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I finally get Camus.
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>In fact, in the contest between Shakespeare and the shoemaker, it is not the shoemaker who maligns Shakespeare or beauty. On the contrary, it is the man who continues to read Shakespeare and does not choose to make shoes, which he could never make if it comes to that.
Another Camusian banger, attacking Marxists.
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Camus was also really fascinated by the Cathars.

>Hellenism, in association with Christianity, then produces the admirable efflorescence of the Albigensian heresy. But with the Inquisition and its subsequent destruction, the Church again parts company with the world and with beauty, and gives back to history its pre-eminence over nature.
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>>24711096
Camus was such a hack, it's hilarious.
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>>24716505
What makes you say that?
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>>24716522
it came with his french genes

Sorcery, Wizardry, Witchcraft, Psionics, and General Magic and Powers Edition

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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>>24714581
>Intelligence combined with ambition would still rise to the top like in our world.
If, between two ambitious and intelligent people, one is also capable of melting your brain with his mind, that individual is going to end up on top one hundred percent of the time. It's a huge advantage. Unless magic users also all have down syndrome, the capable amongst them are going to outcompete the mundane smart/ambitious people.
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Any examples of worldbuilding with platonic, neoplatonic, even Hermetic themes? It seems like most genre fiction these days is modernist atheistic, or some variety of gnostic.
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>>24716389
>It seems like most genre fiction these days is modernist atheistic, or some variety of gnostic.
Please elaborate on this.
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>>24715989
>Okay, so how would you add other abilities to the different elements then?
Of the top of my head: Highly proficient benders can turn their bodies on their own element
Earthfags can sense people through the vibrations on the ground, travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure, create earthquakes
Waterfags gain an immense speed boost underwater, can breathe underwater, travel the deep ocean without being crush by the pressure
Firefags are immune to extreme temperatures, have thermal vision and can create heat related mirages
Windfags don't need to breathe at all, can fly, can modify atmospheric pressure on a small area
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>>24717395
>Earthfags can travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure.
horrifying

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Gollum should have been killed simply for being ugly and disgusting. Tolkein’s slavish, decadent, obscene moralism is infuriating. He builds a world that looks pretty, with the pleasing scent of the untamed European, but is sick with the putrid rot of herd values. Image how great he could have been if he wrote about blonde beasts instead of leftist midgets
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complaining about "moralism" in any capacity instantly outs you as a worthless retard without a single thought worth considering
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>should have been killed simply for being ugly and disgusting.
Then why don't you kill yourself?
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On the contrary, the balance of a healthy communalism with respect for the individual seems to be one of the crowning achievements of European civilization.
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>>24717434
>the individual
Where is “the individual?” Where is his location in time and space? Who are you to say what respects this thing is owed if you cannot tell me where it is at? Oh right, you’re just parroting a universal construct of the decedents, a dream of the sick metaphysicians. The only thing that demands respect is the concrete instance of living power.
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>>24717401
*creampies you*

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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

>Previous:
>>24703379

>Thread Question:
Post quotes or highlighted passages from books you've read (so we can admire or make fun of it)
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>>24717304
>crack open fantasy novel
>"oh gods"
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>>24715637
>"I had no family, no job, no belief in the law whatsoever, in society or anything. I needed to do something--something that was real and something that was substantial--or I would kill myself, end it all, because this fucking world is so awful. It's a place where a company like Corpus Chrome, Incorporated can exist, presiding over life and death, and where people like the Dulandes can murder people from behind walls of money. I hated it violently."
>The verispectragram shone blue [indicating truth]
- Corpus Chrome, Inc (S. Craig Zahler)
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>>24717419
More from Corpus Chrome, Inc
>"Vegetarians are bogus! Frauds! The history of the entire human race contradicts the herbivorous way."
>"The flesh-rending teeth that you used to utter that silly proclamation contradict such a choice in a most ironic manner. You may deprive yourself of meat in the stultifying vegetarian style, but you--as a member of genus homo erectus--are no more herbivorous than a person seated upon an airplane is a bird!"
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>>24717432
What a retarded non-argument
I can see some old faggot at work using this unironically
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>>24717438
kek. the scene is done humorously.

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the oxford history of the united states only starts at the american revolution, is there a recommended book that covers everything before this?
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>>24713082
I love this painting. Puritan prose is among the most beautiful. Sentences are a bit long, though.
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>>24717349
NTA but this looks interesting. Thanks!
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>>24713811
While I do agree the Philip's War is a fascinating topic, I'd look for something else before I read Lepore. Name of War is certainly an.. interesting read, but it is NOT a reconstruction of the events of the conflict. Rather, it's an examination of how the rhetoric, fears, and subsequent writings after the conflict— an analysis of HOW people thought about the war rather than WHAT actually happend.

