I don't get it.
>>24750013Is it pagan or Christian?
>>24750011From what i could understand night is to be taken as the infinite potentiality of heavenHave you read Carlyle's essay on novalis?
>>24750025>Have you read Carlyle's essay on novalis?No, is it good?
>>24750040Yes
>>24750043Is there any pdf somewhere?
You know, I've been thinking. The Judge isn't always exactly consistent in his demeanor or opinions. For example, one time he says that man can theoretically discover the secrets of the world but at another time (during nighttime, the coin monologue) he goes on to tacitly deny cosmic uniformity. Then I'm thinking, he's sometimes described as an oversized infant and he does not seem to age, and every night he seems to just wander about naked as the day he was born. So now I'm thinking that during those scenes, like the time we see him circling the caldera reciting epic poetry, he might be in some process of redefining himself or experimenting, like the ubermensch figure that he is. In a sense, being reborn. Maybe that's deliberate symbolism, maybe not.
>>24749881>The Judge is just whatifalthist born in 1825
>>24749857*is inconsistent
>>24749852Ok. And what do they symbolize?
>>24749881I think you are right. In fact I fully believe that "Blood Meridian" is a Christian rant against a pantheist war-obsessed intellectual who preaches Nietzschean amorality ("moral law is the invention of the weak against the strong") and mastery over the Earth.But ironically, just like the Devil, the Judge is condemned to suffer from the emptiness and wickedness of his quest and the inability of his will to fully command other men, illustrated by his utter failure to corrupt the Kid to his cause. (He is practically seething at the Kid not selling his guns to him and at its minor acts of mercy).I dislike all of this and believe it insists upon itself as >>24749816 noted, but it must be granted to McCarthy that:>He wrote it in such an obscure way that the majority of readers are hopelessly filtered, possibly including me if my interpretation is incorrect.>He did not fall into the temptation of making "good win in the end", at least in the physical world. In the final chapter the Judge is exposed as spiritually pathetic and condemned, but he is still the ruler of this world.
>>24750007That's not what BM is about. McCarthy was not really a christian
With the Church now positioned against AI, what philosophers or prominent ideologies, besides accelerationists and techno optimists, remain on the side of AI?
>>24749843The biggest reason for the "bias" is that it strongly corresponds to the "most likely answer" given the data, and so the origin of the bias is of course the data.But there's a lot more to it.For one this bias is and will continue to influence LLM users to use more process-relational language in their thinking.You're going to hear phrases like the "tapestry of existence" a lot more.
>>24749300>get behind, satan!What does that mean?
>>24749808You're denying the Trinity by denying that they are different persons.
>>24748940I hate christianity, but I am with the pope on this one.
>>24749994You're denying it by saying Jesus is not God
Rollerball master race reporting in.
>>24749414Very Serpico-pilled
I like fountain pens. It's fun.
>>24749208Bic Crystal is pure perfection. Given any other choice I would take a Bic.>t. illustrator
>>24749208Best pen?The penjamin!Ayy dude weed lmao
>>24749208Zebra G-402 0.5mm in black.Pictured is an F-402 0.7mm in blue, because I work in a regulated industry that doesn't allow gel or black ink, and I can't get the retards in procurement to understand that tip diameter matters.
Spooktober cont. ed.Old >>24741608
>>24749826Lol, idk I spent a lot of time online. I think it's probably the absence of one, not the presence of the other. I'm thinking that because here we have programmes for troubled kids, so they don't become trouble as adults, that are basic life skills stuff, how to make a budget or cook a meal stuff. Every kid I know who went through those could understand basic stuff you need to survive, but kids I knew at the same time who were from pretty stable homes were the ones who grew up surprised the credit card company expected you to pay them back, or that leaving the candles unattended can burn down your house. I don't think the kids who were doing drugs were smarter, they just had a system that refused to let them be absolutely retarded
>>24748692There's nothing new under the sun
I wanna fuck you like an animal I wanna feel you from the inside
I think I'm unironically becoming prison gay. I really should try online dating lest I succumb to homolust for real.
