Where do I start with Hindu mythology, /lit/bros?
>>24690752I'm reading the Mahabharata now and Bhishima is an incredibly admirable guy.
>>24695207Yukio Bhishima
>>24695207which part are you at now?
>>24690752Indians are poop. I can't take a anything they say or do seriously.
>>24696543Why did low human capital right wingers start seething about Indians so much? Why were they so keen to latch on to the current thing to whine about?
You hate intelligence because you fear intelligence, you think it's a ruse, and ostensibly you also hate God because you fear intelligence.Just admit you're an idiot.
>tfw finally memed by mexicans into worshipping jews
>>24696195Doubting Thomas
>>24696457If Thomas can stick his fingers in Christ's wounds to verify the resurrection, I should be able to as well.
>>24696513I think you missed the point.
>>24696533How? Jesus let Thomas check, so it is allowed. Why must we all play hide & seek except the lucky few. If Jesus appears to me tonight i'd dedicate my life to him, but we both know that won't happen.
You need to read this, it’s pure medicine for troubled souls.
>>24696515Keep telling yourself that.
i've read it. no it isn't. it's like a 1000 pages of tedious religious slop.
I love this guy so much.As an actual contribution to the thread: anyone in interested in knowing anything about anything should also read his Confessions, urgently. It's not as exciting, but it's great to know what PURE HONESTY in prose sounds and feels like.
>>24696527Nah, it’s about 300 pages of interesting late Roman history, 300 pages of interesting philosophical attempts to update neo-platonism and Aristotle, and yes 300 pages of religious slop where he tries to get the Old Testament timelines to fit what he knows about the age of the earth
>>24696510No, thanks. I’ll stick to Tauler and Eckhart to nourish my soul.
Go here:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/FileFill a /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inpired by the image you get.Attach the image to your post; if your textbox has room, include the Wikimedia link.>I don’t like my image.Then re-roll (there are quite a few duds), or write from another anon’s image.Please give feedback to others doing this exercise, which is as much about versatility as creativity.
bump4moar
>>24673719I'd like to say while this thread is still with us, that I've greatly admired what you've managed with this writing cue.If you don't mind, I care to study it some,--it's wonderful. This is an example of compelling writing,--that's all I know.
>>24689789My dear markup-anon,I'm really grateful. This will serve to be quite constructive for me. You're treatment of the poem is so handsome(!) and was seemingly done much more attentively. Any flourishes and inspiration you detected in what I wrote came from me having Edgar Allan Poe in mind (in that it's macabre),--and it's mostly due to the fact that I just got finished reading Eugene Onegin. I'm not naturally inclined to poetry,--it will be a long time before I can really get a bearing I think.Thank you kindly!
>>24678980If you look closely at your opening sentence, you’ll notice that there are two different verb tenses attached to the same moment:>I am…by late afternoon…which is when the Fat Colonel did go up.I wrote this sentence below to more clearly illustrate the clash I mean:—I arrive home by 5:55 PM (on the dot), which is when the mailperson arrived.—Just pick between all past- or all present-tenses.>I am all but suppressing a sneeze in the itchy sunlight by late afternoonRe-order, emphasizing the length of time, also swap the “the” to a “this” (it makes the POV more personal and immediate):“By late afternoon, I am all but suprressing a sneeze in this itchy sunlight.”>as he spits and puff puffs“puff-puffs”I am not taking this hyphenation cue from Wiktionary (which does list “puff-puff,” but as a noun) but from a book published 101 years ago that uses the verb “puff-puff-puffed”—“Children of the Lighthouse” page 94, by Nora Archibald Smith, 1924.>into the mic“into his mic”It’s a tiny change, but it goes to reinforce/tee-up just how possesive (the MC perceives) the military is with his sibling—who could be named Mike for all I know!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monnaie_-_Module_C_(SC_et_Hoover),_S%C3%A9leucie_de_Pi%C3%A9rie,_S%C3%A9leucide_et_Pi%C3%A9rie,_S%C3%A9leucos_I_Nikator_(%3F)_-_btv1b85668047_(1_of_2).jpgA numismatic bargain granted me,By wasting waif beneath the lemon hurst:“O friend, uncumber flesh from soul, I plea,For in my waist, a coin you will have pursed.”I slew the wretch in half, her stomach burst,And snatched electrum out her twitching frame,The bloodied disc in hand I rubbed, reversed,Then saw a mirrored essence in the claim—My bastard’s final alm and this were one the same.
