I don't like how the internal narrator that lives in my heae sounds.
>>25185631Thanks for the rec. If reading him changes my opinion on life, therefore who i am, is he wrong?
>>25185640No.
"Welcome to risk management"
When I read the name of the rose I imagined William sounding like David Wenham
>>25185747I disagree. Truth is not objective.
I just started reading this, and it's fantastic. I only regret that I got the 2024 version, with a foreword by Patton Oswald seething about the evils of internet trolls. I'm on "Riders of the Purple Wage" right now, and it's excellent.
>>25183147Check out Greatest Hits by Harlan, it's a collection of his... greatest hits.
>>25183147I skipped Dangerous Visions, and have Again, Dangerous Visions instead. I was not a huge fan of the first 3 page story. I have been too busy with other short story collections I have purchased to continue.Ellison himself is a good writer though, but also insane.
>>25185808I'm reading them in order and only halfway through the first one, but it's definitely worth picking up. Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer and Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. Dick are certified bangers.
>>25185808What, no Last Dangerous Visions???
>>25183147He's really one note and shallow beyond the entertainment factor of his authorial persona.
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>>25180992nobody needs to be reading dog shit like OP when there's thousands of actually worthwhile books to read
>>25178718It's far worse than that.
>>25183552Such as?
>>25175133Not how that works when “I take reading seriously” can lead someone on many different paths.
>>25180822>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DIE FOR THE JEWS ANON NO NO DIE FOR THE KIKES!!!!!
So it's just stoicism + astrology?
>>25184559StoΙcism teaches you the fundamentals for pursuing ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΕΡΓΟΝ
Stoicism is (literally) Cynicism for dweebs
>>25184540Neoplatonism is really just like stoicism with idealism. See for instance Simplicious' commentary on Epictetus' Enchiridion
>>25184572Stoicism grew out of Platonism, and Plato's Socratic ethics is the background of Stoic ethics
>>25184540Half of these are Kybalion fanfiction
Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217
>>25184386Haven't read it yet.
What horror stories are there that don't actually suck? I feel like short stories from creepypasta end up being spookier than like 95% of books in the horror genre.
How is it?
Is T.E.D. Klein worth reading? The Ceremonies looks pretty great
>>25185361>phallic monsters>naked woman>Lincoln as CharonI'd say it's a nice cover.
What do we rate the tastes of Labour MPs in 1906?
>>25186084Performative nonsense, other than the 22 real ones who stood up and bravely promoted The Bible and John Bunyan.
>>25186084Pretty weird to think that there was ever a time when Carlyle and Mill were seen as brothers in arms so to speak rather than archetypical opposites as the ur-chud and the ur-shitlib.
>>25186091sadly if such a poll were taken today, the bible would be absent and number one would be a tight race between the koran and the vedas
>>25186084The lack of Jane Austen is really pissing me off.
Why did Harold Bloom lie about Harry Potter? Did he not know people could compare his comments with the books themselves.To tell you the truth, it makes me doubt his veracity as a critic as a whole. How can I trust him on anything?
>>25186080he read 400 pages an hour, you're bound to get a detail or two a little wrong. the greater point is still true.
>>25186080He was so right about Harry potter if you read it it's shit.Its unhealthy to read sloppa
Part 1 was kino. Parts 2 & 3 were meh.
>>25183795>they're not manchildcore except the one I personally don't likeuh-huh
>>25179234solaris is kino thoughever
>>25184741he said, soifacing with his switch 2
>>25179181This was my impression as well
>>25184759>soifacing with his switch 2In English, please?
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>>25185570 Probably, but in my headcanon is isn't>>25185750Why did you give the cartoon such a sexy outfit then? Not really complaining it's just a weird thing to do if you're trying to do non-erotic stuff.
>>25186049Thanks a lot for the feedback. I thought "goblin pits" would be appropriate but maybe it does sound juvenile. It's basically a hole where goblins store food (people) though so what else could I call it that would also feel somewhat dramatic?
>>25186024yeah
>>25186068Juvenile isn't even the right word it's just kind of a mismatch with the feel of the surrounding prose imo. You could maybe try describing his circumstances rather than the specific place: "When one is taken", "in captivity", "in that horrible place", or "taken by the goblins", idk. I think (and I did get abused somewhat as a kid so I'm projecting the way I talk about it, might just be me) when people think about a past traumatic event their trauma bleeds through into how they talk so it tends not as clinical, complete (?), or straightforward as someone else might describe it. I think the word goblin has also accrued a semi-whimsical quirky feel in the last few years which might be throwing me off as well. Don't just take my word for it though, I'm not a great writer and this is all particular to me.
