post some nice covers
>>24846037Sea of Fertility
>>24849716Looks like muslim prayer mat
Books with old-timey style covers are kino
>>24851923was gonna post this, thanks
Any of you doing NaNoWriMo this month? We're only three days in, plenty of time to start still. I haven't, but maybe if enough people call me a fag I will.
>>24854701Ah, that's one of the great questions
>>24853752I cant write. My mastery over the language is very shoddy, my sentences come out awkward and maligned and i dont even have good ideas to boot.
I've done nanowrimo every month this year
>>24853784This was very wrong from their side.The purpose of nanowrimo was to improve yourself as a writer, if you delegate the practice to another person or instrument you learn nothing.It's like someone studying to be a cook and ordering someone else to cook the plate: he does nothing, he learns nothing.
>>24854954>The purpose of nanowrimo was to improve yourself as a writer
Bruh why is this so real tho
>>24854856Knowing nothing about philosophy outside of this post I have concluded that Kant is the source of all the world's problems.Or maybe Hegel. But I'm thinking Kant.
>>24854856>>24854869https://www.goethe.de/prj/zei/en/art/27022324.html
>>24854856Heidegger and Arendt were lovers (also Heidegger was Arendt's teacher)
>>24854592Foucault raped minors
>>24854881It was Descartes but to be fair scholastics were autistic so perhaps..
>“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies. They could play, dance, love, and multiply their pleasures. They could leave a party, in the early hours of the morning, in the company of sexual partners they had chosen, and contemplate the dreary line of employees going to work. They were the salt of the earth, and everything was given to them, everything was permitted for them, everything was possible. Later on, having started a family, having entered the adult world, they would be introduced to worry, work, responsibility, and the difficulties of existence; they would have to pay taxes, submit themselves to administrative formalities while ceaselessly bearing witness--powerless and shame-filled--to the irreversible degradation of their own bodies, which would be slow at first, then increasingly rapid; above all, they would have to look after children, mortal enemies, in their own homes, they would have to pamper them, feed them, worry about their illnesses, provide the means for their education and their pleasure, and unlike in the world of animals, this would last not just for a season, they would remain slaves of their offspring always, the time of joy was well and truly over for them, they would have to continue to suffer until the end, in pain and with increasing health problems, until they were no longer good for anything and were definitively thrown into the rubbish heap, cumbersome and useless. In return, their children would not be at all grateful, on the contrary their efforts, however strenuous, would never be considered enough, they would, until the bitter end, be considered guilty because of the simple fact of being parents. From this sad life, marked by shame, all joy would be pitilessly banished. When they wanted to draw near to young people's bodies, they would be chased away, rejected, ridiculed, insulted, and, more and more often nowadays, imprisoned. The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer. This was the true meaning of solidarity between generations; it was a pure and simple holocaust of each generation in favor of the one that replaced it, a cruel, prolonged holocaust that brought with it no consolation, no comfort, nor any material or emotional compensation.”
>>24854847But i dont profess life to be a torturous experience, the way YOU do. >Nihilists when they have to act accordingly to their beliefs.
>>24854850>no true nihilist without suicideultimate midwit. don't reply again.
>>24854852Its moreso got to do with the fact that you came here to BITCH and MOAN about life being misery and haaard and no good when there's a clear solution to all of your issues. You can just opt out of the experience at any moment of your choosing.
>>24850043Houllebecq discusses this himself, retard. It's a major theme of his
>>24854948I said don't reply. You are too stupid to get it.
https://youtu.be/DrMEL20o5KE?si=FWzh7pUL0-ICF8vz
>>24853648materialism is so philosophically indefensible now, that we need people like you defending it for pragmatic purposes lol
>>24853770>Sure it can, limit entropy to the maximal extent for the longest possible time. Boom, you've quantified basically life's entire purpose.This is word salad.
>>24853383>griftbuzzword beloved by jews who refuse to believe anyone can sincerely believe in anything at all.
>ITS UP!
>>24854891Learn some engrish before coming to this board, m8.>>24853770Sadly this anon >>24853798 is correct. That being said nothing speaks against simply recognizing that life having inherent meaning is a personal assumption.I think that this whole race for the objective truth has not gotten us anywhere, we can make assumptions though. When you look at any ethical system they have hundreds of presumptions. More often than not the credibility of these frameworks rely on the charisma of their proponents. There is nothing wrong in assuming one or two statements to be true, considering that in a human context that already is a lot closer to the objective truth than any other ideology.Heck, I'd go further than that and even say that the mere fact that one presumes there to be an objective truth at all or that we as humans are capable of comprehending it, is assuming a whole lot.
