I made a zine that is basically an A3 sheet folded to make an A5 zine. I spread them around London and they are pieces of Romantic poetry, prose, essay as a means of encouraging the recovery our senses, our emotions and our humanity in the face of unprecedented de-humanising arising from techI'm wondering what your thoughts on it are?
>>24956963>zineThe word is magazine you illiterate faggot
>>24957744Anon, with all due respect, it is almost 2026. Edmund Spenser and John Donne are not my contemporaries. I exclusively read the greats, I know full well I do not match up to random poets in the 19th century. But it is not the 19th century. I'm a modern poet. My aim with my poems is, like Wordsworth in lyrical ballads, to write poems that anybody can understand but also contain depth and meaning.
Cool idea!I can drop some more notes later, when I’m at a desktop, but what tool have you built this on? I also know zines are pushed as the be all/end all of DIY publishing, because figuring out imposition (arrangement of pages for printing in a booklet) can be confusing without the correct software. But I think a saddle stitch booklet is often stronger.At first glance you’re using a display font (meant for maybe >20pt) rather than a true text font. It’s spaced too tightly and the thin strokes will nearly disappear at text sizes. You use another serif (Times?) as well, which does work a lot better at that size. Using the two is strange, they’re too close together, but also too different, like striking a dissonant semitone upward instead of a solid chord.Have a look at some really good typographers for inspiration (Wolfe Hall, Studio Ardworks, Joost Grootens, to name a few).
i wont read the image but would definitely read it if i found it in the while. ive found some pamphlets and read all of them but i think they've all been conservative christian stuff, possibly all at airports
>>24957779Retard
>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
>>24956982the standards are low
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>>24947980She looks so much better in the gamestop uniform
>>24947980Haha OP I love vaggo XD
Why exactly the fuck is this thread still up
I recently got into Rilke, as I was reading the 8th of Letters to a Young Poet. I read the first Duino Elegies, and I felt it was a somewhat transformative poem. I'm not sure how others would relate, but I think one has to be in a specific psychological state to relate to or feel something from a poem on the first read, without any documentation to support them. It could be difficult, yet the raw understanding can be quite satisfactory.>Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angels’ Orders?This first line was shattering. It gave words to a feeling familiar to me, yet I could have never put it so beautifully. Isn't it true that when the dread of existence or loneliness, however you may say it, becomes so unbearable you start to question if the heavens, or anything higher you believe in, would answer to you, help you, console you with their warmth? Or, is it Camus's universe where silence is the only answer expected, although to a poet's ear, even silence could have words?>and even if one of them pressed me suddenly to his heart: I’d be consumed in his more potent being.I feel this is where it becomes truly relatable. Our own imperfections and fears make us feel inferior and abandoned, not worthy of love and help from a being superior in our eyes. I feel, not just for divine metaphors, but for even simpler things like a relationship, we often hide ourselves and our vulnerabilities so as not to be seen as weak or unmanly in order to keep our ground. And, this foolish attempt makes us even more inclined towards a lonelier life.>Every Angel is terrifying.It's similar to how Dazai expressed his fear of happiness, that the weak and miserable are even scared of happiness. Even if a chance comes for them to embrace the love and acceptance, they'd run from it and choose loneliness instead of the terrifying love of a superior being who is just loved.The poem is long, and yet it tells this feeling of dread, loneliness, and meaninglessness so magnificently. I do not know any comparison to it, from my own relatable perspective.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>hang a gun on the wall>never use it
>>24958195Take that Chekov!
Guns are decoration.
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24956591KEK
I wonder how much polish his editors put on his English prose.
notice how nobody has presented a single piece of evidence disproving the pedophilia allegations - all they can do is deflect by saying that he also wrote about other things, which is not a disproval
>>24946400>Pungent but healthyIs this what good prose is to you cuck?
his prose can be a bit confining, read someone else and you're freed
Apologize.
>>24954102NTA, but pretty much sums up his feelings about his entire life desu.
>>24955733Damn you're right.
>>24955936Dudes been my neighbor my whole life. Learned a lot of hidden history. Check out Nicossias books on him and his family and check out this site. https://whokilledkerouac.com/
>>24950358He should apologize to me for wasting my time with on the roadand another book of his that I don't even remember the title
>>24957869Hi, Jack here. Suck my dead dick. Btw got any booze?
Do you think Mrs. Reilly is a sympathetic character? Is the she a good mother in spite of her flaws?
>>24958237Found it too relatable?
>>24958300It's a contrived burlesque. It's not particularly deep and the gimmick wears off quickly.
>>24958176wasnt he trying to bang the mom or was that someone else
>>24956957His mother never showed him actual love. Ignatius lost his happiness when his dog died.
