it precludes us from staying in touch with the primal reality of change & becoming. to intellectually apprehend it isn't the same as directly experiencing itthus, consumption of the apollonian drug must ceaseor is it congenial to indulge in psychostimulants to our hearts' content; thereby ignoring heraclitus' moving world for the sake of a still world? but is there such thing? a still world
>>25007370cobbee enhances flow statesergo it's good
No, its just not allowing you to become what you shouldn't become.Other drugs will put you in a hypnotic state and/or make you more susceptible to being transformed into something else or have your self flow into any vessel that interceptors will want to take you, rather than the correct pathway you should take in your life.I already beat you. Why are you still coming back for more?
Stims are Dionysian.Downers are Apollonian.I won't elaborate.
>>25007370I disagree >>25007419I'm coming for/on your mom
What book do you read to prepare you for death
Suttree
montaigne
>>25007537A Game of Thrones should put me in the mood for dying.
the bible audiobook read by larry king
>>25007537I wouldn't read.I would write my final words and try to make them good enough that even people who didn't personally know me would remember me.Though a week is one hell of a deadline. Probably would just write a manifesto and go out in a blaze of glory. If I had a year would instead try to make a decent martial arts manual and training guide based on my lifetime of training and experience. Main reason I haven't worked on such a book already is because I am always learning new stuff. But if I knew I was dying I would switch gears from learning stuff to writing down what I know for the benefit of the martial artist after me.So much hard won stuff is lost every time a old master of their art dies.
Is experimental literature lame
>>25007460it's pseudslopif you're a pseudpiggy maybe you'll enjoy it
>>25007460kinda yeahhad a good run, some fun shit, but it slowly killed off mainstream interest in "serious" lit by denouncing anything even remotely conventional as "middlebrow"when that tension is gone all that remains is masturbation
>>25007460And an experimental lit writer, yes. If you use rigorous structure and decades of practice to create something insane, cool. Every half ass outsider art no punctuation in coherent slop piece? Pass.
>Now, let us design the ideal government, using only facts and logic.>To begin with, consider the case of a man with a magic ring that turns him invisible.
>>25007262yeah that one was a meme, he does it for real in Laws after he realized that socrates was a retard.
You don't understand logic. If you think "magic" is illogical.
>>25007487Excellent point.
>>25007546yeah i know. i made it.
at the edge of the world 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: >>24975576
>>25006306>>25006355>>25006570
>>25006873Ya those look super duper AI
>>25004479I read them years ago, before ASOIAF, and really enjoyed them.>>25004757>you might recognize some characters yoinked (that's ok, everyone does that)>Robert and Mahaut of Artois are amazing characters, Mahaut especiallyPhilip the Long is literally me
>>25006873the wall one looks especially sus to me since i remember that the wall is supposed to have a bunch of buildings and not a single actual castle.
Why hasnt grrm (pbuh) made any blog posts in over 3 months
On December 4th, George R R Martin handed in a finished manuscript of Winds of Winter. I took notes as I reviewed the book. I did not read it in full and in depth, but skimmed for my job. I expect the news to break next week, so here's the rough story by chapter for all my buddies here.There are 96 chapters. I will summarize each one briefly. Sadly the storyline does somewhat follow the show.>Epilogue - Forley PresterPOV is a knight of Lannister escorting Rob's wife and Uncle to Casterly Rock. Snows have slowed them down so they are weeks late. One night a wolfpack led by Arya's wolf attacks the host killing everyone>Chapter 1 - Daenerys IDany is being 'escorted' by the Dothraki back to Vaes Dothrak for judgement. She sent away Drogon and was caught, but the dragon is circling. She is considering her fate all the while the dragon circles overhead. Her thoughts about Mereen and her Brother continue to develop and shape the rest of the book.>2 - Cersei IIn the aftermath of Kevan's death, Cersei is completely shut down with rage feeling powerless. Mace arrived the morning of and put the castle under protective lockdown and Cersei is 100% convinced that Margery is fucking Tyrion, and planning on killing Tommen. Cersei is banned from seeing Tommen given her trial and she is also convinced the Tyrells killed Jamie. Qyburn does his best to manage her as the trial approaches
>the hightowers allying with euronIs quite possibly the most retarded lie I've ever heard someone say when it comes to ASOIAF.
YOU FUCKING LIAR
>>25000383Two more weeks, trust the plan
Nope I am not reading that shit real or not. I just do not care. Tell George the best he can do for his series is leave it unfinished.
