A good metric for a genuine writer is: can i read his works on the toilet? If so, congratulations, you managed to find an author that's engaging enough to be fluently read in a low focus environment without issues. If not, well you just found a trendy name for fake intellectuals to prance about.
>>24948107As a child I would read on the toilet until my legs went numb, good books too usually. I remember reading book one of a farewell to arms in one sitting on the toilet and just laying down in my room for hours afterwards. My parents stopped buying me good books around age 10 at the advice of a school teacher that was annoyed with me reading in class. I think I'm still not over it.
>>24948107Behold, the final boss of literature
Honor Levy thread?
Reddit.
>>24948107>low focus environmentUnless you're literally a street shitter, squatted over a ditch in a crowded street in Bombay why are you being distracted while shitting? My quiet white tiled bathroom in my 1 bedroom flat is the most distraction-free environment in my home. >no TV>no PC>no Hi-fi>no gf (when I'm shitting)
I regularly see threads on JP and Zizek but less commonly Jung and rarely Lacan.I have been reading Lacan on and off throughout the year and it has been pretty revelatory to me. If I were to try to take a stab at summarizing Lacan for anons that haven’t studied him, basically everything is fake and gay, anything not fake and gay is real, and >you are a subject beneath the fake and gay but not exactly a 1:1 product of the fake and gay. Your motif should be to recognize that to understand the real through anything fake and gay is impossible, therefore traverse the fake and gay knowing it’s fake and gay in accordance to your desire(TM). If anyone with more experience in Lacanian thought disagrees with my shit take, feel free to correct. Question: Why is Lacan not talked about as often as Freud and Jung are, or perhaps in general? Is his thought too subversive? Is it because he’s French? Pic related, worst mistake of my life
>>24950506It's because he's the worst prose-writer of the 20th century. Literally no one was worse at expressing his thoughts.
>>24950506My guess would be Lacan is still popular. The likeliest reason he isn't seen much here is due to some of his conclusions.>little o / Big O>little o has already been addressed>Big O is the hypothetical authority or order but it can't draw from pre-societal input>systemization is reducing what do you want to some sort of isomorphism with what do I want>endpoint established when there is an epistemic dud>the point, for convenience of language, is to examine why Big O has seemingly endless power.Think of Freud and Jung as metaphysicians, they're popular here because most anons are just looking for meta or in most cases looking to discharge meta. Many anons are still gaining mastery, there isn't much left on this one, so they haven't fully realized how Descartes works.
Well as the resident Jungfag on this board I speak about him because he has a lot to say. The depths of his insight are huge, and the implications of his discoveries are huge. Doing philosophy without knowing Jung is far more hamstringing than doing it without knowing Plato or Aristotle imo.The reason I haven't looked into Lacan is because his influence seems to solely be in being namedropped by French and French-adjacent academics. I've heard he builds on Freud, but Freud was already surpassed long ago and given the worthlessness of Sartre, Camus, de Beaviour, etc. who these academics also namedrop I don't see anything to attract me to Lacan.
2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
Consider the Lobster
>>24947281Balzac and the little Seemstress
«LAS TIERRAS FLACAS» • AGUSTÍN YÁÑEZ.
>>24949471I think getting old makes you prioritise what you actually like, which for many old men is the topics Ambrose writes about
>>24947326I'm convinced Pynchon personally visits this site and writes all of these. When he passes the shilling will end
Will reading a lot of literature make me more attractive to girls at parties?
>>24948436Most Muslims are murtad who worship taghut and become as degenerate as the westerners themselves. The have no adab when dealing with non muslims and no Ihsan and almost no Iman. Many I have met would deserve a proper hand cutting off or lashing
Is there one person who keeps asking this stupid question or just a bunch of new stupid people who visit this board every day?
>>24948364I've done this, it works. But it also helps i have a vast digital library
>>24948428No we fucking don't achmed, go zutt somewhere else.
>>24950370>>24948439You do and if you think that women should be allowed to do what they did in ops video you deserve your replacement
My father died yesterday. What should I read to cope and/or distract myself.
>>24950399Philip Roth - Patrimony
Throw on some HAHA you Clowns, its just about some boys who love their father
Do everything but this. Go outside, talk to loved ones. Do anything else. Godspeed, anon.
>>24950599This. Sorry anon. Bless you.
My prayers to you and your father and may God keep you strong in the difficult times ahead of you and your loved ones.
>[I'm] a middle-aged pederast who's going to seed>[A ten-year-old boy] spent the night with me. I hope life will continue forever to offer me delicious surprises ... and that I will always be delighted and surprised. He goes about the act of love with a charmingly self-possessed grace: gaily, affectionately, and enthusiastically. And in these matters he's very inventive and not at all sentimental for all the caresses
>>24950140>>24950140What the fuck happened to white people in the last 150 years
How do you actually overcome post-modernism?
>>24949625Why would being a Catholic on 4chan make me a hypocrite? It's possible to use this website without sinning, you know.
