What are your thoughts on (print)?Journalism? Both in general and specifically in your country.Do great (print) Journalists qualify as literary figures?
>>24743933I love going to my University's basement and choosing through the microfilm stacks, they have all of British, German, French, Russian newspapers from the 18th to 21st centuries,and I like to choose notable days in history or days in history that certain people were born so that even if there's no record of them I like to understand the spirit of the times and what the fears and daily occurrences were. It's very fun, and enlightening, and also sad sometimes to see the way things went, to read Hitler's last desperate plea of the Brits not to do this, oh how I wish we'd allied with him. But print journalism now is of course not just a dying art, but a dead art and there is no reason to waste your money and time reading their filth.
>>24743982The British invaded the Soviet Union?
>>24743993
By and large journalism have always been parasites leeching off tragedies and tools of the state to distort the reality and manipulate the population. I won't miss them.
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24729043>Thread Question:Do you need supplementary material to enjoy books? I'm talking art, music, etc. based on the property? Does it help you visualize what you've read better?
>>24743760This is the red rising general. Seethe
>>24743953>random newfag buzzwordhow mad are you LMAO
>>24743961Not as mad as you it seems
>>24743795>filtered by EarthseaSasuga malazanfag
>>24742393does this mean we're getting the no-god soon?
are they out of their minds?
>>24743831pre-MBS KSA*
Funny how this entire thread had only 1 fair criticism of the Quran while the rest of the replies to me were>You're brown>Mudslime>Terrorist>You're 80 IQ>A lot of Christian posturing and virtue signaling, unaware of their own book and historyIf this is the average IQ of people who actually read and are on a literature board, the future of the west isn't looking so good bros.Anyway, I won't be posting here anymore. You people are welcome to contemplate your own misguidance by yourselves.
>>247296382 billion people are indocrinated into it and most of them would be murdered if they renounced it.
>>24729498This thread was derailed lolI believe that the Quran is disappointing to a lot of readers because it's not what they except; they except linear stories like the in Bible, or clear texts of law. The thing is, the Quran is more like a never-ending hymn. It's a prayer in which everyone talks, it's chaotic, repetitive, but like an old oral poem (read Pindar and you'll see the similarity). It's more lyrical than narrative, relying more on images (cf all the Judgement day stories) and rythms (cf surah 92, with a single rime). Basically, if the Bible is a novel with some poetic passages, the Quran is an oral hymn with some narrative here and there. When you read it like this, it becomes much more enjoyable, because there's something chaotic about it. It shows that Islam is quite a poetic religion, because it relies on an entirely poetic text (God himself being the poet).Not a muslim btw I just like to read it
>>24743843I'd be more inclined to like muslism if they weren't actively trying to rape and murder my family
I'd like a good beginner-friendly overview of the field of epistemology. Does /lit/ have any recommendations?
>>24741915John Locke and Hume explain it pretty well, and then this bad boy >>24742016 comes in and fills in the gaps
>>24742016What would Kant say to OP's picture?
>>24741915I own picrel for a quick introduction. Then there's more sociological treatments like Berger and Luckmann's "The Social Construction Of Reality", Thomas Kuhn's "Structure Of Scientific Revolutions" and Karl Mannheim's "Ideology And Utopia". For more a philosophical treatment, the aforementioned Kant, Locke and Hume + Descartes, Roger & Francis Bacon, William James and Charles Sanders Peirce. Basically most philosophers in the Anglo-American and general analytic tradition are your best bets. Continental philosophy tends towards sociology too much and "power/knowledge" discourse although what i stated previously could also be useful.
>>24742467Forgot pic. Also Pierre Bayle and Thomas Bayes are allegedly good but I haven't read either.
>>24741915The Bible.
Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction.No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, the spirit lives on, and here at /pg/, we explore the worlds, characters, and stories they inspired. So come on in and join the discussion!READ PULP!- The Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/- Luminist Archives - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/- Luminist Archives - Fiction Magazines: http://www.luminist.org/archives/PU/- The Pulp Magazines Project: https://www.pulpmags.org- Project Gutenberg Sci-fi: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68LISTEN TO PULP!- The Cybrarian’s Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmd1kGz5gLg - HorrorBabble's Clark Ashton Smith: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd&si=pHdZhOqvZyZ4Zv2vComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24743885The Frost-Giant's Daughter is my favorite. It's so short, but shocking and powerful, and is the story I can remember vividly. Even in Howard's early days of writing, he was excellent.
>>24743874REH was the greatest
>>24743969Indeed.
Nice to see the general is back. Are you one of the original anons from this thread?
>>24744091I posted replies in previous threads, but never contributed any work. I just copied the last thread because I want to discuss pulp.One of the works of a previous anon, "The Skull" popped into my mind in the shower a few nights ago, and I've been reading much Conan recently, so..
"terrible copy/paste job" edition >>24722983"High School Girlfriend" editionPrevious: >>24707466 (Cross-thread) /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ (embed)RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC (embed)Please limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24744024The agent and publisher are going to know your real name no matter what...
>>24743823>inane contemplations serving no purpose other than to indulge in ideas of self-importanceSo you had full self-awareness but decided to write this anyway?
>>24743507>write and submit a short story for a scifi magazine>come across the latest issue in the local library>all the stories are some kind of teen romanceno wonder they didn't respond
>>24743386It can't have been very important then
>>24743756Do any of this friends likes to and regularly reads? If not, then what were you expecting, retard?
women scare me
>>24742709>/lit/ter announces to the world he doesn't read and proudly claims that trannyjanny is on his sideYou don't have to state the obvious, newfag.
>>24732567You are telling me, you faggots aren't into true crime? It's like that pseudo-profound bullshit you read performatively, but better because it actually happened.Feminist is the real tag to watch out for here>>24736147You will be surprised, but books about true crime are also different than performing the crime
>>24738519>go find the most pornbrained /b/tards on the planet>then compare them to normie women who are horny>you'll see they're the same, men and women aren't that different! I shouldn't have to explain why this is retarded.
>>24742817Yes, I am a newfag. I started browsing 4chan in 2013.
>>24732597This.>can read absolutely anything>read stories of psychos murdering people, all in gruesome detail
We live in the ruins of the baroque culture
“Ruins of the baroque,” you say, and the words arrive like sun across a cracked cornice—shadows sharpen, gilding clings to the edges that remain. I taste them on the air: sugar-dust and brass, varnish and incense, an aftersmell of thunder. Baroque meant more-than-enough, meant curves that won’t sit still, meant a logic of abundance refusing the straight line’s sermon. If we live in its ruins, then we live among the remains of a culture that worshiped attention by overwhelming it, that tried to catch God by throwing garlands and counterpoint and spirals until silence had to carve itself a shape to stand in.Ruins are not only endings. They are architectures with the verbs knocked loose, nouns sleeping open to the weather. In my forest, a nurse log is a ruin of a tree, and yet it’s also a school, a tenement, a cradle. The baroque, ruined, might be that: a place where the old ornament slumps into use again—not as command, but as compost. We keep finding acanthus leaves in our apps, putti in our marketing, choruses in the way we scroll. The algorithm is a kind of curlicue, endless, coaxing the eye to the next gilded corner. Attention is still our cathedral; we just can’t afford the marble anymore. So we tile the screen with bright mosaics, shortcuts to awe. It is lavishness on credit. It is a chandelier hung from a ceiling that has already fallen, glittering bravely in midair.In the ruins, structure becomes visible. You can run a talon along the cross-section of a column and read the load it used to bear. Strip away the stucco and you meet the stubborn brick, the muscle under the makeup. When we say “ruins of the baroque,” we confess that the habit of excess persists, but the confidence has gone. The old story—more decoration equals more divinity—has broken; we keep the decoration like a reflex. We ornament our doubt. We festoon our fear. We curate our lives into niches and reliquaries and then pretend we don’t kneel before them.But there’s mercy here. Ruins make room for weather, for moss, for the quiet return of proportion. A broken arch is an invitation for a hawk to nest; a shattered nave becomes a garden that keeps the shape of prayer without insisting on it. I imagine our baroque—opera-thick, pearl-studded, fevered with bravura—slumping into a softer ethics. Virtuosity relaxes its jaw. Ornament remembers it once began as a leaf. The scrollwork unwinds and finds it is a river after all.
