Why the fuck was he successful with women? How did he do it?
>>24890815They're cute, I guess. But I guess I'm more of a eastern European girl type of guy
>>24890289>smoke em if you got em>quantum epistemology has reached it's saturation>Straussian reading of Sartre?It's a fair question OP, at surface level his philosophy is feminist friendly, and his reputation preceded him as a guy who won women over with intelligence. I mean, he probably wasn't winning any over with looks.Believe it or not there is a sizeable amount of esoteric material found scattered throughout Sartre. He may have secretly believed that only men could achieve absolute freedom. He also made a conjecture that whatever internal feminine auras a man might have were converted into a slime, think semen. Females are compelled to suck this out of you and then it turns to sugar. This sugar basically leaves them addicted and unable to reach true freedom. If you go through his psychological material he also makes numerous references and derivations that always lead back to male centric pleasure. The male body could esoterically speaking be the receptacle of all transcendental philosophy. Over the years he had to redact and revise whole portions of this. Simone also had to make an emphasis that despite using his philosophy as a baseline she specifically started where he left off.
>>24890289He was rich and famous; do you really need to ask?
>>24890382Serge Gainsbourg too. >one shot at life>not being born a french intellectual in 50's-60's which was the sweet spot between women embracing their sexuality while maintaining male-dominated status quo in academia, arts and basically any other field
>>24890848I heard he had interesting routine of drinking around one litre of alcohol and smoking at least a pack of cigarettes daily. This and some drugs that were consumed to him like candies. Absolute madman.
This is maybe a dumb question but why don't books have very much fanart? I'd think people would want to draw the characters they've read about but can't see.
>>24891182They do. Here's Pyotr Verkhovensky.
>>24891182Ah, but i can see characters i read about. And can't draw but barely above child level. Although i'm a musician.And most people of those i know, who are into drawing things, tend to draw or observe with their eyes way more than to read (and often dislike reading - to the point i have to actively discourage them from usinh voice messages - and about half of them actually have attention deficite disorder - they can't focus on reading anything longer than a paragraph).
Fan artists only draw what will get them the maximum amount of likes and patreon bucks. Video game fanart, anime fanart, and sometimes movie fanart. It comes in waves. Evangelion gets remade for a fifth time and everyone starts drawing Asuka. A new season of Dungeon Meshi hits and everyone starts drawing that again. A new costume for Chun Li comes out and every artist flocks to their wacoms to be the first to do a pin up of that. Then it's off to the next big fad.
Books that will help me achieve the Medieval Mindset?So far I've read:>the book of marvels and travels by Sir John Mandeville>complete works of Sir Thomas MaloryGoing to read Piers the Ploughman next. I've also got The Canterbury Tales and A Cloud of Unknowing on my list. Any other recommendations will be greatly appreciated.
>>24891648Self-Lobotomization for Dummies
The 1570 Roman Missal issued by Pope Pius V. It's not technically medieval but it's a codification of the Mass and very similar to late Medieval masses.
>>24891648The Divine Comedy and the Decameron.
>arkham and Poe mentioned>Cyclopean rocks>Cthulhu as seen in Necronomicon™ written by mad arabesque Abdul Alhazred>it came to me in a dream>negroes and mulattosit insists upon itself
>>24889558atmosphere and aesthetics >>>>> muh "plot and complexity"
>>24891646me >>>>> dimwit lowbrow horror/actionslop enjoyers (You)
>>24891651whatever helps you sleep at night, faggot.
>>24891646>repetitive self-referencing >atmosphereredeem the good taste, saar
>>24891646>>24891654sick self own LMAO
>>24890986Delicious tradlarp seethe.
>>24890992Ah yes everyone I dont agree with its a larper only I hold truth conviction to my character and beliefs yes that must be it im smart very I have an HR course certification and play valorant ironically The worse thing is that in my firts post I was giving a neutral actual response to where the canon comes from, even if you dont agree with the religion or the church, but alas, this site is now for memes, zoomers, zoomer fags and propaganda I guess
>>24891001>tradlarper continues to throw a fit and embarrass himselfMore please.
>>24889938Have you read books by Michael S. Heiser and Fr. Steven De Young?
>>24890986If you can show how it isn't just people making stuff up I'll gladly read whatever you suggest.
any good /lit/ taking in place in London? I will be there for a week starting from saturday, what to not forget about when it comes to /lit/ activities there other than Dickens museum? Bonus points for modern-time London in novels or short stories
>>24890933>any good /lit/ taking in place in London?Nope.
>>24890933That's probably the most common /lit/ location after New York
George Gissing>>24891102Machen set a decent amount in London too
>>24890933Sherlock Holmes. I think there is a tourist spot for him
>>24890933You're in for a big surprise if you still believe London now resembles anything like Dicken's London, champ. Good luck.
Qrd on why she causes so much seethe?
>>24890700She's ugly, dumb, obnoxious and selfish.
Basically Ayn Rand thinks we live in a meritocracy where hard work is always rewarded, and if you're a failure you just arent working hard enough. And Ayn has a parade of ridiculous caricatures and strawmen to illustrate this point over and over and over and over again.
Ayn Rand was the edgelord of her time. She would go against every convention or accepted opinion just for the sake of it. Doesn't mean she is wrong about some things though.
>>24891620Libertarians shouldn't support "meritocracy", because it's a deterministic concept, and libertarians are much concerned about uncertainty, about the second or third order consequences of intervention and so on. Meritocracy needs a metric to measure merit, which would be centralised (for example, a public examination to access a position of public official). In a free market, if you succeed it probably means that you satisfied an intense demand of some product or service, but it can happen out of pure luck, or an indeterminate proportion of planning and luck. The thing is that luck it out of the scope of justice: just because something is not fair, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's unfair and should be compensated.
