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.
>>24946530>I was pretty much living out that book when my 20's started. I met her in college and I just knew she was different from everyone else and precious when I heard her speak.I'm older, pushing 60 actually. Love, and however you define it... its as "real" as you hold it to be, its as real as you make it out to be. Chemicals now understood or magic as the ancients held it to be, its the same thing. You get one look, one sniff of the scent of a person and your heart rate goes up. If they feel it back, it really might as well be magic. I lived this for about 28 years before modern life ruined our relationship and ripped it asunder, we had a good run. Why care where such a powerful thing comes from just enjoy it while it lasts. The old timers told us, didn;t they. Romantic love fades but never dies. Make sure you're best friends as well as lovers to make that transition to real life. There's nothing finer to possess in this world, than that ephemeral love. And that's as long as you have it.
>>24947920more utter bullshit. here we go, shakespeare was a nigger, or some other guy, a preposterous pronouncement on par with moon landing hoax.
>>24948955observation: the outliers that are gays, have problems with thing Xconclusion: thing x must be called into questionproblematic to be sure.
>>24945823>Love as we know it now is mostly a concept that arose around the time of Shakespeare, after the invention of the Gutenberg printing pressBytuene Mersh and Averil, When spray biginneth to springe,The lutel foul hath hire wyl On hyre lud to synge. Ich libbe in love longinge For semlokest of alle thinge. He may me blisse bringe; Icham in hire baundoun.An hendy hap ichabbe yhent; Ichot, from hevene it is me sent; From alle wymmen mi loue is lent,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
It seems the main struggle is semantic and what love means. I think most people here agree the Disney princess rendition of love is fake and fabricated.
So at the end of the day, who deserved the Hugo more? Dune no doubt had a much bigger impact, but is there an argument that the literary merit of 'This Immortal' is stronger than Dune?
They're practically different genres, so it's mostly apples to oranges. I like This Immortal more; it's more fun and more formally inventive. Zelazny is clearly the better writer. But in retrospect, Dune was more influential, and on the basis of scope of concept, I can understand why some people would prefer it.
Zelazny is a much better writer than Herbert. Dune was influential but that doesn't automatically make it good. Facebook is influential.
This book changed my life for the better
>>24950869>IGNORANCE IS BLISS!!!you chud incels are some of the most pathetically fragile beings on the planet
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>>24950869the point the excerpt wishes to make is that women cheat to be with men more attractive, in this case a larger penis, than their boyfriend/fiance/husband.
>>24952296A bigger penis is not an aesthetic advantage but a functional one.
>>24950544not a big deal if you have more life energy
>>24947433Are these schizos in the room with us right now?
>>24950839I reckon so.
>>24950345Because like so many other people on this website he is probably an adult convert to I'm guessing Catholicism because he finds the imagery of being a le based redpilled tradcath appealing and is now trying to justify this belief post hoc
>>24950345Because christians are intellectual cowards and natural slaves who want to be told what to think, feel, and believe.
>>24950345A select few eventually encounter something beyond this ordinary life and must construct their understanding of their existence in reaction to this encounter, rather than constructing the staircase to such an encounter using reason as a tool. I hope you and all others who wish to believe but rationally cannot one day are graced by such an encounter and are able to see the beauty in all things in the light of it.
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24951865>He was entrancing, with that epicene beauty that in extreme youth cries aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind>The languor of youth (sorry, Youth) - how unique and quintessential it is!>I was made free of her narrow loinsi may have missed the irony, but i cannot believe a man could write as badly as that for fun.ever read waugh’s first (best) book? some good bits about the welsh. also much closer to >>24951738>What can I say?i can think of one or two things
>>24951882>i cannot believe a man could write as badly as that for fun.Your problem is you mistake good writing for bad and vice versa. Explain the Amis fixation.>ever read waugh’s first (best) book?No but I mean to, I’ve heard that passage before, in a documentary about waugh
>>24951894>I mean toyou’ll dislike it i think.not sure why he thought that the way to avoid writing as he did in the 30s (which was quite well) is to write as BAD WRITERS did in the 30s.
the bit with the shitty british sour candies in Gravity's Rainbow made me chuckle
Confederacy of dunces, catch 22, antkind
This is horrifying. Is there a better way than Christianity to transcend this?
