>TQWhat is your favourite 80s horror paperback?
I've got Interview With the Vampire coming on Sunday. I am excite. Hopefully I'm done The Haunting of Hill House by then. It's pretty good so far.
>>25541821I had a look around the same shop where I got the other Koontz books and I found Phantoms so I'm starting with that one that. It's da bomb so far.I also got Imajica today too. >>25551772>>25551511Smoking in Bed aas a fun read but nothing really remarkable in there that stands out to me. Heard her vampire novel is okay.
>>25551083Suggestion for the chart. I'd add in Ann Quin specifically for her novel Berg since it's about a murderer.
>>25552113Former soldier who was hired to slay Jewish firstborns is slowly going mad and has visions from Satan that he needs to redeem himself and slay Jesus. You meet some familiar characters from the Bible and learn of their untold fates. Idk how else to sell it but it's very bleak and it was short. It didn't seem too edgy or anti religion at all, it was more about how grief and denial can drive you insane.
>>25552151Nice! Both are great reads.
New casino-gulag approved opinion just dropped: ai must be shut down
>>25549274Corporate socialist technofascism
>>25548145>Saar, you can’t try to regulate the tech the creators of which say can kill all humanity!why>Uhm. You just can’t ok???? China! So there! Bloody bitch benchod!
>>25548145Incredibly Indian post. Ignorant on all fronts
>>25552260>>25550706>>25549571stfu pedro,still voting republican . you'll get deported
>>25549571Seethe and cope
I don't know anything about him. But Beethoven set his 9th Symphony to his poem and Brahms wrote an choral piece to another one. I'm not arguing with that pedigree.Where and how should I start with Schiller as an English speaker?
If not by learning German then Coleridge‘s Wallenstein translations are the only instance I‘m aware of his having been adapted by somebody with talent. Which is odd considering how beloved he was by the English romantics and post-romantics. Carlyle did a biography of him and such.
What's the male equivalent of pic related?
for me it's>The morning was soft and deceptive, the kind that lets you slide into work before you realize it’s tearing you apart.I sat there watching Leverkühn play his grim little numbers game. He was staring at the gematria values of some coded poison-pen letter Professor Heisenberg had sneaked past the censors. Leverkühn didn't blink. He just dragged a pencil across the staff paper, scratching out a triple counterpoint theme for his symphony’s final movement like a man digging his own grave in neat, rhythmic strokes. By afternoon, the room smelled of old paper and bad intentions. That's when Wagner and Nietzsche swung by. They brought the kind of trouble that wears a frock coat, and they were buzzing about some rediscovered partimenti signed by Scardanelli, found rotting in the dark corners of the Heidelberg library. Leverkühn looked up, his eyes like two bullet holes in a clean sheet. Then the talking started:
>>25541298https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Human%20Male%20on%20Female%20Anthro%20%7C%20HMOFA%20(Furry)/works
>>25542721>If we take away the porn, the YA and Romantasy slop, men and women read about the same when it comes to real literature.False
>>25541298Dungeon Crawler Carl, lit-rpgs, etc. Just ask /sffg/, there should be charts.
>>25552641>/sffg/>charts
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>>25515095>She’s full this one too—Insulate “this one” with commas.>Both sides…fight…this eve…After all: why not? It’s not like either side’s got a knowable future.I’d dispute this—while every other detail you included transported me back to antiquity, like that food critic in “Ratatouille,” reading about the abscence of a “knowable future” is the hair in the meal.You got the Gods & forces of nature covered, but you blindspotted oracles: One of the Ancient Greek’s cultural cornerstones.It would be more appropriate to say:“After all: why not?Each side’s oracles have got/Knowable/ futures”(Nixing the “A” in the third line to appease the haiku; up to you if the italics of “Knowable” stay)>Wading water like it’s wineComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>25517368 + >>25525728>her little heart begins to shudder in a strange way that scares her.&>The taste of milk in my mouth feels like how my hands feel when they pet My-Horse.Lines I’ve been thinking about for over a week.No is an extremely clever dog: Her hamartia.Her trust-buttressed explanations—no, rationalizations for what’s happening to her (“the beach is always better when Luke’s there too”) are too well-conceived for her own good.But her heart knows. Instinct understands. And this line, the moment where biological reality overtakes optimistic imagination, is nothing short of agony to read.You got me to feel that chilly/tingly feeling reading it, especially at the “that scares her” part—to quote Carmine Falcone from “Batman Begins”:>And you always fear what you don’t understand.No doesn’t even comprehend the peril that her body knows she’s experiencing. Her mind is unable to see the truth; it is also unable to understand what her heart’s telling her.All No’s years of trust and familiarity getting rug-pulled in this moment—where all that’s left is that scary biological reaction you don’t even know how to interpret: Too real.>I love dogs lolI really don’t. I’m extremely jaded on pets & pet ownership & even pet owners, but I think your story really changed something in me.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25552573>No doesn’t even comprehend the peril that her body knows she’s experiencing. Her mind is unable to see the truth; it is also unable to understand what her heart’s telling her.More succinctly: She’s afraid that she’s afraid.
