>>24734455
How was Wanderings? Am intrigued

>>24740718
I liked it. It's mostly just Richard F Burton visiting a few places in colonial Africa and reporting on them and the people that live there. I like Burton's writing style and find colonialism interesting so I probably enjoyed it quite a bit more than the average person would.

Burton's best book that I've read, and probably his most interesting book to most people, is Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, an account of when he pretended to be Muslim and went on Hajj.

If you're looking for more of a "hack it through the jungle" book about Africa, you might like Henry Morton Stanley's Through the Dark Continent. I read it a couple years ago and enjoyed it although I don't think he's as good of a writer as Burton.

If you buy a copy of these books, make sure to get one by an actual publisher (Dover Press issued good paperback editions of all the books mentioned above) and not a sucky OCR'd version by one of those publishers that just churns out print on demand crap.

>>24740757
NTA but Someone told me to wishlist the H.M. Stanley earlier today

>>24740757
Thanks for the detailed response. I have been interested in colonial Africa, especially ever since reading the Africa section in Journey to the End of the Night. I'm going to check that out out and Through the Dark Continent as Well

>>24736386
Perhaps you should try speaking to it in Catalan.

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>>24741063
>Neoplatonism bagged on Empiricism so hard it was bullied out of existence.
How? Did neoplatonist travel to the future to talk to Locke?
I am so sick of 'trad' zoomers refusing all historicity and throwing around terms they clearly don't understand.

>>24741670
Nta but ive always wondered why Neoplatonism is so popular in modern academic philosophy. Is it literally just resurgence of "ooooh myyyy modernity ooooooh my western worship ohhhhhhh my roots of democracy" and just associating that with the most relevant intelligent guy of that era

>>24741705
it's literally not

>>24741705
>Neoplatonism
>popular in modern academic philosophy

Its hardly even a player on the scene within ancient philosophy specifically

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>>24738055
South Korea is an turbo neo liberal capitalist hole that treats their own citizens like absolute shit.
Israel is the size of a pea nut and has positive population growth. And the arab states are just oil companies. People don’t go to them to live there. Europe is neither, it’s a social democratic union based on sharing recourses, gradual growth, limited wealth disparity and stability, ambitious renewable energy projects, it’s just what you expect a countinent like that to do, letting people establish. You’re letting your racial resentment blind you and keep you from establishing a rational attitude towards geopolitics, probably because a black kid has bullied you when you were 8 years old or something. No one cares. Grow up. Russia and even automations are objectively much much more threatening existential threats for Europe.

>>24734244
Was probably shocking and incredible 20 years ago, however it seems like I could look out my window and get the same experience as the book now.

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>if you take the book on its most literal level then it doesn't make sense LOL btfo
How do people genuinely live like this?

>>24734859
You're a brown mutt, you couldn't possibly be expected to understand. I'm the issue of two different white cultures and even I know that I'm diluted and can't fit as well as the rest, I'm culturally dysgenic and rightly suffer for it. But you are lower than that; lower than dirt. You don't have the decency to admit it because the reality of it is so abhorrent to you -- that you are a mongrel.

>>24734244
It's good at describing the massive size of the brown hominid biomass that is only prevented from migration to human territories, and what happens when that logistical barrier is removed

>>24735931
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>>24736754
Gabe...

>>24741956
is
>"real eyes realize real lies" meme
really any different than Joyce's
>love loves to love love
tho?

>>24736948
>pressured her into writing a fullblown novel
it's not a novel thoughbeit

>>24742026
If Levy was the first person to write real eyes realize real lies then maybe you would have a point. But she wasn't, so you do not .

>>24741994
I’m trusting Nabokov over you on this one

>>24741811
If you like TEL and you already know the Odyssey you might find it interesting. But as a single definitive rendition of Homer it's useless.

>>24741811
Is his book any good? I quite enjoyed Lawrence of Arabia.

>>24741009
He lost his wife, kids, friends, and ended up working a kind of shit job. I think you just hate the idea of taking accountability for the fact that your life sucks.

What’s your favorite chapter? Mine is the one where Alexei goes through how he’s gonna confront Anna about the affair in meticulous detail in his head being as reasonable and graceful as possible just for Anna to notice his weak nature and totally ignore him knowing he won’t do shit about it. Massive redpill

>>24741720
The one in Italy where the Italian peasant is thinking about what a dilettante poseur Vronsky is for showing him his shit painting. There's this very nice tension setting in as the cracks in Anna and Vronsky's relationship become apparent, and the way in which they chase distracting pleasantries rather than confront the soullessness of their lives together.

>>24741720
Levin harvesting the wheat.

>>24741720
Kitty giving birth while Levin wanders around shellshocked for the duration. Particularly love the idea of it as a sort of twin chapter to the one where Levin's brother dies.

>>24741298
Why'd he pick a man with no experience chopping heads off to chop his head off? That'd be like the second or third question I asked. Only thing that would've made that story better would be if the commander they'd taken hostage stood up and said "quit getting blood all over my office dammit gimme that" and takes his head off with one clean stroke.

