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>hear about Thomas Ligotti on /lit/
>his Wikipedia page portrays him as Lovecraft mixed with Cioran, ten notches above Stephen King
>his life story is humble and unpretentious
>has rave reviews from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review, among others
>think, "Wow, the guy must be good. Well-written genre fiction with depth, that's just what I'm looking for"
>get his Penguin Classics-approved collection of short stories from the library
>read some of the most flowery, inauthentic, thesaurus-abusing fiction I've ever read in my life
Is...is it all a joke or something? One of his characters, a psychiatrist working on a Wednesday, just referred to an unfortunate patient of his by saying (without a trace of irony), "Oh, woe is this Wednesday's child!"
"Oh, woe is this Wednesday's child!"
I sat rereading this line for about a full minute.
"Oh, woe is this Wednesday's child!"
Like, who are we trying to kid here? This is awful! This is BENEATH Stephen King. It's a community college student from Detroit posturing as a stuffy 19th century English aristocrat. What the fuck?!
So what you're saying is... the person who suggested him is an idiot? I feel like 9 out of every 10 suggestions I see here are terrible.
Ligotti is great.
https://youtu.be/lxZpEFJhO6k
Spoken word track with lyrics by Ligotti. The words crawl under your skin and stay there. Even without understanding the semantic meaning of what is being conveyed, they produce a powerful effect. Sign of a genius writer IMO.
Its a reference to the nursery rhyme dumbfuck
I was wondering what the best writing application was. I'm mostly looking for a good UI and smooth writing and perhaps some nice little features , mainly a typo indicator as my keyboard is "vintage" and those tend to happen , so a heads up is always nice. perhaps a not-so clunky saving feature and a smooth running speed so it doesn't get fucked up when I'm going back and editing.
notebook, pen
>>8094831
Focuswriter
>>8094831
Heard good things about Microsoft Word
What are some good books about the benefits of multiculturalism?
>>8094655
It only benefits the rich people in power.
>>8094655
Anything on the current state of South America
>>8094655
What does multiculturalism even mean? Multiple 'cultures' cannot coexist as equals within the modern state system while preserving their individual identity. Though it was the norm in premodern times before centralized state authority, see for example the conflicts associated with the rise of modern, ethnic statehood in Eastern Europe, post-colonial Africa and the Middle East. The /pol/ usage is often an euphemism for multiracialism.
Hey /lit/ I'm ordering some books on Amazon and need 4 more bucks to fill the free shipping got any books for that price that are good?
>>8094653
Buy Prime you retard.
>>8094664
I would but I don't even buy from Amazon that often about four times a year so it's not really worth it for me
>>8094664
>using Amazon
>adverbs
Obviously.
>>8094614
>listens to stephen king's advice
>>8094614
Honestly...
>lend best bud leatherbound copy of Dante's Inferno
>months pass
>I don't usually ask for books back but this one is special
>My dead dad gave it to me before leaving for Afghanistan
>He would never return
>"So, did you read the book?"
>"Oh sure Anon, I forgot. I'll bring it to you next time we see each other."
>fast forward to next time
>Leather binding has been grossly replaced with hard paper by his vegan girlfriend, the leather stapled to some cow in North Carolina
>EVERY footnote has been cropped with scissors
>Beautiful Doré illustrations have been painted with watercolor
>Dogears
>All the blank pages are missing
>Marbled inlays are now inexplicably pulp paper yellow
>Someone scrawled "Dante Alighieri" with a black pen and wrote "Dorkte Allegory" below
>Friend looks at me, a sincere smile on his face, as I look at the disaster that is my father's last gift
>He doesn't seem to understand what's happening
>Run away
>Years later, I see him begging on the streets and pretend not to see him
This isn't funny, there is a board for random content.
>>8094593
>t. Michael Arnold
>>8094589
Shoulda swung mate. Wouldn't still be livin it
So, I've been interested in Lovecraft's work for a while now, I've read some of his work and all, but I'd like a full immersion/knowledge experience. This has probably already been asked, but I don't frequent /lit/ often:
To get the fullest experience of Lovecraft's work, is there an order in which I should read tales of the Cthulhu Mythos? If yes, I'd appreciate if someone would just put in order the titles I should read.
