Are memoirs and biographies (auto or otherwise) basically poop?What are the actually good/interesting ones?
What's his best work?
>>24758654he's less gay
>>24757585I've only read Il Piacere and L'Innocente, and some his short stories. The novels are very good. The short stories, not so much.
>>24758654more prose, less poetry.And Marinetti's most famous works are in french, which I can read :) and not in Italian, which I can't read :(
>>24757585Fiume
>>24760477>more prose, less poetry.Uhh how is that better? >I can read French but not ItalianAren't those two languages very similar though?
>the ideal state is moneyless communism where women are communal breeding sows and children are property of the nation and all men live together in faux monastic order but never get horny and there is a divinely mandated ruling class but they dont own anything but will never attempt to use their power to get more than their fair share because they're so good and just and the prize for valor in combat is the permission to kiss boysWas he right?
>>24758463amateur ragebait, how sad; here is my reply so that you don't become so crestfallen that only a darkmatter2525-esque meme is your only acknowledgment.
>>24757837Weird thing about the word ideal is it isn't also the word real.
>>24757960Not it isn't. In A Brave New World everything serves epithumia (bodily pleasure and safety). It is a very logical society but also one that sees no "good" outside hedonistic pleasure. It's in a way a total inversion of Plato.Also, the ideal city is introduced to explain the role of justice in the soul.
>>24757996>Plato >The progenitor of the erotic ascent>Devoid of passion This thread is full of people who haven't read Plato or who has Plato soar straight over their heads.
>>24760642We all know this, its just larp.
I finished reading this today. Has anyone else here read Brassilach? I thought it was pretty good. I liked how he changed style/medium every section. I don't think it's some hidden gem, however, like on anon seems to think. My favorite part was the "Reflections" section. That whole bit about turning thirty was very good and very true. I can relate to that strongly now that I'm 29. I'm going to read his chef d'œuvre next, Comme le Temps Passe
>>24759599He was a homosexual himself, y'know. Not so odd to assume.
>>24759823This has never been confirmed. These were spurious accusations put forth by the jealous likes of S***re, the same people who were frothing at the mouth for De G**lle to kill Brasillach.
>>24759998I thought his friends said so too. And it's a good thing.
>>24759819How difficult is the French? How do you go about reading if it isn't in your native language? Check a dictionary for each unknown word and work slowly or just try to get a sense of the story? t. Fan of Drieu la Rochelle, Celine, etc. >>24757061Notre avant-guerre was translated.
>>24760226The French is very easy if you know French. Brasillach doesn't use big words or obscure words at all lol. He's more of an idea communicator. He is able to communicate the ideas and feelings he wants his reader to feel very well and in simple terms.I would not suggest trying to read this by using a dictionary word by word if you don't know French. Learn some basic French first and then try the dictionary approach.
>We live in the society..
rip off of the Seinfeld finale episode
>>24757961If you google Seinfeld The Stranger you will find 1000 blogposts making this comparison. I'm pretty sure the final episode is an intentional homage to The Stranger.
>>24753851this image was voted best for that book
>>24757047Holy fuck I cannot believe someone saved my meme
>>24753892You have to be a teenager to get it anon, otherwise it reads as pseudo-philosophical crap (like the rest of Camus's work)
All memes aside, is does picrel have any literary or philsophical merit or is it just a bible for larpers?
>>24760197So what?
>>24757484He's better than that midwit Yarvin atleast.
>>24760249So his opinion on manly matters should be safely discarded.
>>24760475Why? You can be gay and manly.
>>24757484When I really think about it... Maybe Mexico City really is Bangkok.
It seems like DeepSeek understands Esoteric Hobbesianism better than you plebs
>>24758713they have yet to transcend level 1, the material
>>24758722According to Hobbes, "Matter" is synonymous with "Substance." It is merely that which is knowable about beings. Any time we cognize another being it presents itself to us as "matter" i.e. it has numerical properties of extension and temporality. The Esoteric Hobbesian recognizes that because all beings are originally free and equal, and because there are now abstract laws, there is no necessity that forces beings to appear to us in this way. The true, inner essence of beings may not be "substantial", i.e. material or numerical/mathematical, because they are hiding themselves from us. Beings voluntarily become substantial when they agree to participate in the common reality that allows them to interact with other beings in order to achieve their own ends. This does not mean that their inner essence is negated, but it does mean they take the external form of "matter." Wang Fuzhi is a "materialist" because he believes that "only concrete things exist" and "the way is the management of concrete affairs." This statement of materialism is not some kind of crude scientific materialism, it is simply the recognition that beings are not controlled or determined by abstract laws, but the abstract laws or principle is produced by the essence of the being. For UG, matter is again the only way through which we can "know" other beings. "Matter" is something that the collective knowledge of humanity, passed down through the world mind, uses to interact with the world. According to UG, the true "body" is not necessarily material because it cannot be grasped by thought. The body is not a material but a LIVING being. Thus, the materialism of the Hobbesianism is a practical materialism, not a dogma about what kind of beings can exist or what the essence of beings can be. Hobbesianism, as a nominalist philosophy, rejects the notion that beings can be determined by abstract principles from the beginning, thus they cannot be inherently constrained to the form of matter.
