if you don't own this in 2025, you don't love literature.
>>24968745>So you don't own a smartphone?Whataboutism. We're talking about ereaders.
>>24966640This is the first I've ever heard of Kobo being this bad. I've never had any problems with mine.
>>24968736>you WILL support amazon my kindle is second hand>you WILL make digital purchases nope. Anna's and MAM>you WILL keep spyware on you at all times jailbroken + have not turned on the wifi on it even once>you will own NOTHING (and enjoy it)I don't know anon, my library of epubs and its 3 separate backups would argue otherwise try again, or better yet learn a thing or two about how to use technology to your advantage
>>24966640>>24966646I've had my Kobo Nia since 2020 and it's kept chugging along. Not sure what the fuck you guys are doing lol
>>24970953>i duct taped my face
So I am reading Alcibiades and Socrates says the education and lineage of the kings of Persia is superior. This has been bothering me for a while, in quite a few greek texts Ive read (from Xenophon and Plato, or from Xenophon, Plato, and wrongly attributed to Plato) they show some admiration for the Persians and recognize some superiorities, I thought Greeks were extremely chauvinistic and saw all non greeks as inferior.
>>24971907He admired Cyrus the Great. About working under Cyrus the Younger, he semed to think he was decent based only on what Proxenus told him, but he also reflected that (recalling he speaks about himself in third person):>He went on the campaign like this, then, fully deceived―not, however, by Proxenus, for he did not know that the attack was against the King, nor did any other of the Greeks except Clearchus. When they came to Cilicia, however, it then seemed clear to all that the expedition was against the King. Although they feared the journey and were unwilling, the majority nevertheless followed along out of shame both before each other and before Cyrus. Xenophon too was one of these.He wasn't a fan of all things Persian, and what he likes about Cyrus the Great reminds much of Sparta, and he did seem to be more evidently a Laconophile.
>>24971785Why does this look like Nick Mullen?
>The Stoics taught the doctrine that Hellenes and barbarians were equal in that they were the children of the same gods. A hundred years after Alexander, Eratosthenes could say:>"They are wrong who say that mankind is divided into Hellenes and barbarians; one had better distinguish men according to excellence or depravity, for many Hellenes are morally corrupt and many barbarians morally noble like the Indians and Aryans, and also Romans and Carthaginians with their remarkable political organization.">From here it was but a short step to the glorification of the barbarians. This was in part motivated by a longing for inchoate conditions of life, a longing found at times in the late and highly refined periods of every culture, and it is significant that one expects to find such conditions in lands far away. At that time it was fashionable to single out the primitive people in Homer and Aeschylus, like the glorious Hippemolgoi, the law-abiding Scythians, or the Abioi, a fabulous tribe of the north and the most just of all peoples, for even in early antiquity men knew the central portions of the world so well that they sought goodness and happiness on its margins. Such notions gradually turned into rationalizations. The barbarians were supposed to have profound religious insight; in the temple of Asclepius in Aegium a Sidonian contended in the presence of Pausanius that the Phoenicians understood divine matters better than the Greeks did. Whereas formerly the fabulous Hyperboreans had been credited with a prodigious piety, now barbarians in general were praised for their piety, in contrast to the growing godlessness of the Greeks. Finally, the barbarians were considered to be morally superior; the late Greek thought of his own nation much as Machiavelli did of the Italians. And the inevitable conclusion was that if the barbarians were depraved, the Greeks had corrupted them.t. Burckhardt
>>24971882It’s actually because the Delian league kicked their sand nigger asses back to the pile of sand where they belong and they coped so hard they became muslims (Persian for “submissive one” similar to a concubine)
>>24972374Jacob Burckhardt?
Will I like Anna Karenina if I'm an unapologetic mysoginist?
>>24970382Sounds very accurate of women in general, especially ones who spent their days on phones all day long while being a "homemaker"
>>24965698Read it so you can know what BPD girls are like. It should serve as a warning.
>>24971292Dating or marrying a woman who has had sex is disgusting. Dating or marrying a woman who has been in love with another man is even more disgusting. That said, 99% of women grow hopelessly in love with the guy who takes their virginity and never forget him. In general they never forget their first loves. Like I said, read The Dead by Joyce.
