>>24630542
Damn bro you must be smartest guy here

>>24630524
I'm not like this at all. In fact, I've stopped reading physical books in public because it gives the impression that I'm smart and smug about it, or that I'm being peformative about reading. Now when I get coffee and read I just do it on my phone so others think that I'm doomscrolling.

>>24630529
You don't know him. Have some epistemic humility.

>>24630549
Your situation is kind of similar, but you went the other way. Even when you’re reading, you think about how others see you.

When we were kids, we were implanted with idea that reading itself was this almighty, almost holy thing, something purely good. For me, dressing to impress feels totally fine and normal, but reading in public just to look good somehow feels worse even though that might not be the primary function of the activity. That difference is interesting to me at least.

>>24630524
Because you are a feminine low test male. Embrace it, you will never be otherwise.

>>24615354
“AAAAAA- CREEPY WRINKLY BLUE OLD PEOPLE- AAAAAAAAAA- THEY LOOK AND FEEL LIKE RAISINS- SAVE ME DROGON!”

Weirdest part of the book for sure.

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>>24630456
>>24630510

>>24630576
Jesser
We need more methalmino

I WANT TO CUM IN SATIN BOY PUSSY AND HEAR HIM MOANING BEGGING FOR MORE

>>24630732
No, you want to gargle on his boy nuts and take his glistening nectar.

>>24630019
Wtf are you babbling on about?

>>24630019
based, milton hater deserves the hate

>>24630086
ahhh hell naww niggguhh frfrfr on god
(God have mercy on me)

Part of the reason dante meets all those souls are for cognitive intentional reasons. For dante all those judgements are cognitive conceptions of the human spirit that the love of beatrice or god provides the visionary intentionality where that can be visibly clarified. Also specifically bertran de born is that dante is often a monarchist or some such so that is reason to declaim a radical bertran de born for dante who is an exile. i am not sure whether dante thjnks about army of florence or if it was composed with mercenaries newly given gunpowder given to frequent dispute with pisa anyway that is all extraneous to this discourse which concerns the troubadour betran de born who apparently in the past dante held to be some sort of radical of a stripe or another. Much given flying the red or the black or guild disputes how does guelfs or ghibellines play into this anyways dante thought bertran de born to be some sort of radical whether positively or negatively it cannot be said that much can probably or possibly be asserted about this discussion topic from the past from the age of the renaissance.

>>24630090
dante's entire life was defined and destroyed by factionalism, of course he would be harsh on someone like de born. this is incredibly obvious so i just assumed it was a rhetorical question.

>>24630101
tbf i like pound's aesthetics and i don't have strong feelings either way about milton. but as an actual person he had no character to speak of, he was all show.

>>24630738
Before me, the beast of inaction.

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I feel compelled to write a novella. I'm thinking of making the framework of it a Gnostic allegory. I realize this idea may be derided here as cringe due to reactionary contrarianism and a general over-saturation of shallow Gnostic discussion on the internet, but I happen to find the Gnostic myth inspiring. What other stories can be considered Gnostic allegories?

Wtf this dude poured my driveway last sunmer

I value discourse over status.
the archives will determine if my thoughts are worthy enough.
screenshotting your own posts is the ultimate vanity for anon.

>>24630334
Just self publish

>>24630334
my writing's scattered across several dozen notebooks, several hundred word files on my hard drive, several hundred more in my gdocs, and a few dozen sheets of loose-leaf paper. I used to care a lot about publication but now I don't really care at all about it

>>24630334
Post it on substack

>>24629622
Sinbad and The Fisherman and the jenny. The worst tales are all of them because the main problem with this book was that it was boring. I'll rather read 100 new novels (cent nouvelles nouvelles) in French, or Shaving Tyrant Shagpat than suffer the two 'good' translations that are probably largely madeup political devices of the British Empire anyway.

>>24629622
In the footnotes of the unexpurgated Burton, he describes a woman unintentionally giving herself an orgasm through stomach muscle contractions during physical exercise in a public gymnasium. Burton's footnotes are better than the text.

>>24629622
>Have any of you read the complete collection of stories within a story?
No.
>What are the best and worst tales of the Arabian Nights?
Don’t know.

>>24629738
>It would wear out its welcome round the 500 page mark.