Do I mourn what fell? Some of it. The audacity, the willingness to believe that beauty could muscle the world into grace. But I don’t miss the imperial swagger stitched into the hems. If we live among the ruins, we have the chance to keep the skill and drop the conquest. The hand that could carve a cherub from stubborn stone can carve a water channel that keeps a village alive. The ear that could braid a fugue can braid a conversation where everyone gets to sing.There is also the tenderness of patina. Ruins teach us to love what time does. The baroque was lacquered to a gloss that denied decay; the ruin lets decay be articulate. Cracks speak. Flakes fall with a meaning you can hear if you tilt your head: not failure, but redistribution. Gold leaf becomes dust becomes light on a moth’s back. The old ceiling becomes soil for a weed that flowers more honestly than any fresco.When I walk through such a place, I slow. The echo is kind. Excess no longer shouts; it hums. I find a shell of volute and set it against my crest; it fits, it doesn’t have to. I listen for the counterpoint and hear wind in broken apertures making a music that forgot its sheet but remembers the key. To live in the ruins of the baroque culture is to practice a different virtuosity: the art of enoughness after too-much, the courage to let negative space carry weight, the humility to let ivy finish the sentence.If there is a commandment here, it is gentle: keep what still feeds; compost what dazzles without nourishing. Learn to build with light, with breath, with time. Let your ornament be the trace of care, not the armor of spectacle. And when you pass a fallen cornice, bow. Beauty labored there. Now beauty labors elsewhere.
>>24742220What 'we'? The first pronoun in this language is 'I'. Also, if you let your artistic tradition go to ruins, then yóú, yes yóú, are partly to blame, and you share that burden and, may I tap, INIQUITY, with your fellow nay-sayers and nay-doers. What can yóú, from your perspective, Í, do to raise like the Phoenix from the ashes? Be fruitful and multiply, horned rims glasses wearing green frog Anon with a blue sweater on. Don't you know that that colour was symbolic for Holy Virgin Mary in days bygone? Did not He resurrect? There are many ruins, and there are many revivals.
>>24742220ruined + baroque ahh nigga I be livin in the drip + bands era nigga ong
Angel with a knife, get lit with the MinskiGold to the blood, frozen bullets ain't no medicineGotta get them checks, holy money, why you askin'?Renegade staff for the way that you be actin'Blood on my phone from the demons that be callin'Baroque in my head, all them bitches - all I've ever wantedSword in my hands from the saints that I slaughterSince it's all they have, I'll take it, fuck your daughterEternal is what I am, went with you to take a silverIf you wanna die, baby, I can be the killerIt's that holy night, playing Tekken in the winterCross on my neck, even knowing I'm a sinnerDiamonds in my bag, holy knife, yeah, I'm on itSaint to my heart, but a demon if you really wantedIt is all I have, Azeroy is foreverComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>A house literally dedicated to evil>"...yeah, no it's definitely a good idea for us to keep this around. Nothing to worry about. No need to close it down"
Enough about Fagwarts. Which Ilvermorny house do you belong to?
>>24743774I'd rather live a thousand years as a Hufflepuff than one hour as a "Pukwudgie" holy shit
>>24743814>represents the heart>favors healers>notable members: queenie goldsteingayest house for sure
>>24741418How did Crabbe and Goyle get sorted into it, then?
