It is apparently quite well known in French gay intellectual cirlcles that Proust frequented Paris' underground child brothels.
>>24891884Will Proust be in the Epstein files?
>Ayn Rand was eliminated in just round 2No one hates strong, independent women more than other women
>>24891875U have to go backHerbs
Rand would probably fare better if she was put up exclusively against other 20th century philosophers and not the most famous thinkers of earlier periods. She would still lose because she can't think or write very well.
Why the fuck was he successful with women? How did he do it?
>>24890382Serge Gainsbourg too. >one shot at life>not being born a french intellectual in 50's-60's which was the sweet spot between women embracing their sexuality while maintaining male-dominated status quo in academia, arts and basically any other field
>>24890848I heard he had interesting routine of drinking around one litre of alcohol and smoking at least a pack of cigarettes daily. This and some drugs that were consumed to him like candies. Absolute madman.
>>24890406Ireland is another example.
>>24890382>>24890406it's all because of napoleon. there's a reason why every french politician is a balding perverted midget
Did Sartre contribute anything original to philosophy?
Fat Gurm, "saying our goodbyes" 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: >>24867465
>>24891674At least 90% of all thinking
>>24890038Alys Rivers and Aemond Targaryen’s son later become founders of Whent.
>>24891664Replace 15% dedicated to thinking with shitting instead. The more GRRM eats the more he shits, but the more he shat, the hungrier he grew for double Royal with diet coke and a side of fries
>She was sopping wet when he entered her. “Damn you,” she said. “Damn you damn you damn you.” He sucked her nipples till she cried out half in pain and half in pleasure. Her cunt became the world.
>His mouth was sopping wet when it entered him. “Mmm,” he said. “Mmm mhhh mmmm.” He sucked the creamy glazing till he cried out half in pleasure and half also in pleasure. The donut became the world.
>>24891332>St. Padre Pio.lmfao
>>24891599He was a member of the French Communist Party you retard. Also you’re so fucking wrong, he literally sat down and critiqued both of those guys you fucking dope.
>>24891819He left the PCF in the 50s because he found them homophobic and anti-semitic, you clueless retard. He criticized Marxism for being an outdated Englightenment ideology ever since. Read his Birth of Biopolitics lectures and you'll see that he was embracing neoliberalism
>>24891837Complete and utter drivel from you here. Just because he left the PCF as a member does NOT mean he was no longer a Leftist. And just because he criticized Marx mildly does not mean that either. He clearly remained in Leftist circles and believed in their general mission but decided to (as likely an optics move) critique power due to the massively worsening public image of Communism/Leftist politics and movements. The idea that he was a “Neoliberal” at all is fucking laughable and just flat out wrong. He was entirely an anti-establishment deluded degenerate pedophile far-left LOSER all his life.
>>24891874>He clearly remained in Leftist circles and believed in their general mission but decided to (as likely an optics move) critique power due to the massively worsening public image of Communism/Leftist politics and movements.>The idea that he was a “Neoliberal” at all is fucking laughable and just flat out wrong. He was entirely an anti-establishment deluded degenerate pedophile far-left LOSER all his life.Why did he advise people to vote against Mitterrand in 1981 then?Why did the CIA fund his work?He was literally an useful idiot in the West's struggle against communism/Marxism
ye olde: >>24879637Recommended 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
>>24891825Why would a fictional world need to have its plants distributed the same way?
What's his endgame?
>>24889425The Worm Ouroboros
I've read every story of Lovecraft's including the ghost written stuff. What now? Do I get into Dunsany and Machen?
>>24891832That is acceptable
Which is the highest art form: music, literature or visual art?
>>24891747they say never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
>>24891691True, his Othello and Falstaff are incredible.
>>24891767Fair enough.
>>24891499Female statue feetIn my mouth and dickIt's a poemBan not warranted
>>24891834>FemaleNot that one, sadly…
I'm enjoying the book; is there anything similar in terms of writing style or story dynamics? I want something like it.
Don Quixote maybe.
>>24891787Thank you. No one recommends books in the literature board of 4chan; it is as if no one actually reads here. I have heard that Confederacy of Dunces is an American Don Quixote.
>>24891714Catch 22
Qrd on why she causes so much seethe?
>>24891620Libertarians shouldn't support "meritocracy", because it's a deterministic concept, and libertarians are much concerned about uncertainty, about the second or third order consequences of intervention and so on. Meritocracy needs a metric to measure merit, which would be centralised (for example, a public examination to access a position of public official). In a free market, if you succeed it probably means that you satisfied an intense demand of some product or service, but it can happen out of pure luck, or an indeterminate proportion of planning and luck. The thing is that luck it out of the scope of justice: just because something is not fair, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's unfair and should be compensated.
>>24891466got hard from reading this. thanks.
>>24891475>This is true. Source: fucked an uggo.We've all been there, I fucked an Influencer girlie once, tens of thousands of rando followers and thirst traps etc, and she didn't give head, fucked a rando girl from a bar who looked like a walmart cashier and she transformed into a demon.
>>24890756>at least American libertarians have a bit of powerNo, they don't. Some conservatives like to adopt libertarian aesthetics, but libertarians themselves are a meme that nobody takes seriously.
>>24890924It's a good story, people get butt mad because it strawmans much gommunism (which I get) but if you look past that it's a good reas
>Every book you read should lead you to an actiondo you agree, brother? You know this? Hey
>>24890025Smarter and more successful than all the fags on lit. Mogged by muslim goat herders.
>>24890021i don't know who this is but he has the criminal phenotype
>>24890021Every time he reads the Koran he fucks his pre-pubescent first cousin
In the Platonic sense, I understand his point, as he seems to intend it to be exclusively applicable to the people that he is training.Just like Socrates/Plato argues in The Republic, certain dirges, dramas and poems create the wrong mood to train the young in a confident and disciplined manner and they would be better off without having heard them, in so far as they need to be brave and focus on becoming strong men and warriors.
