Can rap lyrics be /lit/?
got a knack for the cause of your new little pawsnot too long before the patter of a pew bitter pausethy litter still stand by birthing big dogswatch your watch, watch for wanderlust's walking enterage----some said seven syllables and suddenly sat something sickim somberly setting symbols sourced from a saunashipping sodding shoddy saudered songs saunterlysomebody call for methe illness is comfortingyes these are mine.
>>24850700Homer was originally performed to accompaniment on a lyre. So, yes.
>>24850700Imma slap you, clap you, gat you, wrap you, and map youFace against the wall, I'm about to drag you for a waltzWatch me postulate across the abstract space to my pontificatesListening to some yeezy, I made this next heat!Burning the jews, trying to clear MontegueOut of time riding a tangential lineI reach for the a priori, but I end up with komenasai Slapping a 304 around, looking for God's soundA jet 2 holiday, I buried a bitch away from the light of dayAvoiding solipsism with these euphemisms for the end of truisms
i don't think there's anything inherent in rap that prevents it from being high literature. that said, i haven't cared for any of the rap i've heard or read, and i mostly see this point raised by people who seem more interested in culture warring and in undermining the status of "real" literature and art than in anything else
Is there any rapper more /lit/?
Are antiheroes our only hope?
>>24854911>reddit simpsRedditors hate tradwives and only love empowered girlboss womxn.She is obviously catering to the tradlarp tiktok and 4chan audience,
>>24854963An antihero is still a hero but with villainous traits.And antivillain is still a villain but with some heroic traits.
>>24854943I cant remember if it was this video which I somewhat agree with but she has a very classical view on evil as privation or absence of good, which isnt bad in itself but there are a few issues with it, although not the worst moral framework imo
>>24854973But what is the fundamental distinction between hero and villian, as in when does it 'tip' over to either side? Because it sounds like a 'check' box
What is an antihero, anyway? Most classic(al), stereotypical heroes were great, exaggerated men defined by both their strengths and faults. I don't think moral purity was ever inherent in heroism. Is anti-heroism a reaction against some historical literary trend of Good Heroes that I'm ignorant of?
Please recommend skeptical fiction in which there is a sense that anything can happen and which is not based on taken external world for granted
>>24854917Gravity's Rainbow
>>24854970Isn't that based on world war 2 or some real world gay shit like that?
Women seem to be the predominant readers and it seems predominantly porn for them. If men read books it's predominantly long-running sci-fi series. I've had success and interest in readership but it's not sci-fi (Epic fantasy) and my most success wasn't even a proper novel but a comic. The problem is comics are pretty much dead as well for English speaking countries. Am I wrong or do I need to start prioritizing different countries?
>>24848820It won't get better. The only difference will be that the smut is all written by AI
>>24854384Men only enjoy non fiction and even that, men don't read it. Just a ten minute summary from a YouTuber who read AIs summary is enough
>>24849960What they really mean is buying. Women are definitely the major buyers. That's all that matters.
>>24848780Is that Elric?
>>24854696>What they really mean is buying.I've been saying that men just pirate their books. People (mostly women) buy physical books to signal to other people that they read. "Performative" if you will. The "Performative Male" archetype was a projection.
Terminus Samhain edition Old >>24776647
Tomorrow I'll finish Best Tales of Hoffmann, and then I'm going to read Polidori's "The Vampyre". I'll probably continue with Robert Bloch's Mysteries of the Worm, to read something a bit easier.
>>24843382Ship of Fools was amazing, anything more like it with that inexplicable dread like it's something beyond our control?
whats some gooner horror?
>>24843665It's interesting to see Nathan Ballingrud on this list twice and not even with his best work.Btw his new book in Crypt of the Moon Spider are phenomenal. I'm an Asheville native and it's always fun to chat with Nathan at the bookstore where he works
>>24854721This list was made 2 years ago, when Crypt hadn't been published yet. (I also haven't read it yet lmao)Very cool to occasionally meet up with Ballingrud! Any interesting stuff he's told you?
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..
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
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
