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James Rolfe aka AVGN just released a book
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>>24732681
Spoil me the ending.
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>>24735373
There wasn't even YouTube or positive nerd culture wannabes when he started making his videos. He's a pioneer in what he does.
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>>24734378
>2.2
>now 3.3
We are so back.
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>>24732681
>>24735629
>>24735641

>“Come to think of it, I think I remember hearing that some kid died once,” said Bruce.
>“I don’t think that was related.” scoffed Cait. >“Well, they had no choice but to make a separate path. All because the dragon was too scary," explained Dante.
>“Nothing here could be that scary,” shivered Adam.
>“Too scary for you guys,” taunted Bruce.
>“I’m not afraid,” declared Dante. “Let’s go.”

This is a real excerpt from the book. It's like the only thing he knows about writing is his 2nd-grade teacher (before SPED) telling him to not use "said" when writing dialogue.
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>>24737782
>still not on libgen
How am I supposed to properly make fun of him?
No I'm not shelling out 4 bucks.

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Fitzgerald Chads or Fagles Fags?
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>>24737241
Lattimore always. Fitzgerald admitted Lattimore's Homer was superior.
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Caroline Alexander for the Iliad, Anthony Verity for the Odyssey
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>>24737241
Alexander Pope for both
>inb4 his odyssey is bad
No it isnt
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>>24737505
He didn't even translate the Odyssey.
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Eventually you'll discover Chapman, and realise what a bunch of slack-jawed faggots all the other translators were.

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Thoughts on Italo Calvino?
I wrote a short text and was recommended him, skimmed around and seems like my sort of wacky meta-fun.

Also trying to decide if I should read a translation or the original, as I don't speak Italian but speak Portuguese and French.

In case I read a translation, would it be better in Portuguese instead of English due to language proximity?
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>>24737115
>I meant in style not in content.
I know.
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>>24737115
Out of every book he wrote you read the one that was published after his death and wasn't even complete, try anything else by him
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>>24735050
Temu version of Borges.
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>>24737222
Am I wrong to thing Borges is actually the overrated one? Some of his stories fall flat in the most awkward way and while his more conventional knife fighting stories are fantastic I don't know if that's what people even praise him for. Of course some of his more experimental work, at best, is mandatory reading. But Calvino has rarely disappointed me.
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>>24737815
>Some of his stories fall flat in the most awkward way
He liked to use intertextuality and if you are not well versed in what ever sources he is referring to, they fail hard. Borges convinced me that intertextuality is terrible, or at least that a story should not rely on it.

I do not see what people love about Borges.

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Books to read in order to become a true American communist?
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>>24736916
>american
>communism
Huh?.
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>>24736916
>American communist
I assume thats identity politics with no class politics, economic determinism, materialism etc.
Basically an exaggerated form of liberalism
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>>24736916
>true American
>communist
Pick one, faggot.

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Where do I start with poetry (reading)? Looking for geniune responses, limit the meme responses, thank you.
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What are you looking for? I like Plath.
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As the other anon said, what do you like? What themes or sentiments are you going for?

I think the best way to get into poetry is to start with something that has an easy-to-grasp-on-to rhythm & meter.

City of Dreadful Night is my recommendation. You can skip around on the various sections.
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I started with the Oxford Book of Verse, the one you can find in project gutenberg
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>>24736348
Buy anthologies of particular genres. Look through them for poets who grab you. Investigate these more closely.
I'd suggest starting with the Romantics, since they have popular appeal.

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So THIS is the power of Antique literature.
The following is a summary of an account of the death of Taxmoruw (Tahmuras), a mythical Persian king of the Zoroastrian pantheon
>Ahriman (Angra Mainyu), one of the most significant archfiends of this world, had been reduced to humiliation after his defeat by the hands of Taxmoruw, who tamed him and rode him like a horse from one end of the world to the other for thirty years. But after Ahriman learned of a particular recurring moment of the king's weakness in this constant voyage, he seized his chance and swallowed Taxmoruw's body, keeping him within his belly in the utmost secrecy for a long time.

>Meanwhile, Jamshid, Taxmoruw's devoted brother (not son, as in the Shahnameh), scours the world in search of his body until eventually he learns from Srosh, the well-nigh omniscient confidant of Ahura Mazda, that it is hidden in Ahriman's bowels. Jamshid begs Srosh to tell him some magical trick to retrieve the body from its unsavoury resting place, whereupon Srosh reveals that Ahriman loves two things above all else: music and anal sex. Acting on Srosh's advice, Jamshid then travels to the area where Ahriman is living and begins to sing. Attracted by the music, the demon duly appears and begins capering about and masturbating in anticipation of his other favourite activity.

