How did we get here? Criminalising causing psychological distress by digital communication or merely 'hate-mongering' seems to be derived from some new way of thinking that didn't exist even 70 years ago. Is it related to the Therapeutic state mentioned by Paul Gottfried? Or any other works?
I am sorry AM
Maybe don't be a nazi?
>>24795429>Count Rapeula>2019No words for the elderly pensioners being imprisoned in the UK for thoughtcrimes against israel?
Do any of you guys have experience writing erotica? Recently I started writing some, but it is not very good.Also, where do you read erotic fiction?
>>24795391i read wbe on substack
>>24795398Posting an extract for keks:->At last C's insides clenched around my finger, an event which caused an audible expulsion of air. I found it amusing, but C was all apologies. What was more, her apparent mortification had caused her arousal to evaporate. I had seen this phenomenon before: a distraction as innocuous as a chime from her mobile phone can bring C down to earth in an instant, and set us both back to square one.>Taking a moment to flex my spine, I set about rolling the stone back up the hill. C felt a little dry on the inside by now, and I made a point of working some saliva into her. Perhaps I pressed a little heavily with my tongue this time: not long after she began to come, C backed away, as if she had grown oversentive. She reported, rather breathlessly, that she had in fact enjoyed a clitoral orgasm which made her legs tingle, though it had seemed somewhat less intense than usual.>This seemed rather unsatisfactory. I contemplated the tiny pink head of C's clitoris, set like a gem amid the glistening flower of her genitals. I thought that if I gave her a little time to recover, we might yet storm the heights of ecstasy. I speculatively blew on the organ, rather gently I thought, though even this caused her to flinch. After giving her a little longer, I suggested that if I used my tongue very lightly on her, she might get used to it. We had overcome the refractory phase in this way before, and C affirmed she was game to try.
>>24795881>Very tentatively, we eased back into the procedure. C shuddered violently at first, but encouraged me to continue, and presently she could stand full contact with my tongue again. Initially she tilted her hips downwards to shield the exposed head of her clit but, toying with the hooded shaft, I was pleased at how hard and erect the little organ felt. Before long there was no more need to use saliva to lubricate her. Her breath grew short, and she eagerly rocked her hips to match the motion of my tongue. This completely threw off my aim, and now all I could do was lick blindly and rapidly for all I was worth. This frantic phase seemed to go on for longer than I'd bargained for, but at last C uttered a crescendo of shouts, rising both in tone and amplitude, until she could no longer stand it and scrambled away from my touch. "Your voice doesn't normally go that high," I observed with satisfaction.>C lay dazed and immobile like a thrown rag doll, her spine bent and her limbs at all angles, her magnificent breasts swolled and firm. The occasional involuntary twitch jolted her whole body. Her slick, swollen vulva gaped like the sucker of some rock-dwelling crustacean. I took a fond, lingering mental snapshot of her before withdrawing to the bathroom to clean up.
>>24795884>swolledswollen FFS
>>24795391I started working on my prose alongside watching the Brandon Sanderson lectures a while ago. So far, I've seen an improvement in pacing, less repetition, and enough positive change overall that I'm able to keep at it without getting disheartened at the inhuman gobbledygook that is a lot of the dialogue I've written. As a kid I was never in any advanced writing courses but I was in music, and it seems to me that learning to write is much like learning an instrument: it's countless hours of making slight improvements on trash while pushing aside the feeling that you'll never be able to hold a candle to the people that make the art that inspires you.I started writing smut for myself to bang out my practice in a way that keeps me motivated. I'm able to write and proofread 3-4k words a day consistently in one sitting. It's been easier to get into the heads of each of my characters, hunt down the right-feeling descriptions, and stay in the writing mood for a couple hours straight while I'm rock hard.
Should yelling be conveyed with all-caps, italics, or exclamation points?
>>24790479With verbs or adverbs. If you use typography to convey meaning, it suggests an inadequate familiarity with the language.
>>24790479an exclamation mark can come across as less a representation of speech and more something fully native to written language, with its own feeling, and often not a good one for dialogue. has to be used carefully.>>24792713language is inherently a spoken thing. by hinting at speech you invoke the immediacy of it.
>>24791228Not every inflection is an exclamation, now up to and including exclamations.
