Your favourite books on law and jurisprudence?
The Tanakh.
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England Hegel Philosophy of RightSchmitt's Nomos of the Earth
>>25180315Nice thanks.
>>25178609My brother practices intellectual property law
kelsens pure theory of law
Which hero from the three Greco-Roman epics is /lit/'s favorite? Picture of X-fags missing the point of the Iliad attached for entertainment purposes.
>>25180459Achilles got pwned kek
If every man raised their sons to be like Hector instead of emotional autistic retards like Achilles the world would be a better place. Hector wasn't perfect but he was a great man
>>25179066>Achilles is a force of natureTrue. But please, men, find yourselves other heroes to imitate and relate to because I don't want to keep being forced into bisexual scenarios to accommodate you.Only some of you will understand this lol
>>25180597I blame the hand women keep forcing in Achilles' life against his consent.Somehow because Achilles' loves men, women feel they have a kinship and can self-insert into his story??? I dont know the reason really.If women want to make a female version of Achilles a la Skyros, which then prompted the creation of plays in which women would act in his role then they would do better choosing a hero that even wants association to females in the first place so that kind of shit stain doesn't linger around my life.Good fucking lord Im sick of women and their sexuality. Such bad feelings all around.Youd understand if you were being sexually harassed by men.
>>25178878Achilles is not meant to be an emulatable ideal hero. He is basically a god-king trapped in mortal form because Zeus subverted the succession prophecy.>>25178905>>25179245Bizarrely he's the only one who goes to Elysium according to Homer. Is this some sort of compensation for fucking up his marriage? Who knows.
its mid
>>25179931Fahrenheit 451 mogs both
>>25179892“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”That passage elevates the entire novel to greatness.
Shes just like Julia
>>25179939Im sorry...I wasnt listening...could you repeat that
>>25180639who?
What’s your favorite book and why?
I’ve only read about 40 classics, but The Monk had the most memorable ending for me, so it’s my favorite.
>>25177862the hipster party towards the end made me so uncomfortable 4/5 stars for me
>>25177823>>25177831You missed the entire point of the book, that living for yourself leads to self-destruction, but forgiveness is divine. Levin's realization of God in the closing chapters is one of the most profound things I've ever read. You got filtered.
>>25177330qrd how it dabs on women? haven't read it
Eddings' the Redemption of Althalus. Fantasy from 2000, wore out two copies I reread it that much. Man goes on journey, finds book, finds cat, becomes priest mostly by mistake and thinks he's a wizard.It's standard fantasy stuff. But it's good fun.
Should Nobel Literature Prize laureates be selling A.I.-generated slop novels?
>>25177115>ob Dylan is selling AI-generated historical fan-fiction. The “Like a Rolling Stone” songwriter has launched a Patreon to regale fans with fictional AI monologues by historical figures for $5 a month.why wouldn't you just gen these yourself? seems like a bad way to grift money when he can just sell autographs
>>25180102he was just never a genuinely political person. the protest songs were just about capitalizing on the dominant trends at the time
>>25177124They should give him the Nobel War Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize
>>25179661What is BOM?
>>25180553Just some shit that is self-shilled by some spic. Ignore.
the walls of tyrosh editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25132678
>>25179100>even if he's not particularly martially skilled.If you're saying he has no actual combat experience, then just about nobody his age does (the last war being Balon's Chimpout 11 years prior) but all nobles are trained from birth to be warriors and commanders, it's the entire point of feudalism.Edmure Tully had no experience either, yet his actions at Stonemill are something that still would have been studied at West Point and Sandhurst.
>>25179466>You exaggerate the confines of the fish market.Again, this is Gurm channeling D-Day because he has a shit understanding of history and warfare (as do you).
