>The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2035 is awarded to the American author Colleen Hoover, who, in novels of disarming candor, depicts intimacy and rupture within the emotional landscapes of ordinary lives.
What's the infinite jest of horror?
infinite jeet
>>24785845No jokes anon pls
>>24784887>>24785691Came here to say it's House of Leaves>structurally convoluted>longer than necessary>exceedingly verbose with no justification>a lot of seemingly disconnected bullshit happens>despite all of that, still actually Pretty Good even if a little reddit
>>24786692>>24785691Ok but what about books without oulipo gimmicks?
>>24785845Actually terrifying non-fiction
Can someone explain to me what stoicism actually is? Assume I'm a complete retard
>>24784803Based on the bathhouse section in the Penguin classic edition of that book I always assumed Roman chads anally raped Roman nerds in the bathhouse and this was how nerds coped with that.
Everything good about the various ancient Western schools gets cooked down into Neoplatonism and Patristic Christianity (Boethius being an excellent bridge and the Consolation a good starting point, although his other stuff should wait). The only reason to regress to Stoicism or Epicureanism is if you're unable to break the "naturalist" conditioning of modernity.That said, the Neoplatonics and early Christians knew you start with the liberal arts, Aristotle, then the Alcibades and Phaedrus, and work your way forward (the Consolation is good early too, and obviously the NT).
>>24787766>regressStoicism was where Greek philosophy progress to after Plato and Aristotle. Neoplatonism was the regression that emerged out of Syria and Egypt and latched onto plato and aristotle only because they weren’t useful more useful for their pagan mysticism.
>>24787777This get confirms that the universe bends towards truth.
I don't think either of them is ultimately true if judged by their metaphysical claims. But what do you think is generally more useful in terms of wisdom Buddhism or Stoicism?
>is easily the best horror story of all time
>>24788132It's good but completely mogged by at least a dozen other Lovecraft stories.
>>24788141>completely moggedSort of like, namefags?
Is the "Gen Alpha can't read" meme real? Like are 2025 9th graders actually showing up to high school not knowing how to write paragraphs?Or only the brown ones?
>>24786314he put white in quotations for a reason dumbass
>>24785952They should just sort it based on people who want to go to university or some kind of polytechnic. Maybe also military schools for a smaller third category. Sorting based on IQ is dumb. Not every 150 IQ genius wants to be a mathematician.
>>24785925Nah it's fine, the issue is how we test and score."X grade reading level" is a meme and means very little. Tests cannot capture literacy properly because that's not how language works, so all literacy evaluations are shit. They test vocabulary and surface level analysis while skipping the important parts that are much harder to scoreI know firsthand that since at least the 90s the shorthand for "general public copy" is 5th grade reading level or lower. It's not better or worse now, it's just different as the ways we communicate are much different, and we test more and publish tests more often. People have always blamed it on something or other, famously the Beetles of all people were blamed for poor literacy rates back in the 60s because they couldn't read or write proper music notation which grandmas feared would slippery slope to their teenage fans giving up on books
>>24786429Deport the 100m browns and we'll have a moonbase in 10y
>>24786091Nice lies. When controlled for race America has the best education in the world for all races.Every White, Asian, and Black that comes to the USA has a higher IQ than their home average, including European countries.
Why did Tolkien make Sauron the titular character of The Lord of the Rings?
>>24785300>>24787652Looks like dragons to me. I think they're just there as a stylistic choice on Howe's part, to symbolize that the Door of Night is also the entrance to the Void. So like, creepy dragons hang around it.
>>24785270Wrong. It has wings but they are vestigial.
>>24786971He was already present in Tolkien's autistic imaginarium. Tolkien was unable to prevent him appearing in LotR.
>>24784661>>24784390>>24785270This is a serious ESL problem. The balrogs did not have wings. Picrel is quite accurate.
