What are the essential reference books for a /lit/erate man's personal library? What do you keep.on yoir writing desk?Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Garner's Modern Usage, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Roget's Thesaurus, Timetables of History, the Chicago.Manual of Style, the National Geographic Atlas of the World, Bulfinch's Mythology, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Gray's Anatomy, etc.
>>25123516the compact edition, which is more comprehensive than the oed or the shorter oed
Just grab OED's desktop software. It's around somewhere
>>25124500Zero soul
>>25125142>Just keep a physical copy of the 20 volumes on your desk bro
>>25123224 I'm looking for this thing. Thanks.
So /lit/, have you thought about what will happen to your book collection after your death?
Donation to my JC library. Uni has enough funds and books, Community College is where I grew the most in terms of thinking academically.
Point of a library is to distill their influence on you into your own works, such that you and your words become a representation of your library. And then your work become one of those books in another great soul's home. Like DNA of billions of years distilled in one person.Libraries meant to be lost, in a way. All books are a collective discovery searching for the perfect book, the perfect man.
>>25125454It will go up in flames with me.
These are rookie numbers, try 300,000 books.
>>25125454>collect 70,000 books>do not read themHe was 100% posting on /lit/
Anyone have a pdf of mountainhead or the worm? been wanting to read them for some time. second hand listings for both have sky rocketed recently and I can't find one anywhere although i believe an anthology of his work is coming sometime this year.
>>25124205following this thread because I’ve got the same question, surprised none of his shit is on AA
bump for interesse
What does /lit/ think about Stephen King?
>>25122718Writes by the poundCan't publish anything without extensive editing because he has no real storytelling abilityLooks like the biggest pedo ever
>>25122718Now I've seen the slop on his shelves, his books make a lot more sense
>>25126177I like how his personal library of garbage is basically a cuckshed in a closet on his house
>>25122718glad to see he's an R. L. Stein fan
>>25122718I love this cantankerous old Democrat like none other, and I've only read a small handful of his books.
Besided The Sign of The Four, the Adventures, the Hound of the Baskervilles and In The Name of the Rose, is there anything else worth reading?
>>25124744For me, it's The Valley of Fear.
It's a pity Doyle only struck lightning once with Baskervilles. Such a perfect story.
>>25125272Some Adventure stories are kino as well, The Speckled Band, The Red Headed League, The Man with the Twisted Lip.
>>25125213you have an IQ problem.
No fans of A Study in Scarlet ITT?
What’s some /lit/ about sibling relatives who love one another more than they should?
I'm not pro censorship, but the author is clearly an evil, disturbed individual.
>oh look this thread again
>>25124542Enfants terribles by Cocteau
>>25125450i agree with you but you couldve said the same thing in three sentences, pretentious twat
>>25124542Wow, I wish sisters were real.
Is there a list or chart for classical greek health/nutrition? So far i've got galen, hippocrates, thrasybulus, theophrastus
Have you ever noticed that modern 4chan pretty much promotes unironic orc mentality? Consider what the most common and acceptable traits among anons are:>glorifies barbarism and violence>incapable of sincere feeling but outwardly acts zealous for some cause>hateful of the world's flaws but justifies these flaws in self>rejects the ways of civilization>rejects scientific achievement>rejects art>only has love for things that are ugly (soijaks) or soulless (AIslop)Modern 4chan is at least 50% these things, if not more. When did most people here subconsciously decide that orcs were the good guys?
Thread full of projecting deeply evil retards worshiping death and decay. Just stop being evil, it's not even hard, you can start by opposing all immigration and niggers in all form.
>>25120991Was dropping the nukes Good?
>>25118953I assume that's a troll ad like they all are because Dugin was absolutely not poor, ever. His father was a GRU spook (colonel if I remember right) which meant even in Soviet period he had the same luxuries as any other nomenklatura kid Post-soviet he's always done fine too even if he's nowhere near as important to the Kremlin as russophile westerners pretend he is
>>25118570You're still putting too much poignancy into Anonymous. It's much more simple than that. Pic rel is the most succinct description I've seen yet about modern 4chan
Which gets more (you)s, an earnest post or a shit post? It really is that simple.
