>The Elements of Style">"Politics is for Power" - which is an excellent book highlighting the importance and effectiveness of being engaged in local politics.>"Lying about Hitler" - which tackles Holocaust revisionism>I"The Problems of Philosophy".>There's also "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding", but I gave up after a couple pages>How to win friends and influence people>Ender's game (audiobook)>Cloud Atlas>atlas shrugged>1984>the communist manifesto>a little bit of Das Kapital
>>24816678Thanks for playing.
>>24816746Because Destiny is an egomanic cocksucker who has no substantive thoughts and who's only remaining character is the color of his hair and blowing his wifes boyfriend, a portrait that he himself inadvertently cultivated, therefore the only thing available to attack is the caricature he has become (see: Clown).
GPT summaries go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr fr fr
>>24816912Again, pretty obvious you're a "xer", lol.
>>24810923This is fake asf
whats the deal with this nigga
>>24815310I could not, in the broadest lifetime, give a flying fuck what you think, tyke.
>>24815154is Cain included in this anthology?
>>24816459Yes. It’s a great collection, the only major omissions are the short “The Destruction of Sennacherib” and “Epitaph to a Dog”. As far as I can tell all the other major short lyrics are here and all of the long poems.
>>24816696thanks, it'll be my intro to Byron
>>24815174Dif anonI've committed a few to the mental institution I'll call 'my brain'So we'll go no more a'rovingSo late into the nightThough the heart be still as lovingAnd the moon be still as brightBy brooks too broad for leapingThe light foot lads are laidThe rose-lipped girls are sleepingIn fields where roses fade..
Has any autist here tried getting rid of your TV? Did you read more? Did you feel more alive? Or did you spend all day jerking off and pacing back and forth contemplating hanging yourself as I assume DFW did as well? Seriously considering trying it so that I can hopefully read and write more, but I do have people over sometimes and might buy a small TV to keep in my closet for guests.
>>24815516>My smartphone is where 90% of my reading happens.WTF anon, how do you accomplish that? Also where can I get that moby dick?
>>24815698Good post.
>>24815713NTA but here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html?page=1&pageSize=4lurk moar for the free pdf
tv? boomer much?
Interesting people still own TVs and watch shows/movies and are glued to their phones. I don't think it's necessarily holding someone back.
Why does she cause so much seething?
>>24812398Because she directly opposes the moral bases of both socialism/leftism and religious conservatism resulting on the NPCs that form those ideologies to seethe and attack her without even touch her ideas in fear people might slightly agree with her
>>24816891She was educated in the Soviet Union and lived off government benefits.If anything, she's just a worthless hypocrite like all libertarians. No one cares about your "ideas" when you don't even live them.
>>24815391>(sigh)Stopped reading there. You're not on Reddit.
Misogyny
OP is a faggot
What makes Brit’s such comfy writers?
>>24816781There's no warm part of the UK, no California, no Southern France, hunkering down under grey skies with tea and fresh baked biscuits with jam is the most they can hope for in life.
>>24816816They can make dreary rainy days feel comfy like the vols eating honey covered scones or a hobbit feeding dwarves from his shire hole
>>24816831hunkering down against a grey dreary rain is what English culture is all about.
Where to begin with poetry? Is there a collection of famous works that can ease me into the subject? Pic unrelated
>>24816778Which poem is that?
>>24816785Most of her poems are untitled, hence why I said her most famous one. The "yearning for" poem with Aphrodite. It is gendered in all the translations I've found, but she is yearning for a youth according to the Ancient Greek. I guess I'll just have to learn Ancient Greek if I want to actually read her work instead of some modern translation obsessed with gender. Haven't found a book I can trust so far.
Anyways, since I can't start with Sappho who from the 9 lyric poets should I begin with instead?
>>24816799I'm asking if you can post the Greek.
>>24816814Know that you are asking a person who is asking the questions originally though, if you're not well learned in this area there's no need in replying to me. I just assume with my modern western education that everything I was taught as a child is fake, and go from there. Usually it's the correct method.I do not know if this is accurate to the original greek but it is what I found. But there seemed to be others too. γλύκηα μᾶτερ, οὔτοι δύναμαι κρέκην τὸν ἴστονπόθῳ δάμεισα παῖδος βραδίναν δι᾽ Ἀφροδίτανhttps://www.billmounce.com/greek-dictionary/pais
How long do you read at a time?Currently I read ~30min at a time, maybe 3 or 4 times a day.I used to do long sessions (3-4 hours at a time), but rarely do that anymore. Don't know why, but when I hit 30min, it's like my mind just shuts off and wants to do something else. Anybody else experience this? How did you overcome it?It's not like I enjoy reading less, long sessions just don't happen anymore. I kind of miss it though; just spending an entire afternoon reading.
