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Our lives not only aren't made to last, they are made not to last. No will but the eternal will of God.
>>24855854cringe
>>24855572>8 months of no convo yet an exchange of wholeheartedly smiles took placeReality is not what you perceive it to be
>>24855859If the infinite greatness of time doesn't frighten you then surely you are insane.
>>24855859I always think that the sort of fetishistic obsession with accepting death is a sign of weakness but the fetishistic denial of death is as well. Eating a fuckass diet of dried goji berries and pumping yourself full of your own son's blood is nothing but a superstitious ritual to ward off of your existential fears. Life should be lived for life, not for death, regardless of whether that comes as an neurotic acceptance or denial.
Is it worth it except for the pictures?
>>24848252I saw a set in a used bookstore for $90. It was a little beat up so I didn't get it and I regret it.
>>24848208Pseud
again i mentioned this earlier why the fuck do people read his active imagination notebooks instead of just doing active imagination that's what you are supposed to do >>24855330correct
>>24853722LaRouche was right all along
>>24850091Me - no book.:(
I don't get it.So Ezra Pound's works are something only a genius could make, but the only reason why he isn't labeled as a genius by academia, experts and readers is because he had the wrong opinion?That makes no sense all.
>>24849364He didn’t exactly flee to Italy, where he’d lived for years, but he made radio propaganda broadcasts. I’ve seen some transcripts and it’s mostly conspiracy rants, not Death to America exactly, but enough to get anyone else hung.
>>24849053you are not a genius, dumbass
>>24854182Yet he was stuck in a cage for a while with a likely death sentence hanging over him. Then he spent decades in a secure hospital/prison. Whereas actual killers such as Shirō Ishii got immunity for their actions during world war 2Such was the style at the time. This is the power of the written word being feared.
>>24852160But there was a bunch of them (and artists in general) in the 20th century.
>>24849364He was a refugee,not a combatant.
Did he write anything worth reading ? Post some recs
>>24849884That makes it a readable sentance, genius mofo.
>>24849678why are faggot writers always so based?
>>24849609Honestly, this is his best story. >>24849884Other Voices, Other Rooms is underrated. Read this early this year as part of a Southern Gothic binge. Great read.
>>24849527I like the part where he said Mishima was looking for BWC while in America
>>24853924>Southern Gothic bingeWhat did you read? I've read Faulkner, McCullers, Dorothy Allison, and McCarthy. Haven't read Flannery O'Connor yet. I don't consider them Gothic but I've also read Erskine Caldwell and Thomas Wolfe and Walker Percy. I'm looking for some more Southern Gothic.
This is the bookshelf of rightwing intellectual Connor Tomlinson.Is it time we recognise DC/Marvel works as part of the western canon?
>>24853351What happens when the power goes out permanently?
>>24855665Solar panel
>>24855665Hamster on a wheel
>>24855543yea because that face perfectly fits your post
>>24853351>God in the machine randomly decides to flip one bitLMAO, there's literally no equivalent for a physical book.
>>24855780that's good flash fiction
hizdahr zo loraq 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: >>24822405
>>24855587I wouldn't say a single word to him, I would listen to what he had to say. And that is what no one did.
>>24855587If it's before he becomes king, tell him to recognize Stannis as king and then facilitate a combined attack on KL.If it's after he's become king and the Blackwater has already happened, there's really no advice but to bend the knee while he still can, then limp back north to kick the Ironborn out of the North.Bending the knee also has the benefit that Roose's scheming blows up in his face and at least Ramsay would hang after it comes out he burned Winterfell.
>>24854231it's Tyrion's fault for recognizing her at the inn :^)
>>24855587he couldn't have won. Highgarden went to the Lannisters and his powerful vassals ditched him.even if he stayed alive, the best thing he could have managed was getting Winterfell and the northern castles back.he didn't have enough men to go back south and winter is coming™.i guess he could've reunited with and forgiven Theon then allied with the Ironborn to raid the Lannisters and Highgarden.maybe even cut a deal with the Euron to keep his Northern throne while supporting Euron to get his.but good luck having the northern lords go with the plan.all in all, Robb was fucked by gurm.
Thoughts?
>needing to read entire books just to understand a chapter of this bookyep its certified kino
the irony is that if you learn the references from some sort of companion text, or even if you pre-emptively study the references, as preparation to read the esoteric text, either way you’ve completely missed the effect, which emerges from the stimulation of a well-stocked memory, not from mechanical prodding with the intellectual equivalent of pornography: cherry-picked lists of references organized by their appearance in some other book.
>>24853196I'm in progress with a detailed comparison of all the stuff. The stories were crafted to connect to each other via certain details, which is amusing when you pay attention.>>24854111I wasn't crazy about it, honestly. A personal favorite was "A Painful Case", which depicts an atheistic bachelor with stable employment who has a younger woman briefly come into his life, but then he pushes her aside and he ends up totally alone. Let's just say that it hit a little to close to home.
>>24854318And yet Joyce in particular seems to stimulate exactly these sorts of lists, which undermines your observation because he is obscure and specific to his period. I have two of them on my shelf at the moment. When I first read Portrait as a teenager, I made the terrible mistake of flipping back to the disconnected end-notes every single time, thus breaking up and ruining the reading. What the hell is a fan for Parnell, and so on. You are of course just suggesting to keep reading and get the point, but this tends to get lost otherwise. I was able to read to my mother at age three and I have a hard time with it (Joyce in general) precisely because the historical context stuff. What hope does some illiterate zoomer have, and why would they care. Joyce really did disappear up his own asshole with the abstraction. This endears him to the /lit/ set who want to do the smart stuff, but he's exceptionally obscure.
