>>24795808
>what the fuck even is left-wing and right-wing any more?
Depends. The terms are reasonable shorthand for political groups and tribes, but the terms are frequently overused and abused.

The terms originate from the French Revolution where the Right was the aristocracy and the Left were the revolutionaries. While this revolutionary left espoused liberal ideals, in reality they were still brutal authoritarians more intent on purging Aristocracy and Christianity than implementing a tolerant liberal society. When The Left gained power, they implemented a political Reign of Terror, executing thousands of people.

So, they haven't really meant anything concrete for a very long time. Although perhaps not coincidentally, the modern far left still resembles the violent authoritarians of the french revolution, even though they're usually more overtly communist or socialist.

>>24797676
>The rightwing is always about siding with the controllers, the kings, the popes, the whoever it is that took power.
Not really.
"The right" is always different, and generally comprises whatever the violent bloodthirsty left is trying to destroy.
In present day, they're trying to destroy White European civilization.

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>>24797611
>communism simply inverts basic values, labeling as criminals the best of humanity - the talented, the principled, the hard-working - while elevating the murderer and the rapist
Is this nigga serious?

>>24798054
>In present day, they're trying to destroy White European civilization.
If modern "White European civilization" represents nothing but the current unfettered ultra capitalist hellscape we've all come to despise then why not destroy it?

>>24798054
Yes, really. The term for political "right" was of course from those Frenchmen. The right are those who are pro-monarchy, while the political left was just some tepid liberal shit looking for a constitutional monarchy. *less* centralized control. See?
The left want bodily autonomy, they want freedom from the state. Back in the day they simply got up and left to avoid the taxes, the protection racket of the kings/emperor, the filthy cities and the periodic plagues they bred, (breath in that scent of Civilization! *piss and shit*) the conscriptions of your children to die in war of expansion. "Oh, I wanna state mandated wiafu! Bring serfdom back, Mr Yarvin!"
Hey, you can't be serious if you don't know damn well this "rightwing" is just as bloodthirsty. Is this not you? You like freedom and democracy? Well you aren't really rightwing then.

Wipe the terms away. Wipe out and look, actually LOOK at what people stand for. It is freedom versus control. Now absolute freedom, like a wild animal or some idiotic anarcho-primitivism is not desirable, but don't knee jerk it all the way back to the Control side. Because that is even worse. Fucking North Korea, East Berlin back in the day. That's Control, OBVIOUSLY, and labeling it "leftwing" is a fucking psyops.
>White European
That too is the psyops that breeds your dumbasses so that you beg them for ethnic cleansing and tight fucking boarders and a absolute police state. That's more you? You are on the side of Control. A broken automaton, barely a man, not even human. Just a tool.

>>24797443
I read The Eagle of the Ninth in school and enjoyed it. I'd trust her to do Arthurian legend justice.

>>24797443
>get into modern fantasy about a classical mythos before getting into a period work on a different classical mythos
I could understand if the modern thing you started with was about the mythos you wanted to get into (like some modern telling of the poetic eddas before getting into volsunga saga), or read a different mythos in period to get a comparitive sense with another mythos (like reading a 12th century grail cycle in translation like Yvain, and comparing it to volsunga saga), but this seems two steps removed for one to be particularly relevant for the other. Outside of just the broad sense of mythic dark age europe.

>>24797443
I'd sut her cliff if you know what I mean

>>24796704
Sapiens

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>>24797908
Huguenots were cryptojews.
https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/3353953/jewish/History-Revealed-Discovering-My-Jewish-Roots.htm
>I discovered that the southern French Huguenots considered themselves to be descended from the Jewish tribes of Reuben and Benjamin. They welcomed the crypto-Jews and helped them settle in their neighborhoods. Because of this, the anusim decided it was beneficial to masquerade as Huguenots instead of Catholics. They adopted Huguenot names, mode of dress and vocations, and eventually they also intermarried with them. I remembered how my grandmother had emphasized that we were descended from Huguenots.
And he is a Zionist, I don't think that's up for debate.

