The Texas state Board of Education has deep influence on what goes into textbooks that are used nationwide.
>>25633944>mind instantly goes to something sexual The modern liberal left everyone.
>>25633818I completely agree. It reminds me of the fall of Darth Vader in a way.
>>25633818>he believes in and gets validation from the shadows on the wall Lmao
>>25633861>Democrats are still virtually powerless, controlling only one branch.Trump aka ORANGE HITLER, was literally unable to deport one fucking illegal immigrant because piddly judges kept blocking it. Now they have the House and Senate lol. You goobers literally find any excuse for not doing anything, almost as bad as trumpanzees.
>>25633796Please stop posting fake news when we know the real results
>It is the great tragedy of our time that Marxism, which had been conceived as a movement for the liberation of everyone, has been transformed into a system of enslavement of everyone, even of those who enslave others.How would a Marxist respond to this without sounding mad?
Picrel is one of my favorite books, but I haven’t found anything dece besides it. Heard good things about The Sluts, but Cooper’s been very hit-or-miss for me.Doesn’t have to be literally “about” the internet; House of Leaves, for example, does the formal-multitextual rabbithole very well in some parts, but the thing about HoL is that Mark Z. Danielewski is a delusional sham, and we are worse off for anyone having humored him.
>>25632620You gotta relax bro. It’s just books. I preferred Whatever over Amygdala too but you’re literally mad about nothing
>>25632806What is it? Noodles in a poopy gut?
>>25632079All good recs. Someone on here wrote an internet novel, too. I think a few have, actually. Hard to find them.
>>25632079Couldn't fucking stand that book. Paradise Logic
>>25631321I'll second the Sluts. Despite being on the older side it catches a lot of what's still pervasive on the internet, in that reality in the novel is never certain and how narrative can break down, especially given the decentralisation of the internet and the lack of authority (or strong connection to reality in the first place).I haven't read Amygdalatropolis besides the first chapter, though I've been given a strong recommendation for it. My impression is that it's a pretty different take on "the internet," and I imagine anything going after being an "internet novel" has the potential to be wildly different. Another novel that isn't inherently about the internet but which I think explores things I think are inherent to "the internet" in the context of communication is the Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara. The internet makes no appearance as far as I remember, mind you, but it's a web of glancingly connected narratives that eventually or occasionally converge, which I think catches the spirit.And if I'm going to do some personal shilling, and if you're interested in something specific to 4chan and /lit/, there's the best of &. There's only a small fraction of the stuff that's explicitly about the internet, but I think it ended up being interesting for capturing a slice of the psyche of /lit/ at that time. It's incidentally a representation of internet users (on /lit/) circa 2020-2022. Generalities aside, pic related is one story from it that I think very specifically captures the feeling of browsing the internet as an adolescent. And it's free if you only want to read the PDF or online.https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/If fiction from 4chan is interesting to you, then check out the other works here:https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Collaborative_WorksI'm not familiar with any as much as I am with the best-of, but as far as representation they're inherently similar to what I said above. There's also one story I can think of in Lit Quarterly that was meant to be rabbit hole-esque, which was recommended to me by the editor, called "Countdown to Harvest" in the second issue (though I don't think I ever read the whole thing myself); it's schtick is nested brackets with each taking a different or extended angle on the subject (the Las Vegas shooting), which is a neat mechanism.
"/wg/ meetup" editionPrevious: >>25604221/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below for practice; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Expect critique, not praise.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.>Beginner guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Also, if you’re attempting to be subversive, it may be a good idea to not loudly announce “IM BEING SUBVERSIVE”
>>25632619Narrator seems like an annoying cunt, can’t imagine reading a whole story in this voice. Way too self conscious
>>25633857Maybe a borderline spinster who really wants to be a mother. But I don't believe a young (lesbian?) woman in the arts is fretting about her barren womb and being forced to have sex with foreign men in between cringy prayers to the Christian Identity version of God.
>>25633798i think you guys are too quick to assume all critics of critics are the author. some of us are here to play devils avocado, in hopes of increasing overall criticism quality.
