7 / 6/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.
Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.
/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.
Looking for books online? Check here:
Guide to #bookz
https://www.geocities.ws/prissy_90/Media/Texts/BookzHelp19kb.htm
Recommended Literature
https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Recommended_Reading
Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.
/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.
Looking for books online? Check here:
Guide to #bookz
https://www.geocities.ws/prissy_90/
Recommended Literature
https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Reco
31 / 5University /lit/ threadAre academia threads allowed?
>Attend recent conference
>Professor shares that more than 25% of PhD applications to our department are gender studies projects
>This is just at our uni, but consistent across the country (I'm in a Scandinavian country)
>Just boring political close readings and predictable analysis
Look, I'm not going to claim that my own PhD changed the world, but at least I didn't write a dissertation just to complain. It's insane to me that more than 25% of applicants want to write about gender. It's doubly insane that I am surrounded by hyper-privileged white women who somehow have taken it upon themselves to defend black people/Asians/other groups. I often wonder whether academics in Japan or Mongolia or Mexico or Zambia complain that there isn't enough white people literature, just like we apparently complain that literature written by people from our country is widely read by people in our country.
Our degree programme is also overwhelmingly dominated by women (around 95% of the students are girls). I know the situation is different in STEM, but fucking hell.
If you work at a university, or even if you're a student: do you see that gender studies continues to dominate? Do you find their arguments compelling?
And just in case people think I am some incel: I've written peer-reviewed articles about books written by Asians and women, so I am not blindly hating, I just wonder whether we really need so many damn gender studies PhD projects. Ironically there's relatively little diversity in the research in my department.
It's a comfy job, but universities are also weird places to work. I had to give up reading dark academia novels because the fiction is never even close to as fucking strange or ridiculous as real life.
>Attend recent conference
>Professor shares that more than 25% of PhD applications to our department are gender studies projects
>This is just at our uni, but consistent across the country (I'm in a Scandinavian country)
>Just boring political close readings and predictable analysis
Look, I'm not going to claim that my own PhD changed the world, but at least I didn't write a dissertation just to complain. It's insane to me that more than 25% of applicants want to write about gender. It's doubly insane that I am surrounded by hyper-privileged white women who somehow have taken it upon themselves to defend black people/Asians/other groups. I often wonder whether academics in Japan or Mongolia or Mexico or Zambia complain that there isn't enough white people literature, just like we apparently complain that literature written by people from our country is widely read by people in our country.
Our degree programme is also overwhelmingly dominated by women (around 95% of the students are girls). I know the situation is different in STEM, but fucking hell.
If you work at a university, or even if you're a student: do you see that gender studies continues to dominate? Do you find their arguments compelling?
And just in case people think I am some incel: I've written peer-reviewed articles about books written by Asians and women, so I am not blindly hating, I just wonder whether we really need so many damn gender studies PhD projects. Ironically there's relatively little diversity in the research in my department.
It's a comfy job, but universities are also weird places to work. I had to give up reading dark academia novels because the fiction is never even close to as fucking strange or ridiculous as real life.
142 / 47/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #84salladhor saan edition
ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters
old: >>24635677
ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.p
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=00688
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/4114405
old: >>24635677
4 / 1>first two stories are about pedophiles
>third story is about getting blue balled by your uncle and the schedule of a kitschy bazaar
Is this really the best of Irish writing? Dublin sounds like a horridly boring place
>third story is about getting blue balled by your uncle and the schedule of a kitschy bazaar
Is this really the best of Irish writing? Dublin sounds like a horridly boring place
10 / 1Rationalism vs. EmpiricismHow much of a structural difference is there between empirical thinking and rational thinking, really? It's thinking either way, no? It seems to be mostly a question of what is the "material" for thinking itself, meaning the priors or the input data. I have a hard time describing the difference qua thinking itself.
61 / 9/wg/ Writing General"Not Making it Out Alive" edition
Previous: >>24631247
/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC
Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)
Simple guides on writing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk [Embed]
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcTQCNntGEs
Previous: >>24631247
/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC
Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)
Simple guides on writing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAK
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcT
44 / 3Black authors who write about things other than blacknessIt seems that all the celebrated black authors just write about them being black, and I have grown kinda prejudiced against reading any black author because I pre-emptively assume that their writing is gonna be about blackness, colonialism, etc. Are there authors who write more “generally”?
155 / 14You think you're just clicking on some pics, getting a quick dopamine hit. But you're not, you're plugging yourself into a machine that was literally built to turn women into walking holes and punching bags. The word "pornography" itself is ancient Greek for "graphic depiction of women as whores." Think about that. You're not just watching a video, you're participating in a ritual that defines women as sexual cattle for men to own, use, and throw away. It's the blueprint for male supremacy, and it encodes every single rule of sexual abuse, violence, and exploitation. It trains you to see women as objects that want to be degraded, that secretly desire to be hit and dominated. It poisons your mind so you can't even comprehend the real terror a woman feels when she's violated. You think it's harmless, but it's a political crime against women that bleeds into every part of society, from law to culture. It’s a war on women, and every time you watch, you’re enlisting. Stop watching porn.
6 / 0Kids Books RecsI am a teacher of 7-8 year olds and I like to read them books during eating times rather than putting something on TV.
I've read through most of Roald Dahl, and I'm looking for books of similar level and length. What does /lit/ recommend?
