>>24738973
Stack threads are usually just the pseudointellectual version of a selfie thread

>>24734455
How was Wanderings? Am intrigued

>>24740718
I liked it. It's mostly just Richard F Burton visiting a few places in colonial Africa and reporting on them and the people that live there. I like Burton's writing style and find colonialism interesting so I probably enjoyed it quite a bit more than the average person would.

Burton's best book that I've read, and probably his most interesting book to most people, is Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, an account of when he pretended to be Muslim and went on Hajj.

If you're looking for more of a "hack it through the jungle" book about Africa, you might like Henry Morton Stanley's Through the Dark Continent. I read it a couple years ago and enjoyed it although I don't think he's as good of a writer as Burton.

If you buy a copy of these books, make sure to get one by an actual publisher (Dover Press issued good paperback editions of all the books mentioned above) and not a sucky OCR'd version by one of those publishers that just churns out print on demand crap.

>>24740757
NTA but Someone told me to wishlist the H.M. Stanley earlier today

>>24740757
Thanks for the detailed response. I have been interested in colonial Africa, especially ever since reading the Africa section in Journey to the End of the Night. I'm going to check that out out and Through the Dark Continent as Well

>Flaubert believed in and pursued the principle of finding "le mot juste" ("the right word"), which he considered as the key means to achieve high quality in literary art
Reading this makes me think that maybe I'd only get it if I knew French

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>>24741546
He wrote more than one book you know

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>>24742016
actually this... the best epistemology we have

>>24742016
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Beginner-friendly
Bet you haven't even read it, pseud.

>>24741707
>is it just "zombie animals come back and kill people" or is there more to it?
There's a part that's really scary when Louis resurrects Gage and Gage has no head. I had to put the book down for about two weeks at that part.

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Still reading The Dweller in Darkness. I'm quite liking it but I just haven't had much time lately. I'm at the part where the protag and his friend are going to go out into the forest to confront the ancient stone and Nyarlathotep. What do I read next? Hmmm.

>>24740346
Someone in a random review for an unrelated book said the following, which I thought was pretty funny:
>Stephen King (whose descriptive passages often resemble an exhaustive catalog of the contents of someone's pockets or purse)

>>24741707
It's more "Will you make someone who died come back to life, even if you know beforehand that they won't come back right?"

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I'm two short stories in, and it's a bit of a wet fart. (no spoilers please)

>>24732614
Unless youre interested in rabbinical law literature there isnt much

>>24740559
https://archive.org/details/gildersleeve-basil-lodge-gonzalez-latin-grammar-1903/mode/2up
or do you mean transcribed to text/html?

>>24741409
I've been using that. It works fine, but I meant something like Dickonson College did for A&G: more readable formatting, better search, rules can be navigated more easily
https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/index

Why shouldn’t I just tell a learner to memorize declension/conjugation tables by just going to the grammar section in the back of familia romana as they’re introduced instead of spending 6 months doing rote memorization?

Translation challenge:

Easy
We must wait.
You aren't angry, are you?
Crossing the river will be hard.

Medium
I don't care about his worthless opinion.
If the shipment had arrived sooner, we'd be home already.
They can't possibly hope to take the city walls before the arrival of the enemy's allies.

Hard
In order to complete the costly project without any trouble, the chief architect, before even putting down a rough construction plan, sent a letter to the capital's academy asking for the foremost experts' opinion on the best approach.

>>24737405
>Pushkin has a big digression in Eugene Onegin on his infatuation with feet
No.

It's not big, and the word he uses means "legs".

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so this is just the tao lin thing again but a woman (ie, worse)

>>24735931
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>>24736754
Gabe...

>>24741956
is
>"real eyes realize real lies" meme
really any different than Joyce's
>love loves to love love
tho?

