>Marathon the first page>70 different different names and 20 different fake locations mentionedAm I gonna be quizzed on this made up nonsense later?
>>25211646oops you didn't read his constant lore dumping of the rise and fall of 20+ nigger races
>>25211654>that nigga shit fammin gwow fascinating
>>25211047It'll appear again if it's important.
>>25211047>Am I gonna be quizzed on this made up nonsense later?Conan stuff is all real thoughbeit.
>>25211047You ever read the story that starts of with him getting crucified? That shit was cash. Howard was just hitting his stride. Damn shame.
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>>25212959I don't want to start over. It's not a sunk cost thing. I don't think it's necessary. I just want to remind her that I'm not overly set in my ways while still reserving the right to put my penis in her mouth and pull her hair.
>>25214743
I miss the days of yore when trans butthole pussy wasn't part of my spank bank ;_;
>>25214758What are you talking about?
>>25214758Too bad, bitch. MOVE ON.
>The first consideration that influences our choice and feelings is age. . . .>The second consideration is that of health: a severe illness may alarm us for the time being, but an illness of a chronic nature or even cachexy frightens us away, because it would be transmitted.>The third consideration is the skeleton, since it is the foundation of the type of the species. Next to old age and disease, nothing disgusts us so much as a deformed shape; even the most beautiful face cannot make amends for it — in fact, the ugliest face combined with a well-grown shape is infinitely preferable. Moreover, we are most keenly sensible of every malformation of the skeleton; as, for instance, a stunted, short-legged form, and the like, or a limping gait when it is not the result of some extraneous accident: while a conspicuously beautiful figure compensates for every defect. It delights us. Further, the great importance which is attached to small feet! This is because the size of the foot is an essential characteristic of the species, for no animal has the tarsus and metatarsus combined so small as man; hence the uprightness of his gait: he is a plantigrade. And Jesus Sirach has said (1) (according to the improved translation by Kraus), “A woman that is well grown and has beautiful feet is like pillars of gold in sockets of silver.” The teeth, too, are important, because they are essential for nourishment, and quite peculiarly hereditary.>The fourth consideration is a certain plumpness, in other words, a superabundance of the vegetative function, plasticity. . . . Hence excessive thinness strikingly repels us. . . . The last consideration that influences us is a beautiful face. Here, too, the bone parts are taken into account before everything else. So that almost everything depends on a beautiful nose, while a short retroussé one will mar all. A slight upward or downward turn of the nose has often determined the life’s happiness of a great many maidens; and justly so, for the type of the species is at stake.
>>25214678but he said women can't be geniuses
>>25214271>and justly so, for the type of the species is at stake.I read this a while ago, destroyed all my copes.
>>25214271He said that "White" isn't real and people should crossbreed as much as possible.
>>25214668He says to read kant retard not hegel he hated hegel
>>25214781You're right. But I didn't read either.
thoughts on this set of books? Someone sold theirs to a used bookstore near me and I'm not sure if I should get any. Translations seem pretty old
>>25214243You can often find sets on craigslist, Facebook marketplace and ebay for cheaper. Keep in mind these are all classics in the public domain that are available for free online, or at most libraries. Vol 52,.I think, is the "synopticon" with all the works listed. There's an epub on Anna's that contains the entire compilation that is well formatted. There's also a lot of bad OCR renderings.
>>25213899The translations /are/ old, but how bad that gets varies depending on the title. The typesetting is also not great a lot of the time. What's included in each book can get a bit psychotic like the Aesop/Grimm/Andersen collection you see there. That said they look handsome on a shelf and it's mostly picks that are still a cornerstone of best books of all time lists. I'd flip through them and make sure you see yourself reading them as is, then picking the best of the lot. Otherwise I'd go for nicer versions of each book.
>>25214266>synopticonBrain fart. That's Adler's index for the Great Books, Ellison's equivalent was the last volume of the Harvard Classics called ""Introduction, Reader's Guide, and Index".