Oracular edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24816688>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.
>>24853121Great series of posts, thanks anon. That's not a mountain I'm ready to tackle now but I'll save it for future reference.
>>24854448Also a third interpretation, I saw a commentator say that the hebrew nefesh can just be a metonym for the person, so we get also translations like> KJV: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in ironwith no reference to breath or soul or the neck
>>24854448wait I just reread the vulgate and it has animam as acc rather than anima, I'm retarded. he got it from the vulgate then.
>>24854482or more likely the book of common prayer, which has:> Whose feet they hurt in the stocks: theiron entered into his soul;
how wrong would it be if when translating from english to attic to look for the word in an example sentence and just copy the accents as is?
two sentence horror
>>24853675kek
>>24847218WHY.WHAT THE FUCK
"I don't know about India. I've never been there," said the man with the Indian accent.
>>24854807Female doctor.
>>24854834He’s Canadian.
check this outhttps://www.gururamana.org/Resources/Books/Who_Am_I_English.pdfif it is for you, you're blessed. if it is not, then one day it will be
>>24854100http://www.google.com/search?q=toilet+witches+indiahttp://www.google.com/search?q=codex+pajeethttp://www.amazon.in/s?k=cow+dung+cakes
>>24854100The chuds cannot handle the crystalline truth of Vedanta OP. It's a pity but they bring it on themselves.
>>24854100UG Krishnamurti killed jeetshi with his big fucking dick
i don't know any other place to ask this, but when indians shit on the street, do they bring toilet paper or bother to clean themselves with water afterwards?
>, I am not; the f ive cognitive sense organs, viz., the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste and smellvery interesting that he listed "smell" last
What does /lit/ generally think of books written by anons/namefags? Do they shill their own work here, and how are they received? Assuming the work is freely available.
>>24854910Stop being lazy and read the book.
>>24854914I'd be glad to give it another chance with a significant improved second edition. Get to work on it.
Spotted this lurking on the bottom of /lit/ mobile site. I wonder if the author posts here. Based on the style of the prose in the sample it might be an F Garner pseudonym.
>>24854921If you want a second edition, I've already explained what to do. I need to sell at least 20 hard copies of the first one. But you won't do anything because you are lazy.
>>24852301I've been entirely, 100% ignored every time I did that.
Thank you Elon for finally killing the Spinoza meme by forever associating it with this pseudery.
>>24854433The true subtext was that Patrick Bateman was actually the good guy and was preventing that homeless Blackman from suffering more than he had too (after belittling him ofc so that he could gain some happyness which he knew was greater than the blackmans sadness for being belittled).
>>24854304Horrible Boomerbook AI style post. He probably didn't even write that.
I haven't read Spinoza and don't plan to. Does he really blather about "fragmenting your essence"?
>>24854485Based AI.
>>24854378For sure.
I reread The Dark Enlightenment at least once a month and it's probably the most impactful piece of writing I've ever laid my eyes on. How comes his reactionary writings get so little attention compared to his earlier methed-up schizo nonsense, asides for hand-wringing dismissal and moral grandstanding disapproval from political opponents? They try to act like it doesn't exist or that it's just "stupid" and nobody should ever read it, despite embodying one of the most compelling critiques of the Leftist project ever made.
>>24848312Xenosystems is better
>>24851796huh
Bump
>>24852233and the political landscape has never been more bleak and miserable, humanity has never been less enlightened or creative, everyone has retreated into degenerate fantasies to distract from the endless alienation and misery especially the people with their hands on the levers of power, what has any of this accomplished? Land may have incidentally prophesied human apathy and entropy to obliterate our autonomy and perhaps life as we know it, but obviously that is not a good thing, there is no positive vision for the future advocated by any reactionary, just a desire to worship an apocalyptic beast that will come in the paltry form of a runaway greenhouse effect as opposed to an epic supervillain machine god, itself a degenerate retreat into the toy box for a bunch of feeble minded software engineers, who desire to paint the "ai" waste machines with the Matrix or LOTR IPs. When the leader of the intellectual movement is Curtis Yarvin a literal Bicycle Helmet Retard you are overdue for the realization that all of this is drivel justifying idleness as the algorithms devour all of God's creation
>>24854929>Curtis Yarvin a literal Bicycle Helmet Retard
Did this book really deserve all the controversy it got?
