How do i make reading at night more comfortable?The bright screen hurts my eyes so bad.At least on my phone i can read fine on dark mode.
just came here to say fuck your thread and the kindlekiddies posting their diarrhea
>>25026252fuck you pastanigger
>>25024179i have my Kobo Libra 2 always set at 1% brightness and like 80-90% of the Natural Light sliderit's great at night
>>25025653it's not about thing, japan so much as thing, not bezospilled. chinese ereaders are fine too.
>>25026469jailbreak your kindle? I'm sorry but this just seems like a problem that an illiterate zoomer would have.
What books does he read?
>>25026641>looksmaxxing is about womenNGMI
what viral marketing agency do these guys use? i want to make some wagie to have to spam me all over the internet lol
>>25025516>>25026641Who is this guy?
>>25026641Pretty sure looksmaxing is aware of the dark triad and if Tony wasn't a fat pig while still being a psychotic gangster he'd pull even more tail. You might note they're not lusting after Johnny Sack or Paulie, not Phil Retardo, Lupertazzi, etc. Can you put it together or do you need more help?
>>25025516
Ive been comparing translations and the NIV seems like the single easiest to digest translationis there anything actually THAT wrong with it to warrant avoiding it, or are complaints largely nitpicky?
>>25025370>The Masoretic text (the standard Hebrew version used in translatios)Actually, the standard Hebrew version used in the KJV is different from the Ben Asher Masoretic text if you want to get into the details. The KJV was translated from the Bomberg received text of the Hebrew Old Testament that was first printed via printing press in 1525. The "Masoretic text" is based primarily on Codex Leningradensis, which was only published by Rudolf Kittel around 1937, and it does vary in some places from the Bomberg text.So, no, the "standard Hebrew" version used, in the KJV translation at least, is not the Masoretic text, technically speaking.>Many Christological passages are heavily corrupted and obscured,Got any examples in mind or are you just saying this? I'd be interested if you actually had any examples in mind.>which makes sense because it was preserved by RabbisThose who claim to be Jews and Rabbis today have nothing to do with the ancient or biblical Jews.Also, I would add that if you unironically think Christians didn't preserve the original source text for the entire Bible, including the Old Testament in its original languages, you are really quite historically illiterate.
>>25025362>Jesus multiplying hamburgers and soda for a crowdNot beer? Some savior of humanity.
>>25025407>(a lot of vintage Catholic bibles use a mixture of Masoretic Text for non-Christ-related passages with the Vulgate and the Septuagint for Christ-related ones)Got any real examples of this to share?>the researchers who claim it has no differences to the Dead Sea Scrolls happen to be Jewish researchersIf this was true don't you think a Christian researcher would have disproven it by now? As far as I can tell the Isaiah scroll legitimately matches the Hebrew source used by the KJV. That is to say, it matches the Hebrew version, not the Greek translation known as the Septuagint. You think it's being misreported by everyone? I think not. God preserved the original source for all parts of the Bible in their original languages. Christians preserved the Hebrew text apart from the efforts of the Masoretes. The Masoretes got it wrong in a few places such as Malachi 1:12 which is supposed to have the Tetragrammaton, see pic.I really want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you really sound like you don't actually know what you're talking about, anon.>be it adding Zionist interpretations of verses,I agree that there are zionist interpretations of verses in some modern translations. But where are you finding this in the KJV or its sources? Got any examples?I can show you tons of places where the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament) removes Messianic prophecies. Psalm 2:12, Isaiah 9:6, Jeremiah 33:15, Zechariah 12:10, Hosea 11:1, and Habakkuk 3:13. Check any of those in the Septuagint and you'll see Messianic prophecies only in the Hebrew source used by the KJV, but removed in the Septuagint.In Hosea 11:1, the Gospel of Matthew quotes the messianic prophecy directly in Matthew 2:15, and he quotes the Hebrew (which says "Son" singular) against the Septuagint (which says "children" plural).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25025974>the 1885 English Revised Version which is a revision of the 1769 revision of the KJV.No it's not. The ERV of 1885 is completely different from the KJV. The 1885 translation of the New Testament is based on a source text that is about 2000 words shorter than what the 1611 translators used. The 1885 English Revised Version has entire verses removed compared to the KJV.
>>25026621Unicorn is another word for rhinocerous. Your point?
Nabby on Ezra Pound>Pound, Ezra. Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud.
>>25025936Cantos is unreadable swill and this guy is only shilled for his political positions like Mishima is.
