>writes a scene in his book about childrens having a gangbang
>>24695138Stephen responded with..."I wasn’t really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don’t remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children–we think we do, but we don’t remember it as it really happened. Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again. The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It’s another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children’s library and the adult library. Times have changed since I wrote that scene, and there is now more sensitivity to those issues."Later, he said...“That sounds like my statement.” He added: “To it I’d just add that it’s fascinating to me that there has been so much comment about that single sex scene and so little about the multiple child murders. That must mean something, but I’m not sure what.”
>>24700954>That doesn‘t make it right.Even if that's the case, it does make it incomparable to public masturbation.
>>24701901>That must mean something, but I’m not sure what.There are people who genuinely believe having sex with children is worse than murdering them and I know exactly what that means
>>24701901I am just reporting the news. Not my response. This is what Stephen King wrote.
>>24697947Rich coming from a white faggot
If every event has a sufficient reason, does that rule out free will?
>>24700972if you have free will, you can choose a different path, maybe deciding to become a dentist instead, because that’s what feels right to you. Free will is about making choices that reflect your desires, values, and goals, rather than being pushed along by someone else’s expectations or by forces outside of your control.Illness, accidents, or where you were born (country, time period) can completely change your life path without your choice.Your parents’ values, religion, and culture strongly shape how you see the world, often before you’re even aware of it.Childern doesn't have free choiceو a child might want to stay up late playing video games, but their parents send them to bed at 9 PM.Parents often pick what their young children wear, especially for school or special events.You don’t get to choose your natural talents, intelligence level, height, or many aspects of your personality they’re shaped by biology.Someone might dream of traveling the world, but if they don’t have money, their “choice” is limited.
>>24701404>choiceوThat's not a comma lmao you dumb arab
>>24700280Time is an illusionBut seriously, it is a pointless questionYou cannot know the system from within it if the system decides you are not to know
>>24700280no because free will was also planned in, so it's + -=0
>>24700280Nah dawg the sufficient reason for free will is free will itself
Can you write better poetry than this? Give it a try.
>>24698804I keep rembering. Thx anon.
>>24698679"I can't but the can't, I can" ~Me 2026
>>24698679I shit my pants.I don't even drink.
>>24698679I think I read that on a Hallmark card
>>24698679there was a man named anon.one day he left the caps on.after the post had been senthe felt quite intelligent.before seeing what was done.
What a wild ride, it's weird this book is not more popular
>>24700119I'm from the region and I hate how the last thirty-five years around here were spent aping the absolute worst trends in the absolute worst ways.Your three choices are>magical realism decades after it stopped being cool>boilerplate pomo shit decades after it stopped being impressive>the grand saga of your jewish haute bourgeois ancestors in the capital - if you have any, but if you're plugged into the mainstream literary scene, you probably do - until the unspeakable happened
>>24700116Thanks, I didn't know about this one.
>>24699361There are at least two cats, and also a bunch of bats.>>24700116If we're doing suggestions: Told By The Death's Head by Mór Jókai. In some ways a very similar tone to the Manuscript, in some ways very different.>>24700119Your taste is objectively shit. There's a consetllation somewhere in the cosmos spelling out a mathematical proof of it.
Will i enjoy this if i enjoy other gothic literature? Is it as good as melmoth?
>>24700526It's not really very similar to Melmoth at all.
Hegel thread. I know a few of you niggers are reading the Phenomenology, where are you in the book and what do you think?
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>>24692688>>24692463>>24686593>>24684993Hegel is the king of pseuds.
>>24697592Marx Marx Marx , it's all about Marx and Marx Adjacent things in sociology .
Reading Hegel is like learning philosophy all over again. Roughly speaking I might say he synthesizes Aristotle with Fichte/Schelling - an incredibly based move. I got into the idealists because of this latent Aristotelianism even in Kant but especially in Fichte. It was like they were taking the back door into a philosophy I already respected. Hegel is, speaking positively, like a purifying of Fichte. Fichte is weird because his philosophy, as speculative as it is, actually devalues thought as such, Hegel is putting thought at the front.
Guys, serious, how do I fix my esl after reading this guy?Also convince me to read the part on phrenology because I don't think there'll be anything that hasn't already been covered in the previous section.
