Thoughts?
Haven't read it but supposedly good if you dug Salammbô.
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>>25211767> title reads like "thighs"> thinking of thighs > got a boner Stop posting lewds!!
>>25211767>260th edition>while author is aliveNigga, just settle the text already.
>find what you love and let it kill youThe fuck does that mean
>>25209491you'll understand when you find something you love
>>25210371>I've been getting all my drugs online for yearsWhere because I'd much prefer to do that then to go to the trap house again
>>25210498get Tor browser and go to dark dot fail or tor dot taxi to see which markets are up. Search dread (darknet reddit pretty much) if you wanna see people's opinions on markets/vendors. Get monero, learn how to do pgp encryption, go by user reviews for each vendor, and test everything you get for both fent and the thing you're wanting it to be with a reagent kit. Don't ever sign for a package.If you're a real addict and end up buying shit over and over again, you can end up just in a telegram room to streamline the process
My dad did that and it killed him.
>>25209491Drugslots of drugs
Being genuine, why would I ever use the library if I cannot keep the books? I am a neet who likes reading books I don't want to go outside and return them, just don't see the use of a library.
>>25209103You can check out blu-rays and rip them with makemkv but don't tell them I said that
>>25212471>i can easily get a free book sent anywhere across the country but i have to wait for it, therefore it's a waste of tax payer moneyBing bang yahooBut forreal doe sounds like you learned to use a library as an adukt, something i learned in like 4th grade.
>>25212787>doe sounds like you learned to use a library as an adukt, something i learned in like 4th grade.Anon I...
>>25213406>3rd–5th Grade: This is a peak period for DDS instruction. Students often begin to grasp how subjects are categorized and refined. By 5th grade, some curricula use Dewey to teach computational thinking by having students analyze and identify themes within specific data sets (Dewey sections).
>>25209103If you don't go to the library where will you peruse?
It felt like the ending was intentionally written as an anti-climax. No heroes. No dramatic death. No dad arc. Just depressing…
It was. It was intentionally showing that in the end individual heroics, struggles, and battles do not bear on larger historic forces. This was in deliberate contravention of prevailing military space opera traditions.
>>25213084It’s truly an epic sci-fi where we are thrown into history. The appendices are like “The Wasteland”! And, yes… We are all like Phlebas…
>>25213084You're right. I guess the main plot being pretty much meaningless is what gives it such a different feel from the more "video gamey" space opera I've read.
I don't get it.
>>25213339Into something good.
>>25213351Id rather have wagyu steak thsn chili with round steak but to each how own
>>25213367Que?
>>25213439You're right i should have left out the round steak part to make it a better reality. You are taking something i would consider of great quality and diluting it with lesser ingredients. But it's subjective. Nothing wrong with chili and sometimes it's better on a cold day
>>25213451Pretty sure i typed analogy but it says reality. Im losing my grasp on analogy.
Does Bryan Caplan have the weirdest beliefs of any living writer?>anarcho-capitalist>extreme foreign-policy pacifist>open-borders immigration policy, including letting Palestinians into Israel en masse>thinks torturing evil people to death is a moral duty>thinks torturing babies and animals is acceptable because they're dumb>anti-abortion>thinks The Simpsons is as good as Shakespeare>thinks Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey are almost certainly innocent>wants to birth and raise multiple genetic clones of himself>staunch atheist but a mind-body dualist and free-will libertarian>believes that almost all mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, are just exotic preferences>wrote a whole book on how evil feminism is>believes people should have as many kids as they can affordComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25211522>He's just the last of the dinosaurs.It's a tragedy that a clearly higher class of beings such as him have been displaced in favor of mind-melted chudcels. We need to rvtvrn to trvdvtivn.
>>25211512>anarcho-capitalistbased>open-borders immigration policy, including letting Palestinians into Israel en massecringe>thinks torturing evil people to death is a moral dutybased>thinks torturing babies and animals is acceptable because they're dumb>anti-abortioncontradictory>thinks The Simpsons is as good as Shakespearebased>wants to birth and raise multiple genetic clones of himselfbased>believes that almost all mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, are just exotic preferencesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25212933Why would an anarcho capitalist want borders?
>>25211708>goodgoyHe's half jewish.
>>25213046Have you read Hoppe, bro? Hoppe said something about this, probably?
Do you like Old English prose?I'm having a lot of trouble writing fiction in English. It feels flat and rigid compared to what I'm used to and I'm thinking of just going all in on Old English within the project I'm working on.
>>25211132Assuming you mean people like Shakespeare and Milton, I'd definitely read them because they're great, but be careful of the trap of aping the aesthetics of their language without the solid understanding of language that makes them so good. When a modern English speaker uses "thee" and "thou" without the sense for the rhythm and cadence of the words that make them appealing to readers of Shakespeare, it often just feels more stilted and flat, rather than non-flat.I'd also recommend reading more recent authors who use very "high" sounding language such as McCarthy, Joyce, or Melville.Alternatively you could also read hyper-modern writers such as DFW, Pynchon, etc. whose writing is anything but flat while using a lot of colloquial speech and vernacular American English.Take it from someone who went through a Shakespeare phase, the shit I wrote in that period would have been much improved if I'd not tried (and failed) to go "all in."I think you can usually improve your writing by just reading more good English writing, no matter what style or aesthetic you choose to use.Also here's Politics and the English Language, you've probably heard of it or read it already but it's a great little essay:https://dn721601.ca.archive.org/0/items/orwell-politics-the-english-language-1946/Orwell%20-%20%27%27Politics%20%26%20the%20English%20Language%27%27%20%5B1946%5D.pdf
>>25211132the tool isn't the problem, it's probably your (lack of) skillTrying to mask it with a contrarian language won't help.