i'm kinda new at reading books but at least i'm trying to do that over watching tiktok, anyways i want a book (THAT I CAN BUY A PHYSICAL COPY, NOT A FANFIC) with DOUBLE point of view (male lead and female lead) where the male character kidnaps the woman he loves and hopes she will love him back with time, i was reading "The Collector" by John Fowles and i really liked it, i want more like that, the only thing i didn't like about the book is that the woman wasn't quiet or submissive, no housewife vibes from her, i would basically want the same thing but with a more submissive character that ACTUALLY gets brainwashed or accept loving him (can be a depressed female lead too or "femcel") please tell me other books where the male lead kidnaps the female lead and makes her love him, remember IT MUST HAVE DOUBLE POINT OF VIEW, if you know TOO MANY BOOKS like that, tell me them all, and please tell me if one of them he is the authority figure like a teacher over the female lead (and older than her, and dominant) i would really appreciate suggestions! i want something more focused on their love and less on the horror, terror, whatever you call it, include kidnapping please, male lead yandere, obsessive, possessive, overprotective, dominant, stalker, maybe killer
>>25125693>yandere>John Fowles>femcelNigga, stop doing what you are doing.You are a tranny, and a misogynistic one at that.You've barely been on tiktok too. You would have adopted their lingo instead of using incel slang.>IT MUST HAVE DOUBLE POINT OF VIEWThere was a pooner half a year ago asking for the same thing.Ask >>>/lgbt/ftmg/ if she found anything.And if you wanna find a hyperspecific romance novel:https://www.romance.io/topics/best/all/1There should be everything you need to find (You)r stuff.
>I NEED VERY SPECIFIC ROMANCE SLOPReddit would sincerely better suit you.
>IrysSeek help.
There comes a point when what you want to read is so specific that you should just write it yourself.
He’s right, you know.
>>25125066>these pre-socratics thought fucking WATER or AIR was the arche of all things, lmao fucking retardskys manchild
>>25124122Form and matter is implicitly monistic, meaning their union is the actually higher reality and something longed for in both. Matter has the potential to become enformed, form has the impulse to illumine. One wants to be moved, the other wants to move. Together they realize the Good.
>>25125652common Democritus W
>>25125075Objective reduction = proto-consciouness hylomorphically immanent in the nature of quantum fields. Entanglement and reduction are identical to what soul is.And rememberFUCK EVERETT
>>25123701>>25123710>There are two substances: material extended body and immaterial thinking mind>'How come those two come in contact with each other despite being made of entirely different substances?'>Lets just insert God. Problem solved!This hominid irreversibly ruined entire western philosophy. You have simply low IQ If you think 'cogito ergo sum' or some shit like that is 'right'.
What would have happened if we’d gotten that recount? Could we be living in a virile dark woke post-Brazilified global empire?
>>25124228>what woulda happened if goydog #2 of the ZOG faction North-West (Anglo-Saxon breed) had become president instead of freemason goydog jr, israel-anglo-owned, oil baron scum of the earth...I have no idea anon
Fuck off back to your cesspit, /pol/ack.
>But stand. Kaladin. DID.
>>25125529Imagining that ape saying all this with his last breath makes it so much funnier.
>>25125529But Tolkien started with the setting, not the story.
>>25125529tolkien was the epitome of setting being more important than story, you pseudointellectual giganigger
>>25126030O i am laffin
>>25125529>the signifier become the signified>time robbing of all meaning that that signifer was meant to representso this is what happens when a /lit/fag tries to sound smart
Germany vs England16/17th century vs 18/19th centuryWho’s the greatest in your opinion? And why?
>>25125675Flat out wrong, I’m gonna say Shakespeare OP. Goethe was not far behind however.>>25124141What’s nationalistic about this?>>25124139Go back to your r9k threads that are all over this board then.
>>25125673>My shit smells better than yours.Not a good point.>though it must be inspired by love as it is a gift to mankind.Unfortunately the site is full of reactionaries who are incapable of love.>>25125698EXPRESS TO US WHY YOU PREFER ONE OVER THE OTHER. Make an effort please.
>>25125794They’re about the same :)Okay, if I’m to pick one, Shakespeare; that is because I find that he perfected the English iambic pentameter while writing stories that were among the most human ever written. Goethe is brilliant too of course, a greater genius than Bill, but my German isn’t the best so my opinion may not hold much weight. I will say I enjoyed Faust more than any play by Shakespeare as a single piece of literature since for me it draws out stronger emotions and feels like it captures humanity a bit better. Shakespeare manages to balance all of this with his beautiful writing and his mastery of playwriting.
