am curious as to find its value, since I cannot find a trace of one being sold on the internet. I’ve seen previous publications going for over $300 and am just curious how I’d go about ascertaining its value.
>>25168718Give jonny depp from the 9th gate a ringIf you can't find anything definitive online, obviously you'd need to get it personally appraised
I enjoy misery, suffering and NTR, especially if I known that the pain inflicted on someone actually happened in real life. Basically I am the psychological version of an serial killer who enjoys reading about people being tortured or about the crime scenes left behind by gruesome deeds. What books would anons recommend?
>>25167923Genre?
>>25168344Oh yeah. It used to be called whump, but now it's called hurt/comfort.
>>25168451Comforting people is kinda gay anon, is there anything without that feminine part?
>>25168470yes. It's called hurt/no comfort.
>>25168492Those sound like stories for women anon
What's the best explanation for why Pidgin exists?Also, is there any Pidgin literature?
>>25163799>>25165173English Creole Theory has been debunked, if you even bother to do the slightest research into it. >Anglo-Norman pidginFrench did not grammatically influence Old English, but only introduced new vocabulary. Creolization involves grammar changes.The loss of inflection from OE to Middle English was likewise not a creolisation, as it mirrors the same phenomenon found in other Germanic languages. The idea that the English 'simplified' their language to understand the Vikings is a myth.
>>25166279You have to let them think they’re right, anon. They’re only niggerlovers after all. They’ve got nothing else.
>>25163777>>25163778Nigger talk is all it should be or would be on its own. White liberals desperately clutch at straw and air to humanize and thus rationalize the talking dirt chimps destroying everything around them. Jews, biologically incapable of viewing anything and everything as a weapon, pounce on this opportunity to facilitate the destruction of another people(s).
>>25166279>>25166286>it's deboooonked!!!!I thought only libtards played that game
>>25168488>Jews, biologically incapable of viewing anything and everything as anything other than a weapon
Please no more, I’m tired boss…
>>25163527Why him?
>>25163527It will be a story about a very trump looking bad guy who is killed by tranny biracial hobbits.
we will say we hate it and they will say we don't and we actually love it.
>>25163807>Why does a potentially bad adaptation of something cause so much condemnationBig Studios rehashing bullshit with reboots and endless sequel cash grabs is the rule, even more today catering to Boomers still. >Matrix>Star Wars Prequels>LOTRThere's nothing of that scale outside of Avatar (Way of Self-Parody), but at least Cameron tried. Mass entertainment kulchur is decades stagnant, and the putrefication is starting to bore its way into even the most inured retards its built for now.>>25163890>B Roll: The MovieThis is why you can't give up physical media. Just watch the Special Features and the Extended LOTRs. If they wanted to attempt something worth watching and revisiting the world, they'd have taken a page from GOT's trash final seasons and do The New Shadow.
>>25163807It's autism. It's all about autism. Nothing impede you to just ignore it and go on about your day, because no matter how bad things get, you still have your favorite works for you to enjoy and it doesn't change anything. If "public view" like "fandoms", hollywood, some random reddit posts, or even some offshot anon replying it's all it takes to get you off from the things you supossedly enjoy, which experiences given are entirely individual ones, then you never liked the source material in the first place. Also, 4chan would go radio silence overnight if they actually ignored trash from entertaiment and just focused on their interests. Discussing the merit of things you personally are fond of doesn't get as many (You)s as complains, impotent seething and outrage engangement that most of the internet users nowadays loves so much. These things keep being made because all it takes it's your attention to keep seeing them pop up.
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.I posted this on /his/ but was advised to repost here due to low activity over there.
>>25169954when enough people believe this you paradoxically get Mass Solipsism aka Nominalism.and A LOT of people believe their opinions = truth.hence the imperative to use reality to humble them out of such delusions.
>Think about asking a term for qualia of your worldview>Realize that it's just worldview
>>25169903Start here, then move on to Hegel and co.
>ontology>epistemology>phenomenology
>>25170830>ontologybeing>epistemologyknowledge>phenomenologyexperience
Literature peaked 3000 years ago, how is possible that the first book written is also the best book ever written
>>25161321its not even a book
>>25165520our modern zeitgeist is all about hospitality though (in theory i mean, not in practice)>>25165856i'm sending a ticking sardine can to your
>>25161719Could you tell me why is Hamlet so great?
>>25165981Alright, it's the best "content" or "media" ever written. Is that better?
