>>24944098Is there a literary equivelent to this?
>>24940675any book by Céline or Limonov
>>24940675Good Soldier Svejk
>>24940675eye of the chickenhawk
Barnes & Noble be all like:>>>YOU SPENT $250 ON BOOKS THIS QUARTER!? CONGRATULATIONS!!! HAVE A FREE $5 COUPON!!! YOU'VE EARNED IT!!!
>>24943831>>24943831What am I supposed to put on my bookshelf? Air?
>>24938008Shalom!
>>24937826you didnt spend $250, you spent $245. teehee
>>24941523ummm, no they’re not. they’re subsidised by tax payers.
at a shopping mall near me, if you spend a certain amount of money, i think something like $200 or thereabouts, you don't have to pay for the parking, which costs like ~$10
>>24945834Anyone can see the text on Perseus project and get a word-for-word lexicography. As for pronouncing the words, it is easier than English in terms of phonics.
>>24944446I'm an incel, and my playtime is over.
>>24945795I accept your concession, faggot.
>>24944535>It may be good (for a woman), but was it necessary?No
>>24944492This isnt true, her translations are okay.
Saw a girl on the train reading this book whilst drinking wine from the bottle. Anyone here also read it?
>>24945867>>24945417Somebody should write the Lady Chatterley of our day, the story of a sharp-edged and Julien Sorel-esque upwards-aspiring chud and some upper-middle class bourgeois woman who, until she meets Chud, has been completely insulated from the real world. But in the end, Chud leaves the relationship because he realizes that it wasn't his Lady Chatterley that he fell in love with but rather his attraction was the result of the fetishization of their differences in class, that he wanted her because he wanted to prove it to himself that he, the lowly, eccentric prole that he thinks of himself still, could conquer her, the archetypical icon of "normalcy" in his mind. Maybe a similar mental process could be shown on Lady Chatterley's end as well, with her realizing that she also fetishized his lower class background as something that could dispel all the falsity that surrounds her in her social life, that doing so dehumanized him despite her benevolent surface-level intentions.
some exotic surnames on those authors
>>24945647>>24945867You niggas are weird.
>>24945401Don’t be a sissy midwit and read Plato , more explicitly the Republic, instead of this scum.
>>24945401Yes,the books main hypothesis are: modern democracies rarely end via military coups but die slowly at the hands of elected leaders who use legal institutions to subvert democracy from within(Democratic Backsliding). And that written constitutions are insufficient and that democracy relies on two unwritten norms, mutual toleration (accepting rivals as legitimate) and institutional forbearance (restraint in using legal power). I believe it accurately depicts the direction we are headed. Just look at what Trump is doing or what Orban has been doing. Wouldn’t recommend buying it though. If you can acquire it from somewhere for free, that would be a better option.
stop right there and tell me what literature you read today
>>24945288the tor essentials edition? thoughts? i was thinking of nabbing a copy for christmas
>>2494529325th birthday library collection (fantasy & sf), i found it in some charity store.I've quite enjoyed it personally, one or two chapters felt a bit of a drag but overall its been quite good I'm quite pleased with the later parts when things start moving along a bit more :>
War, progress and the end of history by Wladimir Solowjow
>>24942270I watched half of Troy (2004)
>>24942270Sadly, Pornfeels like it was half written for me but the other half for someone with both feet engulfed within porn addiction. interesting read. questioning my own thought processes. perheps one of the authors barbs will deliver a fatal blow to me further in. pain must flow.
What's the hype among these series? Or is it more for the table-top?
>>24945732Shut the fuck up?
>>24945732It's a crop-top table-top slop bop, Pork Chop.
>>24945732>paying to read marketing material designed to promote dolls for men
>>24945772that's not why warhammer is badwarhammer is bad because it reads like an obnoxious buddhist sutra (all of them) where 2 pages of stylized formalized greeting take place before anyone actually conveys any information. for the same reason it will some day be incredibly popular with women once they change the color palate, because the way in which two characters meet in a 40k scene is virtually identical to how two women meet irl and communicate, with 15 minutes of socially expected questions/pleasantries/formalities >how are you how is he hope thats well etc etc. >by the emporer, praise sigmar, hail (rank), it trust that (thing we already know both characters know)a very girly series. watch it happen.
>>24945732>>>/tg/Seriously. They talk about this slop with love and can guide you.