It only got the attention it did because it drew attention to a theologically contentious topic in Islam, it'd be like if an atheist wrote a book about getting into heaven via faith alone and then the Pope came out and said "get that mother fucker" or if someone wrote a book about Joseph smith changing the plates around and Mormons went all Danite and started trying to stab him to death.
>>24854348>it'd be like if an atheist wrote a book about getting into heaven via faith alone and then the Pope came out and said "get that mother fucker"Could you imagine? Fucking insane.
Probably not, like most controversies.I seriously doubt any Islamic scholars or Moslems were influenced to think one way or another on the subject by this book.I think published today it would probably not receive nearly the same amount of backlash, as no one reads anymore.
>>24854583Not so long ago that a French language magazine prompted a suicide mission. It might not go down the same way, but some cunt online could happily set up mania around some novel.>>24854300As for "deserve", it's a good enough book to merit being taken seriously
i don't think such an important religion should be controlled by such barbaric, dimwitted people
>expected a dystopia (duh)>got a fucking love story DROPPEDROPPED
Reminder Julia is a whore and Winston is a degenerate cuck faggot. O'Brien was right to reeducate them
>>24854686>O'Brien was right to reeducate themCorrect.
>>24854686hot
>>24854642In Spain he felt that the communists were more interested in shuting down, discrediting and weeding out suspected "trotskyists" (meaning anyone who didn't suck Stalin's dick) than fighting fascism and feared that he was going to be next.
>>24854883but what about his feelings when he returned to england?
For reading in general, what's the best to retain information?Should I get a journal and note stuff after reading? What methods do you guys use?
This is relevant to my interests
>>24850747Bumping your trash
>>24850747>journalmake sure its something electronic so that it's searchable
>>24850747It's misguided to think about literature in terms of retention. You should take notes if you're going to write an essay or paper so that you can track down citations later. Otherwise, what are you wanting to "learn"? Literature is a machine that changes you. If you're not changed by it, maybe it's just not for you or you're not ready for it yet. Don't worry about memorizing facts.
>>24850747Enjoy what you are reading.Sleep longer hours.
it's like this guy grew two extra cocks just so that he could rape hegel, kant, and heidegger simultaneously while writing this
>>24854309>Adorno had at least two affairs with other women during more than forty years of marriage to Gretel, including a long-term affair with Charlotte Alexander during their years in Los Angeles,[2] as well as an encounter with a woman known as "Carol" which is detailed in a diary entry.[4] Adorno's biographer, Stefan Müller-Doohm, cites several additional affairs, including an extramarital relationship with Reneé Nell during their years in L.A.,[2]:302–303 a lawyer called 'Eva,' and a family friend called 'Arlette' who travelled with them on holiday to Switzerland.[2]:62–63 Not only did Adorno write about his affairs and sexual fantasies about other women in his dream notes, diary, and in detailed letters to his mother,[4] Gretel Adorno was herself involved in typing out various documents of this nature, and the couple did explicitly discuss some of the extended affairs.this guy cucked his own wife. sounds like potent vril to me
>>24854223Why cant he just rape each of them in turn? Like a normal rapist.
>>24854223I figured you would try. In a different book Adorno credits Nietzsche as an elite dialectician despite his explicit complaints about it. Nietzsche's high volatility throughout his works gives him entry to almost every topic. The issue Nietzsche always runs into is that he frequently can't relinquish his initial paradox, or he tries to put the entire issue in paradox at the start. For anyone reconstructing Nietzsche this means he didn't evade Descartes/Hume. The only way Nietzsche can end on Descartes is if he can verify he will be the last one, if he ends on Hume then there isn't a resolution. This is mostly a social reading of Nietzsche, no offense Adorno anon, it's actually a really good social reading on Nietzsche, especially for anyone who can recognize his dialectic potential. On the scientific side Nietzsche still has the same issue but the exception is that he doesn't have to verify whether he will go last, Nietzsche can always opt for Hume and perform a scientific demonstration at any point, he can also opt for Descartes but if he does then he doesn't need any particular entry or exit point and doesn't have to perform a true absolute. The also means Nietzsche can resolve on the scientific side. >Fagcartes >it's all homo>always has been.
>>24854336Wtf Adorno was a Chad?
>>24854223most jüdisch post all year round