>Jamshid agrees to penetrate Ahriman on condition that he first be allowed to remove Taxmoruw's body from the demon's bowels. The excited Ahriman agrees readily to the bargain and bends over, presenting his anus, whereupon Jamshid plunges his hand up the demon's rectum, deep into his belly, quickly pulls out his brother's corpse, places it on the ground and flees. Ahriman gives chase, but Jamshid runs on and on, taking care (as instructed previously by Srosh) not to look back at his pursuer and, more especially not to look him in the face. Ahriman tires and, baulked of both pleasure and prey, descends once more into hell.

lel
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>>24737267
ancient vore and anal fisting huh

>Ahriman agrees readily to the bargain and bends over, presenting his anus, whereupon Jamshid plunges his hand up the demon's rectum, deep into his belly, quickly pulls out his brother's corpse, places it on the ground and flees.

imagine the smell
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>>24737267
Just like the Greeks
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>>24737672
And just like the Nords. It is said that Odin used to drink the semen that ejaculated from hanging corpses.
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>>24737761
Don't forget how Sleipnir, a 6-legged Odin's horse, was born. Essentially, Loki in the form of a mare was raped by a stallion of some giant that was supposed to rebuild the walls of Asgard.
He did in order to deprive the giant of his helper and make it impossible to end the wall construction in time, because gods agreed if he makes it in time he'd marry Freya but as she wasn't willing to do so, Loki came up with brillant, successfull plan I wrote about earlier.
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>>24737355
All it takes is one glance at deviantart to realize that history is cyclical

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Is transcendentalism based and kino or gay and cringe?
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>>24733607
Melville 'ated it. Do with that what you will.
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>>24733607
Emerson is great to read about.
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The new fears the self-sufficient* wild bean farmer
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Reading Thoreau is pretty comfy.
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Emerson's poetry is great, as soon as he starts to wax philosophical in an essay or letter that's when you can feel the pretension approaching.

>rent just spiked again
>the Amazon lawyer crushed my buddy’s union vote
>city hall approved another “luxury micro-flat” the size of a coffin
>boss shaved my hours “until Q4,"
>the corner shop wants €5 for bread
>meanwhile the fash keep racking up seats and TikTok views like it’s a speed-run

We keep losing to the guys promising curfews and corporate serfdom wrapped in neon memes and calling it “based”. Millions of illiterate whites across all of Europe and America are eating this bullshit up and asking for seconds.

When did the left swap picket lines for panel discussions? Why are we losing the most important ideological battle in the history of mankind?

I'm unironically starting to think the only way to make an actual change is to do a Luigi and hope the fire spreads.

Gimme books and essays that show wtf is happening. No 600-page theory doorstops, no YA plucky-teen insurrections, no TED-lite memoirs about “finding your activist voice.”


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>>24736998
Read Limonov
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How do not realize that in your avoidance of "the fash" you have become something just as grotesque if not worse?
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>>24736998
nigga and what book are you discussing? fuck off to /pol/.
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>>24737100
>From experience I've come to never underestimate human stupidity
Self-own LMAO.
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>>24736998
The economy is telling you to start your own business. You're just too dumb or too cowardly to recognise the fact.
Either way, capitalism is working just fine, rewarding the enterprising and energetic, and punishing the lazy and the stupid.

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What does "I know the 10 dollar words" mean?
I get writers were paid per word back in the day, but surely not ten dollars worth per word
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>>24737899
where do I get that sweater?
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>>24737899
Publishers used to pay a $10 bonus if you used a word the editor didn't know.

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>Nostalgia for Barbarism is thereby the last words of a Civilization

Did he predict modern society and its demise

I was quite surprised, after thoroughly reading through the masterworks of this King, by some falsely considered the godfather of nazism, to promote an almost full equality of the female gender and describe the Aryan Germain as an otherwise tolerant, non-nationalistic, unprejudiced towards foreign nations, individualist man who doesn't go to the temples and resents priests with a passion. He wants nothing other than to contribute to his community and who would, if necessary, even sacrifice his life and all his wealth for it. He is a man who does not love authority and who is good to his slaves. Spreading the message of justice and fair government, with violence if necessary, is the true Aryan's sole concern. They lived inside their rural farms, democratically organized under the head of an uninfluential federative King. Unfortunately there are not many of them left, as Gobineau explains in his book. To say of oneself that one is an Aryan, is almost the same as claiming to be a true genius. But who other than a true Aryan would dare to accept such worldview? Combining the idea of racism with a love for all humanity is a step few people dared to make.
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>>24737357
Schizo nordicist faggot.
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>>24737960
Stupid whi' people deserve to go extinct for this.
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>>24737855
>the Irish are incapable of working
This is true.
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>>24737357
Then why were actual aryans violent, brutal and war-mongering patriarchal conquerors and savages?
>dey was brown
Cope.
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>>24737996
Like is the majority of the plebs, but this is a truth few people want to admit. They are lazy, fat and retarded and if it wasn't for the present guise of a more Aryan leadership, they would live in shitty mudhuts wallowing in their own laziness.

