Is it "a myriad of" or just "myriad"?
>>24695228Because we don't have a single word for ten thousand. The Indians have a single word for 100,000 and they say one lakh of people
>>24695208You can’t trust the top comment on reddit to inform your knowledge on everything
>>24695208>>24695228
>>24695338>the voice of experience.
Whichever sounds better for the sentence you're composing is the correct one
Thoughts on this guy? It seems like half the people that know who he is hate him, or at least call him a liar, but I've yet to see any actual falsehood that he's ever published. I have next to no frame of reference when it comes to scholarship so I can't tell without external works... Is there actual controversies surrounding this man, or are all his "critics" just the people he criticises unable to give real answers? I've tried to find books that try to answer his, and from the sinopsis and the way they're talked about, they're all seemingly focused on the theological implications as opposed to calling him a liar... but then turn around and call him a liar, despite never pointing out lies. I don't get it. Give me a straight answer, is he saying the truth or not? Are his books reliable sources of information?
>>24691341Why does Jesus also foretell his resurrection all the time too? This fact feels inconvenient.
>>24688912>assblasted by the most lukewarm textual criticism there islel so trueEven Apocalyptic Prophet is lukewarm. Jewish nationalist insurgent(s) spun by Hellenic Jews into a gud boi who dindu nuffin is the truth-- but nobody has the balls or brains to call it out. It's going to take probably 20 years before we have a mainstream scholar calling it an ethnopolitical crock of hasbara shit birthed in Alexandria, but we will get there, I have faith.
>>24692095>Bart Ehrman just glosses over the part where Rome crucified a traveling hobo.I just said, he think Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, king of the Jews. Idk how more bluntly I can put this, they saw a guy claiming to be the king of the Jews trying to recruit people to follow him so they killed him because he was a troublemaker, idk what the big deal is.
>>24692095according to the biblical narrative he gets crucified between 2 small time thieves, and john the baptist gets executed because herod's wife held a grudge against him. Clearly, execution wasn't reserved for special cases
>>24694766>according to the biblical narrativeThat's the problem. What if it's not actually written by a contemporary eyewitness but is fan-fiction composed for decades by a bunch of ideologues as much as a hundred years after the fact? People find it very hard to accept that what they deeply believe in is just a big bunch of agenda-driven ancient lies. They can't handle it.
In 1884 you could write mini-reviews of some things you saw and ate, call it a novel, and have the critics call you a genius.
>>24694556Well yeah, that and mastering/innovating form, style, narrative...
>>24694576Seething ESL
>>24694556>The Sun Also Rises (1925)
>>24694556Filtering plotfags for 141 years.
>Zola, Huysmans' former mentor, gave the book a lukewarm reception. Huysmans initially tried to placate him by claiming the book was still in the Naturalist style and that Des Esseintes's opinions and tastes were not his own. However, when they met in July, Zola told Huysmans that the book had been a "terrible blow to Naturalism" and accused him of "leading the school astray" and "burning [his] boats with such a novel", claiming that "no type of literature was possible in this genre, exhausted by a single volume".Fucking destroyed
Why does /lit/ love this guy again?
>>24693392t. Autobot scumCybertron WILL return to its former glory
>>24693316>can't discuss a /lit/core writer without also bringing up tranniesobsessed
>>24693319it's true. their bigger jaws keep the teeth off your dick.
>>24695364*CRUNCH*
>>24693319I fell for the "a mouth‘s a mouth" meme once while shitfaced and this is decidedly not true. The male mouth like the rest of the male body is rougher and therefore unable to caress a cock as in a proper blowjob. Trannies are closer to women as HRT softens the skin but a noncommittal crossdresser won‘t have that.
Post your favs, please.
>>24690932tang dynasty poetry. but also the nine sorrows or whatever that piece from the chu ci is called, since that's the inaugural autumn poem of the chinese tradition.
>>24690932maybe not really comfy but doesn't get more autumnal than him
>>24693263They don’t get autumn in the orient. It just gets cold, so bodies of water freeze up. Then you can dig out the frozen clams and boil them in noodles with a cream made of water buffalo milk. They call it Chow Maine.
>>24690932Next month I'm re-reading Sleepy Hollow.
I re-read Lord of the Rings every year in November
Chud bros, do you have other books in this vein that let one endlessly prepare for 'actual' reading? I vaguely recall some /lit/ book chart that had a bunch of books on deep reading or some such.
>>24695230If it were just making up for bad education it would put in a few books like How To Make It Stick and some intellectual histories. Grammar and rhetoric are 100% a meme, totally unnecessary for anyone but specialists, and formal logic is useful but way more than a beginner needs. Its more larping about le ancient wisdom instead of anything that gets results. T. Has actually done this shit.
