>>24891033
It's like in real life when every one says "N-word" and some kid hears "nigger" for the first time and fails to make the connection.

>>24891397
>can't change events
Sirius.

>>24891461
What about him?
He didn't get his soul sucked because Harry and Hermione saved him.
Just like Harry didn't get his soul sucked because Harry saved him.
If you can change events, then Harry would have never made it to the time turner part of the story because he'd never survive without the help from future him.
Hence, it's a closed loop, you can't change events. Do your reps.

Why did magic blood supremacists from some of the most prestigious magic lineages in the UK even follow a half-blood?

>>24891495
He's the last child of the Gaunt family, the heir of Slytherin, and has the rhetoric they're looking for, as well as the drive to actually act upon it.

I've been listening to this song every night before bed for a couple months now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn_AXzrymSs

I've spent much of my life creatively constipated. I feel and sense so much, yet possess such limited means to express them in a manner that is faithful to the way I imagine them, or even worse, I feel like a word or an idea or some sort of creative vision is almost on the tip of my mental tongue, yet it never comes fully, leaving me with creative blue balls.

>>24891467
Several philosophers say the solution is to go on walks.

>>24891473
walks are boring

>>24891447
we live in a society

>>24891363
yes

>>24881198
>publishing
Mainstream publishing means that you're looking in to making a profitable CONSUMABLE PRODUCT. Not a work of art or any of this shit.
Profitable publishers know what makes money and what doesn't and unfortunatelly that usually is slop. The only exceptions being veteran authors that already have a sizeable and profitable following.

If you aren't mass producing slop you have no choice but cover the risks yourself by self publishing or find some hyper niche publisher that aligns with your work.

>>24891371
>cover the risks yourself by self publishing
It's literally free to do this btw. There's absolutely zero (0!) downside other than maybe getting evicirated by the critics or letting down your fans.

>>24891351
how can you tell?

>>24881198
>most of today
Like with any job, it might take some months before you find someone good.
It's possible you have done this already, but publishing short stuff on magazines helps a lot being noticed, so it might be worth getting some shorter stuff out as you look for an agent.
For the rest, don't lose faith and keep insisting anon. They say it's over for the sensitive young man, but it's not true. Publishing books is hard and frustrating but it's still doable provided that you have some good material. Keep writing and sending your stuff out. Do not give up.

>>24891179
This fat piece of shit really knows how to play the stupid media retards, "development" can be just you having mentioned in an email that you would like to do something one day.

>>24891419
But Westeros is in Medieval stasis with no technological advancements. Two centuries is nothing when dynasties last for thousands of years in the same castle, even. Technology is completelt absurd in Westeros.

>>24891416
GRRM is so goddamn fat even his picture has a gravitational pull
LET ME OUT OF HERE

>>24891422
>why THE FUCK is there a general for this slop
10% anons who love Gurm
10% anons who love the show and ask questions
10% anons who are obsessed and post their theories
1% pink masts poster
19% anons who post low quality bait
27% anons who post bait without having read the books
33% anons who post high quality but boring bait
40% anons who love to argue
60% non-fans who like to predict Gurm's death or the release date of TWOW
2% fanart posters
3% misc

>>24891484
Lets be honest half of the thread is just talking about the thread now. Fuck this board.

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I don’t have a computer and it’s too much to phonepost. But yeah - the attribute is the third kind you mention. You don’t demonstrate definitions, and the difference is part of the definition. Why is man rational? Because it’s what he is, we learn this by experience, there is no “explanation” strictly speaking, a thing’s “what” grounds explanations, it’s not explainable in itself. Also, definitions only *signify* (semainei) the whatness. It’s not as if, if there were aliens on the moon, they’d be men just because man’s spec diff is “rational”! That’s another important point that filters people. Reading book 2 on its own without book 1 and at least a cursory understanding of Prior A may not work desu. Demonstration explains why an attribute inheres in a subject. The “conclusion” is this inherence, and the middle is the reason why. Teleological demonstrations are an exception, there the explanation is the major extreme. I think you’ll figure it out fine if you autistically read these books over and over again, but if you don’t do this you won’t. These translations “demonstration”, “conclusion” are shit as you can maybe see. Aristotle doesn’t prove theses, he takes a given phenomenon and tries to understand why it is as it is - he was a scientist, the first real scientist and the first really scientific philosopher. I agree with Hegel that his psychological theology in De An is the peak of his thought. Hegel also says he’s genuinely speculative - why? His theory of demonstration led him away from dead abstractions, he wants to understand and he understands the world as living, concrete. He doesn’t dissect life he goes into it and penetrates it, deeply, forcefully, lovingly. It would be more appropriate really to say that he was penetrated by life.

