What should I read if I'm a zoomer that has only really consumed anime and manga as fiction?
>>24689490Start with the Greeks.
>>24689444Animal farm and 1984. so you arent one of those retards pretending to have read them.
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>>24689444Depends. You can try jumping into classics and lliterary fiction. Or you might find it more fun to read novels, e.g. the Witcher series. Or read both. If you don't know what you like yet, why not?
>>24689444Start with "Welcome to the NHK" novel, followed by Dostoyevski's "White Nights". Then read Dazai's "No Longer Human" followed by Mishima's "Confessions of a Mask". After that much reader it's time to take a rest, so read the manga "Oyasumi Punpun" as an interlude. Finish your zoomer intro to literature by reading and becoming one with Cioran's "On the Heights of Despair".
>And then Offred had hot, wild sex with the gardener. >’Yes,’ she thought as she opened her mouth wider to let the rough man’s tongue explore her even deeper, ‘I need this, I deserve a good dicking’ >She thought of her husband and felt a divine tingling in her vagina as she took pleasure in making a cuckold of the father of her child >When the gardener thrusted inside her, she gasped. He was so much larger than her husbandUhhhh, why the fuck did Atwood write these words?
>>24689385Didn't he ditch her and escape to Canada Dumb bitch
>>24689380I'm gonna attack your mom
>>24689873which mom, the wife or the handmaid?
>>24689053Is this her actual writing holy shit hahaha
>>24690095No the book fucking sucks
Just finished The Sheltering Sky. First time reading Paul Bowles. Whats your opinion?It did a really great job at the feeling of alienation. Especially enjoyed Port.
>>24689961Thanks, I was considering reading more of Bowles after this. I've heard his short stories are wonderful however.
>>24689975The are still worth reading, some good insights but they don't quite coalesce, we end up with a few themes wrapped up in a plot that sort of unifies them but not really. He always offers something, but the worth of his later novels might be more about things like how to pace and plot a novel, which still tells us a great deal about the human condition, just a bit less direct about it. The way he builds tension and paces the second half of Let it Come Down more than makes up for it being a little limb when it comes to theme, can't think of a novel that doesn't better.
>>24689946I couldn’t finish it. It was super boring. This is the one with the dude and the chick and she’s a whore and like goes into the desert or some shit?
>>24690023>the human conditionwhy is this necessary? why do people try to enjoy stories based on how much of the experiences are shared by everyone? especially when a story needs to be told presumably because the experiences aren't shared by everyone?
>>24690088Most people alive these days never lived in the Tangiers International Zone or anything like it, if we don't relate the experience of the time and place through what is common and shared we will not be able to understand what it was like to be in that time and place. And using what is shared will inevitably explore it since it puts our understanding of these things into an alien context. You seem to be reducing things down to the shared experiences but the shared experiences are just things like puberty, love, loss, etc, the banalities of life and touchstones for understanding what is not shared.
FlexYourStack
>>24689551If you haven't read it already it's not to late to throw the Kerouac away
>>24689525I haven't read it yet, lol
Here is my book stack.
If Aleister Crowley was such a great occulist then why he couldn't he save himself from going bald? Same with Austin Osman Spare, he was bald and miserable and died in poverty.
>is occult a larpu have to ask?
>>24689663The real trick with Crystal Goths is cooking (and gifts of Tea).
>>24689872>"Dream Yoga."Even in the Old Testament-- He appoints prophets, everyone else may be given signs in dreams.
>>24690100I'm desperate for e-hoe love
>>24690100is this truuuuu?
What does he read?
parks are better than natural wilderness
"Anomaly" editionPrevious: >>24668754/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.
>>24689735Red hair is exotic and is an easy way to make a female character visually striking / memorable.
>>24689426>Unironically, I have found that sparser writing is much better at establishing tension.Explain.
>>24690019NTA - If you explain every feeling and every thought, you end up leaving nothing in the reader's imagination. Part of the tension in the EVA scene comes from not knowing what either Rei or Best Girl is thinking.
my storys so cheesy lmao. trying to decide if its time for the psychic coyote chapter or wizard al quaeda chapter. my book is so juvenile lol
>>24690025>Rei>thinking
Post your own work and critique others. Or just talk about poetry more generally and share poems you like.
>>24684001This is very good; your imagery is vibrant. You say its a work in progress. Is there anywhere or any way I can read your other work? This excerpt is one of my favorite snippets of poetry I've seen on /lit/ in years.
>>24688133>Isn't it sometimes worth pointing out which of the two it is and whyYes, but not as often as your hopes may rest on
>>24688807thanks man, emboldening words. i was pleased with that one myself. if i manage to turn it into a longer poem with a proper narrative i'll be sure to post it here (for i have no other audience).
