You fucking lackwit.
You fucking shallow-pate.
Suck my dick, babyman <----- this is you btw
I've started reading La Recherche, and for weeks I've been thinking about how I desperately want to ravish this sickly French aesthete in his cork-lined room. As soon as I think about him sweaty and desperate with a fever, it's over. I'm asthmatic myself, so we wouldn't have any stamina, which, I find, is wonderfully intimate. I've started thinking that I should write my thesis on him, purely for access. They'd pay me to spend years poring over his works, correspondence, and medical history, with the additional bonus that it would be considered respectable scholarship. I'd give up anything to lay my head beside his and smoke the hallucinogenic asthma cigarettes together.
>>25591701>Weeks Choose life with Marcel anon
>>25592939Clive James didGood enough for himGood enough for me
>>25591701Sounds a bit gay though.
>>25592913C’est une chose formidable... quel que soit le degré de négativité d’un gouffre, il est toujours possible qu’il devienne positif.
>>25592990Un gouffre positif, c'est une montagne, non ?
James Joyce was honestly the smartest man to ever live.
>>25588459Is this some meme I am unaware of? That’s not how the book begins or ends..
>>25592963>Is this some memeNo, but he's trying desperately to make it one.>I am unaware ofMany such cases.
>>25592652>Flann fucking O'BrienTell us again how Joyce's most abject imitator is better than Joyce himself.
>>25592963just another retarded cunt
>>25592652>HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW NON-REDDITORS
Which one is IT and why?
>>25592507Confederacy of Dunces, basically the modern Don Quixote tailor made for this board.
>>25592532Yes. But fantasies of r*pe? Off the charts
>>25592536Muh-maybe the Jehovah's Witnesses are right, too? That we're all actually already dead. We just.. don't know it yet
>>25592147Tromedy
As a hater of all things fun, I hate it when someone tries to lighten the tone of a tragedy
yeah bitch call me a herzogfag like I fucking care
>>25591076herzogfagdid you like that?
>>25591076Started reading this a few weeks ago. Got about 3/4 of the way through. I think its the only time I've dropped a book. I was loving it for the first 50 pages but become very bored thereafter. At one point he speculates on how how peregrine must perceive the world and draws an analogue to seafaring which I enjoyed a lot. At the beginning of this book the author writes something along the lines of "repetitive drawn out descriptions of nature are tedious" but then proceeds to fill every page with exactly that.
>>25591076a classic case of a book being better as an idea than the execution, I think the greatest strength of this book is that it makes you stop and stare at birds of prey and ask yourself how it would be to live as them for a moment, feeling the breeze under your wings and the pride flushing through your body when you soar up the sky and flap your wings, flap flap flap, going up the ladder of the sky and feeling like a god of storms, it must be the closest thing to feeling like you're precisely one with nature, because it is so effortless and so fast and depends so much on your skillful execution.I think a great (English) non fiction work is Night comes to the Cumberlands, it feels like a more genuine and heartfelt version of Zola's Germinal.
>>25593038OP here. understand this argument - you make a good point. But Jesus Christ THANK YOU for being the first one to actually provide another fucking rec my intention was NOT supposed to be a total discourse on picrel jfc
>>25593047>my intention was NOT supposed to be a total discourse on picrel jfcThis is what happens in 99% of 4chan threads. People see the image and the title and do not think beyond that.
We used to be hyped about BAP, Mishima and Junger, the promise of being warriors for a new Nietzschean caste that Curtis Yarvin said would be like the elves of LOTR. We read Nick Land and drew power from Evola. We were all, above all, based and redpilled.Now it seems as if those days are gone and the board culture is dying
>>25592636well the point is that if you believe that a certain world, your world, is gone, not in trouble, sick, in crisis, but gone, and its killers are still about, visible, then what happens next doesn't matter that much and if anything you can get a bit of satisfaction from seeing the murderers get theirs toothink about native americans and the rapid destruction of their world, reduced to almost a circus attraction in a world that destroyed their way of being and made it impossible for goodthe same befalls anyone who ever cared about Europeans and their civilization and lands
>>25592696i'll take your word for it, i couldn't stand watchmen
>>25592123>Honor LevyThat makes sense to me, I've never seen a more astroturfed bitch on this board. She makes the Sally Rooney threads feel organic.
>>25592095so?
>>25592839it was alright. I like his gritty style and he's very faithful to the comic book aesthetic, recreating whole panels and such. It's not Bergman but I don't understand the hate he gets. But then again I'm not a comic book nerd and nerds always complain when their favorite media is adapted. Nonetheless, the man himself is based and redditors hate anyone who can lift a barbell.
>her novels will no longer be supplied to booksellers in the UK as a result of her support for Palestine Action>The Irish novelist said last year she intended to carry on using her royalties to support the group, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.which banned books are you reading?
Good, Islamofascists and their supporters should be hounded out of the western/developed world.
>>25592992The only people allowed to complain about them are Jews. When the news covers it, they have both sides of the story, both sides are Jews. But if the Jews didn't want Muslims in our cities, they would campaign against mass immigration, support nationalism, and attempt to pass laws limiting the freedoms of the Islamic religion. They don't do any of that, instead they vilify people who support any of those things. They want 'Islamofascists' here because it is opposition they can manage while still achieving the aims of white genocide.
>>25593003Nah, the average person hates Islamofascists as well. Anybody who wants to live somewhere developed and with western enlightenment values, essentially.