>>25213899I had almost the entire set when I was in high school. Just grab the volumes that interest you or you want for reference (e.g. the three poetry volumes and American Historical Documents).
>>25214208>too Western, or too maleSo it's too good for them.
Alright, time for another /his/ you sassy lil' memester faggots. Watcha been readin' lately?
>>25210560I saw your posts.A word of advice would be to not expect to find these books for cheap if you want to collect them. They are a luxury.If you already found an expensive copy available for sale... That is the price. These type of books with lots of high definition photographies do not usually get reprinted, and are very expensive since day one. You know what you should check out? A Feria Internacional del Libro (or FIL). But do not expect them for cheap. There is actually a FIL that is centered on history and anthropology:Feria Internacional del Libro de Antropología e Historia, there should be another one this september (as usual) in CDMX.That is your BEST bet on finding these books. If you can't make it into this date, there are always FIL events in mexico city (there are about 38 of these events in the year), and an INAH section is always present in these fairs. Although in September, you obviously would get much more variety.If you want my opinion, I'd say the best 'home' for such books is for them to stay in public libraries, otherwise, these items may get lost. You will at least get the chance to read them and take some pictures within the premises. As another anon said, if you get a local friend, they will be able to borrow them and take them out (please do not steal like Bolaño).It would be much they were available for digital consultation, or if they got reprinted... But I guess we still have much work to do. As you can guess, most people aren't very interested in spending 200 dollars in these kind of things, so there is also not much interest on reprinting.
>>25210560I saw your posts.A word of advice would be to not expect to find these books for cheap if you want to collect them. They are a luxury.If you already found an expensive copy available for sale... That is the price. These type of books with lots of high definition photographies do not usually get reprinted, and are very expensive since day one. You know what you should check out? A Feria Internacional del Libro (or FIL). But do not expect them for cheap. There is actually a FIL that is centered on history and anthropology:Feria Internacional del Libro de Antropología e Historia, there should be another one this september (as usual) in CDMX.That is your BEST bet on finding these books. If you can't make it into this date, there are always FIL events in mexico city (there are about 38 of these events in the year), and an INAH section is usually present in these fairs. Although in September, you obviously would get much more variety.If you want my opinion, I'd say the best 'home' for such books is for them to stay in public libraries, otherwise, these items may get lost. You will at least get the chance to read them and take some pictures within the premises. As another anon said, if you get a local friend, they will be able to borrow them and take them out (please do not steal like Bolaño).It would be much they were available for digital consultation, or if they got reprinted... But I guess we still have much work to do. As you can guess, most people aren't very interested in spending 200 dollars in these kind of things, so there is also not much interest on reprinting.
is this good? I saw it in a used store, it's pretty thick
>>25200910Write a better OP next time.
>>25214450Fuck (You), FAGGOT.
300 pages in…. When does it get good?
why is everyone talking about Dallas-Forth Worth airport in this thread? I thought this was the book board
>>25206909The first letter.
>>25206909When it becomes clear that Gately is actually the main character. You should be around there.
>>25211911Checked.
>>25211406All these people are pretty awful. Isn’t Toby Fox the undertale faggot? That’s as bottom of the barrel as one can get
Anna's Archive lost.It's over.
ANON, in a world without porn, we might've been heroes
This won't do shit, but I want AA to fucking die.Piracy should be gatekept, Anna's is far too easy and will only lead to problems. Piracy should be for the tech savy only
>>25214750But getting into a pt is annoying and I don't want to put in the effort
>>25214092The good news is that the Second Great Depression is steam rolling its way to everyone. Wall Street is already starting the smash and grab. Don't be left out!Keyhole all the little scribblers that would impose their laws against ye, mates!
>>25214750Fuck gatekeepers. Elitist snot.I want Libgen back
Nothing else makes sense.
