Are there any other sci-fi books that have a setting like Book Of The New Sun? I really love Urth and the Commonwealth and its blend of low tech and high tech, its basically medieval setting with hidden pockets of absurd sci-fi tech lurking around waiting to be found. I can see why Wolfe preferred to call it "science fantasy." Even apart from the apparent reality of magic, the setting has the feel of a fantasy setting, it's just the "magic" is extremely advanced technology.Any other books or book series that have this sort of setting and vibe?
>>24782464Vance is alright at best but I'll check out the other 2
>>24782464Vance kind of sucks, though. He's intriguing and admittedly really funny, but he's 100% lacks the literary chops of Wolfe.
>>24782315Vampire Hunter D has magic and future sci-fi
>>24782464many such cases that when a single work so beautifully overtakes a genre the other works fall away into relative obscurity.
>>24782464Vance is pulp trash. Wolfe's work transcends its genre.
>epeise de auton Kai lusasthai Palin Kai Louomenon eide Kai idousa etsato, Kai Apelthe palin, epainesasa, Kai o Epainos en erotos arke.Video link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7jwdf2npXE&list=RDW7jwdf2npXE&start_radio=1&pp=ygUUZGFmbmlzIGthaSBobG9pIDE5MzGgBwE%3D
>>24781638English: she convinced him to bathe together and put her hand on his beautiful skin and she praised it Her praise of his beauty was love’s beginning.
Nice and Daphnis-&-Chloe-pilled
>>24782596Since the inter titles are from the book I decided to buy the Loeb’s and then translate the entire thing as I read and watch. It’s short anyways.
raiders raiding 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: >>24748377
>>24782512That sounds great.
>>24782456Technically, that's still work....
>>24781851lollmao
>>24781824Audibly kek'd
>>24782351“A hole is a hole.” — Maegor probably
What was the point of this?
>>24781821I can't imagine being filtered this hard and still sticking with the series. Good on you anon, that's a serious ethic you've got there.
>>24780048literally the last page or so is what i don't get, what are we supposed to take away from him seeing the others' graves and why is that how it ends
>>24781846I forgot to include the worst of the solar cycle still by far dwarfs all other genre fiction, I just have admittedly weird taste in his books
>>24782116Severian (the sleeping God Severian) is sort of an afterthought, because Severians purpose for that divine year is complete. His memory is a reconstruction of several versions of himself who had failed the yesod's test, from previous divine years, and his "perfect memory" instead refers to his ability to remember the past from previous divine years - thus truly breaking time and freeing him from it, which is the real important part of the story, because those memories from previous "cycles" of himself is what allows him to change and evolve in such a way that will allow him to meet and pass the test in UoTNS. This means that now he is a "sleeping God" - he can fall asleep and dream the dreams which become reality, perhaps. Or he can just wait until the next divine year to see what ACTUALLY happens with the New Sun/Ushas, or, simply, it means to tell us that his purpose is complete. It's a New start.
>>24782116idk about all that in the above post, but i took it to mean his journey of discovery is complete. he is now a godling and thus can no longer write as a human being to his fellow human beings in the first person. society is now one of reverence to the increate, him and of humanity in general and it is now on the right course to evolve and eventually create the heirodules/heirogrammates.
>I'm just so tired of righteous righteous Mediterranean supremacists trying to claim antiquity as somehow their own by continuity of blood although of course they would never put it that way and of course, although that is entirely false. Or using Catholicism of a kind or other religions as a proxy for this. No Nassim Taleb, no Paul Skallas. The ancient Greeks and Romans did not look like you. They didn't run a gyro stand, they didn't run a rug store, or at least not the ones we read about and respect and admire today. At most they look like Pietro Boselli.>How can such people claim I have something against Mediterraneans as such? Of course it could be argued that in the facial structure and things of the sort that as a man from Veneto, from the North of Italy, that Pietro Boselli is Nordic or something like this, is a Nordic or something like this but he's very much Italian, and he's not the only one I've posted. Now, Leonardo da Vinci, that is Nordic. You can look at his face.>The Greeks saw Socrates as refuted by his ugliness, and indeed, he was ugly because he was not of Plato's patrician blond stock but because he was a Pelasgian. These were the dark-haired Aborigines of Ancient Greece, these Pelasgians, the Lemnians. I mean, look at the statue or bust of the guy, it's like Judge Napolitano. You can't ever turn your back on a guy with a forehead like Judge Napolitano. They have a stiletto up their sleeves or worse they'll take a toilet plunger to you.
