retarded and unnecessary
>>24703636e ink is awesome for reading. It mimics paper very well. If you need to write or draw just use fucking paper, this is gay shit for people who use typewriters
it's not so much based or cringe, as it is shit no one cares about.
What are some books about ageing? Or simply one with an old protagonist?
>>24697021She rubs her jizz-covered hand on her forehead whenever she finishes. Unhygienic goon.
>>24699702Thanks for the patient answer. I think I'll buy his collected works.
>>24697888She just turned 28
>>24697021Job
>>24703945Jesus, time just marches on...
I want to buy a book of poems to have around the house. Is Hart Crane a good pick? I've liked the ones I read by him. But maybe there's someone better.
Bump for due diligence
>>24703367You want Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and the Bronte sisters' poetry laying around your house. Impress women who come to visit you. Show that you're a man who puts up a visual display to indicate that you appreciate women.
you could stop being a performative dickhead and just actually read the shit you buy
>>24703619I don't care about impressing women.>>24703755I'm buying the book to read it, anon.
>>24703367It doesn't make sense to buy by Crane as >a book of poems to have around the house, By all means buy Crane, he's a very obscure visionary who is often sublime, but this just doesn't make sense to me for what you want, which sounds like an anthology. Get the first four books of Palgrave's Golden Treasury
Has /lit/ ever produced anything worth reading?
>>24701902W-what's your pornographic magnum opus?
>>24698265Somehow I have never connected>bugs, easy on the…To ‘big chungus’, but I guess yeah it does come from here
>>24702664I'm not the original/real & editor, just the guy who did the best-of. It wasn't an official & thing; I started it while he had disappeared and I figured & was done for good.Getting the photo was surprisingly easy. Emailed Burtynsky's rep and asked politely. Promised not to make money off it or mess the photo up, then she emailed me a nice high-res copy of it to use. Her words back then were>We are very aware of how Edward's Breezewood has become "meme-ified", for lack of a better word(though I dunno if he'd know what you mean if you said "burgerpunk")>>24702870I didn't write that piece. I'd ask the author, but I don't think he ever replied to my emails. You can have Jibaku instead.
Another & one
>>24702944nothing will ever compare to the ccru tho
they seem interesting
>>24703960thanks for clarifying, brudda.
>>24703871I'm also interested in it's supposed connection to the Arthurian mythos
>>24703871I have them on my wishlist.
>>24704053My memory of the Narts says the connection is built on those common and generic aspects that are found in many ancient traditions and can not be demonstrated in any remotely conclusion fashion. But I could be wrong, been a good while since I have read either. I just skimmed the front matter for the Narts and did not see any mention of Arthur, but it was just a quick skim. I suspect any connection is more interesting in its suggesting a possible connection and not something which can be demonstrated. If you have any links for stuff on this I would be interested in them.
to what extent do the caucasian peoples have similar folklore and mythology? I know linguistically they're all very dissimilar.
For me it's Electra.
>>24702573For me, it's smug/condescending harvest kami.
>>24702573Minerva for me
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Melpomene
>>24702573>Who's your mythological waifu?Zeus. And I'm going to mpregnate him. And his son will kill him.
What is the symbolism of the pain and discomfort the freed prisoner feels when first exposed to the light?
You're on your own.
Unaccustomed autonomy.
>>24703561It's like being born again
>>24703561Quit spamming jeet
>>24703561>What is the symbolism of the pain and discomfort the freed prisoner feels when first exposed to the light?You ever have absolute ontological responsibility for all being? It is like God asking you, "Why do you keep hitting yourself?"Well cunt, solve the fucking problem of evil, you just keep doing it. Stop fucking hitting yourself. Why are you making yourself react when I cut your toddler's limbs off? You're the one causing you pain.NATO has a symbol for friendly mass rape.
