>racist>antisemitic>virgin>not even 5’ tall>never broke his daily routine or diet>wrote an 800+ page effortpost just to prove a guy wrong>commissioned his own flattering ChadYes portrait and another painting just to show off his NorwoodHis reincarnated avatar is posting somewhere on this site as we speak
>>25345172Kant was a Christian prude and Schopenhauer was a prostitute addict in the time of the prostitutes
>>25345172I feel like German women were so hot and easy back then holy fuck what I’d give to plap some hot big titted broad right after we saw some Wagner opera or Beethoven shit that’d be so fucking baller
>>25345157>>25345172He was incapable of being a supportive husband due to his poor financial situation, so he chose not to marry. And when he became well-off he didn’t feel the need to care about wanting a wife anymore
>>25345203One simply cannot deny the basedness of this comment
>>25345203>>25345609Fr. It'd be gangster as fuck, my fellow nigger speakers.
FFF-Class Trashslopper EditionStubbed >>25335561>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25345155>The Crystalline Initiativei enjoyed this one
some authors don't even bother with covers...Is this new meta?
>>25345528yeah, copy him
>>25345528This would be a challenge right here.>no cover>no art>just the description>thats itIf you could garner a sizeable audience with these conditions, you'd undoubtedly be on a whole new level compared to others.
read to ch200 on Reverend Insanity, it does a better job of setup and payoff than most webslop but once it became apparent the author was going to kill everyone on the mountain I kind of got bored.
What books will convince me there is a reason to live and suffer?
I wouldn't say I'm liking it, guys (200 pags or so)
>>25342342This is a junkie troon book.
>>25340794I feel you must be a certain type of person not to find Slothrop borderline insufferable.
>>25344321If you've ever been on chemo, Tyrone almost starts to feel like a realistic character. The past becomes a blur, you stop thinking about the future and you only live in the present; a mix between blissful ignorance and nausea, the feeling that something is wrong with you both physically and mentally. You feel like you're disintegrating.Though that doesn't explain his rocketman and pig shtick.
>>25342342This shit is literally a comicbook
>>25345579>He’s driven out, away, east over Vauxhall Bridge in a dented green Lagonda by his batman, a Corporal Wayne. >Darlene, pure Nightingale compassion, is handing him a hard red candy, molded like a stylized raspberry . . . mm, which oddly enough even tastes like a raspberry, though it can’t begin to take away that bitterness. Impatiently, he bites into it, and in the act knows, fucking idiot, he’s been had once more, there comes pouring out onto his tongue the most godawful crystalline concentration of Jeez it must be pure nitric acid, “Oh mercy that’s really sour,” hardly able to get the words out he’s so puckered up, exactly the sort of thing Hop Harrigan used to pull to get Tank Tinker to quit playing his ocarina, a shabby trick then and twice as reprehensible coming from an old lady who’s supposed to be one of our Allies, shit he can’t even see it’s up his nose and whatever it is won’t dissolve, just goes on torturing his shriveling tongue and crunches like ground glass among his molars.>Superman will swoop boots-first into a deserted clearing, a launcher-erector sighing oil through a slow seal-leak, gum evoked from the trees, bitter manna for this bitterest of passages. The colors of his cape will wilt in the afternoon sun, curls on his head begin to show their first threads of gray.
After reading and loving Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I wanted to delve more into Arthurian literature. I keep seeing Once and Future King recommended, but I'm wary because it's a (((modern deconstruction))), is it actually good?
>>25340460Zased and keyed
>>25340460Based, just do that.>>25341680YWNBAW nobody cares about your gay modern "deconstructions" they're always shit and can never compare to the originals. Go suck a big dingalong and deconstruct your ANUS you MASSIVE FAGGOT!!!!!
>>25341680Let me guess, you thought The Green Knight 2021 was a brilliant subversive post-modern deconstruction of toxic White storytelling and praised the garbage
>>25340318>>25340460You should also read:The Mabinogian (1949 Jones & Jones Tr.)The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (David Staines Tr.)The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
>>25340318Morte d'Arthur or nothing. >waaah! But it's written all medievaly! Get cultured!
Γλαυκῶπις edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25286593>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25344132I think, lastly, I would be amiss if I didn’t tell you that, if you do start reading the Bible early, focus on establishing a habit rather than rushing. The book’s not going anywhere. If day 1 is literally 1 verse that’s great as long as you stick with it.
>>25344132You inspired me to stop delaying, so I bought a copy of the GNT with overnight shipping and am gonna start a verse or two a day at least until I get through 10 chapters of John, since that’s a nice round result.