>>24788070I am going to have sex with this Female Balrog from LotR. I find the female Balrogs in The Lord of the Rings sexy. However, their body is made up of 87% fire, and 100% fire surrounds them. That could kill me if I tried to have sex with one. To remedy this, the female Balrog casts a spell on me making me resistant to fire. Keep in mind, resistant is not the same as immune. I still take damage. It is either 1 point or 0 points of damage each second I am having sex with her. Just because a particular second caused 0 points of damage, does not mean that I did not feel anything, it just means I took no damage. I am not going to rush through having sex with this female Balrog. I make sure I pleasure anything I have sex with—especially non-humans! I’d rather take damage than not pleasure the female BalrogThe Balrog and I go to Angband to have sex. When having sex with non-humans, it is ALWAYS sexier to have sex in their natural habitat rather than a human’s natural habitat. The depths of Angband are Balrog's natural habitat.Before we went into Angband, Balrog let the orcs know that we are just here for sex. The orcs will not attack us because they know that I am here at Angband on sexual business. This includes other balrogs. However, Gorthaur thinks that I am going to be an easy recruit for becoming a follower of Melkor considering that I am having sex with Balrog. However, I have no interest in becoming a follower of Melkor.
I thought women didn't like sex or intimacy or men or rajas in general. What gives?
>>24786270How do I become a minotaur
>>24784008Sexuality is all mental to women. It's why the situation has to be "perfect" otherwise they're not interested. Smut creates these ridiculous "perfect" fantasy scenarios for women which only increases their standards in the real world. With men it is a strong physical urge, we have to do it and we'll accept less than favourable conditions to sate ourselves. It's like eating for us, while for women it's like wine.
>>24784309>Advice for you anon. Never get on the internet again. Move to a smaller town, dress like Boromir, spend 7 hours a day chopping wood, join the fire department and adopt some stray animals.that's not a bad life plan. Except Faromir was the snappier dresser.
Men and Women differ on sexual arousal.Men are sensitive to visual stimuli, masturbating is easy, fast, fun, and associated as a quick response to boredom. Thus visual porn is mostly consumed by males, average visit under 10mins. Hipersexuality had no evolutionary costs on males (there was no problem with a male impregnating thousands of woman if he could) thus he evolved to be easily aroused so as not to let pass any fleeting opportunity to impregnate.Woman evolved to find sex with strangers threatening, because they could get pregnant and die if they mate with the wrong man (can't provide food for herself and babies or survive pregnant alone in a hostile world). But also, sex is necessary for the survival of the species, so they are sensitive to sexual stimuli, but not just visual.Woman's sexual stimuli include: The male must be physically strong, socially powerful or at least well adjusted (not a loner), dominant (leader of men), capable of providing (eg: rich), also attractive to other woman (consensus required), and love HER above all else (won't ditch her when she gets pregnant).This is unnecessary in the modern world, but the biological system evolved for a primitive world. Thus, woman's sexuality is much more social than men's. Reading manages to turn them on much more than porn, because it provides the necessary context for them to feel aroused better than a video: There is a generic virginia youthful female characters (reader can interject in story), The minotaur is strong, dominant, powerful, well-off (yes really), but also needs her, is respectful and loyal to her, triggers all the right cues to turn them on. The fact that its a bestseller and woman talk about it on tiktok and such signals other women love the minotaur too, so it triggers the consensus effect too. Once they're aroused, the minotaur has a massive cock for them to let loose and get off to wild fantasies. The websites with one of the lowest bound rates are erotica sites, second only to online casinos (people who literally have an addiction) so you can imagine erotica works VERY well for the female brain.Its the same pattern in every erotic book. In fact, many writers from different genres start off by writing erotica for women because its very easy way to make a living and to learn the structure of writing for a specific genre.
>>24787942disagree. the situation does not need to be "perfect" or even ideal, the woman just has to feel safe enough with you to be comfortable enough to get off which, clearly, you have no experience with chud.