Best Robert E Howard story?
>>25552164Red Nails stood out to me as far as Conan stories
>>25552187Someone AI a young Schwarzenegger int this plot than
I really liked Rogues in the Hall with the man ape. I also loved Tower of the Elephant. Queen of the Black Coast is good too, when he talks about the fall of the alien species that lived in the city. Basically, whenever Howard dips into weird horror I love it.
People of the Black Circle or Tower of the Elephant. Probably tower, as much as I like Circle more.
>>25552164Going outside Conan, Wings in the Night, Worms of the Earth and Pigeons from Hell.
Any reccomendations for works either featuring demons significantly, or are about demon summoning or demonology? Fiction and non-fiction. I'm very curious on this subject, and I'm not aware of many works regarding it. Thanks!
>>25547101>On November firstThat's pretty soon. Someone's gotta try it.
>>25548312It's literally got a novella tucked into it. Every few sections it'll be another chapter of the story. I'm on the part where the MC and her artist guy friend conduct sex magick for the first time.
>>25544709>Technically noFalse. Enjoy hell.
>>25543984Try summoning one and see what happens. Half the "logical atheists" I know genuinely don't wanna be disproven. Subconsciously they're still scared. I'm not even a Christkek. Just have some "fucked around and found out" experience.
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Previous: >>25480729https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25480729You have until Friday September 25th, 11:59 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of public-domain art.Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission—and that’s “your submission” (no plagiarism; no AI)—fits inside a single textbox posted in this thread.After the deadline has passed, I shall choose the best 3.An open vote will take place as well, so that everyone can have a say on placements.>[Countdown to submission deadline]https://countingdownto.com/w4/display/event-name-cjfeArt: “Teatterissa” (In the Theatre) by Ellen Thesleff, 1903https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_the_Theatre_Ellen_Thesleff_1903.webp
Their gazes burned me.
16 hours left & 5 submissions so far.
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.The server: https://discord.gg/uPvkn8Tcf6/phil/ guide: https://www.scribd.com/document/324425214/Lit-Philosophy-Project-1-2
>>25550327Why are the English so scared of bad words? They need grow dicks, even the women.
they call it Free Will, you know damn well nothing in this world is free
>Anon has to use thought experiments because actual experiments are too hard for him
>>25552442You could experiment with a thought sometime
Yeah math is completely useless as we all know. Now go kys
Forget which translation of Homer is the best. Tell me about the worst Homer translation.
The worst version of The Odyssey is definitely Hobbes. Totally bland. >Tell me, O Muse, th’ adventures of the man>That having sack’d the sacred town of Troy,>Wander’d so long at sea; what course he ran>By winds and tempests driven from his way:>That saw the cities, and the fashions knew>Of many men, but suffer’d grievous pain>To save his own life, and bring home his crew;Odysseus is just "the man".
>>25551823Didn't know Hobbes did it, why is his translation never mentioned?
>>25551823T.E. Lawrence
>Reading a translation of anything.Pleb.
>>25551823Funny. I was reading the introduction to Leviathan yesterday and learned that Hobbes translated Homer. I immediately thought about this thread and asking if anyone had read it.>>25552122Until maybe 100 years ago every second intellectual fluent in Ancient Greek (meaning most of them worth their salt) translated Homer because there wasn't much else to do. There's uncountable translations never mentioned, many of them perhaps worthy of this thread.
