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Do you remember when a gay writer tried a coup d'etat in japan by summoning demons and almost got nuked? good times.
>>7427763
he wasn't gay according to his wife and friends
nice stupid propaganda
>you will never die by a botched beheading by your boyfriend after a failed neo-nazi coup d'etat
why live?
>>7427956
Did you read 'Confessions of a Mask'?
How's that back log going
>>7427751
Don't remind me
>>7427751
oh it must be in the hundreds now
ive lost track
>>7427751
>typefacing on those Poe and Stoker spines
pic related
Backlog's been smooth. Stalled halfway through 2666 whenthe whole novel just becomes descriptions of murdersand knocked out some easy single-evening reads while I gear up enough gall to tackle Bolano again (The Hobbit and The Notebook).
>And I couldn't stop dreaming of his way of life: one wife of forty years for the kitchen, one of fifteen years for other things...
What did Michel Houellebecq mean by this?
I'd give up liquor for that kind of muslim life desu.
>>7427774
he's pointing out to liberal terror appeasers how islam is sexist bullshit that's incompatible with modern sjw thought
Is this real? Are stories of Warhammer basically just written about warp travel because it does at least seem somewhat interesting, even though they stole this from Event Horizon.
This seems like bullshit to me though. How can Fucking crews sustain these sort of losses!? Why would they ever make warp attempts?
Because they're slavishly devoted to their God-Emperor and have to defend their large space empire.
I used to love W40k fiction when I was a kid but I never read the novels, just the stuff that came in the magazines and codexes. I wouldn't mind reading about space crusades and orbital bombardments and mutants again.
What are some good military SF books preferably series, that aren't 40k? I've turned over enough shekels into the hands of games workshop.
Thoughts on this?
And I guess by extension the following it had/ kinda still has.
thought it was a fun read. I liked the influenced it had on illuminatus! though
Silly yet insightful. Taken politicaly reminds me of 4chan
Undergrad level amusement from the 60's. That's about it. About as profound as South Park.
>djvu
i know right
who made up this shitty file type and why does it keep getting use
>>7427539
Shitposting is a bannable offence
>mobi
What are some good books about secret societies and free masons?
If I Did It - George W. Bush
the Illuminatus! trilogy. Purely fiction but it gave me a sense of what everything was really all about
>>7427445
Freemasonry for Dummies by Christ Hodepp.
It's sadly American, but it covers a lot of material.
Were you wanting intro stuff, or more advanced reading?
The more I delve into medieval literature, the more it seems as though the Medievals were smarter than us, not dumber. Or at least the people who could read were. There's such a dense intellectualism in all the romances and tales and poems. Even love itself is transformed from this thing ruled by passion to a kind of meditative contemplation. It's operating on a higher level of understanding, of consideration, than a lot of contemporary literature, or at least it seems that way to me. And that doesn't even touch on how heavily symbolic and allusive everything...
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>>7427376
>And that doesn't even touch on how heavily symbolic and allusive everything is, how nearly everything has multiple meanings and senses.
unlike modernity
o wait
>the more it seems as though the Medievals were smarter than us, not dumber
the idea that intelligence waxed and waned throughout history is idiotic
>It's operating on a higher level of understanding, of consideration, than a lot of...
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>>7427376
selection bias senpai only the best a brightest could read and write and compounding this people don't bother preserving shit
>>7427376
i think there less to detract from human consciousness back then, from the serf to the noble. there was very little to impede upon mans direct contact with reality, nature, other human beings, the arts, etc. actions back then carried so much more weight, emotions more raw, nature more unforgiving. there were idiots and geniuses like in all time periods, but life was definetly more authentic then than it is now for those of us in the consumer industrial technocrat world.
Is it possible to have a career as any sort writer without a university education? Note I'm not asking whether one could be a good writer without one.
Yes very possible
>>7427193
write twilight, harry potter, 50 shades of grey, or name of the wind. you'll do fine.
>>7427193
might is right. If you ask me permission to be successful one more time i'll make you get on all fours and show you how to take what you want.
What the longest novel / epic you've read and actually enjoyed through out?
>>7427187
Count of Monte Cristo, or Brothers Karamazov
probably The Count of Monte Cristo but i haven't read most of the classic, renowned "doorstoppers" (crime and punishment, war and peace, les miserables, etc.)
>>7427187
I'm pretty sure that it's War and Peace.
What does /lit/ think about Regine Olsen's influence on Soren Kierkegaard's work?
In my mind, looking on his life, it seems that following his departure from their engagement he wrote his best work, and that there's a sort of subtext in all of his philosophical discourse of his attempt to cope with not only leaving her, but feeling that he was never worthy to be her husband. Regine herself is a fantastic and intriguing figure on her own, but I'm curious what others think was her influence if any on the works that came out of Kierkegaard following his...
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>>7426931
The Regine dynamic is the most interesting part of Kierkegaard imo.
>that there's a sort of subtext in all of his philosophical discourse of his attempt to cope with not only leaving her
I think on his death bed he said how he regretted leaving her. But he probably would've failed as husband due to his autism and depression.
>>7426931
>tfw you're still on the Greeks so you can't discuss these philosophers yet
>>7426957
I totally agree on it being interesting. I'm fascinated with the idea that such a broad and important tradition like Existentialism could've been influenced by one man's tragic love.
>But he probably would've failed as husband due to his autism and depression.
I think that's what he thought as well. There's an interesting line in his journals where he says that he wanted to love her and be her husband, but was simply "incapable". It made...
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>>7426899
What's in the box, OP?
>>7426902
Belonging.
How was your day, anon?
There is already a tinychat thread
I'm on page eighty and this book is doing a splendid job of making me feel like a fucking idiot.
supposed to
Haven't read it. How does it compare to Gravity's Rainbow?
You are. It is pretty idiotic to read 80 pages of bad literature
I need some books that can help push me towards suicide, both in terms of philosophical justification and also in terms of engendering a bleak and depressing worldview, fraught with anxieties about the future.
>>7426751
Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer
Chopin HourSeriously, listen to his nocturnes for an hour
Do you think a certain degree of Infinite Jest's integrity is lost in the fact that nowadays we have google and wikis at our fingertips to explain every little thing we don't grasp from the book. We can do a quick search of every obscure reference so it's like we don't have to really try anymore.
To try what? First, literature isn't a puzzle-game; and then none of these references even matter in the least anyway
no
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Only autists look up every little thing.
Seriously, the only literally literary autist I've ever encountered loved Ulysses. Owned every single commentary and monograph on Joyce. Looked up every explanation of every weird little thing on databases.
Dude was a fucking nightmare to talk to and sacrificed so much room in his mind, room for big themes and interpretations, for useless little factoids.
