>he who bullies is just insecure / dissatisfied>literal chads who clawed their way to success by bullying and have 0 remorsePeople still believe this buddha bullshit?
>>24728527Buddha did not believe it.
Buddhism and Jainism are right about nearly everything.
>>24728758How did the Jains survive in India but not the Buddhists?
>>24728322Remorse and insatisfactión are two different things
>>24728322¿Sobre que estás hablando?
Hey, that cunt's not breathingI think she's had too muchOf something or other, hey, man, you know what I mean?I don't mean to scare youBut you're the one who came hereAnd you're the one who's gotta take her when you leaveI'm not being smartOr trying to be cold on my partAnd I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeveBut you know people get all emotionalAnd sometimes, man, they just don't act rational you knowThey think they're just on TVSha-la-la-la, manWhy don't you just slip her awayComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Give him the Nobel
can i get a quick run down on houllebecq?worth reading? where to start? is he based? or, as i have a read in a couple of reviews from leftists, is he very subtly satirizing the far right?i just read an interview with him in the financial times and it does seem his contempt for the leftist "elites" and islam is genuine.
>>24727510>Is he satirizing the far right? Well, the bad muslim president makes laws that are very similar to right-wing ones, so maybei think the point he was making there is that the leftists accept "conservatism" when it comes from alien islamists, but not when it comes from indegenous 'right'. and what the islamists bring turns out to be far worse than what the right wing were seeking.it was a commentary on the idiocy of the liberal left.
>>24727433*zatirises
>>24727397>i just read an interview with him in the financial times and it does seem his contempt for the leftist "elites" and islam is genuine.I think his contempt is greater for the left than it is for Islam, but he doesn't like Islam.
>>24728178Add to that cuckservatives who sold their country for seats in the parlament Media supporting muslims above right, because muh racismAnd les identitaires guy who converted to islam while having written his phd about René GuénonIt's perfect
>>24727453So does the arrow on your shirt point up or down?
I want to redesign the concept of a book using a game engine instead of using a PDF.Can /lit/ help me with some feedback here?
>>24728959see>>24728840
>>24728559Best post in this god forsaken thread.
I agree that video games present the best of all possible worlds for much of art, e.g. sculptures, paintings, tactile shit like that, assuming you can produce enough fidelity in the virtual spaces for it to rival "the real thing," but I wonder...There's lots of games that are basically short stories dressed as walking sims, text floating across the skies and brick walls and all that, but I suppose that's not what you want. I'm thinking something like "oh, you're confined in an apartment, and each object reveals some part of the non-linear text that relates through its form to the full narrative" type of shit? This form of a written story could be pulled off in reality, it'd just take a lot of space. Do you want essentially a story built into an impractically large space, or a dynamic story that progresses with gameplay (in which case you're hardly innovating at all)?There's endless options for narrative experimentation in games, which means this comment could be endless in length and I really don't want to expound every single idea out there. I don't think there's any one solution that could be "the thing," necessarily. They're all interesting in their own ways. You're being a bit of an "idea guy" without much of your own to contribute; this can be done by anyone with some experience with a game engine in one thousand different ways.
>>24728572these already existed, they were marketed as "interactives" instead of games. Usually for children, winnie the pooh, etc.
>>24728983You'd also have to question why you're so attached to the novel format, whose existence is as-is due to its constraint to the form of the printed volume. It's in no way superior to omit hearing, sight, touch, taste, basically the entire spectrum of human experience. Not that this whole idea isn't worth exploring—I'm just saying that it's one thing to make a compelling, novel narrative experience and another to standardize some format that is itself narrow enough to be likened to a book and interesting enough for people to use as prototype: why shouldn't I just play one of the existing video games that lean heavily into storytelling?
>ahab's white whale is literally a white whalethis is pretty goofy
>>24728981The whale is God
A little too on the nose?
>/lit/: Why do writers like you take the children fairy tale world and put blood, sex, drugs, prostitution and other filth into it?>GRRM: Because I want both, the super natural aspects of the fantasy world and the brutality of the real one.>/lit/: Okay, but isn't incest a bit too much?>GRRM: HeheheheheheheheheWhat the fuck did he mean by this?
>>24726420>relevant>fantasy author
>>24726420>SandersonLiterally unknown. Much more relevant are J.K.Rowling and A.Sapkowski.
>>24727586Dude even normie women at the last two places I worked at read Mistborn.
>>24726420you're forgetting sarah j maas
>>24727718well yeah they are the target audience
This board feels like arguing with two old lovers stuck in bins while one guy loudly screeches in a chair and pisses himself, and makes as much noise as possible, and everything is dying slowly. Everything is turned grey. And we’re out of pain killers.