Here is my poemIron men and iron law,March in step towards war,Hide the feelings deep inside,The weeping anima you must hide,Repress that dream with total war,You'll keep it from the door,Think of it not, march on still,Its time to feel your iron will,Suppress the truth, march now,Never to weakness will you bow,You can do it, don't let it win,Throw that dream into the bin,Don't look in mirrors, that will remind,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24683283Me too anon>>24683236I like it
The one continuous issue that I've been having with the little bit of sunni literature that I've been getting through, especially related to the biographies, is this constant reminder that this is THE way to live, and if you're not attempting to follow each of the examples set by the sunnah you are drifting further and further apart from goodness itself, and if God forbid you try to deny or argue against the fact that it is the superior way of life in comparison to the countless ones that have formed the whole of human history you are automatically deemed a Kaffir or a heretic at the very least. There's not much room for the experiential, the phenomenological, or for mere curiosity even, and it's a constant exercise in games of Purity solely based on textual evidence as opposed to exalting in the sublime as you would find in, say, a desert father's writings. Not to say that there aren't examples of the latter across islamic literature, as that's sufism in a nutshell, but the fact that they are largely and uniformly deemed as misguided heretics, and that the actual hadiths themselves explicitly argue against trying to find your own inner path through the skies tell you all about the mindset that is encouraged right here. Basically, I'd like to know how muslim thinkers balance this forced dismissal of ''the other'' with the actual experience of life itself. How does someone as brilliantly daring as Ibn Arabi find it in him to continue to hold that way of life as the unquestioned path to the Truth? It all seems so incredibly reductive to me that I find it revolting at times. Are you really supposed to accept that 98% of all of human existence is nothing more than the devil's plaything? I'd have no issues with it if it were a complete rejection of the world, as you'd find in Gnosticism or in Theravada Buddhism, but it's the 2% that really puts things into question here. I'm not writing this post out of malice or anything of the sort, as God is my witness I'm only doing it out of pure bewilderment, and I'm more than willing to call myself ignorant on these matters. Why didn't I post this in a more muslim-friendly corner of the Internet? Well I'm not really here for proselytizing, and I've come across a good number of very sensible Islamic threads on this board over the years believe it or not. If there are more of you well read muslims who have already been through this spiritual rigamarole, then please guide me with some useful books on this matter. I have no issues with untranslated material.Al Ghazali also sucks btw. The guy that I've enjoyed reading the most is this turkish Said Nursi fella, who was at the crossroad between a rapidly modernizing ataturk-driven society and the rotting corpse of the ottoman empire. Cool stuff.
>>24688454>>24688414jews think jesus is burning is excrement
>>24688661Justinian was ever-based for ordering all Talmuds to be destroyed
>>24688661No proof that Yeshu was the Jesus, you are using circular reasoning with that logic as many people of that name are mentioned in the talmud.
>>24680635>Outward practice is more important than inner belief; the person who prays 5 times a day but who doesn’t believe in God is a better Muslim than the person who misses prayers but believes in God.Nigger what the fuck are you on about? No Muslim would ever say this. Not only is this nonsensical, but the Quran is full of lines condemning not atheists/disbelievers, not Christians, not Jews, but hypocrites instead. AKA the people you are describing.
>>24685276>The epitome of Islam is knowledge.sure wouldn't know that by looking at the islamic world today
Happy first day of October!!!!!!Post Halloween books!!!!!!!
>>24689766>It's set on HalloweenThank you anonI especially love books set during halloween, but they're hard to find
>>24689835Do you have any recs?
>>24689906Maybe this one but I haven't read it yet
>>24689990Cheers I'll give it a look
>>24689729Turn of the Screw?
Do Japanese brains just work in a way where schizo babble makes perfect sense
>>24689912Both. 25% of it is garbled recycled english and the rest is typical honorabul respectful stockphrases with every other sentence has an Onomatopoeia. Imagine if we talked to each other unironically using words like beep boop, kablam, pow, swoosh. Thats japanese
>>24689997>Imagine if we talked to each other unironically using words like beep boop, kablam, pow, swoosh
>>24689997I know right, that'd be ridiculous. Anyway.After chowing on my squash, I burp, sneeze and squeeze a fart until I fall in bed with a thud. I yawn and snore until I'm awaken by the buzz of a fly and the hiss of a kettle. I grunt and go to the kitchenen, where I cook crack like the quack I am. It sizzles on the rust, the sink gurgles. My stomach has a rumble. Outside the dog woos a bitch and howls while banging. While the sink drips it clicks to me to write a pop jingle.
>>24689997I almost cum when I hear a Japanese girl yells out 'Yafuuuu!!' and 'Potechi~' to her friends
>>24690028I mean yeah, that's really shitty writing full of onomatopoeia Proves his point
What position do you read in?
