I finished Brave New World, and I had heard here that nothing else of Huxley's was valuable. Is this true? For example, my OP pic seemed like a companion book to Brave New World.
>>7700919
worth a read. the island is a utopia which fuses transcendental philosophy with psychedelic shrooms, free love and a rationalist approach to agriculture/industry. to get the most out of i would read thomas moore's utopia. well utopia is worth a read in and of itself. and if you do read utopia then you should read karl kautskys analysis of it.
>>7700919
i liked brave new world revisted.
>>7700919
Island's probably better than BNW. A lot of his other shit is worth reading, but the 420blzait crowd and shakespeare plebs like BNW too much to accept that Huxley wrote other shit which was less like fanfic.
Island's more of a companion to his lecture series on the human situation and his nonfic is GOAT
His earlier novels are probably stronger novels than BNW too.
“aefry ember of hope gan lic the embers of a fyr brocen in the daegs beginnan brocen by men other than us. hope falls harder when the end is cwic hope falls harder when in the daegs before the storm the stillness of the age was writen in the songs of men so it is when a world ends who is thu i can not cnaw but i will tell thu this thing be waery of the storm be most waery when there is no storm in sight”
what did he mean by this?
“micel walcan wolde we do from that daeg micel walcan in the great holt the brunnesweald but though we walced for wices months years though this holt becum ham to me for so long still we did not see efen a small part of it so great was this deop eald wud. so great was it that many things dwelt there what was not cnawan to man but only in tales and in dreams. wihts for sure the boar the wulf the fox efen the bera it was saed by sum made this holt their ham. col beorners and out laws was in here as they was in all wuds but deop deoper efen than this was the eald wihts what was in angland before men
here i is meanan the aelfs and the dweorgs and ents who is of the holt who is the treows them selfs. my grandfather he telt me he had seen an aelf at dusc one daeg he seen it flittan betweon stoccs of treows thynne it was and grene and its eages was great and blaec and had no loc of man in them. well he was blithe to lif after that for oft it is saed that to see an aelf is to die for they sceots their aelf straels at thu and aelfscot is a slow death”
>>7700910
>read it in an Scottish or Irish accent.
What is /lit/'s opinion on this? Worth a read?
>>7700862
Anyone know this painter? I'm pretty sure she's Mexican and has works in my home city (at the Dallas Museum of Art). I really love one of her paintings there.
>>7700862
oops, sorry, I now see she's the author and the artist of the cover.
Realist fiction is superior fiction.
Opinions?
Worshiping "realism" in a medium that's inherently unreal is laughable and boring.
>>7700857
Have you, or anyone else for that matter, read les Contes de la bécasse? I really enjoyed La Peur, La Rempailleuse, Pierrot and Ce cochon de Morin.
La Peur is my favorite.
Mcfucking kill yourself
Hello there I need help with finding an epistolary novel. Its about man with bad reputation, who lives in 18th century. He used to 'use' women only once and then abandon them. Once He meets woman who is very strict and is very hard target. The main character uses all kinds of tricks to get her. Any ideas what autor or what title it may be? I appreciate every hint.
>>7700836
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos
Has anyone read this whole series? I was really deep in it a few years ago but I kinda drifted away from it. I know the author died and it was finished by Brandon Sanderson, is it worth finishing?
please keep to your containment thread, shitcunt
>>7692308
saged
>>7700817
My, you're a whiner. How dare people post on a board that speaks slower than an Ent? The gall.
>>7700796
i've read all of it.
it gets a bit weak between books 7 and 11 but the final few written by brandon sanderson are probably the best of the lot. robert jordan was great at worldbuilding and made some great characters but he got too caught up in the series and just wasn't able to finish it, he just kept rambling on (see crossroad of twilight, the weakest book in the series).
I would definitely recommend finishing them, you'll love the last few books.
What is the term for an early part of a work that "teaches" you how to read the rest of the work? Does it have the word "codex" in it? I'm drawing a blank here, really frustrating.
prologue
prolegomena
Foreword?
Index?
Prolegomenon?
Dramatis personae?
Incipit?
Exordium?
Didacticon?
>>7700752
/thread
Is there anything left for literature to say after this?
>>7700695
"Walt Whitman's a fag."
>>7700699
I wonder if he enjoyed Oscar Wilde's boipussy.
Just shut the fuck up already.
Where were you when it was made official?
>>7700686
Is that all that's new? flaps and cover? Is the introduction enlightening?
Masturbating my half-hard penis to porn I hate but need to get off
>featuring flaps
SOLD
Does anyone else wish they could read Old Custer?
It's somewhere here: https://libraryofbabel.info/
Also does anyone know this book in which are referenced books that only exist in fictional works?
>>7700757
>Also does anyone know this book in which are referenced books that only exist in fictional works?
wat
>>7700757
Yes, that one is also available if you follow your link.
"In God there is Power, which is the source of all, also Knowledge, whose content is the variety of the ideas, and finally Will, which makes changes or products according to the principle of the best. (Theod. 7, 149, 150.) These characteristics correspond to what in the created Monads forms the ground or basis, to the faculty of Perception and to the faculty of Appetition. But in God these attributes are absolutely infinite or perfect; and in the created Monads or the Entelechies (or perfectihabiae, as Hermolaus Barbarus translated the word) there are only imitations of these attributes, according to the degree of perfection of the Monad. (Theod. 87.)
A created thing is said to act outwardly in so far as it has perfection, and to suffer [or be passive, patir] in relation to another, in so far as it is imperfect. Thus activity [action] is attributed to a Monad, in so far as it has distinct perceptions, and passivity [passion] in so far as its perceptions are confused. (Theod. 32, 66, 386.)
And one created thing is more perfect than another, in this, that there is found in the more perfect that which serves to explain a priori what takes place in the less perfect, and it is on this account that the former is said to act upon the latter"
what the fuck does this last paragraph mean?
http://home.datacomm.ch/kerguelen/monadology/monadology.html
there's the full text
oh well
the rest of it didnt resonate too well with me
Fairly certain Leibniz is just noodling. This is what I got out of it:
>One thing is more perfect than another
>The more perfect thing is self-evident in its more-perfection by possessing a priori the identity-form of the less perfect thing
>It is because of this a priori existence that the more perfect thing can be said to interact with the less perfect thing
From Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation"
What is he saying in this paragraph senpai desu?
He is rambling big words for fags liek you
Kek
He's talking about the Eucharist.
>>7700513
What have you read of Schopenhauer already, and what have you read of other philosophers before him? There's a lot to unpack.
I don't think another book is ever going to make me feel the way Moby did. Beautiful.
I felt like sharing the feel.
That's great anon.
>>7700485
The first 200 or so pages, in Ishmael's pov, are probably the most comfortable 200 pages i've ever read.
>>7700485
>Call me Ishmael.
Why did he write it like this? Why not, "My name's Ishmael." or something.
>axaxaxas mlö
What did he mean by this?
Jajajaja malou
ayylmaooooooooooo
>>7700530
visionary
Camus is becoming an Instagram quotable for pretentious normies. This is not ok
>>7710591
camus is for pretentious normies tho
Camus was a pretentious normie.
He was an incredible artist, but his philosophy was middle school tier.
>caring what random signals the proles unconsciously reflect and amplify
