"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.
>>24952826>Bob saw Jim.This is (usually interpreted by the reader as) privileged information of Bob's, so yes, that's closer to head-hopping. Compare to the equivalent of what he was doing:>Bob walked over. Jim felt like he was ready to lunch Bob.This is in not in any way head-hopping.You seem very confused.
>>24952833To elaborate, you don't need to explicitly frame everything within the focal character's perceptions. It's largely implied, and trying to do so will make your writing incredibly clumsy and sound more amateur.>Jim stood on the parapet. He saw the archers begin to nock their arrows. He saw them clap each other on the backs, and he heard some shout words of bravado and encouragement. >Jim cautiously peered over the ledge and saw the army approaching in the distance.vs>Jim stood on the parapet. The archers began to nock their arrows, then clap each other on the backs and shout words of bravado and encouragement. >He cautiously peered over the ledge. The army approached in the distance.
>>24952168Dumb nasty Jews.
>>24952844trvke
If the fat man is such a shit writer why do I only see people trying to emulate his style nowadays? People don't try to emulate Nabokov, Dosto, Cormac, etc... They just try to do gurm. Do trdiational canon cucks have an answer to this?
Prop 1 - Substance is by nature prior to its modificationsSubstance is prior to modificications (modes), this makes both logical and ontological sense, in that substance is that which is in in itself and is conceived through itself, in that it is a self sufficient, self caused entity that cannot be contingent upon anything external. Spinoza presents his proof through definitions 3 and 5 as it logically follows, however here I will give more context. This establishes substance as the ontological foundation of reality in that God is not the divine creator of the world, but rather that god is the world, within all that exists. In such substance which is infinite, eternal and indivisible. This rejects the classic view of god (maybe why he got kicked out of the jewish church) that god sits apart from the world. In this modes, or determinations of substance, are not substances in themselves but exist within the substance, in such they are dependent on its existence. In link to Axiom 1, “Everything that is, is either in itself or in another.” (pls read the other writing on axioms for clarification) which reaffirms the ontological priority of substance over its modes, modes are in substance but substance is not in any mode. This reflects Spinoza's claim that all that exists as finite expressions of the infinite attributes of god, this undermines the notion of a transcendent deity, in that Spinoza's god is positioned as necessary to the constitution of all being.
>>24952143Spinoza was very critical of Francis Bacon for his philosophy, you don't know what you're talking about. /pol/ has mindbroken you
'tard moment
>>24952519You’ll never be a woman
>>24951508It's a standard mystic ontology you'd find in buddhism, advaita, neo-plationism, etc. The substance is what your experience is made of right now, and it twists and moves to represent forms which you'd call the universe and yourself. If you want to stick with materialism you'd call it the quantum field and stop there, the religions would say the field is sequent to God.
Spinoza posits God as the first cause. If you keep reading he makes it clear he conceives of God as an entity with free will but who always acts in accord with his nature, as distinguished from humans who acts from external causation.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24952109so is your entire "proof" that Pierce was supposedly gay that the fictional character he created didn't immediately impregnate a female character?not sure if you're dishonest or just really that stupid
>>24952223Is this real? Ngl this is something a 15 year old would write
>>24952886its by harold covington, heterosexual racist boomer
>>24952805difference betwen h. sapiens and h. sexualis Bible explains is h. sexualis is brute beasts i.e. lack souls, easiest way to determine that is the ability to recognize other souls, especially the heroism of our pally ally in the war forced on him by the Christ-killers, thus virtually all american pastors, who become pastor through acquisition of an outrageous master of divinity degree, and soulless vain light fellows who presumably would have been businessmen if they had any talent at all, like the pastor of salem at the time of the satanic witch trials. being an h. sexualis, pierce is incapable of understanding what its like to have a soul or write h. sapiens characters* pierce was known to his contemporaries in the rockwell group as a physical coward. to avoid being around men and have access to children instead, he ran the youth alliance* pierce wrote sex scenes in his novels for young adults, but he couldnt have expected Christ-killers to publish them, he simply wrote sex scenes for the thrill of teaching young adults what sex is like* pierces characters casually use contraceptives and engage in posslqdom, which at the time he wrote were both scandalous behavior that the actual right wing vehemently condemned* in the 90's, pierce explained in his podcast that marriage is an outmoded economic arrangement that is withering away, because piece was a pinko. in reality marriage is a spiritual arrangement that was under daemonic attack from pierce and his pinko friends
>>24945217the difference between lebanese shiites and maronites is maronites work with Christ-killer pm ariel sharon to murder pallies at sabra and shatila while shiites spend their blood and treasure defending the pallies. shiites are in many ways more Christian than peoples whomst call themselves Christian, starting with fighting His enemies and continuing with respecting His institutions of marriage and the family
>What makes you think you're good enough to write a book?
>>24948669I like writing notes I think are important down. I don't actually care if someone else reads them.It's like, a grocery store is better at providing food, but I like to garden.
>>24948669Because I've written six and I don't need the approval of other people
>>24951847Did you gain any readership?Would you consider yourself a graphomaniac?
>>24948669Because my ideas are actually kind of fire and I like writing. And I have a lot to say paired with an outlook that I think is a needed one.
I'm high IQ and have a lot of empathy and can intuitively understand how people think. Only real problem is being a shut-in with little life experience and while that definitely hinders me I don't think it's a fatal blow. It just means my work should lean heavily into expressing the pain of isolation and alienation.