On Ulysses >An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. When one can have the cooked flesh, why have the raw?Melville was a working man who just basically read a lot. She had in fact read several books by him, and said in her essay on him>Was not some one talking about the South Seas? ‘Typee,’ they said, was in their opinion the best account ever written of—something or other. Memory has dropped that half of the sentence, and then, as memory will, has drawn a great blue line and a yellow beach. Waves are breaking; there is a rough white frill of surf; and how to describe it one does not know, but there is, simultaneously, a sense of palm trees, yellow limbs, and coral beneath clear waterAs for Moby Dick, she said the prose was rather florid but it's greatest strength lay in anticipating the modernist style she her would later perfect
it was easy to hate something that evolved while everything else was perfect, but what would you expect from the wonder miracle child?yes, on one hand it is better to be jealous and attack but imagine what you missed. i suppose the moral of the story is be careful of what you wish for, or it might just happen. in this space, it is better to be an adventurer and let things be bygones and pass you by.
>>25026304/thread
>>25025945/x/phile here. Her accomplishments aside, this woman's face always triggers a stress response in me whenever I'm cursed to see it. Any amateur physiognomist in the house? I didn't know God made them this weird.
>>25026295it aint easy being cheezy
>>25026304this is the bookstore/library, the toy store is down the street
>expect genreslop>it's actually the most profound meditations on politics, history, being, and identity that I've ever readWhat the fuck Poland why did you keep this from us for 20 years
>>25022222Fucking checked
I hope some autist expands the Wiki summary soon, especially the science shit
I might be retarded because I don't understand whether the Ice actually changes their personalities or if it's just a metaphor
>Polish Gravity's Rainbow >instead of rockets it's just iceThis sounds like a racist joke, the only way it could be funnier is if it was potatoes
>>25022167When I was studying at an university in 2009, everyone had it in their rooms and nobody actually read it.
>Says he's at 1,100 pages for TWoW, unclear how many more to go>Jon Snow seemingly confirmed to have TWOW chapters>Began writing two Dunk & Egg stories earlier last year>Called his relationship with Condal "abysmal"
>>25025204>Every time I accept that it's over he comes out again and whines and it triggers the fuck out of me.Don't listen to that little bitch Anon, Anon. You're completely right to feel this way. Even if we agreed to pretend that there's nothing wrong with him being comically incompetent on purpose, the whining would still be utterly contemptible and galling.
>>25025206to be honest, he slowly fucked up. He was supposed to finish the books before they got to that part.
>>25020960>Some characters who are alive in my book are going to be dead in the show, and vice versaHere is the problem. His whole view of depth and intrigue involve who lives and who dies. It's the M Night, Rian Johnson mode of thinking, what a tweeest! Subverted you expectations, have I? Fat hack
>>25020972>I can’t do this, it will change the whole bookOh no, can't have that
>>25020980>“I was going to kill more people,” he muses. “Not the ones they killed [in the show].> was going to have Sansa die, but she’s been so appealing in the show, maybe I’ll let her live …”He's become a parody of himself
Any more books like this?
I agree with the fundamental thesis of Vilar's work and, despite it being 50 years old and obviously a product of her social milieu, I think it's still very much apt today. That said, I find femdom to be extremely erotic.Hard to reconcile these views.
>"I continued searching for a job, but I still wasn’t able to find one. I refused all of the jobs that Tony suggested to me. The problem was that most of the jobs that were available to me at the time were jobs I considered to be beneath me. My mother wanted me to get a simple retail job, and the thought of myself doing that was mortifying. It would be completely against my character. I am an intellectual who is destined for greatness. I would never perform a low-class service job.">"My father told me that I could work for his friend Karl Champley for a few weeks, to help him build a staircase in his new house. I knew Karl quite well, for he used to come over to father’s for dinner occasionally. Karl was just finishing up building his new house in Woodland Hills, just a few minutes away from father’s house, and he offered to hire me to help with the staircase.">"I agreed to take this job. Sure, construction work was lowly and laborious, but this was different. This was more like assisting a friend, and it would be in a private environment. It was the perfect temporary job opportunity, and it would most definitely get my mother off my back. I still wasn’t able to drive, so I rode my bicycle there from mother’s house every morning. The trip on the bicycle took 30 minutes. It was grueling to ride a bicycle up that steep winding road every day, but it provided good exercise, which I was in need of. I worked with Karl every weekday for about three weeks. It turned out to be quite a pleasant experience. Karl was very friendly and I enjoyed working with him. When we finished the staircase, which was a spiral staircase that led up to his roof-deck, we took a moment to admire the work we did.">"On my last day working for Karl, I decided to stop by at father’s house to have a drink. I was quite parched from the bicycle ride. I entered the house without knocking because I believed I had the right to. As the eldest son, the house should be my house after my father. Soumaya was surprised to see me, and she got angry that I didn’t knock. To teach me a lesson, she ordered me to go back outside and knock. I refused, telling her that she has no right to order me around anymore. I then helped myself to a glass of water. Soumaya knocked the glass of water out of my hand and it shattered on the floor. Father clamored angrily up the stairs from his office demanding to know what was going on. The three of us had a heated argument, and of course father took Soumaya’s side. They both kicked me out of the house, telling me that I’m not to return. I felt betrayed and humiliated as I furiously made my way back to mother’s house. At that very moment, I hated both of them, and I wouldn’t see either of them for many months. For those months, my father was dead to me. My mother was all I had left in this bleak world."Why do you think Elliot settled on this writing style? It reminds me of A Confederacy of Dunces if it was written in first person.
