>>24647166
GRRM’s shameless early 20th century S&S orientalism is based

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one more

Eating shit.

I just ate 3x packets of indomie ramen. My shits are gonna be brutal tomorrow.

i've never been more broke, alone, stuck, and happy.

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>>24647418
They watched the points of light in their multitudes. A falling star.
'Night like this deserves an ode.'
'Yup. Pretty pretty night.'
'Roll us one there, Bud.'
Bud rolled two smoke in that drawn out way he had. No concern for the passing of time. He put them both in his mouth and lit them. No concern for the passing of time.
'You gonna smoke both, Bud?'
Bud handed me one. We rode out to the hills above the highway and watched the eyes of eighteen wheelers and town cars passing below them. From this distance they moved all in silence. When the smokes burnt our fingers we ashed them on the side of our boots and stuffed the butts into our pockets.
'No need to leave a trace,' said Bud.

We rode to the river weir and the big dam and the pump house. In the early hours of the morning we walked the horses back to the barn and watered them. We walked with light steps into the big house and up to our rooms. My phone was charging by the bed. I checked my tinder; I watched porn; I dreamt of being born in a better time.

>>24647456
It's not even the best novel penned by that broad

>>24647456
Eliot is better.

>>24647416

He did it first. No one else was world building an entire world after a world war like he was. He did it first and he did it like no one else did. That's it, OP. That's the secret.

>>24647444
Thanks for proving my point. You simply can't understand the beauty of a simple, yet powerful and sincere core message because you are blinded by your hatred for Christianity.

>>24647446
Why do people still care today then? Sure that could get you popular but there've been many settings that are objectively more interesting versions of the same thing since, yet people even in current year still care about tolkien?

>>24647416
on atmosphere alone, no other writer of fantasy is comparable to Tolkein. there is a melancholic, mythic, ancient tinge to his book's sum, even if the constituent parts are, when inspected, found to be lacking. while GRRM has surpassed Tolkien by near almost every metric, his work still stinks of Europa and the near East, and its so through familiarity its gestalt effect is somehow less so, despite being incomparably more advanced in characters, dialogue, sensory minutiae, and plot intricacies. in summary: i abhor literary analysis, and especially literary comparisons.

>>24647450
Because no modern fantasy writer has produced a work that is actually better written and more compelling than LOTR. Nobody really cares about the setting itself. Tolkien was simply a very good writer who wrote a timeless classic set in a fantasy world. Modern fantasy writers can't do that, because they don't have the talent for it. They can maybe come up with more interesting settings, intricate and convoluted magic system, twists and subversions of expectations around every corner that you may deem as "interesting", but what they can't do is write a good novel.

>>24646886
every prediction marx made has come true. go read something nigger

>>24646886
>And yet every one of its predictions has been wrong
I can't tell if you're joking, sarcasm doesn't really translate to text but the rate of profit and middle class have been shrinking for decades at this point

>>24646336
>decouples work from material goods
That's how capitalism destroys itself, the rate of profit shrinks over time. Automated factories won't magically delete themselves when capitalism ends

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Every prediction Marx made has come true, except for the revolution.
Why is this? Is the proletariat just retarded? Or do we have to wait 2 more weeks?
Or perhaps, Marx was wrong, and class consciousness does not naturally permeate as a result of the material conditions of the working class.
What do you think, anon?

>>24647405
Marx's treatment is incomplete. He understood material conditions but possessed only a nascent understanding of the cultural-psychoanalytic component. The natural emergence of CC can be seen in the early labor movement which is best interpreted as an unprecedented self-organizing effort by the workers themselves, unanticipated by capitalists, and thus highly successful. The degree of social engineering that has since developed seeks to psychically castrate the proletariat at ever greater intensities. Proletarian publications have diminished and "word of mouth" communication is now facilitated on a small few platforms all of which are dominated by capitalists or their representatives in government.

>>24647319
Father Flynn is a pedo that was leering at the narrator and making him feel uncomfortable, which is why the narration comes off as curious and overall happy at his death rather than mourning
>Finnegans Wake
Nobody's actually read and understood it, so no

>>24647324
>Father Flynn is a pedo
Textual evidence?
>Nobody's actually read
Lots of people have

>>24647334
>Textual evidence?
Not going to spoon-feed you, the story is like 10 pages.
>Lots of people have
It's one of those books that people performatively claim to read on this site and xitter like War and Peace, Infinite Jest, and other sloppa because they think the nerdy women of their dreams will fuck them if they look so heckin cultured

>>24647290
I got hard reading this

They were pedos?

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

>>24647267
https://x.com/MythoSiberia/status/1943958761758179356

The Shambhala guide to Taoism

>>24647262
prick standing centre frame ruins the photo

>>24647351
Russia, dressed up as China. Suppose they are kin.

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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

>>24647302
Because his theories are just crackpot ramblings with no points to prove/disprove

>>24647302
the only reason gullible midwits care about his tryhard-speak rendition of Hegel and Advaita is that he claims to be 200 IQ.

>>24647355
But I already read the story when I read The New Gate almost 10 years ago.