There is a fascinating, digressive chapter in Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris about how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.Are there any other books about this topic? The intersection of philosophy and architecture? And was Hugo even correct?
>>24945477Read Spengler.
John Ruskin was big on this, I think. I read through Stones of Venice and got some hints of what you're describing vis-à-vis Hugo.
>>24945477A R C H I T E K T O N I K
The Aesthetics of Architecture by Roger ScrutonAlso his book on Beauty
>>24945477I believe that this book by Jean Hani would fall somewhere within this subject.
>blocks your path
>>24945796Headcovering and chastity prior to marriage were Christian practices until destroyed by liberalism. Should Islam become the dominant religion in the West it will face the same fate and eventually be watered down and subverted. That is to say converting to Islam because it's so heckin based and trad is not a solution for Westerners.
>>24945808Actual it won't, Muslim diaspora is getting more conservative and westerners should revert because it's the truth. If Christianity can be roflstomped by liberalism it was false, the act Christians had a reformation shows it's false, no religion needs a reformation
>>24945709>1/50th of that with a white womenThere are plenty.
>>24945709You'd be surprised how many muslim women have lost their 'anal virginity'. Its just a larp.
>>24945913Maybe 100 years ago, now unless they marry each other at 16 there is none. Even "trad" women won't veil>>24945916And that in an Islamic society would be lashings or death for Zina
After Genderswap Reincarnation I Raised the Strongest Slopper EditionStubbed >>24936451>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.
>>24945893No
>>24945855instead of cultures write it as races and make it so that every race besides whites killed themselves
>>24945905why is it that nearly every xuanhuan chinese wn that takes place on earth use this setting?
>>24945657Monte Cristo's probably terrible for teaching you how to write a serial.The story just gets going and then it dives headfirst into a crater with the sinbad section.
>>24945657it's a strange decision to prop up monte cristo as a corner stone of slop history over the three musketeers
>things that are meaningful to you are ... meaningful /to you/! Yeah, I had this thought when I was high once. Is that it?
>>24944499>t. never experienced a synchronicityWhen it'll happen, you'll understand how weird such meaningful coincidences are. It's something you must experience yourself to understand the weirdness of the issue.>Why, of all possible things, when I was thinking about Rainbow Dash a woman in light blue hoodie with rainbow wings appears on the same street I've been walking on for twenty years without meeting her once and asks if she needs to be a little bit cooler.Stuff like this.
>>24944739>Why, of all possible things, when I was thinking about Rainbow Dash a woman in light blue hoodie with rainbow wings appears on the same street I've been walking on for twenty years without meeting her once and asks if she needs to be a little bit cooler.yea,i guess a retard such as you would be so mindfucked by a mundane event like that,so much so that he can't make a coherent sentence describing said event.
most psychology majors are just biology rejects. few know this.
>if you have an idea at a certain point in time, somebody far away is very likely to have the same idea too, and likely at the same time.>a turn of phrase>an idea for a scientific theory>a fasion schemeThere seems to be a superstructure is active in human experience, a collective mind of some sort, whose logical positive manifestation is this nonlocal correlation between the independent thoughts of individuals. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?
>>24945955for the retards ITT, synchronous events of this type are normally at a level of improbability of at least 1 part in 10^40 or so, estimating by using the probability of two people precisely repeating an exact english phrase of about 40 words at .5 bits per character, or by a loosely parallel construction with significant overlap which has (to my intuition at least, its hard to quantitate) comparable improbability. These are not mundane coincidences at any reasonable level of probability. In order to explain these phenomena, you need to accept that there are larger frameworks which produce these ideas, and that these larger frameworks are structured into some kind of collective mind.It should be possible to design experiments to test around with this, but you'll have to be really clever about it, like something milgram would come up with. I'll let you know if I fucking think of something.
Been a long time since I seen the show and have never read the books.The topic came up and I said the fire priestess was my favourite character to which the response was "that's very telling for your character"What's that supposed to mean?
>>24944101kech
it means you were talking to some neurotic white woman who is always in her "i studied power trips, where do you fit in my power trip" mode
>>24944101Only the first 3 are worth reading.
>>24944101I want Melisandre to sit on my face so bad
>>24944101It means you're a coomer.