>>24891466got hard from reading this. thanks.
Why isn't Charles Dickens ever discussed here? I see he's missing from the top 100 charts as well.
>>24890487Holy shit you're so cringe lol. You don't sound smart like you so desperately want to. You sound like a poser which is ironically in keeping with your shilling for dickens.
Looks like some jeets have logged in
>>24889651I feel like trying to blame it on IQ or attention span is low effort bait. Look at Jane Austen who wrote in even more archaic prose than Dickens. Yes if anyone today were to read Sense and Sensibility they might have to reread passages to understand how vocabulary and sentence structure was back in the day, however, every paragraph is mostly stripped to the bare essentials, with only a little fat for humor and wit. She is a much more pleasant read than Dickens who can be all over the place at times
>>24889593Love Dickens - multiple lovely novels, top prose, good jokes. I like the big rambling books like Bleak House and the tighter adventures like Two Cities, and a Christmas Carol is just pure pleasure. Why doesn't /mu/ have a daily specialist Scarlatti thread? Who cares, enjoy the music
>>24890977Checked, this is it. There's nothing to argue about, and unlike Dostoevsky there's no pretentious moralising (though Dickens does moralise) or literally meism to post about. The best you can get is lamenting that Carlyle isn't more lauded.
are you familiar with Gogol and Pushkin
I know Russian. What should I read in this language?
Anything by Saltykov Shchedrin
>>24889547>and since he's a poet he's untranslatablePushkin has amazing prose too
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>>24889068Read 2ch, they have a /bo/ board for discussions of literature, /izd/ for aspiring writers, /re/ for religion, /ph/ for philosophy, and they're all shit.
>>24889264>Russian literature is rarely liked by russiansI can confirm. Reading Tolkien as a kid was immensely more fun than some gay ass bullshit by Pushkin
How do you feel about writers being multimedia artists?
>>24887522This board can discuss everything but books. Why do you think that is? Every medium, visual, sonic, or tactile, other than writing. is more important to human culture in the current year.
>>24887522It's alright I guess Still crazy to me that this shit happened Two of the all time greats imo
>>24887522More common with game devs than writers, and there, they're 2 for 2
I think most artistic types dabble in at least one other medium. Sometimes I write instrumental songs that fit the vibe of my short stories. Being able to paint book covers or make illustrations for my work would be nice too but I haven't learned to draw.
>>24890640My mistake, it was still written by him though.
Is the solution to existential dread just getting laid?
>>24888517It's about the bad guy from the Justice League movie.
>>24888152Finally, the alternative to getting laid: drowning in a lake.
le based centrist Hesse
>>24887844worst book i've read in years.
>>24887844The solution to existential dread is having real problems.
What do we think of Olga Tokarczuk? Is she really one of the best writers of our generation?
>>24889850I read Drive Your Plow and I don't think she's worth your time. Hard to say how much was lost in translation of course but I doubt that much. She's overpraised because she's saying all the fashionable things (white men bad, etc).
>>24891487>self-hating Pole because muh colonisationAm I missing something here? Who the fuck did Poland colonize? I thought they helped the Haitians overthrow the French?
>>24891502Poland never formally colonialised anywhere but they at one point held colonies in African countries.But that's completely irrelevant because it's woman logic.Poland is an ethnically white European country and historically has been thought of as such, therefore white men bad and every other race good, and sexism and gay stuff and so on, you know the drill.
>>24891003Yeah, I would say of the three that I've read:Plow - lit favor bestseller by numbers, not offensive, not excitingFlights - actually good, somewhat obtuse book, a story collection really, but some of it is excellentThe Empusium - seemingly designed to make /pol/ posters angry, it's an amusing riff on Mann, but a little dramatically unsatisfying on account of the Mission Drive. Contains more worthwhile prose than Plow though.>>24889869Yet you would recognise GRRM and Sanderson. Feel proud of yourself
>>24890519Let's find out what religion she is.
Revisiting these as an adult was excellent. By far my favorite parts of all of it was first, the subtle shift of mystery turning into horror oasis they leave the Shire and are hunted by the Black Riders and second, all those scenes of deliberation by the hobbits/fellowship. I need more books like either of these two things doesn’t need to be fantasy
Why sink the time into rereading LOTR when you could be broadening your literary skillset by reading War and Peace or Genji.
Gravity's Rainbow
>>24888252Why sink the time into shitposing when you could be broadening your literary skillset by reading War and Peace or Genji.
>>24885902ez.this is the answer.
>>24885902Tolkien's skill at characterization is so underrated. Children are unable to get the subtleties of his characters, and this leads to people thinking that there are no subtleties. I think perhaps rereading the book too frequently since childhood can cause people to persist in their childhood interpretations.
Post obscure books that you like.>PI Joe Kurtz is approached by a dying concert violinist who wants his daughter's killer found. Rejecting the case at first, he is soon on the trail of a man who's not just the murderer of one child, but a cold-blooded serial killer who is a master of alternate identities and has the power to send a hundred men after Kurtz.
>>24891323jewish protag? wow vry suprising
>>24891328i always wondered what the FUCK was his problemSimmons is also the major science fiction writer whose work most frequently focuses on Jews. Although neither Jewish nor even, as far as I can tell, a conventionally believing Christian, many of his novels feature Jewish characters, and the fate of Israel and the persistence of anti-Semitism have been repeated themes in his writing.
>>24891331Prolly thought israel was cool and wasn't wrong at that