if he had any self-awareness he would've given up on the whole "become God and genocide roasties" thing and became a writer. he could've pulled mad art hoes and booktok bitches. even a nerd like DFW was knee deep in gash, Elliot would definitely've gotten play. actual MK-Ultra psycho-sexual sadist murder-rape guys with 30 fucking people in their floorboards have bitches writing them in prison. literally anybody can score. he just had to turn his contempt for broads into something productive. that's his great failure.
>>25025347>muh bitches and hoes nigga fammin cuh bro
>>25025418syfm playa hating ass nigga
>>25025298his dad knocked up a gook, the gook stole as much from him as possible, his gook son was a spoiled brat and would flip out at not being given everything for free, the new wife wanted nothing to do with the old skank or the bastard adult son, the dad was sick of the bastards shit too. antifamily courts separate children from their fathers intentionally to destroy the children. if the bastard had the self awareness to kill the right people instead of the people who were immediately not giving him what he wanted then he could have gotten what he wanted anyway
>>25024440Unironically true, this must have mindbroken him. Elliot's sister is to blame for his full descent into madness. One imagines the rest of awkward, traumatizing experiences he lived were not enough to drive him into insanity, they are fairly normal, at best he would've ended up a cynical loser and like some anon here suggests a writer. The thought, however, of his OWN family getting fucked (literally) by whom he deemed were at fault of every evil in his life, must have never left his psyche. You can laugh off the cringe interactions with girls during your youth, but not hearing your own sister getting dicked down putting down your self-esteem.
"Opening" EditionPrevious: >>25020764/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below 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.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.Beginner guides on writing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRMComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25026390I've been working on a science fiction story for over a decade, but I'm too lazy to ever finish it. What advice would you have for that?
>>25026553Fuck off, and don't post here again.
>>25026390Bill sighed as he loaded a bag of garbage into the can. His life sucked and will suck forever because he's a willfully malicious piece of shit. The end.
>>25026390chaotic evil is better lawful good
>>25026423top
the book of my life, uh oh my eye...happiness in it is 2 linesand the rest is TORTURETORTURETORTUREAnd the ink is from my tears.
bump
Sounds as good a reason as any to kys.The shitty poem and ai image provide further argument.
Why are writers seemingly the only people who can live in ways that completely betray their core ideas and still be taken seriously and have those betrayed ideas lauded?
>>25021501>>25021510The OP is referring to the old leftist canard* that Rand was a hypocrite because, "contrary" to her hyper-individualistic worldview, she took welfare, or public assistance (that is, government money) later in life.*The word "canard" is the fancy way of describing a shitty, piss-poor argument. Rand was merely reclaiming that which was stolen from her. Now Marx on the other hand...
>>25026251>dude was more interested in historiography, economic cycles, seemingly contradictory mathematicsI was raised in a very conservative household and when I finally read Marx at like 18 I was honestly shocked at what a fucking boogeyman he had been sold to me as. Honestly was a pretty interesting guy with interesting ideas. Idk how his shit broke so many brains. I disagree with most of what he wrote because I think the idea that history has a direction is retarded (and because the rate of profit is not falling and because LTV has been thoroughly BTFO) but I would have a beer with him
>>25026517He'd make you pay for his beer.
>>25020916>"I can hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening">actually spends his days sperging about spindles of yarn
>>25026517>because the rate of profit is not fallingI don't even need to provide you with the statistics (which are abundant and easily accessible) that disprove this because you just need to think critically for two seconds to understand that it's almost impossible to not be true
can we throw up some motherfuckin W's in the chat for this?
>>25025129>state buildingThat’s a myopic view.They have been collectivist for a very very long time, again due to being a mountain country with once central plain from which all culture radiates. Their own “personality” or input beyond pure determinism came from the reliance on rivers rather than roads, pushing things even more towards concentrated urbanization.>filmsI took a look at these creators but their work doesn’t seem that well reviewed by the people who are out there looking for exactly that sort of thing and are more predisposed to glaze it up.From the few examples of Chinese popular media I have seen, it is some of the lowest brow stuff ever created in the modern age.Most of it is completely incomprehensible babble where temporal consistency and writing aren’t even considered. You’d have to be sub 70 iq to watch and be upset. There are exceptions like the three kingdoms tv show which was enjoyable thanks to a great cast and not being written by the modern Chinese in its broad strokes. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25022654He's now in the streamer stage where he pretends to be knowledgeable and cultured. Next he'll start sharing his political opinions.