What did I think of it?
>>25549772We once eradicated 33% of your population. The germans only managed 18%. Us Swedes are better at killing both Germans and Poles than either of you. EZ DELUGE, EZ 30 YEAR WAR.
>>25547326>To be fair, the appeal of underaged boys who look like girls is undeniableFat boys are better.
>>25550477I did read the book btw, I don't find it very pederasty really. A dying man's being allured by youth is not really that hard of a concept to grasp unless you are autistic, which ofc 99,99% of this board is.
>>25547229It's all right I suppose. Slightly tiresome investigation of suppressed-homosexual-pedophilia. Obviously of great importance to Mann. Doesn't mean so much to the rest of us.
>man>Mann>Herr Mann>Hermann>Mr. Man>Herr Hermann>Mr. Mr. Man>Herman can also be a given name>Herr Herman Hermann>Mr. Mr. Man Mr. Manwhy are they like this
I wanted to try writing at minimum a 100 page story, maybe longer. My first effort, so obviously it'll be cringe and in need of much improvement when I read it back or show it to others, but I realize I have zero ideas for what's actually going to happen. If you had this problem, how did you get over it?
>>25552100You have a mental-illness problem that you need to deal with before you try to write. That goes for trying most other things, too.
I usually just extrapolate, fantasize about my life experience and switch a thing or two and imagine how it would've changed if X had happened or I was doing Y instead of Z at the moment... then start switching variables until it's kinda unrecognizable.
>>25550415I can't divulge this kind of information, you should figure it out yourself and keep it to yourself, and if that sounds assholish for no reason this is why: >>25550450>>25550781>>25551830We have parasites on us waiting for new blood to suck.
>>25550415Plot is what happens when the main character observes the protagonist's interests collide with the antagonist's. You don't create plot first, you create all the building blocks for the plot first and then you see what happens when all of those blocks interact with one another.
>>25552228NTA but i've been in the exact same boat for a long time and, well, how am i supposed to deal with that?
What’s your favorite thriller novel
red storm rising
>...we are ourselves creating our own successors... we are daily giving them greater power and supplying... that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race.Samuel Butler wrote this in 1863. We've had 163 years to prepare for an intelligence explosion, and somehow it caught us with our pants down. Why the FUCK didn't people take this shit more seriously?
Ive recently read two thoughts on this phenomenon.One, from Deneen's book on Liberalism. Where he claims that Liberalism created + proliferates the idea that "technology is inevitable" as a method of furthering their goals of hyper-individualized citizens, who cannot resist their own individualization via modern technology.He then gives the example of the Amish as a group that polices new technology, they allow only new technology that will aid their overall vision for their community.The other being Heidegger's essay on technology. I think he'd respond that no political ideology is the root cause. Liberalism and modern technology both grow out of a deeper way the world is revealed to us, which he calls "enframing," where everything shows up as a stockpile of resources to be ordered and optimized. He might argue that the Amish are not simply 'regulating' technology, but are living a form of "Gelassenheit"("releasement"): through their tradition and culture, they can use tools while staying aware of enframing's pull, letting things show up as more than resources.
>>25550807Humans really dreamed about AI for millennia and then we just… built it. That is so epic
>>25550807the premier victorian schizo
>>25551355Fascinating, I'll look into this.
>I would a thousand times rather have a homely girl, simply brought up, than a learned lady...A female wit is a scourge to her husband, her children, her friends, her servants, to everybody. From the lofty height of her genius she scorns every womanly duty, and she is always trying to make a man of herself >These highly talented women only get a hold over fools...If there were none but wise men upon earth such a woman would die an old maid.What did Rousseau mean by this?
>>25550915As usual, Rousseau shows us the way.
>>25550915I didn't know career women were a scourge in the 18th century as well, but Rousseau was clearly ahead of the times.
>>25550915How the fuck is Rousseau's reputation someone who was an arch-liberal who was responsible for the French Revolution and the egalitarianism in the modern world, but whenever I read anything he said he was basically a blood and soil chud who thought women were retards
>>25552183Because the bad guys won. We live in a Voltairian world.
>>25550915It's weird that Rousseau was 100% on women yet his views on men and children are those of a hapless abderite.
