>has a song about romeo and juliet>has a song about hamletdo you think she browses here? do you think she doubts shakespeares authorship?
TayTay has been an Anon for a long-ass time. /b/ figured this out back in the day. There's no reason to assume she ever left, why would she? It's not like she's been outed as a 4channer.
JH = Judenhass
>>24976696I miss the old Taylor so fucking much!
Whenever I read literature pre-1960s I kind of amused at how normalized it is for characters to seek out prostitutes. I was just reading lolita and Humbert has many moments with french streetwalkers in the beginning.It's almost like they were a normal facet of men's lives back before internet porn and feminism. It's almost like the concept of casual sex with a normal woman was unimaginable Were brothels really that common back then?
>>24975566Many men talking about watching porn, using OnlyFans, going to strip clubs, joking about red light districts when traveling abroad, etc. You're just in a bubble. I wish I didn't know this though.
>>24975963Its really all so tiresome>t. day 300 SR
>>24974349Yeah it's fucking crazy. You could just go to a bar where the whores sit with you and hang out like normal women, then you get to go in back and fuck them. In a lot of major cities in North America everything has to happen in black market code words where you can't even talk about exchanging sex for money because it's technically.illegal. If you want a clean, professional cunt to use, they ask for hundreds of dollars per hour.
>>24974349hmm probably is a result of urbanization I bet if you check the history of any city of any historic period you will eventually find some form of prostitution or other forms of sex work
>>24976226Where does one find them bars friends?
"Kwanzaa" EditionPrevious: >>24964299/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease 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:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24976113Delusional. Your book is never going to be popular enough or discussed enough to be abbreviated for that to matter.
>>24975994>If your work is any of this, I shan't be reading, simple as.Filter working as intended
>>24976552>Heh I suck on purposeYou sure showed that guy.
>>24975996Except the fact that she's female
Purchased 3 GCSE English study guides to make sure I havent missed anything basic
A nine volume series originally written for Catholic students, the fairness, scholarship and objectivity of the work made it popular far beyond its intended audience. The author believes that understanding the context of philosophers, whom they were responding to, and what influenced their views, is vital to engaging with their work in good faith. The history stretches from the pre-Socratics to Sartre.Next week we begin the first volume; giving a few days of grace in case you plan to read from physical copiesIf you wish to keep track of threads or look for other resources, they will be posted on the Criterion Club server on the philosophy and math channelhttps://discord.gg/XhFGx57VKm
>>24976196Fuck off with your discord spam.
Here is an excerpt from the series
>>24976196Why don't they release this shit on kindle?
>>24976502The PDF's are on Anna's Archive and the clean ones work great on kindle. There are also fan-made epubs which work pretty well on it
>>24976502Do kindle users who read stuff this dense even buy it? Don't they just pirate?
What's a truly original idea for a book?
>>24976711if /lit/slop was a genre, it would be something like that
>>24976674The girls it deceitfully lured and locked behind it in a small room through out the years
>>24976667>>24976674niggers
>>24976674>>24976737Nope. No. That doesn't happen.
>>24976686Don't steal my idea anon. I'm 100 pages in and it's an absolute masterpiece.
Odysseus and Diomedes murdered Dolon in cold blood despite his surrender and the promise they made to spare his life in exchange for information on the Trojan encampments. The Greeks were the villains of the Trojan War, just like the British during WWII
>>24975448If any part of you really believes either of those were the "good guys" you are a golem.
>>24975573I am literally saying that there is gray area between the Greeks and Trojans.
>>24975252Have you ever heard the theory that Helen was taken from a different (older) myth about the daughter of the sun being kidnapped? Apparently the name Helene is related to "Helios" (the sun), and Menelaos is related to the "Mene" (the older name of Selene, the moon), and there are parallels between Minos (whose name may be related to "Mene") and his wife Pasiphae (who was also the daughter of the sun).
>>24974798>there are no "villains" in the Iliad aside from the godsYou don't consider Agamemnon to be villainous?
>>24975573Between the dudes who carried out holocausts the UK are the "good guys". But the UK did commit heinous acts in their colonial nations like India.
Based Bakker Edition>Old:>>24968637>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
>>24975651It's better than the Sun Eater books people keep shilling, but that isn't saying much. Gosh darn are the Sun Eater books trash.
>>24975259>>24976253Wasn't the ending confirmed to be that Griffith keikaku'd literally everything to destroy the IoE permanently?
>>24976730I read the first one and didn't contain a single non-plagiarized concept, character or line of dialogue. I do not understand how any editor would allow this to be published.
>>24976732No, you just made that up
>>24976730>>24976733Le Mangeur de Soleil is in convésatíone with other litérateur, c'est ne pas un plagarisme
what was the best book you read this year?
I finally read pic related after sitting on it for over 20 years. I really enjoyed it. After watching every version of Blade Runner a handful of times each, this was a nice change of pace. I've always been told about how different Blade Runner is from its source material but after reading it, I was very surprised at how similar they are. The basic skeleton of the plot is the same. If anything, the film made some very wise cuts to the plot.
>>24971322I want to rape them
>>24972624So is it a real travelogue or a shitpost? Sounds pretty funny
John Grisham's The Firm
>>24971290and quiet flows the don. (I'm reading it rn)
LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Chapter 6https://youtu.be/KXMW-OkqicA?si=XYK6YbQzMxMSNQvbMerry Christmas!
>>24971657okaybut why the old forest, of all things
>>24971657She's faking it
>>24971657I love women
>>24976342gayyyyyy
>video flaggedNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
Was thinking of reading some labor history. Which one of these should I pick and why?
