Childhood is hating on himAdulthood is recognize that he was right
>>24945406You claimed x and it is your burden to support x, my new friend.
>>24939843>resurrects Freud bigger and better than ever in your path
>>24939664specifically, childhood is hating him because of the later version of his theories that got popularizedadulthood is recognizing that his original hypothesis, about widespread childhood sexual abuse, was correct
>>24945414So I will just wait for that anon to support their claim that there are better schools of thought than Freud's.
>>24945516I do not understand Lacan.
“Dagon” was one of the first Lovecraft stories I read and is probably one of his more famous, even if the plot is cribbed from Arthur Machen. It’s got great style:>“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.”The audiobook is great if you want to read along:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWnV5vBScD0
>>24941801>>24941773>>24942931lovecraft is a hack who copied people superior to him and died a poor racist POS faggot
>>24942835>because he is not gatekept enough.pretty much. If Lovecraft were more obscure, pseuds would hold a higher opinion of him which they did when he was less widely known. Personally, I think what makes Lovecraft a great writer is his sense of atmosphere, pacing, and influences from Gothicism and New England.
>>24942931But all those dream plots were inferior to the Cthulhu plots.
>>24945950> plotsthis is /lit/ the purpose of fictionalized speech is to pose a theme that is speculative to counterfactual. dream quest is sort of like Job in that its a story about God abandoning a man, cthulhu is just a timed event from deep time
>>24945940>pacingevidently ppl thikk he should of been extra tedious but lovecraft wasnt trying to bore ppl he was tryna warn ppl about the consequences of stoppen goen church he said ok you dont know what gon happen next which is also what the Bible saysthats the real meaningnot wow edgy a racist with a kittehthats why its not possible for the world to integrate lovecraft like almost every other historical figure except aquinas oh he asks how many angels dance on the head of a penis and paul was heresy against my bold reading of classical antiquity cross guy
Every time I hear insane passages from Jewish and Muslim holy books they are always countered with>muh translation it means something completely different >oh you found hundreds of examples of that same word being used in that context… well not in THIS case>w-wait look at this over verse here that contradicts what you pointed out? haha, didn’t you know this is verse is more powerful than your verse because im brown>also you need to understand that it was fine in the cultural context and we don’t take it literally anymore (we do)Why do they do this? Why don’t they defend their literature openly and honestly? Christians never have any problems with the bible.
>>24946243You can but converting to Judaism in Israel's eyes is only accepted if done by a handful of rabbis that are all very busy and if you finally get to talk to one he will jerk you around for years
>>24946281Maybe unpopular opinion but converting to any religion shouldn't be easy and done on a whim. It should require some kind of demonstration of actual belief and commitment.
>>24944431They shat up >>>/his/ and they will shit up this board too.>>24943286They have specific stipends to new converts, Islam is very welcoming.
>>24946216>As opposed to what, pagan gods?Just answer.
>>24946276What does that have to do with anything jewtard?
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24946229>PTA movie making a lot of moneylmao is he retarded?
>>24946264He likes to think of himself as such, yes. Hard to believe he has dickriders on /lit/ now
>>24946229I'm not watching the movie but this is cringe as fuck
>>24946217There Will Be Blood was an overrated, you shouldn't be surprised
>>24946217It's a covert shitlib flick. 90% of the revolutionaries get killed and Leo's character gets cucked. It then ends with a message to go out and heckin' protest fellow comrade, because revolutions don't work.
Just wanted to say I'm proud of you lot. I can tell many of you have actually been reading books this year. Warmest congratulations to everyone who read books this year and coldest execration to those who did not.
>>2494307722 books done this year
>>24944109how is earning a living and still finding a way to enjoy books bad lol?Im trying to pay a mortgage by myself. its not easy
>>24943077I used to date a girl that was a cake decorator. She was nuts. Like psycho uterus nuts. I sometimes wonder about the people who ate those cakes.
>>24944124I think those are called Caketomotrists.
>>24944109I also keep telling myself that having a job is not worth selling my soul. Really hope I don't end up killing myself at some point though
There is a fascinating, digressive chapter in Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris about how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.Are there any other books about this topic? The intersection of philosophy and architecture? And was Hugo even correct?
>>24945477>intersection of philosophy and architectureOrnament and Crime - interesting if you want to know how some of the proto-modern architects saw their work as expression of a certain philosophy
not exactly what you were looking for but i've always loved this description of gothic architecture from chesterton.https://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/alarms-and-discursions/1/
>>24945477That sounds really interesting. I admit I have not read any Hugo yet. I assume you recommend Notre-Dame de Paris (thats the hunchback, yah?)
>>24946227Nice. I recently started reading Chesterton and absolutely love his writing.
>>24945477This is good I heard
In a world where 90% of the internet traffic is online video streaming, to detriment of the environment and our minds, why aren't you rejecting modernity and going to the library? The library is literally free and fun for all ages. It is the most environmentally and civic minded thing you can do. Instead of being in a haze of pleasure, living in a digital cocoon of reels and streams, why aren't you forging the future of humanity? The weight of the world is on your shoulders and only you can make a better world.