Shakespeare is good but not very deep. Goethe is deep but could be deeper. Milton beats them both.
>>25125930And Blake, Hölderlin, Joyce and Mallarmé beat Milton
How does it feel when you find something you really really enjoy reading? Could you describe the feeling? Anons of /lit/, what do you enjoy reading? Not asking for examples (unless you wish to share), but rather, what is in essence a passage you love, composed of? What elevates your soul? Please write out your love of reading or writing, this is your exercise and I need to be convinced, I am your examinatorThis is a positively spirited thread, speak of what you love, leave your hate in the other threads
>>25121932There's this odd... rigor behind it all. Like when you've been reading for long enough to be entranced, and you finally make the decision to stop reading. Walk out into life, limpid, translucent; there's a comfortable weight on your shoulders, all around you, pulling down on you ever so slightly, perhaps tenderly. Looking out of an open window, open inasmuch as there's still a screen, you can see nature... if you ignore the particulars. There are thousands of little, black, industrial slits that form tiny squares. You find it fun to rapidly switch your focus between the particular and general, in this, they both lose much of their defining characteristics. You can't tell the difference at this point, and you, frankly, enjoy the dissociative state. You can stay here forever; I can stay here forever.
>>25121942skill issue
>>25121932For me it's when everything around me quiet. And when I'm not reading I find myself thinking about it or wishing I was at home reading. My thoughts are usually quite loud and intrusive and reading something I enjoy usually calms that down significantly which allows me to meditate on what I'm reading.
it feels like entering a whole diffrent world atleast when it comes to fiction
>>25121932something really good expands my sense of the possible in both art and being itself, as strange as that is to say -- it expands my capacity to see the world, transforms it. everything swells, opens into itself, unfolds. >>25121970>>25121961absolutely agree, had the same ohh fuck realization from foucault. I still remember when the is/ought gap and bundle theory in hume got me. had heard the idea that some people denied a solid "self" but didn't really get why, when I first read hume's argument in the treatise and it finally clicked I remember muttering "jesus" to myself under my breath lmfao. >>25122444>tripschecked. the person metaphor's great, agreed
Obama's top political aide and jewish author Sarah Hurwitz was caught in a recent controversy, due to her declarations that holocaust education has become misguided due to literature and cinema turning the holocaust into a simple moralistic tale of the strong against the oppressed weak, rather than a severe warning of how antissemitism endanger the jewish population — thus, weaponizing the holocaust the state of Israel and the right of jews for self-determination and to have a state for themselves. Modern holocaust education, in Hurwitz's assessment, had robbed the jews of their sacrifice in the holocaust. The holocaust was, after all, the systemic extermination of JEWS on an industrial scale.In 'As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us', Sarah Hurwitz delivers an unapologetic discourse that should be employed by all jewish americans in the post-2016 world: yes, jewish people are in danger, and there is nothing wrong in jews seeking the right to exist and reclaiming THEIR history. She often recalls the roots of antissemitism in corruption, such as the rise of Boulangerism leading to the Dreyfus affair in France, and the rise of antissemitism in Nazi Germany culminating in the holocaust — which, in agreement with jewish philosophers in historians, had less to do with any , but as a general failure of capitalism and the very same western civilization that blames the jews for their misgivings.*****
>>25125520>and (((they))) have no qualms about it.
Total Israeli deathKill IsraelisBehead IsraelisRoundhouse kick an Israeli into the concreteCrucify filthy IsraelisDefecate in an Israeli's foodLaunch Israelis into the sunStir fry Israelis in a wok
>>25125486I never saw this before, and wish I hadn't.This is so fucking disgusting, and the fact it is even allowed to be posted on social media truly proves how much "jews control the world". Yeah, right. Jews control the world when you need an excuse to why you failed to launch and why you live under your parents' basement gooning while thinking about Waldun. But when it is time to celebrate jews being killed, suddenly you don't shirk away from posting disgusting AI thing.Watch this while you can because I reported the video to youtube.>>25125481>go home, jews!>noooooo, you can't have a home>get bombed!>>25125402>we can give your country to someone elseComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25121727they're really gonna feel the antisemitism when netanyahu's war causes oil to be $200 a barrel
>>25125777Checked those blessed digits. Also, love you dude. You’re the best darn troll I’ve seen here in years, and I’m a huge fan of your work.