>>25205738Thats not solipsism. You're closer to monistic metaphysics, not solipsism. Adi Shankara, specifically Advaita Vedanta is not a solipsistic school of thought.
>>25210602Is the same thing, same conclusion, as both recognize the underlying presence behind the experience as the only thing that's true, being whatever is happening inside of it only relatively true and temporary, coming from that singular presence altogether. Any form of oneness, either Solipsism or Nonduality, reduce reality to one singular experience. You are all just projections of my consciousness operating under my beliefs, intentions and expectations and yet you are still sentient sovereign beings with full rich lives no less or more important than me with the same exact power. As from your perspective I am a projection of yours. We are all fragments of god and thus in the same way that the acorn contains within it the oak tree each part of the whole contains the whole as its division is illusory and impossible. There is only one of us. Solipsism is effectively true and yet the truest truth transcends and yet includes it. The truest truth is an ineffable and indescribable paradox.
Solipsism is kind of true. Actual Truth cannot be expressed or even understood, but it can be experienced. Where people go wrong with solipsism is assuming they themselves are real. No others means no self.
>>25203933For you!
>>25203943>>25206006>>25206076Solipsism, etymologically from the latin meaning 'only oneself', is an apparently unresolvable problem in contemporary philosophy. But this, as we know, is only because the philosophers of today refuse to venture beyond the threshold of the normie standpoint. If, as esoteric Kantianism does, they would dare to speculate into the regions beyonds the confines of normie realism, into the realms of 'superipsism', then here they could actually make some progress. The exoteric Kantians claimed Kant to have proved the existence of a supersensible world, but, their pretentions notwithstanding, all they proved was the existence of a unique idea, the idea of the non-ideal, das Ding an sich. However, as I have shown, this idea, although unique as being the highest abstraction, was nonetheless, like all other content of experience, an object of thought. And further, it did nothing to resolve the issue of the existence of intelligences beyond my own. For this reason Jacobi was right to call this exoteric Kantianism a solipsism-- but beyond the letter of this external understanding laid a deeper wisdom.When the chasm that separated man and reality was bridged by the sublimation of the exoteric distinctions, the conditions of the transcendental unity of apperception were found not merely for the unity of the self-conscious individual man, but rather for all unity of conscious intelligence in general; and the rationality of the world was found not to be merely belonging to our preculiar mode of apprehending this world, but essential to the cosmos itself.This cosmos, as in itself a production of universal thought-acts (called the categories by Kant), necessarily contains them in all its parts, including the finite unities of conscious intelligence within it, and which as unities of conscious intelligence must also use the categories in all their thinking. In effect, when (you) look out into the world, you are looking at a finite portion of the infinite experience of a unity of apperception encompassing the entire cosmos in its unity. In this greater sense, solipsism is true, because the cosmos is this infinite self, not (you), not (me), but, an 'I' rather that contains (you) and contains (me), which nonetheless (and this is of great significance) is analoguous to humans in its rational essence.
Essential leftist literature?
What's some good leftist literature that actually tries to do a honest analysis of the flaws of capitalism and benefits of socialism that doesn't just go "capitalism baaaaaaaaad" since that's obviously not strictly true in certain ways.
>>25212563oh, the list at the end. never heard it called "10 planks" and would never use that phrase.of course, you really need the qualifications to these in the rest of the manifesto and to note that these are just a variety of possibilities.not sure why you think that free education for children and not having kids working in mines is a problem.
>>25213693also, the idea of an agrarian 'army' is interesting.Dont like immigrants but still want to keep agricultural costs down? Think militaries like the USA are just feeding on the poor? Well, you could have something like the national guard, perhaps primarily for the young to get them some experience. they could travel and learn. experience there country and other parts of the nation. could be quite affirming. Equal liability doesnt have to mean some fucking dystopian 'labor and re-education camps.'like any form of governance, you just need to keep the parasites and narcissists out. otherwise you get your putin and orban and trumps.as to something like transport, can you imagine if the car lobby didnt shape america early on? if california had a train system? in stead we have musk making turds under las vegas. thanks elon.