>>25344132>> I remember finding a Leipzig gloss of Genesis, and seeing that God is literally a fucking plural noun in the beginning, like “the gods” created heaven and earth. Of course the explanations I saw online amounted to schizoid mental gymnastics about God’s early multifaceted nature in the beginning or something.It’s supposedly about the trinity already appearing in the early works of Genesis if you believe that sort of thing. “We saw what we did and it was good.” Likewise throughout the rest of Genesis god has plurality such as in the Tower of Babel story. I think only at Exodus is this dropped.
I like the idea of having a graded reader and grammar book combo, but having to use a third book because the first two apparently are meant to be used with a teacher (and having to download the audio files ripped off the CDs) puts me off. And I had a look inside these books and they're very disorganized and badly written. I've heard German and French have better textbooks for Latin and Greek. That's one of the main reasons I'm learning German and French. This shit is the best the English corpus has for Greek, that says a lot.
>>25339706What's that picture, and why is it similar to this picture >>25345604?
>He was a man, take him for all in all,>I shall not look upon his like again.
Sounds gay
>Hold, hold, my heart,>And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,>But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee?>Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat>In this distracted globe. Remember thee?>Yea, from the table of my memory>I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,>All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,>That youth and observation copied there,>And thy commandment all alone shall live>Within the book and volume of my brain>Unmixed with baser matter.
>>25344581Sounds better in German for some reason:> Er war ein Mann, nehmt alles nur in allem;> Ich werde nimmer seinesgleichen sehn.
>>25344581I wonder if MUAHHHHH THE FRENSCH CHAMPAGNE had this line in mind when he wrote the end dialogue of Touch of Evil?— Well, Hank was a great detective, all right.— And a lousy cop.— Is that all you have to say for him?— He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?— Good-bye, Tana. — Adios.
Even I didn't expect things to start crashing and burning so soon
>>25345443>equal treatment before the law
>>25345443>China under XiWhat failures? Last I checked they were doing fine. Not dominating the entire world through the strength of their markets and military fine, but still pretty fine. Or do we have to wait for them to collapse in 2 week intervals?
>>25338344We have this thread every week
>>25345443Except none of this things happen in western democracies. Corruption exists and makes power consolidate in the uniparty which constantly rules over the populace against their democratic will. Laws and regulations are passed that hace 0 approval rating, and no one suffers any consequences. Only the figureheads of one of the party's get voted out, only to be replaced by the opposite party's figureheads which of course continue policies unimpeded.The state can also expropriate your property at any time at "market rates" determined by the state itself, all in the name of the system. You glaze liberalism while people point out how undemocratic it is. Yes dictatorships like China aren't the answer, but neither it the current course, which is moving towards a bureaucratic nightmare where you are just a replaceable cog in an economic zone, and all your decision making capabilities are actively suppressed by the so called liberal state.
>>25345570Because nothing ever happens.
Modern psychology is fucked specifically because we are ignoring the unconscious. And by that, I mean both the individuals and the subject matter.
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>>25337536Uncle of the CEO of Netflix BTW, also related to Freud. Fucking jews, always scheming. Netflix promoting blacks and interracial relationships was all planned hundred years ago, internet just propelled this.
>another juju dark magic shaman thread
>>25345536What's funny to me here is that only the detractors fixate on bringing up "magic", while the ones reading ITT are discussing it in a semi-philosophical way.Sure tells me a lot about each side's general psychological profile.
In reading such things I can't help but wondering when, how, and especially why the rift in our timeline happened.1957, the unconscious is so important that it's considered directly acting on the body.[current year], it's a spook. "Psychological" treatment mostly boils down to >>25338093 or >>25339788 instead.Which discovery happened in those 70 years that lead to such a change in attitude? It makes me indeed suspect >>25337536 has a strong point. And it's not like those things are suddenly gone, mind you, we just give them other names, interpret it much more superficially or don't treat them at all.
What's your favorite poem?
THE PENNYWhen I was a childAnd the world was newMy grandpa said to me"Here's a penny for you" So down to the storeI ran with gleeO how much would that pennyBuy for me? As I ran and ranI tripped and fellBut where was my penny?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25344322anyone got the kafka version?
>>25337577Love this poem.>>25342025>>25344294Christ, these are bad. I'm a woke libtard and these are atrocious>>25344322perfect>>25336440Not sure if this is my favorite, but love this one by AR Ammons
>>25336465>nature is beautiful>now fuck meProfound
>>25345535I dread to think this was a genuine postThe poem is about the beauty of the pairing of things in nature and lamenting a love that cannot bePercy is NOT literally me fr fr though because he had many women in his life
Books/stories I can recommend to my gamer friends to give them a hint that they're wasting their lives playing with overpriced action figures? I think Death of Ivan Illyich would be good, especially since it's a novella and not a longer book. I'm sure Infinite Jest is applicable but it's too long and I'm not trying to intimidate them.Short stories, novellas and novels are all welcome suggestions.