>>24854111OMG DID THE KEK HAVE AN EPIPHANY!!! HOLY SHIT IT'S JUST LIKE ME WITH MY WIFE AND MY WIFE'S BLACK BOYFRIEND
I don't recall /lit/ having the cuck (cvck) filter turned on
The older I get, the more I realise he was right about everything.
>>24855506Fix your diet.
Buddha said it first
>>24855737What part of nothingness do you struggle with understanding?
Refuted by Nietzsche
>>24855710are you fatherless too? I've noticed that about schop and neetche fans (neetche also was fatherless)
What am I in for?
>>24854411I sat and watched with full incredulity once. She comes to me quietly, what's wrong here. She was trying to compile PSEUDOCODE. Its took me two days to explain what psudocode was, what it wasn't. And for hr to understand its not a "second computer language" the compiler, would compile. This birdbrain, was teaching his class. Doc got *me*, to write all the notes for her class, so most problems went away. I always felt bad for whatever big company hired her to run something,
>>24851915>You should write smut but don't use AI.I've been honing my mommy-dommy smut and I don't use AI. S&M is usually a perennial bankable fetish erotica.
>>24849023>in real life guys close their eyes tooSpeak for yourself.
>>24847823Do women actually fantasize about shit like this? I find it hard to relate to with the genders swapped.
>>24850066That's every book
for reading Kant?I don't think I really care much for either Descartes nor Hume nor many of the others who fall within this. Spinoza I might be open to reading just out of curiosity. he seems pretty important I think to the kantian enterprise. who else? I've already read Plato and Aristotle. will be reading Augustine soon, and about Aquinas (I don't care very much for aristotelian style philosohy beyond what Aristotle himself wrote). I feel Kant can be into'd with nothing more than relevant secondary literature and a sharp mind.
>>24855454all you need is a sharp mind
bumppwhen mt life if sturem and the asngels ask me to recall the thirll of them all,ooo,i should tell them i remember you oh oh you oh you. youuu
>>24855454Just don't.
>>24855454You either kan or you kan't.
>>24855454Sound like you Kant do it yet.
This is the only genre that makes money and the money train isn't stopping any time soon. Short of a puritanical John Carpenter style government, there will always be demand for this shit.The question is, can a dude write successful girlporn? This is the literary question.I'm going to read this milking farm thing and see if I can't get a knack for how women write. I'm suspecting it's a bit like this:>Minimal attention to details and the world, emphasis on personal impressions and feelings; the world as a set of things that make you feel different ways.>Braindead, 12-15 year old brain simplicity. Imagine a Middle School girl trying to "speed download" social gossip updates to a friend.>Vanity, ego, zero accountability, petty delusions, cliches. This will require a bit of research and marketing savvy just to collect up what today's cliches are. Fortunately, women are dead simple and just go on TikTok/Twitter and see what buzzwords come up a lot.>Sultry language.This one's tough. From what I understand explicit, gross language is what sells this shit and is the female equivalent of visually seeing porn. On the other hand, I have a feeling that I could write porn that is vastly more detailed and explicit than what women read and would alienate them. I have a feeling it's just stuff like, "sweaty" "bulge" "heaving" "cock!" "pulsing". Words that sound distinctly naughty but remain vague. It's not about visualizing, even through text, sexual mechanics. It's about breaking social taboos so women feel "naughty" and liberated from their neurotic sexual restraints.>Female attractionThis is tough. How far do you go with "big muscles, ripped body"? How much do women want to read that, and when is it too much? Women like being dominated but they like to feel it was their choice to be dominated. As a man who understands women very well, I don't want to tap into their sexual triggers too accurately because that might lead to a sense of "revealing too much" about female sexuality which women don't like. They like most of it to remain implicit and simple.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24855555>~ literary effort and quality are not prime. >The success of slop proves it. Holy shit, 5 quintuple gets of TRUTH!
>>24855684>the reason I called erotica "more" disgusting is because it's more insidious, due to how normalized it isDespite what you've been led to believe, normal women are not reading books about jerking off minotaurs to pay off your student loans
>>24850612>"He had a cock-like appendage that was bigger than anything her ex boyfriends could produce."lek, women would unironicaly love this one
>>24850825Kino
>>2485557190% of people would sell their mother for sex
>Add a random passage where the story enters a POV of a Fox>You can hear the sentient thoughts of this animal>This is never ever mentioned or brought up again throughout the entire LOTR TrilogyWhat did Tolkien mean by this?
Hear them?
>>24855810OP is a patrician in that he has his stories read aloud to him. But OP is a plebeian in that he posts the same thread across multiple boards. He posted this on /tv/, and I imagine he also posted it on /v/.
This bitch could not make her mind up about anything.
>>24850852The quotes are entirely representative. She's quite literally the most overrated writer of all of human history. Three Guineas would be a tombstone over anyone's capacity for thought. She was right to drown herself, only she defiled the Ouse by fouling it with her carcass.
>>24850804horrible woman
They wanna be men so bad
>>24850863
she was a FUCKING CRAZY BITCH because she CHANGED HER MIND. absolute cuckoo bipolar 3D woman. In comparison I am completely mentally healthy, for example i've watched anime since i was 14 and now i'm 40 and still love it so so SO MUCH (◠‿◠) this is what's called NOT BEING NEVROTIC desu :smug:
Any got it?
This sounds good but Danielewski seems like such a gay hack. I'd really like to have another good western, but can I trust Danielewski to not be a hack? The answer to that is no.
