Kind of impressive that a man can profess Marxism for decades, study it to its entirety comfortably from the ivory tower of a cushy position in literal Marxist academia under a Communist regime, finding out from a sympathetic position everything that there is to be found about Marxism from its earliest proponents to its latest ones, the least and the greatest, only to eventually arrive at the conclusion that... it's all fundamentally wrong and can never workI mean when even this guy with all his sympathy and effort gave up, it's telling, isn't it?
>>24976154>quantum mechanics turned potential energy into an agreement that is already presumed>most peopleYou're a beta either way today. You trying to know things without an agreement?
>>24976163Newtonian physics is a model used because it works for everything that isn’t subatomic or going at non-relativistic speeds. I take it Marxism is a model? Value in an economy is a quantifiable metric, it needs to have formulas to derive it.
>>24976175What do you propose the agreement to quantify it be based on?
>>24974879Orwell already observed this back in the thirties. It's a fixed characteristic of Marxism.
>>24974879Every other group of people pretends the working class is doing fine, which necessarily means they have to pretend their plebeian degeneracy is 'fine'. Workers don't understand what's good for them at all.
"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.
>>24975996Except the fact that she's female
Purchased 3 GCSE English study guides to make sure I havent missed anything basic
>want to write a story about finding an exotic gf from a weird race that's also cute and special>don't want to write racemixing propaganda
>>24976739Why do trannies hate women so much?
>>24976812>enjoy thing>but the voices in my head tell me thing badMan, must suck being american
KINOOOOOKINOOOOO ALEEEERT!!!!
>>24972427And it Begins....Keep away Wendigooners
>>24972427the kid stuff was kinda gross tho
>>24976589shut up or we will lock you in your own private virtual reality
>>24972427it's self indulgent sludge written by a 'writer'.
this lame ass nigga talkin to hisself
Why is poetry less popular now than it's ever been? And why are people so bad at pronouncing poetry? I've seen poetry professors read poetry as if it was prose and without a hint of self-awareness.
>>24976765But that's been a feature of most education systems, still is in many places.
>>24974465Honest answer, it feels heavily moderated, probably a symptom of the time. Its just sickly and fake feeling. Here is an example.O, Wert Thou in the Cauld BlastO, wert thou in the cauld blastOn yonder lea, on yonder lea,My plaidie to the angry airt,I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.Or did Misfortune’s bitter stormsAround thee blaw, around thee blaw,Thy bield should be my bosom,To share it a’, to share it a’Or were I in the wildest waste,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24974465>Why is poetry less popular now than it's ever been?Because it's never been easier to add fitting music to it to create a song instead. Songwriting > poetry
>>24976804Music was always used for great poetry, Schubert composed over 600 pieces specifically for poems. But the music was far better then and so was the poetry.
>>24974465Post a poem of heroic virtues. No whining, no yearning, pure He-Man shit.
if you don't own this in 2025, you don't love literature.
>>24976446get some glasses boomer
>>24966046I use a Kindle Fire so I can play Candy Crush between chapters.
>>24966640I still use my kobo libra h20 that I got ~5 years ago and it's working fine. I really like page turn buttons and the kindle oasis seems to have a horrible battery from what I've heard so I went with the kobo. Seems I made the right choice, see >>24966143
>>24976446I have a 10.7 inch screen, and it's basically the perfect size. What are you trying to do that you need 12+?
SERIOUS question. I'm looking for an ereader with the possibility of using an instant translation/dictionary stuff for reading in foreign languages, japanese included. Will a kindle be able to do this seamlessly without making me wanna kill myself?Plz respond
I need more testosterone filled historical fiction
Sharpe
>>24973522i got bored of this, but if you like Iggulden, then you may as well try his War of the Roses books. But I prefer Cromwell's Arthurian books
>>24973595Isnt War of the Roses just politics?
Bernard Cornwell is the best at this. The Saxon saga is gold.
the fourth blackfyre rebellion 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: >>24949686
>>24976165would Mance have fun discussions about the life of maesters and how they do their shit with the wildling chieftains?
>>24976299hate this fuck
I think this IP should just be let loose for every studio to pump out their own shows or animated series until eventually we get an ending that is so widely liked that its considered canon and then we can finally have a satisfying conclusion. Obviously it would be more satisfying to READ IT in the BOOKKKKKKKKKK but the most positive polly thing we can hope for in this regard is the fat man dying and then we can see what he has written so far and notes.