>>24790479Almost like that's what the exclamation mark was made for, crazy huh!
qutotation marks
Delphic charioteer edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24732139>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
Can I have a job with my Latin skills
why the FUCK are Greek words so hard to retain?I drill Anki for a week, slack off a couple days, then most of the words are forgotten...Compare to dabbling in Russian for a couple days, and now I can never forget the word for Englishwoman
>>24795349don't think they are>drill Ankithat may be the bigger problem if you are just grinding words without context
>>24795042Sure. School teacher, online Latin tutor, monk in a traditionalist Catholic religious order. Take your pick.
>>24795349Slacking off one day is a tragedy, but sometimes necessary. Two or more is abominable, you should be ashamed. Even bedridden with Long COVID-19 you should be mentally drilling conjugations, recalling lines you’ve committed to memory, and so on.
Unemployement: The book
I read one of Kojeve’s lectures on the master slave dialectic at work today. Most of it was just a close, accurate paraphrase of the text. But then he’d talk about the slave “overcoming” the master - what? This seems like a serious misreading to me. The other guy doesn’t “overcome” the beautiful soul. The German idealists don’t overthrow the regime of absolute terror. The master is alive and well, he is mentioned in the section on stoicism. And God is not “killed” by man in Hegel, God and man meet one another. If the slave killed the master, he would become master himself. This isn’t how these progressions work. So that annoyed me. Both master and slave are redeemed in Hegel, ultimately, but Kojeve as a Stalinist wants the slave to throw the master in GULAG. The whole section of PoS on absolute freedom and terror can be read as a prospective critique of Marxism and fascism both.I also read Deleuze’s review of Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence but the most interesting seeming parts filtered me without a better grasp of Hegel’s logic. His distinction of ontology of sense vs ontology of essence seems spot on as a way of describing what the idealists were doing and how it’s different from precritical metaphysics. And his making ontology of essence a “flip side” of empiricism is totally Hegelian. Also his comment on how Hegel can’t be read merely anthropologically were on point - it’s not that man is at the center so much as that man is IN thought. But I am too retard to follow him in the deeper portions for now.
>>24783982>this is the Granddaddy of Marxismbut anon, it is
>>24795750>I read one of Kojeve’s lectures on the master slave dialectic at work today.Don't bother unless you plan to read Kojeve's creative misreadings as their own thing that just resembles Hegel. His student Rosen is pretty clear that Kojeve wasn't interested in a philologically accurate presentation of Hegel, but his own thing (combining Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger) under the guise of just teaching Hegel.
>>24795890Yeah I had always heard that and my foray bore it out. He also has an annoying habit of putting terms in “square-quotes”. What about Hyppolite? Based or cringe?
>>24795930>What about Hyppolite? Based or cringe?Decent, but frankly less interesting.
I die inside everytime I come across this, something is ripped from a great book and eventually everyone thinks it's from that modern thing that references it
>>24795938Dante? CUHRAYZEEEE WHACKY PIZZA WAHOO! Shuckaroonies!Alice? I'm going to Alice! You're hiding Alice too, aren't you?Metamorphoses? Yeah bro, that doujin fucked me up!
In this thread you will discuss the life and works of Count Leo Tolstoy
>>24795509To me the amount of commentary or subtext is not scale. it's not about what's underneath the semitiocs, but the sheer amount of them--that dictates true scale. Imagine if Dante's poem also included a Buddhist adventure, a Vedic adventure and a paganistic adventure, that would be scale. The density of the work is not scale to me.
>>24795839You might enjoy Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
>>24795854I've never heard of it so thank you sir anon
>>24795356That's my favorite thing about Tolstoy. His panoramic quality. It's not a simple narrative, it's a giant sprawling look at human life in so many different dimensions. Even a more straightforward book like Anna Karenina has the same quality to it
>>24795927That's really the greatest mark of a writer I've found, just effortless exhibition of life. I write but its hard to write anything with so much, high or base, humanity. A flash of a line may hint at an entire life's worth of facts.
Why did you turn your back on him, /lit/?Do you really love your spooks that much?
>>24794803Why do we never see a real photograph?
>>24795385I'm suddenly much more optimistic about homelessness. Thanks, anon.
>Why did you turn your back on himYou're supposed to
>>24795660Were the real spooks the friends we made along the way?
