>Fathered he is, yet he is fatherless
I get the bastard reference but not the first part.I was watching the chimes at midnight the other day and had to fucking pause and rewind a bunch of times to understand what the fuck they were saying. I need to read some more Shakespeare and early modern English
>>24852576no u
>>24852586I take that line (out of context) as his father being absent. Fathered = he has a biological father, fatherless = his father failed to be a father figure to his son.
>>24852576>bitchless he is, yet he is bitching
>>24852576omg me
>peak>mid>slop>crash out>unaliveWhat the hell is up with modern speech turning into newspeak straight out of 1984? The word "ungood" genuinely wouldn't look too out of place with all the neologisms I just listed.
>>24852426Grow up.
>>24852373gotem
She sloppin on my mid till I peak.
>>24850309un-S-tier post, tbfhfamalam
>>24852082Not reading all of that cope, lil' nigga. Sorry you had to type all of that out just for it to be ultimately ignored.
>human knowledge is limited to phenomena, the world as structured by our mind’s categories (space, time, causality, etc)>the noumenal world, things as they are “in themselves,” independent of perception, is unknowablethis distinction was meant to preserve both empirical science (which studies appearances) and metaphysical limits (beyond which reason cannot go).but If we truly can’t know anything about the noumenal world, then how can we even assert its existence or claim it causes appearances?
>>24851339>but If we truly can’t know anything about the noumenal world, then how can we even assert its existence or claim it causes appearances?Because the claim works. The justification for ideas, theories and ultimately language itself is pragmatic. We dice the world up into objects and words by utility, not by a matter of some detached factual knowledge. A house has no rooms. It just has walls. We infer the rooms from lack of walls because it suits our pragmatic ends.
>>24852807Fichte views knowledge similarly. There is no detached, abstract, pure knowing, everything stands in relation to us as active, autonomous (=moral) beings and it is only because of this practical relation that we can know anything at all. This is also where Kant's thinking leads if you just make him consistent and realize his primary of practical reason.
>>24852820>Kant's thinking .. if you just make him consistentWhat that means?
>>24852856I mean Kant has a radical division between theoretical and practical reason, but he says in the second Critique that practical reason must actually be first, but he never works this out in a satisfactory way. Kant's system grew organically and it became unwieldy; he started out trying to refute Hume and Leibniz, ends up in totally different waters, but is never able to go back and 'fix' the first Critique or make everything coherent.
>>24851339>>24851622>if we can't see behind that door how can we assert there's anything inside it?Stuff keeps coming out of the door you braindead retards.The alternative is that the concepts in your mind are the same as the fundamental reality they're trying to describe. You'll deny believing this but in practice this is the braindead belief subhumans like you actually act out and the reason basic observations like noting the existence of the noumenal world trigger you.
If I order this from Hackett's website instead of amazon will it at least get some decent packing? I am fucking sick of amazon throwing books in envelopes or boxes just to get bashed around
Jeff Bezos come up with Amazon so that kids could read more books, support him
>>24850543This book failed my destroying test on its own before I even got around to it. The paper is so thin its built like a bible in a platform heel.
>>24852303this. i saw this edition at a bookstore the other day. the paper really is so thin you can see through the next couple of pages. OP i wish you luck.
>>24852303if it wasn't thin, the book would be twice as thick
>>24850543I had no issues ordering this particular edition from Amazon. It really is quite sturdy a hardback. Paperbacks are more susceptible to arriving damaged in my experience.
Why not roll up an infinitely tall hill?
>>24852654Well, at least you have the posturing down to a T. Starting something over and over again without making any meaningful progress crushes the spirit of most people and thus is very essential to the punishment. It's also where modern readings start, no way to embrace futility when you can tell yourself things like "at least i climbed x miles high" or "it's an infinite timeline, there has to be a 7/11 somewhere around here!"Your last point is basically coping through the possibility of taking over his spot if you suck up to the boss long enough. But only once you rid yourself of that hope you can see the part of the punishment that is being embraced.
