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Why hasn’t a woman written a masterpiece? Nothing they have written can really be compared to Joyce or Shakespeare or Cervantes. I always chuckle when holes try to compare Middlemarch to Paradise Lost as if they are even in the same ballpark.
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>>24792874
>It has seemed to me a possible myth or parable, that in the beginning, when men became men by some miraculous act of God, a soul was bestowed only on them.
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>>24792893
And the fact that women consider Jane Austen high literature is why no woman has written a literary masterpiece. They all prefer self insert romance and smut.
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>>24792874
Nigger you talk like you wrote Paradise lost lmao most women authors are better than you at writing you silly nigger
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>>24796455
Checked. Percy wrote it.
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>>24792874
Remember that story from DFW?
>Two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

Men born into the patriarchy cannot tell they are living in such a system any more than fish can tell you what water is. Their every thought is colored by the false valor of toxic masculinity. Women don't need to write a masterpiece because every time two women speak to each other (about something other then men) they are creating Art.

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Best books about partying and doing coke?
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>>24796393
You have a brilliant way with words.
I want to fuck you.
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>>24798571
>coke whores cause death in Latin America
Wtf I love coke whores now
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>>24798347
It lasts like 45 minutes, mostly just makes you talk fast and grind your teeth, and the comedown is awful. Worst drug by far. Do molly if you want a fun party.
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>>24796393
Thanks bro. I'm going to use this line next time I'm around some girls doing coke. I'm going to get so fucking laid.
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>>24799014
This is why meth is the way.

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When is she going to write a (hot) book about Gaza, October 7th, TKD in general?

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>le epic retrofuturism 90s nostalgia romance where the chapters begin with AIM chat quotes
Can this ever not be cringe? I started to miss bash.org and I'm glad I took a bunch of screencaps of it when I did. It made me really realize the old internet is dying. Is there any market for nostalgia-baiting nowadays? Because something about deadmall/liminal space/retro internet shit gives me feels, even if it's gay, cringe, and shallow. And it might help me process my feelings for a manic pixie dream girl I had years ago, and stop comparing girls I actually date to her.
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>>24797790
check this out: www.gauss-pdf.com/post/131025754200/gpdf187gpdfe019-chris-funkhouser-whereis
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>>24797797
fucking christ, that looks like Finnegan's Wake for the modern era.
I just mean more like the chapter headings you see in Dune or Ender's Game, but it's IRC chat, between this girl and guy mostly. All flavored like old AIM messages.

The idea is that this dude was really into this manic pixie party dream girl who wants to stargaze and go to the county fair and ride the ferris wheel and all that other gay shit, she is also a party/rave girl, all about youth and freedom, and then she ODs and dies, so the guy becomes a retro cyberpunk hacker killing the drug smugglers and corpos that caused her to die, finds some super-secret tech that would let him talk to her again and relive his teenage years, then when he does bring her back she's basically an annoying consoomer whore, and all the stuff he thought was cute was just his retarded nostalgia, the 90s actually sucked, life fucking sucks, and those feelings (which are fake) are the only good things he has.

Also he never actually fucks her or kisses her. And dumps his actual irl gf because he doesn't feel the same way as his gay, fake crush.

Essentially a completely nostalgia-poisoned peak millennial.
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one final bump looking for peoples' opinions.

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Will reading make me a better more intellectuel of a person?
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>>24795434
reading will make you fit in with people who identify themselves as intellectual and better than others, very soon after joining their company you will realize what they are and either join them for good because of the perks and status or leave them for good and only reading things that you actually enjoy as a read assuming you won't just quit reading as a hobby over it and switch to other entertainment
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>>24797626
Sorry, I'm not buying it. Prove that the books you say are superior, are.
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>>24798758
Whatever. Believe what you want
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>>24795434
ESL post
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>>24796401
>interracial propaganda
subtle

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How do I get into chud philosophy?
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>>24797398
Begin with Industrial Society and its Future, then read a book about some obscure atrocity in Asia, then read something by Hitler (Mein Kampf or his speeches), then finish with a book on an obscure though controversial subject of your choosing. The King James Bible is also mandatory if youre going for that sort of flavor.
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>>24797439
This but you also need to develop an intense fixation on interracial porn.
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>>24798078
Modern art is bad. Abstract =/= without form.
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>>24799020
Modern art is good you are just Indian.
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>>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.

Which e-reader do you have /lit/? Are you happy with it? Is it complicated to get books to it?

