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>>24786549You should read the annotated edition. It's actually drastically improved and will ensure you have better comprehension and memory of the core text.
Tomorrow morning 10:00am BST the Character and Theme requirements of will be released.Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for.You will have until Monday 23:59 BST to write and submit.You will have until Friday Midday BTS to read, vote and most importantly CRITIQUE.Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily.No word count, but anything over three thousand is most likely going to drag and no one wants to read your novel.To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).ANONS feel free to submit! We will just use the no.# on the reply to identify your story.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>24785382Yes, how could you tell?>>24786143What did you think made it possibly kino, and what did you think made it schizo?
>>24786333>What did you think made it possibly kino, and what did you think made it schizo?Upon rereading if, I have reappraised it. It isn't actually confusing at all apart from the pee poo man video. It's a certified kino neo noir thing. Forgive me my retardation.
>>24785329Haha, fuck it really is. I was trying to find some sort of theft that would be in line with the theme. A crime which might as well not have happend. But, I got bored with it. /ic/ and ladies squirting on my bent pee pee?>>24785721Yeah, I ought to have developed the protagonist and the world further. My only aim starting out was to get the crime out of the way. By the time I did, I'd gotten disenchanted with it and was lead astray by shiny things. You know how it is my attention deficient brother, when the ritalin wears off. >>24778321Jess' thoughts and emotions are laid out well, it felt consistent and real. Well.. haha up to a point. I enjoyed your prose, it was written well. But the characters and story were not my cup of tea. Jess isn't unbelievable, she's just very dull. The spirit was also one dimensional and I guess they serve as polar opposites. One not in control, things just happen to her and one who's in complete control.>>24772395You do a good job of painting a picture with your words. I don't really have much to say about it. A scene was set and then the curtain fell.>>24774504The opening reminded me of the underground man, but only for a line or two. Your wordplay surrounding light and shadow tickled me. As for the actual sequence of events, they just passed by.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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?
>>24778719read the prestige by Priest.
>>24777830>getting books onto it is an extremely convoluted processI just copy and paste the books I download with IRC.
>>24786152Why not just watch the movie?
>>24786164The movie changed a lot.They are both good in different ways. >>24786164
>>24786164For one example, one of them starts with doing séances, pretending to speak to the dead. The other annoyed that he pretends that they are real phenomena instead of magic storms the stage to reveal the trickery and in the scuffly the wife/assistant has a fall and a miscarriage.Their early sabotages of each other are a lot more corny. They are more like the nerdy obsessive people that magicians are, and less bowie-like rock stars that everybody thinks are cool.
why did this rendering of Judge Holden by some DeviantArt artist become so popular?
>>24782803It's funny how the best depiction of him is AI
>>24784365Harold Bloom?
>>24783164Lol
>>24782803>what are we, some kind of blood meridian?
>>24784391Excellent ragebait, sir.
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?
>>24786121>The population of "white" Americans under 30 is around 80 million as of right now>Not going by proportionalYeah and whatever that is I would halve that too
>>24786091What's the solution here? Balkanize North America? Just gather a chunk of all the smart white people into one section of the continent and declare independence?Bring back farm work? Maybe the idiots can till the fields.
>>24786429>Just gather a chunk of all the smart white people into one section of the continent and declare independence?Would never work, whites are genuinely retarded. Don’t forget that despite the last 30 years half of them are still staunch Democrats. Upon getting an ethnostate they would vote for immigration.
>>24785925People have always been stupid.It was normal for less than 5% of the population to go to college. People understanding their newspaper is the most arduous reading one must expect of them (not understand they are being lied to, but understand the propaganda message targeting them).
>>24786429>Balkanize North America?Lol no. They have to go back.
Schizophrenic or enlightened?
I wouldn't call it either of those things, if it works for you then great, I just found out it doesn't really work for me cause I get distracted by the other books so just one book at a time for me personally
im reading dozens (schizo)
>>24783533>Why do you post this nitwit pedophile Freemason's tool hereDon't talk about Leon like that...
>>24783356I like having a more "chill" / slop book and a more complex one for different moods.