>>24852759>coping existing:)
>>24852848>existingIf I pull that belief system off, will you die?
>>24852863What do you mean?We can cooperate.Unless you want to existentially defect?
>>24852473It's a myth about the rising and setting of the sun each day but retards think it's about hell or something.
Is Stephen King a good author?
>>24852008It reminded me of that suspected spy they found on the beach in Australia.. The Somerton Man. Maybe I'm just not into supernatural horror.
>>24848659No. His writing itself is pretty bad and is saved only by his talent for plots and characters. There's a reason why so many of his works have been adapted to film. Unfortunately, while he knows how to begin stories, he has absolutely no idea how to end them and I can't think of a single King book that didn't disappoint me with the ending.
>>24852026Revival has the goofy ending but the whole novel is setting itself up for it so it worked. 'salem's Lot had a good ending too. That's about all though. Cell didn't end too badly, not great though.
>>24848659Most of his adaptations are vastly superior to the original books
>>24848659Yeah. He has a very distinct style and voice. Excellent sense for characters, settings, scenes. It's not an accident a lot of his stuff has been made into movies, he has a lot of highly memorable scenes and images, with a distinctly unique "feel" to them. He also has a great talent for causing unease, for conveying the sense that something is off. A lot of people like to look down on him for writing genre fiction, but I suspect those people might be giving more credence to the idea of belonging to a group of literary elites than to enjoying literature itself. Or maybe I'm wrong, but there's no way to know. Not like any of you dumbasses will ever convince me.In any case, yeah, good writer. Definitely taps into some sort of collective unconscious.
The rules are simple. Rewrite the following story in a different style. Don’t repeat what other anons have already written. I’ll start with three variations.I was in the McDonald’s on King street. The guy at the front of the line had a bowl cut and a pencil mustache. He accused the guy behind him of breathing on the back of his neck. Then he grabbed his nuggets and fries and quickly left the restaurant.An hour later I saw him outside the bus station on first avenue. His friend was telling him that his zipper was undone.
>>24847054I said it was growing in still, i wont shave, women love a 'stache man, stop saying it looks like your grandma's, where's she from anyway? All the women got mustaches there dont they. Once it grows in itll fit the cut. Stop saying i look like a peasant does your grandma have a bowlcut too or something? Its gonna be like an 80s thing its gonna be based. Lets see how you talk once i get my license and youre stuck here riding the same shitty busline up and down to work forever while im cruisin' in through the drive-thru, windows rolled down, hot chick on my side, chicken nuggets in the bag, fries on the side too, no lowlifes breathing down my neck, always too close, catching up to me, i dont want it, happened again at the Mac, they always get too close. I want to be alone, behind the steering wheel, the world an asphalt plain of rolling under my feet forever, she there too, finally, not talking, just listening to m- ow oops youre right its open.
FaulknerThe McDonalds sat squat and motionless on king street, as though having been erected over the concrete, it now owned the territory and every man that passed it must acknowledge it, in equal parts disdain and surrender. I entered the joint and stood in the line. Two men were already ahead in the line, one with a ghastly bowlcut, and the other afflicted with a constant slackness of the jaw that left the lips parted for whistling exhalations. Suddenly, the man at the forefront of the line turned around and drowned the succeeding mouthbreather in invective, as though he were a young military upstart and the man with bowlcut a longserving, nuisancehardened colonel. Then he grabbed his package of fries and nuggets and vacated the restaurant hastily.Sometime later I would see the same man standing outside the bus station. His arms were folded and his mouth chewing, and his brows made him look as though he was meditating on the annoying trifle that he was subjected to an hour ago. Standing beside him, his friend apparent, was asking him to zip up his pants.
Hemingway:To get: a portion of abandoned nuggets & fries for free between King street and first avenue - may or may not contain frustralingly nutted nut juice.