I've read through most of Roald Dahl, and I'm looking for books of similar level and length. What does /lit/ recommend?
9 / 1I feel it. I feel like I'm going to win that competition. My 200 IQ story was amazing. So fucking good.
91 / 7/clg/ - Classical Languages GeneralAntiochian edition
>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24632352
>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw
>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg
>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko
All Classical languages are welcome.
>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24632352
>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7i
>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6
>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko
All Classical languages are welcome.
1 / 0I'm tapped out, bros.I just finished book six and I don't think I can go on any further. I'm not enjoying my reading time anymore like I did with Lattimore's Homer. The prose of the couplets make this shit so clunky; I'm sure that Virgil isn't the problem, it's Dryden. Sure there are some exceedingly beautiful verses, but overall it feels like a total slog. Perhaps it's my poor reading comprehension, but I suspect I'd enjoy Fagles' version far more.
Not sure if I should finish what I started or just go for a new version, nevertheless, I'm taking a break for tonight.
Is there a version of the Aeneid that reads like Lattimore or is Fagles my best bet?
Not sure if I should finish what I started or just go for a new version, nevertheless, I'm taking a break for tonight.
Is there a version of the Aeneid that reads like Lattimore or is Fagles my best bet?
144 / 15There are a lot of novels that capture male loneliness. But are there any good ones that capture female loneliness?
39 / 2Unironically, has there ever been a single example of something written by a woman that's worth reading as a man?
I can't think of any examples, the only ones coming close like Edith Hamilton and Camille Paglia are all spiritually male and closet lesbian
I can't think of any examples, the only ones coming close like Edith Hamilton and Camille Paglia are all spiritually male and closet lesbian
83 / 17Definition of a ChairNot sure if this is right for this board but I couldn't think of anywhere else.
Does this definition of a chair work to fix the chair paradox?
"A chair is an object designed to be sat on primarily by one person"
Does this definition of a chair work to fix the chair paradox?
"A chair is an object designed to be sat on primarily by one person"
209 / 32/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy GeneralRecommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb
>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg
>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>Previous:
>>24637070
>Thread Question:
Which, if any, sub-genres or premises do you gravitate towards?
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cy
>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search
>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/sho
>Previous:
>>24637070
>Thread Question:
Which, if any, sub-genres or premises do you gravitate towards?
62 / 6The RepublicPlato/Socrates argued that women should participate in sports and political office because female hunting dogs are not forced to stay indoors but participate with the male hunting dogs. He also argues for similar reasons, women, even married women, she believes impregnated by whomever they wish because it will lead to more vigorous offspring
Does the analogy hold?
Does the analogy hold?
6 / 1How does an Anglophone begin to get into Brecht? There doesn't seem to be much in the way of subtitled productions or movies.
37 / 3>stuck with a dead end low wage job
>socially recluse
>obsessed over racial purity
>raised by hyperprotective women
>short, unhappy marriage with a jewess
>loved cats
was he the archetypal chud?
>socially recluse
>obsessed over racial purity
>raised by hyperprotective women
>short, unhappy marriage with a jewess
>loved cats
was he the archetypal chud?
14 / 1was the scouring of the shire really necessary? are people too forgiving of Tolkien's writing?
54 / 10STATIONARY HOBBYShow off your pens, fountain pens, ink, paper, journals, etc.
Is this the right board to talk about this? I can't for the life of me find a relevant board other than /po/ and that's only for making shit with paper.
Is this the right board to talk about this? I can't for the life of me find a relevant board other than /po/ and that's only for making shit with paper.
57 / 4i dedicated 6 hours to reading today, from 8 am to 2 pm, and only managed to read 38 pages. should i commit suicide?
13 / 0Being simpliciter is superior to and prior to becoming simpliciter.
Therefore any religion of becoming is based on something inferior.
Therefore any religion of becoming is based on something inferior.
274 / 46The Israel Lobby and U.S Foreign PolicyIt's incredibly sad how well this book has aged. Mearsheimer may be incredibly hit or miss like all realist school types, but I was very impressed with how much he hit the nail on the head with this book, and I also see why it cause such a massive firestorm on release back in the day given he was the first serious American foreign policy figure to approach and address the issue.
4 / 1>could have spent eternity banging a literal love goddess but instead chooses to return to Earth to chase clout
>is also going to hell for consorting with demons
bruh moment
>is also going to hell for consorting with demons
bruh moment
255 / 35/wng/ — Web Novel GeneralDungeon Core Edition
Stubbed >>24637098
>What is Web Novel General?
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more
>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.
>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.
>Advice for Noobs!
##READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP##
Running your story like the business it is:
www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847
On writing web serials:
alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-web-serial/
Sanderson's Writing Lectures 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh_y1IFZY&list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZvzkfVo_Dls0B5GiE2oMcLY
Recommended web novels
rentry.co/d2yvczro
Anon's guide to success
rentry.co/RRBasicGuide
FAQ
rentry.co/pytefpxn
Stubbed >>24637098
>What is Web Novel General?
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more
>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.
>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.
>Advice for Noobs!
##READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP##
Running your story like the business it is:
www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116
On writing web serials:
alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-w
Sanderson's Writing Lectures 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEU
Recommended web novels
rentry.co/d2yvczro
Anon's guide to success
rentry.co/RRBasicGuide
FAQ
rentry.co/pytefpxn
43 / 12How does /lit/ dress?Do you use clothing to signal to people that you're really into reading?
27 / 2"High School" LitFitzgerald, Dickens, Hemingway, so on. They get a bad rap because tenth graders read them, but they were written for adults and only became staples of high school lit curricula because they were deemed to be exemplary novels. What're your favorite high school lit authors, books, stories, etc?
158 / 42/wbg/ - Worldbuilding GeneralDemons, Angels, and Everything In-Between Edition
FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.
Old thread: >>24509493
FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.
Old thread: >>24509493
11 / 1Is this a good into into PKD? I heard people criticize it for wasting a good concept and instead focusing on other unrelated shit. Is it easy to get into?
87 / 4Do you have any useless grammar autism you can't get out of your head?
I notice every time someone uses "was" in the hypothetical rather than "were"
I notice every time someone uses "was" in the hypothetical rather than "were"
56 / 4>Hi George. You're going to die soon. Can you get Brandon Sanderson to replace you when you do? Thanks.
5 / 1Loss of innocenceBooks that do a good job portraying the brutal collision between youthful ignorance and the real world, any form this may take.
7 / 3Historical Fiction —What are your favourites?
>Place of Greater Safety: 'Illory Mantel is best known for her 'Wolf Hall' trilogy, and yes they are (esp. the first two) her most perfect books, yet this earlier written novel, exploring the French Revolution through the lives and loves and pusspestives of some several of its key non-noble architects I find has a different kind of power. It is full of sleepless nights of speeches in smoky rooms, requisite adultery (Paris), psychological complexities, Robespierre's proto-autistic eccentricities. Camille Desmoulins is a particular pleasure to read. More I wish I was him than he's literally me. Regardless. Imperfect but deeply intoxicating book.
>Place of Greater Safety: 'Illory Mantel is best known for her 'Wolf Hall' trilogy, and yes they are (esp. the first two) her most perfect books, yet this earlier written novel, exploring the French Revolution through the lives and loves and pusspestives of some several of its key non-noble architects I find has a different kind of power. It is full of sleepless nights of speeches in smoky rooms, requisite adultery (Paris), psychological complexities, Robespierre's proto-autistic eccentricities. Camille Desmoulins is a particular pleasure to read. More I wish I was him than he's literally me. Regardless. Imperfect but deeply intoxicating book.
11 / 2Is it possible for a perfect being to be both immutable (unchangeable) and also relational and responsive to creation?
4 / 1>stabs everyone he meets to death
>"Why does everyone hate me? The life of a gaucho is so hard."
>"Why does everyone hate me? The life of a gaucho is so hard."
1 / 0Busco libro raro, "Los 17 temas más vistos por el estudiante"Hola, ¿alguien aquí tiene este libro? Es de Venezuela, se llama "Los 17 temas más vistos por el estudiante". Lo busco en PDF, si alguien lo tiene o sabe dónde encontrarlo, avise.
ISBN: 9789801248434
ISBN: 9789801248434
38 / 5Think about how fucking annoying Socrates must have been. Anything you say will be ruthlessly deconstructed by the posing of a series of difficult to answer and often intentionally baiting questions. No wonder they executed him, I would have done it too.
195 / 21/wibac/ — Writing Inspired by Art ChallengeYou have until August 18th, 6:00 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of art from /ic/ (>>>/ic/7656943).
https://countingdownto.com/?c=6492808
Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission fits inside, and exists soley within, a single textbox posted in this thread.
(That means no off-site links and no text-as-image attachments!)
Each entry will be weighed according to its creativity, literary merit, and storytelling by three judges.
Your judges are meteor (multi-/lwc/ winner), Heng (March’s /lwc/ winner), and son of hermes (August’s /lwc/ runner-up).
They will decide the winners—1st, 2nd, and 3rd place—not long after the submission deadline.
https://countingdownto.com/?c=64928
Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission fits inside, and exists soley within, a single textbox posted in this thread.
(That means no off-site links and no text-as-image attachments!)
Each entry will be weighed according to its creativity, literary merit, and storytelling by three judges.
Your judges are meteor (multi-/lwc/ winner), Heng (March’s /lwc/ winner), and son of hermes (August’s /lwc/ runner-up).
They will decide the winners—1st, 2nd, and 3rd place—not long after the submission deadline.
6 / 3As you can see, I have a wealth of books at my disposal. Which of these are worth reading first?