>>24722857>Yeah /lit/ is dying./lit/ isn't dying, the quality of poster is dying. If every board is complaining about this, then it's largely attributable to the newer waves of posters.Young newfags are too angry and have too short an attention span. They don't make for fun or interesting posters.
>>24727476>largely attributable to the newer waves of postersI've been thinking about this too, but I don't think it's as big a factor as it initially seems. If there were enough newfags coming into the site to influence it negatively, the userbase wouldn't be in the free fall it's in right now due to a constant influx of incoming anons. At worst, the numbers would remain stagnant in the same way 4chan's population used to shrug off bygone >summerposting, but that's not what we're seeing here: there's an observable drop in activity on every board. Nah, I think the reason's something more, but other than bots, I have pinpointed it just yet>numbers != qualityYeah, you could argue that numbers != quality, but no way do I want each board to begin aimlessly wheelspinning its own topics like post-2017 /ic/ does, for example, that's simply not a good outcome
>>24725178hard kek. total faggot death tho. fuck faggots and women who post here.
>>24725159Its okay anon. But you don't have to denigrate 'normies' as worthless. :)
>>24722570Simplest answer: Most of the old guard from yesteryear went batshit and either trooned out, killed themselves, or are desperately trying to become normie to avoid the fates of the previous 2. We also have more browns that post here than ever before and they can be spotted a mile away.
was she a good writer?
Are you just going to make this stupid thread for every writer?>Leo Tolstoy >Was he actually a good writer
A lot of litfags in here need to read weininger, stop shilling foidslop
>>24728320no, she is rated and remembered(should I say pushed) because she was one of the first wokie
not at all, but i did like the earthsea series as a kid for some reason. i think i was into the island gimmick and the tombs
>>24728320I hate her
what is your notetaking system?how do you write down ideas and stay organized on the go?
>>24727862Sometimes I look up something and write an article synthesizing what I found on the topic, then I try to link it to the rest of my notes. I might write random questions/ideas to look up later, and when I'm bored I'll look through that file and pick up something to investigate. Sometimes I just rant and never read it again.
>>24724982>I think it's pretty trash honestly, vim or emacs will give more bang for buck if you want to take writing into autistic levels.anon are you aware that you can use your obsidian vault within vim? it's just markdown files lmao
>>24727353if "a" output "a"wow, that was hard
>>24727894I learned that there are basically three ways of doing handwritingOne is keeping your hand immobilized and moving just your fingersOne is using the ball of your hand and moving your hand to writeAnd one is moving your entire arm from your shoulder and only the pen touches the pageThis last one is the winning play for that kind of thing, but you’re basically totally retraining yourself on how to writeYou can also mitigate other stuff by having a notebook with the spirals on top (like a reporter’s notebook) or by using some electronic gizmo like an iPad and being willing to have crazy-wide margins on your hand side because fuck the world, there’s stuff in the way
>>24727963So do you take a picture of the screen everytime it fills up? What about the handling of drafts, revisions, notes and etc? Searching and editing what you have written?
Is this one of the greatest novels ever written?
>>24728509Absolutely. It revolutionized and expanded the medium. Pity it hasn't inspired any other similar works.
>>24728509It has some cool parts but at least 50% of the soap opera stuff could've been cut.
>>24728509>Is this one of the greatest novels ever written?It's not even close to a "good" novel.
>>24728509one time when i was in highschool i spent a lot of time on lit, much like now, and i was talking to a friend irl about books and asked if he liked atlas shrugged and he said that rand's politics were not for him and i said "oh idk anything about him aside from the books." i still feel dumb about that.
>>24728953>hear about an unknown author >immediately assume it's a manYou deserve the humiliation
maekar I targaryen, first of his name 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: >>24681455
>>24728568Dumbest thing I've heard.Sounds like that person read the books through tiktok
TRVTH NVKE
Nothing ever happens
George actually finished Winds of Winter in August, but is now intentionally withholding it because he doesn't want that one person to think they were responsible for him finally finishing.
>>24727378How do Jon, Daenerys or hell, even Gendry not follow the same tropes?
My literary analysis class textbook has a section on feminism and it begins with two and a half pages of based quotes from famous authors.
>>24726604Where are these level headed feminists except Camile Paglia?
>>24724888why is a quote about plato attributed to plato? are these people retarded?
>>24725446>>24725542From the Life and sayings of Amma Sara of Scete:"Another time, two old men, great anchorites, came to the district of Pelusia to visit her. When they arrived one said to the other, ‘Let us humiliate this old woman.’ So they said to her, ‘Be careful not to become conceited thinking to yourself: “Look how anchorites are coming to see me, a mere woman.” ’ But Amma Sarah said to them, ‘According to nature I am a woman, but not according to my thoughts.""She also said to the brothers: It is I who am the man, and you are the woman."
