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is this good
>>8123071
Winnipeg Free Press seems to think so
It starts out fine but goes absolutely nowhere
Hey /lit/
Do you guys know some books about time travel?
>>8122978
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>genre fiction
Hello, /lit/.
I was looking for recommendations on the following themes:
>Depression
No self help or best seller books. These are generally bad.
>Ancient civilizations
Will dump a few names, as ''ancient'' is just too vague: amorites, hittites, caananites, moabites, ammonites, edomites, the twelve tribes in general. Or celtic tribes, I still have a hard tribe distinguishing such variety within them.
Also, I would rather if they were easy to find on PDF. I live abroad and some titles that I find don't sell on bookstores, and I can't buy anything on the internet for a few months.
Pic not related
>>8122897
Download Soulseek and goto user Bijuz, I have a huge archaeology collection from many of the civs you mentioned
>depression
unless you are in a romantic relationship i would def recommend prozac. books dont help, they make it worse. just being real with you.
tao te ching and meditations i guess
>>8122908
pic related
>>8122908
I don't need medication, I just wanted some form of catharsis. If the Meditations is from Marcus Aurelius, already read it.
And some may actually help, at least to see the hole you dug for yourself. At least it happened when I read Crime and Punishment.
>>8122914
Will download Soulseek just for this. Thank you!
How To Write Dialogue
by: Ayn Rand
>Character A walks into a room and greets Character B with a snide remark or playful jab. Character B is sitting, often at a desk.
>Character B then gives Character A a look that is described with four or five "-ly" averbs.
>Character A does/says something bitchy, to which Character B responds with a beat of silence, directly followed by a patronizing comment, usually one ending in "darling".
>Take a moment here to fill a page with exhaustive details on the way Character B holds their head and why they appear as if they could be control after all.
>Suddenly, Character B proves this control with a one word reply. 90% of the time this is a person's name.
>Character B gasps.
>Character A takes up 3 pages explaining their motive and the entire philosophy behind their character. Somewhere in this dialogue there may or may not be a Bible verse.
>Character B becomes angry.
>Character A laughs.
>20-year-old Ayn Rand walks into your room and greets you with a snide remark and playful jab. You are sitting at your desk, as you often are.
>You give Ayn Rand a look that could be described with four or five "-ly" adverbs.
>Ayn Rand is very bitchy, to which you react with stunned silence. Ayn Rand patronizingly asks whether the proverbial cat has your tongue, and calls you "darling."
>Ayn Rand takes a moment to fill your mouth with her tongue, while holding your head. She appears to be in control.
>Suddenly, you prove her control by only managing a one word reply: "Ayn.."
>Ayn grabs your nuts in her bony fist, and you gasp.
>Ayn spends 16 minutes explaining objectivism to you, never releasing your scrotum. She quotes the Bible but you're not sure you understand the reference.
>Ayn becomes angry that you haven't invented anything yet.
>Ayn laughs and forces you to orally service her until you invent something.
>>8122805
>You will never service that sweet russian hoo-ha
Why even live
What book actually changed how you think and how you see the world, whether it was fiction or philosophy?
Pic unrelated.
My views as to the extent of what can be done with berries was radically changed by Redwall, if that counts
>>8122678
Lol le Death worship
go to bed Hades
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James. Read it after high school and realized how safe and cushioned everything I had been reading before was.
Please tell me the idea that 'pic related is satire' is a stupid fucking meme that nobody actually takes seriously.
>>8122553
Read Isaiah Berlin's essay about Machiavelli. This is only one of the possible interpretations.
>>8122553
read david wootton's introduction/essay on the prince, it's in the hackett translation and it's great
tbqh Machiaelli has a Pepe-like expression in this portrait
>"Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast food?"
>"Hazel, eat."
>"But why?" I asked. "I mean, seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck in with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an eggs, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."
>Dad answered with his mouth full. "When you come back, we'll have breakfast for dinner. Deal?"
>"I don't want to have 'breakfast for dinner,'" I answered, crossing knife and fork over my mostly full plate. "I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that scrambled eggs-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it occurs at dinnertime."
>"You've gotta pick your battles in this world, Hazel," my mom said. "But if this is the issue you want to champion, we stand behind you."
>"Quite a bit behind you," my dad added, and Mom laughed.
>Anyway, I knew it was stupid, but I felt kind of bad for scrambled eggs.
>>8122109
“Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation, this calyx, replaces the pupil so it no longer receives but sends, and every hair is on end, though perhaps only outspread on a pillow, and the nostrils are flared, mouth agape, cheeks sucked so the whole face seems as squeezed as a juiced fruit; I know, for once Lou went into that wildness while we were absorbing one another, trying to kiss, not merely forcefully, not the skull of our skeleton, but the skull and all the bones on which the essential self is hung, kiss so the shape of the soul is stirred too, that's what is called the ultimate French, the furtherest fuck, when a cock makes a concept cry out and climax; I know, for more than once, though not often, I shuddered into that other region, when a mouth drew me through its generosity into the realm of unravel, and every sensation lay extended as a lake, every tie was loosed, and the glue of things dissolved. I knew I wore the wild look then. The greatest gift you can give another human being is to let them warm you till, in passing beyond pleasure, your defenses fall, your ego surrenders, its structure melts, its towers topple, lies, fancies, vanities, blow away in no wind, and you return, not to the clay you came from — the unfired vessel — but to the original moment of inspiration, when you were the unabbreviated breath of God.”
