it is tradition for the nobel prize winner in literature to meet the swedish children. yesterday this years nobel prize winner in literature László Krasznahorkai met the swedish children and discussed books.
>>24946970she was invited by one of the winners of the chemistry prize, Omar M. Yaghi
>>24946990yeah exactly, i could only imagine her reaction. and yeah the concept of a guy going "holy shit the universe is bound decay forever due to entropy and we may be annihilated, i better write to my local representative about this" is hilarious, pure kafka. i think most of K.'s books have this sort of humor if one steps back a bit (war and war for instance is hilarious, but also pure sadness)one thing that he's always said (and i can't believe it, although i don't think he's lying) is that he thinks about sentences until he has like 20-30 pages ready, and _only then_ does he write them down. personally i have a hard time organizing my thoughts, so i'm curious about how it feels like to think that way and sad that i'll never know _exactly_ what goes on in his head, if he _truly_ thinks like that.i hope i get to meet the guy one day, maybe when i'm in europe i'll travel to a book fair where he's attending (if he still does such things)
>>24946805>>24946913>chuds mad when their delusion is challenged
>>24946786The Hungarian article says that he said that he's paternally jewish, but those genealogists haven't found an actual jew among his paternal ancestors, they are all lutheran slovak peasants as far back as they could go.>>24946803No, it means "beautiful mountain".
how do hungarians feel knowing that virtually every single intellectual in the country left in the 20th century?
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24947983Germanic myth is called Germanic myth for a reason, and it includes Scandinavian, German, Dutch and English mythologies.
>>24948024english are not germanic and the reason tolkien stole was bc he lacked english myth
>the english will literally name themselves after a germanic people but then turn around and say that english people are "white" but germanics are not
>>24948034Are you talking about their Celtic ancestry, or are you drawing a distinction between Germanic and Nordic (which the Normans were)?
>>24948051celtic, normans were only a minority in the aristocracy
Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
>>24948041wrong thread
never met a Stirnerite that's been able to actually put his beliefs into his practice to not be a broke gay loser
>>24948045no just connect the dots from solipsistic denial of reality
>>24948046>you must prioritize acquiring moneyspooked
>>24948046then you obviously haven't heard of Ben Klassen.
What's a book that will make me feel like I have friends?
>>24948040Pickwick Papers
>ywn watch Sergei Eisenstein's lost film Unterwelt, wherein a mad scientist shoots a ray-gun at deformed people
>>24944125Afaik the protagonist was based on Leopold Bloom.
>>24943580I'm not sure if that's from that book but there is actually an Eisenstein lost film called Bezhin meadow. It's about a Ukrainian man whose son is killed by the Soviets so he sets fire to the collective farm he lives on (ie Bezhin meadow). It was banned for being reactionary.
>>24943580eisenstein is so based broa
>>24943601it's good but it's just so long
Do you say Delillo or De Lillo?
I am reading deleuze’s what is philosophy at the moment and the part about the creation of concepts, the analysis of their components and the resulting impossibility of discourse in philosophy is blowing my mind. The discourse becomes impossible or at least fruitless because the terms and concepts discussed, although homophones, aren’t comparable because they’re on different planes of thought and have different components. So we think we are speaking about the same things, while only confusing ourselves and wasting our time. I mean the idea is almost trivial, while the execution and explanation is outstanding.
>>24946039sounds interesting. haven't read WiP, but i've found his (maybe related?) concept of the plane of consistency to be really useful for thinking about artworks and the miniature model worlds they represent.
>>24946235It’s applicable to most things, I guess. But in philosophy it explains why there’s is no common ground like in the sciences, a set of basic principles everyone can agree on.
>>24946235It's an interesting take, it frequently appears to pull from GS, Twighlight of the Idols, and maybe a few other odd parts where you try to move as quickly as possible, think as slow as possible, and sift even slower. The results appear just as varied. You could have 2 guys who tie their left hands together and play stickpin refutation, a sumo match, or just one guy trying to navigate a minefield. The key part for some of this for Nietzsche at least is that the concept is already there so instead of finding a potentiality you basically look for how actual but there isn't really a limit on this. Nietzsche claimed it could isolate specific instincts, you get a theoretical edge for the successive attempts.
how the frick do your formulate any concepts in ur mind.then
>>24947693It says that philosophy is basically just creating concepts, but once they’re established the discussion between philosophical school becomes impossible. Take e.g. a platonist and a Kantian: these two won’t be able to meaningfully discuss the concept of time, because the ancient understanding of time and the transcendental understanding of time are so different, that they can’t possibly talk about the same concept with the same components (which would make a discussion possible).
TOTAL NRX VICTORY
if i were an american, i would use my legal right to form an armed militia to stamp out the tyranny that currently exists
>>24948031it exists in your country and you're not doing anything about it
What’s the male version of this? I’m tired as fuck
>>24944030i finished this the other week, I don't really get how it's a femcel novel. The main character describes herself as being super hot, she's also inherited enough wealth to live alone in nyc without working. Aren't femcels poor and ugly? I'd imagine this would be more relatable to drug addicts than femcels, although I used to be a drug addict and the doses that she takes would surely kill a person lol
>>24946644>incels want high quality women that they can't get>femcels want commitment from high quality men they can get Both are low quality but want high quality. They would NEVER settle for each other.