>>24695281I gave specific examples
>>24692711what's so great about this book?
>>24695281>Grammar and rhetoric are 100% a memeThis statement sums up /lit/.
>>24690184This book is fucking fire and extremely valuable. People meme on it but these charts alone made coming to this shithole worth it. It’s absurd that such a place houses the best guides and paths for people curious.
So, I've been writing a novel for a while. It focuses on a group of individuals that all have unique powers (inspired by Heroes) based on human body functions, I.E. one person is able to regulate the surrounding temperature because the human body can do that too. The issue I have is that I've tried to create a female character that has the ability to I control gas. My editor basically says that I've created a fart fetish character but the concept never entered my mind. How would I write this power set without it looking like fetish content?
>>24693118maybe only oxygen present in water so she kills fish , this will limit the use of the power
Make her indian race and let the "gas" power also work on evaporated odors and scents, not only farts.
The existence of brapomancy implicates the existence of sweatomantry, pissomantry, and doubtlessly scatomantics. I trust the author will be including this for the sake of grounded and sincere worldbuilding.
>>24693052Well let me ask you this: how am I supposed to interpret "the ability to control gas" as anything other than farting?>>24693090Have you tried not using the term "gas"? Why are you so insistent on using that term? What "gas" is she controlling exactly?
Give us answers
>guy uses a specific term to refer to a widely known philosophical principle >never heard it before>look it up >is only used by one author and nobody else ever
>>24693839because there's already a commonly used phrase to describe it. the motivation behind using it is pretentiousness either by you or your puppeteer. i will not be a canvas for your delusions of grandeur or your ignorance, whichever you choose to employ.
>>24693869You are exhibiting all the hallmarks of a bonedeep Glaensis.
>>24693869Did you read what I wrote? The point is that, that "commonly used phrase to describe it" didn't touch you, no matter how much you read or know or understand about it. That commonly used phrase is not what you feel, it looks similar but carries no weight for (You), I'm not saying the phrase used to describe the concept is wrong, but that another person writes about it in a way that gives form to what you feel, so you accept that name, and you share it, not because of pretentiousness, which is sad that you think would be the only reasonBut because by using it with others you expect another to relate, to understand that you use that name because you're telling the other person "do you see it like that, too?"That's just one other possibility for that to happen.Pretentiousness is a valid reason tooIm sure we can think of tons of othersI'm just curious why you think that one of many is the right one that applies, enough to think it's "obvious"
>>24693839if its niche, its on you to provide the context
Don’t debate philosophy with people unless you’ve accumulated the sum of all human knowledge.I’d start with Garfield.
>writes a scene in his book about childrens having a gangbang
>>24694865Literally how is he not in federal prison yet?
>>24695536Every single one of that BAP/Moldbug/Thielian crowd are freaks. They're not guardians of Tradition, they want to use it as a skinsuit to promote their own perverted agenda. They may be useful for now but actual rignt-wingers should keep in mind that they're not viable allies long-term.
>>24694888Link?
>>24694865That's not all>Writes the scene from the point of the girl and describes six dicks and what they doAn weird, almost homoerotic, attraction to boys aged 10-12, not even in puberty, permeates almost all of King's books. >At least one unnecessary and out of place sexual detail about a boy between 10-12 in a book>Weird pairs of an older man, young boy>Young boys are often the subject of violence
>>24695753https://x.com/i/status/1945107938307092765
Let's be clear: anyone who discusses GR in terms of 'plot,' 'themes of paranoia,' or 'character arcs' has fundamentally failed the test the book sets for you. You're trying to use a city map to navigate the open ocean.The book is not a narrative; it's a cognitive payload delivery system. Its purpose is not to be understood in the conventional sense of assembling a coherent story. Its purpose is to simulate, at a neurological level, the experience of living within a totalizing, incomprehensible system of information—to induce the state of apophenia and intellectual vertigo that defines the post-war consciousness.Pynchon bombards you with acronyms, equations, historical detritus, and obscene limericks not for you to meticulously decode and file away, but to overload your analytical faculties. He is forcing your brain to abandon its search for linear causality. The text itself is the Zone. It's an environment, not a story.The book is a filter. Not for intelligence, but for a specific kind of intellectual vanity—the need to solve, to map, to declare mastery over a text. The moment you pull out a character chart or a plot summary, you have been successfully 'filtered'. You've chosen the map over the territory. The true reading of the book is the experience of being lost within it.So, the question isn't "what does it mean?" The real question is: at what point during your reading did you abandon the pretense of analytical observation and simply surrender to the data stream? Or are you still LARPing as a literary critic, trying to connect dots that were designed to remain scattered?
