This is more like Dark Souls than The Book of the New Sun isSo why do people shill The Book of the New Sun when people are asking for "soulslike" books and books like "Elden Ring" instead of this?
>>24700939A bit off topic, but does anyone have a copy of an illustrated edition of The Faerie Queene, and how can I find one?
>>24702328There are no knights in Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr Jeckle and Mr Hyde, Picture of Dorian Grey, or any of Poe's most famous poems. What the hell are you on about.
>>24709663The fact that you list those books as examples of "gothic" literature out you as a surface level retard who has no knowledge of gothic literature. Do you want to know why the genre is called "gothic" fiction? Because it is fiction SET IN THE GOTHIC AGESAll the writings you listed are either not gothic but use gothic elements or are written after the gothic golden age had ended.All four of the classic, eponymous gothic novels, The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk and Melmoth the Wanderer are set in the middle ages or a period close to it (For Melmoth the mid 1700s). 90% of the gothic fiction written between the 1760s and the 1820s were set in the middle ages or renaissance. The Castle of Otranto, the book that started the entire genre, is set in the crusades, begins with somebody being crushed by a giant knightly helmet, has duels between knights and ends with a giant in knightly armour crushing the castle.Why do you talk about a subject you clearly know so little about?
>>24710847*for Melmoth the mid 17th century, not the mid 1700s
>>24705367berating people for not knowing random shit only works when they're trying to act like an authority on the subject. if they're just unaware of a particular fact and decide to learn about that fact as needed instead of being interested in it for its own sake, and you react as if that's some sort of mortal sin, then you come across looking inexpressibly pathetic.
Both BAP and Evola, typically considered the foundational thinkers and writers of the esoteric right, believe Hinduism is the last Aryan religion Where do I start to read to learn this power?
>>24709197Corporatism is the idea that humans are not individuals but constituents of a superorganism, and this is the idea that was forcibly aborted in WW2. However, it remains true regardless and is relegated to the collective subconscious where it originates all the problems of the world today
>>24701931honestly i think i could thrive in that world if I just had the power to freeze time for one minute (in my mind) whenever someone asks me a question. and had three tries in case i stutter
I hate this retarded fucking planet. If Surtr came up to me and said "want to join my army?" I would not and set the world aflame
>>24701931I've just noticed how much the fag right enjoys images of men with their eyes obscured. >>24703017Thanks anon, that was good
>>24701931>picThe retard is talking about capitalism. Fascism came from socialist movements. Fascism like its symbol the fasces represent unity, peace and order. Literally bundle of sticks that is strong together.
I'll finish my book tonight, tell me what to read next.
>>24709581Yes, I'm pretty lazy. But I'm not reading books specifically from that list or the others.
>>24709361The Karamazov Brothers
>>24709361american psycho is the only correct answer
>>24709361these look good
>>24711489another
Every effort-post, rough draft, and writing contest submission posted on this board has been scraped to train AI. And there is nothing you can do about it.
>>24709085I don't see how it matters, not like I post anything I care about. Before AI i had the same view of things as I do now, you lose the right to anything you post online.
>>24709077I would be interested to see a /lit/ ai trying to write a short story trained on only our works
>>24709738>I would be interested to see a /lit/ ai trying to write a short story trained on only our workshoo boy
>>24709077>scraped to train AIyou have no idea
>>24711473YELLOW PERILchink spies vaccuuming the interwebs
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>>24711873>nooo think of the heckin' ad revenue
Can we share mods with /a/?
Eating ice cream is like masturbating.
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>>24711853>>24711873>>24711875jews hate justice, which is why they feel the need to put that anon down.
Is it okay to read from your phone? Should i get a kindle instead? Are they that much better than reading on your phone? I started reading pretty recently but i quickly realized most books i wanna read are imported to my country and some cost up to $50-100 so reading digitally is basically my only option. Most ebook readers seemed kinda expensive as well, so is it worth buying one or just keep reading on my phone?
>>24709312What certain cases of rape are okay?
Pay $20 for ReadEra and FOH.
Download an E-Ink app on your phone to read on. Its just as good as a Kindle.
i 3x with tts
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The only free verse poet worth a damn
>>24706500ahem
>>24708673I like these simple translations. There's an impressionistic feel to it that is very refreshing.
>>24708636Yup it filtered me. Not sure how to go about finding the meter except brief snatches of I think anapest
>>24711330Pound's definitely not an easy poet to read if you haven't gone down the prosody rabbit hole. But I can give some obvious tip: remember that classical metre was never something completely regular, it had variables and anceps and allowed for a great variety in the length of the line, so stresses lining up should not necessarily be treated as an exception from the metre.
