*mechanically reproduces your art*heh, nothing personnel, kid
*flips your ready-at-hand to present-at-hand*heh, nothin' personal, kid
*sublimates your ego*heh, nuthin familial, oedipus
*allows the sovereign executive the exception to transcend your rule of law*heh, nothin' personnel, liberal
*deconstructs your text and flips your meaning*jej, nothin' personal, le gosse
*mythologizes the Brooklyn Bridge*heh nuthin personnal kiddo
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, critic, and translator who reshaped modern literature by confronting beauty and decay as inseparable. Best known for *Les Fleurs du mal* ("The Flowers of Evil"), he explored themes like urban life, sensuality, boredom, and spiritual conflict, refusing to idealize the world and instead revealing its tension between the sacred and the corrupt. His work scandalized 19th-century France for its frankness, yet it became foundational for Symbolism and influenced generations of writers and artists. Baudelaire's vision was that truth is not found by escaping darkness, but by seeing through it, recognizing that even what seems fallen can be transformed into a kind of piercing, unsettling beauty.Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was not an Advaitin. Advaita, especially as taught by Adi Shankaracharya, points to a radical non-duality: only the Absolute (Brahman) is real, and the world of separation is ultimately an illusion (Maya). Baudelaire, by contrast, lived and wrote from within tension. He did not dissolve opposites, he intensified them. His work is built on duality: heaven and hell, purity and corruption, ecstasy and despair. He doesn't say "all is One"; he shows a divided consciousness struggling inside experience.You could say he *circles* something spiritual, but never resolves it. Where Advaita ends conflict by seeing through it, Baudelaire preserves conflict and turns it into art.If anything, he stands as the opposite movement: not transcendence of illusion, but lucid immersion in it.
Be DrunkCharles BaudelaireYou have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."
>>25204595>drink the Atheist liquid, bro
>>25204595That settles it, I'm gooning tonight.
>>25204604It‘s more fun than the alternative and Baudelaire mogs. I don‘t hear a counterargument.
>>25204621The Atheist liquid takes away the health of your body, and you need your body to stay in this material world until you figure out a way to escape the cycle of birth and death.
>he thinks he can resist technocapital AI
>>25203334>cold flows of imageless matter, information, network, etc.sounds like the non-knowledge of bataille but Land is desperate to materialise it (if i can't see it can i feel it in an erection?) the problem should be posed as a moral problem (control vs freedom) rather than an ontological/ideological one (human vision is liez! intelligence and materialism (this is just a form of prejudicial vision) is the one TRUE and HONEST being, my god could beat up your god, surrender inshallah)
>>25203400>>25203803>>25203397Samecuck
>>25203334did you ever consider the possibility that his appearing like that is the most effective way he could find to communicate truths about that abyss in the hope of working against it? you used the example of a shaman: shamans would put on the skins of the animal whose spirit they were channeling. it doesn’t mean they were on that animal’s side
>>25203303It still can't answer simple queries reliably after years of development and billions in funding. Often, I google a question I know half the answer to and the AI search result is just blatantly on the wrong track. It's used primarily for generating porn and babysitting retarded boomers. No matter what ancient jewish number magic is telling Land, the end times are not here. He's catastrophically wrong again, just like when he spent years predicting bitcoin would topple the global financial system
>>25204494Can't wait for his satanist arc where he starts explictly worshipping a flesh and blood demon
Remember when the only motivations needed for a character was honor?
>>25202310psychological interiority is a bourgeois concept. i agree that, in the spirit of marxism, we need a literature that treats individuals as manifestations of abstract cultural forces.
>>25202310>Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized LibraryGreat editions.
>>25202310>>25204037>Joe Jusko is still activeNice.
>>25204037I bought nine alreadyI may have a problem
>>25202324They're not "scenes," and it isn't a movie.
Do you use them a lot in your writing? How do you feel about writers who do?
Vulgar and immature!
I fucking hate all the goddamn profanity shitting up the world
>>25204097I genuinely think people posting their LLM interactions are subhuman.
were standards just different back then? I can’t really see a guy like him pulling today, when most women's baseline prerequisite seems to be tall, athletic and outdoorsy .
>>25201463this. balkan is all about being tall and sporty. No artfags or arthoes allowed here. I remember reading about one guy being picked as the "best dressed guy" here and all the women were complaining that he is "too artistic look" lmao women have zero taste here.
>>25187476Right...
On the subject of Camus. I've read his most known works (The myth of Sisyphus, The plauge, The stranger). Where do I go from here, any recommendations?
