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String fullTitle = 'Welcome to /lit/';
int postNumber = "17557914";
String image = lit.jpg;
String date = '02/15/21(Mon)23:06:25';
String comment = '/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/
Bookzz
http://b-ok.cc/
http://libgen.rs/
Recommended Literature
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Reco
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)16:08:09';
String comment = 'Is there such a thing as intellectual or even literary smut?
Most people enjoy a bit of smut, but it occurs to me how much people around me just read absolute trash. There's the general trend now where "book girls" are basically reading porn all day between "yound adult" novels that are written like grating teenage girls, bad fantasy settings, and then of course there's fanfiction/AO3, God help us. But there has to be better shit out there, and it's hilariously buried under tens of thousands of books from the last ten years with awful covers, and it's not like that's a new trend.
All I can think of is Venus in Furs (Ostensibly), some of the letters by Joyce (Also ostensibly), and something like A Feast Unknown that actually has interesting plot and point to it while being very over the top and intentionally horny. It's a surprise to me it's not a more well-categorized or popular genre/idea.';
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String fullTitle = '/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General';
int postNumber = "23356255";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)13:49:12';
String comment = 'Summer Edition
>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cy
>Archive
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search
>Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/group/sho
Previous: >>23348160'
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)06:12:11';
String comment = 'Books where a whore reforms after finding true love?';
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String fullTitle = 'Do programming languages classify as linguistics?';
int postNumber = "23360961";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)23:10:26';
String comment = 'undefined';
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String fullTitle = 'I've literally never read a book.';
int postNumber = "23361483";
String image = huh.png;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)05:41:02';
String comment = 'where do i start?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361161";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)00:48:28';
String comment = '>rapes every other English translation of the Iliad so brutally that it makes the gods of Ovid look like eunuch feminists by comparison';
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String fullTitle = '/clg/ - Classical Languages General';
int postNumber = "23337834";
String image = a27d24_36909fadb58d40028c49b618e93a1161~mv2.jpg;
String date = '04/29/24(Mon)18:45:20';
String comment = 'Relaxing in the thermae edition
>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>23288574
NOTE: replace ' dot ' with an actual dot to access the links below
>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7i
>Mέγα τὸ ANE
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6
Feel free to write your thoughts/stories/etc... in your target language.
>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko
You are very welcome to suggest additions/changes/etc... especially for other classical languages'
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)18:12:25';
String comment = '>"Magic is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval sense of magic systems: wizard was magical, the magic would happen. We look at real magic systems and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Gandalf was a wizard and cast a spell of light against the Fell Beasts. But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: Where was Gandalf's magic system? Did he have rules and metrics? Where did he show his magic meter and how much magic he could cast at a time? What does he do if he runs out of mana? And what about other magical things? By the end of the story there are still other magical beings and items. Did they have to have their enchantments renewed?"';
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String fullTitle = 'How many books do you all normally read in a month?';
int postNumber = "23361690";
String image = Dm9VXPUWwAAUvRH.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:50:15';
String comment = 'Do you guys stick to some monthly reading list?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360818";
String image = 51RpfmeDZxL._SL500_.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:11:30';
String comment = 'capitalism has done immeasurable damage to art and culture';
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String fullTitle = 'uhh, sisters our response?';
int postNumber = "23359292";
String image = file.png;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)12:50:55';
String comment = 'By the age of twelve at the latest, most women have decided to become prostitutes. Or, to put it another way, they have planned a future for themselves which consists of choosing a man and letting him do all the work. In return for his support, they are prepared to let him make use of their vagina at certain given moments. The minute a woman has made this decision she ceases to develop her mind. She may, of course, go on to obtain various degrees and diplomas. These increase her market value in the eyes of men, for men believe that a woman who can recite things by heart must also know and understand them. But any real possibility of communication between the sexes ceases at this point. Their paths are divided forever.';
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String fullTitle = '/wg/ Writing General';
int postNumber = "23351068";
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String date = '05/03/24(Fri)23:27:15';
String comment = '"Grandpa's story time" edition
Previous: >>23338313
/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.
Simple guides on writing:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohF
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String fullTitle = 'Stack thread';
int postNumber = "23346529";
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String date = '05/02/24(Thu)13:35:23';
String comment = 'These are all the books I've gotten this year. Left stack is the ones I've read so far. My two favorites from that stack are Spring Snow and The Makioka Sisters. The latter is one of the best books I've read in a long time and I hope it picks up some traction on /lit/ because it deserves it.
The right stack is books I haven't read yet, sort of. I've read Pedro Paramo before and I'm reading it again because new translation. Same with The obsene bird of night which I'll read next. Really looking forward to it since it's one of my all-time favorite books, I'm just hoping the new translation doesn't fuck it up.
Alright, post your stacks /lit/.';
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int postNumber = "23360314";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)18:20:58';
String comment = 'Who mogs?';
// 2 posts and 0 image replies omitted.
