Do you lock-in when reading? or is your focus elsewhere?
>>24852316why is lil nigga bleeding
>>24852356G force
>>24852316I love speed
>>24852330you're so annoying
W speed
This is the bookshelf of rightwing intellectual Connor Tomlinson.Is it time we recognise DC/Marvel works as part of the western canon?
>rightwing intellectual Oxymoron.
>>24852554I AM A NAZI HAHA!MY FAVOURITE BOOK? LORD OF THE RINGS! THE STORY ABOUT DIFFERENT RACES PUTTING ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND FIGHTING AGAINST FACISM! Why are they like this?
>leftwing intellectualliterally neurodivergentphobic and a nazi
>>24852554The perfect representation of the American intellectual base: a thick foundation of cartoons for children, grown out of cold war power fantasies and metastasized into corporate collectables. Build on that base, the lord of the rings and the bible, functionally equivalent as guidebooks for larping, some airport lit, some required reading from high school, and an economic understanding build primarily off a board game.
>>24852604>implyingIt's literally the same people.
ye olde: >>24835665Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs).https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Thread Question:What's your favourite decade of sci-fi?
>>24850074Love to see this book mentioned. It's a really fucking weird ride, leans in to its intentional scope creep, and comes off as a weird satire of sword & sorcery, epic fantasy, and Vietnam war books. With gratuitous sex and violence.It's the most masculine book any woman has ever written, to boot. Go in as blind as you can, and just enjoy the ride. Maybe slam a shot every chapter, that'd probably enhance the experience.
>>24853194Ebooks are far more eco-friendly on both a micro and macro scale, downsize the impact of the middle man, and are the ideal way to consume the written word. They should be purchased only for living authors who self publish, and otherwise should be pirated. You should always leave a rating or review of books you like, somewhere, which is worth more than the $0.30 an author would have put towards offsetting their advance if you choose to buy it.It was actually the eternal Anglo that designed the system, it was just Jews that perfected it, then handed it off to women and academics to maintain.
>>24853194Redditrisingtranny BTFO
I finished rereading the Kingkiller books a few hours ago and I can't help but remember over a decade ago when there was still hope for the third book and there wee talks about a TV series, movies and even video games lmao)The thing that struck me the most from the reread, though, was how weirdly dated these books feel. Rothfuss does a great jow hiding it with nice prose and clever writing, but you can feel the faint stench of millenial irony and archaic r*dditisms coming from underneath. The whole 'deconstructing the classic male hero' and those 'strong, self sufficient, female characters', so typical of the late 10's era. small details, but can really tell the current state of affairs brewing in there
>>24853096copying is not stealing. and in fact, buying a digital file 'legitimately' never confers ownership either.
https://strawpoll.com/bVg8B7Vx2yYReading is becoming a more female dominated hobby since moids just watch porn and play videogames.I notice comfy boards tend to have more women in them. You can compare /r9k/ and crystal cafe and while the latter is less active it is much more comfy, wheras the former is cancer.
>>24852868I'd rather not. That horsefaced liar is from my state, I'm doing everything in my power to prove them wrong.
>>24848343I wish there was an IRL /lit/ board. It could all be men -- wouldn't care. I'm not even gay; just prefer competent males.
>>24848343>Reading is becoming a more female dominated hobbyYeah but ain't nobody reading in here
>89% malemoidKINGS... we rule this board
>>24852884It would probably help your efforts to disprove them if you actually read them
>Isn't it strange that modern physics embraces process over substance but our metaphysics doesn't?>Hmm I guess you're right Whitehead.>Alright so everything is conscious and has free will, occasions are the real actors in everything, every moment anywhere influences every other thing that occurs and objects absorb every piece of data from anything they interact with. Uh what?
suppose you were introducing a teenage boy relative to classic adventure/sci-fi/fantasy/horror pulp, what authors would you recommend apart from these four of course
>>24852265don quixote is all of what he needs
War of the Worlds
Entertainments purely for escapism is fun, but to help uplift a soul to want to treat the world as THEIR adventure story when they feel ready tackle it.I like Jack Vance, Ursula K. Le Guin, Iain M. Banks. Edward Abbey, William Morris, JRR Tolkien. Joseph Campbell, Robert Moore, Mircea Eliade and Jung.
>>24852655This. Give him a real novel
>>24852265Gu Zhen Ren
Has anyone finished this book? The First part was great but the second part Is really disappointing the whole Makeba/Solomon love story Is really annoying almost as much the Letter to Mother sections. I barely got trough It but the third part still has those sections and the story Just gets less and less exciting.
