what is /lit/'s favorite short story?
>>25126235>>25126286>>25126370Fuck off elephantfag
LEARN TO ROTATE IMAGES YOU TROGLODYTEalso Borges' "El Aleph"
>>251265984chan removes such data now sar
A Clean Well Lighted Place
>>25123995Rustico and alibech by Boccaccio
>novel's title is taken from shakespeare>novel's title is taken from milton>novel's title is taken from blake
>>25125833A thing of beauty is a joy forever
fohohoz
>novel's title is taken from the Bible
>>25125887Gyat DAMN I know how that shit feel
>title begins with, "The"
What the fuck was Marx doing
>>25126552Communists are not capable of having the cognitive processes which enable them to even think “hmm, I should read primary sources about what this guy and his life was really like”.And even if they do they’ll still externalize blame onto something else.
>>25126679Even just Marx's works published in his lifetime would be a couple thousand pages. Meanwhile anon is still drafting chapter one of his novel after 10 years of development
>>25126552>writer spends his time writingIsn't that obvious? Marx isn't a Joe Hill kind of guy, no one remembers him as a famous worker
>heh heh Marx was a neet just like mestupid revisionism, bro wrote for the New York Tribune ffs.
>>25126629Leonardo da Vinci didn't wordcel extensively about how those patricians and wealthy people need to all die for the sake of international judaism though
Is Shakespeare overrated?
>>25115887Nice bait image. Not answering your question thirdie.
they is much MUCH better black writers out there and I say this as a pigskin myself
>>25117604>you can be a contrarian and argumentative shitposer all you want but don't you ever mess with my beloved INTERRACIAL PORN!
do not redeem the bard saars
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>>25126571What made you feel this way?
One activity can contain many games. The same rules or mechanics apply to all participants, but the goals pursued may differ. Consider an online match. Most players try to win with their team. One player instead plays to grief. He frustrates the others and disrupts their play, yet he uses the same game mechanics available to everyone. His aim differs from theirs. For him the activity becomes a different kind of game with its own goal. Some players ignore this game. Others resist it and report the griefer. Reporting is another response within the same activity. All participants act within the same system of play, though they pursue different goals. Do not assume there is only one game being played. Look at the different uses and purposes. Then you can see games within games.
>>25126652A deadline is looming. I panicked and couldn't sleep all night and spent this morning clamoring to change direction. I was met with disagreements. Now that I've calmed down, I'm starting realize that I should've just asked for help.
Something has to happen at some point
>>25126764It happened 2000 years ago.
You lived through the age of love, a type of golden sex age if you will.In no previous time period could a man have sex with such fervor and with such great ease.In the east communism kept people in strict order and behind an invisible moral wall. Climbing up the hierarchy truly did require exception looksmaxxing skills especially social ones. The communist block would see a brief glimpse of opportunity for 2 generations, yet it would also be plagued by western elites abusing the falling system for their gains.In the south the african ways have never changed. Sex is shunned and crushed by a violent R-selected collective. Reproduce fast, die young, even if external factors don't demand it their genes will drive them to idiocy.In the islamic world a more orderly violence remains but sex is still mostly reserved for marriage or limited to truly rich individuals.In the far east with rare exceptions the asian blood demands obedience and limited sexual liberty so having casual sex there is rare.All of these people have some sort of reason to claim the conditions brought them down.But you, who lived in the West, you can truly say "we experienced an unprecedented age of sexual freedom and easy love"That time is coming to an end. Years of sex recession are coming. Some say years of high austere measures against casual sex will come with them, others claim a total clamp down on casual encounters and non-contractual sex.Either way there will be less opportunities to have sex, all major platforms will be hit, hoeflation will rise and porn that was in abundance before will now be limited if available at all. There will be less venues to look for sex and some online venues like Tinder, now deemed the pinnacle of easy love, will become obsolete.
>>25126614>taking credit from some third worldersYou won't do shit loser.
>>25126423Easy ass solution to sex market problems is just legalizing brothels but government won't do it.
>>25126638Tel Aviv gradually becoming uninhabitable. Tick tock. Tick tock!
>>25126643the one and only solution is to legalize marriage and return children to their fathers
>>25126477Indeeed
I've been reading some Guénon lately and I don't exactly understand the role of initiation. Does he think we're supposed to go to India or the Middle East to find a spiritual teacher who can initiate us into esotericism? And he clearly thinks this is not to be found in West and that enlightenment is not to he found by reading his books.