>>25633798Again, I am not the writer, but even if I were, the crit would still be shit and I'd still be right to call it out. Don't care how genuine it is, genuine crit from a fool is still shitty crit
Is this 4chan's greatest contribution to literature?https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/42b2dc1f1e7653c1
>>25630871they're only reflections of their societies
>>25630843>fricy
>>25632939Society is embarrassing.
>>25631017why do british people look like that
>>25631302didy elite ball knowledge
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Cynical politicians beholden to globalist interests have invented a simulacrum of national politics whose main purpose is reinforcing and upholding a paradigm which is directly antagonistic to the native citizenry, and which no sane person would ever organically formulate for themselves. The politics of the Old World, in which politicians jealously protected their nation’s best interests, and earnestly sought to elevate their nation to be supreme over all, are long gone.Useful idiots, historically illiterate, spiritually malnourished from being propagandized by this enforced paradigm, willingly participate in and perpetuate the simulacrum as an unwitting fifth column, and are the only citizens to organically do so. Otherwise, the invented politics of the occupied Western states have no basis in the citizenry, and do not reflect anything like the citizens’ sentiments or desires. It is only, and fittingly, on The Stage that the deleterious policies espoused by traitors are performatively given their artificial life. This is why young people on the internet, even when successfully peer-pressured and cajoled enough to “lean left”, still predominantly use the same iconoclastic memespeak as “the right”, and cannot help but roll their eyes at the insane policies that the political class espouse as a moral good: it is the clash between performance and reality.This is the fundamental crisis of every Western nation today. Politics is no longer really politics: it is the smile that the occupied state gives as it shanks you.
>>25633994I think it's more it's just the natural state of a big tent, two party system. You're never gonna agree with either party's entire platform, so strategists and politicians long since figured out it's a matter of selecting wedge issues and becoming the lesser of two evils.>Would you rather people be able to afford food or your taxes go down by a little?>Do you want healthcare or there to be less third-worlders?>Trans rights or God?>Pro-Guns or Anti-Guns?
>>25633994for a second there I thought I saw you use the word fulcrum.Then I was like thats a neat word I rarely see used. Then I realized You didnt use it, and that I likely need some sleep
>>25634012Fulcrum
>>25634014Nice! Would be a lot nicer to see it used naturally in a longer piece of writing, but heck ill take it as a standalone too
Take the test and find out which philosopher you are most in agreement with:knowsoda.com/philosophyI did 104 questions.
>>25623089>44% would push the man onto the tracksEmbarrassing
Had no idea who this was
>>25623089I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this guy or Hegel.
>>25633090>But I'm a real scientistKuhn was a physicist.
>>25633934Phenomenology is great
I opened the drawer and the winter was already inside it, three months now of the same pewter sky pressing down like a thumb on everything, the fire doing its work without enthusiasm, boots still wet from yesterday, the mountain stopped being a view somewhere in October and became a wall, and what no one tells you is that the body adjusts to cold long before the soul adjusts to the disappearance of light, dark coming at four and me letting it come, not surrender exactly but something past arguing, and I have been here long enough now to stop measuring this season against the one before it, to stop expecting the grey to lift and instead find what lives inside it, the candle smaller than the dark but warmer for being made rather than given, the wood stacked and that the whole victory of the day, your name written in frost on the glass and taken back before I finished the second letter, and I think this is what the people of the north learned across all their centuries in log and stone and candlelight, that you do not wait out the dark, you build something small inside it and you tend it
I like it but I think the line about the candle in the middle is out of place. I would deleting the candle line and making two sentences, with the split being after "what lives inside it."