Went to my mate's house and found his gf's library.Any good books in this pile?
>>24692166>It's 2025>You're reading about equality and not *equity*>B A D, C O M R A D E ! ! !
>>24692166Thinking Sociologically is a fine introduction to sociology. I'd recommend it for curious anons who don't start slobbering memewords when they see the word "sociology." Haven't read the rest, but looks like a pretty standard sociology courseload.>>24692995Liberal girls have the best pussy. You know this. I know this. It is an unfortunate but true fact of life. Many such cases
>>24692166Imagine inviting your gf over, and she spends all her time reading her useless assigned books I'd just have AI sum all of them up
>>24696196>sociologyA set of opinions some sewing club grabbed out of thin air and is justified only using appeals to their own emotional outrage has nothing to do with science.Pretending sociology has anything to do with science only undermines serious attempts to understand how society works.Every "sociologists" spends almost all of their time telling everyone why the factors with most explanatory power aren't actually factors, because acknowledging them doesn't align with the religious dogma of globohomo academia and homosexual french communist values.The entire "field" is pure evil and has never explained anything, helped anyone or produced anything.
>>24692166My GF likes books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Housemaid. What book can I give her that she enjoys and is less "book for women" and more "great book overall"? Romeo and Juliet is like the typical crossover but I doubt she'll enjoy it
What am I in for?Worth reading? I was told its a good ant-hero novel.Is it just people people killing each other or is there an emotional/dramatic aspect to the novel?Let me know your thoughts anons.
In a year, this entire board will be filled with "What am I in for?" posts. Since everyone is spending their entire day making "What am I in for?" type-posts, there will be no-one to answer what, exactly, anon is in for. At this point, the only course of action will be a permanent deletion, followed by a rash of suicides, during which many anons will look down the barrel of their shotguns inquisitively and plaintively ask "What am I in for?", before squeezing the double trigger, causing their entire face to explode.
>>24696350demon possessed sword drains the life from his enemies. and friends. sometimes anyone nearby, occasionally girlfriends and I think his cousin who he was fucking. he was a bit cut up by that last one.
Edgy tryhard fagslop
>>24696350Very well written and sad dark fantasy story. >>24696404Get raped by a wild pack of niggers.
Are the conan books worth reading? NOT the comic books, I mean the novels
>>24696363your needlessly pedantic correction made my pussy chaffed and sore at the prospect of reading conan, such that your post risked having the opposite of its intended effect
>>24696372It is of great importance you know the format of that which you seek, such as it will be easier to track down. Unless of course you also include the pastiches from other authors, but that would be getting ahead of oneself.
>>24696348They fucking RULE but you might be too sissy for it
>>24696407I suppose some specificity may have been warranted
>>24696348Conan is too brown to be worth reading. Who tf "tans" that hard? Lmao.
>The Hero's Journey, Save the Cat, the three-act structure, the five-act structure, Pixar's 22 Rules.Instant drop if I see any of this.
>Calculated vengeance>Rags to riches
>>24694855There’s worse. This was my displeasure today.
op i listened to class on screenwriting and now i hate movies. they're just incredibly emotionally manipulative.
Unequivocally prove you read and understood picrel
>>24694976jail>>24695006also jail
>>24695104jerx off, falls asleepreal class act
>>24695104His shirt got wet, dumbo
>>24694502I didn't and I don't care to
>>24695093Molly, is that actually you?t. Leopold
Am I being filtered or is this just boringSteppenwolf and Siddhartha were both 10/10’s
Don't let the Pseud's infect you with their cowardly literary elitism. They live their lives huddled in fear, too terrified to like anything. Siddhartha and Steppenwolf are both excellent books. Yes you are being filtered. That's oll korrect. Return when you are older. All the best.
>>24696264I just want to reiterate what the other anon said, they are both great books. You can't post anything on here without it getting shit on by contrarians. I think Steppenwolf does go a bit off the rails at the end but reading Siddharta felt like being in a dream.
>Am I being filtered or is this just boringa bit of both. read Demian, and Narcissus and Goldmund
>>24696272The latter. I’m rather new to serious literature.
>>24696264>SiddharthaAlchemist / Celestine Prophecy-tier slop for the masses, though maybe it was a banger at the time, what with all the Westoid Orientalist travelogues happening.The Glass Bead Game is for the thinking man.