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I'm surprised there isn't a visual guide or video to the syllogisms yet, especially not one based on the medieval mnemonics

>>24882539
Probably get kicked out for being a grown man/muggle. If I turned out to be a wizard maybe they have remedial night classes like high schools

>>24882966
Twelve year old Harry and Draco knew the spells Tarentallegra, which binds your legs together, and Rictusempra, which tickles you breathless. Not only that, but Hermione also managed to get the ingredients and recipe to make a polyjuice potion.
Sixth years are able to brew a Draught of Living Death, which causes a deep magical sleep that can't be interrupted. (Hermione also figured out how to do it in her second year too) Petrificus Totalus has a seemingly indefinite duration to it, only being ended by a Finite spell, or death of the wizard who cast it. (also power of love, but have fun trying to plan that one out.)

And if all that wasn't enough, in Half Blood Prince, Draco actually forces his friends to take polyjuice to spy on Harry disguised as an 11 year old girl.

Raping and imprisoning is surprisingly easy in the Wizarding World. Voldemort was a rape baby from a witch mother, and a muggle whom she drugged with love potion. Because of this, He was born without any capacity to feel love.

Does hogwarts have special ed classes?
Can wizards be retarded?

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>>24882539
I'm dedicating the entirety of my existence to being a slytherin, improving my work in the shadows until I eventually come into the world to do what Voldemort couldn't

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>>24891469
>can wizards be retarded?

Yes

>>24890772
yes, one of the rare entries in the Autism Kino subcategory

as with all Egan books, be sure to visit his website about it after you've finished: https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/Permutation.html

>>24890772
Odd, I just finished Diaspora. Don't think I've seen an Egan thread on /lit/ before.
Diaspora had tons of neat ideas, but the story kind of falls apart in the last third. It definitely felt like there could have been a better version of the novel if he spent some more time dialing in the plot. Still fun and worth the read, though. Definitely not at the level of a lot of sci fi where the book is entirely carried by the ideas and the actual writing is complete garbage.
Is permutation city better executed? Will probably read it sometime.

>>24890772
It's ok-ish.

>>24891361
>Is permutation city better executed?
Nah, the ending shits the bed even worse than Diaspora.

I've met him irl

>>24891229
That's the problem with centralized religion. It cannot look beyond itself, and therefore can never imagine that 'different' can, in somewhat rare cases, also mean 'better'. What you see here is just bitter xenophobia, where being a decent person has become synonymous with the absolute rigidity of the religious system one subscribes to

>>24891249
So? There's no good or evil. Might is right.

>>24891370
No, that's not quite what Christians are aiming for here, I think. The absolute arbiter could be something physical and inert, and morality could be emergent. They believe there is a magical quality to morals that is granted through divinity.

>>24891472
Attributing cultural value to biology is an old outdated idea that's ignorant of the anthropology work showing the many varieties of living that exist, like cannibalism or sex slaves being normal; it only seems weird to us because it's a foreign culture.

>>24891431
>It cannot look beyond itself
Nor should it.

>>24891168
That’s why cheating is mega-redpilled, stupid rules deserved to be cheated.

>>24890700
Ayn Rand developed her philosophy specifically because she was so ugly that even in the shitstorm of the Russian Revolution neither her kike daddy nor the inbred alcoholic Bolsheviks were interested in raping her. She coped by convincing herself that this is due to socialism repressing the healthy and natural instincts (to rape Ayn Rand) in men, and men should act as selfish as possible (i.e. finally rape her). In her books, tall selfish men with big arms are constantly raping her self-insert character. She completely misunderstood men, as it always happens with women.

A real man is a living antithesis to Objectivism. As a human male, I cannot act in my own personal interests since I naturally have none, so instead I rape women out of selfless kindness, as all men do.

If Ayn Rand ever met me, I would rape the Objectivism out of her to absolutely no benefit of my own (there can be no personal gain or profit from raping Ayn Rand desu), and that would collapse her world-view on a metaphysical level. It would become indisputably self-evident to her that she kept writing books because despite all of her efforts she never got a good rape. She never got a good rape because the only men she interacted with were Objectivists who fell for her books - books written by a women dreaming of being raped, about a woman dreaming of being raped. The only men who can enjoy her books are women in male bodies, inherently incapable of raping her, and instead hoping that she would rape them, that she would incarnate as a the man she dreams of, the Messiah hiding under the skin of the Prophet. She would see why all of her relationships with men were such disasters, both of them eagerly waiting for the other to rape, waiting to no outcome. She would love me and my kind dick selflessly in return despite all her will, leaving her with absolutely nothing to ground her ideas anymore, finally feeling true freedom - freedom as an absence, as a flight with no land holding your feet, as hers would be dangling high above. The dreams of an Atlantean man of self-interests would evaporate from her head with the moisture of my cum drying in her scruffy hair. She would sing praises to Lenin whenever her mouth is not taken by selfless work on my cock and balls.