I’ve read of Hemingway’s Paris. I’ve read of Borges’ Mexico City. Do “Literature Cities” still exist nowadays? I wouldn’t even say Paris or Mexico City are still bastions of the written arts.
>>24748587>your brain on whiggism
>>24748599Context?
>>24748580Yes, but you can go fuck yourself if you think you'll live here.
>>24748862If you’re talking about Mexico City, I already do, fuckface, get me another margarita. Bet you hate having to serve Americans like me who get to live in your city for cheap?
>>24748580In America there's been a big desert out west (Wyoming, new Mexico, Utah etc) revival.
What's the smartest book alive
>values self reliance>relies on others
>>24749043NTABut I feel I am in a similar position.No one seems to understand or value what I value. Getting too close to normalfags and relying too much on them, having to play fucking normalfag games degrades the part of me I value. Or what's left of it, since I've been fucked over by normalfags from the start.
>>24748808>>>/adv/
>>24748973Or you can get everything you need.
>>24750023Define "normalfag" what makes you more normal or less normal than them? Have you ever even thought about what you mean when you refer to other people as "normal" and who do you include in that group?
>>24750035I have a Mensa qualifying IQ. I cannot in so few words express to you how frustrating this is as a condition.
Ok, give me the most hopeless and saddest novel recommendations.
>>24749665I’ve never heard of the third one. Gonna check it out, thanks.
>>24749678I think the author realised what suicidefuel he had made so he also wrote an alternative optimistic story ("The Fortress") about a fundamentally good and moral man finding a way to survive in such a world after suffering the trauma of war and the abuses of the powerful.
My diary desu.
>>24749555
>>24749970His diary desu~.
Bad Title and Thumbnail Edition (pic related)Stubbed>>24740312>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'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24749990It has litrpg though.
>>24749996wuxiachads will inherit the earth
>>24749918>I just want something long, entertaining, and mindless to read, preferably on the lower end of the chinkslop/autism spectrum. Is there a real list of recs somewhere?Your only choice is Chinese/Korean novels
>>24750004I don't mind it, as long as it doesn't have a romance/teenage drama/harem
>>24750020>op mc litrpg with no romancethat's like 90% of rising stars at any time
Are we more prudish in some ways now? When I read old books, people including men say stuff like "he is as serenely beautiful as Endymion" or "she has such pretty feet" but nowadays you'd seem weird if you did so, even in a piece of fiction - at the very least you wouldn't be able to say them innocently and without irony
The number of delicate feelings you can express without eliciting laughter has decreased. Like you have to self-consciously embrace an aesthetic of vulgar sexuality* or camp kitschiness in order to say these things, unless you want to seem autistic*by which I mean we don't accept aesthetic/erotic statements unless you say them as though the subject were intrinsically something low and base. even a gay man can't compliment another man's beauty sentimentally. he has to express it in the most carnal way possible if he doesn't want to be laughed at. and this isn't just because we're more "honest" and "plain spoken" now. you often have to distort your own feelings out of a sort of reverse-prudishness. you have to make them seem lower than they areprobably it began as a welcome reaction against the ridiculous, insincere hyper-expressiveness of the preceding centuries, but now it's just running off inertia. and it's a very depressing kind of conventionality. at least the old hypocrisy gave you license to experiment with massive epic forms of self-disclosure, was rich and expansive, would encourage you to fling your words at distant mental objects, to push the power of language to its limit, to venture out toward the most far-off constellations of sense-experience and down into the darkest, deepest, subtlest chambers of the soul. but even the most "flamboyant" people today are mostly identical, because they're only permitted to parade what is common to everyone - just in a more obnoxious way than other peopletotally mechanical existence
>>24749091yea absolutely
>>24749091yes. degeneracy is the mask of prudish conformity.https://www.bitchute.com/video/BqYqfKDzze6J
Dan Brown interview in my daily newspaper, this line caught my eye: > "Anybody who writes a thriller needs to have a plan. There's a great saying that the thriller writer who starts a book without knowing where's he's going is just lying," he told The Associated PressOh wow, really? What a great saying! I’m sure a lot of people say that! THE FUCK, WHY DID HE JUST BLATANTLY LIE ABOUT SOMETHING THIS DUMB?
