How does modern technology change Spengler's predictions? He probably didn't see europe becoming 30% foreigners by 2025 too.
>>24948148More importantly, why do people discredit horoscopes? Ancient people believed these schizos for centuries. Military plans that were drawn up for the Hundred Years' War was influenced by astrology. Charting patterns within the stars lead to practical applications like navigation and Newtonian science
>>24948399>I'm not enjoying it>I want to finish it.Where is this audience that you are reading the 1920s bald chud for anon?
>>24949492Contemporary horoscopes/astrology is targeted to retarded women with pig shit for brains.
>>24947777Checked
>>24949772Once I start a book a feel an obligation to finish it, mama didn't raised no pussy
What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed youI just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
>>24946642Just FYI, all of the stories in Matt Cardin's Dark Awakenings were republished in To Rouse Leviathan.Also, an expanded edition of The Secret of Ventriloquism came out.
Well I finished up Loop and I guess the original Ring trilogy. That might be an all time swerve in fiction, probably the best case of fiction within fiction I've read. I got the remaining other two books on my table, can't wait to see what else is in store, though I'm not sure how you follow up that ending.
>>24946566I can't stand her. And she's an absolute bitch in She and Allan.
>>24948954How's the novel itself?
>tfw I want to write horror but it is never scary enoughThis has to be one of the hardest genres to write.
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924alexander theroux Thomas ligottithomas pynchon
>>24949939vased theroux
>>24949924Dwarf phrenology.
Noah Webster
melville and clark ashton
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24949535Ahh yes, the same mythic corpus that lacks the innovations that Wagner created and Tolkien would later adopt.
>>24947929Wagner liked every race besides Jews. Supporting the Negro in America and>And when our friend observes that in San Francisco the Chinese fill the role of the Jews, sucking the land dry, R. says, “With the difference that they are industrious, and therefore entitled to gain these advantages>Dr. Jenkins tells us some very interesting things about the Negroes, whom R. can hardly visualize taking part in public affairs; he feels that what has made them significant is their touching submission to a cruel fate.>On the drive home he tells me about Carlyle, whose biography he is reading, and he is pleased with the remark that he, Carlyle, vacillated between prophecy and comedy. Then R. expresses his surprise over his taking sides against the Negroes, saying how rarely a person is completely free; he feels that deism, the Jewish kind which inhibited even Goethe, also oppressed Carlyle’s spirit.
>>24949539/anglo/-saxons retard. christ youre like one of those spics that thinks hes white
>>24949988>appropriating myth to make some gay point about something = innovationLol
>>24949608It's not the same thing at all. Why do Tolkien fans insist on pretending to be experts on medieval sagas? The idea that Tolkien was somehow inspired by the Volsunga Saga in the exact same way as Wagner, changing the ring and making it the centre of the plot in the exact same way, is ridiculous.
Been thinking about making a story about a pred catching duo (male and female) who lure them into their home and kill them. I have almost everything planned, so much so that I could probably do it myself if I had a petite woman
The girl is petite. She acts as the decoy, and also messages the pred. She isn't turned off from being touched by the predator, or even kissed. Her main goal is to get the predator comfortable and to trust her so he excitingly drinks her spiked lemonade, which gently sends him off to dream land. But to even get the predator to their home with little to no bread crumbs, she reassures the predator she will ask her mother to pay for an "Uber" under the pretense it's for a friend.The "Uber" is her male partner: her male partner. His job is to drive the predator to his final destination, circle the block, and dispose of the body after the woman is done killing the pred. How do they dispose of the body? I'm not sure yet. But I do know this tactic creates a scenario where there are few bread crumbs leading to the couple. It's unlikely the predator tells anyone where he's going. At most, he's meeting a totally legal female friend! Where? Don't worry about it. Usually, it's some loser just sneaking out of the house. Yes, he will be labeled a missing person, but the pred does most of the work for them by making sure his disappearance is done is secret
Starting with Umberto Eco's On Beauty (you can find the PDF on Anna's Archive if you don't have access to a physical copy). The text for the first week is the introduction, which is fairly light on actual text. Accordingly, for discussion this week, choose one art item of each category lista presented in the introduction, the names of each piece are listed by themVenus NudeVenus ClothesAdonis Nude Adonis ClothesMadonnaJesusIf you would like you can post a bigger picture in this thread. Or just name the piece. And then talk a bit about why it spoke to you.Link to discord if you want to keep track of threads https://discord.gg/XhFGx57VKm
>>24950153I thought On Ugliness was much more interesting and I find strange that it isn't as widely available as On Beauty.
>>24950301Well that was next one this for the group. It's probably not as widely available because it was released based on the success of On Beauty, not as an immediate companion work.
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24916545piss wrong. good textbooks and finding an efficient syntopical workflow are great investments.
>>24945596>Living Latin reader by PaideiaI read this this last year. I thought the characters and stories made for mostly dreadful reading, but it did have some interesting vocabulary.
>>24949785I googled it and found this.https://www.paideiainstitute.org/living_latinI already hate it because the cookies popup window had only "accept" as option. I normally click "reject" and when a website only has "accept" or when it's too much work to reject cookies because you have to go through a long list of check boxes, then I normally close the tab and don't come back. This website was too interesting for that though. Fuck them, I'll probably never go back.