>>25179965>>25176215The easy fix for this is Varys lied to Jaime that the wildfire caches were found and confiscated. Jaime isn't going to check Varys's work because he's the Kingslayer, Barristan isn't letting him out of the Red Keep for a while. For good measure, Cersei rides Jaime so hard every night he actually forgets about the wildfire. Also keep in mind Jaime has limitations. His imagination is quite mediocre, and he's shown a poor track record of managing people. He's not one to ask for help, so only someone psychic like Varys could figure out there is wildfire based on the Mad King and Jaime's behavior. Jaime is only a genius when the subject is opening people with metal.>>25180354Rather than attack the argument about ladders in medieval warfare, you attack the character of the anon. gg
>>25180181>tywin was evillow iq>tywin was a geniusMidwit IQ.>tywin was dumbHIGH IQ
>grrm said he gave main plot points to the show (like Stannis burning Shireen)So how will the books make it?I've seen theories that because Azor Again had to sacrifice his wife to make the original Lightbringer, Stannis thinks he has to sacrifice Shireen. I've seen theories that once the Others begin to come south, Stannis feels he has to sacrifice Shireen to save the realm.
Someone on here once said that eliot made all other poets of his age look like "toddlers scribbling nonsense and worthless lines" and I think that's true
>>25175602worthy of a gigachad reaction image desu
I think the forced focus on /lit/ to poetry is quite recent. There have been threads and discussions in the past of course but nothing so— spam like. Multiple threads daily, that gay little psyop thread that is reposted, insisting that poetry is the highest form of literature or whatever it is.What is the intent of this push? I really only have two guesses.
>>25180420I've noticed a couple leftist posters that clearly don't fit in and are trying to shift the board culture, could be downstream of them.
>>25180420The post i quoted in my op was like 5 years agoWtf are you on aboutTake your pills>>25180427I hate nonwhites and jews and women and homosexualsI love t s eliot and literature in generalDon't call me a shill
>>25175469Mogged by Yeats thougheverbeit
from tr: "bliss of childhood... warped most when we know it least". any time you're about to understand it cough cough noise noise. theft its about theft. gaddis has it, sells nothing, persuades no one then "holy shit we can sell this!" what is it thats being sold? spirit. its killed and sold. butchered and sold, mass produced. the germans its the god damn germans. it's not that you can't do it, it's that you're not allowed to do it. solitary epiphany is not allowed.jr and bast innocent. gibbs guilty. even whiteback and davidoff innocent. from "tsa great sperchul achievement . . ." to "a meaningful learning experience . . ."
actual discussion, so have a bump. sorry it's been years since i've jr so i can't add anything constructive. but here's a nice little follow-up gaddis wrote for anyone who hasn't read it:https://www.williamgaddis.org/nonfiction/jrgoes.shtml
>>25175837bvmp
>>25175879Thinking on this more, Jack is not an innocent like everyone else, he understands the world but he has been pushed out of the part of it which matters to him and fallen and/or opted out of the rest. He is the one character who is not an idealist, life and being able to see how the world works has beaten every bit of idealism out of him and he clings to the idealism of others, nurtures and fosters their idealism. Or maybe he lost his idealism because he realized what a terrible writer he is, it probably played a part. Jack was probably my favorite character in the novel, and everything at the 96th street apartment was great. >>25176409>discussionOP disappeared and it will probably end up being me talking to myself again.
Bumping on the slim chance someone actually wants to discuss this with me.
>>25180480"can't do that sir i don't have the authorization to accept your authori..."
What do you think about D.H. Lawrence? Have you read any of his novels/ poetry?
>>25180567>redditYou really are getting desperate now, falling back to the weakest of adhoms. If you have read a Lawrence novel in full and know what realism is, then you should be able to explain what makes him realist, but how can you do that if you think realism is ambiguous? but you are trying to prove he is a realist? You picked up on his seed metaphor when you said rooted in realism, but you ignored my extrapolating on the metaphor despite my extrapolation being exactly what you picked up on; the tree is not earth, it is a tree. Maybe tomorrow I will pick this back up with you but probably not, tomorrow I will be sober.