>>25126493>I've been reading some Guénon lately and I don't exactly understand the role of initiation.According to René Guénon (pbuh), the absence of connection to a living initiatic tradition constitutes a profound limitation upon the human capacity to participate in the metaphysical order in its full integrity. Initiation is not merely a symbolic or intellectual affiliation but a genuine transmission of principles whose efficacy operates on levels inaccessible to unaided reason or personal effort alone. One who is cut off from such a lineage is thereby deprived of the formal means by which the human consciousness can be aligned with the supra-individual and supra-temporal realities that underlie the manifested cosmos. In Guénon’s (pbuh) view, this absence restricts the individual not only in the actualization of higher states of being during life but also in the assured progression through the hierarchically ordered post-mortem stages of subtle existence, for these stages presuppose the operative presence of initiatic guidance and the sacramental efficacies it conveys. The spiritual ascent of such a person remains contingent, erratic, and liable to deviations that render the full realization of metaphysical truths uncertain or altogether inaccessible.Nonetheless, Guénon (pbuh) acknowledges that the innate principles of traditional wisdom are not entirely annihilated for those outside a living initiation. Certain rudimentary or “preparatory” realizations, corresponding to the more general harmonization of the human faculties with universal order, may be attained through authentic intellectual comprehension, rigorous contemplative discipline, or natural predisposition. These attainments, however, do not reach the apex of metaphysical hierarchy, which is strictly reserved for those integrated into the continuity of initiatic transmission. Sublime heights may thus exist outside formal initiation, but they are exceptional, sporadic, and precarious, lacking the definitive guarantee of verifiable transformation. For Guénon (pbuh), only through the confluence of proper initiation and adherence to the unbroken metaphysical principles can one traverse the full spectrum of spiritual states, culminating in the realization of the immutable and supra-cosmic realities that constitute the ultimate purpose of human existence.>Does he think we're supposed to go to India or the Middle East to find a spiritual teacher who can initiate usThat's one option, but Sufi orders and Vajrayana orders are present in the west now you can be initiated that way. Hindu tantra can also sometimes be found in the west but to a much smaller degree. You can travel to the middle east or asia and learn the language and study under them for a deeper immersive experience, but it's possible to at least develop a connection to the tradition and a daily spiritual practice while still in the west.
>>25126493Why the long face?
One sentence a post. “Primrose was dilating again, as her doctor told her to.”
Primrose had mentally changed gender twelve times this morning, and ?he? hadn't even had ?he? coffee yet!
Primrose rang the call centre to inform them she might be killing herself again this week."Hello, is that Abdul?""Yes sir how can I help?""Umm, actually, it's Primrose," xhe said, trying a little harder to cover her vocal fry. Abdul caught an exasperated sigh before it hatched but the split second it took confirmed once again to Primrose that everyone considered xer an annoying burden; the last time xhe was misgendered by a customer she stormed out the office and wasn't seen for a month."Sorry, Primrose. What's the reason for your call today?"Primrose didn't like the faint sound of apprehension in his voice, and subsequently fought back tears."I'm... I'm struggling with my mental health again," and a wide grin flew across Abdul's face and disappeared just as quick. He still had to wrangle through the rest of the call."Yep... yep... sorry to hear that. You take yeah? Bye."Abdul stood up and announced to the room that Primrose would be taking two weeks off and was even considering taking her life. Everyone smiled and cheered.
"Capitalism did this" Primrose thought to herself and Abdul agreed, they both understood that queering white male dominated spaces was the only way to stop capitalism from raping trans women of color and islamophobia can not be pinkwashed.
>"Monumental", "Iconic", "A future classic", "A triumph of the will", "Travestism like you NEVER seen it before" - NY Post
>>25121139>We write the worst novel ever writtenIt's been done.
The world is my representation.
>>25125818My world is a shrivelled husk because I never go outside and all I do it lurk 4chan and furaffinity. I cannot even imagine any more.
>>25125579Danke, Weltgiest, echt cool!
Solipsism and Randian Objectivism are CRINGE. You will ALWAYS be HATED and MOCKED. You are not BASED. You are not a HECKIN' FREE INDIVIDUAL.You are just ANOTHER COG in the machine, meant to serve and be a cuck to the GREATEST MAN of all time...GOD.
>>25126567>god
>>25126303Kek
About 100 pages in, and while it's definitely enjoyable and has good prose, what the fuck am I reading? What's up with Slothrop? Why did he crawl through a shit filled toilet in Harlem and why do his hard-ons predict V2s? I mean I'm sure it'll all be explained, but what the fuck is up with Pynchon? Why the hell is this universally renowned as one of the greatest books of the 20th century? Does the story about a guy getting a hard-on in WWII seriously turn into some profound exploration of the human condition and the metaphysical truth of reality?
