Do you think you're getting dumber when you stop reading for a while?
>>25555710Everyone in the world reads all the time. Everyone reads tons of stuff on the internet all day while browsing.
>>25555775people read more words than ever before. clearly we must live in a time of unprecedented enlightenment and culture.
>>25555775>I don't read
>>25555710>>25555710i'm certainly more braindead. i don't know if the damage is temporary or permanent. i read like 3 pages in the morning and it was enough to get my all jittery and excited for the rest of the day. too bad i'm the kind of lazy dirtbag who keeps going down the path of least resistance and shut my main functions off to the lulls of mass produced internet retardation
Each day I become a little more retarded. It feels like I’m losing cognitive sharpness. I’ve noticed a decline in my reading comprehension and writing skills.
Anyone got any slipstream recommendations? I’m especially into Kurvitz’s imaginary, and I’m looking for more slipstream books or lit with magical realism elements.
Maybe Camus was right.
total nihilism is the correct philosophy. suicide or absurdism are the two correct coping mechanisms.
>>25554209right about what?
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>>25554209Yes.He's right that an average person can delude themselves into enjoying life. They're doing it as we speak.
>>25555693Albert "This Has Been Going On" Camus
This is honestly kind of embarrassing to admit. I’m a trans woman and I somehow ended up with a ridiculous crush on F Gardner. I only found out who he was because people wouldn’t stop arguing about him on /lit/, so I grabbed one of his horror novels out of curiosity. That completely backfired. Now I catch myself looking up his interviews and wondering why an author’s writing can make someone seem so attractive. I’ve never had this happen before. Please tell me I’m not the only person here who’s developed a crush on someone like this?
>>25553558>still bumping your sad, lonely threadyou really have no self awareness, do you
>>25535965You're not a woman
>>25536005The Iliad is a Greek phonebook. I understand how important the works are but the story, the characters, the dialog are all so weak compared with literature from future authors.
>>25536005>crossdressingThat reminds me. Achilles was a crossdressing bitch. Patroclus was clearly the man in their relationship.
To anyone who is confused why this thread feels so inorganic F Gardner is a sad trust fund guy from Chicago who makes these threads and self bumps them. Every above poster is probably F Gardner replying to himself. I’ve never read his books and I don’t see any reason to. He’s been unsuccessfully trying to force memes about himself on lit for many years now
In the amazing book Moby Dick by the author Herman Melville, the author recounts his story of being at sea. In the first part of his book, the author, calling himself Ishmael, is in a small sea-side town and he is sharing a bed with a man named Queequeg, and I felt saddest of all when I read the boring chapters that were only descriptions of whales, because I knew that the author was just trying to save us from his own sad story, just for a little while.
>>25555767shit movie
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>>25555275They tried to, but I resisted and they gave up.
>>25555868You just aren’t getting it. The USSR did not collapse because of material issues, it collapsed because of the erosion of unity and belief, what Xi calls “historical nihilism.” The problem America faces is that a wide swath of American society is totally engrossed in this historical nihilism. The liberal/left half of the country is fostering this attitude (in academia, in media, etc.) and this will have disastrous impacts on the future of the nation. Material issues can be fixed. When a critical mass of Americans abandon the American mythos/narrative, it’s over. There’s no coming back from that.
>>25556235You make it sound like the Democratic party is like Mao with his Cultural Revolution. Can you provide some tangible examples beyond the removal of some confederate statues and lip service and pandering like President Trump taking a picture holding the bible upside down?>The USSR did not collapse because of material issues,???pretty sure it economically collapsed>The problem America faces is that a wide swath of American society is totally engrossed in this historical nihilism. The liberal/left half of the country is fostering this attitude (in academia, in media, etc.) and this will have disastrous impacts on the future of the nation. Postmodernist and poststructualist philosophy and critical theory aren't so much normative positions but descriptive ones, anon, and this includes people on the Right as well. And again, given how this administration is treating the rule of law, I'd say the Democrats are looking way more patriotic and American at the moment. But all of this is nullified because some Republicans think the Confederacy was, like, so based?Again, I'm not totally unsympathetic to what you're saying, but you're totally exaggerating its reality and influence. Democrats are still Americans. They aren't the ones cozying up to Russia and Putin and North Korea.
How many Mody Dick fans here actual have some sailing and nautical experience and licenses?I'm a junior skipper who just finished a yacht delivery (I wasn't skippering it, was just there as a third mate).It really is refreshing for the sovl.
>>25554929It's not that expensive. Depending on where you are, you get your theory and practical license then apply for delivery missions which are recreational, you just contribute to the marina, diesel and fuel feels and it's split among the group.You can look at your area for a competent crew - RYA starter as well. Aeronautics is way more expensive, at least here.
>>25554902I have not read Moby Dick, but I am at third year of college studying to be a deck officer.
I’ve been fishing since as long as I can remember but the only ocean experience I have is on fishing boats, which is hardly comparable to a whaling voyage. I’m more of a woods guy. My parents have property in the Allegheny mountains and Ive been hunting as long as I can remember as well. Hunting and camping is my real passion when it comes to the outdoors. The ocean is great and all but it doesn’t call to me the way it does to others. I do love Moby Dick though, that book is a masterpiece and probably the greatest great American novel.
>>25554990That's way cool. >>25555015It's the closest you can get to a whaling voyage unless you are Japanese or Norwegian.
