What am I in for?
>>24849855I checked the synopsis to verify and this is bs, just so no one actually goes and reads this. However,>plot is about female PhD candidate dating a male professor at her institutionwhat the fuck? this would absolutely not fly ever under any circumstances
>>24847823>>oh i'm a boring, down to earth girl who hates guys every girl loves especially this Chad here who I'm forced to hang around because of some retarded situation and he totally won't fall for a plain girl like mebooks like this but about an ordinary guy that some kinda troubled but not in a gross way hot woman falls in love with?
>>24849015I was afraid someone would say that because I can't rule it out and that makes me sad because she (Ridley) seems like a nice girl>>24849629I'm not annoyed at her success at all. But why did this particular piece of fan fiction slop get skimmed out of the slop bucket? Take Fifty Shades of Grey for instance: terribly written Twilight fan fiction. Made the author a multi-millionaire and a household name overnight. This wasn't the case of some kind of slop meritocracy operating, it was just blind luck.
>>24850066any romcom manga
>>24847966You should write smut but don't use AI.
>human knowledge is limited to phenomena, the world as structured by our mind’s categories (space, time, causality, etc)>the noumenal world, things as they are “in themselves,” independent of perception, is unknowablethis distinction was meant to preserve both empirical science (which studies appearances) and metaphysical limits (beyond which reason cannot go).but If we truly can’t know anything about the noumenal world, then how can we even assert its existence or claim it causes appearances?
He doesn’t use noumena to designate what is available to metaphysics and spirituality, he designates it as a firm boundary. For Kant all that is available to the senses and even imagination as appearances are phenomena and noumena is precisely that which is not so by definition it can’t be known because we don’t have the faculty to cognize it.He really makes it a simple and clear distinction.
>>24851339>but If we truly can’t know anything about the noumenal world, then how can we even assert its existence or claim it causes appearances?We can't, Kant is self-refuting.
>>24851339He never claimed it caused appearance, noumena is purely a negative concept, it's simply that which we can't know or experience, like God
>>24851339i cant fucking believe despite the fact that i have never read a single word of kant in my life i am a KANTIANi literally agree with this shit off my own conclusionsfuck dudenow i gotta revise so much shit to give him credit and i had NO IDEA
Why didn't Hermione's parents fix her teeth?
>>24851782Me, I would uncontrollably simp for Luna (even though she's not quite as nice in the books)
>>24851852And Snape said "I can't see any difference"
I have a slight gap between my front teeth (male) should I get it fixed or is it cute
>>24851076isn't she british or something?
>>24851888Both her parents are dentists.
Is it worth it except for the pictures?
why don't you self-contain in mlp
>>24851259>>24851251Thanks, I’ll save these. I am interested in getting a firsthand introduction to the ideas and their foundations.
>>24851208You still jack off to this? pathetic
>>24849803See >>24848834you need to realize neetscha was one of the biggest things he is responding to in those books
>>24851275Should be added that Arendt within Origins of Totalitarianism goes further back and theoretically pins imperialism origins in the state theory of Hobbes, but is lacking in some regards like technology, which is intertwined with political economics. To fill the gap read Carl Schmitt book on Hobbes state theory, it’s excellent. You’ll be all set then and more informed than the overwhelming vast majority of people.
Do conservative intellectuals exist?
>>24851798Imagine the BMI of this poster
>>24851793>liberalism and leftism are not the sameagree to disagree, but even IF we take this view, you see Antifa types all the time that are clearly gay. And before you make a distinction between "antifa and communists aren't the same" just note that historically antifa was absolutely affiliated with communists.>it is not to the advantage of the rulers that great and proud thoughts be engendered among their subjects, any more than strong friendships and associations.so gays are just being banned because "any strong friendship is a threat to tyrants" and because gays like working out and physical strength is a threat to tyrants lolSo, long story short, the "Tolerant" Left are tyrants.
