Either or both translations and commentaries is welcome. Is picrel by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bhikkhu Ñānamoli actually good, including Bodhi's other works?
>>24954684i'm going to archived.moe if i don't get replies and post what i find here.>>24954854Don't care for print, and not even necessarily looking for a full translation - although knowledge of safe ones woudn't hurt. I wonder mainly if there's any respected commentarial works on Siddhartha's teachings that /lit/ knows about.
>>24954684I have only read the dhammapada and life of miralepa
Abhidhamma >>> nikayas
>>24954684Not really worth reading entire Nikayas, they're very long and repetitive. Bodhi also did a selection from various Nikayas which is probably a better introduction: https://audiobuddha.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/In-the-Buddhas-Words-Bhikkhu-Bodhi.pdf
>>24956332>Not really worth reading entire Nikayas, they're very long and repetitive.Yeah I thought so too, I could skim or skip those parts, depending.Judging by the design of the pages, it looks like it was written for retarded faggots, but it will be handy, thank you anon.
Was he on a mission to write the most exhaustingly dense prose without using any dependent clauses?
>>24956272well if one were so inclined toward magniloquent expansion and discursive ornamentation, elect to unfurl that modest observation into a gently condescending yet broadly inclusive meditation on the endlessly variegated habits of human expression, acknowledging with a faint shrug of rhetorical resignation that certain individuals, whether by upbringing, temperament, affectation, or some ineffable convergence of circumstance, manifest their thoughts in patterns of speech so florid, circuitous, or idiosyncratically overwrought that they become less a vehicle for efficient communication and more a performative exhibition of verbal identity, a phenomenon neither inherently virtuous nor intrinsically blameworthy but merely descriptive of the peculiar ways in which people inhabit language, a conclusion that, once all the curlicues have been painstakingly traced and the surplus verbiage ceremonially set aside, amounts to nothing more or less than the calmly stated recognition that, well, my friend, that's just how some people talk. namely southerners. particularly, wannabe southern gentleman. that is to say, a true southern gentleman largely gets this peculiar linguistic rhythm correct because he was born into it. the wannabes, like our poor, poor cormac, can sometimes come close but never quite get there because it is not of their very soul, you see?
>>24956283Why are you writing like Henry James?
>>24956270Suttree is undeniably one of McCarthy's most "normal" novels and not exhausting in the slightest
>>24956286It's ridiculous how much made up bs people spam here
I have more respect for someone who consumes capeshit comics than someone who reads McCarthy.
Which books should i read to develop a bronze age mindset?Not BAPfag btw, i just really like the bronze age. The epitome of masculinity.Could be fiction or non fiction, dont care.
>>24952653That's more accurate to archaic Greek warfare and customs with some insertions of chariots as taxis and no cavalry.
>>24952170hegel. when we reveal the contradictions in the position, we move on to a better one. this is progress.
>>24951431You are using an arbitrary - and mostly tainted, biased - parameter in deciding what and when peak masculinity did exist. Following your process of reasoning, one could argue that Bronze Age Mycenean women were more emancipated (or less moral, under an abrahamitic point of view) than contemporary women, in the fact that their characteristic dressing style left breasts uncovered.
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>>24951431Book of Judges
This book changed my life for the better
>>24952083They surely won't be beating themselves over not tying the knot with some 30-something balding faggot that plays videogames all times and is about as entertaining as licking a piece of sandpaper
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>>24956046>as entertaining as licking a piece of sandpaperBut enough about going down on dried out roasties.
>>24950554This is genuinely why women cannot be trusted with positions of authority. This is all they think about, this kinda shit is all they care about. Men are perfectly content with women with small tits and flat asses - those kinds of girls can make entire careers out of their beauty. Men are sincerely able to look past appearances and physicality - women are so intensely materialistic and hormonal that they can only think with their clits.
>>24950554I have a 7" cock and I find this fucking disgusting. If my gf said some vile shit like this to me I would end things with her.
>this literal cuck raceplay fantasy is regarded as an important part of British literatureWhat the actual fuck?
>>24955416if you liked that you should check out The Ladybird, where a military Englishman's wife gets seduced by an enemy prisoner of war, a weird little Bohemian nobleman
>>24955457Oh my god. I just read a synopsis and this one's so much worse.>...there is something fanatical about the way he (her husband) abjectly worships Daphne, in a strange scene insisting on getting right down on his hands and knees and kissing her feet>Somewhat predictably they end up sitting together on the couch in the darkness but then, completely unpredictably, with the deep absurdity of Lawrence, she throws herself at his (the count's) feet and kisses them, bathing them in tears, and he feels like an Egyptian god, sitting erect.>Basil notices and the next evening, as they’re preparing for bed, asks her if she loves the Count. She doesn’t reply because she doesn’t know. By this time a lot of the initial lust for her has damped down and, at this, it vanishes. Now Basil feels for Daphne like a sister, a much more profound, pure and wonderful emotion. So he tells her he will never touch her again in a sexual way but will love her with a pure devotion. For her part, Daphne knows she belongs to the Count now
>>24955416Lady Chatterly's lover was also essentially cuckplay softcore porn. Guy was a complete degenerate.
