It's another Vineland
It's better than Vineland.
Is it actually good, or is he just putting this out for money?
>>24985082yes
>>24982469Does Pynchon have any shame? He has basically destroyed his legacy with everything since Vineland.
It's for us real pulp heads. Heaven forbid a guy wanna write something fun
Smile, /lit/! You’re doing the rounds on xitter againhttps://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278?s=46
>>24978986>Ive read the Divine Comedy and I didnt think it was very funnySlight chuckle
>>24979000I have read Finnegans Wake from start to finish with the help of the skeleton key. It is the best book I have ever read. Period. Stop being a faggot and put in the effort to read it and it might be your favorite book ever, as well, in time. Just because you're a lazy retard doesn't mean others are too.
Millennials on twitter are always typing in all lowercase and trying to seem like they aren't pissed about things they are pissed about, but they actually aren't really deeply pissed about those things, they just force themselves to be, because it goes with the character type they want to be. So if they are a cool girl who reads books character, they "have to" be pissed at both more basic girls for being basic, but also guys who make fun of basic girls. There seems to be a whole ecology to every character type, and the types shift over time so you have to be careful not to do something outdated for your type, and be a different character type that your type is now now supposed to be pissed (but in a superior, effortless, saucy way) about. It seems like a lot of work to keep up with. Sometimes I see them fuck it up and get yelled at by other characters within their type, and they always kowtow and try to beg for forgiveness.
>>24980575we get you looked up george elliot on goodreads
>>24981663same reason Bible is in the first place, Dostoevsky is baby's first Christian author and trad larpers love taking pictures of his books on their shelves, usually tucked between Aurelius and Peterson
What would he be doing today?What would have he thought of tiktok? The transgender issue? AI literature? current human literature? current american politics landscape?
He's still alive. He used to ghostwrite for Pynchon and did everything from VIneland to Inherent Vice. DFW just faked his death to avoid the pressure from being a rising author while also keeping the works of another alive.
>>24984765He would've been turbo cancelled during the MeToo fiasco and would have killed himslef then.
>>24984765He'd kill himself
>>24985021This. DFW would be public enemy #1 in the mostly female driven literary community if he lived to the MeToo era.
>tfw PDFs acquired from anna's archive and read through a computer screen yield scientifically proven poor results as regards retention & comprehension compared to printed text>tfw too poor; can't afford physical copiesso much for my intellectual life. it never began
>>24984819copy the book by hand on paper before reading it, like the monks of old
>>24984868they taught a rat to read?
>>24984819J. S. Bach as a child was forbidden to read certain musical manuscripts in his house so he snuck out of bed in the middle of the night and copied them out by moonlight. It's suggested this contributed to his eventual blindness (although admittedly I don't see how anyone would know).Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote a series of articles on his library. Of his beloved collection of classics built up when he was young & impoverished, he said “every volume meant one missed dinner.”Just consider yourself in good company.
>>24984992that's inspiring, anon. i wasn't going to give up anyway, but knowing others also had challenges to overcome takes the edge off
Print it. At a libraey, for example.
You do have a basic understanding of how human language works, don't you?
Most people on this website constantly decry normalfags, see them as inferior and worthy only of contempt. Yet at the same time they're clearly bitter and envious of not being normalfags themselves. Any books that might shed light on this phenomenon?
>>24982167Still waiting for an answer to this.
>>24983425Women are normies, therefore we die alone.
>>24981774>I'm definitely an introvert! Yeah, I go out with friends every weekend but like, I like reading books and sipping tea alone sometimes because I'm such a nerd!>>24982167I really don't think it's that common, beyond teenager spaces. Most of us are resigned to porn and fantasy because we know a real gf won't make them happy or is not obtainable for one reason or another. "No ____ gf :(" is mostly a meme.
>>24981841Hating autists is really enough of a revelation in itself without a comparative element. They've been on a campaign to gaslight everyone else into believing they were kicked out of 109 social circles for doing nothing, but then come on here on a daily basis to hand you live and interactable demos on how utterly obnoxious and insufferable and even dim-witted they are. Realizing autists should be hated is one of the final redpills only advanced 4chan users ever come to take.
>>24981757It's simply the fact that they find belonging and community in this society while I don't.