He is too good of an investor not to be a Jew.

>>24796704
any jew born after 70 AD cant nation build... all they know is usury, hate goyim, read microeconomic textbook and talmud, and lie

>>24797981
>considered themselves
lmao black israelite moment. we wuzz joos n shiet.

>>24796704
Nothing they have generational wealth

>>24797844
Because 4chan is a bunch of midwit chuds obsessed with ancestory and doomerism.

>>24797844
The Boomer Gen X and Millennial generations were entirely weaned on greater and greater technologies that infatuated and deluded the ego with free dopamine, inflating the I so beyond sensual reality they cannot imagine any world existing outside of the pleasure spouts. Gen Z's developing years took place after the development of said technologies ceased. This means that even though through now Gen Z has been endlessly blinded by the same pleasure simulacrum they were reconciled to the mortality of the Idols and themselves while the three prior generations tantrum to the grave as a toddler who replaces teat with pacifier with thumb. They are completely intellectually worthless. Gen Z know wisdom and love are the only immortal things as opposed to technology and the self, yet not pursuing them frequently enough because its easier to use social media multiplayer video games porn and forums face friction with the outside world and study still have contributed nothing intellectually.

>>24797844
i wrote a novel about ross ulrich. are you going to read it?

>>24797844
>a chinese man rediscovering his taiwan heritage
>this is what you got from reading Lin

>>24797300
BROOOOO PSYCHEDELICS
MUSHROOOMS
ELL ESS DEEE, DEE EMM TEE

>>24797502
The Christcucks were shit but Julian was also a Shabbos goy

>>24797528
No, he was a Helios worshiper.

>>24796146
Is it true that all her books are about BL?

>>24798107
No.
Friendly Young Ladies is about bi-sluts and The King Must Die is a really decent retelling of the Theseus myth

>>24796146
Is it worth reading? I've been looking for some historical fiction set in the classical era

>>24797505
I love this painting

>>24796537
you don't need high IQ to read
it's a skill
start with something simple like children's books

>>24796741
>Start with simpler books and gradually build your way up
Unironically old advice. Computer screens and video games are the main culprits in our lower attention spans, so it takes work to undo the damage. I always recommend the Little Prince as a starting point

>>24797897
*good advice

>>24796537
Probably, yeah. I watched a video of a man with 70 IQ (mild mental retardation) who said he'd gotten smarter by reading books. He didn't sound stupid at all, I'd never have guessed he had a low IQ. Also, what kind of books are you reading? Just pick the ones that you find interesting and if you don't understand a paragraph, simply skip it.

>>24796537
There are people that are dumb and maybe you fall into that category of not being able to digest a paragraph or a complete thought. There are a few of those people. But I don't think you are, even if you're you shouldn't think of yourself as such. Reading is a muscle that you train and our modern environment is set up in ways to drive ourselves away from reading.

Short form content, fast food, spectacle movies, drugs, it's all barriers to read. Remove them. Let yourself be bored.

Then, start to read some stuff you like. Slop. Nothing hard, something that turns pages on its own for you. Fantasy, historical fiction, romance, I don't care. Something. And if you read enough genre fiction, you will want to read something more. Read some short stories from authors that only fags on /lit/ care. Pick and choose.

You are ready to read.

>>24796495
Who did kafka better than kafka? I love his writing but he was clearly a career man who wrote for shits and giggles.

>>24796510
He was the original twink.

>>24796495
Typee and Omoo did. Moby-Dick was a financial failure, and his later novels sold even worse. He died in obscurity.

>>24795154
>Dickinson
don't know why people revere this bitch so much

>>24796495
They sold poorly you gigapseud

Should I bother to read Hour of the Dragon if I already read The Scarlet Citadel and I’m going through all the other stories? Reviews say it’s the story is a copy of Scarlet Citadel that incorporates tropes from his other stories into novel-length. It’s long and reviews seem to indicate that it’s good but not great.

>>24796786
It is his counterpart to "the call of cthulhu".

