the scenic scenes of lys 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: >>25216234
Haven’t visited this general in months and I see it’s even more awful now than before
>>25265104why are you schizo posting?
zoomer started to realize this fandom has no future and has nowhere to gohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig2qlalZvQs
>>25265787The fandom now comprises of fujo Rhaenyra/Dany stans/femcels on X, Jon basedboys on jewtube and stannis redditors
>>25265104>>25261918>>25260618>>25260613>>25256125>>25256120>>25256112You're single-handedly making this thread unreadable. Nigger.
Peak just dropped; get it while it's hot. This book's copies are selling like hotcakes!>Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin Feinman, Northrop Frye, A. R. Ammons, John Hollander, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Henri Cole, and Ursula K. Le Guin, we see Bloom developing his groundbreaking theory of poetic influence, transforming himself into a public intellectual, and reckoning with the meaning of his own legacy.I went straight to the section between him and Northrop Frye which was kind of disappointing. It was basically him fellating him, asking about random articles he published, and then soft-launching his retarded influence theory to him before getting absolutely BTFO by Northchad Frye (and then getting butthurt about it for years after).
>>25257607No Swiss?
>>25257586>Bloom claims to "speed-read" 1000 pages an hour at his peak (as if this is even possible to retain a fraction of this)A page every four seconds. Yeah I'm calling bullshit. There's no way he could retain, let alone comprehend and process, anything at that rate. Meme-tier author, but what else can you expect on /lit/.
>>25261721kill yourself
>>25262876I think that was a reference to skipping through news articles
>>25262876His wife said he did to me after I fucked her. I believe her.
What’s the best supplementary material/commentary on the phenomenology of the spirit?Pls no Marxists/historical materialism
Has anyone read Charles Taylor’s Hegel book? I haven’t read it yet but it’s been sitting on my shelf for a while now.
>>25263280depth and accuracy is not the same thing. a lack of depth would be an omission of information, compared to incorrectly stated claims. >>25263286whatever you're projecting, that ain't me. just because i offered secondary sources doesn't mean i'm by any means reliant on them. anyway>>25263286So within consciousness, there is both a fixed part and a moving part. The fixed part is kind of like a Cartesian thinking substance, motivated by a Kantian unity of apperception. That is, there’s something there that that can 100% be certain of itself and it’s certain of itself as a unified whole. The moving part, observes itself moving through the passage of time, such that it’s consciousness observing that there is a consciousness moving (and nothing else).These two parts compare themselves to each other simultaneously. What falls out is that there are multiple fixed parts strewn across time and there is a traversed observation of these parts by consciousness. This full process of traversing fixed parts now appears (to consciousness) be the most real thing there is. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Newfags here say double indented speech is a Reddit quality, and most people here seem to have eaten it up.We were doing that here before Reddit even existed.[Spoiler]It was a MySpace thing, actually.[/Spoiler]
>>25263772personally, I like to assert that people hung up on reddit spacing are retarded fucking niggers, besides it being free (you)s
>>25263373 Hegel has two annoying demands; 1. That you need to understand truths (including his claims) in whole and not in part and 2. He uses a technical vocabulary which requires you to do a lot of pre-reading. The analytic project of the 20th century explicitly went against both of these points, such that philosophical discussion in the anglosphere today places these demands on everything, including hegel, who was the target. People who say he's a charlatan follow these anglosphere demands which they argue is more rigourous. People who say others dont get him, read him on his own terms.
Anonymously post spicy journal entries for others voyeuristic enjoyment.I started in April last year. The blue book is full the black book is around 2/3 full.
>>25265482Imagine being inspired by the crap posted ITT
>>25265372Get a proper fucking notebook
>>25256843>"Falling in love" with a tranny you just met on a hookup appStay deeply disturbed by your childhood sexual trauma.
Been thinking on starting an audio journal after I found a cheap old voice recorder in a drawer when I was cleaning my house a few days ago, I just don't want to look retarded and eccentric if I'm recording an entry in public. Recording an entry makes me feel like the guy from twin peaks though
>>25265819I understand the charm but your phone can easily serve the same purpose without you looking like a dork
History/political science books on WTF is actually going on in the world today? Pic related seems to be one of the absolute best on this, to the side of Whitney webbs one nation under blackmail. I'm however still befuddled by the international dimension of this, in that the ENTIRE west is more or less operating as a giant crime syndicate, not just the Intel orgs and the cartels and mafia orgs in between the governments. Just seems to be such a massive organized crime angle and how they took over EVERYTHING with the public barely noticing that doesn't seem well explored fully so far. At the very least, JFK got wacked by CIA trained and potentially armed Mobsters, and everybody got away with it and all other institutions went along with it. Everything following would need to be reevaluated historically from that, which is no small task. https://youtu.be/jXvuOG33zLs?si=7e0Wu4G_R6k5hSCp
>>25263615Have you been posting this in other threads as of lately? I've seen this posted a few times in the last few months, so I'll check it out now. Despite the nazi controversiality I basically accept ZOG as a given at this point, so it's important to understand how the hell this got so ingrained and institutionalized. Been meaning to read up on the Rotchchilds and other Euro-Jewish banking clans as well, but my backlog of books is stratospheric at this point.