I've already read a few of these, but it was years ago. I just finished the Geneva Bible on mobile, reading through KJV now
Any essential firsts beyond these? I have an old iPad mini I'll be using as an e-reader, so I'm looking to download a ton as well
I've already read a few of these, but it was years ago. I just finished the Geneva Bible on mobile, reading through KJV now
Any essential firsts beyond these? I have an old iPad mini I'll be using as an e-reader, so I'm looking to download a ton as well
23 / 2>refused to worship democracy, called it “the dictatorship of capital with ballots”
>stood against fascism and liberal antifascism, saying both were just bourgeois factions
>literally predicted that antifascist fronts would neuter revolutionary potential and keep capitalism alive (see his critiques of the Popular Fronts, 1930s)
>called out the USSR under Stalin as “capitalist in essence” while most communists were still drinking the Kool-Aid
>argued that Russia’s NEP and forced industrialization = state capitalism decades before it became common knowledge
>wrote “The Democratic Principle” (1922) where he shredded the idea that socialism can be won through elections
>basically said: “parliamentarism is just capitalism in slow motion”
>predicted the collapse of Nazi Germany as a byproduct of capitalist contradictions, not antifascist heroism
>denounced the fetish of “antifascism” because even if you beat fascism, capitalism still wins
>stood against Stalinism when it was dangerous to do so, called out the USSR’s degeneration into state capitalism decades before mainstream historians admitted it
>was arrested by Mussolini’s regime, literally told the police “I’m a communist, arrest me if you like, it changes nothing”
>said that the holocaust wasn't driven primarily by ideology, but instead by the need to liquidate the jewish middle class and enrich the "aryan" petty bourgeoisie
What did bordiga mean by this??
>stood against fascism and liberal antifascism, saying both were just bourgeois factions
>literally predicted that antifascist fronts would neuter revolutionary potential and keep capitalism alive (see his critiques of the Popular Fronts, 1930s)
>called out the USSR under Stalin as “capitalist in essence” while most communists were still drinking the Kool-Aid
>argued that Russia’s NEP and forced industrialization = state capitalism decades before it became common knowledge
>wrote “The Democratic Principle” (1922) where he shredded the idea that socialism can be won through elections
>basically said: “parliamentarism is just capitalism in slow motion”
>predicted the collapse of Nazi Germany as a byproduct of capitalist contradictions, not antifascist heroism
>denounced the fetish of “antifascism” because even if you beat fascism, capitalism still wins
>stood against Stalinism when it was dangerous to do so, called out the USSR’s degeneration into state capitalism decades before mainstream historians admitted it
>was arrested by Mussolini’s regime, literally told the police “I’m a communist, arrest me if you like, it changes nothing”
>said that the holocaust wasn't driven primarily by ideology, but instead by the need to liquidate the jewish middle class and enrich the "aryan" petty bourgeoisie
What did bordiga mean by this??
21 / 6Sewer Gangbang SceneI dislike making much ado about nothing, and so I will start with my tl; dr here: Firstly, what is your opinion of the scene in the subject line? Secondarily, I offer my thoughts after exploring the Internet.
Out of morbid curiosity, I wanted to see what the general consensus on /lit/ is about the infamous sewer gangbang in Stephen King's novel, IT. Reddit, YouTube, and so on, have some bizarre takes that assign this particular moment as a deeply thematic conceit or objective correlative (I'm trying to steel-man their points using some lit terms) for the transition of children into adulthood. I think it is shitty writing, and I fail to see its purpose and value.
Somehow, I always forget about this scene. So when I happen upon it, I am always legitimately confused. Like, I am trying to read some horrorslop novel. I want to be entertained and scared, not confused by a hacky attempt at literary depravity. Leave that to Bret Easton Ellis and Hubert Selby, Jr., Stevie.
I think this scene serves as a cautionary tale about cocaine and drug-addled writing. Regarding Ellis and Selby, Jr., I think of Less Than Zero and Requiem for a Dream when it comes to shocking, jarring scenes that actually serve a purpose and are not shoehorned in for funsies or whatever. In both of those novels, the violence depicted is not a moment of spectacle like the gangbang in the sewer, but a result of a decaying moral landscape where human beings are treated as disposable objects for consumption and exploitation.
Also, while we are here. Why are babyboomers so deeply into novelizing and exoticizing transgressive sexuality? I think it takes something inherently exciting and makes it boring.
Out of morbid curiosity, I wanted to see what the general consensus on /lit/ is about the infamous sewer gangbang in Stephen King's novel, IT. Reddit, YouTube, and so on, have some bizarre takes that assign this particular moment as a deeply thematic conceit or objective correlative (I'm trying to steel-man their points using some lit terms) for the transition of children into adulthood. I think it is shitty writing, and I fail to see its purpose and value.
Somehow, I always forget about this scene. So when I happen upon it, I am always legitimately confused. Like, I am trying to read some horrorslop novel. I want to be entertained and scared, not confused by a hacky attempt at literary depravity. Leave that to Bret Easton Ellis and Hubert Selby, Jr., Stevie.
I think this scene serves as a cautionary tale about cocaine and drug-addled writing. Regarding Ellis and Selby, Jr., I think of Less Than Zero and Requiem for a Dream when it comes to shocking, jarring scenes that actually serve a purpose and are not shoehorned in for funsies or whatever. In both of those novels, the violence depicted is not a moment of spectacle like the gangbang in the sewer, but a result of a decaying moral landscape where human beings are treated as disposable objects for consumption and exploitation.
Also, while we are here. Why are babyboomers so deeply into novelizing and exoticizing transgressive sexuality? I think it takes something inherently exciting and makes it boring.
2 / 0Machines can write a better Russian Lit paper than you,But they still can't outplay a primary schooler in football.
So who's laughing about "brain power" now, you fucking nerds?
So who's laughing about "brain power" now, you fucking nerds?
