In gaming, there are "high-replayability" games.Is there such a thing in literature?
>>25453652I like re-reading action books. Especially Shogun and The Lost World (Crichton).
>>25454731>heretics of dune like 6 timesmay god have mercy on your soul
>>25453928In English, doc
Short stories and novellas. The Time Machine comes to mind.
>>25453652bill shakes beer
who was right? the Straussians or Cambridge Contextualists?
>>25455014Misspoke, one of Strausses earliest works was on Spinoza, not his dissertation which was on F. H. Jacobi
>>25455021I may of mistakenly responded to the wrong post, which was intended for >>25454120 initially.
>>25455057All good
>>25454821>>"What does this mean? Do you mean that they claim that nothing past Machiavelli should be analyzed">Proof you know nothing of Leo Strauss, who rejected modernity.I love how you'll spout out a blatant smear and extreme oversimplification of Leo Strauss as if it's an obvious truth. >durrr Leo Strauss... is like... he likes the Ancients or something... right? And like... Straussians are... le conservative... I think... and they... uhm... they are critical of modernity? You know, there's a whole school of Strauss critiques from the right who make Strauss and his companions to be *too* modern. e.g. Paul Gottfried. And Straussians are not a monolith, either, e.g. West Coast vs. East Coast. Esoteric readings are a method, first and foremost, and you can service it to any political message you want if that is what you are ultimately looking for. But the reason for practicing it in the first place is because it is *interesting* hermeneutical strategy, and it offers a *method* of reaching the truth, or at least a fresh revisiting of the texts. That's it. That's the bottom line. No need to make this overly complicated or conspiratorial. Leave that aside to the critiques of (some of) the persons involved, not the method itself.
this strauss fellow seems really influential, what does he have to do with thiel's 2002 essay
I'm 17 pages into the preface of Phenomenology of Spirit (Pinkard translation), having also read the introduction and translator's notes.Is Hegel essentially using each paragraph to chain interconnected claims on the proper ways in which to go about structuring knowledge?
You should understand the basics of Hegel such as sublation and dialectics. This is actually valuable. Getting bogged down in the telos of his argument about history isn’t all that beneficial in my opinion. The anons screeching about how Hegel is entirely incomprehensible schizo babble are just parroting what they’ve heard others say. The first part of the phenomenology is quite clear.
>>25452288He's not difficult if you've read theology before. Basically he is a slightly heterodox but mostly orthodox Christian trinitarian. He gets """difficult""" when atheists decide to read him to justify "God isn't real, we're God and we need to become soulless communists."
>>25453783What else could you do in a mental asylum
>>25455805Write it 5 times
>>25453648Unfathomably based
Chat... I think we're cooked. Gen alpha will be completely fucked up.
>>25450387Adults actively encouraging kids to play sex games. Where have we seen this
>>25456272before the satanic panic and restored by obummer the bummer
>>25450274Reminds me of a time in english class we were doing a project that was about "learning to use search engines effectively" and i had no idea wtf the point of the lesson was because i grew up on the PC and it was already second nature to me. I was told we had to do a presentation on a topic of our choice and use the internet to research it so i talked about Hannibal crossing the alps.Apparently i was the only one who did an actual academic type topic and everyone else did hobby or joke topics so i looked like a total dork.
>>25450274tfw no diddy world
>>25450274>We're almost done with Brave New World>so I had students create their own utopian societies>their own>utopian societiesJesus wept.
I've noticed this board has been pretty miserable lately. Lots of bad vibes. Post a book that made you happy when you read it. Doesn't matter when you read it, or at what age. Just post a book that reminds you why you read books.
Franz Kafka - The Castle
I read Wodehouse's Jeeves Stories from Standard Ebooks. And it unironically made me happy. Very similar effects to a good therapy book, like Burns' Feeling Good. I laughed quite a bit while reading the book. Then I was grinning like an idiot the whole day.
This is the first proper book I ever read. I loved it. I still have it, too.
fuck nostalgia, what books are you reading now that make you happy to live in current year
i read this in the past year. its pretty cool sci fi with decent characters. i like the time scales that the book takes place across its fun to think about
Is such a society morally acceptable if the Omelas kid would've grown up to be Hitler if he left?
>>25453949What's Omella? Some kind of omelette?
>>25454455Its a Daoist thing. It is why they eat monkey poo.
>>25453949allegory for colonialism>west depends on le poboy oppressed negro
>>25454326the entire point is that people can't imagine things being perfect without there being some sort of catch involved anon
>>25454998If UKLG was using a single child as a metaphor for the structure of the Sugar Islands economy then you think she was more stupid than she actually was. UKLG was as a libertarian left communist obviously conversant with CLR James and the US tradition of anti-manager communism. As such she ought to have been well aware that blacks can be capitalism just as well as whites and that this is the mirror image of the multiracial / anti-racial semen (sic) union of the 18th century.The child in Omelas is about Epstein stupid.
I liked it, what should i get next???
an English dictionary
kidding.Without knowing what you liked about it I can only sorta guess that you liked the post modern whackiness and approachable length, mixed in with the banal suburban Americana backdrop.Carpenter's Gothic by Gaddis or The Silence by Delilo.