>how was robert e howard able to write so many works yet with a robust and timeless style
He is older than the modern purist genrefiction, because of this he and his friends' have such an eclectic style.

>>24759795
Not Wodehouse but similar, to this day three men in a boat by Jerome k Jerome remains one of my favourite book. Very funny and comforting read.

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>>24759228
Ironically enough, Moorcock had to latch on Conan through his invention of the "sword and sorcery" label.

>>24759316
Dwight V. Swain - Techniques of the selling writer.
I self-studied his ideas a lot at a time but I failed to produce anything worthwhile back then. Maybe i’ll re-read my copy again and try.

>>24796852
who's
whose denotes ownership

>>24796902
Yeah, autocorrect.

Real nice how I make a thread and the discussion is absolutely nothing like what was prompted by the OP, stay classy 4chan.

Anyways whats your favorite of his plays? Mine is as previously mentioned Doctor Faustus, as I am literally him(damned soul waiting for hell)

>>24797243
Only read Hero and Leander but I love it very much, interesting to see where the style of Alexander Pope emerged from. My favourite detail is that when we meet her at Venus's shrine, Hero is sacrificing turtles' blood.

>>24797243
Tamburlaine probably inarguably has the greatest poetry, while Doctor Faustus is a much better organised story, and yet the seething envy and cunning of The Jew of Malta is really great, clearly an original character in English drama that laid the basis for Shakespeare's less devilish Shylock, and all those plots twists and eventually Barabas falling into a boiling cauldron while screaming curses is fantastically exciting.

I am not of the tribe of Levi, I,
That can so soon forget an injury.
We Jews can fawn like spaniels when we please;
And when we grin we bite; yet are our looks
As innocent and harmless as a lamb's.

>>24797971
All the classics written by women were written by dikes or subs so it all comes off in the wash.

>classics written by gay men
That's at least like 75% of them

>>24798113
Contrary to his name David Faggot Walrus was in fact a prolific heterosexual. God bless the dead homie.

>>24797971
Melville is overrated and Im sick of pretending that he's not. He just goes on pretty common quasi-philosophical digressions and treats them in a pretty common way and people just soi over it.

>>24798159
Who is good then? Enlighten us

>>24797398
Hegel first and foremost.
You have to learn to grift and learning dialectic and applying it to your scam is the bare basics. It also makes arguing against lefties a breeze.

>>24797454
>>24797498
Is he one of the "modern art is le bad" morons?

>>24797477
It’s good and there’s also the Ascent of Man which followed it. That one has more factual problems now but both of them are good representation of the grand narrative of history with Great Men at the center of proceedings, everything they’ve spent 70 odd years trying to break down and deconstruct.

It’s actually bizarre trying to lecture whole generations who have grown up knowing nothing of that original grand narrative on how their thinking is wrong and the hot new thing is… the exact same shit their parents and maybe grandparents grew up hearing about. Somehow they’ve kept the illusion of novelty and rebellion going while being the only voice in town.

Anyway, beside those documentaries you can also try the Durant series of history books. Again the material is dated and sometimes wrong but it tells history in the grand fashion. More up to date attempts to tell big history include Burzun’s Dawn to Decadence and Davies’ Europe. They are more influenced by later history writing.

>>24798057
> Good think i already have that taken care of on my substack blog
im are profesonal writter folow me on soobstack

Leo Strauss is a neo-reactionary LARPing as a conservative, he's a good spot to begin with political philosophy wise to the side of Plato and whatnot. Ignore his mega-jewish neocon ex-commie followers.

Rather you like Joshi or not he’s right about a lot of writers. Most of the big paperback kings of the 70s/80s wrote subpar hackslop that’s been completely forgotten by everyone. When’s the last time you sat down on a plane and saw someone next to you reading Bentley Little? I slightly disagree with him on King (I think his first five or so novels, and a lot of his earlier short fiction are essential) He’s also gay as fuck for being so petty about Bairon. But he is a jeet after all, there entire culture is based around spite.