25 / 2LolitaJust finished this. First Nabakov book I read. Liked it a lot. There's all kinds of angles to come at it from, but one thing I like about it is that even though it does seem to be a commentary on the surreal nightmarish hellscape young America is, the schizo pedo is a smug Euro faggot up his own ass mere years after Europe exploded into racist genocidal literal hellscape warzone and destroyed itself. Reminded me a little of what I liked about Blood Meridian too, where the natives weren't falsely painted as innocent noble savages
Idk but I feel like that aspect of it was probably some way of processing Nabakov's own conflicting contradictive feelings about America and Europe too. Thoughts on this book and Nabakov as a whole
Idk but I feel like that aspect of it was probably some way of processing Nabakov's own conflicting contradictive feelings about America and Europe too. Thoughts on this book and Nabakov as a whole
14 / 1>And one of the things that is so fascinating - one of the reasons I love being a clinician is people are insanely interesting once they tell you the truth. Everyone's a Dostoevsky character. Crazily complex and this is true even for people - for so-called 'simple people'. There's no such thing as a simple human being. There are people who are less verbally sophisticated, and less cognitively sophisticated for that matter, but that doesn't mean they're without their depth.
34 / 2You are tasked with writing the next installment in the Harry Potter series.
It will be a proper book 8 and canonical (unlike Cursed Child).
How are you gonna do it?
Where will you take the story?
It will be a proper book 8 and canonical (unlike Cursed Child).
How are you gonna do it?
Where will you take the story?
3 / 0Hippolytus by EuripedesOther than making Aphrodite look like a big shit, I don't get it. Is Euripides trying to tell me I should love women cause this is a real retarded roundabout way of doing it.
52 / 3Rape in Greek MythologyPretty much every god, titan, and hero in Greek and Roman myth was a rapist or engaged in the rape of women, and the Greeks didn't seem to care.
What's the explanation for this?
What's the explanation for this?
248 / 113/History/Post and discussion about any type of history book.
>Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
>Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219158332-mark-twain
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>Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
>Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.
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5 / 0>>“If Hegel had written the whole of his logic and then said that it was merely an experiment in thought in which he had even begged the question in many places, then he would certainly have been the greatest thinker who had ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic.” - Kierkegaard
Oof. Owned.
Oof. Owned.
22 / 5Where did the literary white boy go?Where are the literary white guys? Why isn’t there a Millennial or Zoomer DFW, Roth, Mailer, Hemingway?
10 / 0I can't help but feel that there's something I'm not getting about CamusCamus' argument against suicide essentially boils down to
>Life is absurd (meaningless but humans seek meaning).
>Suicide is an attempt to escape the absurd.
>Escaping the absurd ends the very confrontation that defines it.
>Therefore, suicide is logically and existentially unsatisfactory.
And he certainly does treat it like a logical matter, he says at multiple points that this conclusion naturally follows from this reasoning, even drawing paralles to methodical doubt. And he bases the rest of his metaphysics and morality upon this point.
But it seems to me like there's a missing point between 3 and 4 because he never explains in detail why exactly the absurd needs to be continually confronted. Yes if confronting the absurd was in fact a "requirement" of human existence that would in fact disqualify suicide, but why? Even overlooking all the people that do end up committing philosophical or physical suicide and avoid the problem altogether, even if you do subscribe to Camus' points and attempt to confront the absurdity of life is the outcome still not the same? Death is not optional and dying holding a certain attitude is no different from dying holding another in a silent and uncaring universe. The issue of the absurd will never and can never be resolved and indeed most people never engage with it so quite literally what's the point? Why is this an imperative of human existence? If I accept Camus' other points why does it follow naturally that I should also accept this? I do not understand his logic.
Anyone here think they can explain?
>Life is absurd (meaningless but humans seek meaning).
>Suicide is an attempt to escape the absurd.
>Escaping the absurd ends the very confrontation that defines it.
>Therefore, suicide is logically and existentially unsatisfactory.
And he certainly does treat it like a logical matter, he says at multiple points that this conclusion naturally follows from this reasoning, even drawing paralles to methodical doubt. And he bases the rest of his metaphysics and morality upon this point.
But it seems to me like there's a missing point between 3 and 4 because he never explains in detail why exactly the absurd needs to be continually confronted. Yes if confronting the absurd was in fact a "requirement" of human existence that would in fact disqualify suicide, but why? Even overlooking all the people that do end up committing philosophical or physical suicide and avoid the problem altogether, even if you do subscribe to Camus' points and attempt to confront the absurdity of life is the outcome still not the same? Death is not optional and dying holding a certain attitude is no different from dying holding another in a silent and uncaring universe. The issue of the absurd will never and can never be resolved and indeed most people never engage with it so quite literally what's the point? Why is this an imperative of human existence? If I accept Camus' other points why does it follow naturally that I should also accept this? I do not understand his logic.
Anyone here think they can explain?
3 / 0The twists! The turns! The imposters! The agents! The swivving! SHEART! SBLOOD! Twas but pure kinography!
5 / 0Had a fuckin orgasms, my cum is all over the screen. i achieved enlightment through reading the prince. machiavelli the based. im ready to follow the footsteps of hitler
9 / 0I need to find this book in english, spanish or french.I seem to be unable to find a translation in those languages.
85 / 6English is the new latinIs english the new latin?
