Tolstoy's forgotten 3rd novel. Why does no one talk about it? It's kind of like his version of Crime and Punishment with a similar story about prison, crime and prostitution. It's heavy-handed yeah but very good.
>>24954251>why haven't 23 years old zoomers on /lit/ read Tolstoy's entire oeuvre
>>24956009>Still butthurt from the current read thread
>>24956009He only has 3 “main” novels and this is the shortest, it’s not like you see people discuss all of Dostoevsky’s books like The Adolescent or Notes from a Dead House
New meme book is here
>>24955934What mark, O wise one?
>>24955899Boring.
>>24955899Christianity is just Platonism with a Jewish middle man.
>>24956033They all fail to recognise and appreciate the omnipresent sense of "is"
Lot of faggots in this thread, there is.
>Harry Potter's mom fell in love with the school bullyWhat did Rowling mean by this?
>>24955963I'm a millennial, too. But I've seen plenty of videos of zoomers of all different races in various locations getting into school fights over the years. Probably depends on what part of the world you're in, but in America it's commonplace to hear about shit escalating and kids getting jumped, stabbed, shot, etc. You probably don't see less severe physical altercations as much anymore because most sane people are afraid of that escalation. The days where you'd fight a guy fairly and it'd stop there, and maybe you'd even end up respecting each other are gone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBwn9wD9M6Q
>>24956030>VIDEOS ARE REALITY!Your mind is a temple in which engineered E-egregores dwell and little else.In millennial days you saw it if you were out and about. Today, you don't see it.What you do see all the time is zoomlings exaggerating and playing at the victim Olympics like >>24955951. A teacher failing a student will result in weeks of posting about the emotional trauma.
>>24954517The point was to heighten the increasing sense she wished to convey to the reader that the world of Harry Potter is morally complex and doesn't map neatly onto superficial expectations.Harry Potter is the messiah, but he's born to a bully and an enabler.He's born to a popular kid, but he himself is meek and humble.The bully was Gryffindor, and the victim was Slytherin.The boy is his bully's son, but he sacrifices his life for him anyway.Harry Potter was always about subverting the readers' expectations as often as possible. It's an extended lesson on how things can be not what they seem.
>>24955951>Lol, are you living in a gentler reality than the rest of us?Maybe, nta but there was almost zero bullying or fighting of any kind in my school growing up, and I'm a millennial.
>>24954517I still wanna hate fuck RowlingWhat do I mean by this? Write a 250 word response and respond to 2 fellow posters with at least a 50 word reply.
sansa 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: >>24922194
>>24951633Most fanfic writers are women and most men don't read at all
>>24951633>Why is asoiaf discourse so gynocentricis it?
>>24955234>SIsSergeant Instructors? Small Intestines?
Aryans and baraths lol haha
>>24951633>Robb wouldn't even trade Jaime for both of his sisters.Because a woman's value is either in the kitchen or on her back.
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24954883
>>24954824Lots of funny moments in that book. Smallweed habitually throwing a cushion at his wife's face and being almost physically unable to restrain himself from calling George a 'brimstone demon' or whatever comes to mind
>>24951462Oblomov had me laughing out loud at partsSo did Moby Dick
>>24951738Based. For me, it's The Information by Amis, Jr.
>>24952526Is this Terry Pratchett?
Why couldn't they compete with American authors?
>>24955287Absolutely not true, artists were well respected in USSR as long as they didn't criticize the party.George Lucas himself admitted that Soviet artists had more freedom.
>>24955130Because communism destroys creativity.
>>24955201>3/4 of them being dissidentsAnyway, is shalokov good?
>>24955130>Why couldn't they compete with American authors?Apples to oranges.And that goes not only to literature, but also to other media like movies.
>>24955320>At least with Americans that‘s a figurative expression.Pfft XD
Cavaliers vs Roundheads, who had the better literature? I admit the Cavaliers have a larger amount of great writers, but Milton and Marvell for the Roundheads is a nigh unbeatable combo.
>>24956125>It's just that Puritans had autism about Catholicism and they refused to tolerate anything associated with thatThis isn't really true. Cromwell sent pamphlets to Ireland explaining that people would be free to practise their Catholicism. It's just that Catholics kept forcing their religion onto the English and allying with Royalists and thus were a serious threat to state security.
>>24956131>free to practise their CatholicismYeah, they could practice Catholicism freely, but without priests, dedicated churches, religious art, processions, monks and monasteries, bishops and, above all, no contact or aligning with the Pope. Quite the grand freedom, I'd say.
>>24956167Freedom of faith does not mean freedom from consequences
>>24956167>but without priestsI'm not sure that's true either. A significant amount of Irish priests were suspected of being involved with the Ulster massacres and were known to be connected with Charles I. There was no sensible situation in which they wouldn't be arrested in masses. There's also Cromwell's letter explaining that he wants to give Catholics more rights but is prevented by Parliament. But this is all besides the point because the Catholics were guilty of exactly what you're accusing the Puritans of doing.
Tips? I have a lot of shit I want to go through, and its material I am very interested in reading but I am such a readlet.