Righteous guy, just books, no specific types
Colonel Chabert
>>24695995
My mom has always said books are bullshit and buying them is a non sense waste of money
>>24693585>>24693714I just went to the library
>>24693585Make sure she knows that before she croaks. t. Momless
>>24693054Your mom is gay
>>24694769I'm sorry for you anon.
>>24694769
Redpill me on Brandon Sanderson.Are his books worth reading? Is he woke?
>>24696343Sanderson is a Mormon. I'm not sure why it's so controversial stating his books have themes from the religion he professes.
>>24686778Everyone in the thread is calling him the 3/5 star McDonalds of fantasy: nothing that is going to set the world on fire but tasty and normal to enjoy. I would say on that, there is one exception which is the worldbuilding. The great about Sanderson for me is the worlds he builds: how the world works, the culture, the unique magic system of that world. Some of his worlds give that Morrowind feel of being immersed into a fantasy setting of alien rules and ideas. It's great.The worlds are also all connected into one multiverse and basics about how things work are shared between them to the point where once you've read a few you can start picking up on extra details or making educated guesses about how something new shoul work based on previous established rules.Each world getting it's own style of magic with consistent rules is a big part of that too. Sometimes people do complain that the magic doesn't feel very 'magical', i.e. it's not usually very 'mystic' and it's usually instead more like a set of powers that do very specific things. I'd say I dont go to Sanderson to read about wizards, but Rogues with neat tricks. It makes for good writing and tighter plots, but usually not much 'wonder' in the powers. Everything else is pretty variable and sloppish, with ups and downs. I do remember feeling weirded out about reading Final Empire and then going back to it years later and finding the writing quality much poorer than I remembered. I think he's an author who has noticably improved going on.The book I'd probably recommend is Warbreaker: it's a standalone book instead of a trilogy but also not his very first (Elantris) so he's had more practice. I actually found while checking the title that it is free on his website so you might as well just find out for yourself.https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0886/8082/5106/files/Warbreaker_hardcover_1st_ed.pdf?v=1723759719Years later I found that scenes and characters from his two standalone books Warbreaker and Elantris stayed with me far more than the longer series, but I don't know if that's just me and I havent read either in ages so maybe its just nolstalgia and I'm a fool.
>>24696369>Sometimes people do complain that the magic doesn't feel very 'magical', i.e.Imo I would argue that Sanderson is less of a fantasy author and more of a science fiction author. He quite literally treats magic in his books as scientific systems.
>>24696345>If you don't know X popular booktook author you don't read!
>>24686778Sanderson is what happens when a chud success-maxxes. He has plenty to be proud of relative to the typical chud, but a chud still has his limits. He can't escape his physiognomy and the MeToo target on his back as a result of that physiognomy (only hot dudes like Keanu are allowed to be both successful and 'nice' - guys with chud faces like Sanderson who have a large normie following need to be socially cornered, interrogated, deconstructed, and exiled). Nevertheless, he may be smart enough to avail himself of the pro-Zionist wildcard if he ever gets into a pickle. That card is a lifeline that instantly makes every attack in the press stop.
>Actually, it just so happens that all my favorite writers were secretly homoerotic gnosticsHas any critic projected their diseased mind more than H. Bloom?
>>24696081He is basically admitting to being a prostitute
>>24696102Why can't you answer a simple question? Why do you instead obsess with the physicality of a dead old jew? You continually speak of his body, and now even bring up this sexual connotation. It's sick. Stop it. Get some help.
>>24696093I don't know why you're so annoyed. Yes, you will say you are not annoyed, but the fact remains that you are insulting me. Why the insults? No justifiable reason yet found.
YAHWAHNOSTICMY DEAR*wipes drool*THE SELF OTHER SEEINGANXIETYYAAWAH*sips water*EROTICISMMASTURBATORIALSING MY BODY ELECTRIC HOMOEROTICISM*wipes nose*YAAHAHAWAAHDOCTUH SAMUEL JAANSUNComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24696508based
Has /lit/ ever produced anything worth reading?
I have authored many critically acclaimed shitposts.
>>24695985My personal favourite would be Harassment Architecture from Mike Ma, but I've heard interesting things about that Reinspects guy's one, as well as Woolston's work. And there was also that poet/novelist who pretended to be a girl. I'd include Tao Lin, but he's too professional to be included, and he's not a regular user.
>>24695844/lit/ as in a collaborative effort? The meme annotated version of Moby dick /lit/ as in individuals? Nope, we do have a lot of schizos who spam their shit and samefag to try and bait people
