i feel like it was about the odyssey or something but maybe it was about something else. ive seen it posted here before though
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>>25632798>call me Ishmael>his name is actually HermanWhat did he mean by this?
>>25632803lfmaoIt is no coincidence that almost everyone that had the misfortune of being involved in the writing of something hates books
>>25633317it was a typo, he meant to say "Call me fishmeal" because he thought he was going to get eaten by a fish
Reading the polemics against stoicism by Cicero and Plutarch, there is not one contemporary philosopher that comes anywhere near the discipline and asceticism they describe. In fact, the people today who call themselves stoics are merely following the doctrine of moderation prescribed by their critics.
>>25625501>there is not one contemporary philosopher that comes anywhere near the discipline and asceticism they describe.Try monks, stoic tenants appear to be foundational to Christianity
>>25632683Stoic ethics and psychology were almost completely absorbed by monasticism, but there is so much other stuff in there, depending on who you talk to or what you read, that you could not say that monks are stoics in any straightforward sense. There is also some borrowing from the thought world of Stoicism in Saint Paul.
>>25632493I'm out of your control, sissy.
>>25632719In effect, I do. I made you post, and I made you mad. But that was your choice. If you had focused on what you can control, like a man, you wouldn't mistakenly believe that acting like a retard could force me to have the emotional reaction you were seeking.
>>25632744sounds like someones mad. seethe in silence little bro
8 Clarissa / .26 . / He rapes his sister, Phoebe27 . / Tender is the Night29 A Room With a View / .30 Odyssey 2001 spotted >>25632015 / Flatland38 Postcards From the Edge Carrie Fisher / .45 . / The Secret Garden53 . / The Portrait of a Lady61 The Selfish Gene / .68 . / Harry Potter HBP70 . / The Napoleon of Notting Hill81 . / The Little Prince82 . / Dhalgren86 . / The Little Mermaid
>>2563343227 first part's Anne Tyler BWWWG*dif anon
Another good haul here. Eclectic mixture for sure:>8 Clarissa / .Samuel Richardson:I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family.>26 . / He rapes his sister, PhoebeTempted to disqualify this one on the grounds that the ‘rapes his sister’ meme is annoying, but that would be a bit unsporting given you have ID’d the work pretty decisively. Yep, it’s Salinger:If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25633523>61 The Selfish Gene / .Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.TSG is unpopular on this board I suppose, but I maintain that it’s good, regardless of how annoying its author might have become since.>68 . / Harry Potter HBPThat’s the ‘Half-Blood Prince’ if anyone was wondering:It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.>70 . / The Napoleon of Notting HillComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25633463>27 first part's Anne Tyler BWWWGRIght. Back When We Were Grown-Ups:Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.I would guess that AT is best known for The Accidental Tourist, given that it was a fairly popular film. But its opening line isn't wildly memorable.
oh, oh no...
btw, for the curious, this is the piece referred to in the story, Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2, "Funeral March"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoPPpe6ikKEas you can see, there's a sneaky ninety-second finale/fourth movement after the famous funeral march third movement, the one the character in the story, Mr. Mahoney, clapped after
>>25633052Thank you for the link. I've done a Mr Mahoney once, sort of, as when I did it the rest of the audience did as well. The classical music attendees in that city were pretty good, actually. I can't remember the piece right now but the conductor had a little joke ready to go for after the intermission about how that often happens with that piece. There is a mild feeling that it isn't over but there is a noticeable build up and then a good chunk of quiet so it's natural for the audience to fuck it it, and honestly barely counts. I also avoid listening to a piece if I haven't heard it before if I know I'll be seeing it live as the first live listen being novel is kind of a rarity.The conductor / music director there was good and the programming was very good. The place I'm in now basically all they can do is play the hits and pray people show up. Which I sometimes do, but I'm not going to pay for a seat and then sit through fucking Rhapsody in Blue. Heard that shit more than enough. >>25633034It's more forgivable if everyone is doing it and it's also very Italian to be noisy and annoying and a bad patron but still genuinely interested in the arts. I've also seen people argue before that the current standard of staying quiet for the duration of the piece is not supported historically but I do think it's a better approach. Some works don't really suffer from random applause between movements or whatever but some of them completely get shitted up by it, and it helps encourage a moment or two of delicious silence at the end of movements that trickle away quietly into near nothingness that would never exist if the staying quiet standard wasn't a thing. There's a trend for women to bring their knitting hobby shit to classical music performances. It's the same "oh you see I'm autistic so that just gives me license to be rude and everyone else had to grin and bear it" bullshit, of course. They don't make clicky clacky noises or anything but I still find it incredibly rude to show up, have 30 or so musicians who all prepared for the show on stage for you, and then make such a display of inattention right at them. Pay attention, silently, and visibly. That's your part to play. If you aren't willing to put in that effort honest the musicians shouldn't be expected to give 100% on their end, and that's the mechanism by which your fucking knitting is also you shitting on your fellow audience members as well. Almost every orchestra has a couple shows a year for kids and families these days, if you want to be visibly inattentive or be able to lean over and make little comments to you fat tick of a wife now and then go to those and only to those.