>>25161350kek
no respect to the body of a deseased prole, no respect at all
>The main thing is to know how to set about it, to be able to concentrate your attention on a single detail, to forget yourself sufficiently to bring about the desired hallucination and so substitute the vision of a reality for the reality itself.Is this the source of all pleasure, and also the source of all pain anons
>>25168087You've made me think about it and I'd say it may be. Pros being that this is a beautiful state to be in, and that it has everything to do with exactly what you want it to be, because of your choice of concentration.Cons because of the freedom that a person has to choose what to concentrate on, because a person may realize that this purity of concentration may never be fully achieved (or must keep at it always), because others choose to concentrate on things antagonistic to us or do not concentrate at all.Yeah I would say this is a very beautiful and troubling reality. And strangely it is not just an issue of humans having consciousness and its direction etc. There seems to be an added component of some kind of magic involved, which is actually the erasure of this same consciousness, because of its own use. Very odd
This book is reddit. Pure reddit. I spent the entire time reading it repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for the last 30 pages it was so painful
>>25159391All these post ww2 glow books are Reddit tier (Eglin Air Force base)
>>25162168You're so boring
>>25167963All books written after WW2 are reddit tier to be fair. Except maybe some chud or schizo shit posted here sometimes
>>25159391good thing I read it before Reddit existed
>>251593914chan: CelineReddit: Heller, Vonnegut
came up with a parable, what do you guys think?>A wealthy man was captured by bandits, and swallowed his rings. "Ha!" he said. "In order to get these rings, you will need to perform surgery on me, or else you will lose a valuable hostage!">Two of the bandits spoke to their leader. The first one said "Better to go fetch a surgeon, who will retrieve the rings and save a valuable hostage.">The second one said "Nay, better to feed the man these dates and other fruits we already have, so he will defecate the rings out.">Their leader listened patiently, then said "We will cut the rings out of his stomach, and leave him to die. for the rings are enough in themselves, time and fruits cost money and I would rather search through blood than shit.">So the bandits obeyed their wise leader, and profited well and went unpunished.
lmao
>>25168360it's not meant to be funny, it's a feel-good story
>>25168369You've never seen a grandfather laugh when something nice happens?
>>25168371this could be material for the next parable
>>25168374That's it sonny
Everything you call "living" is just a massive cope to disguise the fact that your biology is desperately trying to return to the inorganic state it crawled out of. Everything you think matters, your feelings, your relationships, your grand narratives about human dignity is just wet meat pretending it's not wet meat. You think you have a will to power or life goals but that's just a mask for the will to nothingness. Civilization is literally just monkey neurons firing in patterns complex enough to convince themselves there's something more going on.Your consciousness is a LARP. You are essentially a complicated rock that unfortunately gained consciousness and is now taking a circuitous path back to being a rock. Your "meaning" is just coping mechanisms stacked on coping mechanisms until you've built this elaborate theater where the biological imperative to not rope gets dressed up as "love" and "purpose".The science is clear that the inanimate existed before us and the only real drive is to restore that silence, meaning your entire existence is just a temporary glitchy detour toward the grave. The universe spent 13 billion years not giving a shit about you, you'll exist for maybe 80 years tops thinking you're special then it'll spend eternity continuing to not give a shit. The universe is indifferent, cosmic extinction is guaranteed, and when the heat death of the universe hits it will be like none of this ever happened.Every cathedral, every symphony, every philosophical treatise is all just the inorganic death-drive wearing an increasingly elaborate skin suit pantomiming rationality while shuffling back toward the void it came from. We're already dead, we just haven't stopped moving yet. The sun will eventually vaporize every trace that humans ever existed and literally nothing will have mattered, so stop deluding yourself that this life is anything other than a long pointless walk back to zero.
>>25168326Atheism is pushed by the jews in all parts of life.
>>25168303>What I'm saying is there was a clear cosmic divine order, and Sisyphus rejected it. It cannot reasonably be interpreted as "absurdist"I think you're mistaken on which aspect he likens to the absurd, because it's definitely not that one.
>>25168333I'm well aware that Camus is a pseud materialist that thinks Gods aren't real.
>>25168336That's not really the issue, you're getting hung up on non-relevant things, when the only aspect of the myth that is actually relevant is Sisyphus's new state of compulsion. But if all you seemingly got out of it was dismissing a comparison to wage-slaving (which was only a singular part of introducing human experience to the absurd), i think you just checked out long before.