>>24847054"African-American Vernacular English"ayo hol up nigga listen ta dis shih listlisten so ya boi pull up ta Mickey D on MLK righ and dis fuggin geekass poindexta lugginass wy boi frunuhda lie wid he bo cut n he lil tinyass moustache nigga luggin fruity as fuck righ he turna roun n luguhda nigga behine im n tell dis nigga he breavin onda bagga he neg den he grab he lil nuggies n he fries n nigga run ow da stow den I see he ass sittin adda bus station on Firs n dis nigga fren tellinum he zippa down
>>24847054I'd become quite the starveling over the course of the day, having skipped breakfast in my morning rush. When lunch broke, I remembered with disappointment that I hadn't packed a lunch. The only nearby restaurant that would deliver a meal fast enough for my thirty minutes was a McDonald's on King's Street. I went in. At the head of the line stood a man with hair reminiscent of a young Beatle and a pencil-thin mustache that looked painted-on from the distance I stood. His demeanor revealed his foul mood when he looked behind, scanning the room, his eyes coming to rest on the person behind him."The fuck's your problem?" he practically screamed. When his accostee didn't reply, eyes wide with shock, he continued. "Motherfucker, stop breathing down my neck."The other stranger apologized and, although already nearly six feet away, took a few steps back. His accoster gave him a pissed-off look and, once his order arrived, snatched the bag and stormed out. Later on, I passed by the bus station on First and saw him reclining with a similarly old-fashioned-looking individual who must've been his friend. While I strolled past them, unremarked upon, I overheard the friend point out the brute's unzipped fly.
What am I in for?
Poorly written, outdated, and boring history of the 20th century, with one interesting claim about a clandestine globalist group that directed Atlanticist foreign policy, the veracity of which supposed attendees dispute. You can read this claim in an archived copy of the book online, and read far better history elsewhere.
>>24851886Astonishingly consistent with my intuition above.
>>24851886>the veracity of which supposed attendees dispute.Well if you say so… sure don’t want to lift the stage-curtain up after all, that would be bad for imperial power politics.
>>24851174An S tier history book. I recommend listening to this audiobook while you readhttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu5tKfQq0iybY2hiWze543ew_zqVo8il0&si=uCT_OJH4WrvKZJaN
>>24851903I’m not saying I agree/disagree with the conspiracy. I’m saying if that’s what you want evidence for you can just jump right to that page in an archived version instead of reading a thousand pages of 20th century history you can find elsewhere
>a literary renaissance
>>24849908He is somewhat crazy and I dont agree with many of his views, but I appreciate his passion.
>>24849908>infinity jest, ulysses, gravity's rainbow goodhe's an npc
>>24850294Yeah, with women who write in lower caps. Not a single ounce of value.
>>24849908I just think hes a little enthusiastic about lolita for a high school teacher
>>24852532You don't love anything sincerely.
Do you do a fiction and a nonfiction concurrently?
>>24850816I'm really enjoying it. I've been reading the books off and on this year, I'm currently on The Palace of Love. Vance is definitely one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy authors.
>>24849267I do a long fiction and a short fiction. I hate this world and have no desire to understand it better through nonfiction
>>24849267I don't waste my time on "non" fiction.
>>24849267Oh, I rather like Weber. The Stars at War series was his best, never liked Honor desu.
>>24849267I read books concurrently, fiction and nonfiction in tandem, but I try to keep it to no more than 6 at a time.
The West needs you. These are troubled times. Stop "having fun"."Fun" is not for men.Stop smiling.Always wear a suit.Grow a beard.Be cold.Be serious.Be stoic.Grind for 21 hours a day.Gym for 4 hours (while manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational audiobooks/videos/podcast play on the background).Take a 2min cold shower.Read manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational books for an hour.Sleep for 3 hours (at most).Monetize a hobby.Get a passive income.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24840620>grow a beardha fag>>24840629stop larping and grow up
>>24852281>stop larping and grow upWake up before it's too late, you psychotic rat, you bedeviled enemy of mankind
>>24852344Meds.
>>24852418for my CIRS? you betcha, bucko.
Let’s be real his peak is well beyond five years now>>24840629Did peterson ever bother naming who the barbarians are anyway? Am I supposed to infier this myself
many of kafka's novels were never finished before his death. do you think you could do them justice and complete them?
