What are you reading?
>>7608426
Brighton Rock
>>7608437
god why do that to yourself
>>7608426
De Gualle
Last one at 250. Getting too messy. How about another Critique and criticism thread? Post your shit!!
Been reworking and reworking this opening line, tell me what you think
One fine morning in the month of May an elegant young horsewoman might have been riding a handsome sorrel mare along the flowery avenues of the Bois de Boulogne.
David was a stay at home father; a defective man in the eyes of his inherited society. Though his wife loved him, there was always the fear. The fear that she viewed him the way society viewed him and the way he viewed himself most of the time. Although this self-deprecating vision he had of himself was merely a reflection of the societal perspective held against men, the depression he felt was no illusion. What he felt was very real and no matter how much his wife seemingly loved him, he could not shake the feeling that his mere existence was a heavy weight on her. Every loving glance at him, he felt, was strained and exhausted. But he did not make these inward impressions known to his family. He knew if these emotions were to rise to the surface it would do nothing to exterminate this mentality and would instead push the only people in his life away from him. So by quietly navigating these darkened halls in the low hours of the day, he fought to keep his family close. After climbing back to bed and settling into the covers, David quickly made the decision to stay up the rest of the night. He decided it wouldn’t make much sense to sleep through the remaining hours of black considering he had no need for the energy it would provide.
I excluded the previous paragraph in case you wonder why it sounds so out of context.
Basically a dad gets out of bed in the middle of the night and has to avoid his kids toys in order to get a glass of water. There is some shit in the previous paragraph that is very rough. I don't usually write like this, it's just this particular part of the story that has this style of narration. Should I have less tell and more show?
>>7607428
Chart thread. I'm dumping, also requesting Kierkegaard must-reads.
>>7604305
Anyone have the Inferno translation guide?
>>7604307
here you go, i think this is it
Based on the the previous discussion (which died out quick) lets compile a list of books that serve as an introduction to philosophy.
There is a google doc but it seems beyond reach for the average /lit/izen
Said previous thread: >>7600865
All suggestion welcome and lets not limit this to just western philosophy.
DONT LET THE THREAD DIE MOTHAFUCKAS
Wow that Google Doc is actually pretty neat, who put it together?
August Comte.
Is positivism worth a reading?
Thoughts on David Moody?
David Whody? Fuck off pleb.
>>7618045
I never said if I like or dislike him. I'm just curious about how /lit/ perceives him. Now please step aside, easily irritable child.
I am goug to be starting a diary. Any tips you guys have
Pic unrelated
It's going to get out of hand fast. Hide it well...
... maybe dig a tunnel ...
try not to put barriers on what is worthy of recording. writing anything is always better than writing nothing. be as honest as you can with yourself, despite the guilt of indulging in your ego.
>>7617653
don't write what you don't want others to read, you don't want to end up like anne frank with your dad having to edit out parts about you touching yourself
Have anyone of you read this book, or anything else by John Zerzan? Is it worth a read? Im thinking of reading it, i'ts quite short so it's not a big investment...
I haven't read that particular one, and it's been quite a few years, but the few other Zerzan books I read were decent. If he mentions hunter-gatherers in that one, take his information with a grain of salt. He tends to skew ethnographic research in his favor by portraying non-agricultural societies as being almost utopian (not that they're absolute shit like a lot of people believe, but to portray them as the complete opposite is just as bad). There's also the commonly mentioned issue that a lot of his "solutions" would require the deaths of billions of people unless we simply stopped breeding for most of the next century.
Zerzan is shit, read me, senpai.
Anyone read it? Worth a read even if I'm not gay?
>>7617011
Yeah. Make sure you order the "no homo" edition.
>>7617011
>illustrated edition
Gay sex is fucking awful. I tried it because I thought it was patrician but I didn't like it all. Every angle of a man's body is hard and weird and feels like an aborted mockery of a woman's perfection, and their skin feels like grease and stubble instead of soft and nice.
Gay sex when you're not gay can basically be summed up like this: Imagine going to a foreign culture restaurant and being amazed to see that everyone is huddled over the raw, semi-rotten bodies of dead pigs, ripping flesh and bone off of them with their bare hands. You want to convince yourself that it's just cultural relativism making you nauseous, so you reach in and wrench open a cavity on the corpse and the smell of bile and suffering launches out directly at your face. You flee in terror and never eat there again.
That's what it's like spreading an effeminately moaning man's asscheeks for the first time.
>There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're truly the sailor who fell from grace with the sea
"Ride the Tiger"
from
Ride the Tiger - Julio Evola
>The Universe is my will
from
me
goddammit
Where should I read if I want to learn more about Eastern philosophy (particularly concepts such as yin and yang, feng shui, etc.)? Preferably with some meditative undertones as well.
Basically books that deal with Buddhist peace of mind and self type shit.
>>7616359
eastern 'philosophy' is just vague new age bullshit and statist propaganda. Oriental people's might be cunning, but they lack true intelligence and creativity, thats why they tend to follow statist and socialist philosophies
>>7616369
t. aiden, age 17
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
How do you approach longer novels?
I am reading Tale of Genji, and want to get the most out of it.
the best way is to write something between breaks
some summary or a list of characters
i believe genji has a whole bunch of characters
>>7615036
Reading in the original language. Heian period Classical Japanese is beautiful.
What's the best book for someone who's idealistic about life to the point of ruin? Someone who is constantly searching for better than what he has.
inb4 bible
hegel tbqh
>>7614582
to what end?to destroy the idealism or to feed it? for now I will say childhood's end (works for both)
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
I dont know which to choose
Maude is translation of choice for anything Tolstoy bby
Not P&V
Is Clark Ashton Smith worth getting into? I've read just about everything by Lovecraft and Howard at this point and I need something new to get my weird fiction fix.
>>7617443
If you haven't read The Gods of Pegana and Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany you don't know SHIT about weird fiction!Well you do, but I'm using needless invective to enhance attention because I think Lord Dunsany is a pretty big deal and it would be a shame if you skipped him because my post didn't catch your eye, you know
The White People by Arthur Machen.
>>7617443
His weird fiction is good, yeah, but I think his poetry is really great. Some great stuff in there. The Penguin Classics of The Dark Eidolon is a good selection of his stories, prose-poems, and poetry.
I want to get into the Arthurian legend, but how do I go about it?
I was planning on reading Le Morte Darthur by Malory, re-read Sir Gawain and the Greentexter and then Tennyson's Idylls of the King, but I'm sure there is a lot more material out there.
Are there any essentials that I should read aside from Malory and the Gawain poet?
>>7617401
Bernard Cornwell's series desu.
One and Furture King I guess.
Read the section from Geoffrey of Monmouth on Arthur, that's good and one of the earliest accounts if I remember right.
Chretien de Troyes is also essential Arthuriana.
There's a lot of other stuff out there too, but these plus the ones you've named are the most important.
>>7617423
Any particular editions for Geoffrey and Chetrien that you would recommend?
I was thinking of getting the Norton Critical Edition of Malory, but I don't know if the Oxford edition of his Complete Works is any better (the fat, red one).