I mean each and every european country nowadays has an approach on how valuable you are based on how much you understand english not only because half of the world understand it and it opens doors for you but because it is an academic and social standart where if you want to search any academical study or scientific achievement it will most probably be translated to english, I am in the IT industry from a southern european country and it is impossible to study most things about IT in my native language because most official manuals are in english, most useful resources and programs are in english, and most interesting projects are in english.
And apart from IT everytime that I want to find information about a theme that I like (especially /out/ stuff) it's either a master craftsman in my country who is very talented at explaining how to do stuff or a very good professor who makes a remarkable good book for anyone to understand and it just reads so fluently, trully books which are meant to survive hundreds of years.
In my experience, carpentry, operative systems, books about industrial design, design documents for movies or games, history and politics... All non-native englishmen who wrote all this in english as it is a standart in modern european society, even outside of europe.
Only literature saves herself from this because each country each culture has it's own "quirks" that make their works unique in their way but that's the only thing that comes in mind, everything which is not innate to a specific culture or nation and it's worth to pass to future generations or just understood by most people on earth is written in english
I don't know if this has actually been discussed and if you have or know some books/resources or articles that talk about this I would appreciate it. Especially some that talk about how latin was used in the past even though it wasn't actually spoken and how english has influenced the whole world in this matter.
Pic unrelated, I just think it looks cool.
I mean each and every european country nowadays has an approach on how valuable you are based on how much you understand english not only because half of the world understand it and it opens doors for you but because it is an academic and social standart where if you want to search any academical study or scientific achievement it will most probably be translated to english, I am in the IT industry from a southern european country and it is impossible to study most things about IT in my native language because most official manuals are in english, most useful resources and programs are in english, and most interesting projects are in english.
And apart from IT everytime that I want to find information about a theme that I like (especially /out/ stuff) it's either a master craftsman in my country who is very talented at explaining how to do stuff or a very good professor who makes a remarkable good book for anyone to understand and it just reads so fluently, trully books which are meant to survive hundreds of years.
In my experience, carpentry, operative systems, books about industrial design, design documents for movies or games, history and politics... All non-native englishmen who wrote all this in english as it is a standart in modern european society, even outside of europe.
Only literature saves herself from this because each country each culture has it's own "quirks" that make their works unique in their way but that's the only thing that comes in mind, everything which is not innate to a specific culture or nation and it's worth to pass to future generations or just understood by most people on earth is written in english
I don't know if this has actually been discussed and if you have or know some books/resources or articles that talk about this I would appreciate it. Especially some that talk about how latin was used in the past even though it wasn't actually spoken and how english has influenced the whole world in this matter.
Pic unrelated, I just think it looks cool.
71 / 5Is /lit/ on Team Byron/Shelley or Team Wordsworth/Coleridge/Keats?
>Byron, on the other hand, called Wordsworth’s poetry ‘vulgar’ and ‘childish’, and memorably referred to him as ‘Turdsworth’.
>'Let me only say one word upon Lord B. The man is insane.' --Wordsworth to John Scott
>[Byron] wrote once to his friend John Murray: ‘P.S. — of the praises of that little dirty blackguard KEATES in the Edinburgh — I shall observe as Johnson did when Sheridan the actor got a pension. ‘What has he got a pension? then it is time that I should give up mine.’ — Nobody could be prouder of the praises of the Edinburgh than I was — or more alive to their censure. Why don’t they review & praise ‘Solomon’s Guide to Health’ it is better sense — and as much poetry as Johnny Keates.
>Keats was also quite jealous of Byron, stating to a friend, “You see what it is to be six foot tall and a lord!”
>The most incriminating poem Shelley composed was about Wordsworth, in the poem, “To Wordsworth”. The last line is a reflection of how far Wordsworth has fallen as poet. By saying, “Thus having been, than thou shouldst cease to be.” He refers to Wordsworth as if he is dead, using the past tense to describe him.
From Byron's Don Juan:
>Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;
>Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
>Because the first is crazed beyond all hope,
>The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy:
>Byron, on the other hand, called Wordsworth’s poetry ‘vulgar’ and ‘childish’, and memorably referred to him as ‘Turdsworth’.
>'Let me only say one word upon Lord B. The man is insane.' --Wordsworth to John Scott
>[Byron] wrote once to his friend John Murray: ‘P.S. — of the praises of that little dirty blackguard KEATES in the Edinburgh — I shall observe as Johnson did when Sheridan the actor got a pension. ‘What has he got a pension? then it is time that I should give up mine.’ — Nobody could be prouder of the praises of the Edinburgh than I was — or more alive to their censure. Why don’t they review & praise ‘Solomon’s Guide to Health’ it is better sense — and as much poetry as Johnny Keates.
>Keats was also quite jealous of Byron, stating to a friend, “You see what it is to be six foot tall and a lord!”
>The most incriminating poem Shelley composed was about Wordsworth, in the poem, “To Wordsworth”. The last line is a reflection of how far Wordsworth has fallen as poet. By saying, “Thus having been, than thou shouldst cease to be.” He refers to Wordsworth as if he is dead, using the past tense to describe him.
From Byron's Don Juan:
>Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;
>Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
>Because the first is crazed beyond all hope,
>The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy:
3 / 0Why most romantic stories for women are about cheating or toxic relationship, While men media have the most retarded relationships posible?
0 / 0mfw reading Voyage to ArcturusI'm halfway through. What are these weird ass characters even doing?
