>>24619965
okay, but what about the Delawares?

this, so much this

>>24619965
So in the ending Chud succumbs to his urges by defiling Cunny in an outhouse And Cobson dances as a great favorite all the while

>>24619979
Groypers

And they are posting, the board catalog bouncing under the threads and the anons grinning hideously over their canted keyboards.
Towering over them all is the Chud and he is naked posting, his small penis lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the
>ladies,
huge and pale and hairless,
like an enormous infant. He never has sex, he says. He says he'll never leave this place. He bows to the jannies and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his
throat and he is a great favorite, the Chud... His fingers are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never have sex.
He posts in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is an incel, an incel. He says that he will never leave.

>>24616006
>Worm is a web serial
Yeah. I am not reading webnovel slop.

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Amy did nothing wrong and deserved a second chance

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>>24617332
>if you were a real fanfic author

>>24616006
It's not 8 million words long wtf? Also, we have /wng/ now, where you can talk about it as much as you like. And I do. Also, Tattletale best girl

>>24616274
Based. I pretend it's one of those open-ended up to interpretation novels, and the last chapter is Taylor visiting her mother's grave.

>>24619638
That's basically how I lived during college.

I miss these kinds of rooms so much.

>>24620431
The vital organ of a real room is a wooden floor. This explains half our modern problems.

>>24620433
did you even look at the op pic?

>>24620444
Oh. My screen is in washed out by the sun and I'm coming down off poppy tea. I'm sorry. On inspection that floor looks wretched. Completely uneven. No doubt wobbling and clacking together as you mince your way to the chappal for Vigils.

>>24620406
he aint talkin bout actual birth rates nigga

>>24620440
How do you know?

>>24620370
Your anal-ysis is full of literary banditry, phrases obviously stolen from more original thinkers. Regardless — if you had actually read the OP before launching your tirade, you would know that the book itself was not being questioned, but rather the diarrheic, indulgent foreword that proceeds it.

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>>24617864
I'm starting my Dostoevsky journey. I have Notes From The Underground in my Amazon cart and considering adding one more. Which should I choose?

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>hey chatGPT what do i need to know about this book before diving in?
there you go, you can now skip all this crap

>>24620403
>AIslop

>>24620389
That's why I buy second hand older prints of Penguin Classics, they're cheaper and usually more readable

>>24619844
>caring about bugmen oblivion npcs

>>24619844
Never forget what he did to /ourguy/ Daniel Greene

>>24620051
What did he do?

>>24619844
>GRRM is a genius when it comes to writing
Stopped reading at that point.

>>24619844
>Library of a Viking
Is a dysgenic, balding, malding puppet of vitamin deficiency. Their shamelessness is sometimes impressive.

>>24620401
rationalists still had scholastic baggage which is how you got pantheistic nonsense like spinoza and leibniz monads that then infected germans
Empiricists just cleaned the slate

>>24620252
Pic unrelated.

>>24600385
I like your poem, and I have no misgivings with "orange blossom breezes". The third and fourth lines do seem quite phonetically amiss, and somewhat jarring. I feel I am tripping over too many syllables at once when read aloud (compared to the rest of the poem.) I'm only a layman though.

>>24619866
I just like em dashes, man.

Personally I think it's kind of overwrought while also being cliche, but I have no idea how to make it better. I suck at poetry.

>>24619796
The poem is about the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl- you've probably heard of it, but if not you can look it up easily enough.
As for 平 ("ping") and 仄 ("dzuh") (pronunciation guides are given in rough English phonetics)- basically, traditional Chinese poetic meter is based on tones. Historically, you had four tones (which are not the four tones of modern Mandarin)- "ping", or level, "shahng", or rising, "chyoo", or departing, and "zhoo", or checked/entering (referring to syllables ending in -p -t -k). The traditional system classified the latter three as "dzuh", or oblique, tones, with meter being based on rules about which syllables had to be level, had to be oblique, or could be either. (It's thought that in Tang-era pronunciation the level tone may have been pronounced a bit longer than the others, so the auditory effect may have been a bit like that of Greco-Roman quantitative meter.) My idea was to map it so that, analogously to Latin and Greek long and short mapping to English stressed and unstressed (so "trochee" means long-short in Greek and stressed-unstressed in English), I would map level and oblique to trochees and iambs (normally I like translating equisyllabically, but Classical Chinese is just way too dense for that, so I went with two syllables of English to every syllable of Chinese).