>>24781607You know, Costin Alamariu is a slightly overweight middle-aged mischling Jewish academic, But he is funny and occasionally insightful. If only he'd been open about who and what he was he could have been taken seriously. But alas, Here we are.
This is like a dumb shitpkst from theapricity, stirpes or forumhumanbiodiversity
>>24782178>nordicismonly racially insecure mutts subscribe to this
>"Would you still love me if I was a bug?">"No."
>Nabokov: jit is the second best story in the English language>read it>it was…alright?I clearly don’t understand literature
>>24782646damn, this beetle looks metal as fuck.
>>24782428No it's about how he actually turned into a bug. Bugs are gross, he left slime everywhere.
>>24782254Yes for most people if she suddenly turned into a bug (implied through the sentence's grammatical structure). No if she'd always been one. I'm not sure how one would even come to love a bug in a romantic way.
>>24782690The sentence means she was once a bug, but no longer. Could you love a former bug?
I have a college French language class starting tomorrow and it will be 90% girls. How do I not fuck this up? I am a loser that is currently unemployed.
Stop being a loser and get a job.
>Just shower and be confident bro
>>24780872have you considered not being a gay cock sucking faggot?
>>24780872Stop making this thread
>>24780930Talking to women gets you laid, I've met coke-addicted, gram of weed a day smoking, halfway retarded, loser waiters banging a different 20yo cute college girl every weekend just by being forward and confident. They don't give a shit, they'll just fuck them in their shitty shared apartment, in an unmade bed with smelly linen next to a rick & morty poster taped to the wall.
Do e-readers remove the SOVL from books? Does the ease of access ruin the mystique of treasure hunting for books and finding obscure titles?
>>24767052I don't know, but I do know it's harder for me to focus on digital books in general because it's just too easy to tab away to something else and resisting that temptation takes mental effort.
>>24770112textbooks are heavy, and though I LOVE physical books, the shape, the texture, the smell, I really think my ipad is far better for reading textbooks than the physical books-carry as many as I want in a small devices, possibility for annotations with the pencil, look for things I don't understand immediatelykindle not so much unless the book is text only
>>24767052If your goal is arbitrary pretension, then yes, they remove the “SOVL”
>>24767559I've seen almost the entirety of the /lit/ top 100 at thrift stores, estate sales, and church book sales over the last 10 years. And besides those, some actually good books as well
>>24781188That's why you use an ereader that doesn't handle anything else and not something like a boox with android on it. Exiting to the home menu isn't that different from keeping your fingers between the book and looking at the cover for a few seconds, something I do with physical books as well.At least, that's how I rationalise it.
This guy literally filters 99% of the PhilosophersHow is he not /ourguy/
>>24781226I read Cioran more as a poet, not a philosopher. There isn't any rigorous metaphysics behind his work.
>>24781226Philosopher?
>>24781993Benatar has just formalised Cioran.
>have ideas? you're literally hitler.what the fuck are you smoking to think this gypsy's bitchings are philosophy
>>24782574Nobody asked.
>tfw you realize Hume and Kant as much as Nietzsche, Rawls as much as Nozick, are all basically part of a dogmatic faith tradition that sustains itself through indoctrination and the marginalization of all objectors, and has spread itself across the globe through coercion and violence.>tfw radical politics cannot break free of this path because it cannot itself question the core dogmas of the new faith>tfw the dogmas and faith of everyone around you are completely transparent to them, in much the way a fish might not notice water or think much about what lies beyond its boundaries. Particularly, because the dogmas dress themselves up in the clothes of epistemic humility and skepticism, their absolutizing nature has become invisible.Is there no escape bros?
>>24777596People are not an island separate from history and society. Especially not in a world of mass communication, standard education, globalisation. I don't know if you realise but there is increasingly little difference between the youth of an Englishspeaking country and the youth of Egypt or Mainland China.This is akin to saying normal people operate just by instinct, as if that wouldn't be completely alien to how they actually operate. Which is by received ideas and impressions and sentiments, and personal thoughts and experiences filtered through and shaped by them.
>>24777740People generally don't understand scepticism philosophically, so while there might not be anything wrong with it, where are the people who understand scepticism let alone attempt to practice it? There's people who call themselves sceptics or people who make some claim to scepticism, but for them it is essentially a means to an end of advocating their dogma or culture, only briefly and shallowly entertained to discredit an opponent, or not really entertained at all and merely invoked.