0 / 0In this novel, Oliver Mellors, the groundskeeper whom Lady Chatterley takes as her lover and plans to go off with and start a new life, has a young daughter. In other words, he has responsibilities. And yet discussion of the novel never mention this. A man with responsibilities to his child is planning to run off and shirk his responsibilities. Instead, discussions focus only on the oppressions of Victorian sexual conventions and how the heroes of the novel break them. If I ask ChatGPT about Mellors's daughter, it says he doesn't have one. That is how erased the daughter has become.
It seems that the daughter is not only forgotten by Mellors and Lady Chatterly, but also by people who read the book. I think Lawrence wanted it to be this way, as a kind of meta-criticism
It seems that the daughter is not only forgotten by Mellors and Lady Chatterly, but also by people who read the book. I think Lawrence wanted it to be this way, as a kind of meta-criticism
19 / 4Today I visited the grave of the greatest German poet who has ever lived. Press F to pay your respects.
6 / 1Physical books are more sovlful but ebooks (read: pirated PDFs) increase my reading efficiency dramatically. How cope?
11 / 1Was this really the world’s first novel?I thought the ancient Greeks, Romans, or Chinese would create what we call a “novel.” How much did this gain recognition outside Japan?
195 / 27Poetry GeneralPost your own work and critique others.
Also, has anyone done an irl open mic before? I went to one last week and it was quite fun. Think I might try to find another.
Also, has anyone done an irl open mic before? I went to one last week and it was quite fun. Think I might try to find another.
16 / 1w.t.f.Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the world. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.” 33 So they made their father drink wine that night; and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. 34 On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.” 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger rose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. 36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.
w.t.f.
w.t.f.
57 / 2University of Chicago is pausing graduate study in ClassicsThe source is a UofChi Professor and he posted this on the biggest classics mailing-list:
>Dear colleagues, I write to inform the field that the Dean of Humanities at the University of Chicago is "pausing" graduate admissions in all departments that require language study (except, it appears, Chinese). She herself is an English professor and seems to feel strongly that modern education should focus substantively on North America and only on topics that can be studied in English. The Division of the Arts and Humanities at Chicago has gone full-blown MAGA. At best, the Dean and other leaders of the University of Chicago are happily invoking the Trump assault on higher education as an excuse to perform actions that they were already planning. The pause in doctoral education in Classics, Comparative literature, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies is accompanied by the formation of a committee whose formal charge includes the questions: Can the committee identify languages that we no longer need to teach? Can the committee identify languages that we can offer every other year? Are there languages that we could teach by sending students physically to other universities or virtually to Zoom? Is there language teaching that we can do via ChatGPT? Although the action related to doctoral education is labeled a pause, I see no reason to think that we would resume doctoral education if we are simultaneously dismantling the curricula that sustain undergraduate training in these fields. Why would one have a doctoral program in a discipline that undergraduates can't even study? yours, Clifford Ando
That's a good thing considering they are responsible for all the retarded Straussian readings of Plato, Xenophon etc.
>Dear colleagues, I write to inform the field that the Dean of Humanities at the University of Chicago is "pausing" graduate admissions in all departments that require language study (except, it appears, Chinese). She herself is an English professor and seems to feel strongly that modern education should focus substantively on North America and only on topics that can be studied in English. The Division of the Arts and Humanities at Chicago has gone full-blown MAGA. At best, the Dean and other leaders of the University of Chicago are happily invoking the Trump assault on higher education as an excuse to perform actions that they were already planning. The pause in doctoral education in Classics, Comparative literature, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies is accompanied by the formation of a committee whose formal charge includes the questions: Can the committee identify languages that we no longer need to teach? Can the committee identify languages that we can offer every other year? Are there languages that we could teach by sending students physically to other universities or virtually to Zoom? Is there language teaching that we can do via ChatGPT? Although the action related to doctoral education is labeled a pause, I see no reason to think that we would resume doctoral education if we are simultaneously dismantling the curricula that sustain undergraduate training in these fields. Why would one have a doctoral program in a discipline that undergraduates can't even study? yours, Clifford Ando
That's a good thing considering they are responsible for all the retarded Straussian readings of Plato, Xenophon etc.
39 / 9what book actually gives a concrete definition of what fascism is? Im tried of retarded shitlibs of leftards calling everything fascist and want the authoritative source that originally described it
54 / 3>trust me bro changing social conventions will change human nature for the better
Has anyone done more damage to society than this man?
Has anyone done more damage to society than this man?
14 / 1Kant's study was located on the upper floor, facing east with a view of neighboring gardens and the Löbenicht church steeple. The room was described as simple and unadorned, with white walls that eventually became gray from dust and pipe smoke. According to an anecdote, Kant's friend, upon wiping away the dust to reveal the white paint, prompted Kant to remark, "Friend, why are you ruining that antique rust? Isn't a wallpaper that comes about on its own better than one purchased?"
11 / 1>write about some absolutely absurd shit that happened in real life with brutal honesty
>suddenly start second guessing the legal issues that might arise if anyone involved reads it
>thinking of just scrapping the entire thing and recreating a story that uses the events
>90% of the details that should be changed are details that matter like a nickname that is a character trait or the cities the events happened in
>want to write the truth because tons of it is cliche but because it's true it gets a pass
Anyone ever deal with this when writing a memoir?