>>25022654If, by reading, he stops being a dumb nigger, he will disappoint the fans who liked him because he was a dumb nigger.
>bruh I got dat dog in me fr fr im like an entrepreneur on god this shit low key fire
>>25026640Let's be realistic, that's never going to happen.
Just bought this for $3. Did I fuck up? Will I regret it for the rest of my life?
>>25026273[Had to edit because the Greek showed up weird]Well, let's compare the Greek. Not in any "lol gottee" way, but we can be more specific here, and maybe both learn something. Let's consider a couple of qualities: # of words (= whether passages are equally condensed), specific renderings, and phrasing. To take the first example:τοῦτο λέγων δοκεῖ ἔμοιγε καλῶς λέγειν I'll put this literally, since it's short and straightforward: "This that-which-is-said it-seems to-me-at-least beautifully said." Six words in Greek, nine in Reeve, thirteen in Bloom. So Reeve gets very close to the length. Now, he also reduces λέγων and λέγειν to just "saying", and the emphatic ἔμοιγε is reduced to "my". So Bloom's more elaborated translation seems to capture the content somewhat better, in keeping the the repetition of the verb λέγειν and preserving the emphatic ἔμοιγε ("at least in my"). Bloom also translates δοκεῖ by bring out the relation of that verb to the word for opinion, which is taken up explicitly in books 5-7. I do think Reeve is more accurate with "a fine saying" than Bloom's "said a fine thing," though I'd really prefer that they had used "beautiful" and not "fine," which today tends to mean something softer, like "okay" or "alright." Both of them shove δοκεῖ ἔμοιγε to the end of their sentences. Second example:ἀλλὰ μέντοι, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, Σιμωνίδῃ γε οὐ ῥᾴδιον ἀπιστεῖν--σοφὸς γὰρ καὶ θεῖος ἀνήρ--τοῦτο μέντοι ὅτι ποτὲ λέγει, σὺ μέν, ὦ Πολέμαρχε, ἴσως γιγνώσκεις, ἐγὼ δὲ ἀγνοῶ This would require more explaining to put literally, so I'll skip that. Twenty-nine words in Greek, thirty-three in Reeve, thirty-two in Bloom, which puts them on similar footing, they're both in range with the Greek. ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ isn't translated in Reeve, that would be Socrates' narrative insertion "I said" in Bloom's. Reeve treats ἀπιστεῖν as "disagree," and it can connote that, but Bloom's "disbelieve" is literal. I think Reeve's "godlike" for θεῖος is stronger than Bloom's "divine." Neither of them really render the next clause literally; Reeve turns it into a question, Bloom uses an English idiom ("what on Earth"). They both render ἴσως γιγνώσκεις as "perhaps you know", and Bloom is slightly more similar to the Greek word order ("σὺ...Πολέμαρχε, ἴσως γιγνώσκεις"; "you, Polemarchus, perhaps know"). They both effectively the same way, Bloom seems more comfortable with contractions. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Bloom's edition is pretty good. I enjoyed his long interpretive essay after the translation proper.Fun fact: Alan Bloom was a Straussian.
>>25026393The funner fact is that he studied with Kojeve.
>>25026393>Thinkers have exoteric and esoteric teachings.>My exoteric teaching is that young people should spend more time studying the classics that I teach.>My esoteric teaching is that I'm gay and you should have gay sex with me.
>Their idea of Democracy was a playground where people could live out all their wacky fantasies without prejudice and the only people who would dislike it would be rich, coddled assholesIf only
ITT: style without substance
>>25025857French Realism is very much the same as French Naturalism, it's just the latter is more narrowly defined to the stage but that attitude toward the stage was an extension of realism. Just like Chekhov's naturalist works for stage are a natural extension of his realist prose
>>25025352Hemingway i'd say
>>25025289That was his goal. Flaubert wanted to write a novel of pure style. Looks like he succeeded since you’re here seething.
>>25026364I’m not seething at all, I’m not even criticizing it, as I enjoyed it. It’s just all so vapid, makes me realize shitlibs have been around for hundreds of years
>>25025289>In a letter of 1852 Flaubert announced his desire to write 'a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the internal strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support; a book which would have almost no subject, or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible, if such a thing is possible'. sad that he never made good on this. think of all the lack of substance we missed out on.