>>25555675Yeah but not a fucking commercial fishing boat. Just a bunch of princecrafts and crap like that in the bay and a few trips out on party boats
Vesuvii conflagrationis editio>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25518843>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25555139thaumazon, anon. ara, hos duo omphaloi poiousin touto;
>>25555258ἐν τῷ Ἀγγλιστὶ linux καλουμένῳ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ windows δυνατὸν διάθεσιν ἀκριβῆ καταστῆσαι τῶν ὀμφαλῶν ἵνα παραδείγματος ἕνεκα ὅταν P ἢ G πιέζῃς ἐν τῇ πλακὶ Π ἢ Γ φαίνηται γεγραμμένα, καὶ ἐὰν αὖθις ἐκείνην τὴν διάθεσιν πιέζῃς ἀποδίδωσι τὸ πρὶν σχῆμα, ἰδού
>>25554949Question from someone less experienced. Why “essem” and not “sim” in “si tu essem.” Is imperfect subjunctive preferred for a hypothetical to present subjunctive?
>>25555631in the present tense, present subjunctive is used for real hypotheticals i.e something that can/may happen, imperfect for unreal conditions"if I were you" is by its nature unreal i.e I cannot be you
>>25555370eucharisto soi, anon. an ido eis touto. kale hemera, kurie. :)
I heard that there's plenty of different version of Alice, but are any of them notably different beyond illustrations?
alice my beloved
Yes, there's an abridged version for children younger than five years old.https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55040It's funny in that it provides a written out script for the narrator, like telling the child to look at the picture or asking the child questions about the story,things normally left to the disgression of the one reading the book aloud.
>>25555448There's a fun one called something like "The Annotated Alice" by Martin Gardner (who did a mathematical / puzzle column in Scientific American for a long time). He discusses everything with insane autistic footnotes. See pic attached for an example.
Favourite books you like to read around autumn/halloween
>>25554500Fucking based.
>>25554503The best time of the year
>>25554500what a heck
I usually re-read this sometime in October
>>25553719my region only gets like 2 weeks of fall and I'm wasting it on an Ursula K Le Guin book for my library's book club. No hate on Ursula but I'd just rather be reading something more fitting.
i want to get into him because apparently he wrote creepy stuff and i am interested in that
As reality is perspectival, anything I write say think or do is original by virtue of me having said it
>>25554952Whoops wrong thread but Byron is cool too
>>25551094He is still revered in Greece
>>25555143I was surprised to see so much shit about him in museums there
>>25551094Read Manfred, it's weird in a really good way. Also read the Vision of Judgment. Very interesting piece given its time and context and not nearly as well-known today as it should be.
Surprised this thread isn't already up.Seems like a good way to get ahead is to lie, cheat, and steal. Why couldn't this guy figure it out?
Famous plagiarists, anyone? Anyone who did "get away with it"?>conversation quickly turns to trumpout out faggots
>>25555344>>25555350I hope you guys are being facetious and don't really believe that. I would hope one of the most intellectual boards on 4chan isnt really populated by rubes that are mesmerized by a simpleton demagogue.He isnt refreshingly honest, he is a pathological lying grifter that borderline mentally deficient. You're obtuseness is what gives him power. The midterms will show this.In fact, trump's ability to get by in his gift have emboldened others to attempt their own schemes like this author or the professor that fabricated his accolades.
>>25555411Trump and the Republican party is a puppet of the American billionaire class. If the billionaires wanted Trump gone he'd be out in a week.Let me explain what's going on. The billionaire class wants you dead. They're well aware that the effects of climate change will cause mass riots and revolutions. Acceleration into fascism is their climate change plan. They plan to kill dissenters en masse and MAGA is their weapon. If / when AI advances to a point that it can replace the poor, the poor will be murdered and replaced.
>>25555411Why did (You) me with your retarded TDS as if I was defending him? Anybody who knows anything about manifestation knows that's what he's doing, whether he knows it or not, and regardless of your opinion on the methods or of the man. He was a student of Norman Vincent Peale ffs. Trump is a charismatic megalomaniac who isn't scared of any challenge and never admits to backing down, he's not intelligent enough to "grift" his way to the top, he genuienly believes in what he's saying. Just that alone will get you very far in life
>>25555206>surprised this thread isn't already upMaybe check the catalogue you brown retard.
How well known is Moby Dick outside the U.S.?
>>25553696Not very. The most well-known American novels outside the US are definitely Stephen King's books.
>>25554839>Not very.You're crazy.t. eurofag
>>25553696It's known in the sense that I've heard of it and roughly what it is about, but extremely few people have read it or shown interest in reading it.
>>25554839Nah, I think the most known American literature would be Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye was the only American required reading I had in school, and my parents also read Salinger's short stories as kids, so he had been at least somewhat popular for many decades.
>>25553696It was initially poorly received in the US but became cult classic in France and Germany around 1900-1910. Only after the 2nd world war it was really rehabilitated in America
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Performative dipshit thread
>>25555091Calm down lil bro we're all friends here
>>25555091>>25552504Mongs (monolinguals) are always on edge
>>25552449>German>English>French>Latin>Russian >Polish
> always think of how boring the normal people are> try to get along with some interesting, artsy people > they end up acting irrational, harassing me and driving literally nuts I kid you not, I’m literally having Richard experience right now
>>25554688Based
>>25553771I literally am still pining after having the Richard-experience, the same way a gamer be wanting a BPD Goth to rape and bankrupt them.
Can an irl Camilla hmu?
>>25555493You mean you are going to be bullshitting me by feigning an interest?
>>25555515No. I'd feign to bullshit, rather.