>>25168349>you're getting hung up on non-relevant things,No. The entire tale of Sisyphus is incoherent if its not written in regards to the self-evident existence of natural law. Camus, being a rejecter of intuition, lambasts this notion in all of his work.
>One is struck, in examining the psychic economy of the ordinary adherent of religious theism, by the unmistakable persistence of infantile configurations which, though ostensibly renounced, continue to exercise a determining influence upon the adult personality. The longing for a supreme paternal agency, omniscient, punitive yet protective, and above all guarantor of post-mortem continuity betrays not merely a metaphysical inclination, but the reanimation of the earliest object-relations of the child. In this figure of the divine Father, the subject rediscovers the lost authority before whom ambivalence first arose: love intertwined with fear, submission bound to latent rebellion. The promise of bodily survival beyond death further discloses the ego’s refusal to relinquish its narcissistic investments, a refusal grounded in anxieties whose origin can be traced to the vicissitudes of psychosexual development. >Here, the residues of repression, particularly those surrounding forbidden wishes and unresolved conflicts, seek symbolic satisfaction in the construction of a cosmos that mirrors the child’s earliest need for order, protection, and the indefinite prolongation of its own corporeal existence.>More revealing still is the manner in which these religious dispositions align themselves with the character formations associated with the anal stage, wherein questions of control, retention, and expulsion first assume psychological significance. We encounter, on the one hand, the anal-retentive type: scrupulous, ascetic, and morally exacting, whose religiosity is marked by an exaggerated concern with purity, law, and the meticulous observance of ritual. In him, the instinctual economy has been diverted into rigid channels, and the divine Father becomes the supreme custodian of order, reflecting the subject’s own compulsion toward control and preservation. >On the other hand stands the anal-expulsive type: demonstrative, emotionally effusive, and prone to ecstatic surrender, whose religious life is characterized by outpourings of devotion, confession, and a desire for cathartic release. Here, the same instinctual roots manifest in a contrary fashion, privileging discharge over restraint, yet no less bound to the same archaic matrix. In both instances, the theological edifice reveals itself as a sublimated continuation of early libidinal struggles, wherein the adult, under the guise of piety, regresses to a more primitive organization of desire, seeking in the divine relation a resolution to conflicts that remain, at their core, unresolved.- Sigmund Freud, ‘Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety’ - chapter 3Was he right?
>>25168210Here’s your prize for winning!!!!! Another round of applause please!!!!!
>>25168224(You)
How many father stand inside do the Christians need. It's pretty funny
>>25168272Only the One.
>>25168104>Just so you know, if you read the rest of my reply you will see that I make the same reasoning for atheism as well. Anon's point is that Freudian analyses can only ever be used to put people down, and in general make a mockery of the human condition.>b-b-b-but atheists are just as badAnd? Freud is a materialistic atheist himself.
>a New York times bestseller!>The most generic boring slop imaginable
>>25165708>read Jewish newspapers>receive Jewish rewards
Yes, bestsellers appeal to the lowest common denominator. Are you new to reading?
>normies have shit tastewow
>>25165708Jew York Times bestseller
>>25165708it probably sold like 1000 copies too
>Ted Hughes once observed that, during the couple’s year in America, where Plath taught at Smith College, she was consistently mortified by the presence of abandoned shopping carts in the parking lot of the local A&P.>”She would fastidiously herd up the orphan trolleys and slip them back in their places, muttering into her cigarette about the state of mankind."Ermmmmmmm based????
>>25168111It was a different time.
>>25166325I actually made a video arguing against this for the sake of arguing. basically my thesis was similar to the broken windows theory except I was aiming more or less towards the idea that society (or certain aspects of it) aren't worth salvaging if basic dignity isn't offered to those who maintain it.
>>25168263You're obviously not immediately linking the video and are waiting for someone to ask because of the unspoken rule about unsolicited self-promotion being a faux pas on this website because every single fucking cockend on the internet is trying to make money off people's attention and cultivate their own 'personal brand', and people recognize that, and self-promotion on an anonymous website feels subtly wrong somehow. Nonetheless as an internet good Samaritan and a fellow guttersnipe trying to make it in the madhouse that is the 21st century I'm going to extend to you the same courtesy I'd like in kind by asking you to post it, and giving you the excuse.
>>25168276oh I know I know that. my youtube channel got terminated thoughever two years ago and I don't think the server could handle the size of the video.
>>25168276also my mug is seen in the video and I'd rather not doxx myself.
