>>24956814
I can't take America seriously. Everything about it is a joke. The next village over has about 6 residents and a farm, and it just turned 875 years old.

>entartete kunst entartete Verstand

>>24956820
Those villages are nice to be appreciated from afar but I wouldn't want to actually live there.

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really disliking the anon who keeps making these threads with boring abstract painting OPs. i think it’d be interesting for people to be more imaginative. would like to see an aloof, apropos of nothing pic of something unrelated, a screenshot of the french open you saved for no reason, a random pic from your camera roll, a blurry photo you took that morning.

I just saw the funniest fucking comment on the entire internet.

under a gay hentai:
he is is gay i can tel

>>24956870
lol
but why were you looking at gay hentai

>>24956874
I like the art

I’ve given up on NoFap. Jacked off to pics of my gf

>>24956842
I decided to class the place up. Kidding. I never wanted to start making the threads at all but no one else was, and it made me sad to see people make long, heartfelt effortposts in a thread far past the bump limit which no one would see. You're free to make the next one with whatever OP you like once this one hits the bump limit and page 5.

>>24956814
Just finished reading this book called The Girl Next Door. Pretty harsh stuff. Anyone else read it?

>>24956917
>You're free to make the next one with whatever OP you like once this one hits the bump limit and page 5.
who the fuck are you

>>24956930
D:

what did I do/say? I just meant once this thread has run its course. pls calm down

>>24956937
just joking. was expecting you to get in the spirit of things not hit me with the D:

>>24956912

Kant made me break free from the matrix. Marx then revealed it's workings to me

I'm finally back to daily reading and I can feel the salubrious light in my soul. Literature is truly the most spiritual of all the arts, and therefore the peak of all humanity's achievements and life's gifts.

I should have become a high school teacher or, if things really worked out, a college professor. Oh well. Maybe in the next life.

He who gazes highest is of the highest quality

>>24956975
i’m high as fuck

I don't think because all sapiens were homes and I ain't not fag

>>24956999
I have gazed upon the highest.

In the first place, lest a blind man deny it to you, of all bodies in the universe the most excellent is the sun, whose essence is nothing less than the purest light, than which there is no greater star: which single and alone is the producer, conserver, and warmer of all things: it is a fountain of light, rich in fruitful heat and most fair, limpid, and pure to the sight, the source of vision, portrayer of all color, called king of the planets for his motion, heart of the world for his power, its eye for his beauty, and which alone we should judge worthy of the Most High God, should he be pleased with a material domicile and chose a place in which to dwell with the blessed angels.

>>24956946
>Marx
Yikes from me dog. Please say it was at least capital and you were reading it in German.

>>24957021
>Yikes from me dog
yikes

>>24957026
From me.

I miss you.

>>24957066
*purrs*

don’t waste your time on me you’re already the voice inside my head

Someone asked me to explain what Murakami's novels are about and I didn't have a good immediate explanation. What would you have said? Keep in mind this is to a casual person.

>>24957094
It's simple writing capable of squeezing some beauty and melancholia out of modern life.

>>24957094
so you just take random requests from people even though youre not even qualified to answer them?

In that case, I need a good Japanese slice of life show to watch. And STAT!

I hate how much easier it is for me to watch 3 hours of television or browse and read 3 hours of mindless posts and comments on reddit than to read 3 hours of literature.

it’s so gross when the human-sized hermit crabs from planet crab use trash cans as their shells and then crawl onto public transport
we need laws about this sort of thing

>>24957126
That's a fantastic, visceral, pleasurably creative image.

>>24957127
is that an AI reply?

>>24957147
No... just my way of saying how much I enjoyed your post and the creativity of the image.

>Be me, write romantic short stories for a hobby
>Show some to gf
>”it’s nice anon, but why are they all about cheating”
An awkward moment. I was saved by the fact that I only write about cheating women, not men

>>24957021
>Please say it was at least capital
Yes?
>you were reading it in German
No?

anyone have that greentext of the sneeds feed and seed written in the style of like McCarthy?