>>24943918All the novels at my local library are foid-porn-slop, boomer spy fiction, and Canadian literature; that is only published out of guilt and pity.No Raymond Chandler, or anything nice like that.I'd go there to read my own books and write, but the seats are all taken by teens and it's not chill. Just awkward and clinical.
>>24945335**But I'd love to meet a literate girlfriend or writing partner at the library . . .But, that's fantasy and will never actually happen**And I can't hang out in a nice library like Toronto's reference library, because I was born in Suburban Hell.
My library is very, very bad. The downtown branch. I should start taking the bus to the branch in the nicer part of town. The main downtown location is literally full of hobos, drug addicts and literal African immigrants with schizophrenia. It's more like a social services center than a library.
>>24944042The world dragon has many worshippers of its many forms.
>>24944403This desu.
This was fire.
>>24945668Grow up manchild.
>>24945670I hate Warhammer, but you sound like an insecure overweight non white retard.
I wasn't much impressed with the first book so I never bothered with the other two. It might be that I wasn't expecting (and wasn't in the mood for) a detective story
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>>24943892Maybe because the dick in your ass makes associative thinking seem superior and less logocentric(tm) than ordered argument.>schools are prisons because they look like military, museums are prisons because everything looks like a panopticon. It is naive to think that there are objective moral values because people can't agree over these supposed values and had different beliefs regarding them during the course of history.
>>24943892>>24945337Everyone here is talking shit at the "pre-Foucault" comment but if you copied an Enlightenment period author's thoughts in this board someone will call it AI-generated. Genuinely some of the authors that this board praises write like they're the most spastic misanthropes of history. Nobody well-integrated in society talks like that
>>24945443You've never read a book your entire life, have you?
>>24945443Why does society have to be "well-integrated"? I didn't consent to this.
>>24945353Didn't he just take a lot of his thought from Erving Goffman?
>that guy won’t loan me money? fuck him, he’s a niggerjew and his ideas suck
>>24946301They’re calling him the most based author of all time
>>24946301>loan? Whats that?>nvm I just take
starfall knights 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: >>24898855
1. Satin is secretly a woman.2. Master Aemon impregnated her before departing to Oldtown.3. The result of this union is Azor Ahai.Simple as.
>>24946100Aemon would never break his vows.
>real name is sarella>undercover name is alleras Bravo George
>real name is aegon>undercover name is faegonBravo George
>>24927069Now that Netflix will soon be in charge, it’s is going to be as bad as it was in Witcher. And god ford-bid that they reboot the original series, houses like the Tyrells and Baratheons are going to be black.
What the fuck is this book? I have to keep reminding myself to resist doing the midwit thing people do to Lolita where they hate the book because they don't identify with the protagonist. I keep reading this thinking "What is this debauched noble shit?"
>>24945409Not that there's anything wrong with being gay
>>24945409Penguin once again mogged by OWC
I read it as a very dry comedy and I think in that lens it's one of the funniest books I've ever read, almost certainly the funniest I've run into from that era.Des Esseintes is spiritually the most /lit/ person anybody could invent from the 19th century. He is a bored dandy who thinks he's a world-class genius based only on having superior taste despite zero accomplishments over the course of his entire life.Every episode reads like a shameful anecdote that some rich retard with zero self-awareness would write into a greentext. His autistic nautical-themed pretend playroom where his servants have to LARP with him, his perfume studio where he knocks himself out breathing in noxious shit, picking up a catamite out of "what if I'm gay wouldn't that be the /lit/ lifestyle" curiosity then getting embarassed by the whole effort, and deciding his amazing masterpiece rug is missing organic movement that he provides by bejewelling a turtle, killing the turtle, and bemoaning that it must have died from "being too beautiful." It's fucking hilarious.
>>24945906>who thinks he's a world-class genius based only on having superior taste despite zero accomplishments over the course of his entire life.What the fuck but that's me though
>decadent novel>cover art is either someone lying on a sofa, salome or a demonEvery fucking time.
Post image get book rec pls
>>24945612AI can't cal.
>>24945938 I never see my only friend anymore cuz last time we hung out i got too drunk and made a fool of myself
>>24945942And what the flip is CAL ????
>>24945938kek
>got spoiled who the mysterious black knight isFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
>>24944903>resurrecting a dead threadReal talk; is it a fun book?
>>24946268Yeah although it peaks in the middle and the last third isn't as good as the first two parts
>>24946297Cool. I think I will read it next after I am done Scaramouche. I've been enjoying older adventure books.
>>24944903This happened to me when the Black Knight was supping with the Friar. I didn't even realise who the Friar was supposed to be.
What's the great British novel?
>>24946156The Quran
>>24946234epic
>>24946156Lit is going to seethe. Charles Dickens. Most of his works.
>>24946156Pride and Prejudice
>>24946156Frankenstein is my choicebut objectively it's Jane Eyre