>I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.
>>8122109
>first world problems
Why are there no Dostoevsky threads??
Do you think he was a very introverted person or extroverted ?
>>8121920
i think he was introverted unless impassioned by a feverish desire to express an opinion, otherwise, he was probably a very unpleasant man. what is it that you search for in the artist that you can't find in his work anyway, anon? the man will never be anything but the vessel from which his art pours. you will only be disappointed by his apparent emptiness.
>>8121920
this is why there aren't any dostoevsky threads.
>>8121925
Could you please explain this message I can't quite understand it , maybe i am not as intelligent as to understand that, could you please try to explain it in more simplier terms or maybe elaborate?
Tell me why I shouldn't believe in objectivism and everything she says.
You are free to believe in whatever you want. Just as we are free to believe that you're a dumbass.
>believing text
>>8121864
Because you're probably more intelligent than that. I've been proven wrong before though.
Post only one writer per country, but as many countries as you want. I also listed in descending order the nations I tend to read from the most.
USA: Charles Bukowski (sorry, no pomo)
England: D. H. Lawrence
Ireland: James Joyce
France: Michel Houellebecq
Russia: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Germany: Friedrich Nietzsche
Austria: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Greece: Homer
Italy (including Italic Romans): Italo Svevo
Norway: Knut Hamsun
Switzerland: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Netherlands: Jan Wolkers
Belgium: Dimitri Verhulst
Denmark: H. C. Andersen
Spain: Cervantes
Portugal: Pessoa
Japan: Mishima
China: Li Fu
Argentina: Borges
Peru: Vallejo
This list makes me realize that I prefer modern writers. I know I'll get a lot of hate for Bukowski, but whatever. Our lists are about what we like the most, not who is "objectively" the best.
you seem like someone i would really dislike
Also, are there any nations you would like to read more of? Personally, I was surprised to read that I haven't read any Swedes even though they keep awarding themselves the Nobel Prize in Literature. I also would like to read more contemporary Chinese novelists since there seems to be a lot! Anyone have any Swedes or Chinese to recommend?
Hnng sauce?
Define "postmodernism" without using the term "reaction" or any of its alternate forms or synonyms.
Also don't mention or refer to modernism.
Go.
>“I define postmodern as incredulity toward meta-narratives,” says Lyotard (Lyotard 1984 [1979], xxiv).
>"Fist my ass." (Foucault 1965)
gay jewish nonsense for insecure pseudo-intellectual goyim
>>8121707
/thread
Need one on fairly short notice and can't think of anything to write about.
Pussy stinks when dead for hours
and fucked by drills run on power.
Blood has stained the holy glass
and shamed a kid into a coward.
>>8121516
Need to number two
But I will not poo in loo
designated street
What's music you usually listen to when you read? What genre is it, best compliments it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81G9W8pEno
I can't focus at all when I'm listening to music and reading. Being a musician means that you can't help but think about all the little nuances of a song ("that guitar has a lot of mid", "I think I hear a synth in the background", "I never noticed that little melodic line before", and so on). This is all while I'm supposed to be thinking about the relationship between the characters, the plot, and the overall theme of a work.
>>8121462
This. I put on dadrock or music from high school if I'm on public transport and just want something to drown out other noise.
>>8121664
>dadrock or music from high school
>reading
what the fuck. disgusting.
What is /lit/s stance on SCP?
Is this literature? Do you like it? Any favorites?
I have read some of the "logs", found some pretty cool ones, but others were terrible and even had edgy pictures at the start of them for scary purposes, but that just defeats the whole thing and is lame as fuck.
Some are good but most are bad. People try too hard and often create poo.
One weird morning I was reading the SCP website and somehow stumbled onto a massive horrible fanfiction where like 30 of the more famous SCPs escape and jerk each other off in a forest or some retarded bullshit. You could tell a chick wrote it. I somehow got so caught up in reading it that I didn't realise I was reading the worst piece of shit of all time, and I achieved some kind of perfect intuitive Verstehen of some idiot retard 16 year old's mind, and I felt super dissociated and depressed all morning.
>>8121365
I like the one about the Sumerian guy who is locked up in a coffin and exists only to be a killing machine. He's always getting out and going on rampages. It was sort of inspiring in a weird way.
>>8121496
>30 of the more famous SCPs escape and jerk each other off in a forest or some retarded bullshit. You could tell a chick wrote it. I somehow got so caught up in reading it that I didn't realise I was reading the worst piece of shit of all time, and I achieved some kind of perfect intuitive Verstehen of some idiot retard 16 year old's mind, and I felt super dissociated and depressed all morning.
hahaha
"We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five" was a pretty interesting read, series went downhill towards the end though.
any /lit/eratis want to help me complete this chart I started yesterday? Here's what I plan on adding, tell me if I should add or delete these:
>weber
>durkheim and weber??
>catholics: de maistre, lammenais, ultramontanism, leo xiii- social catholicism, catholic corporatism, distributism/rerum novarum=anti-liberalism?), chateaubriand, ballanche
>utopian socialism=>saint simonism=>mysticism/esotericism/spiritualism=>theosophy=>ariosophy=>/hitler/evola=>llate mussolini
>ottoweininger=evola=>alain de benois/new right
>vilfredo pareto, gaetano mosca, robert michels=>fascism
>romanticism: goethe, chateaubriand
fuck off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany
>>8121289
Wrong thread mate.
it's kind of odd how anarchism influenced Mussolini in that pic, is that actually true?
