There is no humiliation ritual worse than advertising your own writing.
>>24953232I went on local tabloids through the courtesy of my publisher. Guy interviewing me hadn't read the book. Article painted me as a drug abusing narcisist.Second interview, goes pretty much the same as the first one. Even tho the journo had read the book, he was completely oblivious with how extraordinary my work was. Article again failed to capture any essance.Third time the interview was fun but the guy writing the article was like 20 yrs old so it was mid af. Kinda focused on the wrong stuff and even then too little.Fourth and final go at it was a catastrophe. It was a podcast with a guy who may or may have not read the book. The book has a lot of heavy elements and mentions of real life tragedies which wouldn't be known if I wouldn't have reported em. The host scoffs over them as they would be the lightest funniest shit ever and my autistic masking ass rolls with it. Regret hits the moment I walk out of the studio and I know I have ruined everything. I had the understanding that the fucker would've sent me a draft of the interview before oublishing it but no. Straight onto the internets.the worst part was the thumbnail, which clowned in my quotes.I sank into a few months of depression and thought of offing myself just because I had to work with these absolute antichrist fucking normies to get the numbers going on and in the process I lost the sauce and even worse, lost my identity.
>>24953778>caring about shills>caring about lolcowsI will never understand why people are such pansies. If people actually listened, took to heart and lived by advice so many songs, books, movies, anime etc. preach and be themselves we would already live in a paradise.>>24953466Yes, one is literally the precursor to the other.
>>24954751How many sales total?
>>24953382>>24953435I think there's a clear difference between trying to sell literature to the top 5% (in terms of both education and financial status) and trying to sell it to the masses. Bach would never have found success as a "popular" musician in today's sense, and someone sophisticated like Bach can't succeed in today's pop music economy because there would again be little to no audience. Most of what we consider to be literary or music or generally artistic "canon" was only ever appreciated by a small minority of important people.
>>24954906>top 5%Except that wasnt the case. The 19th century is literally when books, music and art were starting to open up to wider and wider mass groups.
Why is Hegel suddenly so popular?
>>24954500I hate this hag so much bros
>>24954840I don't get what's wrong with this post in particular.
>>24954500idealism is for retards
>>24954500Chud heard from someone that he inspired Marx.
The real question is does Hegel even fuck?
What books should I read in public to attract women?
>>24954711I know you're half joking, but problem is this type of body transformation usually happens years into the relationship when you've got kids and are married. Then if you rightfully don't want to be a cuck, you lose half your shit, your kids, and your house in the divorce. That's why it's safer to get with a woman who's skinny/fit/average and already used to male attention.>>24954731Kek. That's the move.
Phenomenology of Spirit
>>24954376Honestly, not bad advice. Displaying a bit of intellectual and emotional depth filters out some of the most vapid women too. My last and longest relationship was with a girl I became friends with in a college class. Ended up talking more about life experiences (of which I had many at a young age - turbulent home life, death in the family, etc.), and we hooked up the next time we drank together. Of course, this is predicated on you having some emotional and intellectual depth, autistically following a script doesn't work.
>>24954369No, that's porn to them, they don't actually want a guy like that. Would you date a porn character from pornhub?
>>24954663Yeah, this incel shit is so annoying. Yeah women don't want an ugly, broke man. It's not a character flaw. Men not wanting fat ugly whores isn't a character flaw either. Get over it.
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24946260>isn’t that it’s left wing (boring and incorrect observation moron)>its ultimate product in the daughter being a No Kings liberal protestor at the end of the filmWhat a retard that anon is, eh?
>>24946229He thought it would make a bunch of money for the same reason he saw it in theaters - a bunch of journalists were talking about it. He never realized that people don't listen to journalists anymore. How do they not realize this?
>>24946217Watch 'Eden' starring Jude Law if you want to see a great contemporary film with obvious right-wing undertones.
>Despite crossing $200M, its high production budget (>$130M) means it's projected to lose money theatrically.Stay woke, and all the rest of it.
>>24946622>>24952142>>24954359They have to keep the charade up to pretend they're real revolutionaries and weren't just always that pawn of (((the rich))). First anon I'm quoting is too historically uninformed to know that Weatherman Underground and all those black radical groups were funded by rich "marxists" just like today's "radicals." There is literally no difference in the control and funding structure
Mention here literature according to /lit/ suitable to matriculate as a real /x/-ian. Or if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts first.
