Are there any worthwhile books or scholarly papers written by US Presidents??
>>25188780federalist papersben franklin's autobio
>>25188780My grandfather hated him
>>25188780Okay I caught a fish! Now what?>You throw it back. What do you mean, I just caught it. >You’re fishing for fun. But the fun is getting the fish. >Yes, that’s why you release it. But then I won’t have the fish. >So you get to catch it again. This makes no sense whatsoever. >I wrote a book about it. It’s 100 pages. How the fuck?
Either regularly or now and again count>Granta>DIAGRAM>New Yorker>Ploughshares>Paris Review>Heavy Traffic
>>25186759The whole thread has been discussing fiction and poetry in magazines.
>>25175603>GrantaNever read the magazine but their "Best of Young British Novelists" has a crazy good track record. Is the magazine worth reading? Don't know if I want to subscribe to it, but I might if it's worth it
>>25176732NOON is good but I'm not coughing up that money for one issue a year
>>25175603the atlantic
>>25187917Granta's worth the money imo. One of the few consistently good litmags
This will always be the greatest book I've ever read. No writer has ever ripped their heart out and let the pages soak it up so much, no one has spoken so honestly about themselves, so earnestly and sincerely about the existential terror of everyday life while assuring the reader past all the futility of this world there is still light at the end of the tunnel. Just thinking of Tolstoy gives me peace, the simple thought of him telling me "you are not alone" 150 years ago gives me confidence that I can do better and I can try to make things better.
>>25189061dostoevsky is better
>>25189763hahahahahahahahahawhatever you say, dr peterstein
>>25189763Turn 21. >>25189061I meant to read this but I lost it as soon as I fucking bought it. It should be somewhere, I’ll find it if I look hard enough.
>>25189061Yeah, his nonfiction is incredible. Has given me goosebumps all over. Like "finally! Someone that gets it!" Pretty much everyone else falls into ideological traps; Tolstoy you can tell has very carefully pursued the truth and considered many different options and never let his mind become enslaved by word games, partisan prisons, etc. His views on religion and aesthetics might seem overly strict and narrow but he provides really strong arguments and you can tell they're the result of thousands of hours of thinking and of challenging dogma. He was an original, sincere thinker, with the cerebral horsepower to deliver profound results.
I look forward to reading it after AK.
What the FUCK dude
>>>/x/
>>25189848It's history little nigger
Fiction or non fiction. t.33 year old NEET.
Headcrash by Bruce Bethke>full of young guys with no social lives, no sex lives and no hope of ever moving out of their mothers' basements... They're total wankers and losers who indulge in Messianic fantasies about someday getting even with the world through almost-magical computer skills, but whose actual use of the Net amounts to dialing up the scatophilia forum and downloading a few disgusting pictures. You know, cyberpunks
Your diary.
>>25187684>Most of ancient greeks were neets. Some of them went to war once but that's it. Their economical system was slaverism, so they had slaves do everything for them while they dedicated themselfs to the arts.Why can't I just have a guy working for me so I don't have to die in a ditch or kill myself from poverty?
>>25183046She kinda looks like that other anime girl who gets spammed everywhere. Lain is it? Sorry, I don’t really know about anime.
>>25183454This. Read Oblomov OP.
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>>25185601I so.etimes wonder how does a love for their siblings feel like. Because everytime I see my brother I feel this mix of embarrasment and dislike. How he behaves, how he acts, how he doesn't seem to have any social awareness while preaching his retarded belivs with monolouges he took from furry fanfics. And he is a weird born again weirdo who during a trip suddenly talked himself into thinking he is gay and now reacts like a werdo to a word gay, rainbow etc. (He thought flag of Armenia was an PrideFlag). And I just don't want to spend time with him, but because of his spergy attitude he doesn't have anyone else. (And He loves rambling while putting his belifs into these). He is an Undiagnosed, Untreated Autist. And my parents force us to "get along" because "he is your brother or some shit.and that one day he will nit answer. Good. And when I told my parents That respect has to be at least earned they told me no that shit is automatically given. Me who tries to be a good son, and I do these coures do Job stuff. And they tell me that my brother is equaly worthy because he sits all day and is oveall a fat necbearded loser. While I did my countrys version of basic training. But no I am the asshole I am the bad one because I criticise a loser 26 year old I am foced to live next to. I sometimes wish to punch him just so he could get a factory reset and finały understand. But I am afraid of consequences that mum or dad will come to the resque of their prised hog.Holy shit im drink and I hat thisnfucking thinkg
are intelligent people less social and have very few friends or it's all a stereotype?
>>25189137>But he admitted not having read any of her novelsWell that's not a good look, you gotta admit.
>>25188217Something must be done...
>>25189799Its true for obvious reasons, however social rejects have a tendency to use that line of thought as a coping mechanism
>name is literally GOATWas he not the greatest of all time?
>>25189337Methinks the anglomutt doth be miscomprehending.
>>25189658Hey now, his opinion is retarded but Melville is brilliant; shut your mouth.
>>25189079English from German is always better in translation than it ever was in German anyway.If it's translated to Swedish that's even more beautiful. (As is English into Swedish.)
>>25189024yeah he be da goat n shiet nigga got those bars in dem books like that one about the sorrows of a yung nigga nietzsche vibed with this nigga he was a real g dont mess with my fucking goat yall bitch ass niggas
>>25189857This manner of conduct ill beseems you, anon.