>>24948191>fell for the memeGood grief
>>24950501>I'm happy to do this with the entire French leftPlease do, I like keeping notes on that kind of stuff
>>24951644I'm sure you are glowie.And just before the bullet from the Dick's Sporting Good's surplus Czech SKS enter my brain, my back pressed against the cold wall for my crimes again The People, I will remind you that no one thinks you look cool in your Doc Martens, that everyone was talking before the struggle session and we all agreed we think you look like a Berklee lesbian.
>>24950818Believe it or not, Girard already builds on Nietzsche
>>24948443This
Which one is his best?
Barfly (he wrote the screenplay)
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Ever since the internet turned against atheism sometime during the second Obama term, “atheism” itself became a dirty word. Suddenly everyone who was an atheist just a few years before become an expert in Thomism or heyschasm, and decided that believing in evidence was cringe. Religious zoomers started acting like they “won the culture war.” Funny how that works. Since y'all are either literal zoomers who were toddlers during the heyday of new atheism or have the memory of goldfish, imagine it’s 1990 so you can understand why New Atheism mattered. You’re stuck in an evangelical megachurch. The pastor is telling you dinosaurs lived with humans, AIDS is God’s punishment, Israel is our greatest ally, and questioning anything means you’re going to hell. This is also the same institution quietly covering for youth pastors who “fell into sin,” preaching family values while funneling donations into private jets, and condemning divorce from the pulpit while half the elders are on their second or third marriage. This wasn’t fringe, it was normal. Teachers, politicians, parents all nodding along. New Atheism wasn’t about being edgy online. It was a backlash to decades of religious dominance that people memory-holed because 4cuck told them to. Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, were abrasive. So? That was the point. Polite disagreement didn’t work with creationist christcuck retards controlling the government and schools trying to ban stem cell research because muh “soulz”Now fast-forward to today and suddenly everyone pretends religion is this harmless aesthetic hobby and atheism is the real extremism. As if the progress of the last 30 years just happened magically. As if secularism didn’t have to fight for every inch. New Atheism didn’t fail. It succeeded so hard that people forgot why it existed and now they’re turning back the clock because irony poisoned their brains. But sure, keep pretending “both sides are cringe” while pastors are back on TikTok telling kids the Earth is 6,000 years old and Drumpf is bringing back dead jew worship in schools. Have fun when you're living in Christian ISIS and shitposting is banned. At least you owned le redditors online.
>>24952246>all the christk1ke boomers not only didn't do anything against it but cheered it on...and todays pastors are no different. the question is how we can go about doing an ezekiel kills all the pastors in israel and replacing them all with people without a master of divinity certification from a faggiversity
>>24952199lemme guess Christ-killers arent atheists
>>24952269rare jewish w
>>24951979Libtards only turned on atheism when it started going after other religions and wouldn’t hop on the intersectional SJW bandwagon in the early 10s, proving it was always just about being anti Christian.
>>24952277Libtard-SJW support of New Atheism was, yes. But the actual new atheist movement itself didn't change its positions and remained against all religions, so that's not a critique of it.
>can't win over blacks>can't win over poorfags>outright enemies of blue collar workers>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies >can't/won't win over the armed forces>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies>can't/won't win over the politicians>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
>>24951946>success is when you rape the third world while making Europe commit democide twice just to become vassal states of the Burger Reich, which restarts the process and flirts with nuclear holocausts multiple times along the wayRead a history book you projecting nigger.
>>24950477>can't win over blacksThere was more than one communist revolution in Africa
didn't germany have Lenin use communism as a weapon to weaken russia during the 1st WWI don't think communism is a terrible governing form, it's issue is that bad people game the system to enrich themselves with power and wealth. And all it's champions are silver spoon elitists
>it's another "confirmation that napoleon's defeat destroyed european sovereignty for good" episode
>>24952153And the countries willingly gave up communist rule after the fall of the USSR, Cambodia as well.
