Severian did nothing wrong
>>24831053Both
>>24833037>She literally wasn't rapedSeverian pretty much admits he raped her in Urth of the New Sun
Thoughts on Long Sun and Short Sun?I think New Sun is the best of the bunch
>>24834809he actually completely disavows the whole thing. >I had been brutal enough with the khaibit Thecla of the House Azure, then as mild and clumsy as any untouched boy with the real Thecla in her cell; fevered at first with Dorcas, quick and clumsy with Jolenta (whom I might have been said to have raped, though I believed then and believe still that she wished it)when you go and reread claw, it makes more sense with her bragging about how desired she is and teasing severian.>She stopped and turned, smiling. “That’s just it. Don’t you see? I can make anyone desire me, and so he, the One Autarch, whose dreams are our reality, whose memories are our history, will desire me too, unmanned or not. You have wanted women other than me, haven’t you? Wanted them badly?”this is just a sample. rape accusations in the context of this story are absurd.
>>24834843You got me
>life hecking sucks
>>24830984Can you prove your birth definitely happened? Hmm, your mother said so? Yeah, I thought so, lolz!
>>24829918yes, the "physical explanation" for consciousness is a complete meme, i agree.
>>24826243Legitimately frustrating that Mozart died so young. Can't think of any early death that makes me think about what could have been.
>>24834848All of Mozart's music sounds the same.
>>24834873Why would you advertise that you have such poor discernment like this?
So what's exactly stopping you from posting your thoughts on the books you read and monetizing it?
>>24834822
>>24833886shes a bit retarded sometimes but her videos are surprisingly pleasant and calm. not bad op not bad.
>>24833955>let bitches get freaky. they aren't hurting anyone.hope you keep that energy about pornography and onlyfans
>>24833927>It doesn't facilitate a dialogue.Who cares. It's supposed to be a marketting strategy for your actual writing. And you can make a couple bucks in the mean time.
Don't wanna.
It's all about women isn't it? Everything else is just pointless distraction.
>>24822432Based
>>24822602Also bvsedThe only parts on a woman that are hot are the ones men also have, like the thighs, the ass, and the face, while the parts exclusive to them like tits and vaginæ are repulsive
>>24821861>It won't bring you loveIt will satiate lust, which is the only thing that evidently matters to female worshippers
>>24834152
Nearing 40, with every relationship I've had ending in failure, I have concluded that I'm crazy and have renounced the love of females. I no longer seek sex, but will not turn it down, or put forth much effort in the rare instances it is available. I honestly wish my sexual desire would cease, and that my member would dry up and fall off so that I could focus my life on God.
I read this and it was crap. So boring. Why is science fiction so bad?
>>24834374It's about a dysfunctional man struggling to get ahead, and who ultimately just wants to be a good person. It's not particularly deep, but it's the kind of book you can read in an evening and get some enjoyment.I think a lot of people fail to understand what actually happens at the end and it leaves them thinking "what the fuck did I just read?"**He approaches the wish granter, but after everything that has happened he has no idea what he wants his wish to be. He asks the wish granter to look inside him and decide on his behalf what he really wants. The wish granter determines that what he wants most is to be a good person. At that moment, his wish is granted and Red is now a good person. In the next moment he wishes for world peace, because he is now the kind of person who would wish for something like that. But his wish has already been granted, so there is no world peace.**
>>24834761Is that really what happens. All I remember from the ending was that the young man that Red was with gets torn apart by a gravity anomaly or whatever they're called and then Red proceeds to go insane. Also the imagery building up to the climax was weird as fuck in the best way possible. I think at one point both of them were wading in goop up to their chest.
>>24834787Yes, that is what happens at the end.On the path to get to the wish granter is an anomaly that essentially requires a human sacrifice in order to get past it. Red sacrifices the kid to get to the wish granter, but then he loses his mind. He feels guilty that he has lived a selfish life. In the moment, what he truly wants is to be a good man.When the wish granter looks inside him, it sees his guilt and his desire to be a good man, and THAT is the wish that is granted. Red asking for world peace occurs AFTER the wish has already been granted.