>>24956084I should've added, the book is like 149 pages, all of them that is, and it's a very easy read, not at all on the dense side, evola is easily 10x more difficult to parse in comparison.
>>24956084>>24956109It's a good thing to take your sweet time reading. Think about every passage, question quotations, research statements, etc., or just enjoy the process of reading. All that matters is that you read it.
>>24955986KHV NEETs
>>24956140read what?
>>24956140I read well when its something I care to, but something about my approach slows me down much more than I should.
Nominate science fiction and fantasy books for this brand new top 100. Only 10 nominations per voter, so choose wisely. Nominations will close on Friday, and voting will begin.For Series: Use your best judgement on whether to nominate an individual work or the series itself.https://forms.gle/prDdNXyrgtXnTVeD7FAQs>What qualifies as science fiction? / What qualifies as fantasy?>Why did the poll dictator disqualify my nomination?>Why no no horror?>What format will voting take?
>>24953296Nitpick, it is called the Barsoom Series, not John Carter of Mars.
>>24953296Why does the FAQ provide no answers to the questions?
>>24953394Man Blindsight sucked. People praise it as some amazing accurate and realistic depiction of aliens and sci fi and the first chapter talks about vampires being real and now work with humans.
>>24955971You're not supposed to tell people the current rating cause then dumbasses make their votes based around the current rating
>>24956179That's not the ranking. It's just the works that have been nominated thus far.
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24955874What's the point?
>>24955949To remember Latin case order.
>>24956001What is "case order"?
>>24955874Wow good to have one I can share. This whole time my acronym has been >Nigger>Gang>Deaths>African>American
>>24956001According to AI all "Latin case order" is is the order in which cases are normally written in paradigms in books. It's not word order. Why do you need to memorize this order?
I know it sounds corny but the consolation of philosophy has now saved me multiple times. It saved me from sadness and confusion and it invigorated my faith. It’s the most important book besides the holy scripture.
>>24953057Skimmed it. Nothing caught my positive attention in it.
>>24954591No book can do that. Only you can do it to yourself.
>>24954603You can’t skim a book like this. You need to spend time with it, read it slowly over a few days or even weeks. Lit it simmer.
>>24953057Why doesn't /lit/ have book collection downloads? Like the entire Ignatius Critical Editions for example?
>>24953057There's a reason it was the most popular book of the Middle Ages besides the Bible.
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>>24956145D34
>>24956151grey is what i thought as well. which is strange to me since they were always very blue until just recently. maybe that means something.
I'm trying to make a thread and it's telling me it thinks my post is spam. That's so insulting
>>24956176>>24956176sit, spammer
>>24956164I just realised how little stormlight archive's eye color based racism makes sense without a proper historical context.
"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24955953the one about writing
>>24951364>look back on old writing >it's actually better than what I write nowLately I feel like I have had a problem of overthinking what I write. I worry too much about things that most readers won't even notice, and it makes everything I write sound artificial. The natural flow just isn't there.
>>24955998You're not supposed to take inspiration from what you read. You're only allowed to take inspiration from your interesting and adventurous real life.
>>24956082I have the same problem of overcomplicating my plots and making it more convoluted than it needs to be. In these cases, the author's voice leaks clearly through, and this is how you get overly preachy moralistic filth that seems more concerned on lecturing and nagging.It helps to reframe the act of writing by aiming for a mild form of ego-death. It's not you that writes the story. The story writes itself through you.
Is this too preachy?
Are similar, on the one hand, analytical error or synthesis and on the other, the error between the conclusions of a pair of reasonings that contain equivocity, or especially, that contain a false univocity. The fragmentation of reality into several particular “possible worlds” linked to each other from the outside, under the pretense of universality, is like starting from a whole and its parts, then enlarging the whole to contain itself when a part exceeds it, whereas the whole disintegrates at every moment when it is no longer itself. Aesthetically, what is lost is everything that is not the represented formalization. Ethically, it is aesthetics and in metaphysics, everything is lost.Possessing an absolute Spirit would allow analytical truth. But for us, the seduction of the analytic will remain similar to that of the religious, the latter still being the more desirable. — Even if one admits mathematics a priori, concepts need a posteriori object in order to be true - objects that are contingent to the point of being absolutely fortuitous - for is indeterminate what is possible false. Analytics have lost on their own ground.
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Sounds like skill issue
>>24954265Yes, anyone who has studied the Greeks and the idealists can see through the analytics like they’re made of glass. You hit the nail on the head in the second paragraph. External reflection. Some of them proudly align themselves with Protagoras. Like the animulculae in Lucretius it makes you laugh until you weep. It’s not an academic game either, the content of this mode of philosophizing is the world we live in, what Fichte called sarcastically the age of common sense.
>>24954265You would have received more replies with better writing.
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.
Tom's Crossing
>>24953912>>24954861I saw someone post a Henry James flowchart the other day that was pretty good. The way I've read him is by reading an early or middle period novel or two and then one of the major three late novels. Next on my James reading list, besides The Golden Bowl, are What Maisie Knew, Roderick Hudson, and to start chipping away at the complete stories.
>>24955788I've only read the first 1/3 but it's pretty good. Very long-winded though.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
The Return of the Native