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>24952268That's completely true, but it tends to be what has to be done if you want it right away.
>>24951858>What are you referring to?My headcanon that best girl Selene is actually with Hadrian in exile and Orphan is still alive on the not-blown-up Demiurge and that Hadrian lied about both to protect them
>>24952189Only a faggot reads Le Guin.
>>24951913Ruocchio somewhat famously avoids goodreads and shit, probably for the best. I wanted to love SuT, and I think I'll like it better on reread, but it's fucking long and I wanted my payoff the first time around justice for Ramanthanu. In a series known for its scale it's crazy that the most fulfilling moments were small things like Darathama playing with the human kidsRe: SotE, gay Radahn sucked and the fight was mogged by Messmer and Sage "Castle Doctrine" Midra. All I wanted was for killing Starscourge to activate the eclipse in the DLC, turn everything into giga nightmare world, and fight Godwyn at the end, but after two goddamn years Faggotzaki decided to end the DLC with a slight upgrade of a boss I already fought. Seems like he's so desperate to move onto the next project he always halfasses things. He arguably hasn't made a complete game since Bloodborne and C team gave me a more satisfying story with Nightreign + DLC desu.Anyway enough vidya
>>24948786>>24948781your """reviews""" are GREATKEEP IT UP!
>The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.-Note on the text, Douglas A. Anderson, 1993What is a book, as Anderson (and presumably Tolkien) means it? For me naively a book and a bound volume is the same thing. Did Tolkien intend for the Lord of the Rings to be published as six books? Wouldn't that make it a hexalogy?
>>24952099 (Me)Also, scrolls had to be unfurled compared to bound books which could be flipped through, which I assume was another consideration when organizing a work into multiple scrolls.
>>24951793>More examples doesn't answer my question. What is a book?NTA, but think of the bible.Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, etc.Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etcEach of those are considered to be a "book", in the classic sense. They all get compiled into a collected works, and then we lazily call that a "book" too, but that's a much more recent understanding of a book. It's more recent, because it wasn't viable to produce collected works, until we had the printing press. Before then, a collected works were super rare and expensive, because it had to be copied by hand. It's why christians will commonly say stuff like "Umm.... Ackchyually the Bible is a library and not a book".Contemporarily, a book is a complete story, regardless of it's stand-alone or part of a greater series.Book has 3 obvious meanings, depending on when it's being used.
>>24952086No?
>>24952281Yes. Read literally any roman historian.
>>24952338I have.
>is arguably the single most racist author in American history>marries a Jewish womanWhat did HP Lovecraft mean by this?
>>24952305>who says im not talking about them eitherI am. You're not talking about them. >reactionary I replied to you, but you in turn are merely reacting to "right wing", as you have defined it.>you just assume shitThen tell me I'm wrong. Tell me you identify as a white European with European culture. Say that you fit in with Europeans (yes, Euromericans too). Say that you wouldn't be waving your freak flag the moment someone tells you to let your freak flag fly. You're a freak. You know you're a freak. You know you don't fit in and that's why you take it out on those around you. You hate "right wing" because it means actual European culture, which you reject, and so you associate with deviants. These aren't implied battlelines- they're explicit. If you didn't realize that this is how the West is setup then that's your fault for not knowing. >my initial critiqueThat wasn't a critique. You're doing the very thing you accused me of doing by assuming that others, people you hate, are somehow more of a freak than you are. >cultic beliefsYou have no idea what you mean by that. A cult is a culture that's small. That's what that really means by the way. You're preying on the idea that small groups can be seen as outsiders and therefore there is an element of strageness- which you yourself perceive because you're on the outside. That's not an assumption anymore, you've already admitted it when you stated that your political position isn't "sexy". And no, it's not particularly enlightened, you're watching it crash in real time and it's only been established a few decades. And no, you're not a socialist, you're just a liberal with another name on the brand.