>>25633935"I would think about deleting" is what I meant, sorry about the hinduism
>>25633937Yes, true, the candle smaller than the dark but warmer is already the whole thought, everything after the comma is the writer arriving late
>>25633940My issue with the candle line is more that it's directionally positive -- previous to that is a series of possibly positive symbols that go sour, but then there's the plucky little candle that's warmer than the reader expects it to be. So when I hit the line at first I have to put the brakes on to see if I'm reading it right after the previous few examples having conditioned me to expect a certain type of follow through that isn't in the candle line. So I get back on the ball, and now I'm kind of tense about if the next line is going to continue this way, if a series of positive surprises are going to be lead out for me instead of the previous negative surprises, but instead it seems like we're just in a different pattern of thought now.The candle line isn't a bad line on its own, but here it functions as a flow interrupt without some intentional related gesture after. Just a better sentence without it, as the cost in readibility isn't really paid back. That line could belong in another nearby paragraph, I imagine. It's not like the meaning of it is out of place, just the manner of delivery is kind of contrary.
How did he foresee it all with such detail? it's almost uncanny how right he was.
>>25633152I fail to see how such times as ours are not interesting. The stagnation you perceive might be coming from your side if you’re living a NEET or retail work kind of life; but if you get some exercise for the body to ward off the sluggishness and employ your powers of observation and judgement, there is much of interest
>>25633274I keep being too obtuse: what I want is to believe that we're at the end of the world and that everything will pass away in the next few years, if not physically at least sociologically.
>>25633274>there is much of interestLike what?
>>25630136Honestly if this is the salespitch for EVROPA then good riddance. I am German probably thousands of years of Western European ancestry and I would love to see a revival of Europe and its avant-garde status but judging by the fact that people like you want to be the intellectual elites to usher this new age into existence....I think we are lost.
>>25633152You do, though. We are in times of decline and degeneration, the stagnation comes later. In around four hundred years.
I have read Dazai, Soseki, Murakami (Haruki and Ryu), Murata... and yet Mishima seems to be a few leagues above these other authors, both in the depth of his characters and the prose of his writing (although I am a fan of Dazai's stories).But it seems lame the idea that the best Japanese author was a psycho who died in an embarrassing failed coup. Surely there's another author to take the mantle?Are there any other /lit/ japanese authors or books I am missing?
>>25633333Checked.Unfortunately I'm not reading all that.
>>25633682>an 8 page essay is too much for you>on a literature forumWhat they say about this website is true
>>25628960parasite eve fucking sucked
I'm surprised Sushaku Endo doesn't get more recs on /lit/. I guess this board likes gay nazis more than unorthodox christfags.
>>25633960He's by far one of my favorites and Scandal gave me a boner.
Or do you also think that male authors get women wrong?
>>25633762Kristeva.
>>25633762Man, that girl is like 14 years old.
I don't even read books but this girl is super cute, thanks for the rec, OP
>>25633762eww no
>>25633847Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed.
UH OH! editionPrevious: >>25612894>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Banned Authors:Ty JohnstonKarl WagnerStephen KristiansenDavid GemmelKazuo Ishiguro>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25633717>>25633718cyka blyat
>>25633681Then you should buy it direct from the author if they have a website. If you can only get it through a big publisher via Amazon or similar, the author gets such a small fraction of what you're paying it's still barely worth it. But if you like it, there is some positive from buying it.We live in a low trust world, don't be taken in by false morality.
There's too many series these days.
>>25633912The amount doesn't matter if you don't read them.
>>25633912Sword & Sorcery fiction still exists, it's a very tiny niche though.
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.The server: https://discord.gg/uPvkn8Tcf6/phil/ guide: https://www.scribd.com/document/324425214/Lit-Philosophy-Project-1-2
>>25633879 (cont - Book One)Once Aristotle has reiterated that the city is composed of households, and that the necessary commodities must flow through the business of the household so as to serve a good life and not merely life itself, he proceeds to define wealth as an abundance of property, namely crops, animals, and natural slaves; and he argues, moreover, that a self-sufficiency of this sort of property, directed toward the good life, is not unlimited but has a limit, so that true wealth is property of this limited kind, and it follows that true wealth consists of just such property.The first premise is obvious, for one need not possess an unlimited amount of anything in order to live a good life; the second premise, however, calls for some explanation. No tool of any art is unlimited, whether in size or in use, since there always comes a point at which what is too large or too much becomes useless. True wealth consists in having a sufficient number of tools for certain arts, among them the ruling of household and city, and it therefore consists in a multitude of tools whose quantity and size are not unlimited. Property, however, is by definition a tool, and so it follows that true wealth is property which is not unlimited, which is to say, property that has a limit.(NOTE: thanks for anyone reading but I might stop for the night, though we're getting close to getting out of Book One).