>>24890700
Her fans are absolute retards
Also, strangely, there are no children in her novels

>>24891063
>if anything the opposite as the ugly desire the feeling of being possessed
This is true. Source: fucked an uggo.

>>24890700
She's ugly, dumb, obnoxious and selfish.

>>24890113
just have your mom do it, like a normal person

>>24888005
Have you ever wonder why hollyjews never cast attractive asian women? Its because it would alienate the roastie audience

>>24887921
I mean it's not like Bukowski was that great of a writer. He also literally looked like a chimp.

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>>24888002
google "asuka wrestler WWE" she is like 45 and has similarly obliterated the wall
>>>/pw/19291001
something in the water in that orient

>>24887921
Murakami is just a gooner anon

>Why is Arthur Machen going through such a Renaissance right now?
Is he?
Apart from me making the hill of dreams thread and occasional mensions in the horror fiction general /lit/ doesn't talk about him much.
>The White People is pretty good, but I find his other stories pretty mediocre
They vary hugely. The White People, The Shining Pyramid and the Novel of the Black seal are all great, along with his prose poems in his Ornaments in Jade but apart from those and the aforementioned Hill of Dreams his work is just alright. Like Blackwood with the untenable mysteries of nature Machen is at his best writing about weird pagan rituals going on in the welsh hills and the little people who dwell with them but outside that subject his work isn't nearly as good.

>>24891428
I heard of Machen only because Alan Moore's novel last year was heavily indebted to him, and explicitly referenced him a lot within the text.

What is thorn

>>24886646
All the best writers use it. (OK, perhaps not *all*. Emily Dickinson might not, now I think about it. But almost all.)

Here's half a dozen to be going on with.


O Love, come now, this land turns evil slowly.

— Ezra Pound, ‘The Needle’


O Simon Magus! O ye conscienceless
Disciples who procure the bride that’s bound
To God alone, and through rapaciousness


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>>24886646
>OP hates emotive expressions
O heavens, save us from soulless bugmen!

>>24886646

Then at last, moving slowly, as if walking in a dream, a woman in a robe of threaded silver came gliding from the hall. Her smooth long hair was as red as fire and soft as the ruddy sheen on dragon’s gold. Her face was gentle, mysteriously calm. The night became more still.

“I offer you my sister,” the young king said. “Let her name from now on be Wealtheow, or holy servant of common good.”

I leered in the rattling darkness of my tree. The name was ridiculous.

“Pompous, pompous ass!” I hissed. But she was beautiful and she surrendered herself with the dignity of a sacrificial virgin. My chest was full of pain, my eyes smarted, and I was afraid — O monstrous trick against reason — I was afraid I was about to sob. I wanted to smash things, bring down the night with my howl of rage. But I kept still. She was beautiful, as innocent as dawn on winter hills. She tore me apart as once the Shaper’s song had done. As if for my benefit, as if in vicious scorn of me, children came from the meadhall and ran down to her, weeping, to snatch at her hands and dress.

“Stop it!” I whispered. “Stupid!”

She did not look at them, merely touched their heads. “Be still,” she said — hardly more than a whisper, but it carried across the crowd. They were still, as if her voice were magic. I clenched my teeth, tears streaming from my eyes. She was like a child, her sweet face paler than the moon. She looked up at Hrothgar’s beard, not his eyes, afraid of him. “My lord,” she said.

O woe! O wretched violation of sense!

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>>24886724
look'in good

>>24891444
That's 10 years jail time.

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>>24891455
This image only shows that Googling the question won't give good answers and only reddit. What was your point? Justifying OPs thread?

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CAUSE IT HAS A VALID POINT TO MAKE IT'S INSISTING

>>24889558
Read the Randolph Carter stories

Yall niggas never read The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and it shows

>>24891333
God those suck. Reddit incarnate

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The inability to lie to oneself about reality is often diagnosed as "depression."

>>24890463
>Why is being a wagecuck not good?
For anyone with a functioning brain, it's self evident why spending half of your life doing things you hate is bad.

>>24890393
Dude pessimism literally argues for aesetic withdrawal, anti-natalism, or in extreme cases suicide. Society literally could not function because we would all be dead or alone. Not because its some hidden knowledge that would fold the normie brain in on itself like some eldritch horror. You dont even know what you're talking about moron.
>le moment when you're so philosophy you dont need philosophy
you're doing the same thing dumbass

>>24890354
I often wonder how he would have responded to Nietzsche and Heidegger.

>>24890393
Saying pessimists are wrong because the world is too complex to judge is just a dressed-up admission that you have no counterargument, and the claim that reflection is inferior to unexamined experience is the oldest anti-philosophical cliché in the book.