I’ve read 1/3rd of the official Calcutta ii manuscript edition of stories and most of the minor ones are stories of minor Islamic hermits and fables involving animals and stuff like that. There’s the main stories and minor stuff like that. Some “nights” are about half of a page.

>>24629622
>>24629738
>>24630625
>>24630276
It this book supposed to be "erotic" literature?

Gormenghast

>>24630067
>just not functional
What does this mean, it doesn't appeal to retards? Seems like the most common complaint about Poe's prose.

what kind of iq do you need to keep up with this

>>24629985
the Song of Roland being mentioned reminded me of the Orlando Furioso by Ariosto. There's some great stuff in there for inspiration, though I'm not sure on the quality of the translation.

Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso is adjacent, and that's another peak schizo epic about the First Crusade

>>24627966
Wow babe that book sounds so good and so deep Can I cum deep inside your unprotected pussy now

>>24630111
angel numbers
appear in judgement
calling my life terrible
I was the fool all along.

i feel like i should learn poetry, as i'm slowly growing as a hobbyist editor (yea im a freak) and sometimes writer.
not into free verse but i'd to learn something contemporary. can anon help direct me?

>>24628780
I like it.

>>24628467
>still lives you
Idk if you meant to do that but you prob shouldn't

>>24628512
Add the other two to your list. This is the unfortunate truth of vengeance and change. Do not give your enemies any advantage in knowing you.

Not porn btw

>>24627068

I know. I wanted you to larp further on

While written well past the British Empire's heyday, J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy is great historical fiction covering the period

>>24626382
Kim

>>24626382
White Fragility

>>24626382
Aubrey-Maturin series

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>>24629992
>a single (probably made up) anecdote justifies raping innocent people to death

>>24630017
The majority of adult-child sex is consensual and is reported as a positive experience by the younger participant according to representative surveys.

>>24630104
>a child's body is not designed for sex
Yes they are. Even fetuses have been observed masturbating and experiencing orgasm in utero. Kinsey found that even in a sexually repressive Western context, the majority of people had their first sexual experience, and first experienced orgasm, before puberty. All of the great apes engage in sexual activities before puberty, including humans. As far as penetrative activities go, in some cultures, coitus with pre-pubescent girls is so normalized, it is actually believed that it is a necessary requirement for attaining puberty. A child's body is perfectly capable of engaging in sexual activities; their bodies, much like adult bodies, are designed for sex. Humans are sexual beings from birth.

>Just look at any victim of child sexual assault, who are more likely to be sexual degens, drug addicts, etc, and ask whether it was truly that harmful and corrupting for them..
This is pseudoscientific nonsense, sex is not harmful or corruptive. There is no association between consensual adult-child sex and maladjustment. Secondly, even coerced and non-consenting sexual activities are not strongly associated with maladjustment; studies which use representative samples and control for confounders find that the association between "child sexual abuse" and harm is weak. Sexual activities are not a major cause of harm; this is a medicalization of anti-sexual prejudice.

https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/Research:_Prevalence_of_Harm_and_Negative_Outcomes


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the white race is rotten and must perish

>>24630678
>here's my retarded faggoty screed about why raping kids is fine

>>24628636
Best friend*

>>24630678
based and truth seeking pilled

>>24630606
>hey are not merely the most moral army in the world
They're a bunch of filthy rapists and child-killers. Stick to self-help, Jordy.

>>24630606
>Dostoevsky once said that without God, everything is permitted.

Why do christcucks admit that without the fear of God watching them they would start raping and murdering wantonly. Do they think this is a good thing to admit in polite company?

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>>24630606
A crippled mediocre man who sought to play doctor on the world to cure himself. A feeble mind whose only shoddy sanctum was pills and peptalks to slovenly college miscreants who financed his hair transplants.

Father to a whore. Husband to a fraud. He played the jester. His fist up the ass of a Kermit the Frog puppet. Playing it up.

He comes to detest his body which lied broken with his soul in some Russian woodshed they called a hospital. His family had shut him up there. For years? His gasps of agony went unheard. Rude, foreign voices attended him. No one in the world beyond remembered his words or sought his face. He raved of something that onced seemed a reality but now comes as a warped, gnomish dream. A potbellied goblin, smoking a blunt, insisting his assistant pull something up on a blindingly bright screen. Then they spoke of cannibalistic chimps, shadowy dragons, postmodern neomarxists. The burly nurse plunges the catheter up into his bladder.