>>24851539No, and that is to the detriment of us all. I would call myself a conservative, and I'm more than willing to admit that the days of conservative intellectualism are far behind us, at least for now. I boil this down to a confrontation between two men: Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre, where one represents mostly the more sane branches of conservatism, while de Maistre represents the highly religious, and therefore often very absolutist version of conservatism. Furthermore, at least in France, the Dreyfus Affair was hugely influential on intellectual life, bringing people like Leon Bloy to the intellectual forefront, who had a rather emotional way of making his points, driving conservatism further away from anything reasonable, the effects of which we see today in conservative politics
>>24851539Just read Strauss and voegelin
>>24851781>>24851812May 68 and the New Left happened. that's why the Western left and Western-influenced left changed their positions on homosexuality and many other things. you can see how countries like China and North Korea have very conservative and homophobic regimes - they weren't affected by it at all
>ermm anon why don't you have a single female author in your book case? >but you have all the Pynchons? Seriously??? Are you literally an incel or something?
i've read Rowling, Potter, Blyton. i could go on.
the only "book" I "own" written by a female is frankenstien.
>>24847622I have a copy of Marguerite Young's Miss Macintosh, My Darling in my closet, does that count?
>>248510931. Harry Potter is male.2. He's a fictional character.3. He never wrote a book.Anon, are you retarded?
>>24851891i meant the author.
>>24851174I remember Alex Jones was where I first heard of this, but in 2010. It was like "the elites admit it all but then at the last second got coy but Quigley at least tells us this."Then no other details at all about what it is.Then I read it's all about power and how it works and some sort of review of the post-war post-Nuremburg transition.If it's genuinely revelatory there would be more 'there' there. It sounds long and boring.Glad I never bothered to touch it.It think it's just about mind-numbing details of how and through which offices the early 1950s version of the post-war order was constructed.If you're an absolute dunce it might be revelatory to learn our entire society and global society itself are centrally planned to a degree that is not taught in schools. But, if you are halfway familiar with elite theory, geopolitics, or even basic history with any depth, or have ever read any revision, I think this book's a waste of time.
Poorly written, outdated, and boring history of the 20th century, with one interesting claim about a clandestine globalist group that directed Atlanticist foreign policy, the veracity of which supposed attendees dispute. You can read this claim in an archived copy of the book online, and read far better history elsewhere.
>>24851886Astonishingly consistent with my intuition above.
>>24851886>the veracity of which supposed attendees dispute.Well if you say so… sure don’t want to lift the stage-curtain up after all, that would be bad for imperial power politics.
Have you studied Epictetus? What he says is pretty salient (pic related).
What race are you? You're very red.
>>24851617Epictetus was a big fan of regular personal hygiene: cutting hair, shaving, trimming finger and toenails....
>>24851881So he's like every other human who has a normal functioning brain and isn't plagued by depression, mental illness or a diminished mental capacity?
>>24851884And therefore correct in his picrel writings?
>>24851892I mean.. isn't it obvious many women are like that? I wouldn't say all, and once their beauty fades many "grow out of it".. but yeah.. women vy (sp?) for men's attention and place great value on their desirability
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>>24851673You don't celebrate all saints day you fucking liar
>>24851681In a lot of places in Europe, All Saints is about the remembrance of your loved ones who passed away, even among completely secular people. Even if you don't visit cemeteries any other day, you almost certainly do on All Saints. And even if you don't, usually because it is not feasible practically, it is customary to light a candle or something at home or wherever you happen to be.
Anyone cool with letting me use their identity?
Poop corn
just fapped to a really hot porn video
many of kafka's novels were never finished before his death. do you think you could do them justice and complete them?
No, not me
>>24851800cumgeniuss copy
to what extent are they even unfinished? I've only read The Trial admittedly, and aside from the half-finished scene with the lawyer, its pretty complete and cohesive - even the unfinished fragments from it don't really hint at much more being intended for it. I remember one passage was a chapter of K. skipping court to hang out with his gf. doesn't seem like too much of substance was left out.the real shame is he didn't live longer and write more.>captcha: R0MAN2
>>24851800this gonna be me mancurrent project is at 21k words and i have no clue how big its gonna end up
A thread for writing literary fiction, non-fiction, and other genres, and discussion of literary craft. Rococo editionPrevious: n/aBe polite and cordial. Do not feed the trolls. Share your work, but retain some grace and limit yourself. Do not spam.Follow thread prompts and discuss these exercises to enrich our understanding of the craft. Thread prompt:Write a scene where a small, ordinary object (a ticket stub, dented spoon, chipped mug) reveals a secret about the narrator. Begin in medias res with a sensory detail. End with a line that reframes the object’s meaning.