>suddenly start second guessing the legal issues that might arise if anyone involved reads it
>thinking of just scrapping the entire thing and recreating a story that uses the events
>90% of the details that should be changed are details that matter like a nickname that is a character trait or the cities the events happened in
>want to write the truth because tons of it is cliche but because it's true it gets a pass
Anyone ever deal with this when writing a memoir?
319 / 60/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #83the substance edition
ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters
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ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.p
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=00688
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/4114405
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3 / 0Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
Who doth ambition shun
And loves to live i' the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleased with what he gets,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
Who doth ambition shun
And loves to live i' the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleased with what he gets,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
7 / 1Is this fella buying bot reviews or what?It's one of the best crowd reviewed books I've ever scene, 0% 1 star, 0% 2 star, and only at 3 stars is there anything to see on amazon. Goodreads also loves it.
What exactly am I missing here? I've never been so off from the consensus. The main character is far worse than YA levels of Gary Stu, and every page is either people sucking him off or blushing with jealousy at how heggin cool he is while he plows through every obstacle with zero challenge.
The MC is an obvious self insert and is basically the only character in the whole book, any others appear briefly as a mirror to react differently to how friggin sick and cool he is. This is the type of cynical writing you find in Chinese light novels.
I'm not even trolling or contrarianposting here, please generesloppers, explain this one to me.
What exactly am I missing here? I've never been so off from the consensus. The main character is far worse than YA levels of Gary Stu, and every page is either people sucking him off or blushing with jealousy at how heggin cool he is while he plows through every obstacle with zero challenge.
The MC is an obvious self insert and is basically the only character in the whole book, any others appear briefly as a mirror to react differently to how friggin sick and cool he is. This is the type of cynical writing you find in Chinese light novels.
I'm not even trolling or contrarianposting here, please generesloppers, explain this one to me.
36 / 5Im so tired and exhausted, i can barely get out of bed. I feel overwhelmed with everything. The only books ive found that give me either comfort or energy are from Cioran and Nietzsche. What else could help me, could give me some relief, whether itd be in acceptance or in renewed vigour?
28 / 1Essential books for understanding conlangs / invented languages for my book's lore? I want the language to at least be recognizable as a language from just the way it reads.
1 / 1schizo lit>H. P. Lovecraft seized on this pattern, also unconsciously, when he formulated the Cthulhu Mythos, largely elaborated—as he himself admits—from dream sources.
>Lovecraft intuited the fact that intimations of these alien presences usually manifest only to the dreaming mind, and—as often as not—in nightmares, for few minds are able to contain without terror the forms of the new Gnosis.
>The strength required to experience the dream and to remain outwardly coherent is an achievement that few can claim. Lautréamont admitted that he could not, and, as is well known, Rimbaud withdrew from
the struggle.
>As Salvador Dali said, 'The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad’.
who are your champions?
>Lovecraft intuited the fact that intimations of these alien presences usually manifest only to the dreaming mind, and—as often as not—in nightmares, for few minds are able to contain without terror the forms of the new Gnosis.
>The strength required to experience the dream and to remain outwardly coherent is an achievement that few can claim. Lautréamont admitted that he could not, and, as is well known, Rimbaud withdrew from
the struggle.
>As Salvador Dali said, 'The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad’.
who are your champions?
9 / 3Holy fuck this book was greatThis is one of my favorite books I've read in a while. How are his others? Can anyone recommend any other books with a similar vibe?
19 / 1>The Essay on Man was a work of great labour and long consideration, but certainly not the happiest of Pope’s performances. (Samuel Johnson)
>Kant was fond of the poem and would recite long passages from it to his students.
Who should we trust?
>Kant was fond of the poem and would recite long passages from it to his students.
Who should we trust?
25 / 3Stephen King says you can turn an ok writer into a good writer, but you can't turn a good writer into a great writer. Is this true?
6 / 0Kafka's Metamorphosis - Absurdist, not MarxistI see people force some sort of Marxist or even Jungian readings of Metamorphosis, but to me it reads far more like an absurdist or existentialist work.
Gregor wakes up as a bug. There's nothing moral here. Just a display of slow decay, social revulsion, and the quiet, crushing indifference of existence. He's quite literally crushed to death.
This screams more like Camus rather than Marx to me.
What are your thoughts?
Gregor wakes up as a bug. There's nothing moral here. Just a display of slow decay, social revulsion, and the quiet, crushing indifference of existence. He's quite literally crushed to death.
This screams more like Camus rather than Marx to me.
What are your thoughts?
79 / 7Douglas AdamsBesides The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, he also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Last Chance to See which is a nonfiction account of his expedition to Africa.
What does /lit/ think of the man?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
What does /lit/ think of the man?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougl
7 / 1Is Cormac based? Fuck no.https://jacobin.com/2025/08/cormac-mccarthy-conservatism-catholicism-community
I thought the answer to the question blatantly obvious. Cormac is far too tolerant of trannies, minorities and academics to ever be considered based.
He is in fact naught but a degenerate papist.
Not even getting into the underage cunny connoisseur facts.
I thought the answer to the question blatantly obvious. Cormac is far too tolerant of trannies, minorities and academics to ever be considered based.
He is in fact naught but a degenerate papist.
Not even getting into the underage cunny connoisseur facts.