>>25633308Shoot, I thought seeing women knitting on the bus was weird enough. At a classical concert, I wouldn't be able to take it.
>>25633446Had one bitch do it for a viola de d'amore focused chamber performance. I hope she got cancer in her fucking hands and they cut them off.
>>25632624I have the Leatherstocking tales and Raymond Chandler collections from that press. I absolutely despise the book jackets and tear them off as soon as I can, the canvas(?) underneath makes for a texture that's orders of magnitude better to hold.
What are some other comfy midterm election related books to read today?
MAGA lost. Whoops. hahahahahaha
>>25633185The south will rise again
>>25633264Funny you should say that, as it's been obvious what we're seeing is among other things, the revenge of the confederacy.
>>25631268He's not me, btw.>>>/his/18771687
>>25631261It's about everyone except you, the person reading this
that makes you think William H Gass is an "amazing writer?" Do I really have to be the anon to break the illusion and pull the wool from people's eyes? The Tunnel is one of the most grating books I've ever read. It's genuinely so bad it tarnishes anything good Gass might have written, such as his essays or The Pedersen Kid. I'm convinced it's a sick joke at our expense and while he was still alive he couldn't BELIEVE it was so critically acclaimed. It's like he's shit testing us to see how much we can swallow. Every single clause, not just every sentence but every clause has alliteration. It doesn't stop, he never lets up with it. Not once. There's so much alliteration it actually chokes out anything else that's interesting he might be doing with his prose. I actually really hate him now. Plus this really didn't age well with the whole "you are ontologically evil if you are a goyim" message.
>>25631465can you expand on what you're trying to say? I need my Jews literati to be completely neurotic and torn with self doubt
>>25629454Not hard, just tedious stream-of-consciousness for 1000 pages. >>25629462>definitely sort of dense and winding, and felt almost psychotic at pointsIt could be a highly entertaining style if the subject weren't so pathetic.
I've got a bit of gas in my tunnel right now
>>25629409Thought I was the only one. Exhausting, ugly and pointless, The Tunnel basically killed my enthusiasm for the postmodern novel.Read Barth and enjoy living instead.
>>25629409i've only read omensetter's luck and the pedersen kid and a couple of other stories of his. my main memory is being put off by his overwhelmingly grouchy cynical miserabilism. the pedersen kid really is great though, and i like the sort of vast mythical middle america feeling of all his work, which reminds me of winesburg ohio, the scraps of civilisation adrift on a wild grey plain. uncanny.
Comment on her body of work without resorting to ad hominem attacks.
>>25632635You're probably talking to a woman. Ignore her.
>>25632684I know, but that doesnt invalidate her emotions. Its easy to just set them aside as misinformed retards, but I find instead that it is something of a duty, the burden of man, to instead do what is hard and teach them at their level anyway. And the first part of that is trying to actually communicate with them, which, like with any particularly active child, requires pulling at the thread of their babble until you can get multiple glimpses of their speech patterns and build the picture of what that amazing little brain in there is actually trying to think.
>/lit/cels literally proving Dworkin right in this very threadWhat did they meme by this?
>>25632941Why would i want to disprove her? Her works are the gnawing of a dog against the chain leashing it to its home. Yes, you are slave to man. And I'm sure in this moment you would like to be free to chase the mail truck. You cannot chase the mail truck. You will not be freed.
