Hi, I'm newbie here.Recently I was collecting my thoughts and sometimes I discussed it with some people and AIs. Problem is, I'm not sure if they're cool or nah. Firstly I thought of myself as a shyzo fool, now just a fool. I even wrote some of it in a dokie dokie. Some liked it, some not, some called it Manifesto even.I just want to post it on 4chan. As a .doc maybe, or Google dokie. To have an opportunity to be slaughtered by people opinions. Can I?
>>24820911>Transcendence. It's overcoming your boundaries, overcoming the limitations of reality, becoming more than you are.Becoming more YOU that you were. Think it a bit differently: you are becoming more yourself shedding false skins. When you overstep your insecurities and decide to create something you literally help the divine to self-purify and to come to awareness. >By discovering myself I create myself, give myself a form, make it clear to myself, gain an understanding of myself, and understanding of myself gives me the ability of self-control. I can accept and integrate my contradictions and become one with myself.That's good. An alchemical process of purification, intensification, of becoming more IT than on the previous cycle. Overall, I think your thoughts are pretty spot on. One must create and develop imagination, which the greatest gift.
>>24820813>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GUbfCNpgkK66AbjsqznOoBJz1whFBavwTBjPJC3hPZc/edit?usp=drivesdkThis is not a manifesto, it feels like the philosophical musings of someone really stoned, you must rewrite this with the urgency of someone trying convince us that death is imminent and you are the life and the way.
You have to convert it into fiction like the Underground Man
How unfortunate.
Well, good enough. I'll continue further with help of my gf. Thanks everyone.
Are there any instances of an audiobook being a better experience than reading the actual book?
A lot of the autobiographical stuff that is narrated by the authorsAnd plenty are really well done
>>24823377Sirens (Joyce)
Yeah, when you add music to the audiobook. It's kino.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjQbcAkUYmI
No
Is there anything worse than a movie cover for a book?
>>24822981I'll disagree with you here
>>24820884Only correct answer in this thread
>>24819064I would rather have just the title or nothing at all. The spine alone can suffice for the title of a book and its author.
>>24820913On some books it isn't even a sticker. It's printed on but still looks like a sticker. Why are customers punished so?
>>24822774W-why are they looking at me?
Books like Don Quixote?
>>24818954The Saragossa Manuscript
>>24820719its either a russian (and better) don quixote or teen lit in the form of dostoevsky and child lit like de sade
>>24818954Pierre Menard has a novel with the same title. I find it far more meaningful given the circumstances of his work.
Don Quixote
>>24819013>HoetayYaaassss
Who is the Chinese Dostoevsky?
>>24822803Would technical papers from the Eastern Bloc generally be in Russian rather than Polish, Hungarian, etc even if they were from those countries?
>>24821792German and French will be dead languages in a few decades.
>>24822816Yes, they were basically all written in Russian. The Soviet Union hosted all the aerospace shit and military technology, so all the research that was on the periphery for STEM was being written in Russian. I think East Germany may of been somewhat of an exception.NASA used to host Russian language learning courses for their engineers. Although by the time the 80s rolled around it was becoming rarer as Russia was just that far behind. But you could find Engineers fluent in Russian well up into the 00s. I do seriously think that studying STEM in a Chinese university will become a bit of a flex in a decade or two, and I think the diaspora Chinese have such a massive advantage over other westerners. Getting access to both technical information on western forums and eastern forums.
>>24821779France and Germany are politically irrelevant
>>24822420Japanese literature pales in comparison with, say, French literature, and as for Chinese literature, let’s not even talk about it.
>Schopenhauer wrote The World As Will and Representation when he was 26 and people assume he wrote it while looking old and grumpyIt kinda baffles me how he wrote that masterpiece while looking like this and not that old
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>>24822349Pessimism is the philosophy of the youthful, compassionate man.
