Wie ich der Liebe abgesagt,Alles was lebt soll ihr entsagen!Mit Golde gekirrt, nach Gold,nur sollt ihr noch gieren!Auf wonnigen Höh'n,in seligem Weben wiegt ihr euch;den Schwarzalben verachtet ihr ewigen Schwelger!Habt Acht! Habt Acht!Denn dient ihr Männer erst meiner Macht,eure schmucken Frau'n,die mein Frei'n verschmäht,sie zwingt zur Lust sich der Zwerg,lacht Liebe ihm nicht!(wild lachend)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Wie durch Fluch er mir gerieth,verflucht sei dieser Ring!Gab sein Gold mir Macht ohne Maaß,nun zeug' sein Zauber Tod dem, der ihn trägt!Kein Froher soll seiner sich freu'n,keinem Glücklichen lache sein lichter Glanz!Wer ihn besitzt, den sehre die Sorge,und wer ihn nicht hat den nage der Neid!Jeder giere nach seinem Gut,doch keiner genieße mit Nutzen sein!Ohne Wucher hüt' ihn sein Herr;doch den Würger zieh' er ihm zu!Dem Tode verfallen feßle den Feigen die Furcht:so lang' er lebt sterb' er lechzend dahin,des Ringes Herr als des Ringes Knecht!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I mostly just jerked off to the sex related entries in my parents encyclopedia set when I was a kid
I don’t “get” it.
>>24718040It's about you, faggot.
>>24718042Is it supposed to make me, the faggot, cry a bunch or volunteer at a pet shelter or something? Never read it.Crime and Punishment was good though.
It's a cautionary tale and a warning not to be like the underground man.
A language which doesn't mark a prepositional phrase for which noun it's modifying is simply retarded.If someone asks for an X-Ray of a Kangaroo with three legs, a sophisticated language would tell you if they mean LEFT: An X-Ray (of a Kangaroo with three legs) or RIGHT: An X-Ray of a Kangaroo (with three legs).
>>24711735This problem is generally solved by not being a retard on purpose
>>24716759Grammar, logic and rhetoric (the trivium/critical thinking) are the tools of thought, how to think. It benefits everyone to learn how to think better. When I say logic I mean grammar, logic and rhetoric as a unified system, these subjects are interconnected and were taught as one subject in the past. Logic deals primarily with language. Studying logic benefits you in all aspects of life where language is involved, primarily in determining if information you are getting contains arguments, what exactly the arguments are and whether or not you ought to be persuaded by them. It turns you into picrel. And conversely it also makes you better at constructing arguments and persuading others.
>>24715396Summa Logicae (Sum of Logic) by William of OckhamLibgen has book 1 and book 2 (of the 3 books) translated to English.https://libgen.li/index.php?req=summa+logicaebelow are two download links, but in the link above there are other links to Anna's archive etc if those are betterbook 1https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=d998729be33714aadd713afe0bd568a2book 2https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=2b72ffd298f335c194cc230a7c084e44Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24715396Logic, the Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth, by Isaac Watts is from 1724https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Watts#Logic_and_sciencehere's a video series based on that book, and an abridged book version of it, both made by the same guy and apparently the video series and the abridged book have the same contenthttps://www.youtube.com/@informedchristians6982/videoshttps://youtu.be/m8MyllahXgwhttps://www.amazon.com/Logic-Abridged-Isaac-Watts-ebook/dp/B006SLZHH6Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24718003Amateur Logician also has other videos about Peter Kreeft's Socratic Logic on his youtube channel. His website and youtube channel have a ton of stuff.amateurlogician.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@AmateurLogicianHere are all the videos I could find about Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft on Amateur Logician's youtube channel sorted from oldest to most recent.Nov 14, 2023 https://youtu.be/-CUcYOT2BzcNov 24, 2023 https://youtu.be/_0-EM6hr4IcDec 6, 2023 https://youtu.be/fREgfDIlSPcDec 29, 2023 https://youtu.be/Ug4IdNt0mfkFeb 19, 2024 https://youtu.be/lvB7J8gphSwFeb 23, 2024 https://youtu.be/MJy7a7_H83gComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
it's......................pretty mid.thought it would be much worse but it's just clunky overall
>>24715240I’m 55 pages in and yeah, I enjoy it but I can’t read more than a few pages at a time. There’s not a lot going on which can be fine if the prose is compelling, but it’s just a very dry meandering so far. I want to see where it goes but not blown away yet
>>24715240It's just a book clotted with an assortment of any random esoteric bullshit the author read about and hamfisted in there with no actual grasp on either style or actually compelling substance. It's like a really lame pastiche of a parody of The Recognitions or The Tunnel.