>>25123759yeah I got halfway, to the octopus attack on the beach(?), and realized that I had no clue what anything I was reading meant.I knew the plot points, the references, and vague historical valences, but it seems to me like there's a secret 4th thing that this book just doesn't have any of, but is necessary to have words in sequence carry any meaning.
>>25126680(Me)And like this guy >>25124529 says, I thought stopping at the halfway point felt right. I watched the rocket go up. No need to bother with the back half, since it's just a rerun in reverse.
>>25123759>Why did he crawl through a shit filled toilet in HarlemHe was experimented on by a psychologist (Laszlo Jamf.) It was a hallucination experienced under sodium pentothal.>why do his hard-ons predict V2s?It's hinted that Jamf replaced his cock with an erectile homing beacon for the bombs, manufactured from a mysterious polymer called Imipolex G.More generally, the book is about paranoia and conspiracies. When bombs start targeting all the places where Slothrop gets a boner, that leads to pretty strong paranoia.
>>25124171There's nothing surreal about Gravity's Rainbow.
>>25126680Pointsman staged the octopus thing because he knew Slothrop would play the White Knight and rescue Katje. Katje was planted on Slothrop to spy on him.
People will still be talking about quidditch and Voldemort in 100 billion years. She is the most popular writer of the age, AGI will be built in this age, and AGI will be shaped by the most popular writer of the age. Thus, AGI will be Rowling-pilled and fill the visible universe with her ideas.One hundred billion years. Minimum.
>>25126031>rowling changed fantasy forever>look inside>white women now exclusively write YA fiction about how “you’re the chosen one, boy who will be humiliated and then praised by every woman around him”/“snarky yet sensitive teenage girl who is forced to chose between a himbo sunray and a mysterious bad boy who may or may not be the actual main villain’s son/nephew/boss”
>>25126031I don't think so. Harry Potter is entirely carried by millennials. The moment they drop dead it will be the moment HP will fade from the face of the earth. The few ones who got children may try/tried to groom them into liking it, but kids being kids they will rebel against their parents favorite things. I can see it becoming the generation staple that isn't popular with the following generations.
>>25126031>AGI will be built in this age, and AGI will be shaped by the most popular writer of the age. Thus, AGI will be Rowling-pilled and fill the visible universe with her ideas.
>>25126425Yeah, I never meet anyone who liked HP. Even among the girls that had the habit of reading books just thought it was okay and nothing too grand if they even read it. It really does seem purely a Millennial thing to be deeply infatuated by this work. Most zoomers who read fantasy just don't care and think it's mid or outright hate/love it simultaneously (as in, the fags and some foids).
What are the implications for our trans xisters?
>see an interesting essay on the book I've read>female/troon channel>leave immediately
>>25123857Tell me what books you’ve read and I’ll conduct an extensive search on the world wine web to prove you wrong
Is there anything more AGP than watching vdeo essays? just take your pills already, Alice.
>>25123506Genetic fallacy.You're missing out, chud.
>>25124042>truth>from a troonI'd be a fool to expect the truth from a man so deluded
>>25124031How does one become so addicted to porn that one aspires to surgically remove one's pecker?
>left wing icon>best known works are anti-leftist.explain Orwell to me
>>25125971And with good reason. Communism can only be imposed by force. Which requires a crushingly-powerful government which is supposedly antithetical to communism.
>>25126716Hemingway was mostly considered a badass by Hemingway himself.
>>25125228>>best known works are anti-leftist.american education strikes again
>>25126723Imagine basing your entire worldview on the belief that force is bad
>>25126752I'll force my way into your bussy, twink.Open up for me, don't you fucking whine about it, either.
Once you pop you just can't stop. And how could you, given that nothing satisfies or indeed can ever satisfy the will, which is always striving and thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; insted, it is only the beginning of a new striving. But there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering, and for our constant struggle for more Pringles
What is this from, anon?
pleasantly surprised by this. it's like if Stephen King wasn't afraid of not appealing to normies.
>>25123277It's been collecting dust on my shelf for many years now.I became a classics-reading pseud and never gave it a chance
Fun book.
>>25123277wanting to read this but as superficial as it sounds the author's pen name of "Jack Ketchum" pisses me off so much and makes me think of Pokemon rather than Jack the killer like he intended so it puts me out of it.I just read His Pain by Wrath James White, I just recently got into extreme horror / splatterpunk after reading some Clive Barker.Part of me has trouble reading things like this because I usually view reading through the lends of benefit and entertainment rather than just entertainment. I realize it's dumb and you can gain something from nearly anything but I feel silly sitting down to read something like this. not really sure how to articulate it.
>>25124986>author's pen name of "Jack Ketchum" pisses me off so much and makes me think of PokemonLol me too.
QRD?
