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Theodore Roethke - Infirmity
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>>24950975My copy of William Blake complete works that I downloaded doesn't have any pictures. I am confused and angry that a complete works of William Blake wouldn't have pictures
>>24968440Yeah, that's a book I'd say is required purchase.
>>24951047I just hope you're not a surgeon
Bunch of moody faggots born in high echelon society, squandering their money and doing jackshit but pondering about a completely false, irrelevant and subjective view of the universe, and centuries later high school students have to endure a class where they get taught their meaningless mental gymnastics even though it's all reduced to hot air and banal statements the most cooked up hobo in the street could get on its own. As if it would mean anything, as if philosophy ever did anything but being an abstract ivory tower for prissy intellectuals to sit on, pretending to be better because unlike you they read about some old fart passed his time while his valet brought him breakfast in bed.
>>24968824>high echelon society, squandering their money
people really hate it, they get seriously, personally offended, whenever you dedicate your life to doing anything other than producing saleable commodities for the market.
>>24968851Yes.
>>24968910>son of a loan shark>was a magistrate at some pointhardly the average joe
>>24968939Makes it even better, he cannot use anything as an excuse to poverty. He also lived 2-3 times longer average lifespan of his era, nearly a perfect philosophical example.
Literally just learn them. For the effort expended (a few years at most, and you'll still be able to maintain a social life and read in English), the rewards are immense. You'll get to enjoy a lifetime of reading in them. A hundred years ago every educated man could read them. Not to mention that learning to read other romance languages will be a joke after this.With the advent of AI it's never been easier to learn languages on your own, at this point your're just lazy and a midwit.>hurr durr i dont have timeThen stop cooming and watching tiktok and browsing 4chan>but i will miss out on reading by studying themNo, most of the learning of these languages is reading in them to build up to fluency>i can just read translationsok, your loss, lazybones
>>24966608can someone actually elaborate on why its worthwhile to learn these languages besides saying !books! without mentioning any
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>>24966608I can say hello in all those languages*learned*
>>24968517>maybe just maybe>perhaps it's possible that>have you ever considered
>>24968941I just picked French because it's a relatively easy language to learn with a huge corpus to immerse yourself in It's not just about reading books that haven't been translated yet, they exist and I've read some but they aren't really that importantIt's about having an initiation into the tradition which you cannot get if you're merely experiencing the texts through translationAlso as I hadn't read any French books in translation before I picked French besides L'Étranger I don't see the point in listing booksGod I love France so much
Spooky Psychic Vampires Edition>Old:>>24957211>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
I'm getting bored of The Expanse. On book 6 now. How do you kill 15 billion people and still make it boring? So many pointless inner monologues about dumb shit. Holden spending pages thinking to himself about how they can't fly everyone on Earth to the colonies all at once. No fucking shit, why do they feel the need to explain the most basic things. It's like the authors knew idiots were going to read it and couldn't trust them with basic science. I don't really know how to explain it but it feels like so much is happening, but at the same time nothing is happening at all. Also how is Avasarala still in power after overseeing the biggest catastrophe on Earth since the dinosaurs went extinct
>>24968675Very good. It's basically epic fantasy written by someone who doesn't write epic fantasy. Give Cook's writing style that alone is the biggest attraction.
>>24968637>week left in 2025>can't be bothered to read anything
>>24968664I find it funny how pure brawn and nothing else Jirel of Joiry is. It's not something you'd expect from a female protagonist in that kind of story.
>>24968664>>24968928Is her stories good? She's looking like a qt3.14
WHY IS EVERY FUCKING MODERN AUTHOR NOW A WOMAN? WHERE DID THE MEN GO?
there's more than enough books already
It's hard for chuds to be anything but self published these days. The publishers don't just look at the quality of the book they look at your marketability
>>24968565you'd be one of the first
>>24968563Where chuds erp with trannies. Im not joking.
>>24968349Don't go wasting your emoooootion!Lay all your love on MEE!!