>>25006915Euron is SauronSaruman who is initially good, joins Sauron. Saruman is like Leyton Hightower who will ally with Euron
>Marxism is a religionit seems like a reddit tier observation but it's literally true. I didn't realize how true it was until I started reading more about the history of the christian church. marxism and early christianity and islam follow almost the exact same formula and psychology.
>>25007261He was the prototype for the Finder's cult.
>>25007387The social media "leftists" who just want socialized health care have only Mamdani.The literary communists who have actually read marx see capitalism progressing as expected.
>>25007519He talks about the schools and its failures openly in his autobiography. there certainly was no pedophilia there, I imagine that news clipping is simply trying to be sensational, just as modern reactionary media does.
Did Russell ever contribute anything of value to the sciences or philosophy?
>>25007536he literally invented type theory in logic
What are some beautifully sad books?
>>25007058
The Last Unicorn is both beautiful and sad.>>25007080Les Miserables is not sad. It is one of the most uplifting and hopeful books I have read.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation's last chapter got me incredibly emotional
>>25007495Anon the title is literally "The Miserable" and a ton of horrible shit happens to everyone
>>25007500I didn't have much sympathy for the main character's friend so it didn't move me much
start doing this
>>25002865That to me is what makes their book club look actually a real use of one's time and and not wasteful. Go there, have a few beers and get recommendations of shit you wouldn't hear about otherwise."I read X this week it's about Y, I thought Z about it" with several guys doing it is a far more useful way to find out about books that might interest you, and think if you trust these people's opinions or not, than getting together, all picking the same book and arguing about it. Doesn't even matter what books then. You could have guys who only read non-fiction or only read fantasy or only read engineering manuals and you could still get something out of it. Hell even women with schlickfiction since it would just be an amusing aside rather than the focus.The latter with one book for all is scheduled ego masturbation, or if we're being charitable a boring study circle for books that likely do not have anything important to study.
>>25002945gb2 OF
/lit/ meetup in Nepal?
>>25004033Where in Canada? I just divorced my wife and am living with my parents again and I would enthusiastically join and help grow your book club.
>>25007513IqaluitGettin freaky with Eskimo babes
/lit/ memes
>>25001361Best template
>>25001940Arthur memes were also great
>>24989023
Given the global shit storm brewing currently, what are the best nonfiction works that describe what’s going on and where things are gonna go? I’m especially interested in the global elite/globalist and political economy angle in addition to how technology is going to play into everything, especially between China and America specifically but for humanity in general. Much of all this comes down to who the real top players are, what they are fighting for, and where the odds place them currently going into the shit storm. The elite angle is especially important because it’s becoming more and more apparent that western elites are really a giant international crime syndicate.Energy and space flight/infrastructure are going to be central as well, so would love if anyone can drop good recs to discuss.
>>25005402Seems like their goal is 'network states', ie destroy every nation state and grind it down into a bunch of catalonias that can be cut off and starved to death by global finance on a whim.Luckily China and Russia are both unwilling to hand over their state infrastructure to make this happen, so who knows what is going on now. Some kind of war maybe?
>>25005402
>>25005450I didn't like how he talks down to the reader
>>25005450Would you recommend this?
>>25005402bum
>Henry Darger was a janitor in Chicago, and he pretty much kept to himself. He never mentioned that he was writing a book. But just after Darger's death, his landlord discovered his magnum opus, "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion." The book is several volumes and 15,000 pages (single space!) of strange, fantastical adventure stories, accompanied by over 300 illustrations of children and semi-human creatures. Some of the illustrations take the form of collage, and the largest clocks in at 10 feet wide.Are you writing a secret masterwork, /lit/?