I think most /lit/izens would hate it actually. In many ways, it feels almost like a parody of academia and the turgid, post-modern drivel that spews out of most history departments. Take this quote about settlers encroaching too far into Indian territory:
>In the context of King Philip’s War, concerns about the boundaries of the body became overlaid onto concerns not only about the boundaries of English property but also about the cultural boundaries separating English from Indian. Bodies were defined in relationship to houses, but houses, too, were metaphorical bodies…

So much of modern history focuses on the language used in these sources than the events themselves. It's like this hypernominalist where every single word most be scrutinized individually to support the critical-theory infused theses that their trying to proclaim.
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>>24717412
Thanks for the warning. I really fucking hate this style.
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>>24717412
I like Foucault a bit so that doesn't bother me too much, its more that a writer like this wouldn't respect me for leaning towards chud-dom.

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Τῆς ὀπώρης edition

>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24669573

>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 FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko

All Classical languages are welcome.
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>>24715647
This is an edition. You read them AFTER you learned the language.
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Ecce, autismum!
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>>24717105
seemed excessive at first but I guess it can be quite useful, is it automatic?
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>>24717105
Wouldn't it be autismus? It's ecce homo, not ecce hominem.
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>>24717105
Anything to avoid reading smoothly.

>>24717425
Aint dat da vocative or sum shiet? Agreed.

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Our time has come, schoppybros.
/lit/ is now a full Schopenhauer board. Only today I read a bunch of schoppy threads. Great!

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>it's ok to have a gay phase as long as you grow up out of it
>but if you don't you, you will end up bitter, poor and diseased
wow
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>>24717190
Sebastian was a degenerate aristocrat who was setting the sodomy agenda. Charles was an upwardly mobile naïf who went with the flow, then agonised about it (amongst other sins that are deservedly given more narrative prominence), then sought and found grace.
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>>24717190
If you don’t have the phase, or if you don’t grow out of it?
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Sebastian’s fate is chiefly because he is plagued by alcoholism and the dissonance between his faith and deeds. Charles is undone less by his relationship with Sebastian and more by his attempt to seduce Julia away from her faith.
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>>24717190
i wrote a nice gay phase novel with a better conclusion. i hope you give it a chance
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I didn't get the point of this novel at all. I thought they were just good friends.

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Is he based or cringe?
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IN WATERMELON SUGAR the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I'll, tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

Wherever you are, we must do the best we can. It is so far to travel, and we have nothing here to travel, except watermelon sugar. I hope this works out.

I live in a shack near iDEATH. I can see iDEATH out the window. It is beautiful. I can also see it with my eyes closed and touch it. Right now it is cold and turns like something in the hand of a child. I do not know what that thing could be.

There is a delicate balance in iDEATH. It suits us.

The shack is small but pleasing and comfortable as my life and made from pine, watermelon sugar and stones as just about everything here is.

Our lives' we have carefully constructed from watermelon sugar and then travelled to the length of our dreams, along roads lined with pines and stones.

I have a bed, a chair, a table and a large chest that I keep my things in. I have a lantern that burns watermelontrout oil at night.

That is something else. I'll tell you about it later. I have a gentle life.

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>>24712263
NPR didn't even exist at the time it was written
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Was he a better poet or a novelist?
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>>24706821
please don't do this to him, he was a soulful writer and you're puttin that X-sloppification on him.
Anyway, The Pill Vs. has a very high batting average of good poems.
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I want to make sweet sweet love to Miss Hawkline.

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Write your suicide note with your best prose.
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I hereby cease my monotonous toiling. Unemployed though I was, the work required to support the mundane weight of this plane has finally succeeded in collapsing my spirit. The onus is on me, and me alone. Others can exist without such wallowing, but I am not others.

Au revoir.
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I was always a fatass nigga, please put it on my gravestone.
(i'm white)
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>>24707955
Oops, my hand slipped.
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Whom it may concern:

the semicolon is the stupidest, worthless piece of shit punctuation there ever was. I refuse to live another day in a world of absolute retards who is it. fuck all of you...
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>>24717421
dis guys suicide note was ruined by autocorrect. talk about getting fucked up the ass by life. lol

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Can anyone recommend some book or online resources to basically relearn English grammar?

I have to pass the PELLETB police exam, and it's basically a college level English test with a little math.

