How do I get into chud philosophy?
>>24797398 I've never met a chud, an interacial porn obsessed racist neetwho hates women I use this basket weaving forum to discuss /LIT because my friends and GF don't read and never knew such things were possible before 6 months ago.
Carlyle, De Maistre, Evola, Guenon, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Plato, Aristotle, and pretty much every scholastic philosopher
>>24797689anyone skeptical of establishment narrative
Only get your information from /pol/ infographs Don't read anything else. Make a shitter account and larp as you please
>>24799049You would take a pile of Delhis finest shit and put it in a museum
Am i only one that is fan of this novel? It's so intimate with it's first-person narration, especially when it's in form of letter to a friend. Its full of wisdom that feels both and personal and deeply universal. Like main character struggle with sickness of his father, then his death and parallel with Sensei problems with his own father's inheritance - and i also got fucked out of my uncle inheritance and this theme felt very real almost prophetic while i was reading it. Novel gets pessimistic in it's view of interpersonal relationships in general. Personally i much prefer it to No Longer Human, i feel that Kokoro will remain long as one of my favourite novels, as i really dig this kind of "personal" style
>>24798225arent there a bunch of people on this board who take the view that translations are essentially worthless
>>24798225Soseki studied in London and was heavily indebted Quincey so that's weird opinion
>>24798213that guy from the great ace attorney was a real person??
>>24798213Kokoro translates culturally much better to other cultures than Botchan. The way that I tend to refer to Soseki is essentially that he's one of the first Modernist Japanese writers. Mid-century Japanese modernists are some of my personal favorites, because reading something that resonated the first time was special in a way that was hard to describe. "Bone Meat" by Taeko Kono was a short story that made me feel very similar to reading Kokoro the first time.>>24798216I've only read the McClellan translation. It was really enjoyable.
That book is the most popular among students in Japan, I'm almost sure. Is it even fair of a comparison? Dazai stands nowhere near Natsume Soseki
Did Guenon ever write a commentary on the Zutt hadith?
>>24798392Fucking incredible post
>>24798392GEM
>>24798458>Early Muslims obsessively wrote down everything Muhammad did>Muhammad was illiterate and couldn't edit all of the embarrassing shit they wrote down
>>24797591Just ask that one news reporter, she'll tell ya.
>>24797591It wasn't rape
Creepypastas. The best literature ever produced on 4chan.
>>24796195frfr
>>24797233yes sir
>>24797015thread man hook worst dead 4chan
>>24795893My favorites were the ones that were gifs instead of jpegs, and changed to scary pictures after a few seconds. You'd start reading a creepy story about ghosts or skinwalkers, with your nose a few inches from the screen, then suddenly... there's a big scary monster right in front of you! Aaaaah!
>>24798123Sounds sexy
They'd both still be alive if they were friends, right?
>>24797009Based knower
>>24797009>>24797023This. It is nigh on impossible to stab oneself in the chest twice through one's clothes. Unlike other methods of suicide it is one of the least common for the reason that the force and determination required to do something like that to yourself are not very common. It's like how your jaw posseses the power and your teeth the sharpness to bite your finger off, but no matter how angry you are you will never bite your finger off.
>>24796994Elliot Smith's music fucking sucks and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't. It's Gen X/Millenial I am so le sad with acoustic guitar and whispery vocals. all his songs sound the fucking exact same. It's dogshit. DFW on the other hand was a true artist despite his tendency to have some le quirky chungus stuff in his books.
>>24797523>le quirky chungus stuff in his booksLike what
>>24797009Dfw was murdered by his wife
When is she going to write a (hot) book about Gaza, October 7th, TKD in general?
>>24799218She's likely got a whole stack of such letters sitting on a desk somewhere - material for her next slop book.
>>24799203Her posturing about Palestine is insufferable. I'd nail her ugly 4/10 face though, no doubt about it. She is also mid as fuck as an author, how intermezzo got such rave reviews is beyond me
>>24799279I liked the part in Yellowface where the white author knows she's made it with the progressive crowd when people with #FreePalestine in their twitter bios start following her
>>24799279She supports Palestine because she is Irish. Her government has supported Palestine since the 80s.
>>24799279intermezzo is goated
>functioning alcoholic
>>24798111I wonder what equivalent term they'll come up with for stoners once weed's been normalized.
>>24798111i was able to maintain a job for a couple years when i was an alcoholic, barely though. the alcohol like leaks through your pores somehow, so you basically always smell like vodka to people, no matter how hard you try to hide it. also, if you don't drink for a certain amount of time, then you get panic attacks and start hyperventilating and youre arms go numb and are prone to having a seizure, so you always have to have booze handy just in-case. and you also have to walk everywhere or take a taxi everywhere since if you get pulled over, then you're fucked
>>24798134>youre armsyour arms
>>24798134Your post is mostly true except the driving part. In my years of functioning boozing I only got into 3 car crashes and only killed one motorcyclist, maybe.
>>24798111I feel it's a reasonable descriptor. I've held down a job with a little real responsibilty and my own place for over a decade, I keep up with the parents, and I maintain cordial relations with a few older relatives who still care for me. Pay the bills and so on. The key to peace is to drink alone, a deeply pleasurable activity in itself, and not mix the drinking time with the outside world, and especially not to mix it with interaction with others. Every problem always starts with interaction with other people.
Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
>>24799130I'm halfway through Ulysses, something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and unless things change it honestly still feels like a chore. We get it, there's a bunch of Irish and life sucks except for Bloom I guess and stream of consciousness and so on. On a particularly confusing section atm. I get the Homeric references and some other stuff but I suspect that he really did disappear up his own asshole while writing the thing. Still plan to re-read it in the future. I remember doing Portrait as a kid and reading it the wrong way, flipping to the back for cultural reference footnotes every single time thus breaking up/ruining the reading. I like how the stories in Dubliners work together, have a note project going on that one to be finished later.
>>24799152>but the rest of his work is too stuck in a post WWII mindset, which has simply decoupled inexorably with the modern world. Pynchon is becoming a period writer, someone you read to get an idea of how people used to think.I think this has the right of it.
>>24799208>and life sucksBut it's a celebration of the beauty of (ordinary) life despite all the hardship and also a love letter to western intellectual culture. He imbues a single, ordinary day, with the wealth of all western culture up to that point in time, and that day is just like any other day, and that beauty is always there to be imbued by an Artist. At least this is what's being attempted. It's an utterly mundane day with an entirely ordinary hero, and yet every waking moment is imbued with symbols that link all of our races (broadly used) past to that mundane pressnt.
>>24797419the pinnacle of Wisconsin literature. far and above the rest of the canon and their third-rate settings.
Got this last Wednesday and I’m only 50 pages in.
Are women(females) really reading books about jacking off animals?
It got brought to my attention and I skimmed it a few months ago. It's nothing new.>furry setting where most people are anthros or stock supernatural creatures>relatable broke college grad self-insert takes on a job collecting bull sperm in a lab >falls in love with every female-targeted love interest ever, not even worth describing >but with horns>she jacks him off a few times for business and then they fuck and get married or whateverMore of the same. The only takeaway you should ever have from female erotica is the same one you should get from feminist literature. Every female's greatest fantasy is that circumstance forces her to be in service of a powerful man who dominates her. A healthy woman will also want him to eventually love her, but never at first. They want to be put in their place and then have their feminine worth validated by securing their love. Every action or opinion or retarded article to the contrary is just an unconscious shit test from a creature that cries about being catcalled and cries about not being catcalled. No, they are not aware of this. No, there are no other valid interpretations. Yes, it's just that simple and has been since the dawn of time.
>>24799129the sheer amount of sales from this sort of literature is really tellingeven straight up porn for men has a lot of different flavors but for women it's all the same shit
>>24799129But why is it always beastiality?
>>24798470There's a fundamental difference.One is a five minute fap.The other may take hours and months to complete.The neurological effect will be worse in the latter case.
>>24799054Least horny furfag
Everyone told me this book was brilliant.This is just the babblings of an1960s hippy who grew up and realized all her navel gazing about the way things should be was worthless
You should read Bataille because you feel the absolute emptiness of your life being postponed for some future "project" that will never arrive. Your entire existence is built on the slavish, decline morality of self-preservation, a pathetic attempt to accumulate strength for a tomorrow you sacrifice today for. Bataille offers the path of inner experience as the only way out. It's about embracing non-knowledge, pushing your reason until it collapses into the abyss and you face the anguish of your own limits. He shows that real communication isn't between two whole, intact people but requires a wound, a laceration. Sovereignty is found in the frivolous moments you refuse to justify like laughter, intoxication, eroticism that isn't about some pure union but about filth, about the wound, about the crime that opens you to nothingness. It's about taking Nietzsche's death of God to its final, terrifying conclusion and choosing to live by chance, to risk everything not for a goal but for the sake of the risk itself, to finally reach the end of the possible, even if that end is just an annihilating, yawning gap.
Am I living a Bataillen life by descending into substance abuse and continuing to "date" this really hot girl who cheats on me all the time just because the sex is incredible
>>24799282You don't actually believe any of the nonsense that you just wrote.
It's good.
It's a good book
>>24790863>two blonde twinksWhat state? When I look up pictures of Mormon Churches, they're all brown.
>>24794792This
>>24783718someone said something akin to "if the devil were to appear before you now you may mistake him for an angel" and I find that to be a perfect allegory for the mormon church.It's members appreciate the worldly aspect of the community moreso than the theology.
>>24798714>It's members appreciate the worldly aspect of the community moreso than the theology.It is a parable of God that it is as such. And, the Book of Mormon is a word of God in that vein, of wisdom, and of personal self-expression of the Lord to his chosen.
Will reading make me a better more intellectuel of a person?
>>24798758Whatever. Believe what you want
>>24795434ESL post
>>24796401>interracial propagandasubtle
>>24799071Based /pol/ schizo
The only real tangible benefit to reading literature beside enjoying the books themselves is that occasionally something will reference a book you've already read and you get to smirk knowingly and feel special.
Do you guys think we'll ever have another genuinely powerful artistic movement that includes lots of great writers and poets? The last one I can think of was Modernism and that kicked off over a century ago.
>>24799275not in our lifetime
The infinite jest of horror is what?
>>24795882What??????
>>24791233Infinite Jest. Stop being a plotfag.
>>24796196Yeah I read it alreadyIt's not horrorWhat's the infinite jest of horrorOr maybe Ulysses or Suttree of horrorJust tell me
>>24795805Ok but what about infinite jest
>>24793719OP asked for the IJ of horror
