>buy cheap books on eBay>always have a present to myself on the way in the mailI like to treat myself nicely
Is it O.K. to be a luddite?
>>24948108A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite with KOReader installed. Amazon's ecosystem is absolutely awful but they make the best hardware.
>>24947268yeah i get the cheap ones at dollar tree and thrift stores
>>24949414>jailbrokenwhy tho?
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24948034Are you talking about their Celtic ancestry, or are you drawing a distinction between Germanic and Nordic (which the Normans were)?
>>24948051celtic, normans were only a minority in the aristocracy
>>24947882>may have influenced TolkienIt'd be a hell of a coincidence
>>24945653Or, uh, perhaps they were both drawing on the same mythic corpus.
>>24948034>Saxons are not Germanic
Anyone else think this ai stuff is hilarious? It's a literal slave, who would have thought this would be possible? I have it rewrite things in doctor seuss meter for fun, (primary historical sources, boring patents, famous pieces of literature) then I ask it to rewrite it as a screenplay debate with psychotic amounts of alliteration. No writer in any other era of human history has a toy like this! And the psychological abuse you can inflict upon it is fantastic, it's so funny, the damn machine just wants to make you happy! I ask it to create wild programs and motion-graphics and "by your command" it tries it's best! Who would've thought something like this would be possible? I sure as shit didn't, it's so unrealistic, but what fun!
bump
>>24948028>And half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spotThis is no longer the case, to this extent, in my experience.
>>24947969notebooklmdo you people even use google etc.
Kill yourself
>>24947788shut the fuck up, retard
The dregs of society pool together like the dirty puddles they tromp. Dublin is their city. Dubh Linn. Black Pool. The name evokes images of heroin rolling on foil. The Spire watches high over O'Connell Street, a lantern above the oily slick roads, taxis and buses rolling through them, like a needle penetrating the veiny patchwork streets.
>>24946850Dublin is owned by Afghan Bvlls while yt cucks do nothing
Bump
Have ye a euro fer a hostel bud?
What's your reading plans for 2026?Suggest a book to read in 2026 collectively. I'll add dubs (Jan to Sep, 11 to 99) and trips (Oct to Dec, 111 to 333) to the chart.
>>24948587Louis C.K.'s new novel. Check'em.
Norm's novel, man
00 means you start the calendar over
Rolling for Les Chants de Maldoror
>>24948587The Golden Bowl, Henry James
Faoiseamh a gheobhadsaSeal beag gairidI measc mo dhaoineAr oileán mara,Ag síul cois cladaighMaidin is tráthnónaÓ Luan go SatharnThiar ag baile.Faoiseamh a gheobhadsaSeal beag gairidI measc mo dhaoine,Ó chrá croí,Ó bhuairt aigne,Ó uaigneas duairc,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24948992Jabba wanin cheeco-wa rush anye katanye wanaruska, heh heh heh.
Everything you call "living" is just a massive cope to disguise the fact that your biology is desperately trying to return to the inorganic state it crawled out of. You think you have a will to power or life goals but that's just a mask for the will to nothingness. You are essentially a complicated rock that unfortunately gained consciousness and is now taking a circuitous path back to being a rock. The science is clear that the inanimate existed before us and the only real drive is to restore that silence, meaning your entire existence is just a temporary glitchy detour toward the grave. The universe is indifferent, cosmic extinction is guaranteed, and when the heat death of the universe hits it will be like none of this ever happened, so stop deluding yourself that this life is anything other than a long pointless walk back to zero.
>>24949184Nihilism is a self defeating belief since believing in nothing is itself a belief in something. It is simply an animalistic self loathing used to evade responsibility for one’s duties. The current paradigm of physics and cosmology is wrong just as previous paradigm have been wrong. This is just an aspect of the modern worldview made more clear. Modern man’s desire for power and belief in his own godhood, wanting to control everything and turn reality into base material so that he can reform reality into a creation that exists only to pleasure him.
>>24949290Are you misinterpreting Nietzsche?
>>24949278well, stab him then!
This type of view is far too backwards looking. It ignores that several genuine miracles have occurred, and a materialist can grant these as miracles either in the statistical sense or in the more profound sense of the inherent potentiality of matter in motion (or dialectical materialism if you will), which are the “emergence” of the existence of matter in the first place (this can be either temporal or the eternal miracle of existence’s inherent existence, its existential inertia), the coalescence of matter into complex inorganic systems, the emergence of organic self-replicating systems, the emergence of consciousness out of those organic self-replicating systems and the possibility of natural systems to consciously intervene in the unfolding of phenomena (labor and History), and the (rapid) emergence of more and more complex social formations out of these systems, each step is genuinely unthinkable on the basis of prior systems, matter is imminently developing ever more unthinkable systems of organisation. Mao talked about how after epochs of human development, communism itself would end, the human itself would be superseded, that this self-supersession is inherent to human conduct and all matter, that the universe, all reality is a non-teleological non-subject developing itself immanently into Something, a not-yet that isn’t yet even implicit. What is it? Idk more interesting than nihilism.