>>25263634Probably me, yeah. >how the hell this got so ingrained and institutionalizedI believe it was the nature of secret societies. The Masons and Illuminati may have started with good intent, may have done a few good things, depending on one's point of view, but the Sabbatian cult went underground and no doubt (in my mind) intrigued the Rothschilds.Saw this book in a pile belonging to Richard Grove. (Has a nice youtube. Interviewed John Taylor Gatto). I'm sure there are other books on them, but Coleman has written other intriguing books (That Corbett sites)
>>25263605I really need to read Seeing Like A State sooner than later
Bump
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Excerpts>All these consequences are contained in the definition that the worker is related to the product of his labour as to an alien object. For on this premise it is clear that the more the worker spends himself, the more powerful the alien objective world becomes which he creates over-against himself, the poorer he himself—his inner world-becomes, the less belongs to him as his own.>political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance – is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences. Self-renunciation, the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.>every person speculates on creating a new need in another, so as to drive him to a fresh sacrifice, to place him in a new dependence and to seduce him into a new mode of gratification and therefore economic ruin. Each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potency of mutual swindling and mutual plundering. Man becomes ever poorer as man; his need for money becomes ever greater if he wants to overpower hostile being; and the power of his money declines exactly in inverse proportion to the increase in the volume of production: that is, his neediness grows as the power of money increases.
>>25265611SEXUAL COMPETITION.bros, you in this weekend?
I am now realising the lower case leftoid is the same one that hasn't read Kapital. Noted.
>>25265611Marxism considers all value to be a reflection of the socially average labor required for something. The explanation and detailed argument for this is given in chapter 1, volume one of capitalWasted labor is covered in chapter 1, volume one of capital.Before there can be exchange value, there must be use value. Use value is qualitative and purely subjective, but once you are producing use value for others, then you are engaging in social labor, at which point the socially average labor time required to produce what you produce can be used as exchange value with other goods, which is estimated by price. The explanation and argument for this can be found in chapter 1, volume one of capital.
>>25264570trannypolers have open wounds in their crotch were they used to have functional genitals. they're unable to go outside because of this. so they spend all their waking time spamming the internet with an irrelevant ideology
>>25265611marx poster logger - log this dumb anon and his post
Sometimes I lie in bed simply staring at the ceiling and feel that even to move a finger would be utterly hypocritical and the death of genuine action. I cannot stand myself when I act, but act I must, for life is an action, but human nature is the most comical of actions. Utterly ridiculous and self-incestous.
Thanks for visiting my blog, I'll keep you posted.
>44 books completed this year thus farHow's YOUR yearly reading gone so far, /lit/?
>>25260028> how to read lotsI went from reading 1-5 books a year for years to 50+ (even 100+) a year. The key for me is to treat web surfing/doom scrolling like the plague. When I find myself slacking in my reading it has always been because I've allowed the internet to creep back into my life. It's such a waste of time.> primary means of entertainmentSome weeks I spend more time watching TV than I do reading. Some weeks I barely read at all. Usually it's one or the other (reading or watching stuff). Most of the time (at least 3/5 of the time) reading is my primary means of entertainment.
>>25260028I listen to audiobooks every night while preparing dinner/doing the dishes which raises my "books read" number a fair bit.
Number of books is kind of stupid anyway, I just finished Infinte Jest, which took me like 50+ hours and then I read The Crying of Lot 49 in just 5 hours. Hell, even page count varies a lot based on the printing details.
The Duchess of Langeais Diary of a Country Priest The Kill The Forest Passage Letters to a Young Poet Steppenwolf On Overgrown Paths For Whom the Bell Tolls Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca The Claw of the Conciliator The Shadow of the Torturer The Magic Mountain Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Dubliners The Gate The Sound of Waves Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25259415It's better to read one book that's challenging than 100 easy reads.
On a scale of 1-10, how bad of an idea is it to post my novel's manuscript here for critique? Would I be better off paying an editor?
>>25264374an editor edits. depends on what you want.
>>25265183I could use a seasoned editor's advice on a few things, particularly the structure, what to cut what to expand, etc.
>>25264590>One womanThat's simply too many.
>>252643744chan isn't very helpful for feedback. Too many ankle-biters, contrarians, and memers to actually filter out the genuine criticism.
>>25264374Posting your manuscript on a public forum forfeits FNASR. Imagine this:>congratulations, Anon. We want to represent your novel. Just one small question: you didn't publish this anyplace before, did you?>Nope!>Ok, now let me just do a quick Google search and... oh. It looks like you did publish it online. >No! I didn't publish it online! >Yes you did. It's all right here on 4chan. Did you post the whole manuscript?>Yeah, but that was for critique. >Hmm... sorry, Anon. I can't publish this without first serial rights.
Korean radical feminists are complaining about this genius author being overlooked and are saying that men always get attention for their writing skills instead. Personally, I really liked the book.