>>24736948
>pressured her into writing a fullblown novel
it's not a novel thoughbeit

>>24734779
>the average poster masturabates to cartoons of middle schoolers
And the average female writer and reader on literotica sites enjoys stories about boys aged 10 to 11 living in brothels and being used as BDSM sex slaves by elderly men.
Personally, I find it less heinous if an anon goons to an erotic vanilla cartoon image of a naked teenage boy or girl than if he spends writing or reading 100k words about a shota being put through the Berghain BDSM gauntlet.
Go see adulfanfiction original setting or Ao3 without filters.
The only difference between 4chan perverts and female ones is that 4chan is honest about its perversion while females justify it on the grounds that they write love stories, feminist critiques of patriarchal societies, female empowerment narratives, colonialist metaphors (one author on adulfanfiction way back when justified her story of alien formign a shota breeding farm on the grounds that it was about colonialist invasion of Peru), LGBT positive stories.
One of the most interesting things in the world is listening and reading how females how that their fetishes are anything but fetishes.

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>>24741953
>The point OP is making is that women being attracted to evil men freaks him out
No, but first, let me explain my joke. My joke was twofold.
First of all, I was joking about the fact that OP was overreacting, since men are the ones commiting the actually scary acts. In other words, committing evil things is more scary than reading about them.
So, if OP were to look into these "scary acts", he would have to read true crime, hence becoming just like the women he is so scared of.
>At no point is he saying that the women are worse than the evil men.
The truth is, he never said that he was scared by women who are attracted to evil men. This is something that you pulled out of thin air.
There is a reason why I posted a picture of Epstein. It's because men also read about evil men. They call it "getting redpilled", or "nooticing". They don't do that because they are attracted to jewish pedophiles infecting kids by sucking on their circumcized penises, or the undercover CIA agents that were (are) involved in the drug trade.
The second part of my joke was about the retards like (You), anon, who are so obsessed with sex that they have to project it onto everyone around them.
The joke was that if you are on 4chan, you are redpilled enough about the atrocities of this world that you are already just like the women that scare you.
Both you and they love the Morbid, both you and they frantically try to achieve the higher moral ground: 4chan? Nazi. True Crime? Hybristophile.
The truth is, you are both projecting. You can't stop thinking about sex, they can't stop thinking about race.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOxa_93jRBt/
>Inb4 no one said anything about race
Exactly

Women are ruthless and vicious in ways so natural that men can't even imagine their mindset and system of values. People just confuse their talent for emotional mimicry and manipulation for an ability to sincerely feel empathy towards others. They are nature's ultimate chameleons.

>>24742009
>You didn't get my shitty joke
>You're retarded
>Let me explain how retarded you are for not getting my joke
Il pensiero di un terrone transessuale.

>>24742020
>terrone transessuale
The only time I posted on 4chan using a southern italian dialect was with an FtM. She asked for a picture of me because she said she gets extremely horny when you bully her.
She also told me she was getting hit on by a (suprise, suprise) bully at the gym.
So I know what you are trying to do here, my dear nona. Go back to your boyfriend and ask him to degrade you. I'm not gonna indulge in your fetish.
Especially after you just made a tl;dr of my post with "shitty" being your entire contribution to it. I mean, put some effort next time.

>>24741069
Yes and I regret reading anything after Messiah

>>24741110
Personally, yes, but your mileage may vary. If you like book 1 (it picks up after 50 pages) read book 2. If you liked those two, read book three, at which point you should definitely read 4. God emperor is my first or second favorite of the series after book one. Books 5-6 get quite weird/ set up more books Frank Herbert never got around to writing, but I like elements and characters from them quite a bit (Miles Teg is one of the best characters in the series) and the cliffhanger ending doesn’t bother me. Honestly, I’m just thankful no one desecrated Frank Herbert’s memory by writing a bunch of shitty cash grab continuations

Frogposters deserve no replies.

>>24741110
Yeah, it's good

>>24741139
>Honestly, I’m just thankful no one desecrated Frank Herbert’s memory by writing a bunch of shitty cash grab continuations
Anon, I...