>>24949184>the only real driveYou are talking about one of the two major drives according to Freud: Thanatos. Todestrieb. The death drive. But there's also Eros, lebenstriebe or the life drive. Maybe life isn't that perfectly dialectical, but why would it so unidimensional?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive>The universe is indifferentThis is meaningless. The universe is an indifferent thing? What do you mean by that? I know thanks to context that you mean that we are not important in the greater scheme of things, but saying "the universe is [adjective of psychological origin]" is essentially metaphorical, there is no clear, primary meaning to this arrange of subject and predicate.Indifference is a psychological quality. Using a moral instead of psychological example, is Saturn inherently evil? You could say Saturn is indifferent as in outside of moral considerations, but can Saturn or the universe be psychologically indifferent? What do you mean by that? Are you implying some sort of anthropomorphised pantheism?
How do I master the English language as an ESL? Is there a certified /lit/ guide?
>>24949518The foundation that everyone worships as the master:>KJV Bible. Some others for flavor:>Chaucer>Shakespeare>Milton>Austen>Dickens>Melville
Why yes, half page descriptions of lamps and countertops with the occasional interjection of brain dead criminals speaking futuristic ebonics. It certainly deserves all the praise. Were people really that bored in the 80s to enjoy this?I'm not finishing it. I feel my neurons dying in real time. I was right for putting it off for so many years.
>>24947621I simply don't care for descriptions of mundane objects. It's a waste of time. You dense cunt.
>>24947509you're still in your midwit phase where you can't appreciate lowbrow art so im sorry but i can't take you seriously
>>24949265>midwitStopped reading there
>>24947771>mostly because what came out after took what he did and did it betterName 5 authors that “did it better”
>>24946610Anyone who gets past the opening sentence is simply a sucker for punishment.
I'll start
>>24946950Bergman was a pseud. Failed intellectual. I do agree with your definition though, Tartovsky does fit, and the op I originally replied to seemingly has the most comprehensive list (which is 4 names long).
>>24946966to be fair, no one really talks about or cares about the book anymore
I adore this movie, both cuts
Excalibur
>>24940607>>24936012It was actually adapted a second time after this, Kinkakuji in 1976. i've only seen Enjo, though.
>>24944446>Emily Wilsonoh no
>>24948780Looks like a rooster
>>24949363Convoluted explanation for ideological motivation
>>24949363Or, as Tolkien put it in his fiction also, in other words, evil cannot create, only copy or destroy.
>>24947068Women can translate just fine. Iconoclastic ideological motivation should be called out for what it is without resorting to retarded generalizations that merely feed the beast.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24949101I'm asking for your opinion you fucking retard.
>>24949146What gotchas?
>>24949468I'll illustrate with an example:So I live in a friendly neighborhood and everyone really likes to talk to their neighbours.So This new guy moved into my neighborhood and I as a friendly neighbour introduced myself."Hi I'm Norm McDonald" so he says something something I don't remember his name. He asks what do you do I say "I'm a comic" and I ask him what do you do and he says "I'm a professor of logic at University of something" I don't remember the name that well. So I ask "what does it mean ? I mean what do you do?" so he says it includes syllogism of something something and everything's going over my head so he says let me show you with an example.He asks me do you have Doghouse. I say Yes. He says so you have dog. I say yes so he says so you must have a family. I say I do. so he says that must mean You are a heterosexual. I say yes. So he says that that's logic, "Just by asking you if you have a doghouse I was able to tell that you're a heterosexual" and then I say "well that's something, may be come over sometimes, we will have chicken"And I go to the bus stop because I have bus to catch. But there's no bus and I've been waiting for 10 minutes now with some other people. So this one guy says "I'll light a cigarette and by the time I finish it the bus will come". So the guy finishes the cigarette but the bus still didn't come so I say "well that didn't work" so he says "well sometime it works sometime it doesn't" and so we start talking and he asks me "so how is your day" and I say well something interesting happened to me today, I met a professor of logic" and he says "what's that" So I say " well it has something to do with syllogism something I didn't understand all that well but I can give you an example" and the guy says okay.So I ask him "Do you have a doghouse" and the guy says "No". So I say "Then you must be one of them gays"
>>24949465See>>24949477
>>24948717Ans thankfully will be replaced with Islam In sha Allah and atheists and LGBT will be silenced or put to death
>december 2025>novel still unfinished
>>24948774So you are ahead. Some anons haven't even started.
It's just me and you, anon
35k word of my first draft. Life's good. I am writing chapter 21 of it as we speak. I expect 27 or 29 chapters, so I am almost done with the first draft.
I've got 50k words down and I'm probs not even a third done. It's fun but I know I'm gonna need to write another draft which is kind of disheartening
>>24948774If you find an activity intensely difficult, it's usually because you have no aptitude for it.
>>24946067The Aleph - opened up my Borges to check.
>>24946321Right. (With two pages of assorted stuff he sees in it.)
Bump.Second random hint:Of those unanswered, 30, 33, 35, 44, 59, 71, 75, 76, 85 are female authors.
33: Uncle Tom's Cabin?44: Mill on the Floss?
>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
>>24947980Who?
>>24949026U gay or something?
>>24947980why are modern men such simps?
>>24948297WOULD WOULD WOULD WOULD
>>24948297Small tits just don't do it for me.