>>24957071
WTF is wrong with you?

>>24957153
You have a subconscious desire to be cuckolded.

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Every single player vidya I play ends up being a hoardfest and inventory space manager simulator. Is this indicative for the rest of my life?

>one chance at life to be born with a second language
>its Spanish, the easiest language in the western world
>somehow the only European language with basically no literature of worth written in it
>literary tradition is somehow younger than English
>a language only used by serfs and people in low level labor

This sucks

>>24957123
i hate how much easier it is to read genre fiction than literally anything else

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>>24957458
>basically no literature of worth written in it
gidings me?

HEAD LIKE A HOLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qBAmQH6uDU
Absolutely positively and how

>>24957468
there's just like don quixote which isn't a thing that'd interest me at all were it not so praised. I've enjoyed French and Russian writing the most but its all in translation. None of the literary spanish in prose or verse has been beautiful or relatable or insightful to me

>>24957478
>there's just like don quixote which isn't a thing that'd interest me at all were it not so praised
shit taste confirmed

>>24957462
True, I remember being surprised when I read Fight Club in a single sitting. The feeling of a true engrossing page-turner is something special.

>>24957487
I don't think you realize the nuance of what I said

>>24957487
Don Quixote is like if shakespeare wrote a single play and then nobody else wrote anything again and the entire international English community pinned its entire corpus on that single work and if you asked for anything else they call you a philistine for wanting anything more than that single play.

>>24957605
More like if Shakespeare had dedicated himself to a voluminous, singular epic poem, in which case the praise could be justified (see: Virgil, Homer, Milton, Dante).

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>>24957611
The praise is irrelevant. Okay do the same thought exercise with paradise lost. Imagine if paradise lost was the only thing English had.
Its about having options. Everyone someone wants Spanish lit its always just
>don quixote
>uhhh....mio cid?
Thats it. And if you want anything else its assumed you're insulting cervantes for some reason.

Spanish doesn't have a Proust or Zola or Dostoevsky or Turgenev or Flaubert

We were too busy working for low wages, sleeping, and living eachother

>>24957458
I can't take Spanish seriously as a language at all. I just see dumb brown people bickering, or cringe soap operas, or gay ass rap music. Maybe there was a time it had a heart but it just seems like a monkey language now that I'm throughly disgusted being associated with. I've tried to seek out exceptions but even the English just seem smarter than us

>>24956842
Something wrong with a pair of tits?

>>24956814
>want to start reading
>jump in the deep end reading old classics
>enjoy it but I'm too stupid for it
>the most honest thing I can say is "I like the pretty words " like a drooling idiot
>feel so bad that I'm not taking anything away from the book that it compounds on itself
>finish and left with a hollow empty feeling
>move on to the next book
>within two weeks barely remember what I read previously
>feel discouraged because my highschool and middle school education was dogshit despite costing my parents a lot of money (don't live in the south) and I constantly hear comments from smarter people than me that they read the book im reading when they were 12 or 16 or something
>feel really behind (I'm 30), really want to create but I'm not intelligent or well read enough to
>eventually get so depressed i give up reading
>cycle starts again next year

I have the shittiest mind

Kirk was just a normiecon drone who was the "demoncraps are the racists!!!" guy for a decade, then said the term "great replacement" a few times towards the end, likely only because he saw the tide shifting. I hope he's at peace but not sure why any serious White Identarian would really care much about him - from a logistical point now that he's gone someone like Fuentes can take the helm and actually wake young White men up beyond just leading them astray with GOP filth for financial gain. Saddening that the bulk of his life was spent attacking young patriotic white men just for some troonfucker to go and smoke him lmfao

>>24957711
Who are you shadowboxing because nobody cares about this shit

>>24957645
ceci n'est pas une pipe

>>24957713
You're out of touch - also I just posted this here to blow off some steam I'm banned on xitter atm

>>24957724
there is pol

>>24957724
It doesn't change the fact that you're just shadowboxing someone you're too afraid to cite. Thats pretty lame. You should stop using twitter by the way but you're probably under 25 anyway so you won't listen to good advice

Studying for my HLLQP and catberg all of a sudden wants to snuggle.
Also HOLY FUCK fuck this new captcha.