>>24834713I still think Red is a good character, I just think it’s a funny thing to point out how drastically different social expectations are now compared to the 70s, and I don’t think doing so detracts from his characterization
>>24834374goddamn you boy I wish I could find an actual physical copy of this instead of an ebook fuck your mother
Is this good?
>>24834703what's wrong with them
evola strikes me as somewhat homosexual
>>24834703let's see the faces of the people who negatively review the book, starting with you
>>24834615That depends. Do you want to unravel the secrets of the cosmos and embrace your destiny as an aristocrat of the soul? Or do you want to have a chance at getting a girlfriend? Choose wisely, retard.
>>24834615>this, in book form.
Who is the greatest heroic figure in all of literature? Who is the most tragic heroic figure in all of literature?
Your answer to both questions
Are difficult books deeper than easy ones?
>>24833384In its ”meaning”? Not necessarily, but in a linguistic sense, yes (most of the time, anyways). Finnegans Wake being a perfect example of this.
>>24833859Terry Davis' quote is one of the most misunderstood quotes out there. In engineering you want to simplify; complex code is inefficient and hard to maintain, complex parts break down more often and are costlier to manufacture, complex interfaces are prone to failure. Making things simple also takes skill: it's easy to cobble together something that sorta works, but simplifying it later takes a lot of thought.This does not apply to art. What is more admirable, an intricate gothic cathedral, or brutalist architecture? Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, or Henry Moore's Double Oval? Great art attracts virtuosity and complexity.
>>24833901A truly great writer would do well to remember what the word actually means, rather than confusing things with acrostic-making and Alexandrianisms. The general rule is people won’t enjoy reading something the writer didn’t enjoy writing. If something’s difficult to read, the author was probably straining himself writing it. And W. S. said:Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
>>24833464Not a fan of madoka and penguindrum i consider to be the weakest ikuhara. I don't even remember what top right is called but I remember stopping following it 3 episodes in
>>24833977Woah bud madoka kicks ass
>>24829049>221 ———> B B S (S H)221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes)>24601 ———> J V P N in L MJean Valjean's prisoner number in Les Miserables
>>24832990>47 ———>I on the B in M LGoogle is giving 46 and 48 but I'll take the chance47 inscriptions on the beams in Michels library
>>24832990>70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O DAnd through elimination this has to be something Emily Dickinson The slash hints it is a poem and the only other it might be is the one I may be wrong about King LearBut that is Age of someone in something and I don't think Emily Dickinson wrote named characters in named works
>>24834794>>24832990Oh wait I'm dumbAge of Kent
>>24834851Blake is also still unaccounted for>>24834859I had this thought as well but Kent seems like far too minor a character for him to be brought up… unless there’s some specific line referencing his age in the play I don’t recall
Ted Hughes made Sylvia Plath's poems better and all feminists did in return was accuse him of censorship and controlling the narrative, on top of baselessly asserting he raped, beat, abused, or killed her.Did he have some sort of masculine energy based in mythology that made him so attractive, and repulsive, to feminists?
Ted Hughes>born to working class parents in yorkshire mill townSylvia Plath>born to wealthy professor parentsYeah i support hughes all the way.
>>24832478Feminist psyop. We've seen this before.
>>24832478Post tits.
>>24834866
Not familiar with his works.
>>24834764Dumb? Nietzsche says an insult instantly and thoughtlessly avenged is the privilege of a master. But obviously if you are vengeful it means you have been wounded and are suffering a kind of slow poisoning, you are another person’s slave and subject. This is not even a value judgement it’s just true
>>24833598He's a psychopath and probably genuinely enjoys an egoist interpretation of Nietzsche's.
>>24833871He's also a Macron guy.