>>24976237Pleb taste is the problem there mate mulled wine is great.
Is there a point in reading classical works about formal sciences and natural sciences? I'm looking at western canon lists and there's stuff like Euclid, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Copernicus, Newton, etc., but I don't get why people other than historians should bother with all of this. It's mostly outdated and any school textbook seems like a better choice.
>>24975825what about tailbonewhat did galen said about tailbone
>>24975863Idk what Galen said about it, but it's retarded to think it serves no purpose, there's plenty of muscles attached to it. It literally holds your asshole in place.
>>24975863>>24975875Non-shitpost response: the treaty is mainly centered on the kidneys as Asclepiades of Bithynia taught that urine is actually a gaseous vapor inside the body and the atoms rearrange as urine in the bladder meaning the kidneys serve no purpose at all in his schema which Galen refutes
Whats a good history of science besides picrel?
>>24976619that one is no good
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?
>>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?
>>24974349Watching internet porn is equivalent to seeking out prostitutes. And feminism is freeing women from marriage and allowing them to be prostitutes. This is what life is about. And as a man, your goal is to buy as many prostitutes as you can.
>>24976813>feminism is freeing women from marriage and allowing them to be prostitutesit's about freeing them to pursue high-paying careers so they can date broke but adorable guys like me
309 days until Halloween edition.Old >>24969924
>>24976712My bad, I meant the the first Jurassic Park and I'm currently reading Lost World.Primitive war is a series by Ethan Pettus about Dinos in vetinam
>>24976789I wouldn't read it, but it sounds kind of awesome in a retarded kind of way, lol.
Chugging coffee at 2am I am definitely doing an all nighter.
I wasBorn in a desert (screams)Born in a lion's den!
The list of the Top 10 most watched music videos on YouTube is insanely grim.
What's your favourite budget publisher? For me it's Arcturus. Their books are dirt cheap and often come with tasteful, bright designs, with a wide selection of classics.
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
>>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
>>24975110Where is the No-God duology Scott?
This board just doesn't get it.You complain about how the industry is just women writers and publishers now and yet you all talk and act like women.The few who don't, run and hide in 100 year old books as the current time is just a little bit too difficult for them.You were born in the one time that truely needed male writers and yet you ignore the call. Just know that all those old authors you read look down on you in disgust as they watch you let the flame of literature burn out under your watch while doing absolutely nothing.
>>24976761Share something you've written recently. Lits or GTFO
>>24976793Im working on a novel, I may also consider a poetry project of a new type of poetry that the world has never seen before, but the novel has to come first.
>>24976800Nice work, Anon.I've had several short stories and about a dozen poems published, and have been at work on a major project since 2020 that I'm on the verge of beginning to self-publish.Take heart, we're all gonna make it. We WILL save literature.
This board is a containment chamber for idealists who need to justify writing their novels, conflating that with literature still being meaningful. If you disagree, they unleash their pedantic midwittery upon you, choosing to argue over semantics and definitions and completely missing the point. It's basically a place where people who can't accept no one cares about reading anymore come to console themselves, me included.
>>24976800Hell yeah. Admittedly, I'm a better essayist and editor than a novelist, so I don't think I'm going to make the next Great American Novel. I sometimes think it'd be nice to have something of a fraternal literary circle, a digital Stratford-on-Odeon for young men wanting to buck the system. I think the romantic notion of the author being an individual who follows their genius is attractive to a lot of people here for pretty obvious reasons. But it's much more typical for writers to know publishers or other writers, seclude themselves, and then return with their work later. The internet is great for getting good work to the top... but it's fucking shit at developing talent.
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?
>>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.
>>24974837>>24960443oh another character that's quite interesting in a real life underachieving way and fits the profile of wouldn't betray the world in opposition to caocao is chen gongtai except he doesn't accept the rather be betrayed part that well like the saintly lu su and looks perpetually in a state of disappointment from expecting trust in return until he's tired and jaded doesn't want anything anymore
>>24976658all their props look fake
>>24974587you mean like that guy at the beginning of Journey to the West? that kills the manta ray. that was a good look
R.L. Stine is a better writer than Stephen King for a multitude of reasons. But chiefly because he recognized that horror as a genre is a subject matter for Children.
>>24976791Bait/10
>>24976791They both suck ass who cares