>>24741868
>aborting Bob's baby
If by "Bob" you mean moviebob, then that is a moral obligation.

>>24732681
That tunnel looks like the gnomes are mining brown bricks from my crap. The most fun you can possibly have while reading a book is reading about gnomes mining brown bricks from my crap. I can't wait to buy this book to read about gnomes mining brown bricks from my crap and give it a 5 star reviews on book reviewing platforms. What is the book about?

>>24741875
It's better but generally it is also indeed shit.

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>>24741033
>His autobio was a disaster wasn't it?
Naaaah. It's funny. It gave us the origin of Rex Viper.

>>24741583
Anyone can autopublish shit these days. That's the beauty of it.
>>24741878
They do it for free :-)

>>24741668
What are they?

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>>24724325
he was based

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>>24723585
Good and (darkly) funny.

>>24723588
literally the only scandibro who is worth reading

>>24733105
How's Melancholia? I picked it up recently, have been wanting to read it

>>24741930
>Catholicism bad.
Mad because no priest has molested your ugly ass?

>>24741960
bit reductive

>>24741967
What else is there to say? Its not even Catholic mysticism. The Penitent is literally a Christ allegory, the son of God sent down by God to right the world.

>>24741944
Because he's not omnipotent and he has a hands off approach to what's going on on Earth. Realized a thousand years ago that things go better when he doesn't meddle directly. But Isekai world ain't Earth.

Or maybe God isn't in the picture at all and the archangel is acting on his own. Who knows?
>>24741919
I don't know, angels sound pretty cool. Look at how popular Supernatural was.

>>24742025
If you wanted to you could just do what CS Lewis did and have this other world also be created by God.

>>24734501
you're not.
autists are split between devotion to objective truth and devotion to subjective truth.
the former knows homosexuality cannot be inherited, only transmitted. if gay genes ever showed up they'd die out near-immediately. if the former is gay himself he'd lock himself away and do physics equations like Newton or maybe Turing.
the latter just goes REEEE you are trying to ERASE ME!!
t. autist

>>24735972
I don't even care if they say "I really don't give a shit, I never cared for that christcuck". I've said it myself.
Employers should care if they are literally celebrating that someone got shot or, worse, are encouraging violence against others.
>but but but hate!
No, what you heard from Kirk was disagreement.

Is it true that Lance is already cheating on him? That bitch.

>>24734499
Absolutely not a flex. Leftoids commit more political violence because they’re mentally ill losers, period. You’ve got nothing to lose and you’re extremely online, replacing anything good or productive in your life with bluesky and reddit echo chambers. I’m not going to go on a shooting spree because I’m not a mentally ill freak, plus I actually have something to lose.

>>24734479
the problem with this is that leftoids are so incredibly banal. The story from the perspective of the monster would just be your bluesky feed, plus r/Iwanttofuckdogs or whatever faggot fetish you have

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It is an ignorant view of Islam. Muslims forbid many carnal pleasures that Christians do not. Islam is not a sect, it is a religion and the Truth of God from His prophets.

Additionally, Islam is congruent with the Gospel and is the way and example of Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam. The Gospel instructs us to worship God and God alone. This is the clear First Commandment. Did Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam, worship himself or instruct you to do the same at any point? No, very much the opposite, he worshiped God and God alone and taught his followers to do the same.

There is your Islamic response, but I won't be here much longer as there is too much Haram even here. It is hard to have a real intellectual discussion between all the degeneracy and racist obsession. Besides, lets be serious. The cartoons and "TRVKEs" I am too old for this. I am 30 now.

Did Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam, not also teach in the Gospel that to look at a woman lustfully is to commit adultery in the heart? Muslims follow this by the practice of modesty, to dress like Mary in her time, and to avert the eyes from immodest women.

>>24740957

The Koran praises Christian priests and monks directly and classifies them as People of the Book. We do not deny that Christians are believers. A Christian is not a kafir, a disbeliever. It is by the name of Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam, that the Koran says Christians are our closest spiritual brothers.

