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.
I like evelyn waugh
He has a beautiful woman's name
I read Brideshead Revisited and didn't really care for it much.
>>24786387His "Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold" is the best first-person account of psychosis I've read. A deep cut but worth the read if you're into that, and it is on gutenberg. It's accurate and also funny.
Havent read Evelyn but i remember him saying the Winston Smith should of drank and had sex with the proles in the bar instead of doing all the 1984 paranoia stuff.
I loved Brideshead but I've heard it's not really reflective of his typical oeuvre. Has anybody read his Sword Of Honor trilogy? I've heard those are good books.
Are there any other ideologies that formed due to a fundamental misunderstanding of another ideology?
>>24780307wow its almost like Judaism is a load of bullshit that doesnt worship the true god of the cosmos
>>24778154jesus was a galilean, which is in modern day lebanon. the word jew comes from the tribe of judah, which was south and where jerusalem lies.
>>24782081>for whatever reason got popular acceptance in Greece pretty quicklywhy was that anyways? why were the Greeks so entranced by this particular cult of a priorly assumedly pretty insular Judean religion?I remember the romans being pretty impressed by the long line of prophecies the jews had during the jewish revolt or something. did the greeks find the prophetic nature of jesus' teaching about a more universalist God appealingly in line with the growing neo-platonism in greece at the time? Or maybe to some degree saw themselves in the martyrdom of him to the roman state like how greece was conquered by them? Maybe the seleucid greeks had some degree of synchotism with judea that spread?
>>24786035Because it's literally "what if Greeks weren't gay: the philosophy".
>>24786035Its almost certainly because of its congruence with neoplatonism on major topics. Greeks theorized that Christ was the literal physical manifestation of the Logos, this eventually became commonly accepted.Basically Christianity/Jesus lent to the Greeks what they assumed was proof of neoplatonic philosophy and it just fucking exploded from there.
It's good.
This book is really quite something special. It is truly unique. No book confounds the reader like this one.
>>24784466I wrote a really good novel that is a response to this book. You should read it.
>>24784573What is it?
The Book of Mormon contains a claimed prophecy of John the Baptist saying Jesus' shoes he was not worthy to unloose. It is easy for a book that is retrospective to insert "prophecies" but what good is it as a secondary witness to Christ?
>>24783718The book used to funnel Africans directly into america?Hmmmm, i wonder...
The Greeks? Philosophy, religion? Poetry? Sure, I like them. And I'll read them too... just as soon as I finish this hideously entertaining novel.
>the novel
>>24786472>The Greeks? Philosophy, religion? Poetry?I actually don't enjoy these.
Unemployement: The book
>>24786050>He says at least twice that you should beat the crap out of such a person to establish your autonomy as a free human being.No he doesn't. If that's what you came away with from 322 and 339, then you're a sloppy reader.
>>24786169It's exactly what he says, it's a joke of course, and there is more going on here. You did this in the other thread too, I'll say something true about what is in a given section and then you'll try to say it's a shit reading because it isn't complete. But I'm not pretending to give a complete reading, to do that you would want to situate the movement in observing within Reason itself as the unrealized certainty of being all truth, tie it to other moments in which spirit externalizes itself, etc. You would want to make explicit the parallels here with the whole movement of consciousness -> self-consciousness, in particular. Or if you actually believe that Hegel didn't think it was retarded to understand human beings in terms of external, sensuous determinations then I don't know what to tell you, you need to read it again.
>>24786169>>24786185
>>24786200I suppose the issue is I said "you should beat the crap out of..." which is of course not what Hegel is literally saying, like this is some violent propaganda meant to inspire you to join Antifa or some shit. So I was facetiously quoting a facetious passage. But yes, Hegel had contempt for people who thought humanity could be understood in these sensuous modes which he catalogues and explodes one by one. Remember what he says at the end about the organ of urination and the organ of reproduction? Normally it is an insult to be called a wanker but here I'd be happy to be the wanker and let the other guy be the pisser.
>>24785635Do you want to be some cringe STEMfag, "oh yeah I did this little experiment uhh maybe in 50 years it will cure cancer in mice", or do you want to be Dr. Frankenstein? Out of context I can't tell exactly what he is on about but looks like a standard dialectical progression.