What would happen if Kojima read Infinite Jest?
>>25635245How do we know he hasn't already read Infinite Jest?
>>25635245It would cause infinite digest with infinite text written in his infinite nest while thinking it's infinite best even though Japanese it's infinite west and his game would be infinite test
>>25635485he's mocking (you)re dick size
Yes
>>25635479Vidya is relatively new media compared to movies and literature and their brightest minds are someone who can be considered a midwit on other fields.
If he were real and alive today he would be a 4channer
>>25636239The names Holmes... Shrelock Holmes
do you pronounce the l in holmes
>>25636287no, well, barely
>>25636239Almost certainly. He could barely function in a much more intellectual society that was tolerant of 'eccentrics.' Today he would be scratching out a living washing dishes or something and posting on the chans during his free time
>"Come now, Watson, it should have been obvious from the beginning that the 'authoress' of this post was not a lady at all, but a gentleman.">"Good Lord, Holmes! You don't seriously mean...">"It's quite elementary, really. When one patronizes the imageboards as frequently as I, one develops a keen eye for this sort of frippery.">"What a strange place, this '4chan'. I must make a point of visiting it some day.">"I don't believe you would be welcome there, dear friend. You are what we autists might call a 'normie'. Don't take it personally. But never mind that, we have a serial spammer to contend with.">"SERIAL spammer?">"Yes. You see, normally, one may assume our anonymous scribe's actions were merely a caprice intended only to irritate. That, as you know, is the official conclusion of Scotland Mod. I, however, was unconvinced. So, yesterday, I paid a visit to the archives and studied this man's posting history. This goes far beyond /lit/, Watson. /tv/, /pol/, /soc/, /int/, even /mu/--">"Goodness!">"I found evidence of his exploits all over the site, spanning years. He's received seven bans in all, and countless warnings. And each time he comes back.">"Such persistent and aggressive behavior could only mean....an illness of the mind!">"Now you're catching on, dear doctor. And I'm afraid while we sit here, this deranged marauder remains at large.">"Then we must stop him before he posts again.">*hits pipe* "The game is afoot..."
Not Long! edition.Old >>25517283
>>25636444Checked. Without fail any time somebody randomly aggros me on here because I made a post that made them feel insecure it's exactly like that, literally gibberish brown seethe
>>25636438That may be the wisest, but "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth," & "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" are the foundation of Christian civilization. That's a conversation for another thread, though. I'm just gonna shill Butcher of Nazareth again because it's Biblical, and is somewhat relevant to our discussion.
>>25636457Did you actually like it quite a bit? I've heard bad things about it. One of my friends told me it's a blatant moneygrab that pads out the pages with formatting
>>25636461>pads out the pages with formattingIt actually does but it's really good regardless. It's really more about trauma & grief than anything else. One anon asked me if it's like a serial killer in biblical times, and the answer is no. There's plenty of violence, though. Also, I'm not the first anon to have mentioned it, because I first heard of it in one of these threads.
>>25636462Interesting, I'll definitely have to check it out just because it has so much buzz
For sale: gym shoes, never worn.
>>25634267A man of culture, I see.Greeting, fellow fat-dude-enjoyer.>from a femanon(female) who only watched porns of fat/obese hunks masturbating>that is it, that's the totality of my porn consumption
>>25634734I mean I agree, I was mutilated, but I don't have to reckon with that at all because it's considered to be the "normal" dick. I've never been made to feel like I have a weird looking dick.People who were not circumcised had a moment in their youth where they were made to feel like their dick looked weird. So when they start firing off reasons why it's actually "normal", you know that's the place they're coming from.
>>25634267Conceptually kind of revolting but also useful, like keeping a pleco in your aquarium.
>>25635524I think the angle most cutfags are coming from is that they become obsessed with it for lack of anything else to be proud of, or conversely they inexplicably blame their failures in life on being cut
Ive maybe opened my copy of Critique of Pure Reason once.I mostly roll.joints on it because it has a large face.
What's the worst line in a book or poem you've ever read?
my taste is too good for my eyes to be assaulted in this manner anymore
>>25636349The one where Milton talks about how angels don't get indigestion lol
>>25636429If Milton is your first thought when someone asks what the worst line in a poem you've read is, you're a subhuman fyiNot to hurt your feelings but it's just something you should probably know about yourself
>>25636349>Tell me about a complicated man
>>25636432>Egypt, divided by the river Nile
>Uhh...Men and Womyn, it's like the kiki bouba situation in the sense that women are round and nurturing while men are pointy and mean.