>>24965698My favorite chapter in this book and the one which I find myself constantly returning to is the one where Levin reminisces on his heartbreak after being rejected by Kitty, and how much anguish he's in that his lifelong desire to marry and share his love with someone has to be delayed yet again, and he desperately hopes that the news will come one day of Kitty announcing her engagement and he could put his memory of her to rest. He decides on being patient and focuses on his life in the estate so he doesn't have to bear the humiliation he endured. And then the harsh winter that Anna has just trapped herself into thaws into the most wonderful spring for Levin as he becomes a more rigorous person with the most beautiful descriptions of natural life and greenery that I've ever read before. Today the word of her engagement got back to me in the worst way possible and revealed just how deep the deception went and how much I was humiliated for nothing, but I feel no relief. I just pray to have a spring like Levin's so that this winter in my soul can finally thaw.
>>24972251Lol that was my favourite part too. Where he just focused on his homestead.
The shelves on my bookcase are saggingPls help me fix thisI need help
>>24971519>4cHaN iS aN AnImE bOaRd
>>24971788yes, anime imageboard, anime culture. meanwhile your reply: Reddit style, Reddit comedy.lurk more years before posting
>>24971812Then explain why trannies like you have containment boards. To which you should return right now.ACK!
>>24969793Imagine getting triggered by 2D
>>24971857
The bulk of western fantasy (yes even today) is based on Christian philosophy, or its bastard child humanism. Good and evil, sin and redemption, sacrifice, justice, moral character arcs, etc.The remaining works that aren't, are largely based on some flavor of nihilism or existentialism. There's nothing wrong with this, but I want something fresh. Off the top of my head the only western fantasy series that isn't really based on the above is the Earthsea series.
>>24972219A Hell of eternal torment becomes almost the fulcrum of this series' plot towards the end. The initial trilogy is also about a Crusade, the not-Christians are henotheist to distinguish them from the not-Muslims, but the latter are a lot more on the nose. There are addition direct or near-direct analogues to both the Bible as well as the Iliad.
>>24972027Aren't epic poems a form of proto-fantasy? The Odissey in particular with the protagonist meeting all sorts of mythological creatures in his long journey.
>>24972151Based on Norseshit (nihilistic) and is literal will to power Nietzsche-slop.>>24972219Undisguised analogue for the Crusades as well as a vehicle for Bakker's biological determinism.>>24972231Anyone on this board who isn't a retard agrees with it. >>24972373No, retard.
>>24972382>No, retard.Why not?
>>24972402Fantasy fiction is more than a series of cliches like monsters and magic swords, it's a distinct genre with its own history and rules. People writing fantasy fiction aren't creating something new, they're working within a genre that was created by writers like Eddison and Tolkien. Using "fantasy" descriptively ignores that. Norman Mailer wasn't writing fantasy when he wrote Ancient Evenings, but it still has a lot of fantastical elements. Same with Borges - it's schlock on the level of lowbrow fantasy, but he and most of the world thought he was writing literary fiction.Also fantasy writers know that they're essentially playing make believe. Homer believed in Poseidon, the Greeks had shrines to Odysseus and believed that they could visit the island that Circe or the Cyclops once lived on. It was real to them, but Middle Earth was never real to Tolkien and even less real to any author who wrote fantasy to make a buck.
KINOOOOOKINOOOOO ALEEEERT!!!!
spice level?
>>24972432this originally appeared on Kuro5hin.org, and is worth a read or two.
Varg is on his way to deliver the African children watermelon for Christmas ed.Old >>24967122
>>24972353The English didn't create the Indian they were there when we came, they stayed when we left, the only thing we are guilty of is educating them.
>>24972353When you think about it South America are just Spanish Indians>both shit in ponds, lakes, and rivers>both have regressive backwards cultures>both have a shitty language that isn't useful for anything>both think that they will someday dominate the globe>both think that their culture is superior despite 99% of them living in a third world shithole>both come to the first world and leech off of it and have no interest in becoming part of the culture or learning the language.
>>24972353Nigga what? Firstly I'm not even Anglo lol but the British didn't fuck and rape Indian women to create some Jeet-Anglo hybrid like you people did with the Aztecs. As >>24972356 said they we're too busy civilizing India
>>24972405*were fml I'm phoneposting
Are there any Estonian essays on the first canto of the Kalevipoeg? Just the first canto. I want essays of any type. If any Estonian anons are present and can translate one, I'd be heckin' happy. At least just a list of them.
Is materialism the answer? It cuts away the annoying metaphilosophy and reduces it to sensible words and concepts so we only need to focus on measuring things rather than having cockfights over words and concepts.
No, read Sellars' Myth of the Given
Sure, let me just torture and kill you. Got a problem with that?