>>25213674People will suggest anything but Capital by Marx himself. It's not really a critique of capitalism by the way it's more of an analysis
>Essential leftist literature?>Mostly Marxist bullshit and a sprinkling of socdem and CIA psyop pressYour thread stinks.
>solves everythingwhy havent you read the pali canon and become buddhist yet anon?
>>25204393>why havent you read the pali canonIts not translated
>>25205869Dhammapada
>>25211768MN 49>“This one time, mendicants, I was staying near Ukkaṭṭhā, in the Subhaga Forest at the root of a magnificent sal tree. Now at that time Baka the Divinity had the following harmful misconception: ‘This is permanent, this is everlasting, this is eternal, this is whole, this is not liable to pass away. For this is where there’s no being born, growing old, dying, passing away, or being reborn. And there’s no other escape beyond this.’ ...>When he had spoken, I said to him, ‘Oh lord, Baka the Divinity is lost in ignorance! Oh lord, Baka the Divinity is lost in ignorance! Because what is actually impermanent, not lasting, transient, incomplete, and liable to pass away, he says is permanent, everlasting, eternal, complete, and not liable to pass away. And where there is being born, growing old, dying, passing away, and being reborn, he says that there’s no being born, growing old, dying, passing away, or being reborn. And although there is another escape beyond this, he says that there’s no other escape beyond this.’>Then Māra the Wicked took possession of a member of the retinue of Divinity and said this to me, ‘Mendicant, mendicant! Don’t attack this one! Don’t attack this one! For this is the Divinity, the Great Divinity, the Vanquisher, the Unvanquished, the Universal Seer, the Wielder of Power, God Almighty, the Maker, the Creator, the First, the Begetter, the Controller, the Father of those who have been born and those yet to be born. ...>So, mendicant, I tell you this: please, good fellow, do exactly what the Divinity says. Don’t go beyond the word of the Divinity. If you do, then you’ll end up like a person who, when approached by Lady Luck, would fend her off with a staff; or who, as they are falling over a cliff, would push away the ground with their hands and feet. Please, good fellow, do exactly what the Divinity says. Don’t go beyond the word of the Divinity. Do you not see the assembly of the Divinity gathered here?’>When he had spoken, I said to Māra, ‘I know you, Wicked One. Do not think, “He does not know me.” You are Māra the Wicked. And the Divinity, the Divinity’s assembly, and the retinue of Divinity have all fallen into your hands; they’re under your sway. And you think, “Maybe this one, too, has fallen into my hands; maybe he’s under my sway!” But I haven’t fallen into your hands; I’m not under your sway.’
>>25212662Monism simply means that the world is composed one kind of “substance”, be it physical substance (physicalism) or mental substance (idealism). Atomism on the other hand is about the specifics of how that substance is arranged and composed in its existence. Buddhist atomism and cosmology can be completely recast to have a physicalist picture while retaining its mythos, nirvana, karma and rebirth, but this is not in line with Buddhism as such physicalism would be identification with the body and the sensual world. Even neutral monism, and even treating pure nothingness or void as fundamental “substances” are problematic as these concepts lead to subtle forms of clinging that will eventually hinder one on the path to enlightenment. Therefore, Buddhism rejects these categories and such metaphysical speculation.
>>25207266No I am not missing the point. If you do not believe in reincarnation which is integral to Buddhism then there is no argument against suicide. It makes no sense not to kill yourself if not for the caveat "you're going to be stuck in Samsara as a roach or a woman or a poo for another kalpa"
Name one book from any of these countries. You can't.
>>25213799DEI laureates, unironically.
I haven't read them, but Levrero and Onetti are from Uruguay.>GuatemalaCome on now!
>>25213781stealth rec thread?