>>24783356I have different books for different places. Currently it'sBed - War and PeaceToilet - All the Pretty HorsesCommute - a book about the House of CapetLiving room - a young adult novel in Russian (trying to learn the language right now)That way I can always read wherever I am without having to actually carry a book with me. I also try to read in different languages as to not forget them.
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
>>24782361>In the Miso Soup by Ryuu Murakaminta but someone recommended me this book a couple times almost a decade ago. is it worth reading? funny seeing it pop up after all these years
1) Italian Journey - Goethe2) The Book Of Disquiet - Pessoa3) Blood Meridian - McCarthy4) Butcher's Crossing - Williams5) American Pastoral - RothYou can mock me if you'd like, but I've never read any of these books, and especially I've never actually read Blood Meridian. I sat down and tried to read it a few years ago and it didn't hold my interest. But since it's such a /lit/ meme I'm going to try again. I'm going to give a lot of /lit/'s favorite books a try over the next few months.
>>24786395>1) Italian Journey - Goethe>5) American Pastoral - RothPlease make threads on these during or after reading them.
>>24786536Will do, Anon. Italian Journey is actually up next on the docket after I finish my current book.What's funny is that, actually, THAT book in particular I'm reading kind of for research. I've been at work on a very big story for a while, and my protagonists have gradually been journeying around the world, starting from the Southeast of North America. They're about to make it to Italy, and when I was in the planning stages of that leg of their journey, I remembered Goethe's Italian Journey and thought it would be fun for my protagonists to basically retrace Goethe's route through the peninsula.So, of course, I'll need to know that route, so I'm going to read the book.
>>24782510Nope. That's just an INTP
tis this year’s nobel winner? lmao who fell asleep on the keyboard while naming him
>>24786374The "big four" are Satantango (enjoyable but pretty different than his later works), Melancholy (incredible but arguably his most difficult), War & War (incredible but one of the most depressing things ever put to page), and Baron Wenckheim (farcical and Pynchonesque). Start with whichever of those sounds appealing.Seibo There Below is consistently good short stories.The World Goes On is more hit-or-miss but has some gems.Haven't gotten around to Herscht 07769 or his Chinaboo book yet, please let me know your opinions if you've read them.
>>24785980>>24785649>you literally have to take brainwashing courses in order to hate nazissays a lot huhI bet you also believe in death camps too>>24785996although capitalist men rarely do any damage (and if they do, it's mostly because they are leftist or homosexual)a woman screeching about capitalism is like a fat disgusting hag accusing others of eating
I'm reminded of Flannery O'Connor's The Displaced Person where the southerners act like Guizac is an incomprehensively difficult name to pronounce.
>>24786504This was a good and sad story but when I think about it I just remember the scene where the owner says "you can not marry a white woman and a nigger in this country" and the polish guy is just like "huh? She my cousin. She from Poland. She no care black." I am emotionally 12 years old
>>24786275>he was a Ginsberg fanboywhat is this based on, besides him writing one book while living with him?>very vocally anti-Orbanhe barely gives any interviews, he's not vocally anything
>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
>>24786336It actually is a great study into anglo nature
>>24786336>people would rather follow a charismatic strongman pushing superstition, exclusion, and violence than a more nuanced perspectived based around reason and cooperationseems pretty accurate desu
>>24786337But OP is right. This was drilled into kids head to make them believe the lie that man is inherently evil, "his nature" >>24786338>>24786358>angloOnly in that they've been fully inured in "civilization". Ruined minds. Their kids, if taken away before schooling, could be made into healthy human beings again. Topple the govt and you could have Morris' News From Nowhere world
>>24786427>This was drilled into kids head to make them believe the lie that man is inherently evil, "his nature"i don't think that's the message, or at least grossly oversimplified. there are two main conflicting perspectives in the book those of jack and ralph. the book does make the point that jack's approach, while more morally repugnant to your typical reader, is more effective in drumming up support and consolidating power in desperate times, taking advatntage of a fearful population. which again, is not inaccurate to history. it's not just about kids on an island, it's an extended metaphor in which to explore authoritarianism, religion, etc. idk why i even need to explain this to a (presumably) adult man who reads a lot.