You build your society on truth, not tradition.Tradition is too easily overtaken, corrupted, and turned into a source of lies that control your life. It is abused by the unethical and upheld by useful idiots. Truth can't be overtaken like that, which is why propaganda is necessary. None of the postmodern criticisms defeated the concept of truth, which anybody would know if they actually read them instead of listening to peterstein.
>>24949217A dumb take, but not your fault. The postmodernists weren't creating post modernism, they were warning you of what they saw coming. You want to stop a rainstorm by beating up the weather man.
>>24948572Pretend it never happened
>>24950350Because they sont believe in anything, and somehow think that going on 4chan is evil despite IRL being sodom and gamorrah outside everywhere I got. I'm Muslim and only go on /lit/, /toy/, and /tg/ and what I see outside IRL in my city is worse than any board on here. The truth is a lot of westerners cannot accept that people genuinely believe anything
If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24950052I think life is designed perfectly to be bearable. The spirit is an unstoppable force
>>24950552For most of them yes. And if this were true then I'm not really sure what the Demiurge or the adoption of instrumental reason as a slave to the passions does wrong. Afterall, being is hierarchical, by necessity, but not teleological, and ascent seems to merely be a sort of destruction, a canceling out.But this is the old issue of being unable to distinguish divine, angelic, and human (discursive) knowing, so that God must be beyond thought in order to avoid multiplicity, and is so rendered sterile and in a sense powerless. But then on the other hand God cannot lack what creatures possess (a point Plotinus makes for the Intellect and One, but then doesn't really follow up fully IMO). The distinction that seems to be missing is that things that are many in creatures are absolutely one in God, but known as many to us. They and the distinction between essence and energies, which does not imply multiplicity.
>>24949807Would the higher, benevolent source of reality punch the small, dumb guy? That wouldn't be very benevolent.
>>24950587the problem is that in neoplatonism the monad cannot be understood or known or even thought about
>>24950052Read up on emanationism and Plato's view on the demiurge. Plotinus critiques the gnostics for this and their cosmogony. But the gnostics do have their gems.
>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
got banned off hinge for making a stupid joke in my bio
>>24947429The reality of it is that women read but many of them are reading yaoi manga, erotic novels, or B&N slop. Everyone has their own niche and it takes a serious reader to be well read in multiple genres
>>24948018okay mate very cool
>>24947429wait does this work?
>>24948914Based. Find your wife.
Good night frens.Tell me your:>favorite poet>favorite playwright>favorite composerSo I have some new comfy suggestions.
Quite the pretentious pseud thread you have going here.
YeatsPinterBeethoven
>>24949741>Oh no! familiarity with high culture, canon literacy, and taste that isn't purely ironic, meme-based or pop-referential. On a literature board, of all places. Clearly everyone here is just trying to seem smart. Better devalue it quickly so I don't have to participate or feel inadequate.How does it feel to be a gargantuan, insecure faggot?
>>24947744Have you checked out Berwald or Stenhammar, they are severely underrated and my favorite Swedish composers, check out Berwald's Third Symphony especially if you haven't (the other symphonies are comparable in quality too all incredible)
>>24940941Spenser (if including novelists Dostoevsky) ShakespeareWagner/Debussy
>december 2025>novel still unfinished
>>24948774>ok OP what is your book about, please enlighten me
>>24948774you should drop writing alltogethr and learn how to code roblox games my little nephew makes a cool 600-800$ a month from it
>>24949403>>24949415>>24949509What is yalls method for writting? I am only able to make actual contributions to my drafts when an overwhelming feeling of certainty arises, giving me great inspiration and the knowledge to put together my lesser drafts into proper pages
>>24949403So ~50,000 words?On the shorter side>>24949415There are a bunch of booktubers vlogging about the 7th draft of their novel>>24950537I only write when I feel inspiration and have coffee, which is most days
>>24949415>another draftAnon…
Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24950527Your assumption is wrong. ESVCE was initiated by the Indian bishops because they don't have the rights to the New American Bible (owned by the US bishops) and the 1991 NRSVCE had been rejected by the Vatican for being "inclusive" garbage. The whole time the Indian Church had been using the 1952 RSV. >>24950535My copy says that the Gottingen Septuagint forms "the textual base for the deuterocanonical books. In the special case of Tobit, the translators used the longer Greek text (Sinaiticus) supplemented by the shorter Greek text (Vaticanus) and the Old Latin version at points where the longer text lacks some verses" (pg xvi). The Gospels are old ESV work; I'm not sure why you are mentioning them.
>>24950543Which KJV is supposed to be the perfect one, the original 1611 or the one people actually read today, since there were multiple revisions and they aren’t identical? If it’s the 1611, why doesn’t anyone use it? If it’s a later one, who changed God’s perfect word and when did it become perfect? Before 1611, did Christians just not have a real Bible at all? When the KJV translators openly said they weren’t inspired and that they were revising earlier English Bibles, were they wrong or just being dishonest? If the KJV can override or “fix” the Greek and Hebrew, what’s the point of Greek and Hebrew in the first place? Which Textus Receptus is the inspired one, since there are multiple editions that don’t agree with each other? And if God only preserved His word in English, why did nobody seem to know that for the first 1,600 years of church history?