25193845Is this chatgpt? Could you please take these faggy out of touch lectures referencing shitty tv shows to fucking Reddit next time? ty
>>25204256The Rebel --> The Fall
Her lips are soft, delicate crescents placed upon perfection. A flawless cream-complexion, like the gentlest of clouds adorning an Azure canvas.Smooth cheek bones trailing to expressive windows into her very being. Eyes awash with vivid thunder, seldom they yield to calm oceantides – inner turmoil coming from love unrequited – wants struggling alongside desires, as they seek to escape the confines of materialistic affairs. Carnal urges no heart should fight. Even the rock-like, ossified soul she’s sculpted for herself. Walls.Caution. Essential to life…battling feelings of connection, consequence of passion.Seeds of trust – a chance for betrayal. I find myself questioning the light and preferring the night.We all walk the path chosen and wonder of other directions missed.A plight of the truly free (or those striving to be). As mountains fall and stars implode… very little changes.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Any introductory books on logic written from a Christian worldview? I'm retarded, so I'm literally going to read one with a dog dressed as a detective first, but will want something more substantial--but not too complex for a simpleton like myself--after I finish the Scruff McGruff title. Open to secular writers, too, of course, but I know there's some Christian titles out there, so I figured I'd seek those out first.
>>25198486
>>25201275Fuck off
>>25203829Fuck off yourself, faggot.
Not logic per se but the logic of logic."Why tho?"
Thoughts on AtD? Along with Vineland, it seems to be his most overlooked novel.
>>25203188Absolutely, I always win. >>25203191>pynchon meme #384 variation #47Are you proud of being more predictable than peekaboo?
>>25203193What can I say, I like my pastas.>Reading Pynchon is like going to a nursing home/bingo hall/any place with a lot of weird elderly people, and you get introduced to some old guy wearing a zany suit and a bow tie. He holds out his hand to shake yours, a big shit-eating grin on his face, and you think to yourself "This is the type of guy that would totally have a joy buzzer in his hand. I'm going to shake his hand, and I'm going to get zapped." Then you realize that nobody is still doing the joy buzzer gag, because it's a billion years old and the most hack thing ever, so you shake his hand. And you get zapped, because he actually did have a joy buzzer the whole time.
>>25203194You could try making pasta, but that would require reading. Oddly enough, I wrote that.
>>25203168lmao filtered
>Long habits of holding back information, especially from young women one was currently sparking, usually kicked in about this point. Once, out in the Uncompahgre Plateau, Frank, riding back from Gunnison or someplace, spotted a single storm cloud, dark and compact, miles away, and knew despite the prevailing sunlight and immensity of sky that no matter how he changed his direction now, he was going to cross paths with that cloud, and sure enough, less than an hour later it all grew dark as midnight, and there he was getting soaked and frozen and being momentarily deafened by lightning bolts that hit blasting all around, leaning along his horse’s neck to reassure him that everything was just peachy, though being a range horse the critter had seen far worse and was presently trying to reassure Frank. Tonight in the Albany, Frank could see that Wren had arrived exactly here after unnumbered miles and Stations of the Cross—in the light off the great mirror her face was a queerly unshadowed celestial blue, that of a searcher, it seemed to Frank, who had come as far as she must to ask what he would be least willing to answer. He understood that there were such presences abroad in the world, and that although one may live an entire life without intersecting one, if it should happen, it became a solemn obligation to speak when spoken to.
>Get told it is the greatest epic poem>Read the entire bible before commencing my reading>Book 1 contains some of the best English verse I have ever read>The rest is mostly fucking boring, with some rare glimpses of Milton's genius scattered about>Last half is a complete snooze fest Outside of PL being intellectually engaging and thematically dense, I don't see how one can genuinely enjoy reading this work. You are a bunch of posers for heralding this as the best literary work in the canon. Regardless of the intellectual challenge and the fact that one can devote a sizeable period of time to this work, there are better ways to become "learned". I enjoy speaking of PL, but to ever have to re-read some section where Michael vouchsafes Adam/Eve with some long speech - I'd rather kill myself. Regardless, the paradigm between Satan and God, and Satan's own ambition being relatable (which I infer, like many, embody Milton's own paradoxical nature), the cruelty of a God with foreknowledge, the verse describing the torrid landscape of hell, the quasi legal argument prepared by God - these are all thematically genius. I only wish that Milton could be as entertaining to read as Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Homer etc.
>>25203565Not faggot OP, but I-I did.
>>25203283So, Book I, II, IV, VI, IX like >>25203564said then. Well 5/12 isn’t so bad
My favorite part of the poem was at the end when Satan returned to Pandemonium triumphant, bragging about what he did, and then God temporarily turned him and the other demons into snakes. Like it was such a goddamn petty thing to do, even though God knew it was going to happen.
>>25203897Oh yeah, Book 10 might just be the best part.
