>>24944125
Afaik the protagonist was based on Leopold Bloom.

>>24943580
I'm not sure if that's from that book but there is actually an Eisenstein lost film called Bezhin meadow. It's about a Ukrainian man whose son is killed by the Soviets so he sets fire to the collective farm he lives on (ie Bezhin meadow). It was banned for being reactionary.

>>24943580
eisenstein is so based broa

>>24943601
it's good but it's just so long

Do you say Delillo or De Lillo?

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>>24946039
sounds interesting. haven't read WiP, but i've found his (maybe related?) concept of the plane of consistency to be really useful for thinking about artworks and the miniature model worlds they represent.

>>24946235
It’s applicable to most things, I guess. But in philosophy it explains why there’s is no common ground like in the sciences, a set of basic principles everyone can agree on.

>>24946235
It's an interesting take, it frequently appears to pull from GS, Twighlight of the Idols, and maybe a few other odd parts where you try to move as quickly as possible, think as slow as possible, and sift even slower. The results appear just as varied. You could have 2 guys who tie their left hands together and play stickpin refutation, a sumo match, or just one guy trying to navigate a minefield. The key part for some of this for Nietzsche at least is that the concept is already there so instead of finding a potentiality you basically look for how actual but there isn't really a limit on this. Nietzsche claimed it could isolate specific instincts, you get a theoretical edge for the successive attempts.

how the frick do your formulate any concepts in ur mind.then

>>24947693
It says that philosophy is basically just creating concepts, but once they’re established the discussion between philosophical school becomes impossible. Take e.g. a platonist and a Kantian: these two won’t be able to meaningfully discuss the concept of time, because the ancient understanding of time and the transcendental understanding of time are so different, that they can’t possibly talk about the same concept with the same components (which would make a discussion possible).

if i were an american, i would use my legal right to form an armed militia to stamp out the tyranny that currently exists

>>24948031
it exists in your country and you're not doing anything about it

>>24944030
i finished this the other week, I don't really get how it's a femcel novel. The main character describes herself as being super hot, she's also inherited enough wealth to live alone in nyc without working. Aren't femcels poor and ugly?

I'd imagine this would be more relatable to drug addicts than femcels, although I used to be a drug addict and the doses that she takes would surely kill a person lol

>>24946644
>incels want high quality women that they can't get
>femcels want commitment from high quality men they can get
Both are low quality but want high quality. They would NEVER settle for each other.

>>24946838
her previous novel, eileen, is about a femcel i.e. a smelly ugly weird antisocial girl and somehow that got attached to this one for some reason even as you say it makes no fucking sense
but then again incel is used for any misogynistic guy these days regardless of their sex-having status so i guess maybe it counts as the equivalent

the word they're really reaching for is "misanthrope"

>>24944422
This, lol.

im reading this book this month so far it's ok very light read

why are you so edgy

>>24947478
>but what fun!
Oh my god nigger just kill yourself already

>>24947478
i don't care about anything like that. if i upload all the books of one author is it able to make a wiki out of them with pages per character, location, etc, an easily browsable, of only that author's work?

>>24947969
You would need multiple agents for that. Maybe, but it is not as automatic as you would like

>>24947478
Yeah it really is a blessing. I like asking it to search up information for me. Who financed ocean voyage X by sea captain Y in 1818? Where did the money come from? Who gave the orders? Did Yukio Mishima ever write any critical reviews of D'Annunzio's work? What did Bataille think about de Sade? Make me a list of statements in Don Quixjote. etc.

It's like having a college undergrad do all your dirty research work for you. But instantaneous. And half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spot, but the stuff it gets right is sometimes fascinating and has led me down some interesting rabbit holes.

>>24947972
It's spelled Stephan

>>24947829
>which degrades the mind after years of abuse.
I'm probably older than all of you
I've been abusing alcohol for over 20 years and am more creative now than I've ever been

>>24947976
K thanks

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>>24947800
I had a heroin habit in my youth but i've been clean 25 years and i've written three books and started a literary movement.
Drugs are not the answer my dude, you need your brain functioning at its highest possible level.

>>24947800

I spent half my life as an alcoholic. I still kind of am, but quit liquor.

I was always a writer, and did it professionally, but once I cut down on the booze I could actually finish things, and got novels completed.

Drugs aren’t the reason creatives are creative, drugs are how crazy people self-medicate, and being crazy is what makes them creative.

books for this feel?

>>24947980
Shut the fuck up

>>24947980
if youre mad about this youre a loser
how did this even come to your mind
you are not okay

>>24948013
Quiet, faggot

>>24947980
> current events themselves are literature now

>>24947934
I would prefer something that doesn’t involve contributing to mass killing

>>24947901
Alexander von Humboldt and Isaac Newton, maybe. Ludwig Boltzmann, Sophus Lie and Georg Cantor, definitely

>>24947934
>depressed man overcomes suffering and mental illness by participating in a social justice movement
holy peak, german history is THIS good?!?!?

>>24947940
>mental illness
physical disability*
i had one job.
fml.