I read one (1) page and reward myself with four (4) hours of 4chan
not sure how people have several hours a day to spare unless you're unemployed.typically 30 minutes a day, on a weekend I might get 1-2 hours a day, more if I'm lucky. it depends on what I'm reading though for sure. for yourself I would look at the subject matter and what else is going on in your life that may be impacting the time spent reading, could simply be stress or boredom.
>>24816728You'd have more than enough time to read if you weren't a screenbrained retard
>>24811183Between 1-4 hours at a time. I usually read during the night since I work 40 hours a week
>>24811183haha OP I love froggo XD
What are some more fun transgressive pervert books like Crash and Story Of The Eye? Preferably with lots of bodily fluids and psychosocial frisson. Don't really care about expressions of power and patriarchal dynamics in and of itself.
Love those two as well anon, if "love" is the right word I suppose The Maimed by Hermann Ungar, though it's more understaded and Le Chants de Maldoror I guess
>>24815129I read this thinking it would be shocking but I didn't even Bat an aille
>>24815528what app is this
>>24815129someone covered Pierre Guyotat.Tony Duvert could do you if yer awright with pederasty.Jean Genet is another of these decadent fellows.Sarah Kane wrote some plays that might fit the bill too.Dennis Cooper I find to be pretty ineffectual/insincere in his approach, and he hasn't much style, but a lot of people like him ('specially the young'uns). Matthew Stokoe is similarly impotent to me, but he might do you. etc.
>yawn
>>24815618I guess we gotta nuke China now.
>>24815680Be creative.
>>24815618>He knows!>Shut him down!Shalom, OPThis guy is on the money 99.9% of the time.
>>24815680The early Greek converts got a hole of the Old Testi-ment and discovered that Yhwh in Genesis is a massive liar. Turns out that's why Jesus came, no?Question for you. Why do you observe the sabbath on the first day?
>>24815995Chinks are know scammers like their kike cousins, this is nothing
Can consciousness be solved?
>>24816107Is there somewhere in the Pali Canon that you can point me to that refers to this "pure consciousness (śuddha-caitanya)?"
>>24816548I never said that it was in the Pali Canon, what I wrote actually stated the opposite by saying that the Buddhist analysis presented in the Pali Canon is incomplete IMO because it lacks this ingredient. It appears in some later Buddhist texts though like Tantras, certain Yogachara texts, Vajrayana manuals etc. Presumably they claim it was secretly taught by Buddha and not revealed to everyone like with other Vajrayana doctrines.
>>24809813>Among the Church Fathers I've heard them categorize faculties of the soul into rational, incensive, appetitiveItself from the Greeks, used significantly in Plato’s and Aristotle’s psychologies for instance.
>>24816576Okay, well I'm sure Buddha would have denied any notion of a "pure consciousness."
>>24816731In the same way, I might add, that he denied atman/atta.
I don't see a thread about this very often.
coz it's just yap with nothing of interest
>>24815186i'm color blind
It's genius. Haven't read it though.
How do Descartes explain why such a good and perfect creature as God would not be an evil demon if we are imperfect, mortals and we suffer? Isn't it something only an evil creature would do?
>>24815556Descartes was refuted by Kant, Read him
>>24815556I think you are strawmanning Descartes to fuel your feud with Christians on this board.
>>24815923/thread
>>24815930Not at all. It's a genuine question.
bump
Does anyone else like reading these kinds of books?
>>24816665mhm
>>24816674Knew it.
>>24816665>some things are real and some things aren't realThis is blowing your mind?
this right here is that occult burger tech
>>24816686Either its all real to some extent or its all bullshit. Cherry picking just because it makes you feel special is retarded.
>Byron thread up>multiple Blake threads upWell since the English Romantics seem to be in vogue all of a sudden, let's have a Keats thread.I've been trying to memorize "To Autumn" for a while. I'm about a third of the way there, but I'm getting lazy about it.
I have memorized On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and La Belle Dame sans Merci. I gotta do another.
>>24816564>La Belle Dame sans MerciThis is the only poem I've ever read that's genuinely scary. Or, if not scary, then at least creepy. It gives me a feeling of discomfort unlike any other poem I've ever read.
All of his early poetry, apart from "Sleep and Poetry," is kind of weak and I'd say Endymion is a mess, but it's all still so warm and lovely to read
>>24816567I don't want to derail the thread but maybe check out Byron's Darkness. Also the obvious Poe poems.
someone make a John Clare thread
penguins are based because you can tell when a nigga hasn't read them
>>24814631I never crack spines either, but most of my books, especially these penguins, will get worn along the edges even if i keep it at home.
>>24814520>buying a penguin as the physical copy
>>24815176Are you a woman?
>>24814645Don't they use glue instead of sowing for hard covers? I dont trust any single brand for these things
TL;DR: If you crack spines you are a nigger./thread