>>24954283add Charles Upton to this
>>24951427erm can't it be explained that the gods are friends with the awesome occultists that's why they can bring down the moon and induce storms--answer that hippopotamus
>>24954463Didn't know about this guy, seems related to the traditionalists too? Good rec anon. Thanks.
>>24954283what's wrong with the occult when even raw did some rituals
>>24954283Charles Fort is so fucking good man, it is frustrating how much his work has been bastardized by quacks and New Agers. His humor and his satirical edge are so cutting even today, I don't understand why he isn't more discussed.Fort's fundamental arguments were way ahead of their time in terms of sophistication, to use cosmological arguments and a sort of non-theological monism to argue against the presuppositions of the scientific method in its ability to isolate variables and identify pertinent and impertinent data is something that really didn't have a place within academia until the late-Wittgensteinians, and the sociological schools which descended from that tradition.
How do I get into James Joyce if I'm not Irish and I got filtered by Finnegans Wake?
>I am made in such a way that I do not care much for the output from your Wholesale Safety Pun Factory nor for the darknesses and unintelligibilities of your deliberately entangled language system. It seems to me you are wasting your genius.
>>24952593Sadly an Irish visa is needed to read James Joyce. Any illegal alien caught reading James Joyce without his papers in order shall be sent to work as a menial Airbnb servant in Lisbon or as a barista eunuch in Barcelona.
>>24952858t. a woke feminist heiress whose one contribution to the world was bankrolling Joyce. Pound saw the genius of FW.>>24952593If you haven't read his previous works, do that, in published order. Also read Pound's ABC of reading while working your way through Dubliners/Portrait. Then when you get to FW pick up the McHugh annotations book and also start reading Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. You can burden yourself with more secondary resources but I think thats a good bare minimum for you to go into the work with enough knowledge to interpret some of it while not having too much already formed in your mind.
>>24953157Joyce was woke
>>24952593What you will need to do first is to be catechized in the Catholic faith. Ideally, a Jesuit would help you with this, but you will only get liberation theology from them these days.Once you have converted, read Ibsen, Shakespeare, and the Greeks. Don't forget to masturbate often. Next comes the most important part: apostatize. Completely denounce the Faith in your heart and declare war against God.Now you can enjoy Joyce!
Oh nononononowhat are some books for actually intelligent people?
>/lit/ was killed by an iq testit's sad but i wouldn't have it any other way
>/sci/ isn't even on the listits over
>>24954857s-stembros? Are literal jeets on /int/ and /tv/ really smarter than us?
>>24954876of course, they wouldn't seethe about indians as much if they didn't feel so threatened
>>24954830Reverend Insanity
Books on the topic?I find reading about organized crime fascinating. Too bad im too much of a pussy to join.
>>24954223Ive read it. Nice book. The part where he jumps from a plane into a Vietnam jungle was superb.
>>24954647Insane right? What about those raids into Cambodia? Literally flying in to massacre a bunch of people and vanish. Or one of his hitmen who became a highly decorated CIA agent? There's so many odd and fucked up things this government has done or sanctioned. The whole book is just surreal.
>>24954836https://collider.com/mark-wahlberg-peter-berg-american-desperado/There were talks of a movie.Never went off though..
>>24954862Interesting. I'm a bit meh on the director but that's the same writer who wrote The Departed so that's good. Honestly it's such a good book that maybe a tv show series is a better idea. So many storylines you can do this book.
OP, instead of a joining a group how about starting your own? ;)This is a really fascinating book that breaks down the whole structure of organized crime groups. The older I get, the more I understand about life, the more I truly see Darwin everywhere; in people's motivations and actions. At the end of the day organized crime groups are just primates trying to compete for resources. In this world of might is right they absolutely have the advantage. This book breaks all that down.
>>24952108you are either self hating french or still not that good in the language.
>>24952049It's quite good, yes. Reminded me of NGE.
>>24953188*fart noises*
>>24954785Why? Have you read both?
