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>Pornography is under attack at present thanks in part to the criminal excesses of kiddy porn and snuff movies, and to our newly puritan climate – the fin de siècle decadence that dominated the 1890s, and which we can expect to enliven the 1990s, may well take the form of an aggressive and over-the-top puritanism.
>Pornography is a powerful catalyst for social change, and its periods of greatest availability have frequently coincided with times of greatest economic and scientific advance.
What are some of your favorite cookbooks? I'm specifically interested in books that offer a deeper insight into modern and traditional foods that people eat everyday or books that focus on technique.
Pic related
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature
>cookbooks
>>>/ck/
>nordic 'food'
>potatoes, fungus and salted/smoked goat meat mixed with guts or feces
>>7978835
this.
"nordic cuisine" is only a hip thing because rene redzepi
>'pretty' to describe a person
>>7978779
disgusting word
>>7978779
>purdy
>>7978779
>frogposting faggot who keeps making the same thread
Kill yourself
>picture of Pepe the frog
>disparaging comment
You're the reason this board is so shit. Create threads with some actually interesting topics instead of this inane trash.
Bob Ross is the modern manifestation of the ubermensch.
>creates his own values, gives zero fucks what the flies of the marketplace of the contemporary art community thought of him
>free spirited, charted his own course through life and didn't even care what people thought.
>overcame ressentiment
>many animal friends just like Zarathustra
>>7978774
Howard Roark and by that argument his basis in fact, Frank Lloyd Wright is probably the closest I can think ofthis is not an endorsement of Ayn Rand in any way.
Bob was marketing towards a low class demographic for ratings after the government mandated educational programming for public television.
>>7978800
Ayn Rand's understanding of the ubermensch was remarkably shallow
I'd say Bob Ross comes closer to it in fact than Roark does in fiction
>>7978774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVwCYKH8DqQ
Help a pleb out /lit/
>>7978719
Pic related is my favorite in the last 10 years.
The Neapolitan Novels by Ferrante
The Buried Giant by Ishiguro
Vollman has been getting a lot of praise lately and rightly so.
>>7978746
Also James previous novel, The Book of Night Women is pretty great
>>7978746
Thanks anon!
“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”
>>7978663
That way you'll put yourself in an ignorant self imposed prison. Good luck my ignorant desu.
>>7978668
tips fedora
>>7978663
>I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism
Having read his essays on the Divine Comedy then this is clearly a bullshit remark. He certainly reads commentaries and criticism, and that to a large degree.
Anyone know any authors with elaborate fictitious cosmological lore?
For example: HP Lovecraft, Tolkien (Silmarillion), even Andrew Hussie (Homestuck)
William Blake
the Jews
the Greeks
the Egyptians
>>7978684
You told him. Kek.
>>Thread close!
"Orthogonal is a science fiction trilogy by Australian author Greg Egan taking place in a universe where, rather than three dimensions of space and one of time, there are four fundamentally identical dimensions."
What are some good non-political and non-sports related memoirs?
>>7978618
Speak, Memory - Nabokov
Hey, /lit/.
I finished the first draft of my first novel on Tuesday. I need some people to beta read it. I'm kinda loathe to give it to my family and friends, because of a few reasons.
1: They're my family and friends. I'm worried they won't be honest.
2: It's not done yet, it's only the first draft.
3: I'd rather hand them signed copies of it once it hits print.
How do you guys get beta readers, if you write?
>>7978325
I'll read it. Do you have Skype or kik or something?
I'm nearly through a first draft and I was just going to ask lit and people I already collected from lit through soc to do it.
>>7978325
I'll alpha read it lmao
ill read it but if you dare call me a beta again ill kill you you dick fuck
Write some stream of consciousness, post it, and critique others.
Those who don't critique shall not be critiqued.
Crutter! Drilling o'er the meteledge forthcomes frothubbing drink to drunk, the drunk uproot in the kitchen as hers farther and smother sleep. Hirs panic swoops acrossed him's mind but subsidies and calmaties come fore the adults are in sleep still, no clatter nor crutter shall wakem. Sos the drunk does think and thrinks the flu'id and says oh persays I'll happen to say I do drunk for aive seen my farther do it, the workdog. Haps then that's a realeason forrit, and Ah! What a cleaver boy am I to ponderthink such a think to say toothy old farther and...
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"Oh, I farted" he said in his typical robotic, lifeless fashion.
He was sitting reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green was pondering his life's course. What does it mean to fart, to exude the very essence of life's dirty underpinnings, both necassary as it is disquieting to the fabric of conventional morality.
He, however was above such chad-like considerations. He was anonymous, he does not forgive, he does not forget, and with one cry he could start a revolution that would destroy his foes. The normies. There was noone on earth that he hated...
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>>7978323
This was no fun to read
Hey /lit/,
Has anything good been written in the 21st century so far? Other than old literary figures like DeLillo, Pynchon, McCarthy who are still producing works, are there any newer authors who've produced works good enough to endure?
I've heard a lot of good things about Knausgaard, but I can't think of anyone else.
I'm not your babysitter newfag.
>>7978289H O Use
Ofleaves
Tao Lin is pretty good, start with ''Bed''
Sup, I'm not sure whether this is the 100% correct board to post this stuff, but /lit/'s my homeboard and I figure that we probably have the largest population of people actively using dictionaries.
Anyway, I was discussing some political stuff earlier today, and I ended up searching for the dictionary definition of the word "bigot". I went to Meriam-Webster and saw pic related. Now, I pretty clearly remember that no that long ago, the definition there was something along the lines of: "A person not willing to entertain other people's ideas;...
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How about opening up a dictionary?
>>7978283
Don't have one at home, might pick it up in a library tomorrow.
Okay, no idea if that word has changed in recent years but,
Do you know how a God damn dictionary works? It doesn't prescribe the meaning of words, it reflects usage. It isn't a conspiracy by some word-use deciding council.
Jesus.
What is the difference between a NEET and a superfluous man?
>Typical characteristics are disregard for social values, cynicism, and existential boredom; typical behaviors are gambling, romantic intrigues, and duels. He is often unempathetic and carelessly distresses others with his actions.
money and cahones
Wealth and erudition.
Tell me her name, /lit/.
The book that got away...
>>7978247
I once saw a hardcover of Catullus' poems both in Latin and Spanish with a lenghty and well-writen introduction in a used books shop. Sadly, I didn't have monies at the time so I jammed it between two books hoping I could return later to buy it. Obviously, it wasn´t there when I got back.
Also, the love of my life gets fucked in parties regularly and is going to die of lupus if she doesn't kill herself.
My mom tried to kill me and my father doesn't love me.
Also, sage, faggot.
Just finished cthulhu by lovecraft what to read next
Shadow over Innsmouth
and
Mountains of Madness
Both are bantz and kind of the 2 most popular stories following Cthulhu, as for what next in the Cthulhu mythology thing, I have no idea but I'm sure google can tell you the order.
>>7978248
Ok, thanks anon.
Colour out of space is my favorite.