>>24741298
>>24741979
Yes yes but what was his cat's name?

>>24741298
What makes people stack so much shit on their main desks, that it gets unusable, then take photos with it? Trying to look busy or sagacious? Cause I'd slap him on the head to put at least half of it away, if not all of it.

>>24742110
It's literally impossible to be an active writer without having a pile like that on your desk. You need immediate access to certain information for week or month long periods.

Imagine thinking there will be TWOW news at New York Comic Con

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>>24740155
GRRM has the same approach towards religion as Sapkowski, ironically - since he doesn't like it, neither do most people in their settings.

>>24742049
Their will

>>24735414
>and his wife filtered a lot
Literally the only thing she edited was the trench run.

What lore drops are you hoping from Melissandre's chapters in Winds? I think hers along with Bran's will both be super important maybe exploring what the church if Rhollor is really like, how the initiation process works, etc

But more importantly who should Brienne wind up with? Hardmode no Jaime

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>>24667235
I was thinking that in my world the lord of the Abyss is a being of madness and corruption that cannot truly create, only twist and break. As a result, all demons were ultimately once elementals that came too close to a place where the barrier between the Abyss and the mortal world is thin, and got dragged through and twisted into a demonic form, but with some of their original elemental nature still shining through. I was thinking that there would be some kinds of demons, like imps, who can be of any element (flame, ice, lightning, shadow, etc.) while there are some kinds of demons that are only made of one kind of corrupted elemental, like gargoyle-looking demons for stone elementals. Besides ideas for which kinds of demons can be made of only one element, since I want there to be more than just one breed designated for each element, so succubi work better as demons created solely from flame elementals like picture related, or demons that can be any element?

>>24739234
>LitRPG
Why?

>>24739973
No, you don't unlock it by worshipping the god, but rather the opposite. If you unlock the skill tree you are expected to worship the related god and be part of the religion. You can choose not to, but the other religions might not let you do that.
But thinking on it more, I guess I'm not that invested in writing a mainly religious conflict.
>>24741502
Why not? LitRPG is great.

>>24741653
>Why not? LitRPG is great.
I find it highly autistic (not the good kind)

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>>24738955
>The animalistic demons have names that are titles, those could work well.
I hadn't thought of that, thanks. What about more humanoid/intelligent demons like again, succubi, though?

>>24740455
We already have all that here but at least their government provides upward mobility and makes their people richer. With none of this democratic bullshit gunging up the government.

>>24740148
>people can talk as much nonsense as they like
thank you based xi for the permission.

>>24740340
Hu is.

>>24740148
>inb4 define objective reality
>I reject metaphysics while making tons of metaphysical claims and presupposing its truth, but lemme cook for a minute
I'm good. It's like reading those moral relativists who say what we should (read: ought to) pursue is economic progress or stability or some other arbitrary nonsense.

>>24741384
You can't ''purge corruption'' because political corruption is legal in the US, it's systemic; you will always have politicians bribed by war profiteers to create endless war for profit

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>>24736992
Last Days by Adam Nevill

>>24732870
the correct answer

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>>24741518
The killers - hemingway

>>24736535
It gets even worse - because if God is the true omniscient creator of everything, they would have to somehow explain mankind, being made by that omniscient God, falling into sin, which makes God inherently sinful.

>>24740410
Sin is a word for the way in which man is separate from God/perfection. Then perfection, the ideal version of man's reality includes apparent separation from itself, which allows adversity/evil. This is both apparent in every moment and in the story of when God was embodied as a man.

>>24739825
Last words of a dead zoomer

>>24740259
Virtue is in our power through the grace of God.

All paths lead to the same place if you walk them far enough, OP. You are getting sidetracked by useless theological debates that serve no purpose to your personal journey. This is because you’ve consumed too much religious content from YouTubers who realized conflict is a good way to get views.

Needs more Kant

>>24739958
What did you circle?

>>24741270
Things that make him angry

>>24741381
Can I circle this thread?

>>24739958
Are you trying to say these were all posted by the same anon?

>>24740554
The one written by a woman

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>>24740554
Chuck you say?

>>24740554
You should chuck them all, go read the woof woof bark awooooooooooooooooooooo ga ha ha ha of Gilgamesh instead. Hahahahaha. BOOKS! Idiot! IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!

Uh, hello? Terry Pratchett?

>>24741311
Jonathan Swift, almost certainly. Famously in his later years he took down from the shelf a book he had written decades before, looked in it, put it back and sighed because he couldn't understand it. Flowers For Algernon vibes.

Robert Graves (or something very like it). His memory went almost completely in his last 5-10 years.

Iris Murdoch.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, probably. (His vocabulary shrunk pretty markedly in his last books.)

Terry Pratchett, famously, although you might not call him "great".

It's very unfortunate that Proust didn't live long enough to become senile.

>>24741311
Does doing intellectually challenging activity prevent Alzheimer? What does the soince(tm) say?

>>24742071
The only empirically supported prophylactics against senile dementia are good diet, regular exercise and moderation in, rather than abstinence from, the consumption of alcohol.