>>25621285least insane zionist
Wordcount determined by last digit of post your continuing Be sure to quote the post your responding toMichael Smith looked up into the sky and
>>25633199"This isn't so bad," thought Juanito. "Vibrant culture, beautiful
>>25633405beaches, cartel terror and burritos. Yes I was missing mi casa so bad!"
>>25633425"Mijo! Esta it really you?"
>>25633428"strange how Mexico is the same in hell"
>>25633459"strange how hell can be more pleasant than Mexico... qué mierda!"
What books do I need to read in order to understand why things are so fucked up nowadays?
>>25633397>Liberalism is purely a political conceptWew lad
>>25633414baffling response
>>25633418>I'm baffled And what's new?
>>25633287/pol/ minded nigges think Jews are a hive mine, all jews are evil and can never do good. No point talking to nigges.
>>25633439Saar
Who is your favourite literary character? I like Seymour Levov from American Pastoral.
Satan/Lucifer (from Paradise Lost)
>>25631794Has the unlikely name of Fabrizio del Dongo, from The Charterhouse of Parma
>chapter 1 >page 1
>>25631103>chapter 1>page 17
>the prelude
>>25631103>chapter 1>page 599
>>25631905pleb. I process it into a liquid and inject it straight into my veins.
>scholarly introduction is two or three times as long as the work itself
How to write a girl who is with some attractive high status guy and feels anxious about the disparity in romantic experienceWhat is the psychology behind what she feels and why she still stays with him?
Fuck off
Benis envy b/w Oedipus
Dis bewk any güd?
>>25632562I don't care about that at all. I can't for the life of me fathom why you would think this image was some kind of... scathing criticism? I'm neither French, nor a woman.
>>25632567>I'm not a womanProve it
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Test
>>25632562Truly the bravest and most daring act accomplished by the French resistance!
Recently got into 40k thanks to Space Marine 2 and i wanted to get into the books and stuff, but dunno where to start or what are my options.
Fuck you all. This thread, and my father, made me buy two more books.
>>25633010Based father
>>25633010Your father made you buy warhammer books? I understand this if you are 10 years old, not otherwise. I mean, excepting that, I don't know what you mean. Please explain.
I like Caiaphas Cain and Gotrek and Felix.
>>25615917>HelsreachThe quintessential 40k novel. It has all the 40k™ things such as heroism, space marines beating the shit out of orks, a fair amount of tragedy, themes surrounding the meaninglessness of war, and endurance in the face of adversity. Can be read if you know next to nothing about 40k>Night Lords trilogy 40k at its most nihilistic. Arguably one of the few pieces of warhammer literature that can be considered as having some legitimate level of literary merit. This series is better enjoyed after you have familiarized yourself with the setting. It is about a warband of terrorists who have no real direction and who struggle with the grief of deservedly being one of the most shunned factions in a setting where everyone is awful. The Night Lords are evil, full stop. In other books with evil main characters, they often have some kind of redemption or are depicted as being misunderstood. The Night Lords are very well understood and they do not try to redeem themselves, if anything, their actions get more and more gruesome as the story goes on>Ciaphas CainAlready mentioned in the thread. It is bar none the best starting point for 40k>Eisenhorn These books are good pulp thrillers but they are often called "Abnettverse" because they tend to introduce concepts and bits of lore that only exist in the books written by the author, but never acknowledged anywhere else in the setting. They also get more and more convoluted the more series goes on, and the last two books are fairly messy>The Infinite and the DivineComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Yes or no
>>25632523OP said ebook
>>25632987Ebook is different than an audiobook.
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>>25632523ChatGPT ahhh answer just type “>he doesn’t know” like any normal person wouldAlso your comment gives didn’t read it
>>25633346Doesn’t seem like AI script to me; but I put it through a bunch of “checkers” and was given wildly inconsistent results. Who knows. Anyway anon’s answer is a perfectly respectable one if OP had asked about audiobooks. Honest mistake.I also dislike whatever the fuck, language-wise, is going on with “ChatGPT ahhh”. Go fuck yourself.