I finished reading this yesterday and honestly it was kind of boring.The first few chapters detailing how the Spanish plundered the continent were great but then when it comes to the 20th century he gets bogged down into way too much detail and mentions a bunch of literally whos and corporations that make me lose interest.
>>24984823>call to actionwhat action was he advocating?
>>24984875According to this book, weaker economies of the third world should defend themselves against stronger economies of the first world through tariffs.The problem: Third world nations are forced to export raw materials, then import finished products, keeping the third world nations weak and the first world nations strong.The solution: Make foreign finished products more expensive, so that local finished products can compete, strengthening the economies of these third world nations.Tariffs are how the weak protect themselves from the strong, according to this book.
>>24985011read "how asia works" by studwell (phd in developmental economics) to see how countries in asia solved this problem and developed their economies. galeano has no economics background.
>>24985011>Make foreign finished products more expensive, so that local finished products can compete, strengthening the economies of these third world nations.this is literally what argentina has been doing for the last 20 years and it's brought us nothing but misery and inflation. I have friends who are doctors and they've moved to Chile and motherfucking Peru because wages in Argentina are unlivable. Can you imagine having to move to Peru as a fully trained and qualified doctor because you can't make a living in your home country? My friend is living like a king in Peru btw, making cash that's unimaginable here in argieland.
>>24985036Anything Argentinians do regarding their economy brings them nothing but misery and inflation. Their little period of wealth was founded on being a quasi protectorate for the british empire
Is it worth reading the books as an adult?I never read it, only saw the movies up to Prisoner of Azkaban. I find JK Rowling based.
>>24984638Harry Potter is one of those series where it doesn't take much effort to find fan fiction that's better than the original books in almost every way. It's not exactly a huge achievement to surpass Rowling's work, and working with a pre-existing world and characters certainly makes writing easier.
>>24977229Yes. It's YA from before the term became a joke.
>>24977229What do you mean “worth it”? Theyre children’s books. If you’re the type that reads or watches capeshit or manga or whatever still you’ll likely enjoy them. If you’re the type find capeshit/manga/etc too childish to indulge in then no.
>>24977258The very same could be said about posting on 4chan at all.
>>24977270>I'm surprised you managed to skip these given your age.makes sense i think. I'm 34 and I stopped reading them around when the 5th book came out because I got older and they got boring
Through the years literature and humanities have only brought me poverty and bleakness. If I only had a liking to maths, I would be better off in life. Can you force yourself to like maths? Anyone else in this predicament? I don’t think I’ve ever more than a handful of times used directly, referenced or discussed what I learned reading on a social setting to outweigh the negatives. I feellike all of this isn’t really worth it in the end.
>>24985023Cluster B sufferer detected>Opinion I don't like? Uh oh!>[Socially/psychologically isolate purveyor of opinion]: Nobody cares, why are you obsessed about this, nobody asked you >[Attack mental state/social status of purveyor of opinion]: Grow up. Um wow, who hurt you? You're weird, touch grass
>>24985023this you?>>24985002people go into math because they suck at reading and suck at coding, it's the dopiest major
>>24984718I want to see some verification that you actually know math, you should be able to construct this
>>24984698>Wouldn't a mathcel be someone really good at mathyes, he's new
>Hmm… I need to choose a career… should I pursue money? Personal fulfillment? Social status? Ease?>By Jove I’ve got it!>I’ll pick a field that I hate, and I’ll make no money, BUT it’s also super hard and viewed as untouchable-tier spergery in normal society!!Why are retards like this
Alexander Arguelles, linguist and polyglot who speaks 50 languages, believes that we should all learn six languages that fall into four categories:>classical languages of one’s own culture>major living languages of one’s broader culture>the international language>exotic languages.Thus, a well-educated Westerner should know: a) Latin & Greek, b) English & French, Spanish or German, c) Russian, and d) Persian or Arabic or Sanskrit or Hindi or Chinese or Japanese.How many of these do you know?
English
>>24985064I took intro courses on Latin, I have English as a second language, German as a third and Spanish as a fourth with descending fluency. I also took an intro on Russian but we really didn’t dig deeper than some basic vocabulary and the cyrillic alphabet. According to Irving Finkel sumerian isn’t that hard to learn; https://youtube.com/watch?v=PfYYraMgiBAIt’s always looked interesting.