>>25593003>>25593022The people who claim jews are totally fucked when europe becomes muslim majority haven’t paid attention to their plans. They obviously count on their enemies being incompetent or stuck in perpetual war with its neighbours. Muslims are both, in other words the perfect “opponent”.After Jolani took Syria, Israel got to bomb every important military site without any resistance. You think a muslim UK or France would suddenly pose a threat? At worst they’d be ruled by Mamdani level sycophant who pretend to be against Israel and at worst (for whites) we’d live in a Lebanon style shithole with civil war every decade.
>>25590842>a self-imposed ban is still a banNo it isn't, retard.
If you want, feel free to write a few words explaining why.
>>25588767Also, Heracles, the real “Hercules” is a true story of tragedy. Heracles wasn’t a clean cut good guy like Perseus who went on epic adventures and used his wits, talents, and magic charms to survive and ended living happily ever after in the stars in the night sky with his beloved wife. Heracles was a violent brute who murdered people for insults and shit and was driven mad and then slaughtered his entire family like one of those guys on the news. Then his second wife accomplished him and he died in agony. For some reason modern pop culture decided to pull a switcheroo with the names and personalities
>>25590244>accomplished *Accidentally poisoned*
>>25590244He also genocided the amazonians.
>>25586715>He’s the guy everybody thinks Heracles was.Herakles is a latecomer to the Greek myths, and a terrible one at that.By his name you can tell he was Hera's little runt, and some misogynist invented the trash stories about him. Those writers took from older myths. It's garbage though.
>>25584217Medea
>>25592297What fic is this?
>>25592932I mean yeah, it's a ridiculous thing to say and try and use as evidence to the contrary. Ancient greeks and romans are that long gone that their culture is completely alien to the modern societies.>lmfao. you won't get another (you) out of me, you rascalThe lowest hanging fruits taste the sweetest lmao
>>25593007Not really a fic, more like a collection of shorts.
>>25593007I'll link the Ao3 later.
>>25592565>All I'm saying is that malfoidniggers pretend they're doing serious and deep analysis (you can find claiming as such in this very thread)Your affliction is known as black and white thinking. You don't seem to understand that "serious, deep analysis" of Harry Potter just means taking it as seriously as the original books warrant. That means it's more substantial than some Nintendo character like Bowser or Link, but not more substantial than say, debating Star Wars or some other.You're projecting a massive straw man level of pretension onto people that simply doesn't exist, and then getting all mad about it.
Do we have a replacement now that we have lost the MEGA?
>>25591938AMIGO
>>25592029yes
>>25592041SI AMIGO
>>25592029no
can you people do anything anymore
>comedy classically meant any story with a happy endingIs there a bigger /lit/ misconception?
>>25592428
I can't tell if it's shit or not.
>>25590760Is it like Zurn? Is it some schizo outsider lit? I love outsider lit. Give outsider lit recs if you have any
>>25590760It's a little bit shit. You read it because it's a surreal projection of the author's insanity, and because it's vaguely rapey, I can't think of any better reasons.
>>25590760>obligatoryICE ICE BABYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE
She was a massive junkie and mental case, you cannot expect a consistent or understandable book from such a mind.
>>25591458Not at all
What exactly happened in the end?
>>25589469This. Stop turning books into clue hunts. Books aren't symbolic mysteries to be unlocked. Take it for what it is. If it is unclear that is intentional.
>>25590686If I say to someone that I find it very unlikely that the judge raped the kid at the end of the book it doesn't mean I think that's the most important part of that passage. You don't have to scale your attention to how important something is to the overall narrative, even. Also, if something is large and clear in the book there's not a lot of point in discussing it. Everyone knows already. Most of the things you see discussed with vigor are going to be secondary or vague to begin with. It's part of what makes them discussable.People do get up their own ass hoping some difficult to discern small element they've dumped hours into parsing will turn out to be pivotal. But I don't think anyone thinks that's what they're doing here, other than that "judge doesn't kill kids" red yarn on a corkboard retard.
>>25590672This is how I read it.Next time I go through it I plan to actually look up all the plants and animals and minerals he talks about that I don't recognize.
>>25590468I think "la casa" means "the house"
Been introducing myself to ladies in the cocktail bar next to the one good hotel downtown as El Quatro de Copas in a horrific Peggy Hill accent.
What does /lit/ think about Voegelin? Is he worth reading?
>>25591745Strange. Just picked up a copy of his essays a week ago at a used shop wondering the same thing. Probably won't pick it up until early next year as I'm busy with some other stuff rn
no
no if you're an incel chud
>>25591745He's very important for his political philosophies, as he was front and center of the reaction to and analysis of nazi totalitarianism. He also had a big influence on his contemporaries like Strauss and Arendt. He draws on a massive amount of prior cultural and historical history so he can be hard to parse, and he wrote a ridiculous amount as well. Voegelinview.com has good articles about him and his work on their website to get started.
I never read him, but I have read about him in the works of a certain Eugene Webb. You may want to check that out. Voegelin wrote many volumes so some kind of summary work like Webb might be good before you decide to start such a massive reading project (if you start something, you MUST finish it).
why did the yalit go from things the Giver to some shitty boilerplate romantasy or romcom
>>25591204Now the libraries of full of troons and the homeless.
what was your favorite yalit book?
>>25591965Redwall
>>25591965Catcher in the rye really spoke to me as a teen.
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