>>25186081No, thanks, this is great. I really need to think this through. My idea was to hook the reader in the very first lines so I put the traumatic event right there, just after 'the promise' of the story. It is, in essence, a romance story with a twist, so I'm not sure either how people will feel once it progresses. Prose okay?
Thoughts of György Lukács? I find Writer & Critic, specifically the essay Narrate or Describe? to be among the best essays on creative writing I've come across. Are there any genuine critics of him? Does all great literature have to concern the narration of the dynamics and action of men in history? What would he think of Pynchon? How does one write in a purely narrative form if we live in an age of the death of grand narratives and returning to such a style would be nothing more than pastiche and an exercise in naivety?
>>25186029I’ve read some of his theoretical work. Shrill and polemical like most Marxists.
>>25186036Yeah I don't read Marxists for political reasons, but I am very interested in his literary theory work
>>25186029He's probably the only great Marxist literary critic, he has serious insight. Benjamin is okay, I guess, but Eagleton, Jameson and all the rest are spiteful fucking dullards.
>>25186054Do you know of any critique against him from a literary angle? I want to find arguments against his view of narration (the Realist model) as opposed to the Naturalistic description based model a la Zola. I am unsure if the Realist model truly is the ultimate form or not because Pynchon and other guys seemingly destroy that theory
Hungarian leftism was thoroughly and incorrigibly reactionary because it was created by and most popular among the jewish bourgeoisie, as a conservative ideology against the chuddy lower classes. Just look at Lukács whose family was among the dozen wealthiest in the monarchy at the time.Good luck trying to find a pre-1945 self-avowed leftist from there who was neither jewish and of upper or upper-middle class origin.
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>>25185974>such an irritating feelingexpand your thoughts on this, I am intrigued by the notion
Over the years I've seen people here spewing hate over and over against groups of people, but I don't think I've ever seen someone spew hatred against an individual.Even when they refer to an individual, the hatred seems to stem from or be fueled by the individual being part of a group. I don't see "I fucking hate Susan", I see "I fucking hate women". Sometimes I get the impression that all this hatred could be focused on a single person they personally know, but for whatever reason the hatred becomes totalizing.What's up with that? Is itA)Hating an individual is more difficult than hating a groupB)Hating an individual is an inherently lonesome experience in which very few people will support youI don't fucking know. Does the hate come before the intellectualization? Or is it the other way around?
>>25186051J's aren't individuals. They're a hive mind like the borg aimed at destroying all life.
>>25186051I just realized I dont have a working definition of hate. But upon reflection spurred by this post, I guess its just an inverse of my simplified definition of love. So instead of something that gives me joy, it is something that brings me... misery? Hate towards a person, because hate for the group, for the group as a whole has a tendency to posses the same traits that brings me misery.However no one does that. My inner turmoil is my fault alone. >Does the hate come before the intellectualization? Or is it the other way around?I never heard of an animal hating anyone
>>25186051It's very simply just association.The most racist people on earth are probably people who live in close proximity to low-income black people and have to deal with them smashing straight into their car and then passing out fake insurance while having a retarded ego spat about how it is totally your fault they slammed straight into your stationary vehicle without looking.The least racist people are individuals that have close proximity to black people in high-income areas and then all of their memories of interacting with black people are a nice barista making their coffee correctly or a coworker who is more knowledgeable than them in a specific area. It's the primary reason right wing individuals are far, FAR more racist than left leaning people because all of their interactions are with a highly marginalized group that has been systematically groomed into being as irritable as humanly possible. That's kind of a bridge that liberals don't want to cross.
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>be me a few years ago>been a student for ~7 years>live in multiple shitty student rooms in European city centres>always about 7 or 8 second-hand bookstores/goodwills in 15 minute walking/biking distance>some of which are on the route to uni/city centre/supermarket>make it a habit to pop into these stores whenever I visit the city or university>collect a respectable amount of books, probably around ~50 a year (some years more, some year less, as everything was closed around the covid years)>books spread out on multiple shelves in the cozy student room>comfy>be me now>have been working a 9-5 job 5 days a week for ~3 years>get a nice apartment in a suburb of a moderately big city>finally put all the books in a nice, well-organized bookshelf>no bookstores in walkable distanceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25169779Are you german? I’ve been learning German for 5 years and still can’t understand Buddenbrooks.