>>24851315I have a fear of missing out lately, no, not of the late night parties and concerts filled with strangers you might never meet again, revolving like bright wheels of carnival cheese to come and delight. I fear there’s something beyond my scope of vision, the profound is happening that can only be captured from spending my remaining evenings sitting in a plastic lawn chair on the edge of a lake or swamp observing all life. Great cycles of birth and death happening over a matter of hours or days, creeping vines withering and birds flying from nests. Inside is the dead space, the silent tunnel where air stagnates. Even now, the loons under ferns wait out a gentle rain without me truly knowing. Starting tonight, surrounded by the sun’s nightly whimper over water, I will let a single piece of light bounce off a rock and enter my eye, where it will remain for 20 years or more.
>>24851531idgi
>For me, though, it's all about...Do you really need that comma?Can you do this?>For me though, it's all about....
absolutely riveting feedback
>>24851823Flows better with the extra comma i-m-o
>42 year old with no wife or children>starts obsessing over cats souls raw meat and reincarnation Sad
>>24846687you can't tell the sentence sounds like shit?
>>24848690he's vegan.
>>24841786>autistic catsfuck off
Lit used to unironically love this guy. The few old anons still here will cope by claiming they were shitposting. Evola seems like the current bad schizophrenic writer lauded here that will be rightfully despised later.
i know lit is a fan and he was a poster here but because of his ethnicit im just going to flat out pass on reading anything of his
Which Dostoevsky book do lesbians like the most?
This guy is a great writer. I vaguely remember having a read a few of his short stories in a high school class. It seems kind of odd that he isn't talked about that much, or propped up as a major American writer. I mean, maybe he is, since I read him in school, but I'm talking about outside of school. And I didn't even remember I read him until I read "A Watcher by the Dead" this morning.I understand why the 20th century seems to overshadow all literature these days, but I don't understand why we give it so much space, especially for leisure reading.
>>24850018>corrects me on drek not realizing I'm Jewish and spelling it like a JewAnd that's why you're a goy cattle.
>>24849914The Devil’s Dictionary alone is a significant literary accomplishment
He wrote an essay criticizing feminism, which he predicted would drive down wages for men and make it impossible for them to support families, and often said some rude things about liberalism like suggesting in San Francisco the victims of robbery are hanged. The fact that he was just as cynical about conservatism and was sickened by patriotism doesn’t exonerate him in a lot of eyes. He was both cynical about anti racism (see the definition of African in the Devil’s Dictionary) and racism (he wrote an essay which argued that cannibal savages were more civilized than Europeans because they didn’t waste the dead bodies and actually made practical use of hunting other humans). He also just had a very bleak outlook, like the short story the Hypnotist which is told satirically about a kid who hypnotizes a girl and rapes her and hypnotizes his parents to kill each otherThis is what set him apart from Mark Twain whom he is often compared with.
>>24849911nathaniel hawthorne was so much better as a short story writer
>>24851832>He also just had a very bleak outlook, like the short story the Hypnotist which is told satirically about a kid who hypnotizes a girl and rapes herHe doesn't rape her, he steals her lunch. He does murder his parents though.
I'll start with an obvious one. Great read.
>>24845749>>24847738will I like reading these even though I know jack shit about music theory and classical music?
>>24851746If you don't know but are interested in learning, I think Rosen is worth your time. He gives a robust understanding of where the Classical style came from, how it developed, the culture and times in which it flourished. There are copious musical examples with analysis, but even if you don't read music or know much theory there's still plenty of history to dig into. Rosen's prose is highly readable and elegant too.
"How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life: Stories by John Fahey"Brilliant musician, probably my favorite. Strange, sad man. Spent years in poverty and a declining mental state until 90s alternative rockers dug him out of obscurity, at which point he had a bit of a resurgence and made a bunch of terrible avant garage ambient music. Responsible for reviving the careers of old bluesmen like Bukka White and Son House himself. Has stories of getting drunk and hopping freight trains with Bukka White from his youth, when he'd travel south and search for old blues records by going door to door in poor black neighborhoods. He was an atheist, but had a lot of religious interests, including gnosticism. Many of his works were based on old Southern spirituals, as well as Protestant hymns. When I was in my 20s I once spent two years listening only to his records and learning his "American Primitive" style of finger picking. I've never read the book.
>>24851844There's a good documentary film about his life called In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey, too.
>>24845068Oops