>>25211132seems like cope from a shit writer trying to mask his writing in a contrarian language that's more difficult to critique.
>>25211132>It feels flat and rigidthen you need to build your vocabulary and look at it differently. modern english is the most flexible and creative language at our disposal. You can write absolute gibberish, and if you use the right words, everyone will understand you.
>>25211132Just write it in your own language and translate it, get a couple of proofreaders to check the translation makes sense, or don’t. If your English is good enough you should be capable of translating your own work into it
>able to read non-fiction>cannot read fiction at all, impossible to concentrateAnyone else have this problem?
>>25210905All non-fiction is just the fiction that accepted by the leaders of society and enforced by their authority figures.
>>25210941there's a universe where I'm fucking your mother right now
>>25210904I'm super picky about my fiction, but I prefer to read non-fiction. It's like 99 non-fiction to 1 fiction.>>25210996It's not my mother if it's not this universe.
>>25210904How many of these threads are you going to put in the catalog?
>anyone else have literal autismi imagine many do, yes
Books that refute Hedonism?
>>25212412TRVE>>25212458da fuq?
>>25211663>it's conflating the common usage of the word with the philosophical position.Like anarchism and egoism.
Picture of Dorian Gray.
Ooooo this thread is not good oooo
be honest, /lit/. it touched a nerve.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGuTteTL7u4
>>25212388That kid's gonna starve to death
>>25212388She’s caked in makeup… I can’t imagine what she looks like without because she’s a solid 4 with it on
>>25209805sadest thing is dude is already married to an ugly woman
>>25212388>I am going to pay for a photoshoot of me and my wife semi-naked>I am going to post it on social media for everyone to seeWhat is the point of doing something like this? Was a single post saying "wife is pregnant, so happy!" not enough for this performative, social media addicted millennial?
>>25208964What’s this type of performative male called?
What is your favourite work of short fantasy/speculative fiction, /lit/?
JG Ballard's The Secret History of World War 3, which becomes more relevant by the day
>>25211419I liked the Time Machine as a kid. Time Travel always interested me.
All Tomorrows is p. cool.
>>25212603The man couldn't conceive of anything that isn't unspeakably hideous. Animals on earth have been following the same basic body plans for 500 million years. Even with alien interference and another 500 million years, there has to be something that doesn't look like it would terrify Bosch.
Some people wonder about whether we will ever get a great incel author. But really, we already have him.
>>25212829Sounds like Thoreaux, though he wouldn't say he has a limited persoective or experience. After all, why is living in pain and denial more limited than living the life of a mindless normie?
>>25212916Are you impying it's more painful to hide in a dark room jerking off and playing video games then to go out into the world an improve your life through hard work?
>>25212922Yeah, though that is not what Thoreaux did, yet he was an incel whose oneitis got taken by his brother. Imagine living with yourself after all that. Are you implying that it's less limited to just be a normie who goes through life unreflective and hounding after pleasure? Or maybe there is no meaningful difference.
>>25212922>hide in a dark room jerking off and playing video gamesAre you implying that no normies do exactly this?
>>25212922In modern life, probably. There's a reason why normalfaggots started committing suicide in mass with the covid locks up. They could no longer run away from themselves with pointless divergence and could take a nice long look inside of themselves to see how truly empty they were.
So did Lana get raped at the end or what? Aside from that this ended way happier than I thought it would.
>>25210730Well I played Red Dead some years ago and there’s a city in that which is probably meant to be a fictional version of New Orleans and if I recall correctly it was full of non whites and frogs… yuck, fortunately it’s like gta in the sense that you can just shoot them in the head if you feel like it.
>>25210986His adventures with the blacks and gays are completely retarded though. Also, if you pay close attention you'll notice that he never actually read Boethius. He's "intelligent" in the sense that he's better educated than the literal slum dwellers surrounding him, but he's not intelligent enough to avoid making a complete ass of himself everywhere he goes.
>>25211187He has no social intelligence obviously
>>25206762His screeds about feudalism are among the funniest things I've read in a book.
>>25212465Agreed
Is there any contemporary russian lit worth reading or should I stick to Dosto and Tolstoy
>>25211338Bold of you to assume anyone has read it.
>>25211249>>25211338https://www.catbox.to/q9og30vC8WwUDLe/fileuploaded my ebook here
>>25212780It's catbox.moe not catbox.to
>>25211249>playsnah
>>25212800https://files.catbox.moe/z9ixsm.epub
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You guys are lucky to have me, actually. Goddamn lucky to have me here.You re so goddamn lucky to have me hereIt's pitiful, it's pathetic, it's restraint. Mom left me in the hospital restaurant. They call it the rule Cafe.
>>25212932I've been baptized. So I shouldn't worry about this? It sounds...portentous, idk. Sometimes, I just gotta lay this down on the sidewalk. Sometimes, I boogie down. Sometimes, I fuck on the sidewalk. There's a succession here that I wish I could explain to you all here on 4chan in a /lit/ thread with me, another anonymous fuck that doesn't mean anything to anyone and never has and never will.
>lol so randumb holds up spork
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Last night I put on FLCL for me and my wife, she hadn't seen it before. She's got a natural sexual literacy otherwise I would never have dreamed of sharing such a thing. I found myself saying 'this is an advanced text' at least a dozen times during the watch. She said to me, 'you keep saying it's an advanced text!!!!'I don't know, it's an advanced text!!!!