My lust died the second I wrote the average feminine nature on paper and stratified it according to its moral nature. I am now convinced that the only thing you are supposed to do as a soul, as a man is to wrestle your own flesh into submission, find God and develop a prosperous and altruistic relationship with our creator in order to escape this prison. 99% of women are half humans with no souls, everything they strive for and enjoy is ultimately evil in its nature. The very core of femininity is absolute evil that seeks to devour good men with the same glee and joy youd get from stomping out some dorky kids sand castle.Once I realized why women are the way they are, it's like I've finally been enlightened as to why hermit monks become hermits in the first place. It's all a lie, its all a joke. This planet is a prison, women are archons who genuinely don't give a fuck about anything but they have to pretend to have interests beyond themselves just so men dont become suspicious and notice the huge disparity in the nature of each gender. It's not a complimentary nature, it's completely one-sided and parasitic. The entire role of women is to entrap a mans life force and pull another soul onto this false reality incarnation trap. Thats all they were designed to do. Satan takes a hold of their hivemind vessels with comedic ease and no resistance. They are all beyond corrupt, they fall apart once a month and endure pain unless they fulfill their ill-natured task. There is nothing in this world worth striving for besides Gods love. There is absolutely NOTHING in this world that is worth your place in heaven.
>>24956967>gatekeepers of reproduction>40% mate with the ugliest motherfuckers you’ve ever seen
>>24958750>I'll get angry at the idiot that left food on the counter with an unattended dog nearbyI’d get angry at the retard who trained the dog
>>24963146but down the esther vilar and go outside, anon.
>>24965934You sound insecure. Also no, I’m a beautiful man. Women love me. Sucks to be you I guess
It's over
>ai can create award winning visual arts>ai can't even create a YA genereslop short story anyone wants to readShame he wasn't alive to see himself proved absolutely correct, writing is the highest form of art, and it isn't remotely close.
>>24968703This reminds me of when Trump said Tom Wolfe was his favorite author to Pat Buchanan and couldn’t tell him which book he liked and then said “my mic isn’t working well I can’t hear you sorry”
>>24968780>expecting me to read all that drivelNo thanks, if wanted that I'd read a book.
>>24968723Lol sure. I know a lot of music dudes and none of them ever made any money or get any recognition or hot women.
>>24968798No one cares nigga
>>24968717Presidential candidates have made runs playing “Born in the USA” as a patriotic song. “Hallelujah” is covered like a love song. “Every Breath You Take” is thought to be a love song. Music is for the retarded and they don’t give a shit about anything but the hook and refrain.
What's the most humongous book you've ever read?
I heckin' love big booksUlysses Infinite JestGravity's Rainbow Against the DayMason & DixonThe Pale King (not actually that humungous)The Recognitions JRThe Instructions The Familiar (3 of 5 volumes currently)Ducks, Newburyport The Tunnel Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
the hungry hungry caterpillar
Reverend Insanity
I forgot someBonfire of the Vanities A Man in FullI am Charlotte Simmons The Man Without Qualities War and Peace Vanity FairFrom the Fatherland With Love The IdiotDemonsThe Red and the BlackLife: A User's Manual
Probably Anna Karenina, which was 900 pages. If you count LOTR as one book it will be that at around 1200.
What is the best way to start with the greeks for someone that is not used to read? I might have convinced some friends to read The Iliad because of Nolan's next film, but I fear it will be too dense for them, and it also starts in media res which is a problem. I was thinking about recommending them Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides since it is a good introduction to the plot and characters of The Iliad. I have thought of other alternatives like searching for a good introductory video on youtube (For example, a video explaining Paris' judgement or a video explaining all you need to know before The Iliad), or just explain it to them, but those options don't fully convince me. This is a golden chance and I don't want to miss it. What are your thoughts? Please consider that they are not usual readers.
HE WHO READS READS; HE WHO STARTS MUST FINISH.
Read Anabasis
Any book recommendations that are similar to this
i'm kinda bored of your thread already
>>24968809Well, in that case, this is a primarily English speaking board which is a western language. Following that, you should probably take the hint.