>Every word that's ever written will fall short of its intentEven sung or spoke or screamed, they will betray what they have meantLanguage is the heart's lamentA weak attempt to circumvent the loneliness inherentIn the search for permanenceLike all the future ghosts who scratch their names in wet cementDemeaning meaning as they shout out at the emptiness Abstraction is the stake between the anima and animus
I was told this wasn't YA. I was lied to.Real people are not like this. The characterizations remind me to something like BBC's Sherlocks. Just awful. All the characters are out of a comic book. They are so unrealistic they could as well be vampires.This must have been written by a really stupid person.Discuss
>>24700141Yeah this book is just stupid normie slop that pretentious people with no taste think is sophisticated because it's about classics scholars
>>24700141Wow. Just to think on what we missed out. David would have been PERFECT for this. How come it never happened?
>>24701851Didn't you learn what satire is when you were in school? Guess that is what happens when the liberal arts relies on standardized testing, end up with robots who treat the liberal arts like a standardized test. What shithole are you from?
>>24703920Eurocucks, specially Germans and slavniggers, have serious trouble understanding satire. It's the reason why stuff like Twilight or 50 Shades were a massive successes here but not so much in Europe. Not defending their quality nor anything, obviously, but there was obviously a layer of satire to them that Americans got, but to eurocucks it looked like we like to read/watch dumb things and we take them straight and we like them for that. No wonder they think we're dumber despite all the best technological advances being made here. They are autists. Genuine robots. They are the people online that need to write /s at the end of their posts online to make clear they are being sarcastic, after all.
>>24703967Satire is nearly impossible to translate unless you are ok with a great deal of rewriting and a finished product that is very different from the original. It is very dependent on the culture and if you are not a part of that culture you are very unlikely to get it even if you are fluent in the language of the culture. The issue here is that the anon he was responding to explicitly said it was satire, which suggests he does not even have the most basic understanding of what satire is and likely larping, or that school he went to is complete shit. Most in the US who go to a liberal arts school are used to being the best, in all of their prior schooling they effortlessly got the straight As and lots of praise for their art, it builds an ego. This creates a certain environment in these schools and a big part of what these schools are about is showing them that their ego is built on being judged by the general population instead of their peers; that in context of their art they are actually shit, that they have been deluded into believing that everything they do is a masterpiece and can not see their work for what it is, mostly shit but having a great deal of potential. They start teaching the students this in the interview and they are fairly merciless about it.When I was doing my stint in the liberal arts, the only students there who did not already get a degree where the ones who got into a liberal arts high school and did very well. Don't recall a single student who came right from a normal high school but there were probably a few who came from private schooling, don't remember. SAT serves no purpose here, would be like asking for SAT scores for some applying to grad school. You seem like you are doing the same thing as that anon, thinly veiled "my country is best."
Which shelf of great writers is CS Lewis on? I just finished reading The Great Divorce, but I didn't think it lived up to the acclaim the author usually receives.
I always thought this was normal, but apparently the average is 200wpm? What the fuck? How can I read so fucking slow? I thought my reading speed was in the average but it's actually really fucking below, this is why it takes me so much time to read a 500-page novel (around 50 hours). Am I stupid? I really can't see myself reading faster than that, it would only spoil my enjoynment but now I'm feeling bad for reading so slowly.What's your reading speed?
>>24703456>It doesn't meanIt doesn't mean anything
>>24703297Do you think the man that cums quickly is superior? Do you think the man that rushes through life has the best experience?
>>24703297Listen to an audiobook and read along with it. See if that increases your speed. Being a "good reader" is probably like listening to an audiobook on 1.5x speed and being able to hold that attention for at least 30 minutes without losing focus and having your mind wander.
>>24703297Reading speed doesn't matter if you're metabolising the book and taking the time to engageCould have a 1000wpm reading speed but if you don't recall or take any points from it what was the point in the first placeHope you managed to get to the end of this before dinner anon
>>24703827Speed, focus, and retention. All three are important.
cupness bros, our response?
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>>24700846Gene, they’ll catch you.That’s the thing, Sut, they won’t.>shakes head and leads him to the storage container stash
>>24700830Americans are so repulsive
Neveah is hot.
even if it's fake it's entirely plausible. that's the state of the country right now.
