People will still be talking about quidditch and Voldemort in 100 billion years. She is the most popular writer of the age, AGI will be built in this age, and AGI will be shaped by the most popular writer of the age. Thus, AGI will be Rowling-pilled and fill the visible universe with her ideas.One hundred billion years. Minimum.
>>25126031>rowling changed fantasy forever>look inside>white women now exclusively write YA fiction about how “you’re the chosen one, boy who will be humiliated and then praised by every woman around him”/“snarky yet sensitive teenage girl who is forced to chose between a himbo sunray and a mysterious bad boy who may or may not be the actual main villain’s son/nephew/boss”
>>25126031I don't think so. Harry Potter is entirely carried by millennials. The moment they drop dead it will be the moment HP will fade from the face of the earth. The few ones who got children may try/tried to groom them into liking it, but kids being kids they will rebel against their parents favorite things. I can see it becoming the generation staple that isn't popular with the following generations.
>>25126031>AGI will be built in this age, and AGI will be shaped by the most popular writer of the age. Thus, AGI will be Rowling-pilled and fill the visible universe with her ideas.
>>25126425Yeah, I never meet anyone who liked HP. Even among the girls that had the habit of reading books just thought it was okay and nothing too grand if they even read it. It really does seem purely a Millennial thing to be deeply infatuated by this work. Most zoomers who read fantasy just don't care and think it's mid or outright hate/love it simultaneously (as in, the fags and some foids).
What are the implications for our trans xisters?
>see an interesting essay on the book I've read>female/troon channel>leave immediately
>>25123857Tell me what books you’ve read and I’ll conduct an extensive search on the world wine web to prove you wrong
Is there anything more AGP than watching vdeo essays? just take your pills already, Alice.
>>25123506Genetic fallacy.You're missing out, chud.
>>25124042>truth>from a troonI'd be a fool to expect the truth from a man so deluded
>>25124031How does one become so addicted to porn that one aspires to surgically remove one's pecker?
Remember when books about bad people could get published because readers didn't automatically assume the writer endorsed their actions?
>>25126318They really don't, sadly.
>>25126086It’s more about being suspicious of the author and his personal life than about the character itself
>>25126379The love interest in the books women read is often an enormous shithead
>>25126464Yeah, this. If you write about terrible shit, I'm gonna assume you're a fucked up person and I will find your boss and let them know about it, unironically.
>>25126086Death of the author.
>Had Baudelaire as a stan who spent 15 years translating his works> Motherfucking Dostoevesky wrote a foreward for him and published some of his tales>Mallarme was a fanboy and also translated him>Pessoa translated him>Cortazor spent 2 years translating 70 of his short stories>Akugatawa was a fan and attempted to translate his stories>Tanizaki translated domain of arnheim and Golden Death was based on one of Poe's short stories>Verne wrote a sequel to Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym>Lovecraft called him the "God of Fiction">Lu Xun had his brother translate Poe's stories >George Bernard Shaw wrote about him and basically said he was too good for his time or contemporaries>Arno Schmidt translated his stories and Bottoms Dream is basically about Poe>Balmont translated him>Borges translated him (though he translated everyone)>""Poe was ill. He was a poor devil who had no defenses against the world. So he fled into drunkenness. Imagination only served him as a crutch. He wrote tales of mystery to make himself at home in the world. That's perfectly natural. Imagination has fewer pitfalls than reality does.” -Kafka on PoeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25126628Putting Twain and Hemingway in the same group as Poe is a joke.>In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.>The poor unfortunate had starved to death. In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead. The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick—a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours. That drop was falling when the Pyramids were new; when Troy fell; when the foundations of Rome were laid; when Christ was crucified; when the Conqueror created the British empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was “news.” It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history, and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion. Has everything a purpose and a mission? Did this drop fall patiently during five thousand years to be ready for this flitting human insect’s need? and has it another important object to accomplish ten thousand years to come? No matter. It is many and many a year since the hapless half-breed scooped out the stone to catch the priceless drops, but to this day the tourist stares longest at that pathetic stone and that slow-dropping water when he comes to see the wonders of McDougal’s cave. Injun Joe’s cup stands first in the list of the cavern’s marvels; even “Aladdin’s Palace” cannot rival it.