>>24947934
>kills himself
not the kind of person i'm looking for

>>24947336
A little bit but it's not exactly detailed. It mostly comes from Paul, who never met Jesus and was speaking to a different audience, so he emphasized different things (e.g. faith vs. observance of the law)

remember that god loves you but don't piss him off or he floods the planet and kills 99% of us.

>>24947516
We're about due for a good cleansing, wouldn't you say?

>>24946147
A book you end up skipping like 2/3rds of. Most of the Old Testament is just pointless measurements and names.

>>24946969
>but from an entertainment/quality perspective the Quran is better
How? I thought most of it was proverbs tier

>>24938203
no, i read chapman's

>Fagles
Sounds gay.

>>24938203
Lattimore is the best, but Fagles is alright. These are the only translations I've read though, besides Butler's prose Iliad.

>>24940972
Dactylic hexameter doesn't work in English, it's based on vowel lengths which are quite regular in Greek (and Latin and its descendents) but not in English. Poetry in English is based on stress, which is not equivalent to vowel length, so trying to substitute stressed/unstressed for long/short vowels doesn't produce pleasing prosody.

>>24938203
I finished reading Pope recently (it was my first time) and I loved it.

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>>24947594
>see this in forest
wat do

>>24947649
tell her to undress so i can inspect her body and then molest her. i wouldent raper her though, im not a monster

>>24946003
Are there actually people who think Dumas is better than Hugo?

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>>24947658
That's pretty fucked up
>>24947666
Hugo is a better writer, but they both owe their torchbearer Honore de Balzac

>>24946003
Also he basically just made her his waifu for his perfect gary stu author insert MC Marius.

>>24947425
>according to the books Lucifer Morning star looks like a Pure Blood Blonde Aryan
source?

>>24947632
>Jesus was a half Italian/Swede
The illustration on the left is dishonest though. Jesus was a Jew and looked like a middle eastern Jew and forever everyone will know this.
But go ahead and repost the shroud of Turin as your proof.

>>24947425
>>24947446
And according to which book does Lucifer look like a "pure blood blonde Aryan"? It's certainly not in the Bible

>>24947521
It's amazing how few people have heard of the Arab invasion. They think because it's brown now it always was. Just like Anatolia, north Africa, etc

>>24947529
Obviously anon meant during the time of Christ, not prehistory

>>24947551
>For instance, I think it is safe to say that whoever is behind that depiction of Jesus carries resentment towards Christianity in some form or another.
It was made by liberals to dunk on red state protestants

>>24947880
there are middle eastern people that are pretty white

>>24946601
I don't think he was an indoctrinated racist just autistic and found this was an easy subject to discuss with people/shifted focus away from his autism. Or mirroring racist parents due to a lack of idea how to interact with people.

That's actually pretty common.

For example though, in his time travel story he has a racist character and goes full reddit on him calling him a retard for being prejudiced against blacks. This is done in what is clearly the authors voice, not some random character.

>>24947502
How is his "racism" in contradiction with being compassionate and "deeply thinking", whatever that means? Racism in the 4chan sense of the word is usually the result of having enough sense to not trust mainstream narratives and feeling more empathetic towards people like oneself than most boilerplate libs who have a negative in-group preference.

>>24946601
>Dropped out of high school following a mental breakdown
>Supposedly did very little between the ages of 18 and 24; went out out little and only at night; he was practically a NEET
>Found his way into writing by an eccentric, doubtlessly caused by his isolation, and scathing critique of some guy's romance stories
He gives me hope, honestly. Not that I'm going to be a writer or anything but that even the most talented and creative are susceptible to NEETdom.

>>24946601
*was.
Not because he, you know, died in his 40s but because Shadow Out Of Time is pretty blatantly nonracist, at least for Asians.
On the other hand you could argue that our highest quality racists in the West love northeast Asians, like Jared Taylor who would absolutely be a weeb if he hadn't got into American race politics.

>>24947553
hes totally wrong, one of the cruxes of lovecrafts themes is miscegenation degenerating people. shoggoths were slaves that rose up, fish people in trade stole women etc

>>24947945
You're a tad bit silly then, but hey, I don't mind.

>>24947953
a few shots in of alchie and I realized what you mean, no I don't link back here

>>24947409
netdecking optimal highest damage character builds and then picking the easiest difficulty.
yuuup, it's gaming time

>>24947464
smutslop webnovels seem more likely to lean on AI CG
There were a bunch in "I’ve Become an Onahole, But I’ll Still Climb The Tower" which I read.
I read the first few chapters of https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/104664/critical-misclass on ao3 and it included embedded ai cgs of all the characters plus a blowjob scene or something. (Not sure if it cut out those parts for RR or just got away with them)

>>24947695
Yup. the whole webnovel scene especially litrpgs is basically weeaboos

>>24947661
Average Minakofag.

>>24947661
I just finished the second Dune trilogy right as it was taking off. I read the Iliad and the Odyssey since, and now reading uncut Stranger in a Strange Land.

>>24947661
I've read multiple novel length fanfcitions though

ever since ai i read less and less useful non-fiction and more and more fiction (plus copious amounts of ai written porn)

>>24947661
I just finished a book bit h