Are there any books about dynasties and succession to thrones? Books heavily focused on plot, with involvement of other dynasties as well.I'm not sure what the exact term is.
>>24701732What? No, that's what I remember from 20+ years ago
Study the real history of Ahl al-Bayt. Imam Ali, Imam Husayn, Yazid, Karbala. If you ask me, a Shia, the Caliphate was usurped from Imam Ali.Yet I don't hate Sunnis. A Muslim is a Muslim. Love my Ummah. My brother in Gaza is a Sunni and we accept each other.Islamic history is a long and complex story of dynasties and succession to thrones, a dramatic story full of twists and turns, uprisings and conquests.It is genuinely exciting to read, but also deeply personal and spiritual for a Muslim to study. As a Shia, I have wept in mourning over Imam Husayn as my brothers do in Karbala. Even very recently as Arbaeen has just ended.The story continues to this day, the death of the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, led to the British Mandate of Palestine. The Sayyid, the living blood descendents of Rasul Allah, peace be upon him, include the current supreme leader of Iran.Have become personally involved in this history. Speaking anonymously, the US military now has the right to raid my home and end my life! At the very least, the DHS. At the very most, to revoke my citizenship and order my death! They call it the green light. Once you are green lit, you are on the receiving end of what is called the kill chain. To be legally destroyed.In my religion, this is actually the ultimate achievement. Martyrdom assures a place in Heaven. It was stressful at first, knowing each day can be your last, but through patience and prayer I've become used to it.
>>24702282Then there is American history. The Kennedies, the Bushes, these are dynasties. The Oval Office is a throne. I love reading American history. A good understanding of history is necessary to understanding the political state of the world.I remember learning that the Department of Defense, one of my former employers, was once the Department of War. Defense is more politically correct, but global imperialism is not defense.America has very slowly fallen into the hands of zionists. From Kennedy all the way to 9/11. After 9/11, the capture was complete.
>>24697774a lot of epics have some element of this.
>>24699691Philip V is literally me
Wtf Crowley is doing on the cover of Ligotti's book?
>>24701756Imagine believing glowniggers have to be competent
>>24701795So the glowies set him up as a double agent?
>>24701756Its just anti-English propaganda, picking on a demographic with no institutional support.
>>24701641Lol, that the incel comment really set you off. Must be true.
>Nor was he adept at earning money, being reduced to becoming a paid hack for the German propaganda machine in the USA and writing anti-British articles for the magazines the Fatherland and the International, According to Crowley himself he was in no sense a traitor to his I country ; a actually he was doing it a service by writing propaganda of such surpassing silliness that it brought Germany into dis-repute. So extraordinary were some of Crowley's pro-German articles that one iS forced to accept that his claim may have been ustified. Thus for example he wrote an article in which he com- pared the Kaiser to the saintly knight Parsifal, and another in which he grumbled about the ineffectiveness of German air-raids on London: 'A great deal of damage was done at Croydon, especially at its suburb Addiscombe, where my aunt Jives. Un- fortunately her house was not hit. Count Zeppelin iS respectfully requested to try again. The exact address is Eton Lodge, Outram Road.'Made me lol.
>writes a scene in his book about childrens having a gangbang
>>24694871Well,https://forward.com/culture/430773/the-secret-jewish-history-of-stephen-king/>The Secret Jewish History Of Stephen King
>>24695531Willful ignorance is the mental disorder, you are the reference case.
>>24695531>Antisemitism is a mental disorderTrue. Being obsessed with semites (e.g. Arabs),i.e. sandniggers, is decadent degeneracy.
>>24694865is that book now illegal in texas thanks to Texas senate bill 20
>>24699917Do kids in your country have brain damage or something? We knew how sex worked well before the age of 10. I knew exactly wtf was going on when my cousin humped me at that age or when that girl from school "really wanted to rest her head in my lap" among other things on a bus trip. Either adults really forget what being a kid was like, you're lying to yourself, or kids are stupid where you're from.