>>24797208
>He’s also gay as fuck for being so petty about Bairon
he's wrong about a lot of things but right about barron
never seen the appeal to his stories

>>24796961
My condolences on the molestation

>>24797208
I'd agree that at least Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are essential short fiction, but are there any specific novels you're referring to? Rage is one of the first 5, and there's no way that's an essential novel.

>>24797208
I'm a big fan of Brian Keene, he writes great pulp horror slop. Joshi eviscerated him in an article and I just remember being shocked at how MEAN it was. Like, it was personal. Joshi is an asshole.

>>24797594
>refuses to remarry and sire more heirs even after his only viable heir gets sent off to the kingsguard, leaving a dwarf as heir to Casterly Rock.
>At the same time he demands his widowed daughter to remarry and start having kids as soon as her husband dies and wants his dwarf son to inherit the largest province in the continent

Tywin being obsessed with getting Jaime out of the kingsguard instead of just finding another blonde chick to pump babies into makes NO FUCKING SENSE

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>There's a rock
>It has a big castle on it
>It's called Casterly Rock
But why is the giant rock with a big ass castle on it called Casterly Rock?
>Reason, the original owners were named Casterly
The American Tolkien, everybody!

https://youtu.be/GwlBLWu_duE?si=iTZObCwHmyaUqyt1&t=408

may or may not be confirmation dany doesn't die

>>24797954
Like what? Did he post a blog?

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>>24781386
The Harvest fete season was just wrapped up, and the Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable. November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters of the earth had all but evaporated, and it wouldn't be ideal were you to meet a Megalosaurus 40ft long or so, waddling like a gargantuan lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke blowing out of chimneys, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes attending a funeral, as if the sun itself had passed away. Dogs, unrecognisable in the swamp. Cars, not much more so; covered in mud up to their wipers. Pedestrians, bumping each other's umbrellas in a general display of irritability, and losing their footing on the street-corners, where thousands of other pedestrians have slipped and slid since early morning, (if the morning had even arrived), adding to the mud upon which they walked, at intervals remaining on the pavement where they could, each adding to the crowds.

The fog was all-encompassing, from the river where it passes over islands and grassy-fields; where it flows grimly across the shipping lanes and through the filth of the polluted city. Fog on the marshes in Essex, fog in Kentish town. Fog seeping into the rears of cargo-ships; fog hovering above the yards, and floating among the towers of large ships; fog hanging over the sides of the Dutch-barges and narrow boats. Fog in the sinuses of Greenwich OAP's, wheezing in front of the T.V. in their living rooms; fog in the vape of the afternoon toke of the moody manager, down in his small office; fog cruelly nipping at the toes and fingers of his apprentice in the smoking area. People stood at random on the bridges, and stole glances over the walls into a gloomy sky of fog, with fog all around them, as if they were up in a helicopter that flew through the misty clouds.

Outtake pipes of central-heating blew hot air through the fog in a variety of places throughout the streets, much as the sun may from the sodden fields, be seen to hang by a farmer and his son. Most of the shops turned on the heating two hours before opening time — as the radiators seem to know, for they have a worn and clanging start.

The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that ugly brutalist eyesore, a fitting ornament for the threshold of an ugly corporation, Temple Bar. And right next to Temple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, at the centre of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.

Never can there be a fog that is too thick, never than mud and swamp too deep, to assort with the blind and clumsy nature of this High Court of Chancery, the most immoral of unethical people, views the day within the sight of the skies above, and the ground below.

>>24795189
dime-a-dozen reactionary grifter
it’s embarrassing that even VAUSH was both quicker on the draw when it came to reacting to this article and had a much more informed take:
https://youtu.be/wc7IS0lMjc8

>>24781386
uhh the line about the soot being depressed snow was good

It's a shitty muggy foggy street and this dude things that it's really epic and horses are getting mud spattered on their blinders. Also there's pollution.
This writing honestly isn't that bad, does it really need translation into "modern" retard english?

>>24797773
>dime-a-dozen reactionary grifter
>VAUSH
I can tell that you didn't watch the video I linked.
Sad. Many such cases.