>>25633879> For if the better animals may do this to the lesser, the same principle applies to men as well, and the practice is, on this reasoning, no less reprehensible.Typo?I have a 200 page paraphrase of tge organon just sitting here, well-written and cogent, with lots of Arab influence, but wtf do I do with it? I’d want it up somewhere where I could continue to edit it. I know at least one anon successfully used the excerpts I posted here to get through some dark bits of the Analytics. But what should I do with it? I trollishly mailed a sample claiming it was the work of “anonymous of /lit/“ to the lesswrong people as if this could refute ai (look at what this retarded collective produced) but that was frankly a stupid manic idea, I don’t want those retards getting their claws in it and besides, it was not really a collective work.
>>25633941Sounds like a lot to type up, but maybe you can try scanning the text from pics if your handwriting is legible? Would be a waste not to share it somehow.
>>25633975It’s all typed. It’s not professional enough to be published (no works cited) but it could be super helpful for normal people and even academics trying to understand these very difficult texts, in places virtually incomprehensible. I can post a random paragraph later. Serious advise being sought here about where best to share it for free.
>>25633114>It annoys me how the liberals try to claim the classicsI'm not a liberal but cope and seethe if you will
>age>current book>your thoughts on it
34Transmaniacon by ShirleyIt's pretty fun
>>25628069people do academic studies on 4chan stilleven if this thread weren't made by a dataminer, if I *were* datamining I'd absolutely mine these threads in the archive
>>25628637what do you think her shoe size is? 7W?
>>2562785726A Voyage to ArcturusThe book had a big impact on me some years ago, but I think I have forgotten a lot of it. I have been excited to rediscover it, and to be able to read it more deeply. >>25628995Wellbeck's pseudo-sequel to The Elemantary Particles, The Possibility of an Island, is far better.
30Cold Heaven by Brian MooreIt's alright.
Recently got into 40k thanks to Space Marine 2 and i wanted to get into the books and stuff, but dunno where to start or what are my options.
>>25633010Based father
>>25633010Your father made you buy warhammer books? I understand this if you are 10 years old, not otherwise. I mean, excepting that, I don't know what you mean. Please explain.
I like Caiaphas Cain and Gotrek and Felix.
>>25615917>HelsreachThe quintessential 40k novel. It has all the 40k™ things such as heroism, space marines beating the shit out of orks, a fair amount of tragedy, themes surrounding the meaninglessness of war, and endurance in the face of adversity. Can be read if you know next to nothing about 40k>Night Lords trilogy 40k at its most nihilistic. Arguably one of the few pieces of warhammer literature that can be considered as having some legitimate level of literary merit. This series is better enjoyed after you have familiarized yourself with the setting. It is about a warband of terrorists who have no real direction and who struggle with the grief of deservedly being one of the most shunned factions in a setting where everyone is awful. The Night Lords are evil, full stop. In other books with evil main characters, they often have some kind of redemption or are depicted as being misunderstood. The Night Lords are very well understood and they do not try to redeem themselves, if anything, their actions get more and more gruesome as the story goes on>Ciaphas CainAlready mentioned in the thread. It is bar none the best starting point for 40k>Eisenhorn These books are good pulp thrillers but they are often called "Abnettverse" because they tend to introduce concepts and bits of lore that only exist in the books written by the author, but never acknowledged anywhere else in the setting. They also get more and more convoluted the more series goes on, and the last two books are fairly messy>The Infinite and the DivineComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25629276I liked the concept and knew a little bit of the lore, loved le Astartes animated short that kinda stuff. I guess I really like the ideas, the scale and epicness, but the book so far just seems to get lost in space marine fanfic, and the writing style+characters+micro scale story aren't captivating enough to carry it imo.>>25629820ayo