>>24833578he has chatGPT implanted in his brainhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQRo3Uz_VQ
>>24834854He does give off a similar vibe to a Bret Easton Ellis / Patrick Bateman character. Which is probably more like the actual 1980s in substance compared to the more superficial forms in some of the nostalgia slop that have become popular with internet artists.
ἐρώμενος editio>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24763657>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.
>>24830686I think that's what my teacher used in high school. He thought the Ecce Romani (the county-prescribed curriculum) was "Ecce Ridiculous," so he handed out photocopied scans from that book instead. I can't say whether things turned out better than if we had just stuck with Ecce Romani.
>>24834178>He thought the Ecce Romani (the county-prescribed curriculum) was "Ecce Ridiculous,"Sovl
>>24833677Usually excerpts from his speeches, particularly In Catilinam, are introduced in beginner classes. the First Catilinam is a great introduction and short. Next depends on your interests. I like his philosophical works which apart from introductions are fairly smooth reading. De Oratore and the other rhetorical works are a little harder but well worth it if you care about oratory. Just pick something that seems interesting and jump in.
>>24831249>or something?Greeks speaking Syriac invented the first vowel system in any Semitic language.
>>24816688I took Latin in highschool and feel a certain longing to pick it up again. Where can I start to study on my own?
I'll start:
>>24833394I'm reading this next year and really looking forward to it. I thought Dot in the Universe was fantastic, and true readers know her strong background in Joyce
Diary of a Faggot by OP
>>24833156The real answer would be a self-published book a dude I know wrote called The Asperger Teen but that barely counts as a book so I will go with this.
It suckers you in by making you think it's a horror story about the Abominable Snowman but then it turns out it's actually about spies trying to recover photos of Adolf Hitler raping little boys, which causes the French character to exclaim C'EST ABOMINABLE!700 fucking pages
>>24833156Heller is a bad writer who struck lightning in a bottle with Catch 22.>>24833394Nah I liked this one quite a lot. It had a great rhythm to it.
>>24834312>IDF IDF IDF IDF IDF IDF IDF IDF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Call me a 'jeet next please!
>>24834316trust me, the idea it was actually God-fearing Christians who were making macros of desert people having gay sex shouldn't be any flattering
>>24834340Who brought Christians into this? I didn't
>Who brought Christians into this? I didn't
>>24833199I found a copy in my local library and started reading it this weekend. It stinks. Very disappointing, like a disorganized Bible fan fiction. No clue why anyone would call it a great work of literature unless they were forced to under threat of death.
I went down yesterday to Piraeus-- no, wait, that wasn't me.What is pornography? “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” So you're the one who decides? “No, it's subjective, porn could be different things to different people.” So everyone gets to decide? “No, there's no objective criteria.” So no one gets to decide? “No--” Thank God.Many people find it hard to have a rational discussion about pornography with other people, because other people don’t exist. You may as well try to discuss porn with an ox, if you can find one, if you will listen. Other generations exist, because you hate them, but such dialogues are tricky because the old can't help but see sexuality as part of a continuum towards death because they are closer to death than they are to lust, so much so that rather than an old guy thinking the young are sex obsessed, he forgets they are sex obsessed, forgets how sex and love frame all their decisions, forgets that the kid looking idly around a train car isn't thinking about bladder capacities or his boss’s incompetence, he's daydreaming about gazing at his beloved or ejaculating on a chick as he explains to her that she knows she likes it.1 Worse, they forget how hyperspecific love and lust is, a recently middle aged guy looks around and thinks college girls today are hotter than they've ever been, meanwhile a sophomore can look at identical twin cheerleaders and still need a few beers before he can get it up for the ugly one. You can play the game backwards, too, the creepy old perv, age 35-55, is creepy to a sophomore because it's unimaginable anyone that old still experiences lust in 3D; the simple fact that he noticed the consequences of an 18-24 year old's computer engineered bra is evidence of sociopathy unless those women have been branded as for-profit media combustibles in which case it's un-American if you don't look. The NFL put a lot of money into designing what’s left of those cheerleading uniforms, so unless you want to end up registered on a database you better not be caught not pretending not to notice.