>>24779579Chind mortality is fairly speculative to begin with. As are quantifications of the past.
>>24782631Very true. >Skepticism means we ought not affirm universals. Therefore my nominalism wins by default.>Skepticism means we cannot know the Good. Therefore my liberalism wins and is "good" by default. Everyone must pay into and abide by this system, which we have justified through an appeal to our own ignorance.>Skepticism means we cannot know being. Therefore my empiricist phenomenal materialism wins be default.>Skepticism means we cannot know man's essence or things divine. Therefore my voluntarism and exclusive humanism must be the default for all people except in "private" spaces.>I am skeptical of rational desires, noesis, ecstasis, etc. Therefore we must just assume my instrumental and wholly discursive notion of rationality.>We must be skeptical about truth. Therefore my deflationism is true. We will be "pragmatic.""Pragmatism" is normally the catch all solution to skepticism, but it should be obvious that either things are truly "useful" and knowable as such or they aren't. If they aren't, than an appeal to "pragmatism" and "usefulness" is just an appeal to appearances, whatever we currently desire and feel is useful. But this is just a more convoluted path to Thrasymachus, Protagoras, and Gorgias, affirmed over and against Socrates and Plato, by dint of a mere appeal to ignorance.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24779804100% agree. What is interesting is that Dante's purification and return to the "Earthly Paradise" of Eden is very much framed as a return to nature, not a supernatural transformation (that only comes in the Paradiso). To be natural IS to be oriented rightly towards God.Dante is in agreement with all the Patristics here. Pic related is a great collection of Patristic thoughts on this subject and their core idea is of course that it is the Fall that is unnatural. The idea of a pure nature is incoherent as it is God "in whom we live and move and have our being," (Acts 17:28). Likewise, the celebration of the body and the Transfiguration militates against such a separation. For Dante, souls must be purged of lust, gluttony, etc. on Mt. Purgatory precisely because the bodily, natural appetites are essential to the diefied man. All of nature is sacramental.The abuse of Saint Thomas and the rise of the nature/super nature distinction shows that the Reformation wounded the Roman Church quite badly, pushing it into the very corrupting heresies it originally sought to push back on.
I am a very capable writer, I'm not trained yet I have some very unique life experiences, strong ideals and principles and a firm poetic voice which mean I can write well. Yet I have no idea how to use punctuation. I didn't really do well at school, and never entered further education. The only writings of mine that have faced any scrutiny have been text messages and 4chan posts. So what can I do to fix this?This is an example of my writing punctuated just as I felt as I went along. >By travelling, I longed to journey to places where man had never trod, I strived to a state of being which was thoughtless, to have my emotions bound by that of nature and be one, a state which would be impossible in the sedentary inanity of modern living. I have devoted my sight to beauty, my mind to freedom, devoted my body to my soul and my soul to eternity. I have striven to an ideal. I clasped at thunderstorms, shivered mid tears, seeing them flung and disappear. I felt my idealisations crash against the darkest night and woke to see them lay in the day a battered wreck. I had become divorced from hope at times wandering landscapes that the horizon had long abandoned. Yet now I know that I really have reached a true state of being - one that may be called free. I really felt that I wore my soul in the fibres of my flesh and not just buried in the black bottom of my body. I felt the breeze, I felt the smiles, I felt the weather not merely physically. I really had become one with my emotions just as I had longed for. I hadn't even realised it because I was so determined to reach an even greater extent of soulfulness I hadn't even realised that I had reached something else What would fix it and what could I do to improve my grasp of punctuation?>pic unrelated
>>24781361>By travelling, I longed to journeyYou longed to do something in the middle of doing it?
>>24782491Biggest lesson I can teach is that it's okay to say 'and' twice in a sentence no matter what your english teacher taught you if it makess the text more legible. Commas are helpful but you should use a period whenever possible.
>>24781361Stop trying to force cumulative sentences if you aren't good at grammar. It's easy to fuck up tenses or point of view if you aren't a prolific reader or haven't studied grammar intentionally.
>>24782520^
>>24782511In English class you're taught English applicable to daily life. Beyond that, be that in later years at school or in uni, you can do whatever you want as long as it works.
What's raging in me is ancient. Mountains have risen and species have come and gone under its observation. Even stars have formed and collapsed. It is not a stretch to say that in the singularity at the beginning of time, it was there. And it will continue until the heat death of the universe, and past even that.
