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Thoughts on the decline of the west? Was Spengler right about recurring Caesarism, decadence, and the cyclical rise and decay of high cultures? I can't help but feel as if I am seeing potential Caesarism arising in the United states. Thoughts on this?
>>7700182
Eh, I think as the West becomes more and more connected, we're just going to reach a general hegemony
I also enjoy seeing how Spengler's work influenced Lovecraft particularly in his short story 'the nameless city' where it seems the rise and decay of the civilization is alluded to. Particularly when lovecraft is describing the frescoes he studied while exploring the ruins of the abandoned city. Kind of unrelated, but I find Spengler's ideas fascinating. https://youtu.be/FsaieZt5vjk
I find it interesting to note how reactionary authors such as evola preached traditionalism and yet failed to marry and father children.
Has a book or story ever made you shed tears, /lit/?
Yes. WhenLee Scoresby and Hesterin The Subtle Knife
Don't know why, it just hurt me real bad. Other people who have read it that I have spoken to have been blasé about it.heartless cunts
Some parts of The Brothers K
In Madame Bovart, when Eva gets married and her father sees her leaving the village and remembers when he was young. Powerful stuff.
Literary confessions thread/times you've been called out for being a pleb thread.
Be honest, anons. We're faaaaaamily here.
i can't think
i can't write
i have no discernible talent.
>>7691012
- I dog-ear my own books to the sentence/paragraph I left off from so I know exactly where to pick up my progress from.
- I think Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby adaptation is the most accurate to the noveland even think it better than the original novel. DiCaprio as Gatsby just makes sense.
- I don't really bother looking for the best translations, I just know that I should stay away from whatever Wordsworth use.
>>7691012
i can't read anymore without amphetamines.
if i take amphetamines, i lose my affection for my loved ones, but i find an ultimate joy in literature.
i have chosen my loved ones over art, and i feel sometimes that i have made the wrong choice, and have squandered an alternate destiny.
Any Plato.
So who's getting The C Section when it comes out?
boul you already no !!!!!!
>>7702395
I don't want to watch the 19 second video right now but what is it, exactly? A new book or some sort of repackaged version of his old stuff?
>>7702462
Impossible to find stuff he wrote in high school, letters between him and his editor, short stories that can't be found anywhere else
And there are only going to be 15 made.
What are some good non-YA Booktubers?
Picture related, only likable person I've found so far.
this boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnAagJAMf0
>>7704218
Does he still posts here?
>>7704208
None
Does /lit/ have any comic series or graphic novels that they approve of?Please don't make me go to /co/, and be suffered to shift through a bunch of capeshit
Watchmen (it's psychological and metaphysical capeshit so it's good)
Maus
Persepolis
Akira
Uzumaki (Junji Ito is a safe bet in general)
Tintin (also Asterix if you want more euro-comic fun)
Calvin & Hobbes
From Hell
Lone Wolf & Cub
Ghost World
Anything by Robert Crumb, as long as you're open to lewd and offensive satire (like real offensive, not just haha le anti-PC kid)
There's probably more I'm forgetting, there's a lot of great graphic novels worth your time, but it's late here and my mind is...
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>>7700302
Have fun, anon.
>>7700329
>it's psychological and metaphysica
this is what manchildren who read comics tell themselves
Is there a name for this particular worldview/philosophy?It's mine.
This isn't really an invitation to judge it, but feel free to, I guess.
>>7695482
yes I believe it's called "middleschoolism"
>>7695497
That's enlightening.
>>7695482
it's basically just intelligent design placing god far in the background
What are some other good books about foreign policy/affairs and diplomatic relations?
Doesn't matter how broad or specific it is.
Why does Kissinger get so much hate? I've rarely seen him praised.
>>7698423
He worked for Nixon
>>7698423
The realism school of foreign policy is pretty detested by a lot of liberals. It already comes off as grim and dry, doesn't help that Kissinger is the international relations version of Ben Stein when it comes to the way he communicates.
What books are most like Dark Souls?
You want to read poetry
>>7695264
Gormenghast Trilogy? it has plenty of spooky deserted castles and stuff
fantasy novels in a language you only half understand
Post your favorite book and something you hate about it
>Those massive lists of random items where Joyce shows off his vocabulary and pads the page-count
>>7696681
It's opaque as all hell.
But that's the best part
See the page in the penultimate chapter when it lists everything Bloom finds interesting about water
>>7697764
this
i thought that was the best and most enjoyable part of the book
IMO the three greatest writers alive are American: Gene Wolfe, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth.
Why haven't you won the Nobel Prize for so long?
>>7695495
>Philip Roth
overrated AF. imo his success is attributable to the semitic proclivity to advance one's kind before others
>>7695505
this desu
Which language would you learn if you just wanted the culture & books? Which ones do you already speak? What boni do you get from it?
>boni
Latin, for starters
Probably English, but I already know it and Spanish. I'd probably go for Latin/ Greek/ Chinese if I learn another
>>7697172
that 's the nominative plural of "bonus", filthy monoglot.
>>7697173
With Spanish what found most bizarre was that some authors, like Marquez, were completely coherent with even some basic Romance language knowledge; others, like Ortega y Gasset were completely incoherent. What is the biggest literary perk to you for knowing Spanish?
>pic related
Post some recommendations OP.
>>7693400
1. (pic related) A fuckin' monstrosity- probably the best account of Bosnia and it's folk: myself being a Bosnian Serb. If you've heard about the war in Bosnia in the '90s, this book might give you some insight as it was mandatory reading for NATO generals that participated in the conflict.
2. Death and the Dervish- by Mesa Selimovic
3. Gorski Vijenac/The Mountain Wreath- by Petar Petrovic Njegos
>>7693392
Danilo Kis - Encylopedia of the Dead
he's pretty much a Serbian Borges. too fucking good.
Post a work of art you like and get book recommendations based on it
>>7693347
The lyrics to Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
> entartete Kunst
Out.