>>24851388hey op, im on page 150, more or less, just got introduced to petrache poenaruanyway the book doesnt have an english translation so no one here has read italso i have the newer purple edition which is aesthetically superior
>>24851921What are your thoughts so far?Is It hard to read in original language ?(I've heard that he uses a lot of archaic words) I have italian edition btw
>>24851928>What are your thoughts so far?it's alright, the end of the chapter where he looks inside the ark was great, some mindfuck imagery like the giant glowing wheel rising from the ocean, i still dont know what that was all about>Is It hard to read in original language ?(I've heard that he uses a lot of archaic words)that he does but since i happen to know russian and most of archaic words were of slavic origin later replaced by french words in the "relatinization" of romanian, i understand them perfectly
>>24851949are you romanian?
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.
>>24851470i'll never stop using quotation marks but i think most writers use too many commas. you only really need them before a conjunction and even then they can usually be dispensed with. semicolons should of course be purged from the english syntax forever
>>24853175*Semicolons should, of course, be replaced by em dashes. ftfy
>>24851438what is the punctuation supposed to be
>>24853158>>24852933 didn't appear to be stated as an opinion.
>>24853209It's not a fact or an opinion, it's an imperative based on my opinion.
"There can be only one!" editionPrevious: >>24848643/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
There was already >>24851315. This thread will only encourage the jannies to mass-delete all the /wg/-related threads. Smooth move, Ex-Lax.
>>24853127that's the idea
>>24853127That's only for literary writers. This thread is for writing in general.
>>24853127>This thread will only encourage the jannies to mass-delete all the /wg/-related threads.If it gets the webniggers banned from the board i will be okay with that
>What type of university did you attend?>What era?>What did you learn? How do you feel about your education now?I did an English Lit degree at the premier university in my country (hah!). The Australian National University. I was told it was the best, hardest to get into, highest ranked, etc. Turns out that just meant the place had more postgrads than undergrounds, was predominantly research oriented and got a shittonne of citations. Doubt it made it better than half the other universities in Aus. Was a helluva place though, beautiful, bright and stimulating.My era - thank fuck! - was pre-woke. We still had blue hairs screeching but there were approximately zero mentions of critical race theory, gender theory, grievance studies or the like. 20-ish years ago.My fading memory of the curriculum, in order of importance/volume:- poets, poems and poetry- shakespeare, milton, chaucer, donne, wordsworth, blake, probably a few others i'm forgetting- literary movements (medieval through to modernism with the most time spent on romanticism - weirdly, don't think we did any postmodernism let alone postcolonial)Another fun fact, we studied a shitload of australian authors, like books of poetry by former anu students, but not a single American work. Oh wait, no, Emily Dickinson was big and T.S. Eliot if you still count him as American. But I only learned about what Americans consider 'the classics' years after - Melville, Hemingway et al. Funny to think how invisible all that was to us back then.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24852915You should just move to China and work for Huawei
>>24852915What do you think about photonics?
>>24852900Industrial work.>>24852913Nobody on this site gets dates.
>>24852929It's interesting, I actually considered studying a photonics masters degree but it was too expensive and I looked for something more oriented to direct implementation rather than research. Moreover, as for now it seems that superconductor quantum computing has more future than photonic quantum computing, I don't know how it will end though.
>>24852013I didn't go to college, I just like to read.
Which Dostoevsky book do lesbians like the most?
>>24852262Their being lesbians isn't the issue. You are a part of the same wretched internet denizens.
>>24851866Why do you need Dostoyevsky when Chekhov is subtly too cruel for a women to read. While Dosto rubs the femme face in his gospel rigmarole in a futile attempt to exercise the demons within, the Chekhow just waits silently as they die off from terminal shame.
>>24851866stupid horny japanese high schoolers.
>>24851985Didn't that board get infected by trannies?
>>24851866I always loved this gif
After seeing the catfights go on over the past year, I decided to read the book for myself. Joe Sachs translation. Fantastic book. The autist in me loved Metaphysics Delta in particular. But I felt like I left with more questions than answers. I feel like the topic that Aristotle dealt with goes beyond what it means for something to be universal or particular, and it seems like Aristotle thought that essence is a form that is neither universal nor particular. But Aristotle made it clear that boilerplate Platonism does not logically work, although Sachs makes an effort in his footnotes to point out that something like Platonism can still be salvaged. I also don't know how we can think of the active intellect aka the unmoved mover as the pure being-at-work of thinking with its object being itself. How can it be akin to wakefulness or meaningfully compared with anything we call thinking when our own wakefulness relies on a capacity or a power to be moved, something that the unmoved mover does not have? It seems like such an austere concept that we might as well treat it as the thinnest, brute fact aspect of being that we were looking for all along.Idk. Thoughts?