>>24694447>The book is not a narrative; it's a cognitive payload delivery system.My coworkers would laugh at me if I said this IRL.
>>24694479Blood meridian is a filter for cognitive intelligence. It's one of the clearest examples of a book of that sort, post-Kafka
>>24695787Did not expect an effort post from a BM shitpost on a GR thread. Maybe not a real effort post in your point of view, since you just read/understood the book. But appreciated nonetheless. Thank you!
>>24694447Nice post. Your thoughts on the dodo bird hunting part?
>>24695787What about that do you think is metafictional?
Suicide isn't some pathetic failure like people make it out to be, it's the last act where you actually take control of your existence. Améry nailed it when he said it's a refusal of the logic of life, the bullshit script that says you have to keep enduring no matter how degraded or meaningless things get. Choosing to die on your own terms is the ultimate "No" to a world that never asked if you wanted to be here in the first place. You're not sick, you're not broken, you're exercising the only real freedom that can't be stripped from you: the freedom to say enough. Whether it's disgust with life itself, the crushing weight of failure, or just the nausea of being, suicide is a way of reclaiming dignity when everything else feels like humiliation. It's authenticity distilled, the one moment where you stop lying to yourself, stop playing along with society's survival-at-all-costs game and declare "This life doesn't get to own me".
>>24695331I disagree
>>24695331A lot of words to deny the obvious: you're committing suicide because you failed. I have recurring suicidal thoughts, and it's nothing other than my own doing. If I were a normal person, a functioning human being, I wouldn't have thought about it. You commit suicide when you no longer want to deal with the pain; trying to sugarcoat it as an act of rebellion is ridiculous. No one would want to take their own life if they hadn't failed at it.
>>24695651anon, go get help. seriously. talk to somebody.
>>24695651You're missing the point anon. Yeah failure and pain are part of it no one denies that but reducing suicide to "lol you failed" is just lazy thinking. Everyone fails, everyone suffers, but not everyone makes the leap. The difference is that suicide isn't just running from pain, it's a conscious choice to say "fuck this game" and step off the board entirely. It's stripping away the bullshit explanations society slaps on you ("sick", "broken" "not normal"). Why should I be forced to keep dragging on in a life I see as worthless or humiliating just because "normal" people do? The act itself is freedom, it's the one thing no one can take from you, the right to say no when everything else is ripped away. Calling it failure is just society's way of pretending they still own you when, in that moment, they don't
>>24695331Very basedBut this is nothing new. Stoics have said that the door is always open. Banning suicide is a neurosis which Jewish religions have imposed upon man kind from 2000 years. Suicide is always an option.
Yet Another Xianxia EditionStubbed >>24691477>What is Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24695859But endings don't excite me. They don't give me ideas. They're not something I'm looking forward to.
>>24695794Oh don't worry, mine isn't even a litrpg. It was a funny coincidence.
>>24695875If the ending doesn't excite you, why should it excite the reader?
>>24695859not terrible advice but lots of excellent stories start with a great premise, not with a great ending. and following that great premise up is the hard part
>>24695877It shouldn't excite the reader either. All endings suck, no exceptions. Endings are only good if you are forced to read the story.
Is The Wheel of Time worth reading?How self-contained are the books?Does the story really needed all those books to be told?
>>24694182It’s not. I abandoned it as a fantasy reading teen. Means it had to be quite bad. It wasn’t even done at the time but I could sense it was going nowhere. I’d rather re-read Belgarion or Magician.
>>24694378>>24694385Is it as bad as that Ghibli film?
>>24695793The Ghibli film wasn't even that bad but yes the book is completely different.
>>24695796Cool, I might give it a chance down the line.I did see this version on Amazon that caught my attention:https://www.amazon.com.br/Books-Earthsea-Complete-Illustrated/dp/1481465589?
>>24694182Is it worth reading? It is worth reading if you are looking for a long fantasy series that doesnt deviate from the comfort zone too much while still being individual and interesting, and with a large cast of characters that grow on you over time. Otherwise, skip it.Are they self contained? It is a series my dude.Does it need that many books? Definitely not.
meereenese throne 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: >>24667075
>>24695148"The dawn is coming"
>>24695148"Jon's a secret Targ"
>>24695148“Lightbringer”
>>24695148"Trans rights are human rights*
>>24695148"We are the Dawn"
Post your charts and guides with recommendations and reading order, all cores welcome.
>>24693945>muh late capitalismNot capitalism leftist modernist managerial totalitarianism also you should be dog food or by rape slave
>>24693933Any /sci-lit/fags here have a chart on mathematical logic?
I’d like to read the Bible. Is there a recommended annotated version or reading guide? Planning a careful read, but not a serious deep dive.
>>24694185Is there a guide to Emil Durkheim?