>>24957458
>>its Spanish, the easiest language in the western world
>>somehow the only European language with basically no literature of worth written in it
Man you really are ignorant. KYS.

Trump is bringing gladiators and you are blackpilling?!?!?!?!?!

I effortpost too much.

>>24957691
not to dissimilar to where I was 2 weeks ago. Start with something easy, like a sub 300 page novel that isn't a challenging old classic. "my year of rest and relaxation" was the one I picked because I knew it'd be a breeze to get through and it's modern. Get a short stories compilation for when that's done so you get in the habit of focusing during exposition.

After that I read "to the lighthouse" by virginia woolf, but instead of just raw dogging it I took my time. After every chapter I went on sparknotes and litcharts and read the summaries/analysis for each chapter, pretty much so I could compare what I was comprehending vs what I was supposed to comprehend. The first few chapters this was super helpful, there was a lot that I wasn't picking up on, but by the midway point I was still reading the summaries/analyses for each chapter, but I was picking up on pretty much everything. It's a kind of weird book because it's written "stream of consciousness", so maybe for some it wouldn't be the right classic to dive into, but it was perfect for me. I really got a lot out of that book and it kind of reframed what I thought a novel could be.

I've read 3 books since then and I'm getting through them pretty breezy, but point is I'm fully in the habit. I read for a few hours every night. The last one I read was the new miranda july, "all fours" and I did the whole ~400 pages in 3 sittings and had a great time. It's pretty queer, has some gender stuff in there, it's pretty sexual, and it's probably aimed for aging women so idk if that's ur bag, but I'm a straight white guy and loved it. If that stuff's not a turn off I'd rec it.

anyway you can do it bro, just don't force yourself to slog thru some boring classic if you're not ready. And if you do, take your time and read up on sparknotes/litcharts about what you just read so it sinks in better and helps you comprehend the old ass language.

Smoking weed vape.

>>24957908
I see you have begun correcting this.

>>24957908
Do it. Effort post something amazing.

>>24957891
I'm asking for recommendations. And isn't Spanish easy for English speakers?
You're seeing a tone in my posts that isn't there

>>24957630
>Spanish doesn't have a Proust or Zola or Dostoevsky or Turgenev or Flaubert
To be fair, neither does English

>>24956814
>>24957978
Why would anyone ever effortpost on the "philosophy doesn't matter and neither does reading for fun and everyone is a midwit except me and lolita is a romance novel, humbert humbert did nothing wrong, books are for faggots" board? All sincerity, curiosity and creativity to ever be hosted on 4chan left over a decade ago.

>>24957996
Lolita is a novel about the dangers of the US interstate highway system

>>24957996
Change starts with (You).
If you're effortposting for recognition on an anonymous imageboard, you're effortposting for the wrong reason, anyways.

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>>24956814
I made a cover for the Deathworlders webnovel. I like making my own e-book covers, though they're usually for fanfiction, since actual books usually have at least one cover that isn't ass.

A lot of time I use art from other people, so I keep them for personal use, but I just like making them anyway.

>>24957630
Did you know that almost no scientific papers are translated into Arabic? Did you also know that Spain has one of the lowest translation rates for Scientific Papers in Europe? And did you know that even with that low rate of translation in Spain its still 10 times more than the whole Arabic speaking world combined? Which means that the Arab world translates around only 100 scientific papers a year, that kinda blew my mind when I learned that.
Also, I hate to be mean but I think the Spanish Language just does something to the human mind where creativity just dies. French does the same thing where they are all assholes because hearing French all the time probably drives them insane. Or like how Germans never smile or laugh because their language is very stark and depressing sounding, even when they are happy. I also think the flexibility of the language is also really important for creativity and expressing it, which is why Russian, French, and English have stronger writing traditions than Spain or Portugal has.