>>24715240>What does the father's death mean for life? Who was this father? Who am I? The son sits in a cell and writes for his life. His life is the novel "Schattenfroh." Nothing can save him, not even his own narrative. And yet, precisely this must be told: that the father is dead, the self is irredeemable, and the history of salvation is a colossal lie.>Whoever reads "Schattenfroh" reads God and the devil, reads love and death, the loneliness and pain and the dead of the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944, reads ink and white space, reads the writing. "Schattenfroh" is a novel, the world, and life. A thousand desperate pages that don't answer the question of whether life is repairable and whether storytelling can heal us. A thousand manic pages of the impossible farewell to the father: as hermetic as it is powerful, monumental and overwhelming.Lol, imagine reading the above description and not instantly knowing the book will just be 1000 pages of pretentious nonsense.
>>24715240>doorstopper book that shilled on book twitter by pretentious retardsI wouldn't expect anything else
>>24717984>book twitterthat's your personal little faggoty microcosm.it has a stellar reputation from its time as a German novel and it has great reviews from American journals post-translation.
Has anyone on here actually read this bullshit?So let me get this straight: he joins Communist Party USA in the 1920s out of his own nihilism and hatred of the world, gets suckered into being a paper boy in the alleged communist underground, then his wife refuses to get an abortion which causes him to change his values entirely and abandon communism only to become a rat for the US government? Am I missing something here?Were Americans in the 1950s really that fucking gullible they can't see how his story is full of holes?
The first conservative grifter
>>24717363Summarize it for us.
His accusations have all been substantiated though.
>>24717940Proof?
>>24717355I read it. What exactly is unbelievable? The part where a disaffected youth is seduced into a utopian movement? The part where he slowly becomes disillusioned when he sees how corrupt and vicious they really are? The part where becoming a father changes a man to take responsibility? Are you so cut off from humanity that these are “plot holes” to you?
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>try to write my review of the film/books I read>end up spending 2-3 paragraphs paraphrasing the plot fuck
>>24717973Downloading them is for the best. I had to put finishing some light Manga on MangaDex on hold because of university for several weeks then the day after it's over and I can get back to reading, it all gets taken down. Have to use a shitty Aggregator now.
>>24717954Deadlines fucked me up so bad last semester I could only sleep for a few hours each night before waking up in a fervor, unable to fall back asleep until I wrote more. All for nothing really, since the essays were crap. Not that it helps much, but have you peer reviewed other people's essays? When I did I wondered why I spent so much time fussing over minor things, letting the deadline creep closer and closer for minor revisions when really it just needs to show some decency.>>24718017This is just a notion I'm stealing from Roger Ebert (I agree with it greatly) but I think reviews should be able to stand on their own. I think a well-written summary is necessary for a digestible review, and it makes your points clear even to someone who hasn't read/watched it.
there's just too much noise out there, people whining, bitching and moaning and complaining about this and that, people are like little children, always unhappy about something I wish the internet and the world will just explode and stop existing in one flash or some shit
You're clinging to a dying light. Help me snuff it out, so that I may create a new world in the oncoming darkness or die defending this decaying one."
If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve
>>24712187there was a decent adventure (illustrated and text) adaptation. Legend Entertainment. They did a "Gateway" too arguably better than the book.I know, I know, >>>/vr/.
>>24717365The Spine of the World was the Wulfgar novel, and Servant of the Shard was the Artemis novel.Later he continued the Artemis series and called it the Sellsword Trilogy. But that was years and several Drizzt books after Servant came out. I exclusively read in order published because anything but the order the author developed the story in is bullshit.So next up for me is Sea of Swords. Gonna start that one as soon as I finish up the Dark Sun Prism Pentad. It really made me appreciate Drizzt, reading shit like these Dark Sun novels, or even worse that Dragonlance crap. I read Dragons of Autumn Twilight and it was so incredibly bad. Rastlin was alright.
>>24717785>>24717812Continued, Yes Im familiar with Assassins Apprentice. It is top tier fantasy. Drizzt is like candy, or maybe fantastic taco bell. Prism Pentad is like McDonalds that hits the spot. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was like some rancid ass Wendys.Assassins Apprentice is a fine pumpkin soup in a bread bowl on a snowy day. It is real food.I just finished all 16 volumes. I read one of the final ones on a plane and the dude next to me probably thought I was going through a breakup I was tearing up so much. To me theres a Big Five in fantasy:1. Tolkein2. Song of Ice and Fire3. Second Apocalypse 4. Realm of the Elderlings (Assassins Apprentice)5. BerserkIve yet to experience anything fantasy to really compare with these.
>>24717812>even worse that Dragonlance crap>Rastlin was alrightI remember reading Dragonlance novels growing up because they were available to me but I had to read a lot of slop to find a little value. I could see revisiting it for nostalgia's sake. Which volumes would you recommend for the highest quality Raistlin bits?
