What’s your favorite thriller novel
red storm rising
Does this feel good non-virgin anons?
>>25551879The rod was very long, probably 18in I'd say. It broke in two big pieces and a bunch of tiny ones, but the break point was at least an inch from the tip of his average-ish dickso he just stared at us, stared at it, then pinched the jagged edge and slooshed it outidk seemed fine but we didn't talk about it, just one of those "ah whoops, dang, ok, see you later!!" type of things
I can not be said to be dominant when I am dependent on her submission. I can pull her hair, thwack her rump, and do all manner of things that engorge my penis with blood, but I'll feel the security of being a lock, merely the precision of being a key.
>>25549789FYI just touching that is painful for most men.
>>25552243>The rod was very long, probably 18in I'd say.Long enough for you to dock in on the other end without making it gay
>>25552339No it's not, you just have gonorrhea
Vesuvii conflagrationis editio>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25518843>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.
Other than the ablative, what is something Latin can do that Greek can't?
>>25551986Form sentences that aren't loaded with dozens of barely-translatable particles and discourse markers.
>>25551636had to review my indirect discourse hypotheticals they can't stay in my headτίς ἔκραγεν;σοὶ ἄχθεταί τιςβλαστάνει τόδε τὸ φυτὸν πανταχοῦἆρα σάφ' οἶδεν δύνασθαι τὴν ἅμαξαν τοσοῦτον σταθμὸν ὑπέχειν;ὅτ' ἄν πάλιν ἐντυγχάνω αὐτοῦ δοκῶ μοι ἀνερωτᾶν αὐτότοῖς πάλαι πλείστοις ἐδόκει κατὰ μῆκος αὐξάνεσθαι εἰ ὑπ' ἐκείνῳ τῷ δένδρῳ ἴσταιντο!ἰδού, δέχου τόδε! ἔγνων μέν σε φόβον ἔχοντα κεὶ ἐν χώρᾳ σου ἦν ἔχειν ἄν ἐμαυτόν, ἀλλ' ἐὰν δὲ μὴ κρείττον' ἔχῃς γνώμην ἢ ἄλλον τινὰ τρόπον ἤ τινὰ θεὸν ὀυρανόθεν ἐπικουρήσονθ' ἡμῖν προσδέχῃ, εὔφραινε καὶ τλῆθι, οὐ γὰρ πολὺς ἔτ' ὑπάρχεται χρόνος πρὶν ἄν κατακλείηται ἡ διάβασις κεἰσαεὶ μενοῦμεν ἐνθάδε!
>>25551636Quis clamavit?Aliquis cum tibi iratis est.Haec herba in aliloco crescit.Scitne quem carrum tantum ferre potest?Cras hac re eum interrogaro.Tunc omnes credebant quam essere ad illam arborem omnem crescere potest!>t. lowit
I'm quite liking Catullus. I memorized poem 5 and that's helping me read a lot of the rest more easily, as long as its in the same meter. But some of the meter he uses seems really weird in some of his poems, can anyone explain? Like I read a praise to Diana today IIRC and was not sure how to take it.
>saw the Lord of the Rings movies>Sauron-man talks about "the two towers" being Isengard and Mordor>read the books>in the books the two towers are actually Isengard and Minas MorgulHow did Hackson fuck that up so badly?
I remember the changes to Faramir really pissed me off at the time. Never went to see the third film.
>>25552137Denethor got ruined arguably worse than Faramir. Denethor may be my least favorite thing about the Jackson movies.
The movies feel more like a pulp adventure, while the book is much more of a slow burn that ramps up further and further as the story progresses.The changes were probably because they didn’t have the runtime to show more of the characters, or it made things too complicated to the overall narrative movie audiences were expecting.They’re both great in their own way, and I’m thankful for a good adaptation. The movie industry is a dead end now, and only well written literature can be written.
