Books on why 1993 stuck out as a particularly odd year in culture?
>>24788568I have watched most of it, and am interested but can't help but feel some of it reads like bad fictional writing. Also the dreadful Indian mispronouncing Kerouac and calling him Hunter S. Tthhhhh-ompson, how has he been presumably speaking and reading English his whole life but has never encountered the name Thompson. Would he call him Thhhh-om Yorke? Anyway, nice to find a fellow millenium-baby. I am from Reading but been living up north since I moved here for Uni.
>>24788216I'm partial to Scentless Apprentice and Territorial Pissings. I like School, too. But I'm a bigger Melvins fan overall.
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>>24788578Wrong video and song zoom-zoom
>>24788576Was in Reading recently, as it goes. Nags Head is a great boozer.
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:>>24753638 (Cross-thread)>Thread Question:You are thrown into the world of the last book you read. Where are you, what are you doing and what are your plans?
>>24781087>paying for booksngmioceanofpdf.com
>>24787159>>24787231>>24787710thanks.>>24786984i did read Cyteen but i didn't know that older female mc was her thing. i have the Chanur omnibus sitting in my backlog so i will probably give that a shot
>>24788290Not my fault your poor.
>>24787785Anon, I like paper.
>>24787867I forgot there were actually three women.
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>>24788455well best of luck anon
When you come from a poor country and a culture that is caught between modernity and tradition in a perpetual frustration that often leads to death, misery and despair, and then you see people in the West in an even more severe despair despite all their success, you start to realize that our problems today are not because things really are that bad. They’re actually because everyone is a gigantic fucking crybaby. The Republican Party controls all facets of the American government and yet all that conservatives do is still cry all fucking day. It seems to be an addiction for the Western subject to act like this. He found the most success in world history, he got the exact society he wanted, he brags about his superiority over all other cultures and peoples. And yet, he just whines all day about how the Rapture is coming and “the West has fallen” and that Abdul has more kids than him and whatever. It is such an absurd spectacle to witness when you come from an actually struggling culture. This mentality will bring about the decline of the West far more than any external factor will.
When a female smiled at me I didn't smile back. This is why I'm a virgin.
>>24788472what a strange post
>get back home from work at midnight>stay up late>can't wake up before 11>go to bed immediately>wake up at 1 and can't fall asleep until 4 then can't wake up until 11When will this nightmare endI can work all night and sleep during the day, I can go to bed at 11PM and wake up at 5AM but it is absolutely impossible to get a normal 8 hours sleep at the times other people do. >>24788462The reason the west is successful is that people throw a tantrum every time society starts going to shit and power and wealth become concentrated in the undeserving and are not used for the public good.
Especially if they are not banal choices like 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, etc; so we could all discover some interesting books we might never have heard of.I'll start: 1) Civilization and Capitalism: The Structure of Everyday Life: 15-th18th century - Fernarnd Braudel. 2) Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado de Assis3) The Luneburg Variation - Paolo Maurensig4) Earth: An Intimate History - Richard Fortey5) River of Darkness - Buddy Levy
>>24783839Yale monarch's has some biographies on Anglo-Saxon kings I enjoyed. The only sort of boring one is the Athelstan one funnily enough. Athelred and Edward are both top tier.
> Justine by de Sade> Shakespeare's Language by Kermode> Jew of Malta by Marlowe> Sartor Resartus by Carlyle > Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Defoe - roxana D’Annunzio - the flame Ferri - the positive school of criminology Lissagaray - the paris commune Reich - the mass psychology of fascism
>>24788416Thank you for the rec kind stranger, looks good
>>24782050Thomas Nagel - The View From NowhereMark Lilla - The Stillborn GodDesmond Seward - The Hundred Years WarThomas Kuhn - The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions Huston Smith - The World's Religions
What's the appeal?
>>24788513PseudMaxxingRedditory, I see.
People like it, or at least, get some comfort from it because simply waiting can be applied to anything big or small when it comes to life.>>24788513Beckett would call you a fag btw
>>24788566I would tell him no u
>>24788271Why is waiting for Gal Gadot? She's not even leng.
>>24788295fpbp
What am I in store for?>translationI know you guys hate them. No need to say it every thread.
I heard they are preparing a newer volume set to contain the NRSV Updated Edition "ue".
>>24788179There are so many divergent viewpoints on Mormonism and the book itself that it would be hard to get them all together to produce something satisfying. Look at the geography theories for example.
>>24788179lol this is your brain on catholicism, literally cannot even function
>>24788144Thoughts on?
>>24788183It's worth a try.>>24788184I am protestant. If I was Catholic I would be seething.
>NRSVUEIsn't that the one that changed Arsenoikotai in order to be more politically correct?Why would anyone trust a translation that changed something so clear? Paul went out of the way to create a term to make things more explicit.