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>>24724888Been looking for "the best of historical misogyny" like this for years. I seem to remember some website like 15-ish years ago with a very similar compilation. The main one that I remember is some Roman (one of the Catoes?) who lamented the very fact of woman's existence, intellectually we would like to be rid of them altogether but we're wired to like their bodies and we're stuck with them, simple remarks along those lines. Also some spicy remarks from Sade, I think. Would be curious if anyone can pinpoint the initial item I seem to remember (and am probably mis-remembering).
i just finished reading this book. i have always considered myself not very conspiratorially minded, i wanted to believe the world is simply too complex and chaotic for there to be grand narratives like cia mind control programs that go far beyond what mkultra ever did, or that elite pedophile occultists could control the world. but this book has somewhat shattered that view i suppose or at least made me question that assumption more. is alex jones actually right? are we ruled by esoteric elite pedo cults after all?i am planning on reading aberration in the heartland of the real or CHAOS next, im leaning towards aberration because i am very interested in learning more about the finders and chaos seems more focused on manson and his escapades. are there any other books i should read besides abberation and chaos that will schizo pill me more? preferably not programmed to kill because mcgowan seems like a bit of a hack.
>>24727499>French people talking smack about where I liveA tale as old as time
>>24727480thats fair to be honest i'm sure i would enjoy reading programmed to kill but the stuff he wrote about mcmartin preschool seemed like q anon tier retardation.
>>24727474
>>24727515Nah, only as old as the French.
>>24728405The "False Memory Foundation" hired the psychologists who convinced everybody that mcmartin was a big nothing and memories of sexual abuse from childhood are fake. The false memory foundation had to be shut down because 3 of its 7 foundinng members made public pro-pedophile comments, and the founder happened to be accused of being a pedo by his daughter. What a coincidence! Don't bother looking into anything though; it seems nuts.
Just feels like there's something about reality, some kind of secret that if I can just understand, then it will unlock something in me that explains everything about reality, like a higher state of consciousness, I think. Or something like that. I'm not sure what it is, enlightenment, gnosis, or what. You guys know what I mean? I want illumination and understandingI think maybe dreams might have something to do with it, maybe Jesus or religion, idk It's like a mysterious elusive concept that's always just outside my peripheral What book do I read for this? Do you guys know what I mean?
>>24728577Read Hegel's Science of Logic.
>>24728577See >>24727974
>>24728577here are some tips for you, anon.the senses cannot exhaust reality. our models of reality cannot exhaust reality. the map is not the territory, the signifier can never fully encapsulate the signified. all we know are particulars, but they all conform to something universal, because they all have existence, which is universal. things fade and disintegrate, but also generate and unify, all through time, but not all at the same time. what's the only thing that doesn't change? existence, which is persistence. even before time had an arrow due to entropy after rapid expansion of the universe, existence still was and is. well, hope that helps. good luck!
>>24728577I've recently come to the realization that perhaps giving up on trying to understand the world is the key to happiness, that is, not trying to absorb and turn any concept into a logical flowchart and simply going along with itwe're prisoners in this world, and I'm increasingly accepting that and breaking off the illusion there's hope, because there isn't basically im going insane
>>24728577It's called Sein as opposed to Dasein. Read Heidegger.
What are the most Schopenhauerian works of literary fiction? I don't mean "depressing" or "miserable" (that's just a caricature of pessimism), but works that actually reflect Schopenhauer's philosophy:>lucid pessimism>detachment from illusions>moments of transcendence through art (music) or nature>compassion as the highest moral gestureWhich novels or stories would you put in most of these categories?
>>24728059Huysmans, yes, I can see that. But I don't find Céline very Schopenhauerian. Schopenhauer's pessimism is lucid, detached, grounded in clarity in knowledge, whereas Céline's is stormy, full of caustic and violent outbursts. For me, that's closer to a kind of existential spleen than Schopenhauer's calm metaphysical pessimism.
>>24726068Not literary fiction, but for me, it's the German TV show Dark.
>>24728409>TV show
>>24727463>Like I said, not what I'm looking forYou have stated several times before that you are looking for "literary fiction". The Ring libretto seems to fit in with all the common definitions of that term. If you meant "literary novels" then you should have said that instead.>even though his libretti are literature on their own, they are meant to be stagedCan recommend Shakespeare. Can't recommend Aeschylus. Can't recommend anybody who isn't a library-dwelling autist.
>>24726170the French translations are a marvel. especially his 300 maxims.