>>24958087
You reflect my experience. Spanish really isn't very enjoyable to me thus far. I'm open for exceptions. But right now I wish I was bilingual in another language. Maybe my Spanish descent explains my low intellect and capability.

>>24958116
>But right now I wish I was bilingual in another language.
You can speak a language a large population of the world speaks.
Whereas Im bilingual in a language with less 7 million speakers worldwide.
Consider yourself happy, mi amigo. And instead of gloom and doom, just become trilingual

who are the marx and engels of fascism? of monarchy? has anyone rigorously written positively about monarchy in the modern or post modern environment
Not in a reactionary 2020 online trad way please

>>24958124
Were i a university student i likely would have studied a language but I don't believe I have it in me anymore. Language learning or international communication isn't my hobby, reading is. So I'll use my waning time for that. Its regrettable but I know myself enough to know the limits. I am a minimum wage worker.

180 threads in archive, lowest I've ever seen on here. Bad sign.

>How's Vermont?
>Cold. White.

would I be allowed, if someone asked me about Atlanta, Memphis, or Houston, to say,
>Hot. Black.

ridiculous

>>24958132
>who are the marx and engels of fascism?
Giovanni Gentile

>has anyone rigorously written positively about monarchy in the modern or post modern environment
There's this one European thinker I always forget the name of. Something de something. Sorry. Hopefully someone else remembers.

>>24957458
>>somehow the only European language with basically no literature of worth written in it

Literature written in danish, estonian , dutch, etc surely abounds

Retarded gringo opinion, every fucking time

>>24957478
>None of the literary spanish in prose or verse has been beautiful

Are you proficient enough to read Don Quixote?

>>24958224
I genuinely have found more scandinavian and Dutch authors I enjoy.
>gringo
Sorry but no.
>>24958233
Yes

What's further to the right, fascism/National Socialism, or monarchy?

>>24958243
>Yes
Then you should try it. Don Quixote rants about justice, honor and courage, and Sancho's delight in the small pleasures of life, his wine and bacon, are some of the best prose ever written in Spanish.

I find that more genuine than french or russian writers having existential crises

>>24958251
Reflexively my answer would be the latter, because the former are inherently modernist, mass movements, but the answer isn't that simple, for you can easily have a monarchy with a progressive society.

>>24958270
I already read it. It's good

Did an editorial pass on one of my stories
Improved it quite a bit, not sure how much better I can make it
Have to start looking again for submission guidelines before the start of 2026

Alcohol abuse in men is quirky.
Alcohol abuse in women looks retarded.
Why is that?

>>24958373
Because statistically women abuse alcohol to a higher rate than men do and once you take gender differences into account women tend to be more irresponsible with how much they intake compared to men

There's this new app called "sandbox" that offers a super convoluted method to discuss politics

Last year when I wasn't ready to date anyone, girls interested in me everywhere. Now that I am, no one. Sigh.

>>24958425
Thankfully I never was read to date anyone and women didn't talk to me anyway so I'm golden.

This old, aggressive, snarling, rude, old black man has taken up hanging out in the same area of the library where I like to read. There's tons of drug addicts and homeless people and unwashed refuse types who hang out there, that's whatever, I have no issue with that. What separates this guy is he watches his videos on his phone on a volume loud enough to where others can hear, and he's even rolled up a joint at the table, causing the entire area to smell like weed. Then, when he saw me looking at him for this, it must have set him off because he started mumbling all kinds of profanities and aggressions -- to me or in general? not sure, I was definitely ready for it to become violent but I just looked away until he left and fortunately it didn't.

Anyway, it's really pissing me off having this guy around, because he's causing other normal, kind people to stay away from the area as well, and silly as it sounds, I like reading around people. Guess I'll have to start reading in a different part of the library... lame.

>>24958439
Report him to the police

>>24958443
There are a couple security guards they have for the place, and the staff are usually good at catching people eating or watching videos too loud. I guess I'll just have to deal with it unless he fully crosses the line at some point. Hopefully he moves to a different area.