>>24688686power move at the library
>>24688945Well obviously he was just laying that way so he wouldn't block the title
Basically the OP, with minor variations.
>>24688686Like this except I'm balding.
usually in some shrimp mode position with my face 2 inches from the book because I can't see for shit even when wearing glasses
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was a movement to make English spelling rational by either phonetic spelling reform or an entirely new script. It's never happening. They tried to make it happen for a century, and that was BEFORE computers. By now, the way words are spelled is so entrenched that it's essentially permanent. Obviously there's IPA but it will never be the common orthography, especially since dialects make a "universal IPA spelling" impossible.However, hear me out. If the written word is immovable, then there's still a way to rationalize pronunciation, which is just to pronounce everything how it's written. I'm not saying it's a good idea or wouldn't sound stupid at first, but it's *possible*.It might even be an organic process, there are already obscure words that get mispronounced a lot because most people read them rather than hearing them spoken. Imagine a future where 90% of interaction is typed (some people are almost there, honestly), pronunciation would basically reinvent itself.Is this a serious recommendation or prediction? No. Just something that crossed my mind.
It was never going to happen in the 19th/20th centuries either. In the mid 20th there were various schools which taught with these alternate scripts/spellings, it was a massive failure and the students left school being functionally illiterate.Pronunciation is constantly reinventing itself, as is language. Just the standard natural evolution.
If things keep going the way they are, the world will develop a common pidgin and individual languages will mostly die out or more accurately become dialects of the pidgin.
>>24689331Fuck I hope not.The best defense against it is that it sounds extremely silly to other (some would say fluent) speakers of the language.
>>24689347That would not be an issue because by that point a fluent speaker of English would be the equivalent of a fluent speaker of Latin today; English would be a dead language. Even with the help of the internet this will take centuries.I guess it would technically be a creole by that point but the dialects could be pidgins and never stabilize.
>>24689314Dialects actually aren't too bad. You could try to make it consistent for old Queen's English, and that accent has none of the new mergers (e.g. Americans pronounce "Mary", "merry" and "marry" the same way, it's 3 different sounds in RP) and all the common splits (e.g. trap / bath have a different A) so if you make a system for it, you can easily adapt the system to every other dialect, because functionally they're all the same thing with slight simplifications.
ITT we discuss the details & literary merits of various history books.
>in the middle of reading Marx' das Kapital when you get to the point where he describes how Factory owners literally worked children to death and created a "degenerate" class of midgets because of overworking entire families to the point that even their offspring turned out fucked up, it finally clicked how communism was able to take over the world (partially) in the 20th century
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>>24674975Try Peter Kemp memoirs. It's not exactly what you asked but you might like it.
>>24681355everything flows
>“Everything is perverted by this civilization, the gentlemen in suits have fouled and besmirched everything. Lithographs and etchings by old dotards like Picasso, Miro, Dali, and others, which are sold in all the stores, have turned art into a huge unclean bazaar. The money they have is not enough, they want more and more. Paintings in oil, in tempera, are not enough; drawings, watercolors, and gouaches are not enough; to make even more money they do their hackwork on stone and put it on sale in hundreds and thousands of copies. They've devalued everything, the bastards. Many of them are burdened with wives and several families, with relatives and friends; they need lots of money. Money, money and the greed for money, guides these wretched old men. Once rebels, they have turned into dirty operators. The same fate awaits the young men of today. This is why I have ceased to love art.”
You might want to read Marx's own analysis of what was going on in France before gracing us with your own thinking about the haute and the petty bourgeois.
>>24688321>Yes. I even talked to a good number of them. No you did not. Stop lying. I just posted the photo in the previous post - what does it say? What does it mean? Where did it happen? Can you search it without Google Search? Can you quote exact words of manifesto that nazbols declared about the president of Azerbaijan? And how does it fit into your narrative about "liberal romantics with a knack for épatage" and "bruh edgelords"?>I question your Marxist credLike if I give a shit what a "spiritual aryan" with a chip on his shoulder thinks.>if the actual class reality of an individual is irrelevant to you in the light of his rhetoric.It is irrelevant indeed. Proletarian class reality means nothing without proletarian class position, and Limonov didn't had one. You lack theory.>Calling Drigaia Rossija a political party is a tremendous stretch.And yet you didn't deny that they're nazi. That's progress.>a political fraud turns his clowning on the political arena into his livelihood. I don't see Limonov as a fraud, because he turns his clowning on the political arena into an artistic performanceLiterally potato-potáto. It's literally the same thing. There is nothing real about politics. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24687772>I'm russian marxist.I'd bet you're an American transexual kek
>>24688442only the Russians are still obsessed with muh nazis you have been brainwashed to hate the Azov battalion
are you guys trolling or are you genuinely stupid?