>>24852748>Beyond that imo you're mixed up about final causes as being somehow ineffectual or less than efficient causes, Physics 2 is where he talks about this most directly. In normal life we have desires, we can follow or ignore them. But think of the teleology of a living thing, it is the cause of causes, and God is roughly speaking an end like that. The soul of a plant actually transcends all the efficiently caused processes in the plant's life. In a way it isn't "doing" anything, the physical processes in the plant are "doing" everything, they are immediately existent and perceptible, but the soul is the unmoved mover, it's the teleological doing behind all the efficient doings.I'm not trying to say that final causes are "less than", anymore so that efficient causes are "less than". I was trying to point out that apparently we need two hands to clap, so we have two principles and not one. Anyways, good points throughout. Looking forward to what you say about essence/existence later (that's been a pet topic for me over the last month, since apparently it branches off into many different philosophical topics as well). >No I just did it because I'm a retard and can't read Greek well. Enough to be able to profitably 'refer to the Greek' but I can't read it fluently, that's just a mistake.Even if it's a mistake, it's still a fortuitous one. I like to refer back to the etymology to help remember words and speculate about conceptual implications.
>>24852634>But yeah generally speaking thinking of God as a being, or being beyond being, 'at the circumference of the heavens' or in some other world, breaks down and leads to atheism. Occam is the one who says 'hey wait by Aristotle's own principles these proofs of God's existence don't work.'So you're mad that people import Plato into Aristotle but if you take all the Plato out of him his system collapses into fideism and atheism? K.
>>24852841What does it even mean to take Plato out of Aristotle? We don't even know for certain what Plato's robust metaphysics looked like. For all we know they were more or less on the same page. And even if they weren't, Aristotle wrote decisively against boilerplate Platonism (i.e. the third man argument), so there is no "Platonism" to take out of him if that's what you mean.
>>24852772>I'm not trying to say that final causes are "less than", anymore so that efficient causes are "less than". I was trying to point out that apparently we need two hands to clap, so we have two principles and not one.Ah I see. Well yes there are multiple principles, matter is a principle, the five elements are principles relative to composites, and you could say the sublunary world is a principle. But some principles are more principal than others, these lesser principles don't rival God for primacy and they don't have an existence completely independent of his causality. Plato is the one who's more of a dualist - think about what he says in Laws X about the necessity of an evil god, or in Philebus the limited and the unlimited are just 'there' and not derived from anything higher, in Parmenides Being is just 'there' not derived from the One, or what Aristotle says about Plato's unwritten teachings on matter/form and good/evil in the last lectio of Physics 1.
I will never fathom /lit/'s obsession with irrelevant philosophers like Aristotle and Kant.
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Judy Garland is my favorite actress
>>24853151Do you just not eat fruit or vegetables? Being low in vitamin c is hard to do in this day and age
>>24853113You should go your doctor
>>24853229I eat carrots and bananas. I'm not going to buy two different kinds of fruit like a faggot.
>>24853235That's literally only Vitamin C and Vitamin B. You need Vitamin Kale, Vitamin Apples and Vitamin EggReplacement
Some of the most beautiful prose I've ever read
>>24851611thanks for the recommendation!seriously.
does anyone have that meme of the family group chat where everyone is sending condolences after someone announces their dog died and the grandad completely ignore them and texts "a book I got today" and posts a picture of this book. lmao
>>24851611Hit us with a sample anon, so we may bathe in the beauty.
https://reformationdalton.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/valley-of-vision.pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2S4hScXPQwGh-2fgja71au9dg3tkWPJ-
Weren’t the puritans the people that hated all fun? The muslims of christianity
Post your own work and critique others.
It cradles joy and ache, still burning bright,as Friday’s drums call lightning through the room.We moved from house to club, the people’s fire,two mirrors facing, each becoming one.Bodies shimmered like saints undone by rhythm,and time remembered, trembling through the floor:“Dance while you can,” the night told every soul.
>>24851245daily reminder that people who say this dont read or write poetry
>>24852245ChatGPT-esque nonsense. Dead words. Soulless drivel.
>>24853193chatgpt is about a dozen times worse than this
A name withheld can not be whispered in the dead of the night. A face unseen can not be dreamed of when the moon is bright. Anonymity does not inspire affection.Anonymity does not inspire affection.
