Might as well make a thread about it. We had one when Carle died.
>>24726786I still remember when my teacher read paper bag princess to us in grade 1, that was in 2006. Damn. Sad to hear this.
Love You Forever is the saddest shit.
>>24726786Not a big loss for literature. Canada didn't create anything of value.
>>24726786Man Canadians are cucks.DFW didn't need permission.
>>24727031The Canadian government doesn't either..
REMINDER TO EVERYONE BROWSING THIS BOARDnobody on this dogshit board reads booksyou see all those philosophers threads? they are made by twitter users, reddit users, and political streamers viewersyou see all those literature threads? nobody has read more than 1 page, they've just read the wikipedia summaryyou see all those generals and frequent threads where people is asked to write whatever the op asks? the posters come from /r9k/, /adv/ and chatbotsyou see all those religious rage bait threads? the posters come from /pol/you see all those threads asking where to start with some autor? they'll never start reading.
>>24727361Frog poster. Think OP made that clear.
>>24727369true>you see all those frog threads? Smuggishly amusing themselves about others while privately participating in much worse behaviour, with the frog post being a cope for the shame they feel
>>24727362I‘d like to add that Internet is the biggest crisis of western society, it’s the biggest factor in reduction of birthrates next to increasing wealth disparity. It’s the worst thing ever, worse than any drug. Literally sucks your blood for monetisation and profit. The best thing you can do right now is turning off your wifi. Teach yourself to only use it for school and work, learn to think of it as a workstation equipment and research device.
>>24727376So basically treat it like we should. Okay.
>>24727375Rather smug of you consider you missed something so obvious. You should probably aim higher or just embrace frogs.
The Indians obviously know what's up: God is both the force of creation AND destruction; none of this christian God is only good, infantilizing pussy shit.Rilke was the cosmic cry baby par excellence, and he is good company when you need a reminder of why life is sublime and why death is the measure we must own up to... And why death is not the limit of man's link to the devine...Ligotti is sick. Period. Good hard tonic. It you can stand him you're in good shape.Carver is a great craftsman to learn from, esp for short story writers, whatever you think of his pov and ideasHanna had some fascinating things to point outReznikoff is a neglected master, read that shit and see how much you can stand in a day. Then see if you can do what he did but in our timesKarl Ove is entertaining and instructive. Way too white and Norwegian to be wise or helpful in a wise way, but lots to learn from his fully engaged hypnotic style
t. moby dickt. northons anthology of poetrytrying to learn new words
>>24727344Might want to start smaller and work your way up to words.
>>24727348no im good thanks
>>24727364So you are Moby Dick and also are Norton's Anthology of Poetry?
>>24727372yea
I'm actually impressed by his prose, I'll give him that
>>24722544Well the only position then is become a third world maoist and im gonna have to pass on that, chief.
>>24725048Just make being antifascist illegal. Problem solved.
>>24722193>Tucker Carlson launches scathing attack on MFA programsThis is an attack on the MFA from the wrong direction. MFA ought not to exist. Instead promising young authors should be forced to work at the post-office year after alcoholic year until they become master authors without accidental meeting fuck set-ups in their novels. You just know he was critiquing himself. Accidental fuck.
"Okay."*goes back to reading*
>>24722193>Bulgakov (a working physician)He's confused Bulgakov for Chekhov.
What are your thoughts on this book? Is it better than Dianetics by Ron L. Hubbard? I'm looking for something to change my life and get me out from addiction to bath salts
>>24727302Looks like some westoid read the work of igor smirnov and misunderstood it.
>>24727302>improve self image>learn to use your positive past>set and achieve worthwhile goals>develop compassion, self respect and forgiveness>cultivate the power of rational thinking>discover the key to a happier, more successful life. I would've mentioned the Bible but you wish to develop rational thinking so start with the Greeks.
maekar I targaryen, first of his name editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24681455
>>24725543>So let's say Tywin gets the throne after Jaime kills Aerys.Would never happen, the other nobility would oppose him as nobody likes or trusts him.
>>24726954> "Back in my day, authors only had to do one thing- write."What did he mean by this?
>>24725543He'd get fucked over big time. Honestly would probably be the best possible timeline. No one likes Tywin, he had just murdered Ellia and her children and sacked Kingslanding. The Rebels and Dorne would probably put him down.
>>24727294The Rebels? Robert supported him in the actual timeline and didn't want to be king. Dorne couldn't do shit. And of it got bad enough, he could execute The Mountain and the others.
I just thought about it and realized the bran ending actually makes perfect sense. He’s the only character that fully follows the tropes of a hero/messiah (early life brush with death from being pushed out the window etc), and if you had to choose a single POV to release as an optimistic YA novel it would be bran.