Thoughts on the Paideia Institute, is it good for learning? Big minus for forcing you to accept cookies but this looks good I have to say.
>>24945596>>24949785Did you buy a physical copy of Living Latin reader by Paideia?Are Paideia Institute's books available as free downloads? I see nothing on Anna's Archive.
If you identify yourself by reading something that makes you appear smart, you are not a reader. You are a poseur. Especially if what you read is only chosen because it's been chosen for you by a consensus of "academics" and "critics" who couldn't hack into the sciences. Literary studies and English departments are by far the least intellectually rigorous on a university campus.
>>24950033Brother you were making a better point than the one you think you were making
>>24950040>he's actually convinced himself that his information is the good informationYup, it's over for this manchild
>>24950049>I can’t think for myself and come to best conclusions possible based on given information and analysis Again, stay at the kids table with your overgrown bedtime stories, faggot.
>>24950164Sure you do. You and every other glowie-poisoned politicsfag
>stonerHere's your (You). Now leave.
What magazines are /lit/?
>>24948737The Goon Squad was the best article Harper's published in a long, long time.
>>24949876>libtard too embarassed to list libtard publications
>>24946453
>>24948846I've never regretted not taking somebody's opinion seriously who uses the word "reactionary" unironically
>>24950175Are you claiming that the trend doesn't exist?
I fucking despise you and want you all to disappear
Most 4chan users are currently attending their local middle schools, start there
>>24950281Die 4channer scum
>>24950162I work part time at the five below store in provo utah, you can punch me there if you want ig
HAIL, /LITWHAT IS THE LOVE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING? ANYONE?
>>24950166English speakers so obsessed with BBC they have it loud and proud displayed on the spine of volume II
>>24950215Reaching there
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24948329Smug and superficial person, a stupid persons idea of a smart person, etc. However this kind of content brings me back to when I was a teenager and the atheist religion debates were so still raging, or at least were still going on, so yeah
>>24950192>my retard name
>>24950199Thanks for the (you)
>>24949510Inshallah but they'll just end up necking out of depression
>>24949477
Any recc.s for non-fiction books that aren't just a biography, or a dull reference/history of x book?
>>24949422Holy shit, the guy from Minecraft and Jumanji??
Dodge City
>>24948190
>>24948190Athos, or the Mountain of the Monks by Athelstan Riley. An 1886 travelogue in which an uppercrust Englishman takes his Anglican bishop friend on a trip to Mount Athos and its orthodox community. The first 50 pages are competitively scamming his way through Europe (and he is defeated by Bulgarians) and then unending complaints about everything and being an awful person to everyone he meets. He has silver-pressed opium pills to give to annoying natives so they'll leave him alone, goes in great tirades about the 'natural indolence of the greek oriental', torments the weak and continually abuses his position. He even escapes Athos by lying and waving a letter around claiming the Ottoman Sultan gave it to him - he is duelling with Turks looking for bribes in this instance. I can take or leave his descriptions of the monasteries and the churches but just reading about him, his friend and his trip is hilarious. Genuinely funny. I read something similar from an 1830 source, a British lieutenant, who was polite, respectful and utterly unremembered. I think Athelstan is remembered on the peninsula to this day for being a dickhead.
2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
>>24948844Seconding this, actually
>>24947281An Adultery
Consider the Lobster
>>24947281Balzac and the little Seemstress
«LAS TIERRAS FLACAS» • AGUSTÍN YÁÑEZ.
1- Orestes by Euripides: just perfect, even though it has a deus ex machina at the end. Orestes is a very deep character morally speaking. He obeys the gods yet the gods ask him to do evil. Then he has to deal with the consequences by dealing even more evil. I wish there was a painting of that moment where he is at the balcony of the burning palace holding a dagger to Hermione's neck while yelling at Menelaus (Hermione's dad). The moment where Orestes, Electra, and Pylades are talking about their plans to escape is captivating too. 2- Libation Bearers by Aeschylus: basically Hamlet. Again, Orestes is a very deep character morally speaking. 3- Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides: the best introduction to the Trojan war myth and even The Iliad. It all feels so familiar. You can't understand the conflict between Agamemnon and Menelaus without this one. 4- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles: It's just perfect. It has an exposition, a conflict, and a resolution, which is weird for these tragedies since most had either prequels or sequels, but this one feels enough as a standalone (even though it has sequels). Probably the most influential too.5- Philoctetes by Sophocles: probably the character that caused me the most empathy and pity.
EuthyphroThe ApologyPhaedo CritoThe Letters (1-13)
>>24950097Theatrical, yes, but not tragedies.
>>24950099The joke is that 4 of those are related to the death of Socrates and the rest is about the collapse of Plato's efforts in Syracuse. I don't really read tragedians but I can recommend the Bacchae if you haven't read it already.
>>24950088AntigoneOedipus RexPhiloctetesAjaxOedipus at Colonus
>>24950115>Oedipus at ColonusCan you elaborate why? It's Sophocles' worst imo