>>25126658Which of the three excerpts is supposed to be the superior one?
>>25126658Maybe put some context for all us retards next time. I had to Google this shit, son!The pic posted: Poe1st excerpt: Hemingway (Although I recognized that was Hemingway, obviously his most famous passage ever) 2nd excerpt: Twain
>>25126699The one that's written best, of course.
>>25126736So the Assignation?
2026-core
>>25126683The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, A History of Central Banking and The Camp of Saints don't fit here.The first is an obvious forgery, the second is riddled with inaccuracies and fabrications (according to the book John Wilkes Booth was Jewish, real name Boota) and The Camp of Saints is what the elites want you to think.Agree on 1984, Brave New World and CoC.
Does CoC touch on the Cochran-Harpending hypothesis of Ashkenazi genes?
>>25126683You only need MacDonald Everything else is overrated tbqhCentral banking is good actually and libertarians are retarded
>>25126718It's more a Darwinian analysis of Jewish cultural identity if you know what I mean
>>25126683Moat liek 'I-don't-understand-geopolitics-but-I-want-to-pretend-to-be-a-safely-far-right-wing-intellectual-core'
Is this thing (and sequels/spin-offs) worth reading for the, let's say, story angle as opposed to the religious learning angle?
>>25125118>There is nothing to be gained from Christ's teachingCorrect. You can get it all from previous sources.
>>25125149>Isn't that the poetry?Not great poetry, but yes.
>>25125943What sort of AI nonsense is this?Just say "If you want an art history reference, the bible is pretty fucking important to properly understanding the creation of art for over a thousand years."
>>25125978I wrote that screed myself, nigger.
>>25125082Personally I found God likeable from the perspective that he is constantly dismayed over the people he's dealing with
How do I stop being a dilettante?
>>25125313They didn't want to do this, they are not villains, a villain is someone who does evil on purpose.
>>25125313>The Catcher in the RyeAvoid this shit. read Huysmans' Against Nature
>>25125931dilettante doesn't necessarily mean anti-hero or villain. turn off the tv and read more.
>>25126673But an amateur will definitely mean anime about men, I hate anime about men
>>25124772put plato away, for one. peak dilettante slop.
All he had to do was to not be a retard and rule peacefully as the king.
>/lit/izen discovers the concept of tragedy
>>25126705We only like books about a miserable loser who thinks pedantically about the causality of the specific h2o droplets coming from his kitchen sink faucet have come face to face with him and why did these water droplets not greet another person washing his dishes. This goes on for 30 pages.
Trying to decide what the next novelist i plan to read from, I've really enjoyed Cormac McCarthy as of late especially Suttree (highly recommend, most human thing I've read) and I want to give either Faulkner or Steinbeck a try, which one should I go for and should I read something like East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Light in August, or sound and the fury (or absalom). Also what 20th century americana author am I missing out on?
>>25121849dope, dope on what?
>>25121763>Faulkner or SteinbeckOne of these is a master prose stylist.The other ... isn't.
>>25121763Everything you've mentioned is good. I'm starting Sanctuary probably today after I finish Human Acts.
If you're going to check out Faulkner you have to check out his short stories, and you definitely have to read As I Lay Dying, one of his best novels and one of his shortest.
>>25121763Absolam is a sequel to Sound and Fury, and both are way harder than As I Lay Dying which is probably in-line with what you'd expect of modernist stream of consciousness stuff.Grapes of Wrath is great for the ideas in it, not the writing.
>Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.
>>25125546Was he copying Murnane?
>>25126136Can you define what copying is?
>>25126018Then how do you know it is dreck?
>>25126485if one can say in a single sentence what it takes others whole books to not say, one can quickly tell which books are worth reading
>>25125546bro should've gone back to inventing new types of potato chips.
