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Anyone know any good books on how to make gold? I've been in the back yard all day mixing various household items together in a pot but still no luck. Thanks in advance.
>>8226176
Yeah dude just read Goethe Faust 1.2 it explains it allllll
>>8226176
Ramon Llull wrote some articles about it in the 1500s
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem
Is this series close to Ender levels of quality?
>>8226173
>Orson Scott Card
>Quality
>>8226173
>Ender levels of quality
I'M TIRED OF THIS BITCH TELLING ME ABOUT THE TWENTY DIFFERENT GODS THERE WERE, PLEASE SAVE ME /LIT/, JUST TELL ME ALL I NEED TO KNOW SO I CAN MOVE ON TO THE ILLIAD
>>8226158
The introduction chapter makes some good points, other than that its meant as a reference manual.
>>8226158
Nothing lol, literally the first source of all this shit is the Iliad.
If you don't have the endurance to make it through a book this short and simple you will not be able to read the Iliad.
so is 42 just a le so random bullshit or does it have a meaning
>>8226148
Didn't he tell one guy what it was before he died? Unless that guy tells everyone then it may as well be le random bullshit because there's no reasonable answered discenred from his books (and trust me douglas adams fans are some of the most obsessive autists there are, you can bet that if the meaning was hidden in the pages it would be out now).
That is of course assuming that the answer - if it exists - isn't just exactly that i.e. "lol, I just made it up, that's the answer LMAO"
>>8226148
It's the numerical value of U-N-I-V-E-R-S-E
>>8226148
this book is legit good tho
![don-delillo-2-sized[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ozynDdy.jpg "don-delillo-2-sized[1].jpg")
Hate to break it to you sheeple, but capitalism is bad, you guys. Heh, not like you'll do anything about it, you'll just keep buying things you don't need while staring at the television like good sheep.
![An%20Interview%20with%20Don%20DeLillo_3[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/c8c36Op.jpg "An%20Interview%20with%20Don%20DeLillo_3[1].jpg")
In reality you're just going to die, and all your precious things you spent money on will be all for nothing. Because you're dead.
![Don-DeLillo-by-Joyce-Ravid_NEWsite[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hcMkdFd.jpg "Don-DeLillo-by-Joyce-Ravid_NEWsite[1].jpg")
All that stuff they taught you in history class? Well I don't want to say they lied to you, but they sure didn't tell you how it really happened.
![Delillo-657x360[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/C7E1M6o.jpg "Delillo-657x360[1].jpg")
Once upon a time, things used to be real. Now they're fake, all made out of plastic imported from china. You could probably say the same of yourself.
Hi! I'm new to /lit/ and was wondering if you guys/gals could point me to the more high regarded SteamPunk works of literature. No joking about corsets pls and ThankYou.
No.
>>8226164
this.
ITT: Books you shouldn't read in public
>>8226037
my diary desu
>>8226037
anything politically subsersive because the thought police will get you to be honest family
>>8226037
just use an ereader
Anons, which translation you have? What is the difference between other translation?
Mine is Rolfe Humphries: I am enjoying it because it's easy to understand even though it's a verse translation.
What's yours?
>>8226034
Shameless self bump
Ahl
>>8226180
what ahl?
Good afternoon, /Lit/!
Today I'm feeling the urge to delve into witchy business. What books do you guys recommend?
>>8226014
Fedora as fuck. I bet you're a wiseman, or a sage.
Serious answers?
The White Goddess might be a good place to start. Very inspirational to modern neopaganism. From there, you're best bet might be to check out Gardner, he's like the founding father of Wicca. Post-Gardner wicca is slightly bullshitty but if that doesn't sate your lust then check out Drawing Down the Moon and The Triumph of the Moon. For a fun fictional story about witches, you might also try to read The Mists of Avalon. It's a re-telling of the Arthurian mythos from a feminist neopagan perspective.
But if you're not...
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Brida by Paulo Coehlo, I thought it was pretty good
Any good literature on hermits/recluses? Or on being a hermit?
Notes from the underground
>>8225995
The novel I'm currently working on, entitled 'Floating Above the Crowd'.
Saint Simeon Stylites
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>bored on a Thursday afternoon
>go into local B&N because no actual bookstore in my area
>out of curiosity look for Mein Kampf in the WW2 section
>this edition is the only one on the shelf
>forward from the translator blatantly insulting Hitler and trying to discredit him right off the bat
>put it down and walk out
What's a good edition of this book that isn't afraid...
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>What's a good edition of this book that isn't afraid to present the original text as it is?
The original?
look on amazon
>wanted to read meme kampf
>>8225935
He meant a translation.
Any tips on writing Sword and Sorcery literature? Likewise, any advice on writing erotic fiction?
I've been reading a lot of Robert Jordan's Conan Chronicles, and I really like that he's found the median between classical fantasy and a more modern style.
I'd like to write a series of short stories about a massive barbarian that fights wizards, steals treasure from ancient monsters, and ravages the wives of kings and plump slave girls.
>>8225887
Conan. You'd like to rewrite Conan.
>>8225887
Well I like fantasy with expansive, complex, meaningful lore. Extra points if you can include the exposition of the lore into the narrative itself.
For erotica just follow your libido. If what you're writing turns you on some people will surely feel identified.
>>8225889
Yes, essentially.
I guess I'm asking what key points I should keep in mind while writing Sword and Sorcery fiction?
The same goes for erotic fiction. What makes a good erotic story?
I've done some digging around on Google, and haven't really found any good examples where someone has found a good middle ground between brutal, medieval fight scenes and tantalizing sexual content.
I guess I want to write Conan, but with more descriptive sex scenes.
Anyone got some surrealism to recommend?
>plz no more Murakami- I can't take it anymore
paris peasant - louis aragon
Joan Miro is one of my favorite modernist painters
>>8225885
Cool- me too
>"u cheeky cunt, say to my face that Marx was wrong and communism has been propahly tried"
>"LEAVE IT JEZ"
>>8225836
Sure is summer, boys
Has anyone submitted to the banner contest?
>Jesus Barabbas
His name was Jesus too. Okaaay.
>Barabbas means son of the father
WTF? What is going on here?
Barabbas is certainly the most interesting figure in the Bible. I wish there were more on him.
Any apocrypha on Barabbas?
>>8225847
There's the novel by Lagerkvist.
>>8225849
Weird, the cover showed up earlier today in a facebook illustration group.