How do you read without instantly forgetting everythijg you just read a minute or two later
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>>24737452
Mark up extensively while reading, and write extensive notes down somewhere. Also, if you ever get the chance to teach the book to an audience, and have to make good slides, and reread the passages, that all helps commit to memory and break it down perfectly. In other words, the second best way to read is to read as an academic researcher, and the best way to read is to read as an academic instructor. This is also why researchers and instructors are so much smarter than random people who read a billion books. It doesn't matter much if you read a book, it matters much more if you can master its material completely.
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The only things that truly worked for me
1. copious amounts of caffeine
2. school forcing me to read hard texts which then rewires my brain.
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>>24737452
Sounds like a skill issue

>>24737455
Or use the paper to make more joints I dunno
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>>24737452
For me it was full time employment
Combination of not having this >>24737454
and needing to remember/pay attention to things for work. Big difference. But still the usual limitations of memory. I suggest making notes or mentally reviewing what you read.
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>>24737517
>So can I fix my brain
If it's possible, you must do it through unabashed boredom. Your brain may be undamaged and simply in need of practice, either way just lay off videos, games, 4chan, spend time reading or staring at the wall.

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Aristotle Chads report in and tell me what the FUCK is he talking about.

Or post quotes from Aristotle and discuss their meaning. I'll start.

>Metaphysics II.2 "Again, nothing infinite can exist; and if it could, at least being infinite is not infinite."
What does he mean by being being a limit?
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>>24733343
Aristotle's system does contain infinite unmoved movers, every living thing is an unmoved mover as are the objects it 'desires', and time is infinite. Even if you want to restrict yourself to the separated substances there are dozens of them, tho one is first. Christian apologists have destroyed people's understanding of Aristotle's natural theology because they ignore/cut out all the bits that don't fit their faith as if they are not essential, but they are in fact essential. They especially try to sideline all the astronomical stuff but Aristotle's proof does not make sense apart from the astronomy.
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>>24737230
I think you're making an interesting point.
Are you saying that Aristotle's first mover would only work under his geocentric model? like having to do with the perfect circular motion or whatever?
But, granting that, don't you think the cosmological argument has been improved over time? Even with astronomy today, motion existing leads to an infinite regress if there is no start to it. Do you hand-waive the infinite regress away or what am I missing?
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>>24737916
>Are you saying that Aristotle's first mover would only work under his geocentric model? like having to do with the perfect circular motion or whatever?
The proof only works if change here can only be explained by something moving eternally in heaven in a circle.
>But, granting that, don't you think the cosmological argument has been improved over time?
No, it's gotten worse. Like I said most of these apologists do not understand the role of an unmoved mover in Aristotle's physics because they're not interested in philosophy, they just want a God-proof.
>Even with astronomy today, motion existing leads to an infinite regress if there is no start to it. Do you hand-waive the infinite regress away or what am I missing?
Of course an infinite causal regress is impossible but you do not need God to end it. I don't want to be rude but philosophical arguments about the existence of God are philosophically rather boring, try Kant.
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>>24737937
>try Kant.
I think his a priori moral argument for God is underrated. I think it's a sound syllogism.
>you do not need God to end it
What's the argument for that without positing something analogous to God?
>philosophical arguments about the existence of God are philosophically rather boring
I disagree. The only way to skirt the teleological argument is to posit a multiverse and even Bertrand Russel says the ontological argument is sound.
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>>24730893
He's talking about skibidi toilet

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>"Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard"

What did he mean by this?
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he was a player in his youth and found that it was pointless
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>>24737753
Godfag conditioning.
Christianity is the morbid fear that somebody, somewhere is having a good time.

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post your hidden gems
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>>24736780
>Red rising
When was this made
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>>24736783
its beyond sloppa, there are regularly posts about it
>inb4 (you)s
kys
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>>24736780
David Drake’s Royal Cinnabar Navy series. It’s a send up of the Aubrey Maturin series but in space. It’s really great with excellant worldbuilding and characters.

I don’t see David Drake mentioned very much when sci fi authors are discussed. Maybe he gets lumped into the same category as Ringo and Dietz because his book covers look similar.


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