/ic/fag here that occasionally lurksDarger didn't know how to draw but that didn't stop himhe cut pieces from magazines and other media and would trace over and use it as reference and then mesh it all into making truly beautiful artwork I believe their landlord had already seen some of his work, or maybe it was his friend (of which Darger possibly only really had one as he was a very quiet and reclusive man) and they told him that he should put his work out there for the world to see, that people would love itby this point Darger was already old and frail and he simply said that it was too late for thatIf you don't know, I recommend reading about outsider art and outsider artists if people like Darger interesting youI also recommend this 3 episode show, all on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pEyeZhXOUw
from Darger's apartment
>>25007210
>>25007217I believe the landlord didn't demand Darger pay full rent because of how poor he was and they probably felt bad cause he was an old man
>>25004540>Are you writing a secret masterwork, /lit/?I was. Since age 7 I would imagine this massive war between two microscopic races of people on an alternate mega earth, I used to play with twigs and bits of paper in school and pretend they were ships and fighters battling each other. Anyway it eventually grew into this huge narrative from elementary to middle school, then after that I was homeschooled so I started imagining it in my head instead, imagining a tree outside my house was a titanic city many miles tall, able to stand up to enemy siege for years. The main characters died when I left middle school, their son overthrew the corrupt king of the tree city and rallied it for war. I imagined snowfall each year from then on as thousands of enemy landing craft descending to invade. During the winter they'd fight off the enemy siege, then in spring they'd strike back. Eventually when I was 19 I figured it had been more time with this guy as the main character, than with the original main characters. So I had him die and had his kids became main characters but it wasn't the same and I didn't like them. So his daughter went in a quest to revive him, guided by visions form their special psychic gifts, to use ancient nanotech to reconstruct his body. After that the whole story felt fake and more and more I trailed off imagining it. I was 23 then. At 25 I became a full-time agie and that killed my imaginative drive. I did write fragments of the story though. Around 300,000 words. Didn't even cover half of what happened. Did hundreds of shitty drawings too. There's an outline of the whole plot, me recounting all the events I imagined in my head. I feel kinda sad I don't imagine it anymore. In some ways I moved on, in other ways some part of my soul just died. That autistic constant imaginative drive just rotted into nothing.
A good 95% of independent bookstores aren't actually for people who read, they're for tourists and rich "shop local" liberals who like the "cozy aesthetic", and they mostly sell trash that you could get on Amazon for 50% cheaper. I hope Bezos puts them all out of business. Fuck you and fuck your locally owned chunguscore Instagram bookstore. Let only the true, used bookstores owned by some 90 year old who clearly doesn't want you there survive.
I saw that the last independent used book store in my college town permanently closed and that really sucked. A small town not far away also lost its only independent used book store, but new owners bought it, and while its not quite as good as it was, I was glad to pay it a visit and see it keeping alive.
>>24986590The only independent bookstore in my neck of the woods is ran by an overtly camp—but, for the most part friendly—old man who sells only crimeslop and similar airport bookshop-tier novella with a small selection of children's books/toys at the rear of the incredibly compact shop. I was looking forward to visiting for the first time last year but then I realised they had nothing of value to me outside of a tiny selection of Macmillan Collector's Library books near the exit. Navigating the shop was a nightmare, ten or so older women in a building no larger than the average bedroom all congregating in the same section. I bought two of those books but that was it, would rather put up with the mouth breathers and the great unwashed in Waterstones than step foot in there again.Lots of charity shops nearby but the only books they sell are whatever the relatives found in grandmas' house when they put her in a care home, usually WW2 women focused boomerslop, the kind of Danielle Steele / Kirsty Dougal shit which you can find in supermarkets beside the Richard Osman and biographies of people I've never heard of.
>>25000000I've been permanently banned from my local Barnes and Noble for hate crimes
Buying books in general is retarded. Go to a fucking library or buy an ebook reader and pirate everything.
>>24986590Local bookstores often sell used books. Advantage independent
guys i don't think the greeks were human
Twitter screenshot OPs should be a permaban
>>25007444stfu i can't say faggot and nigger on twitter.
>>25007451You can't say it on /lit/ either
>>25007451We are in 2026 my guy, you can absolutelly say nigger and faggot in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and 4chan.
>>25007437Fuck off with this platonist crap, the Stoics were the real greek philosopher who surpassed Ar*stotle and Pl*to, however their advanced metaphysical and logical writings were burned by the christcucks because the stoics were materialists, i.e. not useful for the christcuck grift, unlike pl*to and ar*stotle, who never surpassed the sophists. Fortunately we can still read the writings of Zhu Xi, who discovered the same truths that the stoics did.
New to HP Lovecraft, started with thisSome of the worst writing I've ever seen
>>25007331>pseud postWay to prove the point.
>>25007335>no argumentI accept your concession.
>>25007337The concession is that you're a pseud who confirmed everything said in >>25007243. I'm glad you accept it.
>>25007373>uhhhh if i can't understand it then it doesn't mean anythingsorry bud but you're brown
>>25006837Could you elaborate why did you think it was unreadable? Was it the vocabulary, the narrative structure, maybe a boring plot?