>>24955416Yes op, it's 75% cuckery. The remaining 25% is always a split between having the phallus and keeping the jouissance or asking if the other has the phallus in order to get them to leave you alone, on the off chance they claim to have it then the cucking is on them. Brutal system but it does work.It's time to explain this to you but you won't understand, the explanation is still going to happen. There is no such thing as a sexual relationship, genders are just garbage. It's just a recognition process for desire and the auditory noises provide a sort of S/s signification registry. You seem to be a sort of polymorphous thing so the faster you realize it's all garbage and it's all cuckery the faster you will be able to assemble whatever semblance of objet you can still manage. If you can't perform the desire recognition checks then it will always cuck you. If you can provide them then it will still cuck you. If the signifiers reinforce your loop then you need to check for appropriate feedback input to make sure it's signification registry is working. You get cucked either way. >report to Comrade Kaczinski for work detail.
>>24955416>hmm an adultery novel, one of literature's finest premises>will I read it in sympathy of the unhappy woman, or the cavalier passion of the seducer >no! i will self-insert as the cuckolded manAll on you. Lawrence is the greatest English writer of the 20th century.
Cavaliers vs Roundheads, who had the better literature? I admit the Cavaliers have a larger amount of great writers, but Milton and Marvell for the Roundheads is a nigh unbeatable combo.
>>24953066Just Paradise Lost alone is enough to carry the Parliamentarians over the royalists.
>>24956107The nose knows.
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>>24954796>Sexy ass>Boring ass>UnknownYou're retarded, kill yourself.
>>24953066Milton is the greatest author of any language.
>short but complex enough to hold your attention>Easy to read without the dumbed down low IQ prose slop of modern fantasy>no political correctnessStart with the pulps
>>24949905Try "Casca: the Eternal Mercenary" series.Christ is dying on the cross. One Casaca Rufio Longinus is cursed by Christ. "As you are now, so shall you remain until I return". He lives his life immortal, always a soldier. Until he's SICK of it, and can't die. Read them in any order, each is a different time period and place. Some are better than others. The one where he was in Viking norse period was my first and the one I recommend to anyone to get them hooked. Light, quick, reads.
>>24952486Anybody got pulp western recs? I've read a few in short story collections but unlike pulp sci-fi and fantasy there doesn't really seem to be much out there in the way of collecting the best of the genre.
>>24949905Theres a tiny bit inconvenience.... Im not a teen anymore
>>24955854Sorry your taste somehow got worse as you got older.
they are fun and decently written but damn I really get the sense Robert Howard wanted to get fucked by Conan
are there any scientifically published books that have analysed why japanese people are so... particular about tidyness and obsessed with mastering everything they know?
Marie Kondo, a /lit/ favourite. She explains it all, she was a Shinto temple consort. It's an Eastern Shinto world soul thing: I no longer have the work in front of me.
As for mastering everything, read Embracing Defeat by John Dower.
>>24956315http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Fu
What does Kant mean by achtung (IDK what the word for it is in english desu), to regard? What does he mean that you should... heed, attention, the law? OR rather the law he builds up with the hypothetical imperative. Secondly: what does Kant mean that the law is done through duty rather than love?
duty is when you do something even if you do not like doing it versus doing the same thing and LIKING doing it = not duty.
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Why couldn't they compete with American authors?
>>24955320>At least with Americans that‘s a figurative expression.Pfft XD
>>24955170>we're #1 at american footballshameful
Same reason modern day Muttoidistan can't produce anything of artistic merit. Deconstructivism and leftism does not lene itself to creating anything beautiful.
>>24955130Suppression of the arts. Commie retards telling you different at the same people who haven't figure out "banned books" is a marketing gimmick.
>>24956319calm down chud
"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease 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.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24955998You're not supposed to take inspiration from what you read. You're only allowed to take inspiration from your interesting and adventurous real life.
>>24956082I have the same problem of overcomplicating my plots and making it more convoluted than it needs to be. In these cases, the author's voice leaks clearly through, and this is how you get overly preachy moralistic filth that seems more concerned on lecturing and nagging.It helps to reframe the act of writing by aiming for a mild form of ego-death. It's not you that writes the story. The story writes itself through you.
Is this too preachy?
I love excerpts, but I would never read one.
>>24956147a lot of scattered cliches, its impossible to tell what youre trying to say. i like parts of the last paragraph because its more grounded, both in the world and in the single piece of dialogue.
Doubting Shakespeare's authorship is a very cheap way to, I guess, look intelligent. I wouldn't call it intelligence because my brain is far too advanced, I'm too smart, to doubt Shakespeare's authorship. I know you're sitting there going>Smart people know de Vere was using a pseudonym!No. I need a commoner, I need the son of a glovemaker, in my life to feel content. I need him to be writing greatest literature without a fucking education, having illiterate parents, and small Latin and less Greek. I can't just sit there,>Oh, and Francis Bacon left a hidden cipher!:/It's for people with slow brains.
>>24955228>1 manYes and he's name is Francis Bacon.