There's a stunning lack of enthusiasm for the dying words of a /lit/ legend.
>>24787833When niggas read they begin to write nigga slop like picrel.
>>24786874>they made the only person of color stand in the backwowwww, this is just so cruel
>>24788522He's the tallest and widest presence. Obviously he's not gonna cover up a scrawny tranny or a manlet in the photo
>>24788528>encountering actual bigot logic wowwww
>>24787841
IT ARRIVED !
>>24788448Moby-Dick is a sort of Rorschach test of sorts. It tries to overwhelm you with all sorts of different symbols, styles and points of view, letting you the reader make whatever sense you want of it. The more sensitive you are to symbols, the more well-read you are, the more connections you make in your head. It's a very different form of reading, one where the author places you in a wilderness where you have chart out your own path, rather than following the author's guidance. This sort of book is taken to its extreme in V. and Gravity’s Rainbow, almost to the point of parody. Stencil looks for connections where there may be none. Ahab has his Whale, Stencil has his V, and Slothrop has his V-2.I recommend rereading the Spouter-inn chapter where the chaotic picture on the wall is described. Various interpretations are raised by Ishmael, but he ultimately chooses to believe that the picture depicts Leviathan. It's just one of many different interpretations, but it clearly depicts Ishmael's mode of thought. Something similar happens to us when reading Moby-Dick - whether we view it as a boggy, soggy, squitchy book or as something more depends entirely on our point of view and how open we are to perceiving its structure and beauty.
>>24788468War and Peace was rich. I'm finding this dense.
>>24788548I dunno. Sounds an awful lot to me like wank to me. If an author has something to say, they should say it, or show it. Not just vomit out anything and everything and pose as if it's profound. And we shouldn't try justify things that are flabby. I'm at chapter 78 and feel as if 20 or so chapters could have been cut and the overall effect improved. Now I think about it, I experienced the same feeling reading the Iliad. But the lyrical rhythms and vividness carried me through it. I honestly think Melville has talent and depth but the lack of concision hurts the book. I guess I get this >>24788548 modern thrust it has in order to try and depict obsession through demonstrating it but I argue this is not beautiful classicism, it's just ugly modernism. Honestly I've yet to read an American novel I was really impressed with.
>>24788591Melville is often considered a proto-modernist, and I'd even argue his later novels get very postmodern. He was very interested in formal and stylistic innovation, so it's no wonder he was rediscovered at the peak of modernism.I also think modernism>realism and Iliad>Odyssey. Different strokes for different folks.
>>24788591>It seemed plain that the whole must be a collection of those wretched imported daubs, which with the incredible effrontery peculiar to some of the foreign picture-dealers in America, were christened by the loftiest names known to Art. But as the most mutilated torsoes of the perfections of antiquity are not unworthy the student’s attention, neither are the most bungling modern incompletenesses: for both are torsoes; one of perished perfections in the past; the other, by anticipation, of yet unfulfilled perfections in the future. Still, as Pierre walked along by the thickly hung walls, and seemed to detect the infatuated vanity which must have prompted many of these utterly unknown artists in the attempted execution by feeble hand of vigorous themes; he could not repress the most melancholy foreboding concerning himself. All the walls of the world seemed thickly hung with the empty and impotent scope of pictures, grandly outlined, but miserably filled. The smaller and humbler pictures, representing little familiar things, were by far the best executed; but these, though touching him not unpleasingly, in one restricted sense, awoke no dormant majesties in his soul, and therefore, upon the whole, were contemptibly inadequate and unsatisfactory.
He finally explained the ending
>>24786946>his esoteric Hitlerist turnlink or elaborate
who the fuck
>>24786946Kek, if only.
>>24786937Death of the author means I don't have to listen to your explanationsI reject your reality and replace it with my own
>>24788602Death of the author means authors should be killed and dismembered upon releasing their best work, it has nothing to do with authors' opinions.
Why did Tolkien make Sauron the titular character of The Lord of the Rings?
>>24788138Insightful.>>24788432>like wings>wings were spreadYou can re-write this, in an ESL friendly version, as:>The shadows reached about it like wings, and these shadows that were like wings were spread from wall to wallA very cumbersome phrasing. That's why it wasn't used, but that's what that means.
>>24788138I'm gonna need you to roll a sexiness check. You have a minus 5 modifier for being a revolting chud
>>24784646>>24784656>They looked in wonder at the carcase of the fell beast that lay there; and their steeds would not go near. From Return of the King. Even after the death of the Witch King it had an impact.
>>24788520>ETL calling an EFL an ESLNevermind, I'm not one to go for ad hominem attacks but when that's your only argument I'll stoop to your level.>It means that because uh... I read it in some fanfic!!!No, present an argument. I quoted the text, you just asserted your opinion.
