>>24732330
One of the only Nabokov books so far I've been disappointed by. Maybe it was just my expectations going in but I thought the setting and story didn't fit his style as an author. Pseudo Kafka isn't what I think of when I think of Nabokov

>>24732607
I've read it in russian and I kinda feel the same.
Which one was your favorite?

>>24732330
>nowhere as good as his other stuff
did you read bend sinister?

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I am so smart.
I am so smart.
Smarter than all you people.
Smarter than all society.
You want to imprison me because I'm so smart.
But your prisons can't touch my true freedom.
Because I am so smart.

>>24732122
>Is he one of those authors who were revolutionary at the time but their style has simply become normalised now?
Bingo.

>>24732122
I'd recommend trying A Farewell to Arms next. The first 40% is comatose, but if you manage to get through that, it picks up and is actually quite gripping towards the end.
For whatever reason, his novels are consitently soporific at the beginning. Guess that's part of his style.

>>24732122
>What am I missing here?
First, read a few pages from So Big by Edna Ferber. It was the best-selling book of 1924. Once you get the idea (you don't have to read much) read Hemingway's first book, "in our time." It's short stories with vignettes interspersed and came out the same year. Then you'll get why everyone went fucking batshit over this guy. The best entry point into Hemingway is def his short stories.

>>24732682
The Gospel of Matthew is the jew gospel because it is directed at jews who havent converted yet. This anon is right>>24732838 The "muh G-d's chosen people" is implied here.
Christianity is such a cuck religion its amazing.

>>24732869
Christianity is the continuation of Judaism.
Just as Abraham's covenant follows that of Noah, and is followed by that of Moses, so does Jesus bring forth a new covenant, for Jews and Gentiles to follow. Those of the Jews who reject this covenant therefore branch off from traditional Judaism (now known as Christianity) and form their own sect. It's actually a great testament to the Bible to see how it correctly predicted that Jews reject their own Scriptures and God. All those talks of the Synagogue of Satan...

I've been samefagging in this thread and calling myself an anti-semite, lol. I was hoping for more responses, but there were few takers of the bait.

>2025 and people are still trying to run the DLC of a schizophrenic desert tribal diety
Grim

>>24733364
>video game metaphor
You need to go back.

>>24732599
Men without access to women jerk off or go to brothels, they dont sodomize boys.
"Prison gay" is a meme.

I must say you make a very compelling argument for why the liberation of women was a mistake.

>>24732623
Jerking off constantly is exactly what leads to homosexual depravity, you're deluded.

>>24732599
I wouldn't agree wholly with that, but you do make good points.
The two sexes were totally separated sure, but they still fulfilled their natural desires at home. A sort of ying and yang developed between the two sexes, neither side infringing upon the others world.
The issue arises when men hold their sex to be totally superior to women. This is what occurred in many areas of Greece such as their seeing women as nothing more than wombs, and from this the weird pederast/homosexual things arise.
The inherent vice in some men cannot be ruled out either: some are just depraved and seek out bad things.

>>24732623

And men without access to the other outlets you just mentioned are well known to fuck other men in prison settings. Also, traditionally, catholic priests are respected community members who do have social access to entire communities (including women), and yet some of them are routinely found to have abused children. Basically, every clause of your entire post is plainly incorrect in every way, and you didn't put a moment's thought into your remarks.

>>24733328
He was really happy about Charlie Kirk

>>24733338
Not surprised

>>24733370
It's shockingly inhuman for someone who pretends to be a moral paragon

>>24732345
This guy used to go by the name "kantbot", right?

>>24733434
Haha no

>>24732358
dunno the year of it.

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>>24732313
NTA, but in that case, I'll repeat what I said from the last thread. I have heard about zines. I heard zines were made and produced at places like Kinko's back in the day. But I work in a large print-and-mail store chain and have NEVER seen anyone make a zine. Usually if someone needs something printed out it's because it's some zoomer, boomer, or non-white who doesn't have a computer with a printer, and almost always paperwork. Well, there was that one furry who needed what looked like a nametag with his fursona for a convention, but things like that are few and far between.

Is this an obsession you have with the past or is my location just a cultural dead zone? Both can be correct.

>>24732386
haha im not even op and trolled u into writing all that and i didnt even read it. epic win 4 me lulz

>>24732246
Go for it.
>>24732386
Zines were done at places like kinkos back in the day when most of the people making them did not have a computer. The style comes from doing the typing on a typewriter and assembling the completed page collage style which is then photocopied. In these days of cheap laser printers and computers, there is not much reason to go to kinkos to make your zine. Even back in the day it was common to do them at school/work for free. Either way, people who make zines probably don't go to malls.

Indie bookstores and music shopes still have zines but zines are mostly local so they will not have them unless someone local is making one.

Aren’t you the guy who asked if you could make a video game into a novel? The book placeholder was called “Water we doing to our planet”

>>24732957
>t. Butterfly dreaming that it's a man.
>>24733219
Give it time. Investing into a new business without having the money to keep it afloat for a couple years while it establishes itself is always a risk.
Anyway, any tips for escaping wageslavery?

>>24733392
I would miss you if I ever knew you.

>>24733388
Socially maladjusted people tend to project their behavior on others. Meaning that, if your family was anything like I imagine it is, they pretty much taught you misanthropy-lite for the day you were born.
I suggest reading about narcissism, narcissistic parenting and complex ptsd. Even if you or your family don't fit those criteria, reading about it will challenge some views you have about others and the place they come from.

>>24733409
>from the day
Fix'd.