>>24985064> Argüelles is highly proficient in 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Catalan, Swedish and KoreanNot impressive. He maxxed out on learning easy European languages that facilitate each other. And then learned the easiest Asian language there is, second to Malaysian.>But he knows how to say hello in 50 other languages!!
>>24985084No, he actually knows upwards of 20.
>>24985064I know my native language, English, Python, C, C++ and JavaI also know about finite state machines, context free grammar and turing machines.
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
>>24978098>>24979136The rocks clearly rolled from the top of the hill but it turns out the area was underwater around 12k years ago and had a relatively sudden uplift around the time of the big global meltwater pulses associated with the event the Atlantis and the garden myths come from which was likely partly caused by the trail of a comet.
Balls a lickingCock a throbbingLet me swallow We're both so erect
time for a poetick year—
Stubborn fish, the current is a thing of the past for you.There are bigger predators but you make them laughSo you let the riverbed tingle the bellyEach day in the sand that changesYour children not too far behind, busy learning The ins and outs of swimmingNot in opposition with the tree, or the squirrel living on it.Encounters of “you too?”, and yes, everybodyLiving here gets wet the same wayFreedom, one day, not to have a reason of being.
Every July 4th I read Whitman. Any essential poets for New Years?
What's on your reading list for 2026? Here's mine.>China: A History>Meditations (reread)>Enchiridion (reread)>Nicomachean Ethics>The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han>Tao Te Ching>A Brief History of Ancient China>1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed (reread)>After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations>Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan>The Peloponnesian War>The Art of War (reread)>Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political HistoryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Remembrance of Things PastMason & DixonDeath of VirgilRecognitionsJR
>>24984590these ones i guess
>>24985085i saw the nyt gush about denis johnson so he must be quite lib pleasing
How has Buddhism helped you?
>helpeda desire>bbbutchuddha says no
>>24984668Atheists hate himThomistics/ Aristotleans hate himMonists/ Parmenideans hate himVirtually everyone on earth except you hates Descartes, Anon. Wear that with pride. You are very special
I feel as though descartes deliberately withholds the concrete, delivering unto the reader the abstract alone. Unlike plato, who'll literally walk you through whatever conclusion he wants to arrive at. Descartes refrains from presenting the experience that generated whatever abstraction he's presenting the reader.His texts feel almost obscure because of it.
>>24984853Descartes is very methodical but he just doesn’t have the most convincing logic at time. Ex: parrots can speak words but not form sentences so that means all animals are soulless automaton That’s a very big leap of logic
>>24984668>it's true that I couldn't convince Nietzsche and Marx to let go of hatred. >Hegel thinks I'm a female and I think he's a female.>I know everyone hates the tree but you still have to do it op. >dick jokes are fine but le geometry is le great pussy >sign up for secret societies and don't neglect my patented and time tested system of Philosophy. >no one will ever know le anything mon pote
>>24984668>>24984908"Give her the Dick."
>don't read in translation >but I can't read the original language >then learn it >but why would I spend years of my life learning a language to read a book if I don't even know if I would even like it enough to finish it?>it's not my job to educate you
>>24982728"why study french when you can study a worse language where you have to rotely memorize what gender window, fridge, and sidewalk are?"
>>24982833A few dozen rules will steer you right like 80-90 percent of the time.
Reminder:>"But, as I said before, your young men do well to come to us and learn our language; for, not only does our literature merit attention on its own account, but no one can deny that he who now knows German well, can dispense with many other languages. Of the French, I do not speak; it is the language of conversation, and is indispensable in travelling, because everybody understands it, and in all countries we can get on with it instead of a good interpreter. But as for Greek, Latin, Italian, and Spanish, we can read the best works of those nations in such excellent German translations, that, unless we have some particular object in view, we need not spend much time upon the toilsome study of those languages. It is in the German nature duly to honour after its kind, everything produced by other nations, and to accommodate itself to foreign peculiarities. This, with the great flexibility of our language, makes German translations thoroughly faithful and complete. And it is not to be denied that, in general, you get on very far with a good translation. Frederick the Great did not know Latin, but he read Cicero in the French translation with as much profit as we who read him in the original."
>>24981137>ackshually the book is really terribly written>no, I will ignore the fact that it's a translation>no, you can NOT read other translations as it's wrongthink
>>24983417goes to show how stupid 2025 /lit/ users have been
