my diary, but i'm high yella so maybe that doesn't count. i write about bugs

>>24646836
Go to the ghetto nigga

>>24645328
Percival Everett wrote books across different genres. They feature black people but the themes are rarely if ever about colonialism or racism. One of his most famous books, Erasure, is actually a criticism about black authors always writing about that crap because it sells

>>24647275
i grew up there, nigga. plenty of abstract thinking from myself and any other black person i knew.

>>24647276
I should write a book called Fuck. Would be better than the rest of the shit in barnes and noble

>>24646840
>peculiar children series
I read that book, it’s fucking awful.

>>24647077
so is the wednesday show ;^]

>>24647089
Wednesday is awesome. I’m literally her.

>>24643539
>Apart from her as Wednesday
Her being Wednesday is/was her hottest look.

>>24643591
>look young enough to play a high schooler
>turn yourself into what looks like a man pretending to be a woman

>>24646461
Jack London.

Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves by Carol Hughes

>>24646461
subahibi

>>24646501
Tolkien is way too verbose and archaic for kids that age

Emily Rodda's books

>>24644973
why bE A BITCH When you could be a bro? serious q

>>24644984
why be a credulous cretin when you could dispel claptrap with ease?

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>>24643085
Langan chuddies btfo by Rick Rosner the woke Jew. If Langan is 200 IQ, then Rick Rosner is even higher because he outperformed Langan and did so without the sketchy shit.
Pro tip: neither of them is anywhere close to that high.

>>24643085
Langan is a fraud, desu.
He's not stupid, but he's not what he claims.

weird how everyone is so fixated on disproving his IQ instead of his theory

>read TL
>very satisfying experience
>read English translation
>it basically says the same thing as the TL original but nowhere near as satisfying to read
Does anyone else experience this even for prose?
I don't get why people want to denigrate the experience so much and claim that, at most, it's only better to read poetry in the original

>>24647226
Okay. Let me just read through the past few threads and all your Wikipedia links, and I'll get back to you.

>>24647229
Well, whoever changed the word order more is beside the point. I just meant that "large is" isn't good English and you didn't generally keep the English matching the Latin word order. If the translation you're sharing doesn't clearly communicate what you think the Latin means, it's difficult for others to understand what your confused about.

You get the sense of the sentence though, right? It's saying, "the number of slaves is large," or if you prefer, "there is a large number of slaves."

>>24647249
I think most would agree it is better to read in the original language but poetry makes much more of a difference than prose. I doubt you will ever find a translation 'more satisfying' than the original. The problem is learning languages to the degree you can have that experience. How many people do you think are willing to put in the time it takes to learn Latin to that degree? What about Russian, or German? In the end you have limited time and sometimes the tradeoff is worth it.
Personally I find Latin and Greek more satisfying because I spent years studying them but I am perfectly content with English translations of, say, Dostoevsky. Not denigrating the experience but the time and effort it would take to learn Russian to the point I could enjoy reading novels isn't worth it to me. Meanwhile poetry relies so much on timbre, cadence, rhythm, and all sorts of ephemeral qualities that just don't translate well at all. Original languages are much more important for poetry than prose though of course prose benefits from reading in the original as well, just to a lesser degree.

>>24647256
I was talking about the link which explains what the principle of charity is. You didn't read it and yet you talk about the concept, which you know nothing about. How low is your IQ? The rest of my post explained that even though you moan about me being abusive and everyone else just being helpful all the time, this is in fact not true, I was simply being critical at first and then this turned into a ton of shit because people are fucking thin-skinned women, and yet you thin-skinned fucking faggots/women are telling me about being an asshole, total irony, total glass houses situation. I've had enough of you women and faggots. I've been here a few threads now and it's been absolutely nothing of value posted, just your fucking emotions non-stop.

>>24647277
I just started being thin-skinned

>>24647291
The Aeneid is a work of almost superhuman eloquence, written for fame not profit, … and seldom read except as a solemn intellectual task.

>>24646919
He actually inspired me, in turn. I love BOTNS and Wolfe and it was through Wolfe that I discovered Borges, and thus I love Borges too. Now that I'm writing a big sci-fi story of my own, I was actually inspired directly by Wolfe to write my own Borges tribute, with a character based on him and references to his work showing up in one of the installments of my larger story.

I got filtered by the part on the ship, am I just a brainlet?

>>24647190
What part on the ship? Almost the whole last book happens on the ship

>>24647252
Particularly the beginning, the journey through it and the weird conflict on it

>>24647257
Through out the books is established that the one who brings the new sun will bring the end of urth as well. So it is clear that there will be factions with opposing interests in regards to Severian's "mission". That was enough for me to understand that, some wanted him dead, other's were neutral, and others tried to fool him into thinking that he wasn't who he thought he was, etc. But he finally manages to reach Yesod alive for the "trial".
What happens after is the really weird stuff.