>>25552149whenever I try to rewatch them I give up after The Fellowship of the Ring
>>25551859What's worse is that he's right
(continued from >>25550033)I really don't eat poo, I swear.
>>25552230As she scratched her forlorn barren crotch,
she licked her slick slippery tangy finger
the flavor recalling memories of childhood chalupas
(Sideline Comment: I am not kidding, I fucking gagged irl reading this part, Holy fuck...)
"Can I have a lick?" Dobby asked
>...we are ourselves creating our own successors... we are daily giving them greater power and supplying... that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race.Samuel Butler wrote this in 1863. We've had 163 years to prepare for an intelligence explosion, and somehow it caught us with our pants down. Why the FUCK didn't people take this shit more seriously?
Ive recently read two thoughts on this phenomenon.One, from Deneen's book on Liberalism. Where he claims that Liberalism created + proliferates the idea that "technology is inevitable" as a method of furthering their goals of hyper-individualized citizens, who cannot resist their own individualization via modern technology.He then gives the example of the Amish as a group that polices new technology, they allow only new technology that will aid their overall vision for their community.The other being Heidegger's essay on technology. I think he'd respond that no political ideology is the root cause. Liberalism and modern technology both grow out of a deeper way the world is revealed to us, which he calls "enframing," where everything shows up as a stockpile of resources to be ordered and optimized. He might argue that the Amish are not simply 'regulating' technology, but are living a form of "Gelassenheit"("releasement"): through their tradition and culture, they can use tools while staying aware of enframing's pull, letting things show up as more than resources.
>>25550807Humans really dreamed about AI for millennia and then we just… built it. That is so epic
>>25550807the premier victorian schizo
>>25551355Fascinating, I'll look into this.
bros fighting II editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25524176
Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.
>>25551376She immediately loses 60 IQ points the moment she has to make a decision instead of only giving advice.
it was 2014 when i finished reading this mfs asoiaf books, worst emotional investment of my adolescence. worthless old trash.
>>25539503all of them stayed because fans liked them and writers didn't know what to fuck they're supposed to do with the show
>Devan said the king scarcely slept of late. "Since Lord Renly died, he has been troubled by terrible nightmares," the boy had confided to his father. "Maester's potions do not touch them. Only the Lady Melisandre can soothe him to sleep."GIWTWM
>I would a thousand times rather have a homely girl, simply brought up, than a learned lady...A female wit is a scourge to her husband, her children, her friends, her servants, to everybody. From the lofty height of her genius she scorns every womanly duty, and she is always trying to make a man of herself >These highly talented women only get a hold over fools...If there were none but wise men upon earth such a woman would die an old maid.What did Rousseau mean by this?
>>25550915As usual, Rousseau shows us the way.
>>25550915I didn't know career women were a scourge in the 18th century as well, but Rousseau was clearly ahead of the times.
>>25550915How the fuck is Rousseau's reputation someone who was an arch-liberal who was responsible for the French Revolution and the egalitarianism in the modern world, but whenever I read anything he said he was basically a blood and soil chud who thought women were retards
>>25552183Because the bad guys won. We live in a Voltairian world.
>>25550915It's weird that Rousseau was 100% on women yet his views on men and children are those of a hapless abderite.
First Book in German, Chiles, Wiehrhttps://archive.org/details/firstbookingerma00chil
>>25551639you don't own this board, kys
>>25551672nah, it doesn't take any fucking time at all to learn a languagetelic vs atelic, learn it, dumbass
If Swedejeet swedejeets in a thread when no one is watching, did Swedejeet really swedejeet?
>>25551890He's trying in /pol/ again, so I guess there's always at least one observer.
Is anyone here able to recommend some simple Chinese novel, something that is to Mandarin what Le petit prince is to French. Graded readers are boring me to death, but most novels are too hard for me still.