>>25264315women are also violent in other ways, just because men do it physically doesn't mean women don't do it too, case in point divorceraping their husbands and infanticide, both of which receive less attention compared to male violence, so you get what's coming to you, you can cry all day about it but it won't change anything, hurt men while society turns a blind eye, and men will hurt you back
>>25255766I do not know the situation of Korean women. From what I know of the feminists in the West, I assume that, of course, the life of a Korean housewife is far more then just "make the kitchen".I image a Korean houswife did a lot of work, pull strings etc. and don't even demand a "thanks!". Instead of writing a hero story bout it, they deceide to make her turn into a "strong woman", i.e. a desperate dry cate lady.
>>25265634It's not just (South) Korean women. Both sexes live in a fucking pressure cooker that piles ridiculous expectations on everyone who lives there. This is most abundantly clear when you look at what S Koreans fantasize about in their popular art, especially the art created by younger S Koreans.>being born rich, powerful, and beautiful/handsome into a family of high renown >wearing all the most expensive, high status clothes and accessories. Driving the most expensive classy; a Mercedes Benz SUV limo if you're a woman whatever is the most expensive sports car at the moment if you're a man.>viciously avenging yourself, physically, socially, and economically, on everyone who insults you or offends you.
>>25256476Only worthwhile post itt.
>>25261703It is definitely the culture. When Koreans immigrate, their birthrates go up to match or exceed the country they move too.
SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD refuted by Ship of Theseus.Nothing can be said of the emptiness that is the naked soul in itself, it is indifferent, the only thing that separates you from me is solely binary otherness.Therefore this is not my self, this 'something' that weeps and loves cannot be saved, "this" who actually knows pain and joy is according to this not real. But here is the only place where things can matter, how then can the indifferent matter? He that cares is not my "eternal self" there I who am speaking who will die in my next breath am not that distant psychotic inner eye.Fuck you Christhna.I am only this fleeting moment of passion and it is lovelier than all eternity.The indifferent is indifferent to me.
>>25265737That is, it's not a choice between acts but whether to act at all. Even Tweetophon up there must affirm that Thinking is Being, and so by silence reify that if you then donnot 'think' you'd fall out of Being. And perhaps it is possible to die entirely...
>>25265747Plotinus, the God;As, then, one ascends from virtue to Beauty and the Good, so one descends from vice to that which is evil itself, starting from vice. To the contemplator there is, on the one hand, the contemplation of whatever evil; on the other, there is the participation in it for someone who becomes it. For he finds himself altogether in the ‘region of lack of sameness’, and sinking into the participation in evil there, he will be walking into a ‘muddy darkness’. And if the soul were to fall absolutely into absolute vice, it no longer hasvice, but changes itself into a different and worse nature. For vice mixed with its contrary is still human nature. It dies, then, as much as a soul can die, and death for it while still immersed in the body is to be sunk into matter and to be filled with it and, when it leaves the body, to lie there until it should turn away and lift up its gaze from the mud. And this is what it means to ‘come to Hades and fall asleep there’.
>>25265755(Matter here, is obviously an aspect of the Soul itself. Something good if correctly ordered. And only evil if surrendered to, only as much as it tempts. It is Plutarch's Evil Soul. Jung's Shadow. What we become by not willing the Good, no differently than night and cold growing without the sun. An automatic inevitability, if not even the primordial state—That Jötunn melts the frozen cold. Atum revolts against the abyss.
>>25265719> This thread consists of a Jeet and a Paki larping as whites, each one assuming the other is the genuine articleMost of this thread has consisted of Guenonfag & Ken Wheeler (both of whom are white) taking turns dunking on and making fun of some deeply-confused weirdo who thinks Neoplatonism is supposed to be some Nietzchean “Live Laugh Love” philosophy.
>>25265769"They used to call me Platonism Anon, actually."Guess where this is from fren
Post stacks of any kind, pic rel is my most recent haul
>>25263776>>25263779Melty detected.B R O W N
>56 percenter thinks he's white
Why's this Spanish dude so BTFO?
>>25263639Rock on hermano
Charity shop finds.
Patrick Bateman?>it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one’s own taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person’s love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term “generosity of spirit” applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire- meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathy, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt anymore. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface, was all that anyone found meaning in…this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged…Or Mac the Knife?>POLLY in tears: Those poor people, [murdered] all for a few sticks of furniture.>MAC: And what furniture! Junk! You have a perfect right to be angry. A rosewood harpsichord along with a renaissance sofa. That’s unforgivable. What about a table?https://youtube.com/watch?v=8euLM67QJG4
>>25264854faggoty shitexpected for /lit/
>>25264854I read the Brecht novel. I liked the concept of a jack-the-ripper-cum-successful-slop-shop-entrepreneur. Rough and monotonous it ended up, though it had some gems here and there.
>>25265714I haven't read it. I enjoyed reading the play and I liked the music though
Apparently Kafka laughed so violently reading his friends The Trial he couldn't finish it. That is the level I want to get to.
>>25265732is that friend max brod?
were you good at english in high school?
>>25263387yes.
>>25265609lmfao
I wrote an essay in high school about how the vampire fangs in Dracula were metaphorical penises and got an A+.
>>25265725Can we read it
>>25265735This was almost 20 years ago so I don't have it anymore, unfortunately. It was in an AP class, so I assume it was probably decent.