>>24968884No, you're white>>24968898No I will step over you and your gynocentric women worshipping culture and impose my will
wyt pipo be like>here's how it's actually white and good and not brown to have a society that allows women to freely be annoying whorestowelhead pipo be like>here's how it's actually zased and masculine to babysit women all the time to the point you have to chop off your bro's hands if he starts talking to a woman while her parents aren't there to hear the conversation
>>24968912>here's how it's actually zased and masculine to babysit women all the time to the point you have to chop off your bro's hands if he starts talking to a woman while her parents aren't there to hear the conversationI say this and will do this
Books that give off this phenotype
>>24966264We should start a new classification system.
>>24958924Gayer than /tttt/ and /mu/
>>24958452fpbp/thread
>>24958924Black Rifle coffee trannies BTFO by this post I see
>>24964183Epstein Island Realism
Nietzsche or Buddha?
>>24967115Stirner for self and Nietzsche for society.
>>24968282Muhammad PBUH and Christ RA do more. Neitzche even loved Islam and Muslims too
>>24965717BBC
>>24968805Gross
>>24968257https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDeMD_JkGY
sansa 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: >>24922194
>>24950717>The world was simpler in those days, Jaime thought, and men as well as swords were made of finer steel. Or was it only that he had been fifteen? They were all in their graves now, the Sword of the Morning and the Smiling Knight, the White Bull and Prince Lewyn, Ser Oswell Whent with his black humor, earnest Jon Darry, Simon Toyne and his Kingswood Brotherhood, bluff old Sumner Crakehall. And me, that boy I was…when did he die, I wonder? When I donned the white cloak? When I opened Aerys’s throat? That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.
>>24968748>That boy had wanted to be JRR Tolkien, but someplace along the way he had become George R R Martin instead.
>>24967296keki'll be waiting for Darkstar's speeches. but i don't hate Darkstar nor find him cringe
Tyrion Lannister from the Game of Thrones HBO show: “Yo Young Griff Methinks you are a Blackfire…”Young Griffith: “HOLY FUCK do you think fire burns?”
>>24968677you think Raynald de Chattallôn had God's fear in his heart when he dipped the Catholic patriarch of Antioch in honey and left him exposed in the sun for insects to nibble on him for refusing to fund his raid against Cyprus?maybe some rulers actually believed in religion and had it as a priority but i don't believe it was common. after all, the vast majority enabled jews to practice usury in their domains.say, king Louis VII of France. he was haunted for burning peasants to death. but he was also basically raised to be a monk by monks because he was a second son. although i think we can dig up other examples.and returning to ASOIAF, some rulers are portrayed as devout and actually believing in their religion; further debunking big retardbro's original claim.
Is mysticism real or just your neurons misfiring and making you hallucinate God?
>>24968420NTA, but evopsych is useful for advancing more symbolic forms of psychology like Freudianism and Jungian analytic psychology. I even could make a case they can be complimentary.
>>24968681Evopsych isn't useful for anything, its just pseudo-anthropology.
>>24967750>is direct *experience* of something real, because my belief says it shouldn't beMaterialists are deluded to the max with such questions.
>>24967807Dreams feel like dreams. Every drug I've taken feels like a drug. Even DMT and salvia where I forgot I was on drugs. From what I understand, infused contemplation is not like this.
>>24967750Your experience is real and your brain isn’t. The first step of mysticism is recognising what is prior to concepts in your experience. The recognition goes by various names depending on the tradition, stream entry, kensho, gnosis, awakening, unknowing and others
Do you guys read Christmassy stuff around Christmas or are you a soulless kike?I'm reading this in between preparing for Christmas dinner. It's informative but the author is terribly unfunny and keeps inserting "humour" in her footnotes
>>24968350>using slurs around ChristmasNot wholesome.
>>24968350Music is primarily what I partake in around the holidays, particularly Christmas music of the Baroque period.