>women are round and nurturi-
I wish Harold Bloom's office looked like a Rainforest Cafe plus a bunch of stupid African masks and some little twinking Christmas lights that were shaped like fairies, so that that was the background in the photo of him with a caption reading HAROLD BLOOM - LITERARY CRITIC - YALE PROFESSOR
Has anyone surpassed him in capturing the American African voice?
Quan Millz
Why did the Ayy lmaos molest him?
>>25633660>but no one breeds through the ass....
>>25635986Go look in a mirror.
>>25636016Sent that freak flying
My library growing up had an ENTIRE SECTION just dedicated to aliens, conspiracy theories, alien abductions, MK Ultra, all that good shit. I can't even get a good list of books worth a shit these days and sites like mam ban conspiracy theory stuff outright because muh hurt feelings.
>>25636336You might have to check fiction instead of nonfiction. My library had a similar section back in the 90s, it was attached to fiction and clear on the other side of the damn place from nonfiction.
Finite Jest
>>25634872I though they drank Four Loko?
>>25634991four X is made from grinded hay bales instead of barley but banana benders can't tell their arse from their elbows.
>>25634660obliterated that freak into infinite rest GEG
>>25634648This is getting old
>>25636184you are
Writer of Krakatoa
Split between posting here or on /x/, but it directly pertains to literature, so here it goes.Please recommend some books on meditation, less focused on self-help elements and more on the esoteric dimensions of the practice, along with practical guidance on how to meditate. Any tradition is welcome, but please recommend only literature for which you can personally attest to the quality. Goodreads and google is full of low quality recommendations. Too much chaff.
>>25630060Just fucking sit man. Just sit. Just sitting will happen in about 20 years.
take up swimming. its meditation but good.
>>25631506>Well, yes, you have to break your back and chant mumbo-jumbo for a whole eternity to someone named Dick Essence (Vajrasattva), and then your dick teacher (vajracharya) will give you mouth to ear seed (bija) sound of some cooked up bhuta like Furious Dick (Vajrabhairava), Born With Dick (Guhyasamaja), Gathering of Orgies (Chakrasamvara), Hi, Dick (Hevajra) or even, wonder of wonders, Yogini With A Dick (Vajrayogini); and then you will LARP as this bhuta and eat shit and seed (bija) and menstrual blood and wine and corpses in a charnel ground while having imaginary sex with your imaginary tulpa yakshini/yogini/dakini who looks just as grotesque as you; and then you experience imaginary orgasm, imagine being void, imagine white light, imagine merging with white light; and them imagine that now you're buddha,of all things. BuddhaIf you aren't academically or "spiritually" invested into Tibetan Buddhism, then it feel almost like a shitpost being taken seriously by a whole fucking country>Well, yes, if you want to be buddha you have to do everything in reverse of buddha dharma>Well, yes, you have to sit in a cave and imagine fire in your ass>Well, yes, you have to sit and stare into sky and wait for buddha mansions to appear>Well, yes, you have to become like Shiva and live in a charnel and fuck corpses for a living>Well, yes, you have to fuck and kill your parents, and then find the grossest whore in the region and eat her piss and shit and blood and vomit and, well, menstrual blood>Well, yes, you have to become a hero named Hi, Dick or Born with Dick or Furious Dick to find and fuck these most buddha of all creatures buddha: these yakshini/dakini/yogini women who look like Kali on a bad day when it's that phase of the moon>Well, yes, you have to find these dakini, who will fuck you to death, then quarter you, make a soup of you, eat you, and let you stay in their womb for 2 or 3 kalpa so, and they will shit you out and you be buddha>Well,yes, you have to wait until death and then you'll meet these buddha and will become buddha in the between life>Well, you see, you need to forget everything buddha to become buddha>Well, you see, it's all in the mind, bro>Well, you see, it's all about being void in meditation but this is the same thing but it's better because it's not named meditation but named Great Seal, Cutting Through in One Single Stroke, Easing into The Natural Clarity of Your Innate Skylike Mind in an Instant, Great Perfection; and this meditation that is actually special because it's named so special is protected by these most, most, most, most, most krodha buddha in existence: Ekajati and Vajarakila. So, this must mean that this teaching, which is not meditation but actually meditation under a pretentious name, is the best of the best and most secret of the secretIt genuinely feels like a whole country took bait from some prehistorical 4channer.
>>25631580Yes, the Wu-Tang Clan. I'm familiar with their work.