Like why did God just restart everything and delete Adam's line just to remake it with Noah? What was all that business with Babel about? Why did He even scatter them and their languages if He wants unity from all? Idk I'm 20 pages in and it's not hittin frAbram smiting sinners who took Lot and everything else was kind of fire tho
>>24944553Basically Man was just to be God's gardener, but God felt that Man was lonely, so he made him a companion in Woman. Then they discovered Sin and could no longer live with God in his Garden of Eden, so he cursed them to create and live life. Woman cursed to bear Life and be subservient and Man cursed to work and toil.
>>24944553The Bible is a historical account with dozens of authors saying the same thing about the same God. Who has been walking along side humanity since Adam. Freewill is dangerous but God has sons and daughters, children of the King are free indeed, not slaves(no will of their own).God has a relationship with us and seeks to cultivate deeper love and friendship. You’ll see this with examples like Enoch, Melchizedek, Jabez, Moses, Abraham. Asa, Josiah.What you see is the consequences of sin over the course of thousands of years, then redemption with the birth of Christ, the Son of God which shows what life looks like without sin, with His own freewill Jesus sacrifices himself to make atonement for our own sins, through his blood sacrifice our sins are washed away and destroy any enmity with God.We can cultivate the garden of eden now. We can be filled with God’s peace, joy and love, because of Jesus. Praise Him for good reason.
>>24944553The whole book is about how people coped with living in the desert.
>>24944553I wish someone had warned me before I started that a solid 1/3rd of the entire collection is just ancient Jews seething because they got BTFO by NebuCHADnezzar. I'm nearing the end of the prophets section of the Old Testament now and everything since Job has been a boring slog.
>This schematism of our understanding in regard to phænomena and their mere form, is an art, hidden in the depths of the human soul, whose true modes of action we shall only with difficulty discover and unveil.
>>24945033How is transcendental logic related to (formal) logic? Kant says that in logic, reason considers only its form and abstracts away the matter and denies that there could be a special logic for a certain matter. But later in the antinimoies he wants to show that the most basic form of proof (reductio ad absurdum) doesn't apply in the context of the questions there, for the negation of tha absurd is equally absurd there.so I am baffled.BTW, we have currently a thread on "informal logic" (textbooks). We should go over there and harass them there.
>>24945340>a science of pure understanding and rational[2] cognition, by means of which we may cogitate objects entirely à priori. A science of this kind, which should determine the origin, the extent, and the objective validity of such cognitions, must be called Transcendental Logic
>>24945497Yes this is one of the passages to which I was referring I wonder how he squares it with RAA not being valid in all contexts etc
>>24945637wut?
>>24945698Is my question retarded, am I missing something?
“Dagon” was one of the first Lovecraft stories I read and is probably one of his more famous, even if the plot is cribbed from Arthur Machen. It’s got great style:>“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.”The audiobook is great if you want to read along:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWnV5vBScD0
>>24945222>very detailed synopsis for what would have been a novel of epic lengthgood
>>24945209it explores the themes of panspermia, intelligent design as opposed to creation, and civilizational decline due to biological evolution. anyone who knows as much about planetary science as lovecraft did will appreciate the accuracy, detail, and efficient exploration of origin theories provided by lovecrafts science fiction. it is not only the first of its genre but like the scientific work cited it is definitive>>24945222it is finished content because it explores its themes and poses lovecrafts philosophical point that if men refuse to recognize the gods of the earth their flying conveyances will of their own will fly them to the court of the daemon-sultan azathoth
>>24941801>>24941773>>24942931lovecraft is a hack who copied people superior to him and died a poor racist POS faggot
>>24942835>because he is not gatekept enough.pretty much. If Lovecraft were more obscure, pseuds would hold a higher opinion of him which they did when he was less widely known. Personally, I think what makes Lovecraft a great writer is his sense of atmosphere, pacing, and influences from Gothicism and New England.
>>24942931But all those dream plots were inferior to the Cthulhu plots.
prev: >>24935706Erich Heckel edition
>>24941253For me, it's Greek music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nt4Rb2WlVA
>>24945468Take out the last two parts and its literally me.
Nobody likes me and I'm going to die alone. Cheers /lit/!
>>24944782>When you confront him, he goes into a rageIf I hint at something that might be taken as a criticism dad either growls and shuts down or flies into a rage.Then later he takes on a corny, preachy tone to talk to me about *my* rage issues.He was an alcoholic when I was younger but I didn't mind, he left me alone. After AA he turned into the most arrogant, delusional dick I ever met.
>>24944810Gayer than the pederastic poem in this thread?