>>24952049griffiths is better
I can't deal with the hurt of pining over females anymore. How do I completely kill the instinct for female intimacy within me? Any Lit that will kill romantic delusion? I'm so tired and it hurts too much.>Bingo, Bingo, baby>I love you, ain't that crazy?>I want you, I want you over again>Bingo, Bingo, baby>I love you, ain't that crazy?>I want you, I want you over again
>>24952024Ask God for the grace of celibacy?
>>24952190It's always reversible dummy
>>2495351117 days of nofap and my balls legit hurt and I love women more than ever. Don't do this OP
Psychoanalysis could help you, you seem to suffer from neurosis
>>24954812It’s not cope I just feel nothing looking at women
What pace do you read at, /lit/?
>>24953249I´d like to believe it was not that rare. Maybe I was just lucky.
>>24953013I kept track of my reading pace for a couple months. During that time I averaged about 35 pages an hour. That can change quite a bit based on the density of the reading material and the page layout. Right now I'm flying through the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf because even though it's over 200 pages, half of them are in Old English and the modern English pages are printed in a verse arrangement. Probably getting through a page every 45 seconds or so.
>>24953249Based anon
>>24953249I mean, I grew up in the same time period with tons of time spent watching TV and playing video games on the PS1/GBA, and still read shitloads. I think it helped that my parents were pretty encouraging about it and read books like Harry Potter, Narnia, and the Hobbit to me when I was younger. Parents nowadays just give their kids a tablet and want them to leave them the fuck alone.
>>24953013>Zoomers need a pacer in order to just readbleak
>>24945827JFC. Current century translation.
Joke's on midwit nolan because the leaked 5 minutes of footage is a fucking disaster.
>>24944446Yo, tell me about that OG hero, Muse, the guy who's been through so much. Like, he's the ultimate survivor.This dude was out here catching mad Ls, especially when he stormed that sacred city of Troy - total war zone.He’s seen all the city vibes, met a ton of different peeps, and his brain’s been upgraded from all the crazy stuff he's experienced.And honestly, he’s been through hell and back in the ocean, dealing with all sorts of savage waves and storms,fighting for his life and trying to get back to his crew, who are counting on him.But, no cap, he couldn’t even save his bros, even though he was all about that hero life.They got wrecked because they were being reckless - straight-up idiots - chowing down on cattle of Hyperion’s Helios, the sun god’s herd.And that’s what sealed their fate - lost their shot at coming home that day.So yeah, our guy Odysseus, the OG tactician, he’s out here trying to flex his brains and avoid getting wrecked again.He’s been roaming around, facing all these epic quests, basically the original "save the world" story but with way more drama.Every time he thinks he’s got a grip, the chaos hits him again like Epic Plot Twist after Epic Plot Twist.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
quite the resting bitch face she has. Even with cat ears she looks like she's having a terrible time
His daughter is an nyu stereotype. She’s getting a bullshit degree in the arts that is a mix of everything. There’s some vids of her acting on YT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XJaQPeYFD5s
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>>24953453>most of these books are mentioned or talked about at least from time to time.Barely and when they do its never the content in question. Its always shitflinging and derivative nonsense.
Add:Catch-22 - Joseph HellerFahrenheit - by Ray BradburyThe Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
>>24951578hey OP if you may add Édouard Levé's suicide , Pavese's il mestiere di viviere and Pierre de la Rochelle le feu follet
Can you add Cantos of Ezra Pound and Behead All Satans by MNMDRAlso requesting Moby Dick annotated by /lit/ cover to be used in the image.
Needs Will To Power, The Antichrist, Genealogy of Morals, and Beyond Good and Evil for Nietzsche
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
>>24953443what do you mean? Like, yes, I'm gay and confess the confessio augustana, I'm a christian.
>>24953503>protesturd>Christianlmfao
>>24946757Was it love at first sight? Was it easy to devote yourself to her with such intensity or was it a conscious self-overcoming?
>>24946757Absolutely based
>>24945936>If love is real how do you explain the phenomenon where women are very likely to leave their partner when they lose their job?That was never love in the first place but a simple betabuxx/oofy doofy relationship
What does Kant mean by achtung (IDK what the word for it is in english desu), to regard? What does he mean that you should... heed, attention, the law? OR rather the law he builds up with the hypothetical imperative. Secondly: what does Kant mean that the law is done through duty rather than love?
duty is when you do something even if you do not like doing it versus doing the same thing and LIKING doing it = not duty.