To be more specific, I really liked that:1. The ending was left up to me; I wasn't treated like an idiot.2. The digressions weren't too annoying.3. I found the communications theme entertaining. I wish it had been developed further.4. It wasn't a romance or a love story.5. Oedipa's "schizophrenia" was entertaining.6. The prose was OK.7. It made me think in some parts (the ending especially).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Reading it after Gravity's Rainbow makes it seem like slop, it was funny at times though
>>25455927V. acts as a sort of Pynchon's overture, in the sense that all of his future books refer back to it and elaborate some aspect of it in more detail. It also shares a major character with Gravity's Rainbow, and GR is such a difficult book that you'll need all the help you can get. Reading GR turns you into a sort of real-life Oedipa; you will be constantly trying to connect different passages of the book together, figure out what they mean, whether they are real or a hallucination, a flashback, a dream sequence, a fantasy, an allegory or something else.If you don't feel like waiting and want to jump straight into his major work, then go straight to GR or Mason & Dixon. I haven't read M&D yet, but the fragments I've seen seemed wonderful:>Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,-- the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie-Spices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,-- the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax'd and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy December, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults.As for Vineland, it's often mentioned as Pynchon's worst, but I think it's just different. It feels more conventional, less zany, and the focus seems to be on character psychology more than on the overarching systems. They are still here, but it feels to me like Pynchon wants to show how government surveillance and repression impacts the characters' mental state. The characters are probably the most fleshed out out of any Pynchon book I've read, the most human. V., CL49 and GR often just has shallow caricatures that are there just to serve the satire (with the rare few exceptions like Mexico and Poekler), while Vineland lives and dies by its characters.That said, I still like it the least (GR >> V. > CL49 > Vineland), but it's the book that I'd recommend to normalfags.
who are the best poets of the 21st century?its so hard to find contemporary poetry that isnt written by boring women feminazis or identity politics obsessed minorities
>>25454820pretty sure most people do not know modern poetry period. carson, oliver, and silken have been memed to death online.
Thomas Kling was pretty good desu.
>>25454339Most of the best poetry isn't published as poetry now that we have widespread audio recording, it's published as songs. There's a reason Dylan won that Nobel.
>>25455726honestly i really enjoyed violet bent backwards over the grass by lana del rey for this reason. i think audiobooks (preferably performed by the author) are far superior for poetry for this reason, especially if they have soft music or ambient sound effects in the background.
>>25455726And what if you have literary but not musical talent? Then you're screwed?
>see A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed in the Globe Theatre>60% of the cast is black>only white actors are the female love interests>not a single black person in the audience of over 1000I don’t get why modern Shakespeare adaptations try to appeal to a nonexistent demographic
>>254535171 and a half black there only
>>25453517If this means even more quality black britisher actors, I don't mind it. We need more people like Elba, Ejiofor, Kaluuya in hollywood.
>>25454152And so hell-bent are they on that purpose that they spend all their time prancing around in tights and speaking in Iambic pentameter. How insidious, diabolical and dogged these Africans must be!
>>25454639>>25454654I too desire Daniel Radcliffe's sandpaper chest rubbing against my waxed scrotum.
>>25455203Irish (black), Woman (black), Scottish (not a person), White human being, Homosexual (Obviously black). Why are you complaining about this play's staging? Coconuts are white.
It’s over. He’s getting old.
>>2545414728 year olds are old, unc's a fossil
>He should be happy he got to subvert and destroy european medieval fiction and get rich for itkek, but hes the whiny baby, not you kek
Hey George, ever heard of ghost writers you fat fuck.
>>25454149>got all shit written down*It's just hundreds of pages of describing every major character shitting themselves to desth
>>25455362So is preserving your demographics
>A landmark King Tutankhamun exhibition in Tokyo drew a record-breaking 2.93 million visitors, sparking an unprecedented wave of "Egyptomania". This catalyzed a literary movement led by writers like Denroku Sakai, who published popular histories, biographies, and translated specialized texts into mainstream Japanese literature.
>>25455537Thats one way to shut up the wife
>>25455537Marie Kondo?
>>25455728Kondo is Egyptian?
>>25455537I didn't know sewerslvt was Japanese.
bout to dive in, thoughts on him and his stuff? where should i start?
The Foundation books are still some of my favorites. Nightfall is good to
Why does this idiot keep giving all his money away??
>>25455788To appreciate Dostoevsky's philosophy, and how he fleshes it out through his writing, you should read his major works in chronological order and follow the progression.
>>25455783He thought you were a retard and laughed at you with all his APD friends, and has taken advantage of many more retarded children since.
>>25455869if you want to appreciate any work of literature you should be reading it more than once anyways.
>>25455946Did I say you shouldn't?
>>25455764>>idiot>Myshkin does this>Fyodor Dostoevsky was like this when his brother died and his creditors came to Fyodor>money Dostoevsky got from C&P all went to pay off his own debts
Is King Lear as good as Akira made it out to be?
>>25454171No. Kurosawa improved upon King Lear in every possible way.
I read this as asa akira I’m so cooked
>>25454365Don't feel bad. I read it as the anime Akira
King Lear is just English words put in order.
>>25454171No, better.
Thoughts on "Galahad and The Grail" by Malcolm Guite? I like it so far, it's clearly an attempt at a "modern" Arthurian story and is heavily influenced by Tolkien, Lewis and the other Inklings. I like that it doesn't ignore the religious dimension of the Grail stories.
>>25456199Rather, I think they saw the memo and ignored it out of spite. Once the American intellectual class got ahold of the proverbial Arthurian megaphone, the old understanding of the holy grail as being explicitly tied to a sacramental sort of Christianity went out of fashion. America’s foundational understanding of Christianity is not sacramental, so even a hypothetical arm of intellectual traditionalists would’ve been unwilling to defend the unabashed sacramentalism of these stories. And the reflexively innovative post-rational liberal wing of American intellectualism despises religion entirely. The story really stood no chance of being properly understood once America became hegemon. England itself nearly lost the ability to understand it until the Oxford movement came along and injected some sacramentalism back into Anglicanism.
>>25424398Share me the Epub
>>25424440It's pretty obvious you've never read The Once And Future King
I like it.
>>25456232Well said, just one of many such cases in the modern world