>>24952320>Then tell me I'm wrongindeed you are wrong. i identify as a norwegian, a scandinavian and a germanic. i dont relate to every european and certainly not euroamericans that have virtually zero connection to europe besides pointless shit like blood. everyone in europe have a more nuanced identity than your simplistic american "white european" bullshit that means nothing. what the fuck do i have in common with moldovans? italians? bulgarians? very little. in our countires there can be massive differences when you just travel a dozen kilometers rooted in thousands of years of history. i am an ethnic norwegian protestant that is connected more to scandinavia than continental europe. you act like we are a monolith, which we certainly are not.
>>24952330>i identify as a norwegian, a scandinavian and a germanicSo when you debate against "right wing", you should really already know that the underlying concept behind "right wing" groups in general is a belief in nation. Not necessarily religion as something like a Christian nationalist, or having class consciousness. Nobody hears "right wing" and thinks "furry" other than yourself. >i dont relate to every europeanThat's a personal choice, but being Germanic means being inextricably linked to European history generally- and for the historically literate- central northern Asian too. >certainly not euroamericans that have virtually zero connection to europe besides pointless shit like bloodOkay, so that's actually what matters. So you're an anti-science genetics denier, but you even deny that Americans could have European culture, which is obvious given our language, history, literary traditions, technology, involvement in every major European conflict either directly or indirectly, etc. So you don't actually believe in Europe as a culture. That means that the first premise you stated, your own identity, doesn't actually come from culture. You identified with it because you are geographically within Norway, and Germanic territory, not because there's a genetic lineage or even on the basis of culture. You lied to me. >in our countires there can be massive differences when you just travel a dozen kilometers rooted in thousands of years of historyI grew up in Italy. You don't have to explain this. >i am an ethnic norwegian protestant You don't have an ethnicity. >you act like we are a monolithWe are a monolith. It's a big club- and you ain't in it.
>see a european who compliments and loves jews>look at their name>they're an anglo britwithout fail
>>24952344enough about nietzsche
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.
>>24950655>a fewHave you read this book?
>>24946610This book really fell flat for me. I think it would’ve been better if I read it before I’d seen the Matrix, which seems to borrow most of whats interesting in Neuromancer and present it in a far more entertaining manner
I liked the first half of the book, I wanted more future prole stuff in a cool future cyber city rather than spy action stuff on a wacky rastafarian space station
>>24947622it's fineit's cool for what it is and what it contributed to the genre, and the second half of the book has some neat atmosphere.
>>24946610If you wrote about 2025 and then went back in time to 1985 and sold it as a futuristic novel it would seem boring, a parody of futuristic novels, or groundbreaking for being different.>ok, this book is set in 40 years in the future but it's about a total loserWhat does he do?>he works at a supermarketOn the moon?>no, on Earth, stupidDoes he use a flying car/teleportation device/tube to get there?>no he uses a regular car on a regular roadBut the car is futuristic right?>not this one, it still has buttons and runs on unleaded but there are these things called "Cybertrucks" that look futuristic and they're electricBut the electricity is derived from fusion power, right?>no, it's just coal or wind power or solarOK, so are his coworkers at the store robots?>no there's only one robotComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>read a book>it's good>read it again>it's even goodername even one time this has happened
>>24943875If you liked Ulysses at Stephen's age, you should read it again at Bloom's age.
>>24943888>>24943936>>24943959/lit/ on a heater
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>>24943975this too
>>24943875War and Peace. Seeing characters grow makes me grow inside.
Ebooks weren't a thing when I grew up. I have loved reading for almost 40 years, and reading means physical books. I don't like reading books off a screen. It doesn't give the same pleasure as reading off a page.
>>24950985>>24950974Batteries get fucked when you use Bluetooth or color displays.
>>24950985I would be perfectly fine with a Kobo that has an SD card slot.
>>24950873Aside from E, the Supernote Manta(or Nomad) meets those requirements. They both allow for battery replacement, if you somehow kill it in the future.
>>24947268I buy physical books for ones that I might share or have no digital release(lots of resource and research books are physical release only). Ebooks are great now that ereaders are now good for writing. Being able to take notes and highlight PDFs is worthy of using an ereader now. It took quite awhile for the technology to finally catch up, and now the writing experience is finally good.
