Is Jane Austen the greatest English novelist?
>>24786771>Is Jane Austen the greatest English novelist?Jane Austen was a Maroon woman and is thus the greatest English Language novelist despite being Jamaican.
>>24789563But Ulysses is transparently contrived from page 1
>>24789669Are you trying to say that the Irish are humans?
>>24789669Between Joyce’s many interleavings, we can hear a sentimental Irish tenor with a wine-dark voice, while Leopold Bloom’s Dublin is built of the Realist’s heavy bricks.
>>24789657was this revealed to you in a dream, sir?
Well? Are you an insect, /lit/?
>>24787749Can billionaires do all these things?
>>24787749It's a beautiful ideal, but an industrial society can't function that way.A few things should be taught to everyone sure.Everyone should be able to analyze problems, cook and balance their accounts.But that's because those are things they actually have to do in their lives. Most of that is not.
>>24787749I think specialization has generated most of the technological advancements that we have today. Without hyperfixated autists we wouldn't have the internet, or the global industrial food market, or smartphones, which is exactly why Mr Heinlein is correct here.
>>24787749can i just like not do any of that? sounds like a lot of work to be quiet honest with you my family member
>>24787749I agree with the sentiment, but it's expressed in such a plebbish manner that I removed him from my to-read list.
About to read this. What will I think of it?
>>24789600Emilysimps...
>>24789542Where do I start? I have zero knowledge of the author or even poetry. It's an impulse buy but I'm willing to expand (prolapse) the contents (anus) of my mind.
>>24789600Wrong. Imagine pounding Frank's bussy.
>>24789760if you want to opt for a faggot at least let Hart Crane be the choice
>>24789542he's trash. just read Pound
Homer, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and Divine Comedy were all composed to be heard as works of music with instruments and a singer, to read them is to castrate the art. Imagine reading Nick Cave lyrics instead of listening to the fucking song
>>24788703There’s some German site called like homersangen that has musical reconstructions of Homer
>>24789837Link it chud
>>24788703The oldest recorded poetry set to music is the Carmina Burana. It is a collection of bawdy poems recorded in primitive 'neumes' which merely indicate the note is higher or lower than the preceding note but doesn't relegate specific pitch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL1xSxFfh_I'Name of the celebration' - poem commemorating the fall of Jerusalem during the crusades
>>24789276You can't be serious
>>24789016Kek
>OH BOOHOOO!>I'M RICH AND HANDSOME AND GET LAID A LOT>I'M GOING TO GET ADDICTED TO DRUGS GOING TO TRY TO KILL MYSELF SEVERAL TIMESWhat the fuck was this faggots problem?
why the FUCK are japs so sad and depressed all the time
- Everything passes.That is the one and only thing I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes.This year I am twenty-seven. My hair has become much greyer. Most people would take me for over forty.- "It's been ten years. I suppose he may be dead already. He must have sent the notebooks to you by way of thanks. Some parts are rather exaggerated I can tell, but you obviously suffered a hell of a lot at his hands. If everything written in these notebooks is true, I probably would have wanted to put him in an insane asylum myself if I were his friend."
"The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn't drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel."
>>24778946chinks don't possess the ability for meaningful introspection so anything they make attempting to be self critical reads like a teenager trying to be le troubled cool guy, it's very transparent
we'll never know
>8 years of alcoholism>no books, just beer, wine and youtube>last time I visited /lit/ Trump was about to start his first term>just ordered pic relatedguys, what am I in for?
>>24789039 I usually take authors who killed themselves more seriously
bump
>>24788975also alcoholic who stopped using this website around then, recently read it, its great.
>>24788975I just read it and I loved it. Don't expect a traditional narrative structure and just go with it for like 200 pages. Eventually there's no more new characters/storylines and things will settle
meme book
Any books that explains the market's shift from the male gaze to the female gaze?
>>24789817more women in college
>>24789817they took over the information space. universities, publishing agents and editors are now 90% female. and like jews or indians, they only hire each other, locking men out permanently
Women are the fairer sex
>>247898175 million?I'm not buying it. Thats too high.
