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Have you ever stolen books from a library?
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kind of, i treat them like a try before you buy service. if i like a book a lot i just tell the librarian i lost it and pay the replacement fee
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>>24696838
Don't leave us in suspense, what was the film?
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>>24700709
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0095134/
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>>24700357
>in hardbacks, its in the spine
Damn, ah well. In most cases it's probably not even worth it to try and steal books because you could maybe just buy a used copy on abebooks, eBay, or a used bookstore for 5 or 10 bucks
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>>24695935
Once
I did ultimately return it years later
By that point they’d just deleted it from their system and forgot about it, elderly male librarian simply tore out the property of X page and gave it back to me

Is Glaurung the greatest dragon in literature?
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>>24700878
No, Bakker is.
>CUNNY!

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"Reading Rambo" edition

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/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC

Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:

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>>24700859
not true
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>>24700866
Let's have a look at the OPs of their past threads... Oops, all prog fantasy!
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>>24700872
it's a picture
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>>24700258
You could reach out to me personally if you want to swap.
I have an 85K-word satirical horror manuscript in need of feedback. I posted about it looking for readers quite a few threads ago.
productionblues@proton.me

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Do I read King Rat or Shogun first? I have all the books except Gai-Jin and Whirlwind.
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>>24700788
King Rat, is amazing and very very short, like a quarter of the length of Shogun.
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>>24700840
Ok, I guess I'll read them in publication order then.

The guys who wanted to make the Houellebecq porn just dropped one of the most interesting discussions on art that I've listened to in the last years.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTndTJEZer4&t=7657s
Part of the video goes on to talk about their manifesto, which you can find here:
>https://www.keepingitrealartcritics.com/wordpress/ennobling-portraiture/
Overall, many debatable ideas, but many things relevant also for this board insofar as we talk about literature as art. These seem to me to be more or less like the only people trying to go beyond the woke/nazi duality of 2016, which, as you may have noticed, has grown very stale in the last years.
What lies beyond empty culture wars? What form does power have today and how does it interact with art? And what purpuse does art serve in a world where institutions are crumbling and people with means are not interested in it?
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>>24699508
qrd, I'm not watching 2 hours of that
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>>24699508
Whatever happened to the Houellebecq movie they made?
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>>24699508
>What lies beyond empty culture wars?
More emptiness, of course
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>>24699556
>I am a 19th century artist.
You're objectively not, meaning whatever you create is necessarily affected, meaning it's automatically bad.
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>>24699538
KIRAC is /lit/.

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Τῆς ὀπώρης edition

>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24669573

>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw

>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg

>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko

All Classical languages are welcome.
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>>24700273
I was the one who started posting about Lute in both threads. I never engaged with Jordie but I argued the IPAfag Russian a lot.
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Not sure why an image of a Latin-text reading list of Late Roman-Medieval texts would get taken down, so I am going to assume something screwed up with the site or the jannies made a mistake. I figure I'll just touch up a mistake I had made on the original image.
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Are there any recommended resources for Hellenistic Greek? Is Attic my best bet? I specifically want to read the Argonautica.
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>>24700818
the Argonautica is written in Homeric, so the periodization here helps you little
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>>24700793
hope jannies aren't retarded enough to think it's some generic dubs getter, people aren't spamming it

GIVE ME OTHER GOOD BOOKS ABOUT SCHIZOPHRENIC CONSPIRACY THEORIES PLS! ^_^
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>>24699921
A lot of it is pretty entry level that you already know if you lurked /x/ for 6 months maybe 7 years ago
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>>24699954
I did for awhile but everyone got a little hare brained after awhile

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Has /lit/ ever produced anything worth reading?
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>>24700697
Bonus:
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra is in the Bavarian State Library.
Hypersphere is in the Museum of Modern Art (I swear I heard this one made it into the Library of Congress, but MoMA is cooler).
Edward Burtynsky (photographer of pic rel, Burgerpunk fame) has two print copies of the &amp best-of.
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>>24697137
that sound kinda cool, where can I read it?
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>>24697005
>Lit Quarterly
i have the first three copies and one of my shorts is in the second
are they available online? don't remember if they were print only or not
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>>24700864
>they available online? don't remember if they were print only or not
oh i should have clicked the mega kekeke
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>>24700711
Burgerpunkposting was really a nice time, I'm sad it didn't go on longer than it did. It's a neat idea, really.

Have you ever seen a cute girl reading an actually good book in public?
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>>24698911
Saw one with a copy of "Notes from the Underground". Was in her Dostoevskyan girl summer era I guess.
Also I once saw a 30-40yo nice looking woman reading Selimovic' "Tvrdava" (in the original Serbian) in a park in England.
I think younger people just do this >>24698990
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Never. I'm 54
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>>24698911
I don't look at women; the power they have to destroy my life scares me.
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>>24698911
Yes, I let my wife borrow mine once.
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>>24698911
>Gravity's Rainbow
>A good book
Ha, lol. Anyone reading in public is doing it for performance. If you're homeless, it's acceptable.

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>"Read Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, and his sister’s note about how he wrote it, and am absolutely convinced that he was completely mad when he wrote it, and mad not in a metaphorical sense, but in the straightforward and most exact sense: incoherence, jumping from one idea to another, comparisons with no indication of what is being compared, beginnings of ideas with no endings, leaping from one idea to another for contrast or consonance, and all against the background of the pointe of his madness, his idée fixe, that by denying all the higher principles of human life and thought, he is proving his own superhuman genius. What will society be like if such a madman, and an evil madman, is acknowledged as a teacher?”