>>24786427As soon as society stopped drilling into their heads that humanity's nature is one of violence and theft, society started to welcome violent thieves.Curious.
Delphic charioteer edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24732139>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24784389Studying ancient languages cures my depressive spells.
>>24785341what is the difference between>studying frenchand>reading french
>>24785668An ancient languages general is actually a bad place for general language pedagogy advice because l they’ll take languages like French, and imply English speakers should grind flashcards and conjugation tables and only eventually try reading.Just read. Try le francais par le methods nature.
>>24785111Why would you say that>>24785341Why french what
I was trying to find the athenaze stories online in plaintext and I guess someone(s) have already compiled the stories into a high-quality PDF that can easily be copy-pasted, preserving the original characters. I guess I need to make sure that the transcription was done correctly. But if it was done correctly, this save a lot of time.https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/greek/athenaze/readings/runningreadings.pdfso now i can easily copy + paste the texts and put them into my reader app of choice, use a pop-up dictionary more easily, etc. etc.>percentage of time actually learning the language: 0>percentage of time spent being a sperg and fiddling around: 100
>fascism is le...bad?
>>24786151A peace prize actually. No competition this year anyways.
>>24786160>have you considered laying down and dying insteadFor some reason not many takers when a fascist pulls up.
>>24786140Fascism is actually peaceful, it's the "democratic" states always pushing for war with them that causes conflict.
>>24785880Is that Fisher Stevens?
>>24785880So Depp
What the fuck is wrong with James Joyce?
>>24785709We're above other species in most other ways, I mean we literally wear clothes retard. Why do muh dick retards not realise how embarrassing they are?
>>24785776what a reddit midwit jeez
>>24785776I mean, man could have replaced sex with cocaine very long ago but they made that illegal so pleasure still has to be sought the old-fashioned way.
>>24777467>>24777471It's a thoroughly anti-semitic blood libelous depiction, yes yes
>>24775722What is this book?I thought it was a retelling of the Trojan wars but set during the US Civil War...
>went to buy classic 1980s fantasy paperbacks >stuff that often have a 50 cent stamp from book stores>"That will be $80 + fee + shipping + tip + tariffs"Hipsters have destroyed the vintage book market and have made it impossible for us actual collectors to buy them at the proper price. They are now charging obscene amounts of money for disposable fantasy trash market novels. Stuff that used to sell for 50 cents in used book stores, they are now demanding between $50-$100 per book because of all the youtube 'book haul' hipsters.
>>24785744Welcome to capitalism buddy, supply and demand is the #1 law of the universe, fuck your concerns.
>>24786441Look at /mu/. You can compare threads on the archive to now. It used to be the home of hipster culture on 4chan. That culture is completely dead.
Holy wah wah wah shut up you fag my god
>>24786454>we should all be celebrating getting absolutely cucked
Hipsterdom is so thoroughly dead that I can't even find the old "hipster is a meaningless perjorative" copypasta on the archive any more
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
>>24786430What the fuck are you talking about, there are stacks on stacks of classics. I've been to libraries in multiple cities and this was true in 0 of them. Do you go into a library and make a bee-line for the sections you know will piss you off or what?
>>24785927Sure, I could sit on the waiting list for a few weeks to borrow one of 3 physical copies of a book that's been passed around God knows how many filthy hands. Or worse, wait for the only ebook the library is allowed to loan out.Or in the time that it took me to write that sentence, I could download it onto my computer from the comfort of my own home.>Unless you exclusively read racist meme booksFunny how the leftist meme books are plentiful at the library, but suddenly the library becomes pro-censorship when it comes to radical right wing books.
>>24786486Who reads novels on a screen? The classics are hardly ever checked out anyway. You are a /pol/ tourist.>Boohoo there's this book about pregnancy in Bolivia but why can't there be a book about how the holocaust is a myth?Political correctness gone mad!
>>24784258You'd think that, until you met one.
>>24786511>why can't there be a book about how the holocaust is a myth?That's a really good question. I mean how many ancient alien books are there? That didn't happen.
I would like to listen to the complete audiobook series of Animorphs, but don't have a $1000 to spend on it.