>>25337530Its like when your bro tells you to meet people on dating apps you don't know if he means Tinder or Grindr.
>>25344466But gaming fucking sucks now so who would want to
>>25344466>I eat ribeyes and bird shit, isn't that so cool and open-minded
>>25337530I don't understand why this would matter to anyone. Are you getting at the idea that men don't read fiction as much as women?
>>25337383The Kiss (1887) by Anton Chekovhttps://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-kissIt's only like 5 pages long anyway, hopefully long enough for your friends to read so they can have some reality slapped into them.
You ARE buying the Folio Society's limited edition version of Moby Dick, right? It's only £530 / $700
>>25344345Folio Society printings are extremely female-adjacent. It's as if the modern ones were made specifically for the purpose of being in the background of a youtube short or tiktok video.
>>25344345Ew why is it so expensive when it looks like that?
>>25345451Yeah, they're super garish.
Nope They're too big and bulky to read comfortably in my opinion and there's nothing added to the text
>>25345008they're plenty fancy
ChristLARPing is out, MarxLARPing is in. Now that it's become clear mass immigration is caused by capitalism, where do I start with Marx and Engels? I've heard Anti-Dühring is a good primer
>>25345463I am a local and I work a minwage job as a cleaner in my countryI do it because it's better to have a job than not have a job and the work conditions are ok even if the work itself is often disgusting and looked down upon
>>25345322Christlarping got obliterated with the recent Down syndrome discourse
>>25345460Marx was an unemployed lazy deadbeat dad who borrowed money from his capitalist friend, so what his followers are retards as well?
>>25345322Times are tough ey.
>>25345460Klassen was:- a farmer- a miner- an electrical engineer- an inventor- a real-estate agent- a politician- and a responsible fatherplease remind me again why I should be following life advice from a desert hippie and a sponge with hypergraphia.
So what is the central impetus behind writing and reading novels? Is the writer trying to impart some moral lesson? It seems to be a fine line between that and merely illustrating an uncritical portrait of the human condition.I suppose what I'm asking is, when someone writers fiction, what are they trying to do with the story?
>>25337463There is no “central impetus”, writers write for all sorts of different reasons. Any singular claim of intent would be so broad as to be meaningless. If there is a moral lesson, it should emerge as a natural extension of the story. An author that shoehorns in ethical concerns is little more than a propagandist.
>>25344007form vs content is a very awkward distinction. but without getting into that debacle, the "content" should be original and internally harmonious too. in theory, you could write great stories about anything.like all art at its best, good literature is not about generalities. artistic value comes from particularity. characters for example have depth when they're fleshed out with detail, nuance, idiosyncrasies, not when they're reduced to symbols for ideas.
>>25344174>If there is a moral lesson, it should emerge as a natural extension of the story. An author that shoehorns in ethical concerns is little more than a propagandist.This sounds like an issue of subtlety and degree rather than of kind.
Tragedies and dramas, which purport to portray the world and human condition just as they are, in some sense are advocating against the behaviors and actions they depict, no? Depending if the character is a moral exemplar, in which case the world is the bad actor and cause of the calamitous conclusion -- thus suggesting the world ought to change, so like Antigone or The Trial, or if not, if the character's woes are self-inflicted, then suggesting against becoming like the person, like Macbeth or Moby-Dick.Every depiction contains advocation or denunciation of a position, I suppose is my point.
>>25344618You’re not wrong, at least if we define literature in the broadest possible terms. But if we’re talking specifically about the literary arts, there is a distinction between whether an author approaches their work with a pointed moral intent, or whether they cannot help but produce a work out of which arises a complex and nuanced moral discourse. I’m not interested in the author’s ethical concerns, I want to know how they unconsciously animated those concerns via the work itself. It’s the difference between storytelling as proselytising, and stories that require no proselytisation to be effective. Of course this is all tied up with the problems in determining the author’s true intent. But I think we can all tell when a work’s moral concerns feel timeless and universal, and when the work is beating us over the head with a specific moralistic cudgel.
Books about how performative mockery, shallow peer pressure and being annoying will ultimately defeat and outlive all other forms of thought?
>>25344279Nick Fuentes feat. Mike Mahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kqjvro4KN4
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman said that serious shit will just be drowned out by trivial bullshit ever since the transition from print to visual mediums so people will get more retarded and no serious thought will truly last (I made that conclusion up but you could get that from reading it)
>>25344279Yes. This book is a classic honestly. One of the best non-fiction books of the past decade. I'm so glad that zoomers are finally discovering Mike Ma.
>>25344683I actually hated it when I first read it but on second read a few years later, some parts were mildly amusing. It has its charm, for some readers.
>>25344279This is the only novel I am aware of that has no characters except for the narrator. Literally none. Not saying that's a bad thing, it just stood out to me.