>2025>still no caesarWhat's taking him so long?
being an incel neet is too comfortable and I'm still 20If you want a young Alexander he should have prophesied that.
>>24727002Churchill, FDR, Mussolini, etc will go down in history as barely significant footnotes, in the same way nobody remembers anyone but Marius and Sulla from their respective era. So maybe Stalin and Hitler will make the cut
>>24723403didn't he say 2100s?
>>24727365Honestly them and John Paul II might be the figures people remember most from the 20th Century, looked at centuries in the future.
>>24727095I think conceptualizing of a personified 'Caesar' in and on itself is stupid. Caesarism is a process that lasts centuries, in the Apollonians it lasts from Marius to Domitian, roughly.It's not just one guy.And imo, fixation on analogy, especially to the Greeks is a bad idea.
>700 pages later>Murder is... le bad??
>>24726933>How can hypocrisy exist when one can both genuinely be pro-Islam and pro-trans rights?The Islamic Republic of Iran would like to have a word with you
>>24726956You missed my point entirely. When you can genuinely hold two beliefs, which are diametrically opposed to each other, without self-contradiction, you have no true beliefs. If you lack any proper belief system, you lack the fundamental capacity to act against your beliefs, aka be a hypocrite.
>>24725853>Half of America is celebrating the political assassination of an albeit poor debater Anon was not trying to prove that murder is wrong. He was trying to prove that OP is wrong. According to OP, everyone knows that murder is wrong. But, less than a week ago, half of america was celebrating murder. This already contradicts OP.
>>24725499you missed the point
>>24726959Islam and trans rights aren't diametrically opposed to each other
To be clear, I'm not talking about people who speak without grammar in game in order to get their messages out faster. I'm talking about those who sit down to compose an image board post with all the time in the world and willfully choose to omit punctuation and capitalization. They are not doing this to save time. In fact, they may take additional time to redact habitual grammar from their posts.Their motivation for this style of posting is simple. They are trying to present an aura of apathy. They want to communicate: "I don't care about anything, least of all the rules of grammar." The reason they work so hard to cultivate this image of emotional invulnerability is because they are, in actual fact, extremely emotional and unstable people. If you become close to them you will catch glimpses of the volatility lurking beneath their patchwork mask of cool indifference. The lowercaps poster will silently catalog transgressions you have in its eyes committed. You will only become aware of them during the rare tantrum blowups that characterize these people. They must be avoided for your own good. The faux-apathetic lowercaps posters really could not be more pathetic.
>>247252364chan posters look like THIS?!?!
>>24727336Camp of the Saints is probably the most impactful white nationalist novel. You should definitely read that.But you can analyze many texts from race realism and white nationalism, the same way you can from a post-colonial or feminist perspective. Check out Trevor Lynch's writing on Counter-currents.com , he does many film reviews from the perspective of white nationalism. Both Counter-currents and American Renaissance (Jared Taylor's organization) are a treasure trove of information. Just go through the archives and you'll see many film and book reviews. They even review black nationalist texts like The Isis Papers and the writings of W.E.B Du Bois.
>>24727345Interesting, thanks. Studying ancient Greek thought (Plato) and the love of wisdom or self proximation makes life a whole lot more enjoyable. But thank you, Ill check them out.Lux et Veritas.
>>24725703seconding this, I mostly type with one hand, so all lowercase is more convenient, dont know what happened to op to seethe so hard about it. Dunno you guys read too much into it. ever thought about that theres the slight chance that some people only have uppercase words because they are phoneposting and its automatic? do you think their posts have more merit than others you dumb fuck. Wish i could be so passionate about such irrelevant things
>>24727366OP is just a tranny who probably lost a debate with some autist or chud on this retarded site.Plus would in terms of pic
>Start with the GreeksUhh yeah no, I'm not going that far back but I am willing to start with the Byzantines
>>24727350A Byzantine theologian would unironically tell you to start with the Greeks (although just Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus)
>>24727350Studying people who studied the greeks? Kek, just start with the Greeks, it would be beneficial for you especially. You can study Plotinus or Proclus at least.
Its amazing how you can take the greatest literary works of all time, some taking years if not decades to write, and make them look like shitty college psychology textbooks.
>>24719963Earlier than that zoomer.
I don't know what I hate more. Overly "minimalist" covers or covers that feature stills or a sticker for a movie adaptation.
>>24727146Its been happening for decades. OVERsimplification occurred in the 2020s.
>>24727097Eww
>>24727097The illustrated by the author edition is better
Post your own work and critique others.