Why was mundungus fletcher there at the battle of the seven potters?Was straight up retarded to have him there. I can see that someone with ties to the underworld would be useful to the Order, but not why he needs to be there to escort harry to safety.
Didn't see a poetry general. What do you guys think of this poem I wrote?A skeleton arrived in robes of white,a crown of thorns, and sandals made of light.His eyes observed the ashy landscape viewof blackened corpses, where the vultures flew.Around the dead, the scattered casings laidin circles. Overhead, the sunlight madereflections on the shells – the mushroom clouds.“A shame,” the skeleton remarked aloud,“to see the shape the Kingdom’s taken now.”– And, nodding slow, departed with a bow.
>>24820362Bump for OP
>>24820362Then why not make a poetry general and post your poem in it? Why do you think your dogshit work deserves its own thread?
>>24821630Nothing is stopping you from posting your own work in this thread. Stop being a little bitch.
>>24820629Chinese, here’s an essay I wrote on the topic of Japanese aesthetics and verse and its reliance on Chinese. https://open.substack.com/pub/fraterasemlen/p/waka-and-general-japanese-aestheics
>>24820362I like it. It's a strong image.
Comfy Halloween short fiction?
>MoviesOne of the V/H/S collections>MangaJunji ito>Short storiesThomas Ligotti
>>24823246>V/H/S They all suck
>>24823311Disagree. Siren is a classic
>>24823246>>24823311>>24823341For me it's Viral.
>>24820573Shadow Out of TimeShadow Over InnsmouthColour Out of Space
Enough about the fucking eagles. Why didn't Glorfindel, aka the dude who one v oned a fucking balrog and won, go with the fellowship? he was in Rivendell
OP here, I was merely pretending to be retarded. The reason Glorfindel didn't go is because by not going Merry and Pippin got captured and met the tree dudes and took down Sauramon and Gandalf got killed and came back as Gandalf the White to help take down Sauramon once and for all and Merry and Pippin were able to lead the hobbits to take back the shire from sharky at the end because they had the experience with the trees. Aka, because it was God's plan, just as it was God's plan for Golum to destroy the ring, Blessed be Jesus Christ, Amen, Nick fuenties is a fucking retard if LotR goes over his head
>>24823330... taking the Ring by force is basically succombing to the Ring before even wielding it. Then Men and Elves would've been at war. The victor would've either succumbed to Sauron or replaced him as a kind of benevolent dictator.
>>24823351if he shot him as he stood above the fuckin chasm in such a way that the dude fell into the pit, it wouldn't matter who did it or why. the ring would have still fallen into the fuckin pit and none of that shot would have happened.
>"But that will leave no place for us!" cried Pippin in dismay. "We don't want to be left behind. We want to go with Frodo.">"That is because you do not understand and cannot imagine what lies ahead," said Elrond.>"Neither does Frodo," said Gandalf, unexpectedly supporting Pippin. "Nor do any of us see clearly. It is true that if these hobbits understood the danger, they would not dare to go. But they would still wish to go, or wish that they dared, and be shamed and unhappy. I think, Elrond, that in this matter it would be well to trust rather to their friendship than to great wisdom. Even if you chose for us an Elf-lord, such as Glorfindel, he could not storm the Dark Tower, nor open the road to the Fire by the power that is in him."
>>24823366why not just take a 10th dude?
Anybody else working on a novel?This is the absolutely worst, and I hate every second of it. It’s like I’m in a fight with my brain every day to start writing, then dealing with imposter syndrome the whole time I am writing, and then facing mental exhaustion that eventually forces me to stop. I’m nearing 100k words, and I just want this to be over.I do think it’s good, though. I built a tight outline, and I’ve stuck to it. Maybe that’s part of why it feels like work, since it’s all architecture like factory work.
>>24822908>vinyl have varying degrees of thicknessenough to warrant a distinction in your already-overwritten goofball novel?