The greatest Scandinavian author of all time
>>24699922That would be either Kierkegaard or Hamsun.
>>24699922That's not Ibsen
>>24699922>tfw the bar is so low you need a metal detector.
>>24699922>Novelist/Playwright/PainterEasily. Then again >>24701959
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>>24701977I'd imagine pros or even just devoted hobbyists do it all the time for practice
>>24701980My grandpa plays at a competitive level, goes a few times a week, but he never bowls alone.
>>24701992People with a bowling alley in their home probably bowl alone from time to time
Read The Time Machine on audio in its entirety recently. The narrator did a really good job.
How's your philosophical system coming along?
Systems can't contain me. At my level it's better to take things as they go.
>>24701369CWCism will be the future, but working out the art school/architecture style without just copying that of the Holy Scripture has turned out to be far harder than it should be
It'll be out when it's out
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
>>24701997Alright, woman
Gene wolfe thread for the discussion of BoTNS, BoTLS, BoTSS, and the solar cycle in general. Mainly because I need to know if I’m fucking crazy or not, but the Hierogrammates/Heirodules are absolutely fucking lutely just the inhummi, mentioned in Urth of The New Sun as the race that mankind found that was not like us but similar to us, that we slowly moulded to be better so that they would mould us, with whom we would trade off in time back and forth each divine year right? It makes too much sense with the Whorl being launched thousands of years, if not millions of years before Severian’s birth - the inhummi evolve over this time thanks to Silk’s influence and turn into the Heiros of Severian’s time.Fucking Gene Wolfe, man.
>>24701760Sad experience teaches me
>>24701772Short Sun is so sad.
>It can be the case that one is unconscious of his Universal Will. He may believe, indeed, that it is directly opposed to his Will, even though it is his [true] Will. The criminal who is punished may wish, of course, that the punishment be warded off but the Universal Will brings with it the decree that the criminal shall be punished. It must be assumed that the Absolute Will of the criminal demands that he shall be punished. In so far as he is punished the demand is made that he shall see that he is punished justly and, if he sees this, although he may wish to be freed from the punishment as an external suffering yet, in so far as he concedes that he is justly punished, his Universal Will approves of the punishment.
>>24700592>Chimps being so biologically close>biologicallyMeans it's a biological adaptation to an external environment instead of a fiction made up by people.
>>24698628>Georgina Rosefuuuuuuuuuuuuu
>>2470130910/10 would
I want to see a Georgina Rose and Marina Seren crossover episode on the topic of Hegel.
>>24701348I didn't know I wanted this until now
I wasn't expecting this book to be so fucking funny. The first half wasn't anything out of the ordinary for a realist novel, but the second half, once Emma starts her affairs, is non stop genius comedic situations after another.The clubfoot guy. Rodolphe writing the letter. The theater. The punchline at the climax with Emma hearing the blind guy. Good lord. So good.Probably the funniest book I've ever read.Discuss.
>>24700158Let's get real here for a second, shall we, chaps? Answer me this, yes? Is Emma Bovary the most simpable female character in literature? I don't know about you, chums, but for me she is, yes she is. And I'm no regular simp, why.
>>24701653you don't get to decide retard
I read a few of the classic french novels in high school and came to the conclusion that the french are the most vapid people in existance. I have hated them ever since. Change my mind.
>>24701774You're French?
>>24700158she is so awful, I love her
>ESL writes the most beautiful English prose of the last two centurieswhat is this bullshit? how?
>>24701147Their styles are nothing alike
>>24701150Faulkner's adjective-laden and overly descriptive scene-setting is rather Conrad-esque imo. It's just cloaked in southern colloquialisms, an unending stream of consciousness, and a complete disregard for punctuation. Hemingway is less guilty of it, but he still did it from time to time, and usually to make a thematic or narrative point.
>>24701086>>24701106How did they learn such good English, ESLbros?