He's right you know...
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>>24700048
>the slave animal that's used by man to plough fields and travel without his own labor is actually "aristocratic"
baseless inversion of reality driven by ressentiment against the strong. that's why the Turin horse story is absurd, you expect N to have pity, the most detestable slave virtue, for a slave animal? laughable.
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>>24700138
Buddy a horse would kill you in about twenty seconds
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>>24700138
I'm a retard from the slums of Mumbai and this is my Nietzsche interpretation btw
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>>24699890
Advocates of scientism have nightmares whenever they think about ethics or politics, since the very practice of science cannot be separated from ethics. Dawkins would approve of taxing 90% of rent for the sake of funding science, or human experimentation? If he says "of course not", then what is the proper taxing to fund science? It puts them in front of the fact that philosophy is still usefull and will ever be so.
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It's funny how Tolstoy was the polar opposite of Nietzsche in basically every regard except that they both hated institutional Christianity -- Tolstoy's book What I Believe was an influence on Nietzsche in his last years and he critiques it often in his notes

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Was Allan Bloom right about higher education? If not, who was?

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New edition of Leo Tolstoy's often-forgotten 3rd novel "Resurrection" has been published by Everyman's Library. How come nobody talks about this book? It's actually quite similar to Dostoevsky in many regards and he enjoys much more popularity today
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>>24700733
>Maude translation
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>>24700756
I guess no one wanted to do a new one
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>>24700733
after reading w&p and anna it's quite boring

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cupness bros, our response?
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>>24700830
Sut, c‘mere, you still got them storage containers? Well I been thinkin, the Celina 52 Truck Stop ain‘t said nothin‘ about what counts for a cup.
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>>24700830
Wrong board
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>>24700830
Did I take a wrong turn? What

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If I were to explain as succinctly as I can the failure of contemporary poetry, I can do no better than to post this meme.
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>>24698900
>I'm assuming you think the anons calling you chickenshit and faggot were mad as well
because nothing says “I’m not mad” like a reply so long you had to split it in 4 kek
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>>24700193
I read the new Fiona Benson collection and it was great. Much better than some victorian shit
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>>24700797
Post a screenshot of a Fiona Benson poem and do NOT post ANY LINKS at ALL or I WILL FUCKING EAT YOU
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>>24700805
Why are you so angry? You do ah… read books on this ah… literature forum? Why pretend that your only possibly source of reading material is screenshots posted on a Bhutanese embroidery pow-wow? Go to a library nigga.
But I managed to find one anyway! She’s not public domain, because of the whole being alive thing, so obviously it’s harder to post.
But anyway, I’ve read everything by Matthew Arnold, and I’ve read everything by Benson, Benson is better
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>>24700843
It's a joke from earlier in the thread, some other anon was having a fucking stroke because another anon posted links to poems instead of screenshots. Thank you for the poem btw I quite enjoyed it

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Nietzsche gets hit with a trad one-two


Roger Scruton:

>“There are philosophers who have repudiated the goal of truth -- Nietzsche, for example, who argued that there are no truths, only interpretations. But you need only ask yourself whether what Nietzsche says is true, to realize how paradoxical it is. (If it is true, then it is false! -- an instance of the so-called 'liar' paradox.) Likewise, the French philosopher Michel Foucault repeatedly argues as though the 'truth' of an epoch has no authority outside of the power-structure that endorses it. There is no trans-historical truth about the human condition. But again, we should ask ourselves whether that last statement is true: for if it is true, it is false. There has arisen among modernist philosophers a certain paradoxism which has served to put them out of communication with those of their contemporaries who are merely modern. A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is "merely relative," is asking you not to believe him. So don't.”

Chesterton on Nietzsche

>Nietzsche had some natural talent for sarcasm: he could sneer, though he could not laugh; but there is always something bodiless and without weight in his satire, simply because it has not any mass of common morality behind it. He is himself more preposterous than anything he denounces. But, indeed, Nietzsche will stand very well as the type of the whole of this failure of abstract violence. The softening of the brain which ultimately overtook him was not a physical accident. If Nietzsche had not ended in imbecility, Nietzscheism would end in imbecility. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot. Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.

More Scruton on Nietzsche

>Nietzsche himself has become a kind of idol. Despite his antagonism towards democracy and mass culture, despite his unashamedly racist attack on the Germans and all things German, despite his advocacy of ‘health’ and strength against the ‘sickness’ of compassion, despite his contempt for socialists, vegetarians, feminists and women generally – despite committing every sin condemned by the morality of ‘political correctness’, Nietzsche is now a cult figure.


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>>24697451
Bertrand is lacking nuance, it’s weird. It tells me he is a giant pussy. He’s not stupid he’s just a cowardly guy.
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>>24697538
Partially true, they do seethe and cope because we are free and they have a deep desire to control everything. But they are fighting over the holy land first and foremost. They dislike America because we helped Israel.
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>>24699714
>nietzsche is… le paradox
>nietzsche is….le mad
>nietzsche is….le mean
>nietzsche is le….cult figure

Amazing arguments, truly shows an in depth and close reading of Nietzsche!
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>>24699751
You can’t even accurately summarize a few quotes, and yet you are confident that you understand Nietzsche better than a pair of actual philosophy professors with decades of experience in the field. Really makes you think
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>>24697451
>But you need only ask yourself whether what Nietzsche says is true, to realize how paradoxical it is.
not everything that refers/applies to itself is necessarily paradoxical you fucking moron


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