>>24789817>>24789827Kek
In a month, 30 (thirty) people have bought my self-published genre fiction off Amazon. feels good, even though the received royalties barely even pay for a large coffee.How has your self-pub journey been so far?
>>24790077>>24790017If you aren't willing to sit your ass down in front of a camera, can you even do youtube?Maybe I could grow of of being a loretuber who just uses AI voiceslop to read off star wars expanded universe wikipages..
Wow. I'm very happy for you, anon. My novels have been for sale on Amazon for a few years and, paperbacks and e-books combined, I've sold a total of a couple dozen copies. Didn't even earn enough to pay back the copyright fee.
>>24790077idk i just started two months ago and still have zero views and zero subs, so maybe it's not very good. i figure it cant possibly hurt though. and if the channel picks up and even 1% of them buy the book, maybe that'll kickstart it enough to find a wider audience. that's the plan anyway. >>24790085i put my ass in front of the camera and do all my videos with my ugly ass face right there front and center. maybe i should hire a cute asian girl with big tits to jusr read scripts though, because it doesn't seem like my mug inspires many clicks
>>24789900it's like joining Amway, ur customers are friends & family
>>24789900>How has your self-pub journey been so far?I made some infographics that went semi-viral
Tropical Beach EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24667235
>>24788196Go to /wng/ for that
>>24785810For me the low quality bumps piss me off, I don't exactly enjoy putting in the effort to describe something in my work for advice or whatnot and then the only response I get is some retarded question just trying to fish activity from me instead of having an actual discussion.
BUT WILL YOU GUYS READ MY STORY OR NOT?
>>24748733Besides magical pearls and corals, what treasures might be found at a tropical beach?
>>24790828Mysterious artifacts from a lost ancient city, possibly submerged in the local lagoon. Pirate's treasure. Cargo from a wrecked ship. Items carried by tourists. Rare and valuable plants.
Anyone interested in stuff like this
>>24790943All the Poirot I've read has been extremely by-the-numbers. If I'm in the mood for detectin', I turn to Chandler and Hammet.
>>24791007Agatha Christie is one of the best woman authors for whatever that's worth. Also getting away with titling a book "Ten Little Niggers" and not getting cancelled forever
>>24791007>I've read has been extremely by-the-numbersRead The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and be careful to avoid finding out the plot twist online.
Yeah, I've read 17 Maigret novellas
>>24790920Batman comics
Why don't you read Artaud, Bataille, Sade and Genet?
>>24790752
>>24790283BEEP BEEP
>>24790519I don't use /pol/
>>24790762how? did he say he read him? I cannot imagine how you would read Bataille and be on that antichrist crap, unless he's fashioning a personal myth about himself lioe Bataille did.
>>24790976he's probably thinking of some influence Bataille had on Girard, who was Thiel's professor and is often mentioned by his midwit pupil
Spinoza's argument is like an argument against the religious people, It's like sinking himself with them, If they accept it they lose, If they don't accept it they both lose because in that they reject the existence of immortality thus perfection as a meaning doesn't exist leaving to finite god who must end certainly, And if they accept it they must accept that all emotions stem from the natural perception of the adequate nature which is a modification of what we can truly perceive is that god and that god cannot act or hate or love because if that happens it breaks the harmony of the universe as one act is an act of infinity as he is omnipotentBut I will present some fallacies in his argument1- Infinity is not truly grasped in its truest form2- Perfection is not the attribute of infinity3- If perfection was a necessary component of Infinity then how can perfection exist for it must exist in a finite period that makes it conceived as perfection and perfection is an attribute that humans have yet to see4- In this logical sense, God is not absolutely infinite but is omnipotent5- God is infinite but is not omnipotent6- With omnipotence God can choose to be infinite or to be not, But that means he must think and that means his thought to be infinite will lead to a solution of not being infinite thus creating consciousness and hindering the absolute infinity7- This can only mean that God has ceased his infinity for the extension of matter and his image in us ?8- Infinity then does not exist and never will ever exist because everything is bound to die and death is the god of this world by the mean of god ?We exist then as God's sacrifice to himself to be finite until he needs to die or cease to exist
