Did any of you guys read mack daddy's new poetry book?
>>25177871>>25177874Why is every y2k poetry book ever so shite? Bros...
>>25177874Embarrassing
>>25177874This is a beautiful poem. Many (like the dasyus and danavas here) forget that the Lord Vishnu commands us to love each other. This is going to be a bestseller this summer in Kolkata, I tell you. Big Guru Daddy Mack has knocked it out of the park again!
Poetry is just awful 99% of the time
>>25177896Jason Bryan and Lewis Woolston.>>25179755t. never read Chamber Music or Pomes Penyeach.
Where have all the serious, urbane, book-reading men gone and why have they been replaced with women?
>>25179887Assuming she actually reads all that and is happy, good for her. I'd pull down her sweatpants and face to assplant when she's on the ladder though.
>>25181332are you falling for the fallacy that effective and competent people are in charge of industries and that capitalism is working optimally?hollywood burned money for years chasing audiences that didnt exist while ignoring familiesit is possible - and is the case - that genuinely incompetent or otherwise mid people can be in charge
>>25179904you're so fucking jealous about the ladder, aren't you
>>25179887itt: poors mad they can't afford a library with a rolling ladder entirely funded by contributions from simps
I'd eat her out on the couch.
Which hero from the three Greco-Roman epics is /lit/'s favorite? Picture of X-fags missing the point of the Iliad attached for entertainment purposes.
>>25181573No. Some of what i mentioned is in the play iirc but I prefer the version in posthomerica
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>>25181579The kids were brownoid.
>>25178905>>25181063>>25181475Very valid. Menelaos and Ajax protecting Patroklos' body is one of my favorite parts of the story.
So... the good guys won?
>>25175037It's extremely coincidental that Kellhus just so happens to position the No God between him and the White Luck Warrior at the exact right moment twice. It's also extremely coincidental that he brings the No God to the exact right place at the exact right time to get inserted right as he is manifesting Ajokli, especially since clearly he knows Esme will release him.So, Kellhus somehow using the No God against the Hundred doesn't seem that far fetched.As for him hiding in it, yeah, the missing trinkets on the carapace do get mentioned several times. But more telling in this is that the White Luck Warrior sees Malowebi in the Decapitant. That is, the Gods can see the people in them just fine, and presumably they can see them even better in the Golden Room since it is basically on the Outside already (a bubble floating on it as they say). So, the second head seems like a red herring. The No God is a place where the Gods obviously cannot see. The other option is the scenes on the Outside seem to show Kellhus potentially constructing some sort of place for himself. So that could simply be it too.But the No God is obviously the ideal tool if you actually want to somehow defeat or change the Hundred, since it starves them to death.As for Kellhus seeing the No God, that's pretty clearly what the original vision was meant to show. It being Ajokli the whole time would be a plausible retcon, but it could also just be the No God and Ajokli only comes in when Kellhus comes to him as an "inverse prophet." The No God seems pretty thoughtless when destroying things, but if it is the "prothesis" for an AI that "reads the code of the world" then it presumably has more to say.
>>25180914No, not really.
>>25180895Achamian activates the doll before getting captured. This is literally stated.
>>25181303Yeah, I remember reading something of the sort as well. I mean, wouldn't he otherwise be surprised by seeing his own doll saving his own ass? Doesn't make sense to me.
>>25163589>>25163964Their own mythic history says that they came from the stars and went underground to avoid being seen by the gods. Their origin is probably related to that of the incheroi, they've just forgotten. They hid from the gods (damnation) and succeeded in erasing the memory of it, but not the thing itself.
Are these good books for kids to read?
>>25159915One of the two series i actually enjoyed reading as a kid, yes.
>>25180771Its not reading
>>25180458>Doesn’t even know what a thermal is>>>25180710Doesn’t even know what a thermals is>
>>25180458>Doesn’t even know what a thermal is>>>25180710>Doesn’t even know what a thermal is>
>>25160145Me abd my best friend would clown on Harry Potter enjoyers at school but then spend hours listening to the audiobooks. We were 12 lol.
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.
>>25181137forget Latin, even in my own mother language writing a book or essay takes time, time is money, I won't start doing either soon because who the fuck cares or is going to read some mediocre nobody or pay me to do it at the very least, should I therefore doubt my ability to do it? I don't think sowith an ancient dead language that isn't even used as lingua franca of sciences anymore it would be even more fruitless, especially as a hobbyistnevertheless I write some Latin every week, it may not be much but whatever
If you know ancient Greek, have you tried learning modern Greek? Why or why not?