>>24717999Legends
Is there a book on getting out of masturbation addiction?
the easy peasy hackbook
>>24713838i haven't fapped in like a week but only because walking around horny af is like an all day goon sesh
I tried following a masturbation avoidance guide, but it was too hard!
>>24713856what if i do?
>>24713856>do you masturbate in public
>Pertinently to this they say that Midas, after hunting, asked his captive Silenus somewhat urgently, what was the most desirable thing among humankind. At first he could offer no response, and was obstinately silent. At length, when Midas would not stop plaguing him, he erupted with these words, though very unwillingly: ‘you, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature’s excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes. This should our choice, if choice we have; and the next to this is, when we are born, to die as soon as we can.’ It is plain therefore, that he declared the condition of the dead to be better than that of the living.
>it's better for a being that exists to never existNonsense statement.
> Much worse is he who says that it were good not to be born, but when once one is born to pass with all speed through the gates of Hades. For if he truly believes this, why does he not depart from life? It were easy for him to do so, if once he were firmly convinced. If he speaks only in mockery, his words are foolishness, for those who hear believe him not.
Please help me ascend to pure hyperreal shizo enlightenment. I must lose my mind.My interests are twofold:SIGNALS. The utter, endless inundation of images and signals from social media makes my mind lurch and reel. An example is with Charlie Kirk's death today, it's like kicking a hornets nest. A man's death, his sacrifice on the alter of social media summons a frenzy of signals and ideologies, a cacophony of hatred and vitriol. The words, the content no longer matter, it's just injecting emotions into others. (not saying he wasn't a part of it but that's not the point. The phenomena is what I'm after).LANGUAGE. The penultimate artifice. Do you ever notice in your speech or in your thoughts how words you use have utterly locked you into your worldview until the moment you noticed them? Words inform how I process and categorize phenomena, and this feels more and more evil to me. I want out of language.Books or authors I've read or am in the process of reading so far that at least touch on these themes include the following, but I need more:-1984-The Medium and the Light - Marshal McLuhan-Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard-Industrial Society and Its Future - Ted Kaczynski-The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul-Nietzsche-Jung-Mediations on the Tarot - Valentin Tomberg
Illuminatus! And ego death medidation.
>>24714794>>24716229Take the RAW pill and read Prometheus Rising and Cosmic Trigger while on weed and acid. Then you are ready to read P.D. Ouspensky's In Search Of the Miraculous and Itzhak Bentov's Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness. After that you see through the matrix.
>>24715245>>24714840/thread
>>24714794Curious, why do you want to ascend to pure hyperreal schizo enlightenment?
>>24714794YWNBMI (you will never be mentally ill)
Thread for discussing the works of Lewis Carroll, his photography, his stories, his novels, and his obsession with children.
>>24717980>'When I use a word,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less .... The question is .... which is to be master—that's all.'What word is the master of them all? Was Humpty Dumpty speaking of a symbolic order,of the Big Other?
How many books have you read so far this year?
I don't know how I would find out when I finished and begun each book
Intensely ESL thread.
Lost count at 30, also there are a few textbooks/reference books where I read large sections but didn't technically "read" from cover to cover
not bad but not as many as the last couple of years at this point
>>24717469>more books read means I'm smarter of course.Only if they're quan millz books, otherwise they don't really count
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)
>>24717887snowflake
What's with the zoomer slang? Clankers? Really? This is supposed to be serious.
>>24717971> zoomeroh rly??https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker
>>24717926 Ok Shlomo.
>>24717906correct me if im wrong, but didnt he suddenly become religious when writing the 2nd book?
>spend a lifetime enriching my mind through classic literature>cultivate an extensive and rich vocabulary>when speaking to others they don't understand what I say and think I'm a tryhard fedora-tipperHow has reading negatively impacted your life?
>>24707269>read most of the /lit/ top 100 before I finish highschoolChildren shouldn't be allowed on this site.
>>24707404>What impression does that give off?You care too much about what other people think. Fix that.
>>24706259If intellectualism were encouraged and nurtured by tptb that wouldn't be an issue. They want you to feel alienated and isolated>>24709265>so retarded you just want to live your life normally socializing with peers instead of having to constantly lie and manipulate artifically dumbed-down people en masseshalom
>>24706418>Drop any of it in a conversation and you'll get confusion or derision as "pretentious" depending on the companyIrrelevant point because accusations of "pretentiousness" are almost always meaningless and arbitrary, and the people who do such things are not worth your time or energy. Unless the person is correcting a misuse of a word, the accusation of "pretentious" should never exit an educated person's mouth
>>24716109Neither /lit/ or 4chan existed when I read those books. I know this is a very difficult and abstract concept for you, but the world did exist before 4chan.
