>>24727261
can't think of any, but it made me think of Anecdote of the Jar, the Wallace Stevens poem

>>24727266
>he placed a jar in tennessee

In Watermelon Sugar
Mr. Palomar
Pedro Paramo

>>24727261
There's a huge fart cloud on the bottom right.

monitoring with great interest, wish i could recommend something to you. I love these kind of pics, dont even know how i should call the feeling they bring me, am very fond of Edward Hopper and similar things. Actually recommend anything, be it books, music or movies please

>>24727302
Looks 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.

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>>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?

>>24725543
He'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.

>>24727294
The 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.

being an incel neet is too comfortable and I'm still 20
If you want a young Alexander he should have prophesied that.

>>24727002
Churchill, 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

>>24723403
didn't he say 2100s?

>>24727365
Honestly them and John Paul II might be the figures people remember most from the 20th Century, looked at centuries in the future.

>>24727095
I 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.

>>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

>>24726956
You 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.

>>24725499
you missed the point

>>24726959
Islam and trans rights aren't diametrically opposed to each other

>>24725236
4chan posters look like THIS?!?!

>>24727336
Camp 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.

>>24727345
Interesting, 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.

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>>24725703
seconding 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

>>24727366
OP is just a tranny who probably lost a debate with some autist or chud on this retarded site.
Plus would in terms of pic

>>24727350
A Byzantine theologian would unironically tell you to start with the Greeks (although just Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus)

>>24727350
Studying 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.

>>24719963
Earlier 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.

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>>24727146
Its been happening for decades. OVERsimplification occurred in the 2020s.

>>24727097
Eww

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>>24727097
The illustrated by the author edition is better

>>24697242
I 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 started
A ball of hate and a bundle of nerves
But somehow I doubt you cry like me
Shielded by your blessed forgetfulness. Were I so lucky!
If only to quiet the echoes of a child bound and tortured

That did bind us together, the pain we carried
Fragments of the kids we were and might have been
Blessed scraps of joy and love and peace and innocence
But it didn't work, and it couldn't: Our chasms aligned just once
So I wasted years in selfish stagnant sloth
Yours deluded, childish, unaware
The happiest and the most miserable for us both

Worse off than before, every moment is torture

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>>24726865
shoot up your local planned parenthood

>>24727147
No that's retarded

>>24697242
In 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 concatenations
A sublime paradox in perpetual flux,
Where absence and presence entwine, indivisible.

>>24721613
there is no ultimate “ground of being” in all schools of buddhism

>>24726929
sutta nipata

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>>24727258
Edward Conze on Evola

>>24727332
Metaphysicslly this is an impossibility

>>24727338
metaphysics is crypto materialism

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.

>>24727318
Not really. It's just a worse version of Pierre

>>24723220
what's the different between The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato and The Tunnel by William H. Gass

someone recommended The Tunnel once and I picked the Spanish one, still not sure if I was reading the right book

>>24727106
About 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. Gass
What 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).

>>24726819
Majority 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.

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>>24725123
It's the old problem of the one and the many. If you affirm interconnectedness above all else you end up with "everything" being just one thing. If you affirm isolated being, you get a slide into multiplicity, and ideologies like corpuscular mechanism. The solution is an understanding of participation and the Analogia Entis, or being as incarnation and exitus and reditus as ordered to theosis.

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>>24725123
whatchu know about that

>>24726858
>redditus

>>24725123
No shit. The problem is Why. I can't even make sense of why the sky is the way it is, and it is truthfully driving me mad.

>>24727104
The sky is driving you mad? Wait till you look into space.

OP needs to read more.

Wtf are you talking about have you even read Meditations

>>24726833
Have you heard of the Buddha yet, my guy?

>>24726833
Ah yes. Blacks are famous for not portraying themselves as victims.

>>24726833
>Every single white author that came after Marcus Aurelius
The romanz weren't white. The barbarians thet raped were.

>mustang
Nice, looks like a Player II.

>>24726476
To an extent, yes. Unfiltered access to the internet does stifle creativity in a way. While we have access to unimaginable resources, it’s like being put in a warehouse with an infinite amount of very art supply in the world, then being told to make a masterpiece. The freedom is overwhelming, especially for people with the capacity for creativity.

Limits on resources and access to information, help create more personalized world views that actually have something to say. When everyone has access to unlimited information all the time, especially regarding current events, they often feel the need to curate opinions on everything, and in today’s world where one moment of a “wrong” opinion, creates a strong social backlash, people develop homogenous worldviews with nothing unique to say about it, just parroting a few tastemakers that can get an opinion out fast enough to be accepted by enough people. And even if they do have something worth saying, the internet lets them say it in short-form, and be rewarded with immediate praise from their peers about how “good” their opinions are.

So, yeah. Oppression that limits access to information in some ways, might yield some interesting art

Napoleon inspired authors through his sheer greatness
>Toujours lui ! Lui partout ! — Ou brûlante ou glacée,
>Son image sans cesse ébranle ma pensée.
>Il verse à mon esprit le souffle créateur.
>Je tremble, et dans ma bouche abondent les paroles
>Quand son nom gigantesque, entouré d’auréoles,
>Se dresse dans mon vers de toute sa hauteur

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>>24726467
>ban phones
>abolish rent
>cut the length of the working day
>crush the profiteers

>>24727178
I almost bought one of those but I ended up getting an 62 AVRI Jazzmaster and eating beans and rice for a couple months. The tremolo sold me.
>>24727260
>t. zoomer