>>24976545do you deal with cases involving workplace injury?
>>24976566I'm just saying, the whole discipline of labor history seems like an explicitly Marxist ideological project.
>>24976545I interned at one of these labor law firms. Shit was repetitive and uninteresting as fuck
>>24976488My employment record desu
>>24976488Volume 1 of the penguin classics translation of Das Kapital covers the working conditions of post-industrial revolution English poorfags quite extensively.
just finished thiswhat should i think of it
>>24976620
Narcissist believes a low-effort OP demands, mandates high effort replies
>>24976620you are so lazy and entitled that you expect other people to make effortposts in response to your minimum effort meme template threadtoo much effort to start the conversation, yet you're gonna get mad at others for not starting it for you?tell us what you think, you lazy nigger
>>24976629>tell us what you thinkif i knew what to think about it i wouldn't ask, fucking numbskull
>>24976665If you read it and have no idea what to think about it, you may just be retarded.
>To the plebian laymanA Horror novel>to the patrician laymanA religious novel>to the experienced laymanA psychological novel>to the patrician laymanA mother-daughter coming of age novel>to the veteran plebianA book about the ills of feminism >to the veteran patricianA detective novelYep. Can't dispute this.
>>24976659The legit ones are no joke, though. It really is something to see a stone-cold sober psychiatrist talk about watching someone levitate into the air.
>>24976676That's what I was talking about with a 'very small portion'. Most legit ones could, and probably should be treated as mental imbalances, save a few peculiarities.
>>24976687I assumed with the 10% you were including minor entities like lesser demons and fair folk. Not every possessed person is possessed by fucking Azazel or a similar high-ranking demon.
>>24976694I misphrased the reply. Most possessions have to do with parasitic beings (a large portion of all mundane spiritual encounters, angelic, demonic, or otherwise have to do with them). They won't levitate a person, but they'd probably be able to make a chair creak. The ones who levitate a person would be in the very small portion.
>>24976709Ah, I see.
What books did you receive from Santa this year /lit/?Not gonna post a pic but I got: >The Encyclopedia of Demonology & Witchcraft>The Imago Sequence by Laird Barronand>a first edition printing of Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison Fairly modest haul but you know what, I'm satisfied. Merry Crimbus everybody!!!
>>24970424I got two books which I'm really excited to read:>Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schull>Folklore figures of French and Creole Louisiana by Nathan RabalaisI'm more interested in Addiction by Design right now but I'm super excited to read Rabalais' book.
>a confederacy of duncesAbout halfway through it and loving it>the pickwick papers by Dickens >candide by Voltaire
>random house's version of the egyptian book of the dead>frieren vol 8>1st volume of that official elden ring mangai dont typically buy at retail chains but i got a $50 b&n gift card
Just returned from Indigo. Here's my haul.
>>24976662Why bother with softcover books when you can get a lot of these books at the library?
I have been reading Chinese classics lately and finished this one. Out of all of the ones I've read so far, this has to be the greatest.Has /lit/ read traditional Chinese classics like Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Journey to the west, Dream of Red Chamber, Investiture of the Gods, and others?
>>24975079production value looks low though, like a made for tv drama.
>>24976560you mean the simplistic sets its supposed to be realistic probably i mean people thousands of years ago didn't have the shiny interior of the current day forbidden city
>read chinklit>get confused by names constantlythis only happens with works from china and russia, I never had any issue with the greeks or japan
>>24976690Audio format helped me with this immensely.
>>24960526Man, old Chinese is a mother fucker to translate. Each symbol can have anywhere from five to twelve different meanings. The excuse given is "context matters" but that is also bullshit because old Chinese writing frequently has very little context outside of the sentence given. Sure, you will know that the "paragraph" is giving a physical description of someone but there is only one sentence describing the eyes or face of the guy, so that's all you get.The Dao De Jing is NOTORIOUSLY a mother fucker and a half to translate because Daoist monks were quick to say "Whatever you decided was the right translation but is also absolutely incorrect" before slamming back some booze while talking about how you should abstain from vices, but there are no vices, except everything, or nothing. You'll understand, but you won't, you can't and you will be 100% right.
What even is happiness? Near as I can tell it’s a sense of servitude either to a family or a god. So it’s the absence of freedom?
>>24974630I would actually argue finding happiness comes from the exact opposite mindset to thisHappiness is not the absence of pain, but rather the mindset that no matter what life throws at you, you will carry on and be okay. No matter how mentally painful you think something will be in your head, you will carry on with it anyway and things will be okay.Trying to avoid "pain" is actually what causes most pain. Pain comes from resisting life. Someone who shuts themselves inside all day and avoids the world will be 100% successful in avoiding any of the "pain" outside that they might have encounted during the day - but yet will probably be one of the most miserable and unhappy people while doing so. Instead of overcoming the minor pains of daily life they now have to encounter the much greater and soul crushing pain that comes when you fear and resist the entire world.
>>24974630if you think this stupid nihilist position makes you sound smart, you should know that it only makes you sound like someone whose soul is too small to have ever known a meaningful experience
>>24974723>small soulFruitful symbolism anon.
Happiness can’t be something that you feel all the time, you’d get used to it after a while. One should aim to better onself and one’s life very slightly with each passing year to achieve contentment and the anticipation of something better soon. That said, one can absolutely feel sad all the time. I don’t know how that works. Something about it being easier to destroy than to create?
>>24976660Lots of words to say that you're faggot