>>24822271My issue is that I feel confident in my ability to write, in my prose and all that. I just can't come up with a plot to save my lifeI am considering partnering with someone who comes up with the plot and I write the actual bulk of the novel
When I get a little tense sometimes I just grab a knife and slash myself a couple dozens times across my chest and thighs and upper arms where it's easily hidden. Very cathartic.
>>24822271It's because you are forcing yourself to write a book without having anything to say. First you need to have something to say, AFTER you write a book.
>>24823217I wrote 100k words to say you’re a bitch.
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>>24823329Man, what did the OP do to you?
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>>24823135I just searched for the VG Cats official lewds (again) and I think it really matches your description of Belle's video, they're both utter failures in every measure (SPECIFICALLY THE PART WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO ELICIT AROUSAL) one has to wonder if it's intentional. I swear every year I just say to myself, it cannot be that bad, go and look it up, and every time I'm greeted by the worst furry porn, and that's saying a lot.It's just depression in colorful anthro shape, you can see the lack of interest, the self-doubt and self-hatred, the mid-life crisis, the divorce, the unwillingness to learn or improve and the burnout oozing from Aeris' tits and pussy.At least in your case you can feel anger towards Delphine for being an incompetent cunt but I can only pity the artist, he's the walking proof that artists do not necessarily begin drawing because they have lewd thoughts or that they have secret stashes of their characters naked. This guy just wanted to make his shitty webcomic in peace.Anyways when I'm done feeling miserable VGButts just hits me with the right amount of nostalgia+good smut so it's not all bad
swords from the big chair 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: >>24804485
>>24822598>tower fingers typed this post
>>24822825Naw, if you call out Renly in front of his boys you force him to fight as to not look like a coward.
>>24822625>>24822825The tv show fucked up (one of a long list) in making Renly a prancing twink and though I suspect Stannis was also pretty big and strong, Book Renly could probably take him one-on-one.
>>24822405King Stann Lackcrown converted to fire Islam in exchange for magical support against his enemies. Probably the only historical reference G.R.R.M utilizes I'm proud of recognizing.
Maybe we should organize a multiplayer CK game, dont care if its 2 or 3.
>French collage exchange qt is going to move in with my parents and I in November >I don’t speak a word of the language Someone please fucking help me saar
>>24823188That's just how French people say hello.
>>24822968French for Reading by Sandberg
>>24822968Just start groping her tits while shouting in Arabic and she'll feel right at home
>>24823207kek'd
>>24823201Is that any good for basic conversation? Reviews say it's mainly for learning how to read and translate French to English
These Easton Press editions are going for multiple hundred dollars. Who the hell is able to pay that much for a book? The worst part is there's no middle ground. You either get the garbage wal mart version or you pay a fortune for the expensive version that actually looks nice. The entire market has gotten clownish with significantly unfair prices.
>>24817549Learn bookbinding
>>24817549It's not that the expense as such went up, it's that demand fell to nothing. It makes a difference when you're expecting to sell 50k of a thing versus 2 million. Between audible and kindle and even iPads and cost of living which makes for smaller living spaces, there's no demand for books generally, let alone "nice" books. Means the price gets 10x what it "should be" for everyone else.
Stop buying glamed up genre slop.
>>24817549That's our economic system for you.
NTA but I'm also a bookbinder.>>24819690In house. There's a bunch of imposition tools online for arranging pages on an a4 page, but I just coded my own.>>24819716This exact thread on /lit/ is where it all began for me:>>18446506>>24819976I'm lucky to have a good domestic supplier for book cloth, but I just use regular 80gsm printer paper (or a3 paper cut in half to a4 so that the grain direction is correct). For board I just bulk buy 20 chipboard sheets for like $20 which usually lasts a while.As for actual bookbinding tools like presses and shit, they are retardedly expensive. Since I usually bind smaller books anyway, I just a use a flower press which I bought for $15 and I made my own piercing cradle out of cardboard.