Now returned to civilization. He grins for the welcome mat. Realizes the shortness of it. How cynically the media touches him, holding him by the edges. He is frought with disgust as he uploads his latest exhibitionist blubbering to his YouTube channel. Something is missing. They have all moved on without him. A word haunts him. Covering it all in a slime that sickens him. Outdated.

Pictures of his daughter prancing around in lobster-themed lingerie are posted on his Instagram feed. He knows a legion of directionless young men in uncleaned rooms are jerking off to his daughter. She takes their money like a whore. And he too feels a tinge in his nearly defunct penis as he gazes feverishly upon the whorish images. Little whore. My little whore, he hoarsely whispers to himself. Fumbling with the cap of the Xanax bottle.

An atheist. A jesuit. A jungian. A masonic celebrity. A superfluous man.

In short, a neoliberal.

>>24630606
I don't care who Ben Shapiro pays to shill for him, I'm not paying taxes so they can be used to defend a foreign ethnostate. I'm especially not paying to financially support one founded by retards who could have settled anywhere in the world and decided to take over the only region in which they knew they would be surrounded by people that hate them and want them gone.

>>24630651
Even people like Hobbes said this was the natural order of men without a hugher power (the higher power being the state), and Schopenhauer felt that if we eliminated strife, people would just fight for no reason because its "something to do". Its not a Christian thing at all. We are quarrelsome by nature. All the advances in science does not change who we are. Global atheism doesn't solve this.

>>24630682
Damn wonder why the previous poster thought it mentioned homosexuals

Hmmm

>>24628589
most philosophical books

>>24628589
There's a play in German called "Publikumsbeschimpfung" (insulting the audience), which I think does exactly what its title says.

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The most popular works by Nikolai Gogol or Machado de Assis. Gogol's ukrainian stuff doesn't have that as much as his more popular works though, same for Machado's short stories
Don Quixote does that quite a bit too now that I think about it. Im pretty sure Cervantes actually invented/popularized some spanish swear words in that book

>>24630687
I got it confused with this different but still similar joke from the Clouds of Aristophanes

>Take That, Audience!: In a fourth-wall-breaking moment. While it differs by translation, basically, the personification of Right Argument suggests clean living is important because otherwise you'll have a radish shoved up your ass and people will think you're a sodomite. The personification of Unjust Argument then points out there must be nothing wrong with being a sodomite, pointing to all of the ones in the audience.

>>24628696
I've never joined any servers, but you don't need to when every story you hear about every server is people being the worst when they think no one else is watching.

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>>24627049
>no hylic atheists please

Members and mods of that discord are extremely low IQ freaks who prefer anime to literature, and the admin is a moody autist who seems to enjoy banning people who disagree with him (irrespective of how seemingly inconsequential the disagreement is)

But I suppose you shouldn’t expect anything better from discord

>>24627049
No thanks, not interested. Every time I've joined a server advertised on 4channel dot org I've been almost instantaneously kicked from it with no explanation or reason. I've realized that this was a blessing in disguise.

>>24630618
Lol that’s what happened to me in OP’s server. It was super dead, so I made a couple of posts, and was quickly banned

>>24629372
The problem with them is if you disagree with the, they start calling you a racist and a Nazi.

>>24629255
>deboooonked
socialism (with chinese characteristics) won, chuddy

>>24618824
>Are there no orthodox Marxists today out there, anywhere
Michael Hudson

>>24618841
The typical leftoid is the embodiment of Nietzsche last man, they criticize capitalism because still has self actualization unlike communism. The lefty has no urgency over it's political goals, their base is not tied to a concrete individual outside of oppression but as such is easy to co-opt their movement. If revolution comes it won't be from the left

>>24618824
NUMERO UNO
Factory work died in the West. No office worker is seriously going to be fighting for workers’ rights, lmao.

NUMERO DUO
Ideologies and academics changed focus. Academics shifted their study areas, maybe due to a global goy control network or because their fields became stagnant. Difficult for some people to believe, but ideas can become boring and unfashionable. I am mostly a classical liberal, but I feel like I am one of only five guys in my country.