>Genesis was a snore fest of lineages that I didn't bother to remember(This begot that guy, that guy begot him, him begot he, no one in-between has any relevance to the plot so you could've just skipped them and said that he was a descendant of this guy)>It still had enough edge/grit/tension to keep me reading through it>Start Exodus, know that there were alot of adaptations and homages to it so maybe this one is better>The entire first act is just a cycle of Pharoah refusing to let 'em go, then a plague comes, then he let's them go before saying 'SIKE!'>The rest of the book is a tent building guideYeah, I think I understand why even the fans don't even read ts
>>25178804>Yeah, I think I understand why even the fans don't even read tsyeah not even the authors of the bible actually bothered to read ts when they wrote the next chapters because why the fuck does this shit have so many contradictions
>>25178804Yeah the old testament is a struggle to read for a lot of it and one of the reasons I call people LARPers when they say the Bible is their favorite book. The new testament is a better place to start if you don't have a ultra serious scholarly interest in the bible.
>>25178804Leviticus was a slog, but you need all the stuff in the Old Testament to make sense of the New Testament
>>25189525That's why I tell most people to read it but don't worry about memorizing anything as a third of those laws aren't even relevant to Jews anymore, and even more aren't relevant to Christians.
All parts of OT worth preserving could fit in 100 or 200 pages or so.First page of Genesis.Moses Bush and Platonic Cave ascent on mountain, bronze serpent.Skip to David and his Psalms.Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes + other Wisdom Books.Maybe Isaiah for the spice then Micah for obvious Apokatastasis.For the rest Marcion was right.
>Maybe the real meaning was the boulders we pushed along the way!
>>25185886probaby not dying but that isnt so easy
>>25185732midwit
>BUT CAMUS! Couldn't this potentially mean that free will is an illusion?!?>Yes but that gives me bad vibes + I feel like I have free will therefore I do even if I actually don't. Also quantum fluctuations and shit.
>>25185726Why is there not only one, but two threads up about this proto redditor for 19 year olds?
>>25189742>>25189794Nice buzzwords, gaylords.
Do you attempt to read things you're sure you'll hate, or things you know you'll disagree with, in order to better understand them? Do you find it shapes your understanding at all or that it just sets up and reinforces your current opinions? I'm a fan of cranks and manifestos, but I'm not exactly planning to start trying to tap the phoenix amerind bigfoot frequency or doing meth and trying to turn myself into a government owned troonputer. Reading some of the less objectionable feminist lit mostly just made me leas receptive to its ideas.
>>25188575>Do you attempt to read things you're sure you'll hate, or things you know you'll disagree with, in order to better understand them?Yes, though I've found that having my beliefs confronted and misunderstandings corrected hasn't really changed the way I think as much as reading something without any preconceptions. I think it's important to live outside of an echo chamber. Currently I'm reading That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, a mean and sneering book I don't think I will change my mind on, and The Stripping of the Altars because I've always seen English Catholicism after Henry VIII as a fad imported from the continent and want to see if that belief bears out.
>>25188876I've found C.S. Lewis' "mere Christianity" a very personal faith that other Christians adopt parts of to suit themselves. I don't consider him a serious thinker even if he was a decent writer.
>>25188840okay
I skipped the 50 pages of murder descriptions in 2666
why else would i be on 4chan
I just started reading this, and it's fantastic. I only regret that I got the 2024 version, with a foreword by Patton Oswald seething about the evils of internet trolls. I'm on "Riders of the Purple Wage" right now, and it's excellent.
>>25185539His entire wiki is just various instances of him being a dick to other people
>>25186538He's been dead for awhile
>>25183150Ellison is on the same level as those two, redditor
>>25189811He's still alive anon
>>25189590IHNMaIMs is a fairytale!
Thrice greatest edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25103936>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.
>>25181256>I could totally be a published serious author bro>Will I do it?>No.Classics is the only field where so many people are like this that they aren’t roundly and regularly mocked. I’m not even really questioning a person’s ability to do it but the bragging and derisive attitude.
>auferre + dativeHow does this make sense?
Gratias Reddito agite
>>25188925I think it's the same logic as verbs of stealing even in other languages, the one you steal «from» goes in the dative, works the same in Greek, Italian or German (ἀφαίρειν τί τινι, ti rubo X, ich stehle/klaue dir X)
>>25189147>luteus isn't from lutum(mud)
He recounts an episode where his 83 year old mother was admitted to the hospital over bowel issues and two days into her stay there she started developing horrible hallucinations of people crawling on the walls and became aggressive and rude towards the staff even trying to physically escape at one point. The staff had to call the author but when he showed up his mother became convinced that it was actually her mad-scientist son orchestrating the whole affair, inducing these hallucinations into her mind with the medicine the doctors were administering for some kind of experiment. It took two weeks for her to return to a semi-normal state, but the psychotic episode left scars on her behavior. It's called hospital-induced delirium and apparently one-third of all elderly patients develop it post-admission (even higher occurrence if surgery is involved).
>>25189758based Anal Seth
>>25189783Anal Seethe is even funnier
>>25189783
>>25189783>>25189790>>25189795VERY mature, /lit/.
>>25189814Mature Anal is definitely something I could get into
the japanese say you have three faces. the first face you show to the world. the second, to friends and family. and the third, to 4chan because it's anonymous.Thoughts on the usage of online posts within multi-nodal works? Some of my more autistic and orthodox colleagues insist that it's post-modern bullshit but I see no difference between it and regular epistolary novels.
Dont they also kind of say we feel things from the stomach the way westerners feel "in their heart"?I always felt like my emotions were tied to my stomach.
>>25189645What does it mean when I show pretty much the same face to everyone?>>25189652I know the Greeks and Romans believed that the soul was housed in the stomach.
>>25189656>What does it mean when I show pretty much the same face to everyone? Autism.
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