Though I preach Islam to Christians, I do not condemn them or seek enmity with them. After all, we share a common enemy in the church bombing zionist imperialists. If you will not become a Muslim, then I can still consider you as a God believer and a friend. If you are a Muslim, then you are my brother.

>>24741188
>Muslims forbid many carnal pleasures that Christians do not.
Like? Muslims trade pork for sex slave to coom into.

>>24740957
>>24741188
1. First and foremost, their first and greatest error that ought to be cursed is that they deny the Trinity in the unity of the deity, and in this way, while shunning number in unity, they do not believe in a triune number of persons in the one essence of divinity, while I say that the beginning and end of all forms is ternary; and thus they do not receive the cause and origin and goal of all things that are formed; although confessing God with their lips, they do not know him in a profound way. These foolish ones, these inconstant ones, confess that there is a principle for change and for every difference, to wit one that is only binary in unity, namely the divine essence itself, and its life (anima). For this reason the Qur’an—by which name they call their law, and Qur’an, translated from Arabic, means a collection of precepts—always introduces God speaking in the plural.
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8. Clearly that impious man did so when, while commending both the Christian and the Jewish religion (lex), confirming that neither one ought to be embraced, he rejected them while proving himself reprobate. For this reason he confirms that Moses was the best prophet, that Christ the Lord was greater than all, proclaims that he [Christ] was born of a virgin, confesses that he was the messenger of God, the word of God, the spirit of God, yet he does not understand or confess [Christ as] the messenger, Word, or Spirit as we do. Actually, he ridicules [the Christian teaching] that he is said or believed to be the Son of God. And, measuring the eternal birth of the Son of God in comparison to human generation, the bovine man denies and mocks with as much effort as he can that God could have either begotten or been begotten. With frequent repetition he affirms the resurrection of the flesh; he does not deny that there is a general judgment at the end of time, but it must be carried out not by Christ but by God. He insanely affirms that Christ, as the greatest of all after God, will be present at that judgment and that he himself will be present to assist his people
>Summa totius haeresis Saracenorum

>>24738779
Yes, but the church of Aquinas did the same thing. Kind of a self-own.

>>24741188
Jesus says only those who eat His body will have eternal life. Does Islam follow that? No. What prophets exist in the Biblical tradition in the 800 years between Christ and Muhammed? None. When does Jesus foretell Muhammed? He does not. The Paraclete is the Catholic Church and Muhammed is obviously an anti-Christ at best. I think it's pretty staggeringly obvious that if Jesus is born of a Virgin then he's more authoritative than Muhammed pretty much obviously. Muhammed is not, was not, nor can ever be considered a prophet. That being said, many of the Hadiths have incredible vignets of wisdom but the Qu'ran is an absolute embarrassment to humanity and pretty much proves why Muslims flee their countries to go to Christendom and Christians only go to Muslim countries as a curioso in seeing how humans could fall for the obviously incorrect, like Mormons or Scientologists.

>>24737739
Occultism and esoterica is anti-intellectual fraud. Complete and utter nonsense. Controlled opposition at best nothing more. Remove yourselves, dilettantes.

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>>24737739
>I'd be willing to give it a shot
It's called a secret society because you can't just read books to learn what they teach, you have to actually be initiated. And you're not going to be initiated, it's for rich, powerful people.

>>24737739
>I've always thought it was a satanic cult
11 Popes agree
>Enlightenment
Eating Jesus is more powerful than whatever that is supposed to be or mean.
>>24740774
Wow they literally dressed as a burnable heretics. Insanity.

>>24742005

lmao what? my dad literally joined out of the blue years ago and it's just a social club

>>24742018
I said you're not going to be initiated. There's a difference between joining and being initiated.
>it's just a social club
Yeah, for people like your dad. Not for those who get initiated.

>>24741911
Vocal cord vibrations influencing scalp. That’s my theory.