>>25184994I still live with my gf in the city we both went to Uni in, and I'm very lucky as the charity shops, especially Oxfam books are chock full of great finds, loads of Philosophy, History, classics, poetry. an I have to actively make myself wait and not go multiple times a week, there's always stuff coming in. I have had to cull some of my collection for wont of space; most were things I've read that I don't consider an important part of my "library" and things I've had since I was a teenager, but never been interested to read, or read as a teenager or younger man but no longer interest me. I gave some to friends, and took the rest to these little " book donation library" boxes around the suburbs, and to charity shops.
>>25184999Yes. I imagine it's way harder for a non-native speaker because a lot of the dialogue is in different accents. For a native speaker, I think it's easier to get into than Der Zauberberg / The Magic Mountain, at least that was my experience
>>25169587That small shelf is cute i like it. i want one
Thoughts on That All shall be Saved?
>>25185521The USA is still heavily Christian and all those things have happened.Point to a state where the secular ethics of Thomas Paine have been the law of the land and you might have a point, but vaguely hand waving at countries where the leader portrayed himself as a deity (Stalin for example) hardly bolsters your case.
>>25185836Immaterial. There is no matrimony in Heaven. Strong family units are required for a godly society and the preservation of the faith. Loving your wife or husband extra special bunchies is not.
>>25185883>The USA is still heavily Christian and all those things have happenedAnd lemme guess, you blame christianity. You know, like a good boy to whatever bullshit ideology is competing with it>vaguely hand waving at countries where the leader portrayed himself as a deity (Stalin for example) hardly bolsters your caseThe millions dead on these countries do though. Funny to see you handwaving that while accusing me of handwaving, good boy
>>25186053The suicidal empathy of Christianity combined with the existence of the United States is why whites are going extinct. Enjoy the worldwide favela your kind has created.
>>25186060I agree with that one. No system with a radically fraternal party survives for long enough to their competition to disappear.>the worldwide favela your kind has createdMeu irmão em Cristo, você mal sabe da novidade que o Senhor tá trazendo pra você, eu já vivo em uma
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>Foundations of Future Christian MonarchyNah, I'm good. I support anything anti-jew though, so good luck.
This might be the last Aristotle topic that is still vexing to me, but how exactly does the Unmoved Mover work as a first final cause and/or a first efficient cause? So, I get that the final cause has to be prior to the efficient cause. But is the Unmoved Mover an efficient cause of anything? My problem is that in Metaphysics Lambda, the Unmoved Mover is not described as an efficient cause, but only as a final cause. Aristotle also affirms in Lambda that motion has to be eternal (IIRC comes from Physics VIII), which seems to imply that the universe has an infinite chain of efficient causes. So, you get this picture of there being two eternal principles: the Unmoved Mover, and the cosmos in motion. However, in Metaphysics Little Alpha, 994a, Aristotle argues precisely against the idea that you can have an infinite chain of even efficient causes. So, it seems like the idea that there are two coexisting eternal principles idea is wrong, since the cosmos cannot be the infinite chain of eternal causes that it appears to be. However, Aristotle does not fix the problem and call the Unmoved Mover an efficient cause at any point whatsoever. I am not sure how to rectify this. Any thoughts? I think the idea might be that "eternal things can be infinite sources, and since motion is eternal, there can be infinite efficient causes in a temporal sense", but this might be a copout.
>>25184070The problem is that it's difficult to imagine circular movement solving the problem because you have a substance taking turns being the agent and the patient to itself. Well, I'm not being fair. In a way, circular reasoning, circular motion, reflexive motion, etc., does *solve* that problem because that is exactly the structure you would be looking for, but now we have self-movers, not unmoved movers. And that's a substance with potency, not a substance that is pure act. Unless I'm missing something here.
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>>25183925He literally says in the first third of Metaphysics that Difference arises from matter.
It doesn’t. Causality is fake.
>>25185009He says in one place that matter is the principle of individuation, not difference. I don’t even feel like arguing I’ll just say that you can’t soundbite Aristotle or take sections out of context.