Lust wanes with age; and if the old have good characters, they may feel some relief at having escaped such a frenzied and savage master. And if they lament it, and feel like they are being deprived of something very important, then I suspect that youth was hard for them as well. But what blocks all such dialogues isn’t the age or the hormone levels, it's the demographic. The hardest thing to swallow is that your lust is not your own, while it feels primal there's little innate or instinctive about it. This is not a happy thought, with so-co individualism being all the rage in the age of Know Thyself you're not going to want to hear about how little of you is you rather than the work product of whatever media agency targets the demo they've decided you're in. You're not taught what to want, but how to want, the modern innovation is to let you think you came up with you on your own. “I love a shaved pussy,” says the man who just doesn't get it, as if this his genetic preference. “Ugh!” says some equally oblivious antithesis, “it's like you're with a child.” Now he has to imagine she’s an adult. “She is actually an adult.” Yes, but he has to imagine it. If you practice seeing pieces of images, images of pieces are hard to unsee. When a guy looks at porn back from his own sexual prime, the enthusiastic reaction he has to the now hysterical hair and makeup or decade/exercise/diet specific body type is just as reflexive as if it came from ten gazillion years of natural selection, but it didn't. “Large hips are a cue for fecundity.” That at least explains why have always avoided them. “I just love a big ass.” Yes, it's the part of her furthest from her face. “You mean you can imagine her the way you want?” No, you don’t have to imagine her at all. She’s real. It's possible that the 1985 mustachio in the dark blazer over office-gut happened to be born at precisely the time that his unique major histocompatibility preferences coincided with the sudden popularity of white pumps and Legg's pantyhose, or that these are proxy cultural markers for biological fitness or ovulation, but the alternative explanation is that Bandolino needed market share so it targeted him as well as women, it told him not just what kinds of women a man like him should want but what kinds of men those women would want, which is also why he thought the mustache was a good idea. “Ok, but what does it mean that I get turned on by--” Save your breath: I don't know what it means. I only know what it's for. And that it's bad for everyone else.
>>24833748Cool. Which book is this from?
Forget about what porn you like. It's not about you. You know how I know? You didn't make it. Undoubtedly someone is going to toss the words heteronormative and individualizing the structural at me, and that person should stop reading immediately, not just this book but all books, your mind is broken and it is better suited for TV. I don't mean you are stupid, only that you are even more a product of the system you hate than the porn you think you reject. You think your sexual proclivities define you, they are unique to you, distinguish you; that the man who likes forced interracial porn is fundamentally different than the woman who likes soft core lesbian porn, this is wrong: the fact that you both like a porn makes you far more similar than different, please observe that your oh-so-personal and disparate kinks are all served by the same handful of websites, we are all brothers and sisters after all. We enjoy it, surrender ourselves, we praise anyone who affects us most in this way2. As much as everyone believes their sexuality is fundamental to their identity, no one would say their actual sexual past is indicative of their identity. “It’s different with you, those other people didn’t count.” I know. Neither is there anything to be gained by “analyzing” the kinds of porn you like as a window into your soul, it is meaningless and anyway chosen for you to like. Have you ever fallen asleep looking at porn? Yet that fact is far more telling than the image you fell asleep to, it doesn't matter what you want, or why you want-- it only matters how you want. You can count the drinks and pretend it's informative but too many times I've grabbed the bottle to pour myself the nth drink only to discover I hadn't finished the (n-1)th drink, the glass was still half full, or empty. So? You think the truth can be found by solving for n?So consider this your final warning. I have written a book, and the only thing I use in this book is words. Everything else th𝘢t h𝘢ppens is your f𝘢ult.
It's alright. I give it 3 apples. And I hope you aren't older than 20.
Eh, I don't live like I used to, have different sexual preferences now. Huess that's invalid or I'm an abberation. Been laying off the porn lately too, it was hard at first, but feels good. Try it sometime