>>24788520You do realize that the whole "no wings" position only started as a contrarian take on online forums and was never intended to be a genuine opinion?
What are your thoughts on John le Carré, cold war British spymaster?
>>24788544All his later books have a couple pages of the protagonist seething about drumpf
>>24788544I think he made the villains in his last books literal Brexit voters out of spite.Carre's trajectory is an interesting window into just why Russia-hate is so embedded in our crusty old intelligence services.
>>24788573I mean, they had to live through the Soviet and global communism threat.They probably just instinctively want to make sure that dog is dead with no chance of threatening their existence again.
>>24788127>I wasn’t expecting the main character to be cuckedFirst time reading a bong author?
>>24788580The intelligence agencies *are* a global communist threat
In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
>>24785425That's the part that gets me, they could've looked up anything they didn't understand, but chose not to because they believed they understood it well enough. This makes them the worst kind of moron.>>24786805it'll probably be archived by then rip
>>24781402That's not what Chancery courts did. They dealt with equity matters before the equitable jurisdiction was absorbed into the normal court system. Trusts, injunctions, specific performance, etc.
>>24781386bleak house is so fucking kino
>>24786904bump
Dinosaurs aren’t real. I lost interest after reading that part
Tropical Beach EditionFAQ:>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.Old Thread: >>24667235
So we can also post stories here? Will you guys actually read?
>>24748733Hello /wbg/, I'd like to know how the fuck a cultivation or litRPG setting is supposed to function. Pretty much most of the time you'll read about it the world is just an excuse for the protagonist to kill shit and level up but I wanna think up something that makes sense. How does a society in a world where you can apparently infinitely grow until you reach godhood if you're HIM work? What's the main motivation for people having kids in such a world?(Other than just the usual lust)
>>24756931The US only nuked two Japanese cities and that was enough. What would justify nuking half of Germany and where did the US find the capacity to build so many bombs so quickly? Why did Hitler chose to allow himself to be captured rather than committing suicide?
>>24751690I know exactly who you’re talking about so some of his art work. I’m also writing a Bronze Age setting for this game I’m developing, but it’s more low fantasy pulpy shit.
>>24788196Go to /wng/ for that
>OH BOOHOOO!>I'M RICH AND HANDSOME AND GET LAID A LOT>I'M GOING TO GET ADDICTED TO DRUGS GOING TO TRY TO KILL MYSELF SEVERAL TIMESWhat the fuck was this faggots problem?
- I never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics. But in their arms I felt absolute security. I could sleep soundly. It was pathetic how utterly devoid of greed they really were. And perhaps because they felt for me something like an affinity for their kind, these prostitutes always showed me a natural friendliness which never became oppressive. Friendliness with no ulterior motive, friendliness stripped of high-pressure salesmanship, for someone who might never come again. Some nights I saw these imbecile, lunatic prostitutes with the halo of Mary.
- "I feel so unhappy." I am sure that this one phrase whispered to me would arouse my sympathy more than the longest, most painstaking account of a woman's life. It amazes and astonishes me that I have never once heard a woman make this simple statement. This woman did not say, "I feel so unhappy" in so many words, but something like a silent current of misery an inch wide flowed over the surface of her body. When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a "withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool." I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness. It was entirely different from the feeling of being able to sleep soundly which I had experienced in the arms of those idiot-prostitutes (for one thing, the prostitutes were cheerful); the night I spent with that criminal's wife was for me a night of liberation and happiness. (The use of so bold a word, affirmatively,' without hesitation, will not, I imagine, recur in these notebooks.) But it lasted only one night. In the morning, when I woke and got out of bed, I was again the shallow poseur of a clown. The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness. I was impatient to leave her while things still stood the same, before I got wounded, and I spread my usual smokescreen of farce.
- I got up from the snowbank with the thought: I ought to get the proper kind of medicine without delay. I went into a pharmacy nearby. The proprietress and I exchanged looks as I entered; for that instant her eyes popped and she held her head lifted, as if caught in the light of a flash bulb. She stood ramrod stiff. But in her wide-open eyes there was no trace of alarm or dislike; her look spoke of longing, almost of the seeking for salvation. I thought, "She must be unhappy too. Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others."Not until then did I happen to notice that she stood with difficulty, supporting herself on crutches. I suppressed a desire to run up beside her, but I could not take my eyes from her face. I felt tears starting, and saw then the tears brimming from her big eyes.- This time I confessed with a smile to the woman what my physical condition was. In humble tones I asked her advice."You'll have to give up drinking."We were like blood relatives.
>>24778946Life is everyone's problem
>>24778957>you don't understand, i'm too much of a chad to have struggles :(>im NO LONGER HUMAN