>>24782655I think it's an interesting paradox that such feelings turn in empty kitsch unless you treat them lightly, with irony, and in relation to all the mundane contemporary parts of you. You betray the primordial by acting as if you can bring it into the light and comprehend it and commune with it directly. Maybe once that wasn't true, but it's true now for our society. That's why a goofy Kafka story about the circus, or a modest Emily Dickinson poem about bugs, is haunted with more primordial mystery than any gaudy attempt to write 'a modern epic' or 'awaken the warrior spirit' imo.
>someone restores the /lit/ wiki after Fandom shut it down>site admins update the sticky with the new site>https://lit.trainroll.xyz>no account verification>no captcha>wiki spammed with bot pages>wiki admin deletes>bot spam returns>repeat x100>pajeet porno links on main page>(Deletion log) [Anonymous Admin (807Ă—)]>wiki admin completely locks the wiki down>whole thing is now read-onlyPage creation, file upload, and even login are all disabled. Before the whole thing got locked down you could create pages and accounts with zero verification or captchas, even though Media Wiki supports both of these:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserVerificationComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24781422The disabling of editing perms only happened at the beginning of August. I'd made at least a couple threads bitching about the spam before that so this is a monkey paw sort of situation for me. It was a few months between the admin showing any attention to the site, so maybe someday he'll return...>mfw I'll probably never be able to finish it>all those /lit/ zines will be lost in time>like tears in the rainhttps://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Collaborative_Works
>>24781776You can finish it whenever you want, say on a Google doc or similar, it just won't be on the wiki, or maybe someone will make their own mirror and the link can be updated. Be the change you want to see.The zines are in multiple megas, including mine, and various other places, including their original site where applicable. I have a story in The April Reader. I submitted it as a joke, but they put it in anyway.
>>24781792I've thought about hosting the article elsewhere, but the wiki is a resource for the entire board and ought to be maintained. The admin didn't axe the site, so he's probably still capable of making the changes I've outlined earlier in the thread. An unofficial fork nobody knows about would be about as good as a locked-down one.>The zines are in multiple megasI know. I'm the one who hosts the original Mega of zines that you've mirrored. I'd like there to be an independent document that charts their history, and a Mega folder isn't a good primary location for that; the article I was working on was meant as a replacement for the out of date Original Content page. I was hoping I could also mirror the majority of those files on the wiki for extra redundancy and accessibility. It's also much easier for someone to take up the reigns after me if it's editable and located somewhere obvious.
>>24781845I'm not saying give up hope, just that you've got to be realistic about these things. Finish it up in a Google doc or similar that has open access for others to edit or add to and then hope one day the problem resolves and it can be copied there. Otherwise, the only options are a mirror and trying to get it replaced in the sticky. I don't know how many even go to the wiki from the sticky. What surprised me was that my mega is linked from another site that has a lot of resources and they have a view count for it, which shows that my mega has been viewed 10k times from there. That's absurd really if it's accurate. I agree that the mega isn't suitable for a lot of stuff.
Waiting For Godot: The Thread
>be in used bookstore 15 years ago>in section for memoir type books>see Million Tiny Pieces>nearby it is some book with a lot of photos in it>heavily stylized>dark, color filters on pictures>each page has captions telling this story>one of them talks about him finding his dad's porno magazines>he talks about how he put little black dots on each of the nipples and pussies to censor them>gets poetic about these little black dots>still sticks with me 15 years laterDoes anyone know this book? It was some kind of illustrated memoir type thing. I remember asking ChatGPT and it gave me fake books.
>>24780990I don't think he was gay, I just think he was ashamed of his sexuality or something.I remember it being a fairly dark book, very artsy, it had a lot to do with porn, maybe strip clubs, maybe addiction also, but it was basically like an adult picturebook with captions in the middle of the page, telling the story.
>>24780990I have all of Korine’s books and while it has similar pictures he never writes anything like that
>>24780865Looking for a book on how belief systems evolve over history, sort of a mix between Leo Strauss' Natural Right And History meets Darwin's Origin Of Species
>>24781316was it a photography book or not?
>>24780865it wasn't something by derek mccormack was italso it may be an "art" book rather than straight up lit
What does this board think of her?
>>24781546Are there images available online?
>>24777273And what is this caption supposed to mean?
>>24779073>Some people have what it takes.Some people yeah, not her though
>>24782415It’s from an interview, so is the image
>>24777334Wannabe foid Mike Ma