>>24890025Mountain people are always so much fun.
I hate this word so much.
>>24886646All the best writers use it. (OK, perhaps not *all*. Emily Dickinson might not, now I think about it. But almost all.)Here's half a dozen to be going on with.O Love, come now, this land turns evil slowly.— Ezra Pound, ‘The Needle’O Simon Magus! O ye consciencelessDisciples who procure the bride that’s boundTo God alone, and through rapaciousnessComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24886646>OP hates emotive expressionsO heavens, save us from soulless bugmen!
>>24886646Then at last, moving slowly, as if walking in a dream, a woman in a robe of threaded silver came gliding from the hall. Her smooth long hair was as red as fire and soft as the ruddy sheen on dragon’s gold. Her face was gentle, mysteriously calm. The night became more still.“I offer you my sister,” the young king said. “Let her name from now on be Wealtheow, or holy servant of common good.”I leered in the rattling darkness of my tree. The name was ridiculous.“Pompous, pompous ass!” I hissed. But she was beautiful and she surrendered herself with the dignity of a sacrificial virgin. My chest was full of pain, my eyes smarted, and I was afraid — O monstrous trick against reason — I was afraid I was about to sob. I wanted to smash things, bring down the night with my howl of rage. But I kept still. She was beautiful, as innocent as dawn on winter hills. She tore me apart as once the Shaper’s song had done. As if for my benefit, as if in vicious scorn of me, children came from the meadhall and ran down to her, weeping, to snatch at her hands and dress.“Stop it!” I whispered. “Stupid!”She did not look at them, merely touched their heads. “Be still,” she said — hardly more than a whisper, but it carried across the crowd. They were still, as if her voice were magic. I clenched my teeth, tears streaming from my eyes. She was like a child, her sweet face paler than the moon. She looked up at Hrothgar’s beard, not his eyes, afraid of him. “My lord,” she said.O woe! O wretched violation of sense!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24886724look'in good
>>24886646“Hi! Toad!” they cried. “Come and bear a hand, can’t you!”The Toad never answered a word, or budged from his seat in the road; so they went to see what was the matter with him. They found him in a sort of a trance, a happy smile on his face, his eyes still fixed on the dusty wake of their destroyer. At intervals he was still heard to murmur “Poop-poop!”The Rat shook him by the shoulder. “Are you coming to help us, Toad?” he demanded sternly.“Glorious, stirring sight!” murmured Toad, never offering to move. “The poetry of motion! The *real* way to travel! The *only* way to travel! Here to-day — in next week to-morrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!”— Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind In The Willows’
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
>>24889951>Even if everyone could read sheet music, it would still be an inferior means of experiencing the musicIt doesn't have to be less expressive. Reading music and bringing it to life in my head I can bend it exactly as I want. I'll arrange the instruments, I'll give them voices, and they sound how I want. Of course the true art, the real mastery, is translating that into real audio, but I would not discount a musician's ability to compose and enjoy music in-mind.
>>24878065>you bounce your heals
>>24890674It's about a Forsaken Priest in World of Warcraft, those are his heals bouncing off because he is no longer chosen by the Light.
>>24890088is this about being gay?
>>24890823Yeah
How would you rate the writing in Elden Ring
>>24887965Stfu chud
>>24880560Like an introduction to esotericism and the hermetic traditions of (mostly) western countries. BB and DS2 had some much more compelling moments, BB in the motifs and DS2 in the writing.
>>24884191>Is has nothing to do with the west.>Victorian London's aesthetics >Church is main factor on societal influence >inspired by Poe and Lovecraft>inspired by Masonry>totally not WesternWhat drugs are you on?
>>24891518Ok, I might have expressed it badly. Sorry. The game is not anti-west. It borrows themes and aesthetics from west tradition, but the game and notably what the game points at as being a problem is arrogance, hubris, unimpeded course for knowledge that has no quealms for anything else than its own pursuit.I was more in awe about the stupidity of that anon. Is Lovecraft anti west too? Anyway.
All of FromSoft's modern games' themes more or less boil down to: the pursuit of immortality/transcendence/godhood leads to ruin.
i care so little about anything it's not even worth it to rope that would imply i care if i live or die lolat least a new chloe caillet mix droppedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMvEaObWvgc
>>24888737I fucking hate how shit /his/ and /lit/ are./lit/ is a bit better but not by much.I wish there was a place where I could have intelligent discussion on history and non-fiction books but every board seems to be infested with schizos, bots or retards.
>>24891765discussing actual like academic history writing on 4chan anywhere is just gonna be overrun by chuds and maybe some leftists with weird conspiracy theories about capital, etc. i read a lot of history but i will never discuss it on here, way too fucking dumb.
>>24891765You want to wait for a /his/ thread on /lit/ The /his/ board was a retarded idea started by retards on /lit/ who thought if history and philosophy went elsewhere, their posts would seem better. It didn't workHowever it came from them being pissed off about the /his/ threads which are basically bibliography, direct quoting with source, brief discussion of your reading focus, and people ignoring you until you also read the source material and provide citations. They used be better but they're still one of the best things /lit/ does
>>24890216universal single-payer healthcare NOW
Virgilian editon>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24837194>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 FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24880538So does that imply that languages like Swahili with a dozen noun classes are better than Indo-European languages with only three?
>>24890389Depending on the language there are probably texts you can read without any study. I used to date a Brazilian who said who said when he watched movies in Spanish he understood almost everything save for a few words here and there. (He had some prior exposure to it, but I don't think he had really formally studied it at the time.)
>>24890870fag
>>24891841I bet he studies Ancient Greek, rofl.
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