>>24758644I use it for debugging because I don’t need the FBI looking at my source code.
>>24758720Keyed
>>24758752... anonI... Nevermind, you will continue to do as you do.
Where do I go now?
>>24759492its worth reading 7 and 8 if you liked the story. if you like those then you can read the rest of the ones his son wrote
How many words do you know? https://my.vocabularysize.com/
>Share your score on redit.I know I got one wrong clicking dumbly.
>>24759736>pictured question asks 'where' when 'what' is the appropriate interrogative for the choices given
>>24760385>>pictured question asks 'where' when 'what' is the appropriate interrogative for the choices givenIf you took the test you'd see that the word/term in question is always italicized and bolded.OP's pic is bizzaro.
>>24759736not doing 100 questions
>>24760482>not doing 100 questionsGood news for you because it's 140 questions
Are there any other fantasy stories where the protagonists start with possession of the MacGuffin and seek to destroy it while the antagonists seek to recover it, or is LOTR so famous, and that plot so strongly associated with it, that if any other writer tried to do it he'll be accused of ripping off LOTR?
>>24760092The ring story started with The Hobbit, not LOTR. The protagonist gets the ring in The Hobbit. The ring is not a MacGuffin, it is central to the story. A MacGuffin is an excuse.
>>24760151The Hobbit and LOTR are two separate works, though. You don't need to read the Hobbit to understand the plot of LOTR.In the Hobbit the ring isn't even that important, it's just a random ring of invisibility. It's only in LOTR that it's revealed as the One.
>>24760255The ring didn’t have a big backstory when The Hobbit was written. It’s just stolen from the ring of Gyges and the later variant myths in Euro folktales.
>>24760092Tolkien ripped the plot off from Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Most educated people recognised this in Tolkien's day.
>>24760255>>24760335I read the silmarillion first and I'm glad I did
I'm finna study Classical Studies and English Literature in uni.
>>24760476Also, debt.
>>24760469Pretty sure Southerners in general came up with that, whenever I hear those rednecks talk I just hear niggers what a horrible place.
>>24760476>work for a few months a year.doing what? odd jobs, or something you go back to?
>>24760486Last gig was a kitchen that gave me 50-60 hours a week. Made like 6k then quit.
>>24760492You are a man of integrity just like me, and I respect that.
reading is just another form of cuckoldry where you let other men impregnate your brain with their own thoughts while you completely submit, lust even after being soaked in them to the point that their thoughs and ideas overpower you and you become just another vessel for their seeds
>>24757373Cucked by the eternal warmonger.
>>24754008>I don't look like thisI'm sorry for you...
>>24753989Based cuckoldry absolutist
>>24754031Not the first thing. It took years of analysis before I reached this level of media literacy.
>>24754289Superb monkey. I must have it.
>a veritable tour de force
>>24756962>two thumbs way up
>New York Times Bestseller
>A triumph
>unputdownable
>per say
What is the worst book that you've ever read?
>>24757671This shit. He rambles on forever about basic bitch points like they're profound truths that no one else understands.
>>24757671War and peace. People visting each others houses. I love Percy Jackson by the way, nico di Angelo is my favorite character of all time.
>>24757671I'm not even sure what to say about this book except that it was dripping with unwarranted self importance that disturbed me like no other book I've read
>>24757671Illuminatus trilogy. If I could travel in time, I'd do everything in my power to prevent those collections of word vomit from being published.
any books on the trve nature of w*men?
>>24757977
>>24759409I can’t really be bothered to read it to find out what side it plays for but it’s funny it’s relying on dysgenic features to this extent if it’s some critique of incel culture.
>>24757977The alchemical corpus.
>>24757977nice pic OP