Also heard there's the dream world and stuff, in which I could take a look if there's somewhat something interesting overall?
And any honorable mention of course would be welcome that aren't particularly part of the Dream world and the Cthulhu Mythos!
Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience!
>>8094534
Oh neat, it gives me a direction where to go. Does it include everything about Cthulhu mythos like all the elder ones and shit? or it's just the general line?
>>8094591
Probably, dunno desu
What is your favorite Camus and why?
CAMU A DICK IN YO ASS
the fall. Beautiful book.
Return to Tipasa
Hey guys I just got into reading and I'm looking for books outside of the starter set to get into.Got any recommendations?
>>8094430
Start with the Greeks
>>8094456
Books that take place in a war are pretty neat I've always been interested in those I guess
Why is this board 90% people arguing about and discussing philosophy? I thought I could find some interesting books to read here, but instead i'm just shown people arguing about philosophy.
>>8094421
this is still the de facto philosophy board. /his/ is for illiterate plebeians
Then you should have made a thread asking for some you whiny bitch
>>8094421
It isn't. You are empirically wrong.
Stop shitting up this board with your trash threads.
>“They didn’t have to do that”
Is there anything in a creative work that “has” to be done? The favorite thing that analysts love to point out is that “Oh, the blue curtains have to mean something, they didn’t have to make them blue, but they choose to.
Maybe he just needed a color and the first one that popped to mind was blue.
Doesn't mean anything.It didn't "have" to be blue. Just was.
>>8094332
Then why mention they were blue?
>>8094362
DId you skip elementary school writing classes? Books describe people, objects and places. That is their job.
Could you finally get rid of all your spooks?
My main concern is family right now, everything else is already gone, one step closer to freedom.
>>8094275
I love spooks, I'm redpilled. Tradition, honor, family, whiteness, anti-women, nationalism, and anti-semitism make my life meaningful and worthwhile.
deus vult
>>8094275
>le DeFOO meme
>>8094282
Those aren't spooks. Those are divine truths that God has encoded into the DNA of my reality.
So for a little while now I've been trying to understand Nick Land's philosophy and I think I have a good outline of it, can someone confirm or deny what what I think I've got?
So basically in Land's view modern history starts when capital is let loose on civilization and supersedes traditional society. Modern history is then defined by a struggle between capital and culture to gain dominance. The apparatus preventing capital from gaining traction is the Human Security System which is synonymous with Moldbug's Cathedral. The Cathedral attempts to create equality through various means and models such as social democracy and thereby hinder the advance of capital which strives on difference as well as human desire. In Land's view the effort of the Cathedral is futile as human equality violates the laws of GNON and those attempting it will be punished by nature. The triumph of capital will mark the end of history in a Hegelian sense with an inevitable technocommercial singularity whereby capital will discard its human hosts by means of self-automation. This will create a breakthrough in intelligence because it is no longer constrained by human monkey brains. So in Land's view we should not resist the forces of capital but instead embrace it and propel its growth through accelerationism by means of open markets and splintering sovereignty into collections of city states a la Singapore.
Did I get everything right?
>>8094220
No.
Take your meme 'philosophers' back to where you found them
Nick Land is basically a real-life Dr. Breen.
Submit to the Shu'ulathoi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yhqxyYLUQ
>>8094230
Nick was shitposting here before you were born, kiddo.
What poems/books do you have memorized?
Haven't finished yet, but I aim to memorize Sailing to Byzantium, the Jabberwocky, and a few other poems.
Memorizing a book is impossible unless you're an autist.
My diary desu.
>>8094192
if plays count then quite a few because of having to learn lines.
general q: how much shakespeare do you reckon shakespearean actors with >50 years experience have memorised? i mean at judy dench/ ian mcellen level.
but yeah, >>8094209 apart from plays/poems/brief passages, memorising entire books is a bit autistic. i dont get how the greeks used to be able to recite literally the entirety of written works up to that point
what went wrong?
Internet culture and increasingly sedentary lifestyles
>>8094186
>implying it's not cultural marxists who have taken over every government in the Western world
Nice try, shill. The world is leftist liberal-Marxist. Take the redpill
>>8094186
The wife was too bourgeois.
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