>>24616077
Cliched subjects are just harder to do well in, but that doesn't mean there's no more bird in pool poems or aging vs nature poems to be written (same with love poems). You can still write those poems but you have to be better than everyone else at everything because it is so overdone- there are probably maybe only 10-20 poems that hit on the theme as well as Yeats does: whether it is musicality, unique imagery, wordplay symbolic recursions etc...

Also the age thing only applies to Yeats and Wright's is not really about the aging but about it being a zen sort of encounter. She enjambs at 'heart was full/of clear dark water' to twist the cliche into something far more ambiguous when you get the full context.

>>24620430
Using iambic tetrameter is a much bigger issue cliche wise than the subject matter, especially with all the inversions he’s used to land the meter.

>>24619800
nice

>>24616039
Plato wrote quite a bit more besides a "dualism take"

>>24615736
Neither. I read to appreciate new ideas and the way in which they're written, regardless of whether they're "the truth," then I think critically about them.

I read some to prove that Mind and Ethics Philosophy is simply a bunch of nerds figuring out that people exists past their shit encrusted shut-in walls. I am still correct.

>>24619622
So if I use a telescope and parallax to measure the distance of some unknown object, I'm doing philosophy?

>>24619985
>spends 1000 pages myopically examining its theme from dozens of perspectives
How is that ambiguous?

>>24618892
I have not read this but there are a few books that I find more unattractive than this one. I generally enjoy big books but the Recognitions (and Gaddis in general) feel like the inaugural maximalist doorstepper with nothing to say, made by appealing to an old and essentially surpassed (modernist) idea of what an artist should be. So many writers seem to me as if they wanted to be something like Proust or Joyce and write universe-books - and I see many boomers trying too hard to write all-encompassing "encyclopedic" masterpieces that include all. Celebrated authors such as Pynchon, Cartarescu and Krasznahorkai fit into the category, and often seem to operate with a notion of Great Art in mind that, in my opinion, simply does not fit our time anymore. The veneration in capital letters for Artists, Masters and Masterpieces sounds more and more like your demented boomer uncle telling you how Genesis and Pink Floyd are better than all of today's music, without realizing how much things have changed. And just like their favorite boomer bands, boomers in turn have produced art that wants at all costs to "feel like" art, and "presents itself as" art - without realizing that, if they operate by following old ideas of art instead of inventing their own, like every generation did, they'd create stuff that is intrinsically derivative and regressive (we're making prog rock! it's as good as classical music! Bach uses this progression and I can too!).
Everything that happened in art post WW2 feels more and more like a singularity, in terms of cultural landscape. And if you look at what was produced before (and will be produced afterwards) and how, in what modalities and at what stakes, and in what kind of world (one where material well being could not be taken for granted) it feels more and more like this idea of art was essentially a bubble destined to burst.
I don't know if Gaddis fits into this category - after all he's 20/25 years older than most of the other authors I have mentioned - but from what I read, it always sounds like he would.
Anyway, I just wanted to rant.

>>24620339
>made by appealing to an old and essentially surpassed (modernist) idea of what an artist should be.
That is pretty much what he is criticizing, and people like you, but those are closely related. I get a strong impression you don't read much, certainly have not read the books in your category, just categorized them and moved on.

>>24618892
No, the maximalist shtick ran its course long ago.

>those tedious party scenes
I assume it was hilarious if you were friends with the individuals he’s lampooning, but do we really need 30-50 pages of it every time, all with the same what larks someone’s been mistaken for Hemingway gag?