>>24701086I recommend reading his preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus. It's practically his literary manifesto.>A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
>>24701086Beauty is subjective
The guys who wanted to make the Houellebecq porn just dropped one of the most interesting discussions on art that I've listened to in the last years.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTndTJEZer4&t=7657sPart of the video goes on to talk about their manifesto, which you can find here:>https://www.keepingitrealartcritics.com/wordpress/ennobling-portraiture/Overall, many debatable ideas, but many things relevant also for this board insofar as we talk about literature as art. These seem to me to be more or less like the only people trying to go beyond the woke/nazi duality of 2016, which, as you may have noticed, has grown very stale in the last years.What lies beyond empty culture wars? What form does power have today and how does it interact with art? And what purpuse does art serve in a world where institutions are crumbling and people with means are not interested in it?
>>24700880>>24701328Buy an ad
>>24701328>This thread is horror. It's just as bad as the anons on /fa/ that didn't know what SSENSE was lmaoKEK, look at this redscare cum gargling roastie whore. SSENSE equivalent would be some publisher like nyrb not a gang of ghoulish degenerate shit eating content creators.
>>24700999If nothing new can be created then we should return to the eternal traditions.
>>24701727N-no! B-because... Because science and ethics and stuff!!
>Keeping It Real Art Critics (KIRAC) try to overcome polarization in the Netherlands. They do so by having a complete slut called Jini, who is a leftist, put up an ad in right-wing forums that she wants to fuck rightoids. It is to be filmed for an art project on bridging the divides in the Netherlands. The first guy that answers the ad is a road worker and complete retard. He fucks her for an entire weekend and they have a lot of fun. He is so playful and animalistic about it that he seduces the female camerawoman into a threesome as well. Pure retard-Chad energy.>The next guy that answers the ad is Sid Lukkassen, a fairly well-known wannabe major public """intellectual""" basically just a Jubilee kid, the worst of /pol/ in terms of flat arguments that appeal to his seals, who believes all the fringe MRA shit about how males should have all the agency, women should be passive and deferential to men, bla bla bla. In the days leading up to the filming, Dutch right-wing forums are completely electric at the prospect that one of their guys gets to fuck a leftie girl and put her in her place as a deferential woman. Sid's application to fuck Jini is a video of him talking about how he used to fuck a leftist woman, and the inspiration it gave him made him believe he could create entirely new artforms - it is very, very cringe.>The day arrives, Sid shows up to fuck Jini, and what ensues can most adequately be described as the most thorough character assassination and sexual humiliation of a public figure I have ever seen. It is profoundly enjoyable to see a retarded trad-LARPer like Sid be so utterly fucking destroyed by his own autism once he has to live up to his delusional self-image. It is an absolutely masterful deconstruction of his entire being, and incel faggots in the Netherlands petitioned to have the film banned because they feared for Sid's mental health, should it be released. Several other rightoid outlets considered it exploitation of autism, these well-meaning attempts to defend Sid the trad-LARPer just adding insult to his already mortal injuries.>Sid is like the archetype of a /pol/posting know it all pseud who thinks Evola is profound>Oh, he also looks a lot like Martin Luther, lol
WebM thread
>As to the rest of her, I’ve nothing to say: it’s only a woman’s head and her hair that I’m really interested in. It’s what I like to feast my eyes on first in the street, and then enjoy in private indoors. There are good and positive reasons for this preference. The hair is the dominant part of the body: it’s placed in the most obvious and conspicuous position and is the first thing we notice. The rest of the body achieves its effect through brightly coloured clothes, the hair through its natural sheen... In a nutshell, hair is so important that whatever adornments a woman may appear in – gold, jewels, fine clothes – unless she’s made the most of her hair, you can’t call her properly dressed.
>>24701485I actually do have a handful of /lit/ webms
Honestly, Stephen King is going down with equal importance to say a Dostoyevsky.
>>24701129who?
>>24701138Exactly. Two all-time bestselling authors who have been dead for a few decades.
Stop shilling your crappy books, Stephen. Go be a pedo some more.
I have read or listened to most of King's books.I don't think he is a Hemingway or a Steinbeck. The writing is simple.There may be a few novels or stories that disappoint. Reading his whole library boils down to a year of my existence. I would not trade that year for anything. I am the "dear constant reader." His auto biography "On Writing" is his best work. His politics are wrong. He will be known as the GOAT in 50 years.
>>24700775I reread a bunch of his books. I remember I loved them as a kid, but now they bore me to death, all his characters feel incredibly samey and his endings are always ass (except Pet Semetery)