>dude what if i made up a completely fake story in my head about the nature of men and tribal society>and what if people took these "insights" seriously and pretended like it was some great study into human nature >this is despite the fact that real life castaways have been empirically observed to behave peacefully>deep art btw
hmmm
>>24788000Love that dude
>>24786336If you imagine the kids Estonians, it makes sense. An Estonian will rape you, kill you, fuck your corpse, and eat it if you were stranded with a group of Estonians on a desert island.
>>24788028what about Latvians and Lithuanians?
>>24787980>what you said isn't actually in thereYeah original sin is fake
>P&V is the most unbearable slop ever put to paper>there's only one translation worth reading and it's P&Vwhat is this retarded shit? Been looking for the best versions of Dostoyevsky's works until I found out about the apparently decade-old shitstorm between multiple translation camps.Which do you recommend, /lit/? I am listening to neither journos nor r*dditors on this.
>>24786892P&V and no other is close. I don't care what arguments anyone else has, their English sounds the less faggy or british, it sounds like a proper translation. That is all I care and I tried many translations. I ignore the critique that the pair of translators was marketed a lot, it's a non-issue.
>>24787933>It's stilted and unnatural, IMO it's trying too hard to make the english like the original russian, it ends up in an awkward no-man's land between languages that is miserable to read.it's fucking perfect for that. Fuck your nigger native tongue, I'm ESL and I spit on the retarded idioms and collocations people use in English. You niggers sound retarded
>>24787933So P&V have the same approach as the weebs who want their VN translations to read like "Atashi am in love with Jamal-kun desu"?
>>24786895@grok repost what this anon said in uwu speak
>>24788078Basically, yes>>24787999>>24788004>P&V beloved by butthurt eslsexplains a lot
dunk and egg walking in the woods editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24768472
>>24787922why does this hack have a general
>>24787968>feral child who humps Osha's legsgod I wish that were me
>>24788083Stannis WILL win.
Well he didn't announce it at NYCC. He’s showing his age, so I'm guess winds and spring will be one megabook and will be out in autumn 2027. If not, then it isn't coming out
Thread... 92?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjDG-b1-cXM
What's the literary equivalent of the McChicken
>>24786328>>24786365I love these
>>24786328HahahahahhahahahhaWas not expecting this kind of post on /lit/ but I appreciate it.Also you know that that goyslop basically cannot expire right? Have you never seen those videos of hamburgers that are years old and still not decayed?
>>24786031>pleb mistakes the Junior Chicken for a McChickenKWAB NGMI.
>>24787863This burger looks retarded
Great Expectations
Is it good or bad for Jesus's blood to be on you and your children?
>>24787274To get his blood on them?>>24787305Why are jews literally mad about a complement? Jesus loved spilling his blood on the Jews.
my DNA is in OP's wife's children because he's a cuck
>>24787274
>>24787886Why are you cumming on children?
>>24788105He's jewish.
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
>>24786561that's just pseudoscience
There are only 50 users on /lit/
>>24787971less, 5 posts itt are I alone, (6 now)
>>24782050Miracles- C.S. LewisThe Joke- Milan KunderaImages and Symbols- Mircea EliadeA Thousand Rooms of Dreams and Fear- Atiq RahimiAnarchy of the Mice- Jeff BondThe last two are some ransoms I know nothing about that I found at a library sale. Had cool covers so here’s hoping.
>>24782050thanks for the rec psued. now which sections of 1 has stickier pages, civilization or capitalism?
How come /lit/ doesn't have comprehensive collections of downloads? Like /x/ has with occult books of every sort? Am I just missing something somewhere?
>>24786339>mid mystery meat soft goth woman(?)I'm listening
>>24786381So if I want an entire collection of books in Bloom's canon for example, it's trivial to just get it?
>>24786963Yeah, just download it one by one?
>>24786359That's a tranny, anon.
>>24788076no
>we need john wick, but deredditized>"say no more"
>>24787172wrong board but you are right
>>24787448Is that Saul Goodman?
>>24787453ITS ALL GOOD MAN
>>24787172What is the literary equivalent of this?