>>25202959Milton's women issues are famous, much of his political output it on the desirability of the legalisation of divorce. Blake writes about the "Six-fold Mitonic female" i.e. his three wives and three daughters, that "flies into the Ulro".>Altho' our Human Power can sustain the severe contentions Of Friendship, our Sexual cannot: but flies into the Ulro. Hence arose all our terrors in Eternity!
When writing, how can one make every character have a distinct voice? Currently every character in my novella sounds like a retarded 4chan user.
I don't know what you mean by "distant voice" but my recommendation is to interact with retarded 4chan users less
>>25204242If you know anything about your own characters, their distinctiveness will emerge naturally.
>>25204242>Currently every character in my novella sounds like a retarded 4chan user.Hey buddy, I never signed off on you using my likeness in your novella. I'll sue your balls to the wall.
About to marathon these two bad boys. >Fathers and Sons by Turgenev>Kozel 12What am I gonna think of em?
what did you think of them?
>>25204290>Kozel 12Meh. Tastes like average bitter czech lager beer. It's supposed to be new and it is new for Kozel (famous for it's black beer), but it's just normal, nothing interesting. All these czech beers are making new types of their beer and it's all just copies of Radegast 12, which is popular becouse it's bitter. I always say it's parody of a beer, becouse it's bitter and nothing else and people who drink Ragest 12 do not like beer but Radegast 12. This is Kozel's attempt to be Radegast 12. Average for czech beer means it's much better than anything non-czech.>Fathers and Sons by TurgenevApproximately 100 pages in. I see where Hemingway got his style from, the way they introduced the father's young almost-wife and their bastard son was very step-by-step 'Show, don't tell' even with Hemingway-like twist at the end of the introduction. First she is mentioned in passing, then you see her gazing through window, but when the guests enter the house she is nowhere to be seen, then she asks her man if she should move from the main house when they have guests, then you see their child, then you hear how they met and only after all that you learn the old man has not married her yet. You go from 'Does he have new wife?' to 'Yes, he does and he has baby with her.' to 'she is not his wife'. All the awkward interactions start making sense.Also very Anna Karenina-like so far, similar to Levin chapters in that there's lot about russian farming and each of the 4 main male characters seem to represent different approach to life (2 represent the 2 differen 'old' outlooks of 19th century - romantic and realist, and 2 represent the 2 'new' outlooks - one of them is nihilist the other I do not know yet).
I cannot find an original or the 1960s reprint anywhere, have been looking for MONTHS. Some of you are physical book autists and collectors.I really don’t care about the cost (within reason, not like $5000 but I’d be willing to pay in the low hundreds for a book that is not sought after by collectors at all).Does anyone have any ideas?>pdf scanI need to be able to annotate, ADHDtard.
If you must needs have it on paper, I see a bunch of those print-on-demand reprints (it's going to be the same pdf scan…)
epubhttps://annas-archive.gl/md5/ba71b8c41a40aba9c827313672ea7f44pdfhttps://annas-archive.gl/md5/0c410d92aff867b3a162ce4c55101413
>>25203749physicalhttps://www.booksamillion.com/p/Laws-Imitation/Gabriel-De-Tarde/9781015568501
>>25203693qrd?
>>25203693These two have found your solution:>>25203749>>25203755Since you insist on the physical copy to annotate I would just buy from the link above. You can also print out the pdf at your local Staples. They even offer binding services. Cheers.
Can anyone lay out the connection between Evangelical Christian fiction in the 1980s-90s and the rise of neoconservatism as the primary ideology of the American right a little bit earlier?Basically, how did neocon ideology lead to the explosion of Evangelical novels and culture? Fran Peretti, for instance, wrote numerous novels during this time featuring demons and other “hidden forces” (such as the so-called abortion lobby) manipulating American society when Reagan and Bush I were president. Does this have any relation to Straussian Neoconservatism?
>>25196460My father and mother are Christian as am I but my dad was into Clive Barker so I dunno. He mostly reads hard-boiled detective stories and biographies these days with occasional YA (don't ask why). I grew up as a Neoconservative in the 90s and early 2000s when only old men supported that shit and got hell for being pro-Bush at a time when everyone in my generation was anti-Bush. I was always contrarian, even to this day.
>>25197157My buddy really likes that stuff but he's barely literate.
>>25197128I found out about Strauss twelve years ago.
>>25202858nuh-uh
>>25202858bush hired more faggots than clinton, he was more of an israeli stooge than clinton whose white house was run by friends of bill ie rahm emmanuel, condoleeza rice had a phd in soviet studies and didnt know da from nyet,
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>>25203305That's a dog-man. He's probably just waiting for his owner.
>>25203295It's objectively a funny joke.
>>25199180Number of books is a really retarded metric. And so is number of pages. You shouldn't incentivize reading more books or pages. What matters is the time spent reading and the quality of what you read.
>>25200161He's a midget
>>25199180>performative reading