>>24647387
>You can't even understand a 4chan post
Dude, I'll say it as kindly as I can. There's nothing to be gained from a useless sequitur of "you can't understand interest."

What do you want me to say?

>>24647388
Why not both?

>>24647395
>What do you want me to say?
Nothing, I want you to stop responding. It's not a useless sequitor, it's a basic truth. I was kindly trying to tell you not to waste your lifespan on an effort that's unlikely to yield the results you want, but I've yet to meet a single person in all my life who actually took that advice.

>>24647412
I knew you didn't care with your first post, and I know you'll contrive more reasons to "not care."

I respond because at the bare minimum I hope others may have a look.

RR needs to allow more fetish fiction

>>24645969
>It was a number one bestseller and was a headline review in every major publication on both sides of the Atlantic, exactly what your Bellows and your Mailers used to get
>exactly what your Bellows and your Mailers used to get
Oh, I see the problem. You don't understand what words mean.

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>>24645584
The Australians will pick up the torch

>>24645584
All promising white students are funneled into STEM programs now. DFW himself was a philosophag until a professor encouraged him to write, if he wasn't a boomer he probably would have ended up being another autistic math professor of 0 relevance.
>But muh publishing industry discrimination
They're businesses, if le cishet white males were buying books written by cishet white males they would be publishing them. Literary fiction is the domain of women and queers.

The big guys like Franzen and Lethe were batting on about how few women writers there were and the injustice of straight white men ruling literature and campaigned for representation of women and had them as MC’s in their own fiction. Little did he know that women have been the only ones studying literature at university for 30 years and they introduced wokeness and pushed out all the SWM. look at the best novels of last year lists, if theirs a white guys he’s gay.

>>24645584
They are playing video games and stream on twitch

>>24647328
you want to be particularly careful of the alleged objectivity and relevance of statistics, especially when they run against common experience

>>24647341
Yes, hence "approximately". There are studies where it's higher and studies where it's lower. The consensus? Young women watch porn at numbers not much lower than young men and the gap is narrowing. Picrelated is their actual search history on pornhub, so it doesn't get much more objective than that. And if your common experience is that women don't like porn/more hardcore stuff and you're on /lit/ of all places, I have no idea what to tell you.

>>24647365
right yeah /lit/ is the best place to learn about women.
& i wouldn’t lean too hard on pornhub analytics. i don’t think site traffic is quite enough to make a claim about human nature.

>>24647378
>right yeah /lit/ is the best place to learn about women.
Anon...I was obviously referring to their reading habits and the obsession with erotica/taboo subjects/domineering men any regular here is well aware of. That you didn't even pick up on that and are now trying to dismiss the evidence of female porn viewership in a thread ABOUT porn makes it clear you're not here to engage in good faith. Good night.

>>24647400
obviously(!) but i didn’t dismiss anything, just pointing out that pornhub traffic and 4chan threads don’t equal universal behaviour. if questioning your evidence is enough to make you pack it in with a ‘good night,’ … now i don’t know what to tell you.

>>24646219
Men have the fantasy of a woman loving them for their "real" self. Women aren't entirely agnostic to this, but care more about raw attention and desire.

In a way women are more pragmatic than men, despite them often being depicted as more emotional.

>>24646219
I met a woman some days ago who was really into this smut stuff

>>24646219
Men's idea of romance are utterly possessive in nature. It's almost always portrayed as the struggle of man to make the woman his physically and mentally. Women's idea of romanticism is way shallower and based on mere sexual desire and emotion.

>>24646405
Aren't they all these days?

>>24646620
I'm glad we've agreed to worthless. Enjoy pure being. Let Descartes know I'm still waiting on that eternal truth, last I heard he was still working on that one.

>>24646600
Let me help you out.
The universe is becoming.
The universe =/= God
God was and is and is to come.

>becoming is worse because [mountain of shit I just assumed for no good reason]

>>24647335
you should try becoming not gay

>>24647224
Where is it?

>>24647350
Being has been determined to be gay. You know how metaphysics works. You've always been and always will be gay. You still will never know anything and you always go back to sucking dicks in your shitbox.

>>24646289
Klaus Schwab, chief, uh... Dude, of the world economic forum. I'm more concerned about the cube, though...

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>>24644469
It's real

>>24646246
Sounds like a dealer but girls pay for drugs with their ass not with money

>>24644902
Women raised by single parents are damaged by it just the same as men are. Divorce is child abuse and should be illegal.

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you need to stop wallowing in relatable literature and read things written by men that actually interface with women. there are a million different ways that men in history worse off than you have figured it out, like that guy above. find new ideas in the world, stop navel gazing and look outwards. if lit really effects you then use that to your advantage. I read about men that live interesting lives, I'm renting an apartment in tokyo for three months to basically just get fucked up and meet girls every way I could think of. stop fixating in self-perpetuating pity pulp. it's cool that you're trying to understand yourself but it's only going to get you so far.
>https://open.substack.com/pub/kusoaho/p/how-to-fuck-in-tokyo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6bmiy8
literally my diary desu