>>24946838her previous novel, eileen, is about a femcel i.e. a smelly ugly weird antisocial girl and somehow that got attached to this one for some reason even as you say it makes no fucking sensebut then again incel is used for any misogynistic guy these days regardless of their sex-having status so i guess maybe it counts as the equivalentthe word they're really reaching for is "misanthrope"
>>24944422This, lol.
im reading this book this month so far it's ok very light read
Will my ketamine addiction make me a better writer?
>>24947972It's spelled Stephan
>>24947829>which degrades the mind after years of abuse.I'm probably older than all of youI've been abusing alcohol for over 20 years and am more creative now than I've ever been
>>24947976K thanks
>>24947800I had a heroin habit in my youth but i've been clean 25 years and i've written three books and started a literary movement. Drugs are not the answer my dude, you need your brain functioning at its highest possible level.
>>24947800I spent half my life as an alcoholic. I still kind of am, but quit liquor.I was always a writer, and did it professionally, but once I cut down on the booze I could actually finish things, and got novels completed.Drugs aren’t the reason creatives are creative, drugs are how crazy people self-medicate, and being crazy is what makes them creative.
>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
books for this feel?
>>24947980Shut the fuck up
>>24947980if youre mad about this youre a loserhow did this even come to your mindyou are not okay
>>24948013Quiet, faggot
>>24947980> current events themselves are literature now
are there any biographical books about chronically depressed historical figures that went on to accomplish anything?
>>24947934I would prefer something that doesn’t involve contributing to mass killing
>>24947901Alexander von Humboldt and Isaac Newton, maybe. Ludwig Boltzmann, Sophus Lie and Georg Cantor, definitely
>>24947934>depressed man overcomes suffering and mental illness by participating in a social justice movementholy peak, german history is THIS good?!?!?
>>24947940>mental illnessphysical disability*i had one job.fml.
>>24947934>kills himselfnot the kind of person i'm looking for
Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24947336A little bit but it's not exactly detailed. It mostly comes from Paul, who never met Jesus and was speaking to a different audience, so he emphasized different things (e.g. faith vs. observance of the law)
remember that god loves you but don't piss him off or he floods the planet and kills 99% of us.
>>24947516We're about due for a good cleansing, wouldn't you say?
>>24946147A book you end up skipping like 2/3rds of. Most of the Old Testament is just pointless measurements and names.
>>24946969>but from an entertainment/quality perspective the Quran is better How? I thought most of it was proverbs tier
So has everybody on this board just read Fagles' Iliad translation? I know we're all actively avoiding Wilson's translation, and I never see Lattimore mentioned, so I assume for everybody on here the go-to is just Fagles.
>>24938203no, i read chapman's
>FaglesSounds gay.
>>24938203Lattimore is the best, but Fagles is alright. These are the only translations I've read though, besides Butler's prose Iliad.
>>24940972Dactylic hexameter doesn't work in English, it's based on vowel lengths which are quite regular in Greek (and Latin and its descendents) but not in English. Poetry in English is based on stress, which is not equivalent to vowel length, so trying to substitute stressed/unstressed for long/short vowels doesn't produce pleasing prosody.
>>24938203I finished reading Pope recently (it was my first time) and I loved it.
ToT UOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
>>24947594>see this in forestwat do
>>24947649tell her to undress so i can inspect her body and then molest her. i wouldent raper her though, im not a monster
>>24946003Are there actually people who think Dumas is better than Hugo?
>>24947658That's pretty fucked up>>24947666Hugo is a better writer, but they both owe their torchbearer Honore de Balzac
>>24946003Also he basically just made her his waifu for his perfect gary stu author insert MC Marius.
So according to the books Lucifer Morning star looks like a Pure Blood Blonde Aryan while the Jesus Christ looks like a typical brown arab so whom will white Supremacist Christians Support, isn't it the question of the year?
>>24947425>according to the books Lucifer Morning star looks like a Pure Blood Blonde Aryansource?
>>24947632>Jesus was a half Italian/SwedeThe illustration on the left is dishonest though. Jesus was a Jew and looked like a middle eastern Jew and forever everyone will know this.But go ahead and repost the shroud of Turin as your proof.
>>24947425>>24947446And according to which book does Lucifer look like a "pure blood blonde Aryan"? It's certainly not in the Bible
>>24947521It's amazing how few people have heard of the Arab invasion. They think because it's brown now it always was. Just like Anatolia, north Africa, etc>>24947529Obviously anon meant during the time of Christ, not prehistory>>24947551>For instance, I think it is safe to say that whoever is behind that depiction of Jesus carries resentment towards Christianity in some form or another.It was made by liberals to dunk on red state protestants
>>24947880there are middle eastern people that are pretty white