>>24795915lol
>reads No Longer Human once
i need details
Mordecai is as far from MGTOW as possible literally an icon of simping
>>24795459Did you got that meme from the colaws video?
>>24795459>I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.words to live by
im curious what changed?
>>24792165They happened.
>>24792571They're easily confused outside of their echochambers.
>>24794270>money exists to abstract labor time,
>>24795866IThe red scare happened and the reaganite neocon cabal pushed Rand into schools to make kids retarded. They're in power now and running the same playbook to force PragerU videos into schools and to make it illegal to criticize pedophiles like Alan Dershowitz and Donald Trump.
>>24793296>>24793298This is sadly true. If you want to read Marx, read Marx. If you want to understand Marx, don't read Marx, read every single philosopher besides him... Otherwise you'd end up as that faggot that got into philosophy by being a commie and it will be like your edgy teenager phase that you have supposedly outgrown. I mean, it still will be, but you won't have to justify your retardation by age alone.
Was he right?Is Liberal Democracy the ultimate Human System and will we never see something better?
>>24795526Liberal democracy failed to protect Ukraine and Afghanistan, it's already on the decline
>>24795568I despise China for racial reasons. Any books on this?
>>24795684Being retarded actually raises your SMV
>>24795526No, the author said he was wrong.
>>24795526>liberal democracyThe same system where people will bootlick the corporations that they claim to revile because they put up a pride flag one month a year?Uh...
How come /lit/ doesn't have comprehensive collections of downloads? Like /x/ has with occult books of every sort? Am I just missing something somewhere?
>>24786339>>24793526>>24791316>>24786963I remember once an anon made a collection of philosophy books and I downloaded it, they were also asking for things to add and people probably gave recs. It was pretty incomplete but the effort is appreciable. But this fits 100% with other anons in your thread saying these /lit/ collections are usually subpar, which is demotivating. So here's the thing, OP. There probably were collections before you could have used, but nobody's keeping those download links up for long. So this thread is kind of pointless if you want those links. If you want to be serviceable, make your own collection and upload it for others, and make threads about it like the anon I mentioned did with his philosophy collection. Maybe ask others for suggestions to add, and update it. You've got to be the one doing this first. Most people know how to download books themselves, so they're not going to make these big download packs for you or anyone else. You gotta step up yourself if it's something you want, and if people like what you have, they'll use it. If you don't do it yourself when you actually want this sort of thing, don't act surprised that others aren't doing it either who don't even care for that sort of thing.
>>24786578She has a nice mustache.
>>24794813Whatever I'll just read comic collections then.
>>24793526Really what is needed is a tight collection of important works paired with quality footnotes and secondary/expository literatureI'd rather read the best of Dickens, Dickinson, Ibsen, Whitman, Wordsworth, etc., and develop a command of each, be able to participate in a learned way with the conversation that exists around them, than to have just the bare texts of everything they'd ever writtenExpository literature is absolutely mandatory for Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare at minimum anyway
>>24795177>Really what is needed is a tight collection of important works paired with quality footnotes and secondary/expository literatureI mean that's why critical editions exist just download that one dumbo.
dunk and egg walking in the woods 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: >>24768472
Does the Reach really have the most beautiful women in all Westeros like Yandel says?
>>24795390They'll found a new house, House Trainstark
What causes this level of normie cringe >>>/tv/215178384
What do you think will happen to the Volantene fleet?
>>24795917Smashed, burned, overthrown.Volantis is a powder keg and the black walls will fall.
Anyone read this?It was on sale so I ordered without knowing anything about it.
>>24795544>>24795692>>24795694Liars
>>24795848Why would I lie?
>>24795912No you sound like my ex
>>24795924Was your ex named Albertine?
>Reading it in englishlel
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>>24795739if i guess your height correctly will you be honest and tell me?
I've thought about it and I think I wouldn't mind getting pegged just to try it out.
Love is the ally of death
>>24794136Plenty of women love unemployed douchebags.
EL CAMINO>EL EL CAMINOTHE FRONT IS LIKE A CAR>THE BACK IS LIKE A TRUCKTHE FRONT IS WHERE YOU DRIVE>THE BACK IS WHERE YOU FUUUUCK