>>24972420yes
>>24972415Explain conscoiusness through materialism
Privacy by Danielle Chelosky (new story!)>A folder on her laptop held the stories she was not allowed to publish. One boy forbade her because there was an entire paragraph about his dick size (it was complimentary, she didn’t understand the problem). Another was worried his girlfriend would end up finding it. Another said he would cancel her for invasion of privacy. >These were rare instances. Mostly boys were flattered, considered it an ego boost, no matter how they were portrayed. People in general liked to be immortalized. In a way, she resented their narcissism, like they couldn’t appreciate what she’d written because they were just staring at themselves.>The truth was whatever reaction the boys offered was not what she wanted, even if they lavished her with praise, called her a genius, it was never enough. She thought of writing as not just a plea to be seen but a plea to be loved. It never seemed to have the effect that she yearned for, probably because it was impossible. Maybe, she thought, if she killed herself then her words would take on a new, heavier meaning.>She used to think that a boy being mad about a story she’d written about him meant the writing had done its job. It touched a nerve; it was controversial and had a direct impact on real life. Then she decided that mindset was banal, stupid. She thought her writing was at its weakest when it was a weapon.>On the internet she stalked a writer she had once done a literary reading with. During the reading he had spoken candidly about his sex addiction, and his girlfriend at the time stomped off. Now he was dating a different writer and they were constantly writing about their relationship, hosting readings where they read about each other with each other, publishing the history of their love in glossy magazines that paid by the word. She felt put off by this masturbatory spectacle. Like she couldn’t imagine anyone caring about it or finding it as anything other than insufferable. She wondered how one could make interesting art if they viewed their life as a project—then isn’t the project about the project, not about life?
>>24962847The older I get, the more I think about how there's this strange unwillingness to recognize how women use men to self-destruct in larger society. I'm struck by how, in her writing, there's just no capacity for any sort of actual judgment of self. Everything is presented as if it could not be any other way, this sort of flat, listless tone, an almost mediumistic conveyance of misery. I had a coworker, a woman, who would do this same shit. She'd talk about how her mom abuses her psychologically, how men never respected her, and you could be fooled into thinking she wanted to suffer on purpose. You know, get attention. But the thing that gave it away was the profound lack of imagination: she'd be given the ability to recognize abuse as abuse, but lacked the spiritual strength to try and imagine a life where she was loved. Love was just being abused. Perfectly intelligent, capable of getting a graduate degree. But they'd crippled their imagination, and were left to just assume everything always will be as it was. Scary shit.
>>24971538Danielle recognizes this but simply continues to do it anyways because she enjoys being controlled, dominated, and maltreated.
>>24971904Put some clothes on ma'am. It's Christmas day.
>>24962028Roasties are so fucking repulsive
>>24971904Why does she wax her arms, happy trail, legs, inner thighs, pussy, ass, and shave her armpits and pluck her nips though?
Basically I'd like to understand why he felt the need to abandon the usual progressive strategy of pushing the BIG changes anti-democratically through the courts. This was always the way to go for the prior 100 years. I know he was concerned that this had somewhat run out of steam (as he mentions several times in his speech writing notes in the margins). Obviously we now see the results of trying to force a major change through the democratic process instead of forcing it on the populace at the end of a lawsuit.But was there a general consensus among progressives at the time that illusory democracy (where all actual sovereignty is held by the judiciary) thing had in fact played all its cards/ his hand was forced, or was Obama going solo here?
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
>>24972216this portrait is so shitwas this really the best painter they could get?
>Reddit spacing>strawmen>False premises >Allusions to alleged things with no sources>"judiciary" (It was passed by the legislative)>ForceLemme explain something to you right now. The ACA was plan based on a Republican thinktank group that had already been squeezed through in Massachusetts. It is a gift to the insurance industry with marginal (and now sidestepped) provisions that they not drop people for "pre-existing conditions" after you've paid them a ton. It is shit, but it used to be even shittier. It is shit now because of the private insurance industry. The general consensus among progressives is that they would like Bernie Sanders Medicare for all INSTEAD. This is why Hillary lost so handily.>>24972258Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
This isn't reddit and it's the educated board friendo, I was assuming we wouldn't run into the likes of a dogmatic who would deny an obvious truth for the sake of a internet shitflinging contest.It is true, and has been a strategy since at least Roosevelt, labor rights, civil rights, Womens right and then promotion, lgbtq rights and then promotion, and many other things (this isn't reddit im not listing 200 for updoots) primarily were forced via the courts. Obama did acknowledge this and you will find it in his speech notes.Go back.
Thoughts on Boris Savinkov's writings? Pale horse, memoirs of a terrorist etc. Worth reading?
>>24972403I read Pale Horse, it was self aggrandising bullshit that said nothing about the times he lived in. I was left with the impression that he was a Chris McCandless rather than a Spartacus.