>trust the expertsnope. all (((history))) is fake and gaywhoever shakespeare was, he certainly wasnt shakespeare
>>24955253Stratfordian skepticism is an elite cope to pretend that they didn‘t get wiped at their own game. The institutions have incidentally become right on this point in the past half century because the lack of evidence for any goofy conspiracy is so overwhelming that they would obliterate all credibility to keep it up.
>>24955228>the eggheads can analyze language using ever more sophisticated tools to tell these things. It’s also how we know Shakespeare was penned by 1 man with the exception of a couple of collabs.have we really gotten smarter in that regard , can I really trust you in that regard.
>>24954662Nice fanfic, fag.
whats your imagination like when you read a book? how do you visualize the characters and enviroment?i was recently looking at some illustrations and i realised i see things in a more cartoony way than other people like a chaaracter who is an old man who used to be a soldier was wearing a hat to me because soldier = hat even if he wasnt wearing the rest of the uniform because he is no longer a soldier even tho realistically there is no reason for the hat eitheror this young woman who was aworkaholic and very strict to me she had her hait tied so hard you could notice with just a look and also a large nose to give the idea that every muscle on her face was tensei kind of feel like a middleschool child now
>>24955409I just pay attention to action scenes, and skip anything that is descriptive, couldn't care less about details or anything that doesn't advance the plott.aphantasia chad
Photorealistic but chaotic abstract at the same time. It's not like I focus on it much it just kinda happens. It really depends on how good the author is as well. For instance Tolstoy is always very clear and sharp while with Dostoyevsky it's more abstract. Also if a character shares a distinct name with a character from a visual medium my brain inserts the former come hell or high water. Most recently I had this problem when I was reading Red Rising and was short circuiting everytime Holliday was being described as a tall muscular cyborg lady with a Mohawk while I was imagining her as Holliday from deadlock. Kinda annoying.
>>24955442>ouldn't care less about details or anything that doesn't advance the plotAgreed. I think many writers fail to understand that setting should develop the plot. They just put it in for the sake of establishing an environment requirement. But I do however find descriptive writing important if it develops plot. I have made discoveries of people around me from the smallest details in their behaviour or possessions.
Depends. Some books conjure vivid scenes in my mind, others nothing at all. In any case it's orthogonal to the quality of the book.>>24955442I skip fighting scenes when I know who's gonna win and I drop the book when the main character loses.
What does /lit/ think of Hawthorne? Most Americans have either never heard of him or hate him because they were assigned 'The Scarlet Letter' in high school and Amerikkka is an insane asylum, and its public schools are like a suicide ward. But Poe said that "we look upon [Hawthorne] as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth." And America's second greatest writer, Melville, was deeply respectful of Hawthorne. What does /lit/ say? Is he a great writer, or just great for an American?
he's a heck of a lot better than poe that's for sure
Here, everybody read this, if you haven't already:https://americanliterature.com/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/short-story/my-kinsman-major-molineux
Love Hawthorne, the great American Author. I recently finished his travel essays from when he worked at the liverpool consulate, they're very good, I think I prefer them to his novels. I'd also reccomend Henry James's biography of Hawthorne, it gives good insights into the mindsets of both authors.>>24954289Hawthorne is obviously condeming adulterty, if he wasn't there would be no dramatic interest. Your english teacher just got filtered.>>24954150Poe wrote an interesting review of Hwthorne where he criticizes his use of allegory and gives his criteria for proper use of allegory which is sort of interesting, He also directly compares him to Milton and talks about Paradise Lost, you should look it up.
>>24956115Borges wrote about Hawthorne, too. It's interesting that three other notable writers wrote about this one.
I find it funny that there's a recent edition of The Scarlet Letter that unintentionally looks exactly like the cover art of The Culture of Critique.
I'd like to learn about the beliefs and development of alchemy. I'm not sure where to start. Medieval alchemy? Eastern alchemy? The Islamic world? Earlier periods?Please note that I am looking for factual secondary sources and not incomprehensible esoteric autism.
Jung read swathes of primary alchemical works, so you don't have to.He concluded that alchemy is bullshit, except as a metaphor for psychological processes.
>>24955411Check out The Green Book, and, The White Book by Heliophilus. Very good modern writing on the subject.
>>24955429This
>>24955411>incomprehensible esoteric autism.You are never going to comprehend it, so don't waste your time.
>>24955411A good place to start would be Litwa's Hermetica I and II, alongside Fowden's Egyptian Hermes and Faivre's Eternal Hermes, alternately you could read Mead's Thrice-Greatest Hermes but take his takes with a grain of salt.That might be a bit too autistic tho. And less explicitely alchemical in focus. So maybe just try the Alchemy Reader. I think there's a lot of overlap iirc but this is more alchemical and historical.Or. Perhaps best would be Atwood's A Suggestive Inquiry Concerning the Hermetic Mysteries...>>24955429>>24955748Normgroids>>24955728Skitzoid>>24955774Yano what. I think Principe's alchemy book forget title might be real good if seeking to avoid all spirituality. As far as practical alchemy goes.