>>25180575>If you have read a Lawrence novel in full and know what realism is, then you should be able to explain what makes him realistI dunno bud, it's probably the way he meticulously describes the material conditions of coal miners and their families across hundreds of pages!
I find it interesting that he wrote beautifully despite very much not reading like "beautiful", polished prose, such as Nabokov's. Reminds me of Dostoevsky in this sense.
How are his italian travelogues?
>>25180596Shit, i read something about a trip to Sicily and was bored to tears, but then again I’m severely depressed and reading is just going through the motions of turning pages and seeing words.I remember him taking the train and meeting people in small villages - the book didn’t leave a big impression on me.
I need a book to accommodate my straitened attention span. It has to be full of standalone sections, one page in length, and rife with belletristic prose and high-toned interest. Any ideas? Also, nothing in translation please.
>>25179836Post some entries, the more titillating the better.
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>>25179819i want to sniff and lick those heels and feet ma'am
>>25180577Why do litfags like thin women so much? It's embarrassing.
>>25179819maybe get an edition of the Tatler or Spectator or Rambler - the 18th-century magazines that were printed on essentially a single sheet of A4. they were meant to be read in a busy coffee-house while you smoked your pipe, so each issue can be consumed pretty quickly. or your can linger over them as long as you want, since they're belletristic to an extreme.
>Conrad, Joseph. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to Hemingway and Wells. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, romanticist clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus.
>>25180520He did these sort of reviews for The New Yorker and The Atlantic, in one the format was slightly different and had letter grades. He ever reviewed himself.
>>25178559Conrad has a pygmy imagination compared to Wells. As the GOAT, Nabokov can see obvious gaps between writerly imaginations.
>>25180526He did grade himself.
>>25180568Did the obvious autocorrect error really throw you off? I suppose you could think I meant "never" but that would make no sense, who reviews themselves? You really think being able to google means you are never wrong, don't you? See you in the other thread but that will probably be my last post, bedtime and this is getting tiresome.
>>25180572neither >>25180568 or whoever's in the "other thread" is me anon. i am now curious though... but if you were talking about >>25180568 that was marginalia in his personal copy.
The Divine Comedy blew my mind
>>25179541it was pretty mid, but I didn't read it in the original Italian
>>25179562trvth nvke
>>25180324Dont worry. The moment you say your book is like The Divine Comedy you'll be instantly rejected.
>>25179541>”intellectuals” who grow up secular dont understand the concept of hell until their mid 30sgrim
>>25179541I follow feser on twitter
You know what I find most enjoyable? All this negativity is now reflected back on to the world. When hopes and dreams crumbled the world crumbled and when the world fell apart hopes and dreams fell apart.Even the normalfags stuck in their little box are feeling the negativity now and beginning to suffer.Even better the rulers of this world are feeling the heat because we can all see them flailing in vain trying to keep the lies from unraveling. The yawning cesspit of corruption and lies and filth and treachery and debauchery.Every one of them is boiling alive.
What's funny is i felt like this my whole life but lately i have been striving and enjoying relationships and progressing in my life and pretty much feel like im manifesting my dreams into reality all around me. For the most part everything always sucked amd everyone was always a cunt. Get over it and enjoy life pr kerp crying.You dont try. Go outside. Talk to pretty women.
>>25180493you should know that when you reduce these ideas to trite 4chan copypasta they lose whatever revelatory edge they might originally have had for your teenage brain
Why?That sounds like a miserable and tragic existence.
Where have all the serious, urbane, book-reading men gone and why have they been replaced with women?
>>25179891yes, especially Shakespeare
That will soon rape the floorboards
Man this thread really blew up. You guys really do love talking about bools and ideas
>>25179887lol imagine inheriting this>and here's grandma's thousands of books of fap material
>>25179904what a stupid fucking post
Is Augustine's City of God the same as the Kingdom of God Jesus keeps talking about in the Bible?
uh sure why not