>>24972403I wonder how many of his colleagues turned out to be secret police.Pale Horse is meh, his memoirs are more interesting. It's a good read when you know a bit about revolutionary terrorism in Imperial Russia. Histrionic moralfags blow up people to gain political concessions and end up hindering reform to the point where a group of more grounded moralfags comes into power and kills them all. it's all very interesting.
>>24972403I liked the pale horse and the black horse a lot. I would even count the pale horse among my favourites.
why is there such an enormous library of literature in support of third worlders whose governments have betrayed them to westerners in exchange for money, but the library of literature is virtually nonexistent in support of westerners whose governments have betrayed them to third worlders in exchange for... something? why is there such a glaring difference in the quantity of literature for these two topics which are fundamentally the same, despite the lesser written topic actually being more important?
>>24972272>https://militarnyi.com/en/articles/u-s-army-report-how-china-fights-in-large-scale-combat-operations/>Through sophisticated AI-driven propaganda and targeted disinformation, China aims to manipulate military and civilian leaders’ perceptions through the cognitive domain to cause hesitation or paralysis in critical decision making processes. These operations are supported by China’s global intelligence apparatus that will collect on the intervening enemy’s military and civil activities to gain information and provide early warning. China’s expansive intelligence collection capabilities include satellites, high-altitude balloons, unmanned aircraft systems, human intelligence assets, and open-source intelligence operations.So Chinese are targeting boomer leaders with AI slop to confuse them? Makes a lot of sense desu, I wondered how these retards could be so completely out of touch. Doesn't make our situation any better though, just means we're facing a two front way.
>>24972285>just means we're facing a two front way.pretty much, though if there isn't sufficient force to break out both ways at once, a single direction must be chosen first to break out through and that direction has to be the weaker one of the two in order to be successful. the foreign nations are not the weaker of the two
>>24972132History is written by the victors.
>>24972272>read my libtard propaganda slopI don't think 'I will tranny.
>>24972384>military defense papers are libtard propaganda slopalright
>2026>I am forgotten
>>24971793>>24971813>>24971956I am staying out of the Michelle business but it is somewhat diverting to see the pseudo-religiosity and knee jerk appeals to the high priests as opposed to just posting the text itself and showing or at least explaining why it is good.That you all feel comfortable dismissing the backwoods retard in this way (when what is going on now is going on) is why i suspect his kind will eventually turn your kind into some variety of smoked meat or however they do it in kansas or southern Missouri or wherever he lives.As a perpetual fence sitter I remain now, as always, comfy.
>>24972256I wouldn't be too proud of being a coward if I were you, there's nothing particularly noble about it
>>24971745rupi kaur was always much much bigger.and genuine.kaur's stuff actually appeals to people.no matter what we think of it
>>24972256i'm not American so some of your local references there are lost on me, but are you saying you like the poetry of Amanda Gorman?do you think it is good poetry?if so, can you link us to some of your favourite Gorman poems, so we can try to see what you see?
>>24972295Where did i suggest i was proud? I am comfy. I am an outsider. I'm an island unto myself.Look fella, I went to the schools where they tried a lot of the things that /pol/ bitches about now out first. I learned pretty early on the as a straight white male, my voice isn't needed. It's other people's turn to talk now, and so on.Fine, fine, says I. I won't be bother. I'll just do my own thing.And that's what I'm doing. I'm sure that makes you unhappy to hear, because that sort vibe is what killed y'alls attempt last time in Russia. But, it is what it is. If you can do it without us, you can do it. If you can't, ya can't.But I do wish you good luck pardner. I won't stand in your way.
WHY IS EVERY FUCKING MODERN AUTHOR NOW A WOMAN? WHERE DID THE MEN GO?
>>24968349I post among you gentlemen. I am too lazy to write my novels so I just play them in my head over and over
>>24968349they literally don't publish you because you're a man. there's another post on this board right now about men basically getting fucked since 2014 by diversity shit.
>>24968492I feel like women making up most fiction writers makes sense desu. They're probably mostly publishing pulp romance slop and their fanfics with the character's names changed.
>>24968349we live in an era where men are the most boring, coddled, childish people on this planet and you wonder why women are more creative? you must not have been paying attention
>>249717222/10 bait. try again, faggot
What's the lost books you'd most have liked to read? For me, it's >Hecataeus' Periodos ges, precursor to Herodotus>Alcmaeon of Croton's medical works>Pherecydes of Syros' Heptamychos
>>24971869>Epicurus' Concerning the Gods, On Music, On Nature
>>24971869The entirety of the Epic Cycle
My diary desu