I am thinking about the Kobo Libra but it seems like getting books onto it is an extremely convoluted process that involves Calibre, KOreader, some plugins, and I don't even know what. And then I looked into Calibre and the first thing I see about it is that it doesn't let you put books in your own folders and it copies your entire library according to its folder scheme. Is there a better library program and a better reader or a better overall experience that isn't like installing Linux?

At this point from what I've read I think I should just continue buying actual paper books because this all just sounds like an extreme annoyance.

Or maybe I just need to install a good reader program on Windows. What's a good Windows program to read books in like ComicRack for comics?
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>>24797069
I can still find one in my local shops, but unfortunately I really hate that it doesn't have an SD card slot. I would buy one yesterday if it did.
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how easy is pirating ebooks onto a kobo reader? Does the model matter for pirating? How is the selection of pirated books?
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>>24797128
It's trivial on all readers.
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>>24797128
Obviously simple as the other guy said, but you'll notice that no matter the source, pirated books usually have some typos. I have hundreds, and I always vet them by comparing five, six editions against each other, and there's /always/ some OCR errors in there, no matter what. Even in the ones that are incredibly nicely formatted. This is the one and only reason I still prefer physical books—extreme autism takes me out of the story the moment I see a typo or misplaced semicolon.
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>>24797556
You should see what translations look like.

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Are women(females) really reading books about jacking off animals?
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>>24799030
If something powerful exists, but it is obsessed with me, and bends to my will, that means I am more powerful than it and everything under it. Hence their fantasy is always fucking dangerous men who are obsessed with them.
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>>24798907
>Piper Semaine/Poppy voice engine set at 1.179 speed
now I'm curious
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>>24798340
You just know.
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>>24799046
>now I'm curious
it sounds like absolute cinema
https://voca.ro/1kon69wz0M9g
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>>24798340
Yes. And it's based.

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Why do women love dark romance?
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>>24798177
Kino
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>>24798177
>my thirst for pussy is the stuff that haunts the building where you die
kek
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>>24794093
>>24794167
>women post their unfiltered opinions
>somehow this is le inkels fault
Women defenders will never run out of copes
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>>24798604
>unfiltered opinions
it's designed to be ragebait and I would wager that a lot of these are some sort of camwhore, whether this aligns with women's real opinions is not the point of what I said, I just asked how the fuck does someone even get exposed to tiktok harlot ragebait because I genuinely don't know, cause I think social media is for faggots and I don't use any
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>>24798074
Yeah it led to me having fucked up fetishes about female WW1 soldiers dying in combat and their bodies being stomped down into the mud and muck and piled up. Finally stopped masturbating to that, and just preferred romantic missionary fucking.

>>24798177
That's good. I quit porn too. I don't know if / when the damage to my mind and soul and libido will recover. I really don't. It fucking sucks. I hate having to starve myself on days I see my gf so I can take viagra and have it actually work well to have a throbbing boner for 45 minutes to an hour. I ate a big meal today and took it too late and as a result even right now it's finally kicking in but I already left (she was too tired tonight to fool around anyway). It fucking sucks. ED is such a motivation killer. Why self-improoov or even go to work to get a girlfriend or wife if you can't even fuck her properly?

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Any books or novels that detail coming to terms with adulthood and maturity?
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>>24796457
Thank you for the catalog anon
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>>24796539
>>24796794
>>24798202
Thank you anon these recommendations seem really cool especially “Of Human Bondage” in for some cozy reads
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>>24797863
I’m somewhat intimidated with the length but I am will definitely try my hand I’ve only heard good things
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>>24797967
I’ll be your age tomorrow though anon I was 17 yesterday and nearly 20 today. Only so much time to build my life and take advantage of youth

>>24798126
What’s the name of your novel anon?
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>>24798990
>and take advantage of youth
Youth is a lie and overrated, because it is the time of least self awareness, least self and external control, and least openness. And therefore youth is when man is least Human.

Not to say that adulthood or even adults are actually that much different, its just that in my experience, the capacity to truly be self aware simply does not exist in youth, and that is the most essential capacity to be human.

Anyway regardless. Can only do what you can only do, cant you?