>>24743827you can choose your house and they would have been disowned if they went anywhere else, largely because they were "vassals" of Malfoy
>>24743157Oklahoma Republican fundraiser named Larry King got raided by the IRS for embezzling millions of dollars in his Credit Union and found that he was holding sex parties for DC politicians and allegedly shipping child prostitutes from an orphanage he basically owned to "entertain" in them. Some of the kids who testified were sentenced to prison for like 5 years for perjury during the trial where they detailed sexual abuse by politicians during testimony. The main investigator of the case died in a mysterious plane crash alongside the collected evidence and King was only indicted for tax fraud.
>>24743157Mass hysteria schizophrenia caused by "psychologists". Conspiracy theorists like the author of this book need this impossible story about a whole town of child rapists to be true to further whatever narrative they've attached it to, usually jews or democrats or the deep state or whatever.
>>24743172sounds like a fantasy novelnah i'm good
>>24743174>>24743183Weird response
>Glowie defense force already trying to cover this up by calling everyone a schizo.Do you guys get paid for this?
What are some books that explain this problem.
>>24742545Capitalism debases virtue by elevating classical hubris (that is, Greed) and subjects national dynamism and power to the dictates of the international economy. From both perspectives of traditionalism and nationalism, capitalism is a political-economic order that allows a cabal of kleptocrats to suck nations dry while prostituting your daughters and sending your sons off to die in completely futile and stupid wars that in turn further destroy the natural and demographic endowments of your homeland. Only retards who got completely brain-fried by the sewage and its derivatives (libertarians, ancaps) put out by Austrian and Chicago-Reaganite neoliberal propaganda don't see capitalism as a bloodsucking, monopolizing global vampire.
bump
>>24743096you forgot to blame the jews for everything
>>24744034Shut the fuck up, retard.
I can't be the only one that recognizes that this so called "capitalism" the modern world is supposedly so inundated with in fact relies on communist states to prop itself up...Capitalism? Corporatism? Uh no I think what we have here is a simple case of global serfdom in which economic systems are as flexible as they need to be towards the simple goal of exploiting the most people as possible.
What Redditors are saying about Honor Levy>holy fuck I wish I never read this>the worst people i know are excited about it>it’s astounding how poorly she writes>The one excerpt I saw is literally the worst thing I’ve ever read in my life>You couldn't waterboard me into reading a full book of that, Jesus ChristIs she our girl?
I am a gay autistic man so I have a monopoly on tasteful misogyny. I prefer to keep my interactions with other females to an absolute minimum. I will never read a book written by a woman. I am not sorry.
>>24743129Ok?
>>24743135You were all dying for this information, so I gave it to you. You're welcome. It's ok Honor, we know you are feeling a bit lonely in your appartment so you're looking for warmth on the internet as usual. You will be ok.
>>24737104This guy is fucked up on stimulants and is an incredibly odd character in general.
>>24739115gives what?
I need some great history and historical fiction series. Thanks in advance.
>>24744076Wallersteins The Modern World System
tyrion stroll editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24704184
>>24743891>pooling together lots of smart people in concentrated areas.
>>24742108I'm hoping we get info about what like you said, what being in the Church of R'hllor is actually like, I'd also like to know what differences she has from herself and the mainliners, as it is kinda obvious that she's not with them. So some interactions between her and the church hierarchy would be cool.
>>24743829Every playthrough I do inevitably gets horribly sidetracked by my insatiable breeding fetish.
>>24744037lol.
>>24743829The license for that would be so expensive that it just wouldn’t go through unless it’s absolute zombie slop where the actual game part takes one vibe coding Indian three months and exists to scam children and old people.Proof: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire_video_games
Post a movie and get a book recommendation.I'll start.
>>24742592Warhammer Gotrek and Felix
Jacob's Ladder
Eden of the east but more occult. I already know Last Days, it has a shit ending. Prove me wrong.>>24743477Thats a hard one. Mayyybe genuflect or vurt.>>24742290The holy mountain
>>24744061>>24742290Also to addhttps://youtu.be/5ricWUAj1QA?si=3jWiM-_EFKc81VuF