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Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman
Schoolgirl
Osamu Dazai: Schoolgirl

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>>24642097
Sayaka Murata got the Akutagawa Prize in 2016 for that one.

thats hanner and she is just joking

>>24644562
All civilization has been formed off the ritual fetishization, defilement, and sacrifice of Man's flesh and spirit, woman's more delicate form, not being so easily castable, is left to wander, and men who are reared to be defiled, satiated only by the hope of defiling others, turn to the flesh of women, and women submit to the same system of bondage of death and violence, replicated into the domestic sphere, and a hellish equilibrium of perversion is the only bond that keeps it together. Both are equal actors and equally responsible for their devastation, to think anything else would be essentially discounting woman's autonomy and equality. Woman sell themselves, and their daughters, and their friends and sisters into sex because it is easier than casting something themselves, men do the same

>>24645837
I don't get this panel

>>24646955
And what about the latter?

>>24646994
Don't be greedy

>>24645711
The person who wrote that was in the trenches in WWI

>>24646321
His account of immense earthworks built around the Greek camp adds colour to the legend - maybe since the Iliad omitted any Greek assault on Troy, a Trojan assault on these defences was invented to supply the lack - but sometimes he forgets that they are there, and allows free passage between camp and plain.
At one point a parenthesis explains that the beach couldn’t accommodate every Greek ship, so the latest flotillas to arrive were hauled up the strand in three rows. Yet when Hector attacks the hindmost row, he sets Protesilaus’ flagship on fire - the first vessel, as we have been told, to be beached.
There’s a Latin tag: ‘Our good Homer himself occasionally nods.’

>>24647204
>At one point a parenthesis explains that the beach couldn’t accommodate every Greek ship
Are you sure about this? Isn't this an annotation by modern editors?

>>24647268
ah of course glad we can still talk about literature here.

>>24647274
"it strikes me as a bore" is just some cop-out based on feelings, very woman-like

>>24647278
is this the right conversation to be using ‘very woman-like’?

>>24647280
the best, actually

Wise Blood by Flanner O'Connor. That's the one and only female author worth reading.

>>24647168
>if the people
the internet has made this gate obsolete as social dynamics can and are faked or baited regularly now.

>>24647219
Unless people actually keep using a word in real conversation, it dies. English is not Latin, it’s a living language and, like all such, is continuously changing.

>>24644825
Are these floor pillows chairs, then? They're primarily designed to be sat on by one person.

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>>24647241
forgot pic

Here's what the 1989 Oxford English Dictionary says:
>A seat for one person (always implying more or less of comfort and ease); now the common name for the movable four-legged seat with a rest for the back, which constitutes, in many forms of rudeness or elegance, an ordinary article of household furniture, and is also used in gardens or wherever it is usual to sit.

>>24646481
not true

things wasnt this ways in the 90s

cultural climate plays big role

taboos and such

as culture grows porny the people grow gay

the men and the women

>>24642283
My pindick vibes aside, still a bunch of mid 4s and 5s, desu. Every coomer worth his salt has a collection of female Euro pole vaulters who put these buttafaces to shame.

>>24646481
I used to think every girl, deep down, had lesbian desires inside them, it just made sense to me, girls are a million times better than boys, better to look at, better to talk to, why wouldn’t they? But whenever I talked about this to girls (when I’m in their bedroom or whatever, when we’re close) they agree, but in a way that makes me think they’re just doing it to make me happy; ‘oh yeah I mean, I want to kiss my friends.’ Not disagreeing, but not agreeing in the way I’d hoped. A polite nod to keep the mood going. Unfortunately, I think girls just like boys the way we like girls.

>>24643815
Have you never experienced communion with your common man? Have you always been starved of the state of mind that allows one to essentially practice astral projection across the globe? Every man of standard constitution in this thread saw that video and had the exact same fantasy at the exact same time which was thoroughly colored by the exact same preferences. Come home brother.

>>24645447
>among drives, the highest must subordinate the inferior
>law regiments all

Friendship is between peers. Law elevates conduct, such that we may make exceptions, and increase occasions for exceptions. Civic virtue and social mobility are au pair.

>>24641511
>can it run nano?
in at least 2 different ways, maybe more

>>24647017
using markdown negates all the advantage of using vim

>>24647225
what's your reasoning behind that?

>>24647225
How so

>>24647260
>>24647270
markdaron is best used in wygisyg editors

Taoism The Enduring Tradition by Russell Kirkland

That image feels like a beautiful dream. Where was it taken ?

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It's on YouTube and it's kino.

commie fag

>>24647020
Socialist with four kids.

>>24647020
Every white man you know with an IQ over 120 is a Marxist

>>24647240
>Every white man you know with an IQ over 120 is a Marxist
Nah, some of us are anarchist libcoms who critique Marx using Marx.