>>25181451i did and it just sounds like ebonics to me. Imagine going from Victorian English to AAVE
>>25181451no, despite the amazing level of continuity considering it's been 2000+ years it's still a different language, with that time I could profit more from learning a big Romance language like French or Spanish(being already a native in one), but I'm too saturated already
>>25181256>should I therefore doubt my ability to do it? I don't think soYes. You should. Doesn’t mean you ought to spend the time doing it, it just means you shouldn’t be a braggart and claim to be a better author than a native Roman who has actually authored something.
This might be the last Aristotle topic that is still vexing to me, but how exactly does the Unmoved Mover work as a first final cause and/or a first efficient cause? So, I get that the final cause has to be prior to the efficient cause. But is the Unmoved Mover an efficient cause of anything? My problem is that in Metaphysics Lambda, the Unmoved Mover is not described as an efficient cause, but only as a final cause. Aristotle also affirms in Lambda that motion has to be eternal (IIRC comes from Physics VIII), which seems to imply that the universe has an infinite chain of efficient causes. So, you get this picture of there being two eternal principles: the Unmoved Mover, and the cosmos in motion. However, in Metaphysics Little Alpha, 994a, Aristotle argues precisely against the idea that you can have an infinite chain of even efficient causes. So, it seems like the idea that there are two coexisting eternal principles idea is wrong, since the cosmos cannot be the infinite chain of eternal causes that it appears to be. However, Aristotle does not fix the problem and call the Unmoved Mover an efficient cause at any point whatsoever. I am not sure how to rectify this. Any thoughts? I think the idea might be that "eternal things can be infinite sources, and since motion is eternal, there can be infinite efficient causes in a temporal sense", but this might be a copout.
I remember school and university, where trying to get good grades and paying attention in class made teachers and other students think I'm a nerd, when I would actually just study, say, math on my own, with a tutor, in class, read about it online and still barely pass exams and testsI easily learned english as a child, but when it came to learning a third foreign language in school I was very below average, one of the worst students in my group, it was humiliatingI've now tried to learn a few languages (French, German, Latin, Spanish, Russian, probably a few others I've forgotten too) and I've struggled with them a lot, even studying every day for 3 hours (I did manage to keep up that pace) would generally not net me anything. it doesn't help that there are so many charlatans in the language learning "hobby space" that you don't even know what "method" to use while learning a language. probably the worst thing is that language learning communities are full of intelligent people who have many languages under their belts and this is their special interest and you can't compare yourself to themI like reading books and don't really like video games or TV, so I spend a large chunk of my free time reading. I know a bit about history, philosophy, things like this which automatically make other people think you're intelligent, but it's a bit of an illusion and I've disappointed pretty much every teacher I've had in my life. in general I am a pretentious failure who is well read enough, knows about history, philosophy and thinks he's intelligent, so I can discuss things with other people, but honestly, with the philosophy that I've read it's more that I memorized the logic but don't actually understand anything at all. it would take one actually intelligent person who's read enough as me to show that I'm just a complete fraud and retardI'm too stupid and lazy to ever learn another language
>>25181406Damn I didn't know Estonia was like that, I thought it was Finland-lite.
>>25181397I'm curious why you think this. People say things to this effect often but they never explain why exactly it is true. I have a suspicion that because they spend their lives expending so much to speak of things they convince themselves the speaking must contain all the value.In my opinion the defining feature of great art is being completely dominated by feelings that language fails to capture. Yes even if that art is created by language itself. A painting is not mere paint in the same way a book is not mere language. The feeling is not really in the language the same way it is not really in the paint. It is in you and the artist and the world. The language and paint just bridge the gap so to speak.So in my mind if you think so confidently that you can speak of it then that is in fact the proof that you don't understand it. Speaking is the product of a deficiency in understanding. To say there is a "spoken understanding" is a contradiction. All understandings are unspoken.And what I see in the words and being of great artists is the instinctual knowing of this. An acute awareness of the limitations of the social and material world. They don't strain themselves there because they know it is in vain. And I think many great artists, were they not such, would in fact be regarded as little more than idiosyncratic commoners at best. Speaking and conversational skills are trained. I don't feel that "understanding" can be trained. Sometimes I see in the eyes of an animal, with supposedly much less intelligence than me, an understanding that of course it could never be trained to speak of. Maybe you'll think I'm just imagining it but I choose to believe it is there. Or otherwise it is at least a reflection of some understanding in me that is again being bridged somehow.