What pace do you read at, /lit/?
>>24953091you don't get it, this slop website I vibecoded in 30 minutes is a huge breakthrough
>>24953013Why would I use this? Are people seriously this ADHD?
>>24953176Yes. This is what happens when kids who were raised on TV and video games try to get into reading later in life. They have to gamify it and employ tools to measure their progress or they can't focus on it.
>>24953182Thank god I was growing up in the late 90s and 2000s and often spent time in countryside.
1 page every 2 minutes
Penguin always seem to have the best covers but it seems gay to just have a shelf of Penguin stuff. What do?
>>24953044Are you reading everything you own hundreds of times through? That's some commitment.
>>24953044I like my books worn
>>24952993Show me a better cover for that book
>>24952906The answer is to thrift old books or buy them off eBay. >>24953118pic rel
>>24953049It only takes four or five readings
I'm looking for clever illustrations of what a leftist utopia/dystopia could look like, with special attention to the rough edges. It would probably be scifi.I'm not asking for chudslop written by poltards and their likes, nor a time-wasting apologetic wet dream, but rather a sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.For example, "The Compass Rose" by Le Guin showed interesting ideas about what an anarchist society could look like, sad things included.
Just read We
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24951462I actually don't recommend reading it as you will come to see just how many modern authors and even comedians are completely derivative hacks. (Vonnegut in particular who deserve exhumation and crucifixion upside down for his kleptocratic writings)
>>24951738Love this lil book like you wouldn't believe. Also, for any posters bemoaning the lack of romance in novels for men, Lucky Jim has a great one.
probably American Psycho
Only book that has made me laugh out loud
For me it's American Psycho
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.
I read it and got nothing out of it. I found it mostly incomprehensible.
>>24953087I get that the poetic parts are quite difficult, with or without knowledge on Greek mythology. But the prose sections are pretty straightforward imo.Also the whole concept of the book is beautiful.
>>24953057I love it, although for me the Commedia has played this role more often. Excellent taste Anon. That book is crammed with wisdom.
Give me some good 20th century French Romantic 100-150 page novels
I found it quite hard to read I could follow along with the plot easily but the discussions were very hard for me
>>24952398I dont know what you mean by cartoonish. TEP's sci-fi aspects? i thought Serotonin was pretty trivial in its narration and some of its story. the dog sex.
>>24952049My favourite book is his first and it makes me not want to read any of his other works as I strongly imagine he peaked in the first go...
I understand what Houellebecq was trying to get across, but all the pseudo scientific passages are lame.>>24952081Agreed. A much better depiction of rotten contemporary life than showing the life of a public masturbator and an incel nerd.
>>24952049It is barely a novel. The closest Houellebecq has gotten to literature is La possibilité d’une île.
What's /lit/'s opinion on banning or regulating all forms of fiction and music? Plato wanted poets banned from the Republic, Robert E. Lee distrusted fiction and novels in particular. Not an advocate for it. Rather, I'm just interested in knowing how people would even consider such a thing. As well as whether or not it would do people good in a time where we seem to be inundated with fiction.
>>24953065lol
>>24952556Plato wanted to regulate fiction too. Pretty sure it is discussed even before music. He even goes into specifics, as to the sort of behaviors allowed for different characters.
>>24953072im sure you have a citation that disproves "divide and conquer"
>>24953108when you scratch under all the academic jargon all you get are cliches, you are a fraud
>>24953127i know, that's how you've just come up with another that you hope will excuse you from justifying your historiographic presuppositions.
Could you beat Nabokov at chess?
>>24952366what was his elo?
>10 replies in>nobody has said they would play the Luzhin Defense/lit/ is truly il/lit/erate.
>>24952366If you think about it, chess mimics quite well the act of pedophilic grooming and rape of a child. It's like Lolita in ludic form.
Nabakov is the guy who waxes lycra about incest and pedo shit? ofc he was a chessist too, with all the child prodigies in that Sport
>>24952707I bet I could trap your nuts in my fucking mouth, homo
How do I get into James Joyce if I'm not Irish and I got filtered by Finnegans Wake?
>>24952808>having moved to Ireland in late Middle AgesDescribes almost the entire population of Ireland. There's been enough admixture, both ways and over a long enough period, that Irish and English are genetically indistinguishable, and this has been the case since at least the 1850s when most of the primarily Gaelic stock either died or migrated.
>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
>As a complete man with his honour unsullied, the honest Indo-European stands upright before his God or Gods.>No religiosity which takes something away from man, to make him appear smaller before a deity who has become all-powerful and oppressive, is Indo-European.>No religiosity which declares the world and man to be valueless, low and unclean, and which wishes to redeem man to over-earthly or superhuman sacred values, is truly Indo-European.
>>24952999Arbitrary designation of what 'Indo-European' means. This is what Heidegger calls metaphysics, and what Stirner calls a spook. Christian is at the centre of European cultural life whether you like it nor, and that is why so many Nazis returned to it after WW2.
Religion in 2025 is halal chicken and vape shop nasheeds and roaring lion car decals, ay dios mio carrrooon guatemala flag in the car shrine to goku and santa muerte, throwing cow shit at each other saying vishnu will kill all mleccha while on break from ur it job coded
>>24953005>Arbitrary designation of what 'Indo-European' means.Based on what, those 3 sentences? It's a scholarly work of religious ethnography, not sociology or something.