>>25213799>bringing up ((((nobels)))) in 2026LMAO holy fucking shit anon you are mentally handicapped
Nigga be like acting like a judgemental moral cunt to a whore after merking an innocent woman.
>>25211058You were warned, and you didn't listen.
>>25211058Hate is a ridiculously strong word considering TBK is largely a development of the same themes and character types from his body of work.There would ve no TBK without C&P, since the elaborate narrative afforded in TBK wouldn't have been financially viable and would have received far less attention (and would have ended its serialisation early) had he not had athe huge success of C&P.And aside from the masterful storytelling in Karamazov, I actually find it lacking when it comes to the iconic female characters, his other works are know for like Dunya/Sonya (C&P) and Nastasya/Aglaya(The Idiot), Lizaveta/Varvara Stavrogina (Demons)
Nigga be crying after sweet talking to a whore into fucking her then berating her the next day.
>>25211990She shouldn't have gave in to temptation.
>>25211023Rasholnikov is one of the most unlikable main characters in literature history. A egotistical schizopherenic bipolar asshole
So you can just straight up copy Joyce and get published? Interesting...As shit as Pynchon is, at least the genre fiction slop he wrote is original.
>>25211510Maybe, or maybe he fucked off. I know some people started impersonating him now to troll
>>25206498In order to "talk" about anything on this board, it has to start with OP being an assblasted faggot retard seething about the topic at hand.
>>25211190Compliments to the chef on the pasta. *mwah*
>>25214650What set him off? He’s been shitting up pynchon threads for awhile trying to derail them. I thought he was just a retarded weeb but then he bumped a Gaddis thread for months and has been spamming pynchon, gaddis, and dfw threads now. Did someone insult his anime?
>>25214717Something something got absolutely destroyed in an argument about Gaddis ripping off Joyce by some anon who people call the DFW drunkard or something. He was arguing for Gaddis ripping off Joyce but apparently he’s never engaged in argumentative discourse before because people say he couldn’t make a single effective point.
Slopping Is Too Much EditionStubbed >>25203457>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25214614>>25214635hardened investigator on the case hunting for wrong opinions>[question]>[response, reasoning]>out of nowhere
>>25214658I guess you just lack reading comprehension? Dadman isn't a big patreon in any conceivable sense. You gave reasoning for why you respect him but my follow up was explicitly about how he doesn't fit the prompt and I wanted to know why you randomly mentioned some whoI'm still wondering
>>25214669I'm not the person you've been responding to. I'm pointing out that you're acting like a spergif you react like this to every slightly misconstrued sentiment the thread will be nothing but your wannabe socratic ass grilling peoplejust point out the logical disjunction, call them a retard, and move on like a sane person
>>25214676It's you weirdos making it a bigger deal than it needs to be. I literally just wanted to know why he brought up a noname. It should've been a 2-response exchange but then he failed to read properlyYou're also responding pointlessly and extending this useless dialogue, btw, so you're being a huge hypocrite right now
why are people so resistant towards the idea of a universal metaphysics?
>>25208711fucking turdmuncher
>>25207915Syncretism is a sin OP.
>>25212307No, you can't resolve a logical paradox with calculus. Finity never equals infinity no matter how much math jargon you dress it up in, they are by definition mutually exclusive. In the first place, logic is prior to math. You can't do math without fundamentally presupposing logical truths, why does 1+1=2 for example? Because it has an identity, because it can't equal 2 and 3 at the same time, and because 1+1=2 either is true or it is not true. So if this construct we use to map reality, with it's internally consistent rules, doesn't follow logic, and thus, doesn't actually reflect reality, then it might as well be schizobabble. The fact people evoke calculus or quantum mechanics like magic incantations in order to explain away logical contradictions is just proof that these fields of study have become pseudo-mystical cults, and scientists/mathematicians the priests.
>>25208711What a sickening fucking image, holy shit.
BUMPOOOO