Is there like a cheap textbook or something I can look at? I have about a week to study, I'm doing alright on some random practice tests, but they really get technical or trip you up at times.
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>>24716953
If you don't know anything useful you don't have to comment, retard.
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>>24716953
I went to uni for English and did rather well and I'm not sure what a correlative conjunction is.
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>>24716975
>getting upset because of his own retardation and taking it out on someone else
You'll make a great cop KEK
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>>24716991
You don't have to understand it sir, just move along.
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>>24716635
I thought it sounded interesting, so I looked up an example (https://post.ca.gov/portals/0/post_docs/publications/Applicant_Preparation_Guide_for-the-POST_Entry-Level-Law-Enforcement-Test-Battery.pdf), and it seemed mostly to be about writing style with a little spelling and vocabulary (and no math). The only use of any real grammatical terminology in the sample is
>Alternative "b" is a run-on because it consists of two complete sentences that are not separated by a semi-colon, a period, or a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
as a comment to
>b. The necessary revisions have been made by the author and the manuscript is now ready to be printed the publicist can begin developing the advertising campaign.
Of course it might be different depending on where you live and what job you're applying for. This is just what came up first for me. Anyway, I'd probably just spar with Grok. It should be able to elaborate on what a coordinating conjunction is, and why it's relevant for writing clarity in examples like this.

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To Kill A Mockingbird should be banned from all public schools.
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>>24713173
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt
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>>24713240
lmao
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ITT: /pol/tards seething after a mass-market paperback for children says "hate is bad"
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>>24717213
>written by a teenage girl.
no wonder it's so bad
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>>24716491
The murder he committed

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does /lit/ have an opinion on Johnathan Haidt? I remember him floating around the Sam Harris/Rogan circles a decade ago then vaguely recall falling off for being a junk science charlatan but I still see him pop up in mainstream interviews about cog-sci culture matters.
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>>24716977
I don't know what you mean by that, can you elaborate?
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>>24717007
cognitive science as a field is just yelling "Freud is bullshit!" at the top of your lungs and then five years later publishing a paper where you stuck a bunch of 20 year olds in an MRI machine and showed them pictures of random shit that empirically verifies a psychoanalytic idea from 100+ years ago. In this case, it's
>bro you think you're motivated by reason bro
>but like bro that's like, stick with me here, not right bro
>actually bro like this chart shows that... bro... uuuughhh... bro my head hurts... ghhuhhuhhhhhughhhh... it shows... uhhhughuh... MY HEAD... UGHUGHUHHHHHHH... IT SHOWS YOU'RE REALLY MOTIVATED BY EMOTION BROghuhuhuhhhuughhughughmyheadhurtsssssssss
>heavy exhausted panting
>this is groundbreaking bro don't you get it bro nobody's said this before bro
like I said, completely revolutionary to people who think they're too clever to take psychoanalysis seriously
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>>24717031
I think both have their merits
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>>24716961
>'he's right about how fear makes us think that very unlikely events are likely, but that sounds like libtard nonsense, which made me have an emotional reaction that I am disguising as dispassionate rational evaluation'
Retarded.

Fear makes us think unlikely events are likely. But application of aggregate statistical data to specific multi-variable scenarios causes people to do the reverse and rate likely events as unlikely.

Would YOU have taken the empty seat in front of DeCarlos Brown? Taking nothing other than race into account, the probability of being stabbed to death is miniscule (though still 12 times higher than if it was a white male in the seat). But take in every other clue available: the body language, the physiognomy, the dead eyes, the dreds, the clothing, the smell (probably). Factor in all that, and the probability of being stabbed to death skyrockets.
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>>24717031
Many of Freud's was unfalsifiable.
So obviously 100 years later when we actually learn the truth, you can claim he was right all along. Because his claims can be twisted to always seem right.

How much of his recent books do you think are actually his or are ghostwritten by either Owen or Joe.
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>>24717102
I doubt any are ghostwritten, definitely not by his kids. I mean Joe has his own books, why would he do that
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>>24717102
last thing i read was Buick 8 and it was King slop
i honestly think the guy just has limitless potential. he's a slop machine.
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>>24717272
His stuff bounces between pretty decent to weird as fuck slop likely from the coke frying his brain but I can at least respect King since he's writing slop he wants to write.

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The epistolary form is a dying art. As a creative writing exercise, write a letter and post it in this thread. It can be an honest letter addressed to someone you know, or something totally fictionalized and experimental; guessing which is which is part of the fun.
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>>24711822
based
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>>24711561
>>24711822
>>24714655
?? It’s obviously sapphic?
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>>24714800
Same shit. Fags and Dykes are interchangeable.
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>>24711930
Hemingway
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>>24716748
He was a Troon


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