prev: >>25008315
Anyone else just casually play with their foreskin reading random posts on 4chan?
>>25011119no cuz then u'll end like one of those dudes that starts absent mindedly playing with his balls while working on a project in the computer lab
actually speaking of that i haven't fapped in a while rn would be a great time but idk i can't get into it
wow venezuela has more proven oil reserves than saudi arabia
>>25011109That sounds enjoyable, even though it probably isn't. You have motivated me to read a wsj article's comments now, so do with that what you will. But anyhow, good luck on all of your future endeavors.
>em dashes make AI bots or ChatGPT copy paste obviousI've used em dashes for years. Well before ChatGPT was a thing. I actually like them because it helps with structuring a complicated concept in a continuous sentence without breaking it. But now that people are complaining about them.. I've been wary of using them lately. Somebody will just accuse me of copy and paste.It's not fair
>>25010975going to keep in mind that sometimes the person i’m arguing with on this site has a bedwetting fetish.
>>25010986Hey, we might agree on most points
>>25011003what sort of books do you read i’m curious now
>>25011012Currently reading Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
>>25010962You're the one that is bitter, and furthermore petty if that is what you think you're seeing. If you kept your delusions for creative writing you wouldn't have needed a machine to be invented to do it for you.
How the fuck do you recover from this nuke?
>>25010761>language is an imeprfect vehicle for communicating meaning and is thus inherently ambiguousthere, i just summed up everything this dick ever said. my RS teacher in middle school emulated this guy and even hit a kid
How do I recover from reading Culture and Values, where he exposes himself as having the introspection of an angsty teen?
>>25010761>>25010771>Steals the conclusions of a 2000 year old Chinese guy, but fails to understand the bigger pictureWow such genius, such insightBro I fucked up this post and I had to delete it in shame and do it again. Curse my perfectionism!
>>25010761Just dont be a solipsistic narcissist and you're good.
read early life section
Discuss good narrative history books on any subject.>1776 is a nonfiction historical account written by David McCullough and published in 2005 by Simon & Schuster, focusing on the military campaigns of the American Revolutionary War during that pivotal year, particularly General George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army against British forces under General William Howe.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77347.1776https://www.audible.com/pd/1776-Audiobook/B002V8KSTW
>>24994350Wait, was Thatcher the good guy (gal)?
>>24994377I'm reading. So far, the great game seems to be 80% Great Britain involvement in the Central Steps against 20% of Russia's, with the vast majority of the former's defeats coming from their own incompetence.>that one British officer who got baited by the Shas' fake peace offer five times in a row
>>25011057Very few books posted in this thread are popular history books.
>>25011087Popular as in made for the people, Anon. Not popular as sold really well/is well known
>>25011106Wrong.
>finally took the physicalism pill>finally took the evolutionary biology pill>finally took the Donald Hoffman Representationalist pill and realized all life as we know it is just symbols constructed for higher fitness pay offs>was able to thoroughly explain an artist's diagram of a tree and lake by pointing out how she only finds it beautiful because our primordial ancestors required shelter and water to live>further deconstruct her work to show how all she will ever "create" has been predetermined by her genes as ways of representing fitness payoffs so they could reproduce>she leaves in tears>I stand numbly and recognize the fact that my rigorous and merciless dismantling of her worldview was merely my genes' instinctive struggle for survival by attaining a higher social status through cognitive prowess>i realize that if a cognitive scientist was looking at an fMRI of my brain at the moment he would be able to see all of this tooThis is it. I've finally ascended.Life makes sense.
evolutionary psychology is a trap and can be used to claim essentially anything and then shut down all opposition because "shut up this is natural".we cant know for a fact that we like landscapes because of our evolutionary environment, even though its plausible but you cant concretely prove it and many esthetical styles have nothing to do with what would be useful to primitive man. all cultures have persisted in their arrogance in thinking that their understanding of the world is 95% complete and that the rest would be figured out in the span of a few years, this including the 21st century techno-elite.
>
>>25010961fpbp
>>25010938you think you're right but you're not
>>25010938I did neuro undergrad and made it 2 chapters in before dropping. The authors conclusions stem from being a STEMlet and bungling it on that account.
it's pronounced "booba" lol. god bless the germans.
I'm three chapters in and this is garbage.I'm out of touch with literature so I'm asking you guys if I'm wrong.Is this a good book? Do I keep reading and learn to enjoy it? I would have thought that an "international best seller" would be more thoughtful and less clumsy.
>>25008508Already said in the first post, I'm on chapter 3. According to my ereader that's 57 pages. And I'm getting hit with paragraphs like this one:> As she headed for Sangenjaya Station, she passed a policeman on the> street. He was a tall young officer, walking rapidly, heading somewhere in> particular. She tensed up for a moment, but he looked straight ahead,> apparently in too much of a hurry even to glance at her. Just before they> passed each other, Aomame noticed that there was something unusual about> his uniform. The jacket was the normal deep navy blue, but its cut was> different: the design was more casual, less tight fitting, and in a softer> material, the lapels smaller, even the navy color a touch paler. His pistol,> too, was a different model. He wore a large automatic at his waist instead of> the revolver normally issued to policemen in Japan. Crimes involving> firearms were so rare in this country that there was little likelihood that an> officer would be caught in a shootout, which meant an old-fashioned sixshooterComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25008521Tell me what problems you have with this excerpt. Be specific
>>25008199I treated it more like an alright television show. It's very episodic in not being difficult to pick up and put down without struggling to find your spot. I thought overall it was a fine book and nothing special through I appreciated my time with it
>>25008610Well it's overly expository, isn't it
>>25010850No, I don't think so, but if this bothers you then you aren't going to enjoy the rest of the novel
It feels like all romance is aimed toward a female audience. Are there any good romance-type books intended for male readers?