>>24711376how does one go down the prosody rabbit hole?
Is he worth reading if you're someone who once engaged with marxism but hated all the communists because they're dysgenic cryptomoralists? Asking for a friend
>>24711313Hes the bridge between old school socialists and fascists: a revolutionary socialist that claimed the working class had to become a warrior-like society to violent overtrow capitalism to create a new society and that actions > ideas.Both Lenin and Mussolini were his students in Switzeland, as he welcomed any militan socialist escaping his home country to avoid being arrester for his political agitationsSo yes, give him a shot
Yes, because he is the swerve Marxism almost took and could have taken in the 20th century. The only Marxists or post-Marxists worth reading and understanding are:>Sorel>Gramsci>Lukacs >Lenin"MLs" you meet in the mandatory-for-job fagprison (college) are really Rosa Luxemburg followers who LARP at admiring Lenin, and sometimes Stalin, if they have cut their cocks off. Lukacs and Lenin are worth understanding and appreciating as the most consistent, neo-Blanquist strain of neo-orthodox Marxism to have world-historical political effects after the failures of paleo-orthodox Marxism (untenable after the failed concrete predictions of Marx/Engels) in the 1880s-90s and the resultant revisionism controversy. But ultimately they are failures too, and Lukacs is an awful person and a coward. If you want pure consistency you should read Sorel and Gramsci and become a national syndicalist, national socialist, and/or fascist. The USSR just mass-industrialized, brute-forcing its way to productivity, and it was totally reliant on totalitarianism to survive, basically being an oriental death cult. The leading fascist states actually achieved "communism in one state" to the point that it was upsetting more aristocratic, old-school conservatives that the Hitler Youth (e.g.) was actually creating a "socialist new man."
>>24711313Camus liked this guy.
>>24711335What would you recommend for Lukacs? Also what do you mean by his cowardice, I'm aware he was some kind of public official in Hungary or something but did he do anything particularly unruly? Or is he more of an intellectual coward? From what I've heard of him he has a tendency to aggressively dismiss opposing writers if they're not marxist enough, including Sorel and figures like Nietzsche (which seems like a strange thing to critique him over)
Is employment the biggest scam in the history of the world? If you think about it for even one second you will realize it is actually impossible to 'sell' your 'labor'. In any normal exchange I give you something and you give me something in return. But when you 'sell your labor' you actually do not offer anything to anyone. The company gives you everything and receives nothing. You get a salary AND you get a job. Every day at work the company HAS work for you to do. You have nothing to offer and bring nothing with you to exchange. >but why would the company hire you if they get nothing in return?Essentially because by giving you everything (money, work to do) they become a creditor. The work you do and the money you receive are not correlated. It is only the hubris of the employee to think so. "I am getting paid well because I am valuable." This is what they tell themselves, because they do not want to face the fact that the company is simply giving them money. "But that's money that I earn!" It is simply not the case. Every time you receive a paycheck you become a debtor. You HAVE to go to work because you are indebted. You are a slave. The point of exchanging is to have done with one another. In order to establish a long-term relationship such as 'employment' something besides exchange is therefore needed. The most effective way to do this is to oblige someone to life-long servitude by generously granting them a 'living wage'.
>>24704016Where do you retards even get this garbage from?
>>24704215Immediately prior to the collapse of civilisation.
>>24708873If the worker were merely being exploited the situation would be less dire. Today's worker has not only been alienated from the products of his labor: he has been alienated from production as a whole. There would be more dignity in exploitation, but our worker, who is now not even paid for his production but for his 'time', his mere presence, is coddled and pandered to like some kind of buffoon. He is not allowed to work unless he is 'on-the-clock'. He cannot be allowed to be productive on his own terms—he must be reliably unproductive. The flattery is so one-sided he is convinced of a multitude of 'rights' in the workplace, of access to services to ensure his mental and physical well-being, medication, a satisfactory 'work-life balance', &c. And it is entirely to the purposes of the employer that the worker should believe that he is adequately compensating his employer with his time. "We value all the hard work you do." If anything he believes his employer deserves less of his 'productivity'. "I get paid by the hour." He is so entitled, so detached from 'productivity'. What does the word even mean? What is the importance of his work? Who does it serve? He cares nothing for this. He's only there because the company puts 'free money' in his 401k, because his family needs 'benefits'. >And in what form do we pay this debt?You will pay off your debt in the only collateral that remains to you—your life.