>>24788810Well this is breaking the logical line that entails God with creation, If God is separated from the flow of infinity then we either1- must cease to exist indefinitely2- Are now just the aftermath of God's sacrifice of his infinity, Whereas we have to dieWe can't be the representation of infinity or see the representation of infinity if Infinity itself ceased to exist, Either God is infinite or not
>>24789022So is Spinoza, Even if he tries to play gymnastic on the term of infinity and separate humanity and everything and isolate the term into its broadest nature, It still counts as a term that was created solely by man, So in which manner does he not also describe god in Human attributes ? Even if we talk in his context, Then infinity even if it's out of space and time and is inconveivable it still fucking definitely and surely has to atleast started to exist, It just can't literally, If he's speaking of something we do not know then he must as Hume said to refer to it as something unknown, As the the substance does not have a known mediator to the attribute which he himself fails to connect, Thus it's a priori..Point to say is that you can never not refer to a deity without having the idea conceived from experience to describe him, Even if it's religious or not there is still 0.001% Humane attribute thus again a priori
>>24789404I'm not sure where that sacrifice was mentioned in the ethics? you keep saying 'he'. As I understand it to render 'God' under Spinoza's framework one must de-anthropromorphize it. and then E1 prop 15 > we can conceive nothing without 'God'. which agrees with E1 prop 5 as this posits God and nothing with independent natures. I may be mistaken tho. and as I understand it, nothing cannot be God because one fundamentally cannot represent nothing.
>>24789490No i'm not talking in the context of the book I'm dissecting his views by challenging his narrative and terms without submerging in them, He didn't mention sacrifice but I'm trying to deduce an argument against his anti anthropocentric god
>>24787691Not a Hegelian per se but Spinoza's axioms mistake the child for the parents, metaphorically speaking.
oh boy, it's another episode of "rationalizing marital infidelity"who reads this tripe anyway?
>>24790488How is Emma's behavior rationalized? She seems presented pretty clearly as a BPDemon
Is infidelity irrational?
>>24790488Emma is a comic character, you're meant to laugh at her the same way you'd laugh at Don Quixote
Anyone have any good recs about post ww2 Italian history? I’m reading picrel currently which is an accessible general history for someone who doesn’t know much about the mafias.So any recs for what’s next? Mafia, P2, Red Brigades and CIA, etc.?
>>24790906might as well contributeI'm planning to read this though I think its 400 pages
>>24790906also I don't have any recs for post-ww2 history, sorry.
>>24790906Their's this which is the france version for your book. Mafias during WW2 paris.
All of the following is true:>once showed his penis to ernest hemingway because zelda said it was too small>enjoyed crossdressing (left pic is him in women’s clothing to promote a play he wrote)>would get so violently drunk that he would break shit>pulled pranks on and with his wife that would cause both of them to become banned from numerous places>pilfered his wife’s diary for anecdotes to use in his stories>smoked as often as he drank; lots of close associates would suspect he’d die young (and he did)>had a phobia of his own feet>was the only one of his sibling to make it to adulthood>once told people at a party that he was going to jump out of a nearby window, then pretended to do so, then became sad when no one tried to stop him>had several mistresses while his wife was locked in a psychiatric hospital
>>24789278>once told people at a party that he was going to jump out of a nearby window, then pretended to do so, then became sad when no one tried to stop himYou mentioned he liked to do pranks right? Maybe that's the reason no one tried to stop him >Left is him in women's clothingHow old was he at that time? It surprises me that crossdressers from the past could pull it off, but trannies today with surgeries and hormones can't
>>24790328I've long suspected that troons on some level don't actually want to be women. They want to obtain the identity of a woman while still in their hearts being a man, if that makes any sense.
>>24789278weird dude
>>24790670Most of us want to be androgynous twinks these days, actually
>>24790670>Troons just want to skinwalk as women to obtain their benefits Makes sense>>24790864>androgynous twinksIs that guy with the giraffe neck your ideal? Grim