Is it me or posts made by the russians itt all sound like really bad AI? Completely unintelligible, headache-inducing schizo babble. Trying to sound more intelligent than they are.

>>24618436
It's you, you're just too stupid.

>>24618048
I liked "Bulat Okudzhava-
The Prayer of Francois Villon"
>>24618436
>all sound like really bad AI
What tipped you off, really?
This whole imageboard looks like AI generated at days.
But honestly, it is really hard to make AI sound smutty. The unpaid potato versions of grok , jewgpt , etc all sound like a little bleak politcorrect bitch that deserves to have its face smashed in with a hammer.
Tbqh its hard to understand those who use Ai for therapy or idea throwing. Its so soul-sucking its impossible .

>>24619148
>Tbqh its hard to understand those who use Ai for therapy or idea throwing. Its so soul-sucking its impossible .
The Westerner has no soul in the first place.

>>24615807
>>24617137
>why Vysotsky is more popular than Okudzhava
He'd rather started as an actor, the various 'mountaineering' and 'geological' pet movies as well as 'meeting place cannot be changed' TV series gave him continental (rather undeserved ) fame. I would not say one's songs are better than other's , they're quite different to be compared.
The bards are always interesting. For example, Alexander Rosenbaum, his earliest soviet records are listenable , aside from his latest slop production where he brags about being zionist jew.

>>24619966
>1Time cannot exist without God
>2Time exists

I keep re-reading this shit and it makes less and less sense each time, did you have a stroke or something and reverse the numbers on this?
Also time "existing" whatever that means... doesn't necessitate the existence of god.

1. God is not a necessary condition for anything.
2. Anything containing the word "transcendental" is Kantian garbage. Kant was wrong about everything.
3. Existence is not a predicate but a quantifier.
4. Even if there is a god he has nothing to do with the god of the bible.
5. Applying logic to god is a categorical error, for he would the cause of why logic works and hence must exist outside of and prior to logic.

>>24619771
>Humans can't exist without God
>Therefore God
False? Am I missing something?

Alex Malpas

>>24619771
All depends upon the source whence you have derived your conception: if it be taken from experience, all well and good, for in this case its object exists and needs no further proof; if, on the contrary, it has been hatched in your own sinciput, all its predicates are of no avail, for it is a mere phantasm.

>Hispanic
>BBC cuck porn
Better Never to Have Been.

>>24620011
Hit the meditation map lil nigga. For short ingrates who've come last in the genetic lottery, cultivation of spirit is the last path open for self-transmutation. When the mist in your mind begins to clear you fill start to regain control of yourself. You'll be able to say NO to the voice that commands thee to goon before wiping your ass. You'll become More than a puppet for someone else's desire. You will need to build a power of Will from nothing. You just need to build it one brick at a time. Start with sitting five minutes a day. Slowly add another minute, and another minute after that. You'll find yourself more inclined towards reading. You'll find yourself more inclined towards real food. Perhaps in time you'll even begin to live life.

>>24620011
Similar except I'm a high school dropout NEET and closer to 30 than 20. Only read one book this year. I don't understand how I'm almost thirty years old. It feels like I was 17 about a year ago at most. Life is passing me by at a breakneck pace and I am idly staring at a blurred illegible image of it. I am very afraid of death, and very busy escaping from life. Video games and anime occupy all of my time. Bored by everything unless I drink, which I've been doing every day for months. I feel sorry for my poor mother, but apparently not enough to do anything to change. I am irredeemable scum and deserve no one's sympathy.

>>24620171
you can always just make yourself do something.
such as buying a flight to some foreign place. it's just a click. then you gotta go and be forced into a novel experience and a totally different mode of action..

>>24620422
You have my sympathy and some degree of my love, anon. It sounds gay but I wish I could hug you, not out of pity but fellow-feeling and a desire that you shall attain peace and happiness

>>24618586
>where is it
in Egypt

>can i visit
Yes alhamdulillah

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>>24618586
Why the long face?

>>24619292
Something so mesmerising about his face
He looks like a painting that reveals a secret doorway in some ancient library