Employment is slow death. That's why Baudy advocated gambling
>>24703998t. unemployed retard
Sanderson was right. Having a non-physical job fucking sucks for writing goals. I try to start writing after a long ass shift in front of the computer, and my brain is just too tired to make anything good. It feels like the worst chore. I only get decent writing done on the weekend, but that's not enough time to get the wordcount up
I never had an issue and find physical jobs to often be worse because I spend much of the shift writing in my head and by the time I can actually write so many of the details are lots, spend the night trying to regain what I lost. With jobs that actually require applying my brain I just forget about writing for 8 hours, get home and just write. Hotel night audit was one of the best, especially during the off season when I often could spend almost the entire shift writing.
>>24710845>Hotel night audit was one of the best, especially during the off season when I often could spend almost the entire shift writing.hi sanderson
>>24710835You should try to buy monitors without flickering for home and work and lower brightness as much as possible. Or you can make 100% brightness and 0% contrast(for lowering excessive brightness(lowering contrast not cause a flicker)) and disable all powersaving technologies in hardware monitor's menu. This should make monitor less flickering but beware this can damage your monitor if it very old or have bad quality or noname brand. Also you can enable blue light filter on your screens and also you can use TV in home and work instead of monitors. These recomendations(TV and filter) helped my friend with his headaches caused by smartphone and notebook. Or you can buy Eazeye monitors.Also you can read ebooks from eInk ereaders. They easy for a brain and eyes.Also check your indoor light - it shouldn't flicker. Buy high quality light bulbs without flickering and bluish color.
Okay you’ll think I’m crazy and I am. But at home I drink a ton of water because I’m super prone to migraines. Anyways after every piss I do 10 pushups. Just 10. But it adds up. Or you double it. It might seem like a super weird autistic habit. But I’m a super weird autist. Anyway the idea is pairing some exercise with something you do somewhat regularly.
>>24711345>Anyways after every piss I do 10 pushupsI play the Spekunky 2 daily each day and in between each level I do 10 pushups. I usually cap myself at 100 for the day as I'm happy with that, but yeah they add up and 10 is nothing at a time.
I'm thinking of buying this book [ Shadow of the Conqueror by Shad Brooks ] from Amazon for 15$. Is it worth it? Has anyone on /lit/ read this book?
>>24711324>scifi/fantasy mass market slopNo thanks.
>>24711324Hello, Mr Brooks. Your stealth marketing thread isn't very stealthy to be fair
Do you read webnovels and if so have you read Omniscient Readers Viewpoint all the way to the end of the epilogue?
Ive seen this title come up with Lord of the mysteries
How am I supposed to live knowing todays classics were yesterdays slop, Shakespeare is basically the face of deep and complex literature, yet his plays were originally made for illiterate drunkards who thought sex jokes were the funniest thing ever.
>>24710713We were the morlocks all along.
>>24710650Art being a commodity in the modern world does not mean mass appeal is antithetical to artistic merit
>>24710650Have you tried not being a prentious snob?
You should take heart. That means there are future classics hiding among the slop of today. You just have to find them.You do trust your own taste, right anon?
>>24710655>everything is le subjectiveShut the fuck up, you naive cretin. This shit gets parroted by normies and midwits all the time, yet nobody actually, genuinely believes and practices it.
What was his problem?
starbucks had a powercut
>>24710319imagine that your life's work is the study and teaching of ethics and morality and your son troons out
>>24710319His problem is that people are retarded, but he's too good natured to call them retarded, so he tries to express in a reasonable and calm manner - a manner of speaking that retards do not understand, because they only understand overt emotionality - that they need stop being so fucking retarded and examine whatever it is that they want to examine with a cool head, integrity and honesty, something that retards are incapable of doing, because they're retarded.
The funny thing about Sadler is he gives me the vibe of a guy who should’ve been running a YouTube channel jerking off to comic book lore but instead by some happenstance or fluke he ended up making 5,000 videos going sentence by sentence through the phenomenology of spirit despite each individual video garnering 30 views. Perhaps it shows the true power of the libidinal energy lurking beneath the average nerd in the American Midwest.
>>24710319Show some respect to the Minotaur of Milwaukee, faggot. Everyone say Thanks Sadler
New Robert Langdon book coming out today. It's been a while since the last one.
>>24710420He's back. I'll eventually read it. His work and some pre-disney SW novels are my slop.
>>24710420Sorry, I only read whites