>>24852007by reading the story and inferring something was missing based on the context? I don't know man. a part might be incomplete, might be a lack of continuity, maybe something in the manuscript would indicate it, whatever it might be. I'm asking because I haven't really read any of it and for all I know his other stories are half-composed, unedited, and full of holes.use your head faggot.
>>24851800Me on the half left
>>24851854Amerika, which was intended to be the only novel Kafka wrote with a happy ending, wa quite unfinished and so was the The Castle. Amerika is pretty important too because the first chapter of a part of the sons trilogy, and because the novel was hugely influential on Invisible Man which is considered perhaps the most important African American novel (Harold Bloom considers it the only great African American fiction along with Their Eyes Were Watching God)
>>24852047>long, seething post that ends with you admitting to not having anything worthwhile to contribute
>>24851800>an ant toils away in his anthill with his colony>one day he wakes up a hideous creature
I need an electornic word processor that>cannot EVER connect to the internet>can manage, import, and export text files via usb>has little to no other functionThere's too much shit on my laptop to distract me from writing. I realize there's pen and paper but I don't want to have to rewrite everything I've already written. Any recommendations?
God these are all awful for the OPs suggestion>>24841594Alphasmart.3000, Neo, any number of their models. They are an electronic typewriter. When you are done typing you hit two keystrokes after plugging it into a computer and opening a word processor and it will dump the characters into the program.
>>24849292>>24852663I'm not that shill but I learned to type on one of these and a keyboard. In the era of AI typing seems kind of useless when you can dictate so reliably or OCR a typewriter if you want to get the clicky clacky typing feeling but what can I say.
>>24852650Using Linux practically is about as effective as getting your evening news from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. It works sometimes, completely in spite of the fact that it's Linux. As for vim it won't adhere to the principle of not connecting to the internet, and it's way too complicated for someone who isn't trying to learn conputer stuff. Very silly of you to complain about inpracticality and then suggest vim rather than nano or ed when OP wasn't a comp sci geek.
>>24852709That was the fucking joke retard
>>24852724Settle down. I have autism.
the last time I felt something reading anything post-WWII was about a year and a half ago when I picked this up. didn't make it past the first few hundred pages because of personal reasons and I never really got back to it. not Houellebecq, not no Knausgård or Beckett, not even Bernhard whom I consider to be a true titan of 20th c. literature, one I absolutely regret not being able to read in the original German, made as immediate an impression on me as Gaddis' condensed, surchargé, relentless prose. In fact, of all the authors mentioned above and their underlying projects that served as both the means and ends of their respective œuvres, Gaddis' encyclopedic approach, while not as interesting as Beckett's linguistic fragmentation as catharsis or the political predictor/provocateur whoremonger Houellebecq, seems to me the most efficient. Knausgård, just to say a few words on him and authors of the same strain en passant, the yuppie, stream-of-consciousness, refuses-to -acknowledge-they-read, or maybe even unironically chooses to not read any classics for fear of losing "voice", or some similar effeminate notion, is just that: effeminate. I don't see how the novel as a form can progress beyond encyclopedic doorstoppers.
>>24850191>it's givingRetarded faggot.
>>24848590Don’t have much to add but this is a good post. I have Recognitions on my shelf and I’ll think about this when I do read it. Wish more people on this board gave their posts this much effort and thought.
>>24850431if you're seriously advocating against my suggestion that anon get some fresh air, you're in need of a bath yourselfin that same vein, and if you'll excuse me>>24850730go hunt a puddle
>>24850730it's giving butthurt
bunp
Any books that will give me the same feeling as listening to Bill Evans does? Or just has a similar mood/vibe?
What's that one song that's in all the movies? Feeling fine or something. That's a jam and I don't even like jazz.
>>24852597Nevermind it's the song "Take 5" and I don't even know who Dave Evans is
>>24852393A Sport and a Pastime
>>24852393the yellow pages
>>24852640Based