Does romance with sex dolls count?
You should heckin read more old books. Some examples:Daphnis and Chloe, An Ethiopian Romance, Romance of the Rose, Aminta, La Gitanilla, The New Heloise, Paul and Virginie, The Sound of Waves.For things a little bit less "naive" but still centering around love there's Dangerous Liaisons (sigmas only), Werther, Adolphe, The Red and The Black, Madame Bovary, Aurelien.My favorites are The New Heloise and Aurelien
>>25010603Fahrenheit 451
You know any character who makes you not feel like reading other stories because they aren't there?
Is the warosu /lit/ archive broken? The reply links have disappeared. At least for me in Firefox.
>>25011066yeah they gone but this is probably the wrong place to make this thread
>>25011067Maybe the admin hasn't noticed. He needs to see this.
How do you write your journal?
>>25008745Analog. I keep them in boxes under my bed. I've tried to keep it digitally because obviously I type much faster than I write longhand but I've never stuck to it and just end up leaving the files behind when I get a new laptop.
>>25008745>>25009351>>25009367kys
>>25009346>I also have to worry about someone finding it and reading it,this happened to me, though it was only an entry that I wrote on pad of paper that I planned to transfer digitally. I still keep cringing about the thought even though almost a decade had passed.
>>25008691Pen and paper. It uses more of the brain.
>>25008691Digital.I would love to go analog but if anyone read my journal I'd find myself on a one way trip to the looney bin.
what are some book recommendations for a relatively new person to daoism? im already looking for stores to order The Zhuangzi The Daodejing and Tao: The Watercourse Way from,but after reading these what other books should i get into?
>>25010461tysm anon-san. looking forward to reading.
>>25010492hysterical. but how do they do this?
>>25010506years of practice at getting kicked in the dick
>>25007823>>25008185>>25008186>He thought he could discuss Chinese literature, religion or philosophy on /lit/You MUST be new. I gave up on trying to discuss eastern philosophy here years ago OP.This is a dyed-in-the-wool westaboo canon website, you're really only ever going to get memed on by racist chuds who fucking despise anything and everything Chinese here. But luckily for (You), I can help with a few recommendations.>StoresNigga, just buy from Amazon/Barnes & Noble.Here's some personal recommendations from my own library:>The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Daoism by James RobsonPretty dense, but it's a great rundown of some of the major Daoist canon.>DaodejingYou can literally get a million different versions of this but I'd suggest either the Barnes & Noble Classics version or for an in-depth investigation I'd recommend "The Daodejing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying" I haven't finished yet but it's pretty comprehensive, it covers Daoism, Buddhism and their relationship with one another within the context of the Tang dynasty.>Zhuangzi Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25010713NTAs but thanks. I'll keep all this in mind.
I fucking love this Socrates shit bro
>>25010026>2 Germans>1 Englishman>1 Jew>4 French>Almost all of them are French or GermanLearn to count, lolcow-kun.
The fuck were they supposed to do when he is educating/indoctrinating the youth into his politics, that are at odds with their own
>>25008720I did not know they had /lit/ in the 16th and 17th centuries.
>>25011088Just chill frfr
>>25010083
>When Emily Wilson published her translation of The Odyssey, it quietly but decisively shifted how many readers understood one of the foundations of Western literature. For centuries, English versions of the poem had been shaped by male translators who often filtered Homer’s Greek through Victorian, Edwardian, or mid-20th Century assumptions about gender, class, and morality. Wilson approached the text with a different aim: fidelity not to tradition, but to the language itself.>Her translation pays close attention to what the Greek actually says, rather than what earlier translators assumed it meant. Where previous versions softened Odysseus into a noble hero or exaggerated the moral failings of female characters, Wilson strips away editorial judgment. Words that had long been rendered with moralizing or misogynistic overtones—especially when applied to women, servants, or the enslaved—are reexamined and translated with consistency and precision. A term describing women as sexually suspect, for example, is no longer quietly upgraded to “faithful” or “pure” when it suits male sympathy.>Equally important is what Wilson avoids. She resists anachronistic language that romanticizes violence, hierarchy, or domination. Her Odysseus is clever and ruthless, not automatically admirable; Penelope is intelligent and strategic, not merely patient and chaste. Enslaved women are named as enslaved, not euphemized into “maids,” forcing modern readers to confront the social realities the poem assumes rather than smoothing them away for comfort.>Wilson’s choices don’t modernize Homer—they clarify him. By refusing to insert gendered judgment or inherited bias, her translation reveals how much earlier versions reflected the values of their translators rather than the ancient text. The result is an Odyssey that feels sharper, more unsettling, and more honest: a poem about power, survival, and storytelling itself, finally allowed to speak without centuries of moral varnish.>© Reddit>#archaeohistorieshttps://x.com/archeohistories/status/2008632100296290695
>>25010263just realised i’m talking to an actual redditor
Are you people stupid? AI is going to translate everything anyway, who cares about personal lives of dumb translators anymore?
>>25010270Okay just please stop posting forever. You can't read and you can't think.
>>25010382>just please
>>25004988>>25007997The broader Greek culture was obviously misogynistic to a problematic degree, but Homer himself, as a creative disabled person of highly possibly diverse background with outstanding LGBT representation in his works could never be anything but a feminist ally, whose balanced and human perspectives had to be disguised and hidden both by his contemporaries as well as the later misogynistic tradition. Wilson's translation liberates Homer from the structures of oppression that were forced upon him by centuries of insecure colonizers, finally allowing his voice to transition into how it was truly meant to appear.
Post only the most epic /lit/ deaths