>>25630060For me it's Rob MonroeControlled OOBE induction is basically an advanced form of meditation. Shit changed my life and esp. the way I handle stressful situations
Dude why is this so poorly written? The writing style is ass, and judge holden has only had one scene up until now, im on page 27 and no sign of him after the first encounter in the town which was very brief, i thought he was going to be a major character, im getting bored when will he show up and fuck some shit up like a based BVLL?
>>25635531>>25635527Keep coping sissybois, im dead serious>>25635536I am a genius, you are a retarded tranny fucker and a cuck, i didnt say anything wrong i genuinely cant even see why youre so upset, are you trying to say the way he writes is good?
>>25635585Blood Meredian isn't all made up: ATPH contains a series of attacks on the reader and needs to be read for its hostile narrator. BM is quite generous with the reader.
>>25631814>>25631802>>25632186Isn't it sad that this is still better than reddit? What are captain guy's last words something like get on with it, or do your worst, "you mean red nigger." And then McCarthy teaches us the word 'thropple' which fits so beautifully for its phonemic character in the seen in which it was used. Fun book. Fags like OP abound.
>>25635668>The sentences are far more minimalist and straightforwardThe syntax and writing style is the same. There is just less archaisms and density
>>25635765>Isn't it sad that this is still better than reddit?Is it? I would say this is the worst of 4chan, which is worse than the best of reddit.
What is the best sci-fi book you’ve ever read?
Infinite Jest
Islands in the Net
only sci fi novel I read was electric sheep but it put me to electric sleep
>>25632638
Describe your leisure on reading your current book? Was it pleasant? Did the book introduce you on new ideas? Or was it stressful because it's shit?
>>25636005Is this a review of 4chan?
>>25636090>Describe the nature of your leisure from reading OP post.
>>25636090Disgusting homosexual
>>25635326One of the least pleasant, least leisurely books I've ever read, but I nonetheless sincerely want to finish it, to have a thorough understanding of all the batshit insane stuff that happened.
>>25636090Gotta be weird being in the UK and electronic music is K and meth and gay and Jamaicans instead of Asian girls dressing up and smiling.
yea it was great especially the 100 pages of Chris Fogle monologue such a shame he couldn't finish it
>>25632342True and I also think it was a more direct response to the kind of 90s slackerdom that thumbed its nose at "the man" and the corporate suit etc, the kind of people parodied by BEE etc. It was cool to read about a girl from a trailer park finding some kind of stability in her life in a boring IRS job, and how the narrator himself was a kind of slacker who made fun of the sincerity of the Christian girl etc only to find himself drawn into office life.
>>25626773You can see the powerful imagination at work, definitely (“the arrow of starlings fired from the windbreak’s thatch”). But it’s a powerful imagination lavished on childish, pointless things – like the humorless, crampingly focused people who make the falling-domino displays that fill the floor of Madison Square Garden. Two hours of slightly tedious watching later, the domino Taj Mahal has successfully fallen, and David Foster Wallace is a large part of the cultural shift that now sternly insists we call such displays genius, that we not dismiss them – or anything – as trivial. You’ve written a “novel” that consists of a 130 pages, each with a single word typed in its center? We’re forbidden to laugh, because you could be the next David Foster Wallace. We read a passage like that one from The Pale King and we see immediately all its flaws. The so-obvious-we-practically-watched-him-do-it Google search for “weird plant names.” The simple list of such names hauled in to simulate profundity. The lazy repetition of insect “business” (with the 345-page ‘memo’ ready and waiting, should you so much as dare to mention it). The cheap, tacked-on final line. And it’s hard to tell which is more frustrating: the fact that his followers lap up such stuff in the sure and certain belief that it’s genius (misunderstood genius, just as I’m misunderstanding it right now, they’ll say), or the fact that none of those followers would ever willingly read the opening to The Return of the Native, let alone acknowledge that its the same opening, only done well.
>>25626909This is what I love about non-linear narratives.
Is there anything else good missing from the novel that is the manuscripts he left? I need more.
>>25636036His papers are held at the Michener center at UT Austin. You can fill out a form online and they will scan and send you a PDF of whatever drafts they hold that you want, but they charge for this service. I don't know what they hold specifically related to PK, they have a lot of Infinite Jest stuff.The stuff they do have is cataloged but in general the catalog goes by box and the boxes may or may not have detailed catalogs for what is inside. One "box" worth of PDFs is 80 to 200 dollars worth of scanning work for them, depends on how much is in it. You need a scholarly reason to make a request, you do not need an edu email or scholarly credentials.