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According to Hesiod, the purpose of literature is to give men relief from their pain
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>>24798988
Reading philosophy and the Greeks just gives me mental pain.I beat myself up trying to understand political philosophy and metaphysics. I wish I was stupid and always stoned sitting by the side of a lake watching the sunset every night instead.
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>>24798988
does that only mean escapism? art is a conversation with the artist. fiction teaches you about the author - his own weaknesses and follies - and, since you must know that no failings are unique, you may be helped to acquire tolerance for them in others. if the novel comes off at all, the reader will accompany the writer in some parallel process of self-discovery.
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>>24798998
Just smoke weed
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>>24799025
>Just smoke weed
Yeah but it bothers me if I don't "get it." And I'll diagram and write out arguments etc. Feels like I left the oven on if i just read something I want to understand but don't

The more I read, the more I realize I know nothing at all. By no means am I stupid but there's so much classic literature that I'm never going to get to read and I read really, really fast. I'm upset that I'm going to go out of this world just as bewildered as I came into it. I've read philosophy, religion, nonfiction so much and yet I've pulled very little practical knowledge from it. I can't even read for pleasure anymore because genre fiction is so dreary and boring. I've read some wonderful books this year, and none of it is sticking.. I'm still the same wasted brainlet I was last year. Everything is going to rot and ruin and all I can do is die calmly. I'm fifty-four. My kids are grown. My friends have flown. My family is distant. I have nothing left but words and now, they are failing me too. What can I do? I feel like a rabbit is a trap, ready to gnaw my paws off for just a smidgen of meaning. I've read thousands of books and absolutely none of it can help me, ever? What is the fucking POINT
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>>24798805
Life is a shitty stage and we’re all shitty faggot actors
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Bro you need to slow down. You can't read everything, you're stressing yourself out in the pursuit of something impossible. Read slower and contemplate things. Learn to savor the parts that you like. When you talk a walk do you stop at every living thing to try and understand it? No, learn to enjoy the walk itself and let yourself stop and admire a big tree, or beautiful flower when you see one. The meaning comes from within, what one gleans from a work.
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>>24796354
The books were written with you in mind but not written for you. This is what I try to tell myself.
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I just want to say fuck faulkner. never undestood a single line of his slop. "oh its deep" i don't care. doesn't do it for me.

dunk and egg walking in the woods edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

old: >>24768472
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>>24798911
>women and children were a mistake
Rhaegar is this you
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>Uther Shett
>Utter Shit
Bravo George.
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>have magic be mysterious and unknowable
>make zombie a viewpoint character

pick one
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>>24792981
LMAO
Fuck me
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>>24799035
?
What did anon mean by this ?

why isn't he read or brought up frequently even in french circles? he is the sexpilled author par excellence..
wouldn't you like to give his cyclical nouvelle "Les Jeunes Filles" a go, anon?
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I don’t think anyone would even remember him today if Beauvoir didn’t seethe about him in the Second Sex
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>>24798954
she dubbed it the Nietzschean strain of misogyny or something along those lines (I think). that he not only wants woman to be a lesser-than but he wants her méprisable.
Montherlant is solid prose when read in its original language. Plot-wise it's very much like Dostoevsky in the sense that things don't really stop happening. Events, répliques, problems, scandals and passions. You can also self-insert with the protag.

>https://youtu.be/jLi7WDx1mRM?si=latB4DTbihzxw6c5
His own words: "..[Les Jeunes Filles] is a veritable comedy..made up of gags à la charlo (Chaplin).."
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>>24799002
His misogyny did actually just stem from his intense homosexuality tho, unlike Mishima’s
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>>24799021
i actually had no idea he was a fag
What do you think informs Mishima's misogyny ?

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"...Nessus wasn't trotting. He came tippy-toe, circling a four-foot chrome-yellow feather with exaggerated wariness, moving one foot at a time, while his flat heads darted this way and that. He had almost reached the lecture dome when something like a large black butterfly settled on his rump. Nessus screamed like a woman, leapt forward as if clearing a high fence. He landed rolling. When he stopped rolling he remained curled into a ball, with his back arched and his legs folded and his heads and necks tucked between his forelegs..."
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>>24797907
also they eat through their hooves
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>>24797877
the hooloovoo comes to mind. Nessus is awfully sweet though.
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>>24797877
Ah they’re so cute I love them. They’re sociopathic creatures though.
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NGAAAAAAAAA I AM *SQUEEZING* THE *JUICE*! YOU ARE *SICK* FOR THE LAST TIME!
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>>24797877
Thyrrus from WH40K.
>View war as performance art
>The flashier the battle the better
>Winning isn't the point, it's about making the battle as explosive and colorful as possible


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