>>24946147Some of its advices are bad, some are neutral, some are good. However, its previousd version, then Adam had two wives Lilith and Eve, I like it much better. And it is a pity that Methuselah's 965-year-long life is not described in sufficient detail in the Bible, Methuselah, my bow to him, was much wiser than Jesus Christ, who lasted only 33 years on Earth.
>>24950557>Which KJV is supposed to be the perfect one, the original 1611 or the one people actually read today, since there were multiple revisions and they aren’t identical? The word of God on earth follows the trajectory of the Word of God on earth. Were there changes to Jesus’ body as he grew? Did he not also grow in wisdom and stature? Luke 2:40 and Luke 2:52. Which Jesus was perfect? The one before he increased in wisdom or the one after? I’m aware that there are minor spelling differences in the different King James versions.>If it’s the 1611, why doesn’t anyone use it? If it’s a later one, who changed God’s perfect word and when did it become perfect? God changed God’s perfect word. The Holy Spirit, quoting Old Testament scripture, makes changes as he see fit. He can do that because it’s his word. Compare 1 Corinthians 14:21 and Isaiah 28:11. It’s not the exact same, because that scripture is used at a different time for a different audience, speaking a different language.>Before 1611, did Christians just not have a real Bible at all? What do you mean “real”?
>>24950581>When the KJV translators openly said they weren’t inspired and that they were revising earlier English Bibles, were they wrong or just being dishonest? I have read the preface. They were wrong, not dishonest. The Assyrian, the rod of God’s anger in Isaiah 10:5-7, did not know that he was being used by God. Same goes for the KJB translators.>If the KJV can override or “fix” the Greek and Hebrew, what’s the point of Greek and Hebrew in the first place? Biblically, a translation is always to a better stage/condition/version (see 2 Sam. 3:10, Col. 1:13, Heb. 11:5). The Hebrew and Greek served their purpose at crucial moments in history (and still serve their purpose today, don’t get me wrong). Today English is the lingua franca and the expansion of English in history coincides quite nicely with the King James. >Which Textus Receptus is the inspired one, since there are multiple editions that don’t agree with each other? I didn’t claim that any Textus Receptus is inspired. I’m claiming the King James Bible is. God can use any foundation; he used sinful men to speak and pen down his word. He spoke his word through a false prophet like Balaam.>And if God only preserved His word in English, why did nobody seem to know that for the first 1,600 years of church history?Today, God’s word is preserved in English. That wasn’t always the case in history, simply because English didn’t appear on the scene until a long time after. The word of God was preserved in Hebrew and Aramaic among the Jews, then later in Greek among the New Testament churches. But even in Paul’s time, people had started messing with the word, see 2 Corinthians 2:17 (“we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God”). God does not limit himself to church history, he has his own schedule, so when “the fulness of the time was come” (Galatians 4:4) his perfect word appeared.
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>no u!
Chuds please order books from Baen and stfu.
Just finished Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, and I have no clue why it isn't more popular. What an amazing series
>>24950505It's long, slow-paced and old. That's why.
>>24950505It was popular when it first came out. Not many series remain in the public consciousness for long, even great ones.
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
The love that dares not speak its name
The libretto is considered great poetry and drama of itself, accounted a masterpiece by manyLast week was Das Rheingold which covered the forging of the ring of power, its curse, and the jealousy and death that follows after the lust for itThis week is Die WalküreLink to discord server if you want to keep track of threadshttps://discord.gg/XhFGx57VKm
>>24950211>muh discorddiscuss here or fuck off
What happened to Wagneranon? I liked his massive posts quoting an analysis on the Ring Cycle.
It's really weird that I was googling Der Ring des Niebelungen like half an hour before I saw this thread, which had already been up for hours. I had not scrolled through the catalog and therefore had not subconsciously picked up the idea. I was in another thread, someone asked about something related to damming, and I wanted to google what Götterdämmerung means. Then I read on about Der Ring des Niebelungen, and I actually got the idea to try to read the libretto. Then I go into the /lit/ catalog shortly after and this thread is there. I wonder though if OP was inspired by my posting of Wilhelm Tell and Lieder in this thread:>>24905503
>>24950425Finding a good recording you like and reading along to the libretto.Best performances of Wagner I've seen were literally stageless, just the performers with the orchestra in the background, though there was some basic interaction between them (including a rather funny one in Siegfried where Siegfried tapped the conductor on the shoulder when the flute was fucking up his attempt to speak to the bird)
I looked around, I did not find any good translations of the German text. The only reason I'd read the libretto is for learning German, but there are no interlinears and all the side-by-side translations are very different from the German original, so they don't aid learning. I'll stick to my Wilhelm Tell interlinear until I know enough German to read Niebelungen without any translation. Also OP just wanted to plug his discord and leave, so fuck him and fuck this thread.