>>24733409
>Socially maladjusted people tend to project their behavior on others.
This stupid line of thought always irks me. It's ass-backwards. It's belief in the One True Behavior™

>>24732233
I worked with a guy who read that book. He would read it it at work and his reactions were so similar to you post I cannot stop laughing.
>IT HAS SWEAR WORDS ON THE COVER BRO!!!
>HOLY FUCK, THIS GUY ISN'T PULLING ANY PUNCHES AND WILL BE DROPPING TRVKES
>*bro starts reading*
>"you just gotta carry on carrying on..."
>hell yeah dude
>bro, thats so deep

Listening to him talk about the book as he read it is still one of the most fun literary experiences of my life. The problem is, after reading the book, he continued being the same black-head as before.

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>>24732162
Holy fuck! Check out these fucking awesome books to teach you how to fucking take control of your life and stop giving a single fucking fuck what other people think!

>>24732466
This is a work of art lmao.

>>24732466
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4N8lzKNfy4

The "me vs. the world" narrative is a cultural expression of hyper-individualism, the self-interest maximizing agent who is in an de-facto war against all others to maximize game points.

It's adversarial dynamics projected onto the metaphysical.

>>24732234
>but looks are #1 priority
To be fair, yeah, I would agree that looks are number 1 priority. But I also agree with what he said about how looks are supposed to be reflections of your inner state. Being alright with yourself can push you to take care of yourself (and your looks).
That, and I don't think Models was supposed to be an actual "dating book" as far as "getting a girl" is concerned. It's more of a self-help book about being honest with yourself and being alright if you don't get the girl (while still having the confidence to try again with another one). All while having a fairly fulfilling life.

>>24733365
Evidence <> proof. But Christfags like to gloss over that.

>>24732649
Most pious Catholic.

>>24732649
God doesn't like people who tempt him. You're on the level of lucifer.

>>24732930
It's more like a found object since Moses found Yawheh among the Midians in the Sinai, where he was a bloodthirsty volcano god.

>>24732811
As is the case with my hands. They must be Creator

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>>24733030
This.

>>24733065
Aristotle

>>24733030
Clark Ashton Smith. Some of his short fiction is pulp slop, but I'll be danged if his prose poetry isn't some of the prettiest prose I've ever seen in my life.

>>24733030
>The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies: for, as nature has equipped the lion with claws and teeth, the elephant with tusks, the wild boar with fangs, the bull with horns and the cuttlefish with ink, so it has equipped woman with the power of dissimulation as her means of attack and defence, and has transformed into this gift all the strength it has bestowed on man in the form of physical strength and the power of reasoning. Dissimulation is thus inborn in her and consequently to be found in the stupid woman almost as often as in the clever one. To make use of it at every opportunity is as natural to her as it is for an animal to employ its means of defence whenever it is attacked, and when she does so she feels that to some extent she is only exercising her rights. A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility, which is why women see through the dissimulation of others so easily it is inadvisable to attempt it with them. – But this fundamental defect which I have said they possess, together with all that is associated with it, gives rise to falsity, unfaithfulness, treachery, ingratitude, etc. Women are guilty of perjury far more often than men. It is questionable whether they ought to be allowed to take an oath at all.”

>>24733312
Waldun got really good

>>24733332
Nope. The world isn't interconnected at all. Jews want people to think it is, but it's not.

>>24733420
Where was the device you’re writing this message on made, where was it engineered and where were the resources to make it sourced?

Is it over?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3ZID1E0sU

>>24733300
ESL hands typed this

>>24733428
China isn't the globe, kiddo. That everything is manufactured there is a strike AGAINST globalism.

>>24733375
She didn’t directly keep him captive though, she saved his life and he was just stranded and she wouldn’t aid him in figuring out how to traverse the ocean. Presumably as an immortal sea demigod that wouldn’t be a limitation for him

>>24733314
genuinely what's the point of putting on a hijab if you're gonna slather your face with whore makeup at the same time?

>>24733397
It's like how there are Jewish group where the women are supposed to cover their hair so they wear a wig over it.

>>24733397
Most Muslims who put themselves out there on video are usually not very devout. Many of them fear that videos and photos taken of them could be used by evil magicians and thus take care to limit exposure (we probably should aswell).

>>24733397
>>24733422
Truly, no matter what rules man devises foids will find a way to foid

>>24732894
Idea that the principle of non-contradiction doesnt quite hold up once self-referentiality gets involved is not exactly a crazy exotic idea, its just Russell's paradox or the liars paradox or the omnipotence paradox or Godel's incompleteness or whatever you want to call it.

Not saying those problems necessarily lead to dialectics as Hegel formulates it, but once you start working with self-referential abstract concepts (which is ultimately the domain Hegelian dialectics is concerned with, not really the application of those concepts in practice) the principle of non-contradiction is no longer an obvious given.

the principle of non-contradiction applies for objects, and abstractions of objects. That's why getting rid of it completely destroys all of mathematics and everything that rests on it, i.e. all of science. It doesn't apply for subjects, which is what anons ITT have already hinted at. Aristotle says as much when discussing substances (which are subjects), and how they can admit of contraries.

>>24733231
Why are these thinkers analytics for some reason?

>>24733405
But dont mathfags get into paraconsistent logic to skert the LNC

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>>24732894

>Jesus Christ is Risen

The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of John
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Mark

>>24729521
excellent, with a blessed timestamp to boost

Hard rain falling
Hyperion
Stoner

To sneed or not?

>>24729430
The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin
A Christmas Carol, Dickens
The Magnificent Ambersons, Tarkington
: Bah, Humbug! Riff Raff!

>>24729430
>Siege by James Mason
>Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
>I haven't read any other books so no third book

Clear the world.... by force