>>25181488Based. The wise man knows nothing.
>>25181488only read the first few sentences but you are unironically correct in your view
>>25181488>>25181492>>25181566The word is not the meaning. You may not be able to fully capture the meaning with words. It may be possible to apprehend the matter by other means.Nonetheless, the purpose of words are to capture meaning. If you are literate and cannot speak clearly on a matter then you don't fully understand it.
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
>>25143522>Each word she spoke fell into the earth.That's a really good line, anon.
>>25180143How? It's quite pedestrian
I’ve been on my own, I’ve been looking at my phone,I dream of you but goon alone.Moral panic where’d you go?Sit and watch the final show.On my way to work, watching booty twerk.VR commute the only perk.All the forests underground.Hardcore porno all around.Back inside my cave, gooning all I crave,This is how I must behave.If I stop, I think I’d cry.Edgemax daily till I die.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
wmbf > wmafBecause their ‘love’ is cold tea and textbook smiles,a game of checkers where no one gasps, no one moans, no one truly bleeds.Whilst theirs, his, hers,is fire and teeth,flesh and conquest,the only sin worth committing.He doesn’t look at them.In a world that crowns other unions as ideal,he chooses her, dark, radiant, commanding,seeking the fullness that answers him in her.He doesn’t want their thighs as thin as incense sticks,nor their sighs that taste of nothing.He wants fire.
I'll Miss You (Sierra)\:this will be a chat for my poetry. please give an analysis for each. here is the first one i'll share:I'll Miss You (Sierra)\:Swirling specter; whirling dervish!Exorcism's ghastly skirmish!Show to me your purest soulPlacid life is not your role!Lost! possessed! by beauty's sight,A haunting ghost, your poltergeist!I beg thee strike with flying chairs,Prove your spirit's presence here.Impassioned heart that never leavesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Should Nobel Literature Prize laureates be selling A.I.-generated slop novels?
>>25180102he was just never a genuinely political person. the protest songs were just about capitalizing on the dominant trends at the time
>>25177124They should give him the Nobel War Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize
>>25179661What is BOM?
>>25180553Just some shit that is self-shilled by some spic. Ignore.
>>25180553The Book of Marlon. I think there's a free copy floating around somewhere if you look for it.
admit it, /lit/.there are definitely instances where the film is better than the book
>>25180668One ruins the other for me. I can't read most King's books because I've seen the movies and I think it's a waste of time if you know the script beforehand. Same with the books, don't want to watch the movies because I have a mental image of the characters and scenarios I don't want to replace it with jew slop cinema.I don't watch movies at all anymore, but a movie based on a book is an absolute no no for me
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
>>25180996>>25181109Cringe. Go back to r/Christianity. He's pseud. A wannabe philosopher.
>>25181145But the reason the movie was so good other than terry gilliam was so many direct quotes made it into the movie.
>>25180668Project hail Mary A clockwork orangeAny romantic slop adaptationArrival Apocalypse nowAll quiet on the western frontStarship troopersFight clubNo country for old menFear and loathing in LVAll of the James Bond adaptationsThe first three Harry Potters moviesI'm thinking of ending thingsCrashComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
/lit/ threadshots thread. I'll start with my favourite.
>>25178139I'm glad mr Pharaoh (1999) is doing better but>My fiancee [...] left me for a Proust scholar on the West Coastis an all time banger
>>25178139I’d read a book about Husserl anon and I’d read his book on Husserl. I’m not even all that versed in phenomenology
>>25178139never seen the followup. I choose to believe this is real, happy everything turned out well for him :)
>>25168826
*solves aesthetics*
>>25181574pic not related?
>>25181584Your joke of a life unrelated
There is nothing after death.
>>25181553Just because something is temporary doesn't mean it can't function properly during that duration.
>>25181065>>25181555Also, it's been documented that people who receive organ donations get flashes of memory from the donor, suggesting memory is stored across the whole body.
>>25181065How do you explain ancestral memory?
>>25181560I don't see the correlation with my comment.
>>25175400i am halfway through this book now. it's not that good. but since i started it i guess i have to finish
Part 1 was kino. Parts 2 & 3 were meh.
>>25181058>>25181067lol you bent the knee to an old kikess
Yeah, 1 was the best, although I really liked the ending of part 3.
i think part 2 was the best. and the opening and end of part 3 were pretty kino
>>25179234great chart anon
>>25181058sounds like you were just too dumb for the book if thats all you could get from it