>>24958304How reductionist of you
More and more i find myself dedicating into literature.Finished Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, this month.Went to the bookstore today, no Eco books other than The Name of... were left.Went to thriftstore, what's that ? Baudolino Hardcover for 1€Came home checking online market place, Foucault's Pendulum and Pape Satan both HC, 3-5€ also in my town.A thread died for this, i don't care. Tomorrow i will sit somewhere comfy and read my new books. Post some surreal/artistic medival/renaissance/ super gnostic boys on mushrooms book covers.Love you all, have a nice christmas !
>>24957279You came here to post this, even sadder.
>>24957192>BaudolinoEnjoy! Very entertaining bookFoucault's pendulum drags a bit in the middle but it's pretty good otherwise
>>24957192I picked up Foucault's Pendulum, but haven't read it or anything else by Eco. Should I try and find another of his books for a first impression or jump into this one?
>>24958287I've read The Name of the Rose only so far and it's really beautiful !The only book where i couldn't put it down easily and read one more chapter before sleep.
im mostly through baudolino
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24943485the fact that you are off your meds escapes no ones notice at this point
Revilo P Oliver was a much better writer
>>24941203100% correct
>>24958262*marries a jewess and changes his views*
>>24958281
Should I start with Eliade or Varg Vikernes for a better understanding of paganism?
>>24956248Varg has plenty of insight on his own because he's well read, it's his wife that thought of the groundbreaking stuff. But even then they aren't great writers or scholars, just laypeople. You ought to read actual scholarly books like Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans, or The Ancient City; as well as actual mythology like Hesiod, Ovid, and Pindar's Odes.
>>24956361>and is just a larp to push identitarianism and white supremacyThat's what you're inferring, not what he explicitly stated. Obviously the religious practices of a race of people are related to the race of that people. It's not an organized religion that is intended to reach out to anyone from any race and incorporate them into itself. They have their own traditions and culture that reflect their own race.
paganism has been dead for 1500 yearsany attempt to recreate it is a larpcope and seethe
>>24958204Good luck with the Muslims. Maybe the Latinos will take your side since you're all Christian.
Pagan LARPing is just Wicca for autistic incels.
I have been reading Chinese classics lately and finished this one. Out of all of the ones I've read so far, this has to be the greatest.Has /lit/ read traditional Chinese classics like Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Journey to the west, Dream of Red Chamber, Investiture of the Gods, and others?
I love Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and Zhuangzi
This book changed my life for the better
>>24946777To help coverup the fact that you're a virgin the first time you have sex.
>>24949590flip flop between both
>>24951011Women are the submissive ones. Truly dominant women are rare. Most dominant women resent submissive men. Women generally don't want to be in that position overall, not just sexually. They don't want to have to worry about certain things.
>>24946749pathetic.Sex takes care of itself;over-thinking kills enjoyment.here are the only "rules" you need:~ DO:HAVE FUN~ DON'T:try to be some kind of sexual engineer/artistyou get yours.let her get her's. that makes it fun.
>>24957136I'm surprised that lighthouse withstood the force of that TRVKE
What are some famous examples of weird literature or theatre?
>>24956926>John Hawkesdis nigga knowsI'd also add The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien
>>24956180I'm working on it :)
>>24956181Normal People
>>24956181Pirandello
>>24957461>In September 2017, Jorjani was suspended from his teaching position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in response to a covert video recorded by Patrik Hermansson, a Swedish antifascist activist, who presented himself to Jorjani under the false identity "Erik Hellberg", in which Jorjani predicted a future where concentration camps would return to Europe and Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great would appear on European currency by 2050. Hermansson met with Jorjani at an Irish bar in midtown Manhattan in June, where the two talked about a future in which Europe embraces fascism. "It's going to end with the expulsion of the majority of migrants including citizens, who are of Muslim descent, generally" Jorjani said. "That's how it's going to end. It's going to end with concentration camps and expulsion and war. At the cost of a few hundred million people."
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What's further to the right, fascism/National Socialism, or monarchy?
>>24958243>YesThen you should try it. Don Quixote rants about justice, honor and courage, and Sancho's delight in the small pleasures of life, his wine and bacon, are some of the best prose ever written in Spanish.I find that more genuine than french or russian writers having existential crises
>>24958251Reflexively my answer would be the latter, because the former are inherently modernist, mass movements, but the answer isn't that simple, for you can easily have a monarchy with a progressive society.
>>24958270I already read it. It's good
Did an editorial pass on one of my storiesImproved it quite a bit, not sure how much better I can make itHave to start looking again for submission guidelines before the start of 2026
Need a book for when I have an insomnia spell and can't sleep. I don't want to doomscroll my phone so it seems like a good way to get back into reading.
>>24954327Any suggestions? If I'm interested I feel like I'll be engaged.
>>24954682how dare you
https://a.co/d/5meSrV1The Way OutI like it. I hope you get more sleep.
>>24949522Has anyone ever found a comfortable way to read while laying down? I always have to sit upright with a cushion otherwise it feels like my neck is going to explode.
>>24957423Usually I have to prop my head up a bit.