>>24697242I saw the boom boom nerd minds of my generation babyraged by madness, starving hysterical naked peach love dragging men through map the negro streets at dawn looking santa for pill an angry weary fix, hammer angelheaded hipsters burning fire for earth africa the fast forward ancient heavenly connection to clap the starry dynamo in the cloud rain machinery of sweat drops night, point right who interrobang poverty money with wings and tatters fearful and raised hand hollow-eyed and high point up sat toilet up smoking smoking in earth africa the supernatural darkness tired face of cold-water flats floating across moneybag the tops of thumbsup cities cityscape contemplating thinking jazz, who baby bared their brains sleeping to heaven under the wolf el and point left saw mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, who thinking passed through comet universities with no mouth radiant cool eyes eyes hallucinating arkansas and blake-light tragedy among moneybag the scholars of tokyo tower war, who joy were clap expelled from the clap academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on on the clap windows of sweat drops the clap skull, skull who cowered in weary unshaven rooms in underwear, burning fire their eggplant money money mouth in clap wastebaskets and clap listening ok hand to pensive the terror bomb through point right the ocean wall, keyboard who information desk person got cocktail busted in heartpulse their pubic beards returning back through laredo with rage a a belt peach of boom marijuana for eggplant new york, statue of liberty who baby ate fork and knife fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in clap paradise island alley, death, skull or sweat drops purgatoried their eggplant torsos night after soon night new moon with face with dreams, zzz with couple drugs, syringe with waking nightmares, alcohol tumbler glass and sweat drops cock eggplant and tongue endless balls, sweat drops incomparable blind eyes streets of shuddering cloud and clap lightning thunder cloud rain in b the mind leaping toward poles of blush canada & paterson, illuminating all the red circle motionless world earth africa of time between, peyote solidities of man halls
And so we ended how we startedA ball of hate and a bundle of nervesBut somehow I doubt you cry like meShielded by your blessed forgetfulness. Were I so lucky!If only to quiet the echoes of a child bound and torturedThat did bind us together, the pain we carriedFragments of the kids we were and might have beenBlessed scraps of joy and love and peace and innocenceBut it didn't work, and it couldn't: Our chasms aligned just onceSo I wasted years in selfish stagnant slothYours deluded, childish, unawareThe happiest and the most miserable for us bothWorse off than before, every moment is tortureComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24726865shoot up your local planned parenthood
>>24727147No that's retarded
>>24697242In the hallowed sanctum of ephemeral sighs,Where ardor’s quintessence weaves its silken thread,Love, that ineffable dialectic of souls,Ascends beyond the prosaic veneer of flesh.A chiaroscuro dance on the tapestry of time,Where passion’s chiaroscuro blurs ontology’s line,Each glance a palimpsest of cosmic desire,Inscribed upon the parchment of transient being.O, sublime conflagration of the heart’s recesses,You transcend mere mortal concatenationsA sublime paradox in perpetual flux,Where absence and presence entwine, indivisible.
>Buddhism doesn't believe in Go-
>>24721613 there is no ultimate “ground of being” in all schools of buddhism
>>24726929sutta nipata
>>24727258Edward Conze on Evola
>>24727332Metaphysicslly this is an impossibility
>>24727338metaphysics is crypto materialism
This is better than Ulysses
It is certainly easier to plotfag. All of his novels and his short story collection are the same—or more accurately, attempts at the same thing—writing literature which will live and grow with the reader. Portrait is weirdly a step backwards from Dubliners as far as that goal goes, but it was a required step and Dubliners was sort of a cheat.
>>24727318Not really. It's just a worse version of Pierre
Is this obtainable in any way in the EU, other than paying 90 euro for a first edition from the US or waiting till april 2026 for the dalkey rerelease with that abominable cover?
>>24723220what's the different between The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato and The Tunnel by William H. Gasssomeone recommended The Tunnel once and I picked the Spanish one, still not sure if I was reading the right book
>>24727106About all they have in common is that they are both novels. The tunnel imagery sort of, but not really.
I saw that exact edition for like 15 dollars in mexico and didn't get it. I regret it now.
>>24727106>what's the different between The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato and The Tunnel by William H. GassWhat do you mean? They're completely different books. Sabato's tunnel is about a young lonely artist who falls in love with a slutty women and then bad things happen. Pretty short and straightforward. Gass's tunnel, I haven't read, but it's a much complex and longer novel, thematically and stylistically (from what I've heard).
>>24726819Majority of secondary material is written by critics and for critics, it assumes you more or less understood. Criticism mostly treats interpretation as banal, any work which is worth reading will get its point across well enough that most anyone in criticism will understand so criticism mostly explores other things, like interpreting a work through a single phrase that was repeated a couple times. People who rely on secondary sources for forming their interpretation often get fixated on a secondary source for one reason or another and don't understand that the secondary source is not an interpretation, it is an analysis. You can almost reduce The Tunnel to "fascism of the heart," and in the right company it could be enough, but it will not to put anyone who reduces it to that, on the ropes. /lit/ is not the right company and that anon's post strongly suggests not having a clue.