Where else is there to discuss books besides here, r/truelit, and r/rsbookclub? My normie friend unironically recommended warosu to me. I've got near neurotic on this, there seem to be almost no books being newly discussed
this is it
The main MEGA folder containing the board charts (mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J) has been terminated. See attached image. Does anyone have a working mirror, a local backup, or a torrent magnet link for this exact archive?
>>25547232This would be a better outcome. There was a lot of redundancy through the charts. They only helped the newest of readers, and newfags are mainly going to pick one or two books to read then make their entire life revolve around it.
Is the new wiki up yet?
https://gofile.io/d/dUi2R2tE will continue to work as long as someone downloads from it at least once every ten days.
>>25549593The /lit/ wiki has been up for over a year, man. It was re-made pretty quick after Fandom axed all the chan wikis.>>25547138>>25547232>>25547632The /lit/ wiki exists for this type of stuff:https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Main_PageFolders are good because they're easy to mirror, but the wiki is the right place to have a public collection.
>>25547138what questionable stuff?
It gives me no joy to admit this but>pic related
>>25552096Family and dementia
>>25552025This one has a very beautiful opening page imo. Maybe it's because of my own difficulties with my family but I've always really enjoyed Franzen.
the corrections was slammin af
>>25552028it's a christmas novel even tho it mostly doesn't take place during chrismas so every season some mfs bound to read the shit
Why are hired hand writers so terrible? You would think if writers got paid a salary and their entire job was just to write a show or a game or articles for a magazine they could produce some good stuff but it has literally never happened
Never was molestedNever had sex Never had alcohol addictionNever took drugsNever was an artist of some formNever was really socially active.Yet I really relate to this in certain moments.
my friend recommended this to me and so i shall never read it
>>25551555They were literally laughing at him outside while he made his speech
>>25551002Read this, absolutely hated it and couldn't relate in any way. I'll admit that it was interesting as a concept but I hated this character so much the whole time.
>>25552204>Caring about how others perceive youThis is why everything you do will always be a larp
>>25552204So he still actually did it, correct? Why would the public's perception or reaction to anything influences what the thing is in itself? He did something and he died for it - which makes him more of a man than you faggots could ever be
The logical endpoint of Nietzsche’s nihilism is theism, specifically Christianity. When everything is deconstructed and all truths made subjective, when there is no meaning or purpose to anything, then religion is automatically optimal à la Pascal’s wager. Nietzsche would say that this is life-denial or the result of weakness, but this entirely hinges upon the assumption that atheism is true. But if Christianity is true, then the psychoanalysis game works in reverse: atheism is a convoluted rationalization to justify sinful behavior. But it’s not as if Nietzsche is completely opposed to a Christian lifestyle, either. He praises the character of Christ and sees the value in asceticism , even saying that the will to power has so far been the highest in abstinent priests and monks. Nietzsche never solved the problem of the “death of God”, certainly not for his own life, which was riddled with drug abuse, suicidal ideation, masturbation addiction, and being cucked. He wants to command to others “the Overman shall be the meaning of the earth” but doesn’t explain why anyone should care about what happens after they die or even why they shouldn’t kill themselves. He literally says the overman is his version of God, and expects everyone else to have the same faith for some reason.
Ok but that still doesn't make a corpse walking the earth again so it may be theism but there is no reason for it to be Christianity
>>25550269The choice is obvious. You know it in your heart
>>25550279sure i'll just trust you bro
>>25550263Atheism does not require you to die without children, although you can make an argument that the atheists, due to higher intelligence, are statistically more likely to be from wealthy nations while the religious ones remain in the poor nations.Poor nations outbreed the wealthy nations - that's not in dispute here.Moreover, the worshippers of the god(s) you oppose reproduce just fine as well.I have a feeling that you are angry because you saw the word "Nature" instead of "God" as the adjudicator of truth. Is that what's driving you insane?
The entire purpose of Pascal’s wager was to force the reader to confront the reality that a purely self-serving strategic approach to faith does not work and that the barriers to faith are rooted in your conscience
