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
This book changed my life for the better
>>24949590Because modernity has psyopped women into becoming gay neurotic worker bees, perma mindfucked over petty anxieties over the future, the only respite from this weight of expectations is sadomasochistic sex, where they are able to lose their sense of self by being totally possessed and annihilatedBut there is a catch, just as you unleash your sadistic impulse onto them, they too are sadists, as they experience your pleasure vicariously through you. And you too, are a masochist, as you are one with her.This is why after the dickdrunkenness wears off, they return to being haranguing, henpecking cunts
>>24946749I think biting into the sumptuous fruit may activate my Randall Cycle -- I'll pass.
eat her out until she comes and then fuck her like a toy
>>24949374Estonian cunt looks like that. Inflamed on the sides, curtains flaked with yellow-orange pus, and necrotic black in the middle, with decaying nigrescent tapeworm caviar spilling from the crevice like papaya seeds from the fruit split asunder by its ripeness. >>24947468Only a homosexual cares about the pleasure of a woman. A real and literary man fucks her, comes into whatever holes he likes, returns to the table to write.
>>24949463melty
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
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>>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
Whats the deal with shakespeare "intellectuals" trying to convince everyone every single line in every single play is actually a completely retarded sexual based pun, is this some kind of psyop?
>Villain you have blackened our mother's reputation>Knave I have blacked your momWhat did Aaron mean by this?
>>24949933The only person who understands Shakespeare is my sister and everyone else needs to be shot.>>24949962Theatre wasn't 'art' at Shakespeare's time thoughbeit.
>>24950090Then why did the King and Queen attend his plays?
>>24950185To pay homage to their old friend, the arch-spy and glowie Christopher Marlowe.
>>24950185Lotta presidents go to baseball and football games
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24948729Dolls are based
>>24946400Reads like a parody.>a delicious distension of my innermost roots became a glowing tingleLMAO
>>24949493Yes, almost like it was written to be the kind of thing that character would write.>>24948729>>24948735Agreed. Literature has less to do with fun and imagination than people realize.
>>24948719This anon >>24948776 is being hysterical, muh ART; however the argument I heard in favor of Lolita is that pedophilia is a symbol more or less to represent the issue (which extended to the infinite in the 20th century) of the environment of high sexual stimulation (in terms of media environment and women's clothing) and reduced opportunity for actual sexual satisfaction. It is dubious why pedophilia is so interesting to him and for myself I cannot interest myself in the book, but pedophilia is the major obsession of the modern world as its population collapses, so it makes sense to write a book on the issue
>>24948719Weinginer:>It is just the same with other characteristics of the man of genius. Not only the material, but also the spirit, of his work is subject to periodic change. At one time he is inclined to a philosophical and scientific view; at another time the artistic influence is strongest; at one time his intervals are altogether in the direction of history and the growth of civilisation; later on it is “nature” (compare Nietzsche’s “Studies in Infinity” with his “Zarathustra”); at another time he is a mystic, at yet another simplicity itself! (Björnson and Maurice Maeterlinck are good modern examples.) In fact, the “amplitude” of the periods of famous men is so great, the different revelations of their nature so various, so many different individuals appear in them, that the periodicity of their mental life may be taken almost as diagnostic. I must make a remark sufficiently obvious from all this, as to the existence of almost incredibly great changes in the personal appearance of men of genius from time to time. Comparison of the portraits at different times of Goethe, Beethoven, Kant, or Schopenhauer are enough to establish this. The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his talent.>People with an unchanging expression are low in the intellectual scale. Physiognomists, therefore, must not be surprised that men of genius, in whose faces a new side of their minds is continually being revealed, are difficult to classify, and that their individualities leave little permanent mark on their features.>It is possible that my introductory description of genius will be repudiated indignantly, because it would imply that a Shakespeare has the vulgarity of his Falstaff, the rascality of his Iago, the boorishness of his Caliban, and because it identifies great men with all the low and contemptible things that they have described. As a matter of fact, men of genius do conform to my description, and as their biographies show, are liable to the strangest passions and the most repulsive instincts.
>7 books completed>12 books behind schedule
>>24949416>working a lotQuit>playing more games than usualKill yourself
>>24949460>QuitI will soon>Kill yourselfno, thank you>>24949458Blood Meridian, House of Leaves, Ada or Ardor, Earthsea, King in Yellow, Witcher: Claws and Fangs, Ferdydurke.Half of them were amazing books I want to reread, the other half were worthless slop I don't want to interact with ever again. I'm not going to tell which were which
>>24949373Any non-zero amount of books is a good amount of books, so good job, anon. It's constructive to feel this way, and it lets you look ahead to the next year with a goal in mind. If you did seven, aim for eight - any more will be a bonus.>>24949475Some hefty ones in here, that easily could have been 2+ smaller books (especially Earthsea, if you mean the collected edition?). Don't let it get you down.
>>24949452It is to me. I don't actually care what you think I just posted it for my own admiration. I like to talk to myself a lot, too.
>>24949475>EarthseaI read these too. You don't count them as 6 separate books? Inflate those numbers, baby.