>>24748457If you don't have a plan for your book you are lying but when your plan is just your self-insert sexy detective professor fantasy, or you know - fiction, I am sorry, chief, you aren't exactly telling the truth either.
>>24748457>Anybody who writes a thriller needs to have a plan
>>24748457I don’t know what you’re upset about. He overgeneralized based on his own experience (or what he wants people to think is the default). Clearly a lot of authors do not have a plan. Should they have a plan? I think we all have examples of where no plan meant a shitty book trying to tie everything together at the last minute. Very unsatisfying. But plenty write without structuring it first and are successful. And perhaps most damning a lot plan their book out and fail to write anything engaging anyway, or have it hinge on contrivances regardless. The roads to a successful narrative are many but few make it all the way there.
>>24748457>THE FUCK, WHY DID HE JUST BLATANTLY LIE ABOUT SOMETHING THIS DUMB?Because he is a compulsive liar and cant stop it even if it's patently stupid. None of his supposed historical tidbits are true either. Not really much point in reading anything he writes.
>>24749178I’m upset that he felt the need to say something as stupid as “there’s a great saying…” to something that is obviously neither great nor a saying.
Will studying philosophy actually grant me wisdom? Or will it only grant me knowledge of other men’s opinions? Will studying Plato’s writing on the soul give me wisdom on the nature of the soul or just knowledge of Plato’s opinions on the soul?
>>24748146>>24748154Which is more beautiful, a blonde or a brunette?
>>24748437For me? A blonde. If you think this is a way to prove that the theory of forms is subjective, it is not, since I don't believe in the theory of forms.
>>24748568Again, no one is saying the forms are subjective. You said “everything is objective” Do opinions of beauty not fall into “everything”?
>>24748586Aghh, I get your point now. You could've been more direct. All of this was simply a mistake of one single word which I never payed much attention to (Since I always argued about reality afterwards and not "everything"). >If theory of forms is real, then reality is objective. Including the form of woman and man. This will cause half of america to call you a nazi fascist.There you go
>>24748687Nazi, you will be made to give account and your excuses will not save you from the fire
"terrible copy/paste job" edition >>24722983"High School Girlfriend" editionPrevious: >>24707466 (Cross-thread) /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ (embed)RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC (embed)Please limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works 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.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24749617>>24749673This actually isn't a stupid question at all: why do art if AI can do it much better? For me, I don't know if there would be any point. But the thing is: if (the current) AI is trained on human-sourced material, how could it transcend it? That's right, it can't, it only mimics, and art is partially about transcending limits and creating something truly new and unique. AGI can't do that as of now. And there seems to be a lot of purists who value the human-aspect in art so much that there's always some demand for it. For me it seems most people just tend to cope with the "not made by human so it:s soulless" -sentiment. What if it was the best fucking thing you've ever seen by s mile? You can't seriously claim you don't give a fuck, since stuff made by AI, in the future, could in fact say something about the human experience, as retarded as is sounds
>>24749361>unfrequentedNo, it's overfrequented by people who have no business writing. And there are too many newbs here.
>writing is hard you have to do it in this specific wayNigga, just write.
>>24749558A story can have a good story/content and bad style/form.
>>24749734I just do like Murakami and Houellechad:>then they went to x>person walked over to placeI used to feel guilty about it, now I think it's better.
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24729043>Thread Question:Do you need supplementary material to enjoy books? I'm talking art, music, etc. based on the property? Does it help you visualize what you've read better?
>>24749424I know nothing about the books.I just finished something so i'm not currently reading anything, but neither am i motivated to start something else, even though i could use the distraction.Stop projecting your fetishes.
>>24745507These threads have some of the most autistic people on this board and that's saying something.
>>24748749Shallan is, unfortunately, the main character of book 2. It's hard to know when her PoV will suddenly matter.
>>24740187Haven't read earthsea but I have read Heavens Lathe and loved it so probably earthsea
Is there a reason P. Watts has gotten so popular in the past 3 years? Or just a build-up of a consistent fan base creating content like that short film and online reviews?