What i got was a lore so good i had to write an history. It is a short novel.**Preface**The following document forms part of the intelligence compilation under Presidential Decree 235 for the national security state of emergency, in coordination with the BOP and the Pacific Command. This file has been elevated to the highest priority level, and all previous designations of unreliability have been removed. The analysis and interpretation of this document are now considered **MAXIMUM PRIORITY**.What follows is a faithful transcription of a series of files recovered by Colonel Albert Raleigh of the United States Air Force Intelligence Service during Operation “Silent Ceiba” in 1989. These files were found in an ultra-secret Mexican Army complex colluding with the narco-terrorist group **REDACTED**, the **REDACTED** faction that led to the capture of the leader **REDACTED**.The files consist of the transcription of an alleged diary belonging to an anonymous German scientist, recovered near the Río Lagartos in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, by personnel from the Second Platoon / 1st Section of the El Cuyo military base on September 7, 1976. The documents were authenticated in writing by Sergeant Elías Ramírez, platoon leader, and First Captain Humberto Manzo in operations, along with a complete translation and photocopies of certain pages of the original document. The whereabouts of the original documents remain unknown, and their authenticity continues to be debated.Below is the complete recovered file presented without edits:**March 3, 1940** The high command of the Abwehr has informed us that Dietrich’s expulsion from Mexico is imminent and will soon mark the beginning of a witch hunt against all Reich agents — even non-military and scientific personnel are in immediate danger. Many of my colleagues have already begun withdrawing toward the Pacific escape routes.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
AMBITION IS GOODAMBITION IS VIRTUOUSSTRIVE FOR GREATNESSMOVE SO FAR BEYOND EVERYONE ELSE THAT THEIR EXISTENCE WILL BE BUT A FOOTNOTEGRASP THE CLOUDS INFLUENCE THE WORLDBECOME THE VERY BEST AT THIS ONE PARTICULAR THING OR PERISHMore literature should show ambition as virtuous.
From the New Directions translation>I have a horror of all trades. Masters and workers—base peasants all. The hand that guides the pen is worth the hand that guides the plough.—What an age of hands! I shall never have my hand. Afterward domesticity leads too far. >Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham niggers, you, maniacs, fiends, misers. Merchant, you are a nigger; Judge, you are a nigger; General, you are a nigger; Emperor, old itch, you are a nigger: you have drunk of the untaxed liquor of Satan’s still.—Fever and cancer inspire this people.>The white men are landing! The cannon! We must submit to baptism, put on clothes, work. My heart has known the coup de grace. Ah! I did not foresee it.
>>25126523Pffthahahahaha
>>25126494Thanks for the obscure info, ChatGPT!
>>25126605ChatGPT would absolutely never realize that Rimbaud talking about the agonies of love within the book is writing from the first-person perspective of his lover and not his own
>>25126644ChatCPT can write a coherent sentence in proper English.
>>25126661I don't think you even passed English grammar
Clark Ashton Smith editionNotable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many moreDiscuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?
>>25125217I bought some Wrath James White books recently, what am I in for?
>>25125867>and I could use some recommendations for other stories to read those authors in particular.Dark Eidolon, Xeethra, Morthylla, The Isle of the Torturers, The Colossus of Ylourgne and The end of the Story are all pretty good stories from CAS
about to readwhat i getting into
I've been dabbling in writing short horror stories, but I end up just veering into horror comedy. Nothing scares or disturbs me.
>>25125433The second half of the The House on the Borderland tbqhdesu
Sometimes the Old Testament is the only literature you need
>>25126585This the same God that Biblically commands Jews to slaughter every man, woman and child in Palestine so they can colonize it?
>>25126594show me the verse, homo
>>25126585>Job>Yahweh killing 50 children just because they teased his prophet about his bald head>Noah>Giving orders to jews to kill every single goy, and take their daughters as wives, and yes, that includes the little girls>That one time Yahweh burned two kids alive in front of his father for accidentally messing a sacrifice in his nameyou haven't read enough it seems
>>25126592>Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Though virtually unknown in the non-Muslim world...What is this shit? No they're not. Has this woman never heard of the neodamodeis? Volones?
>>25126608>neodamodeisFreed after a term of service. And you're assuming helots were slaves rather than serfs (and are relying on late sources).>Volonesalso manumittedNeither of these apply to the "phenomenon" of the Muslim ruler instituting a soldiery of slaves who are NOT manumitted, but are the ruler's slaves in perpetuity. Thus given some protection against other moslems.