String fullTitle = 'what book?';
int postNumber = "23361197";
String image = painting.png;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)01:15:35';
String comment = 'Does anyone know what book is being talked about here? I have been trying to find it for a couple of days now but have had no luck. I would also love suggestions anyone has on similar themes of a character experiencing an epiphany that changes who they are fundamentally, would honestly probably prefer philosophical over political ones.';
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String fullTitle = 'Middle Eastern books';
int postNumber = "23357710";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)22:45:49';
String comment = 'Rec me some ME books. Hard mode: No holy texts.';
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String fullTitle = '/wwoym/ - Write What's On Your Mind general';
int postNumber = "23359307";
String image = Lavren purp.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)12:59:32';
String comment = 'Lavren Mayberry edition
Old: >>23355759';
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String fullTitle = 'Study of Pessimism';
int postNumber = "23359707";
String image = The_Conspiracy_against_the_Human_Race.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)14:57:29';
String comment = 'Retard here, I read the quotes posted here of the funny hair dude with a long name. I like him. But am told he's too big to read and I should begin with pic-related instead. Just making sure it's true before I order a copy as it costs money. And I don't want to mess up and order something that's also too big to read, for a retard.';
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String fullTitle = '/NAG/ - New Aristocracy general';
int postNumber = "23350637";
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String date = '05/03/24(Fri)19:25:20';
String comment = 'This is a place for all things fiction, poetry, history, and philosophy regarding the New Aristocracy movement. - #2
In order not to clutter the thread here is a pastebin link explaining and clarifying everything I outlined in the previous thread:
>https://pastebin.com/7sGN2tZa
FIRST ON THE AGENDA: BEGINNING OF HISTORY
Bronze Age or classical antiquity? Provide arguments for and against each.
What is the first indispensable historical work which the list must begin with?
Should it be FROM the period or ABOUT the period?
It's important to reason out which works are truly necessary to understand the period so that whatever knowledge comes next becomes embedded in the context of the previous (in this case of the FIRST). It is sometimes misleading to go strictly in chronological order.
Having an atlas will be indispensable so I've done some research and boiled it down to two for now:
>The Complete Atlas of World History 3 Volume Set, 1997, Routledge - John Haywood
>Atlas of World History 2nd edition, 2010, Oxford University Press - Patrick O'Brien
I've ordered the Oxford one and it should arrive within two weeks. When it does I'll see how usable it is along with Hobsbawm's "Age of Revolution" which I'm currently reading.
scientia potentia est';
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int postNumber = "23360881";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:39:21';
String comment = '>write a short story
>edit it
>all done!
>read it again a month later
>this is shit?
>edit it
>all done!
>read it again a month later
>this is shit?
>edit it
>all done!
>read it again a month later
>this is shit?
>edit it
>all done!
>read it again a month later
I know understand why writers scrap fully written novels.';
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String fullTitle = '*Has Yet To Be Refuted*';
int postNumber = "23361409";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)04:18:55';
String comment = 'undefined';
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int postNumber = "23352422";
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String date = '05/04/24(Sat)12:34:42';
String comment = '>age
>current book
>your thoughts on it';
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String fullTitle = 'Is he the ultimate pleb filter?';
int postNumber = "23359504";
String image = default.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)14:00:04';
String comment = 'undefined';
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String fullTitle = '/wlng/ - Web & Light Novel General';
int postNumber = "23332974";
String image = Sunny_Official.jpg;
String date = '04/28/24(Sun)05:26:44';
String comment = 'For the discussion of Japanese, Chinese, English, and Korean webnovels/lightnovels.
All forms of litrpg, xianxia and other genres such as Isekai, and media such as visual novels are welcome. Formerly web and now published works are also allowed.
You are free to post your own works(as long as it is WN format) and ask for feedback.
For published novels and tradSci-fi/Fantasy please head on over to >>/sffg/
Due to the constant complaints from /sffg/ I have decided to create a general that will primarily focus on the Eastern web/light novel and English litrpg scene.
>A glossary for those of you who don't know what Xianxia is:
https://www.wuxiaworld.com/page/gen
>Website for Litrpg:
https://www.royalroad.com/home
>A website that hosts the metadata of many Eastern web/light novels and translation links:
https://www.novelupdates.com/
Picrel is Sunny from Shadow Slave
If you have any questions or ways I could improve, please say.'
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String fullTitle = 'Why hasn’t this fat fuck finished his books';
int postNumber = "23356423";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)14:39:03';
String comment = 'undefined';
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int postNumber = "23361596";
String image = quote-belief-is-a-wise-wager-granted-that-faith-cannot-be-proved-what-harm-will-come-to-you-blaise-pascal-22-57-51.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)06:58:14';
String comment = 'where's the lie?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361646";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:27:03';
String comment = 'Books for learning grammar?
From beginner through to advanced. Thank you!';
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String fullTitle = 'Buddhism is a Brahman psyop';
int postNumber = "23361655";
String image = 0_tO8DxEIPcVBD9NF1.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:32:03';
String comment = '>who cares if you're ruled by a Jewish satanic pedophile elite that wants to transexualize your children
>life is suffering anyway and you'll be reborn because life is a never ending cycle so don't resist goy
>Just be a monk and renounce all violence and sex so you will get demographically replaced and cucked by Muslims for centuries goy
>god doesn't exist but you still have to bow down to this idol
Who falls for this satanic shit?';
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int postNumber = "23361372";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)03:44:54';
String comment = '>author writes pages upon pages of pointless details and descriptions instead of progressing the plot';
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int postNumber = "23360436";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)19:11:54';
String comment = '3x3 thread? show me your favorite stories';
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int postNumber = "23354949";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)04:18:59';
String comment = 'I would like to 'de-Nazify' alot of my beliefs about this world, what books should I read for this?';
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int postNumber = "23356677";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)16:08:00';
String comment = 'I want to become a polymath, where do I start?';
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String fullTitle = 'Help me find this novel';
int postNumber = "23362054";
String image = IMG_0779.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)11:18:25';
String comment = 'So long story short I have a habit of writing the chapters of novels that I have caught up to or stop reading and want to continue later on my notes app. But I don’t write the full title because it’s too long so I write the acronym. So today I went and checked the notes and I have found a novel That I left off at chapter 46 which I titled IMS 46. I forgot what it stands for. I was reading it last year when it came out on web novel.com and it was quite popular. It’s about a guy who I think was sent back all the way back in time in the dinosaur/prehistoric era and has to cultivate/survive and get stronger. And I think there was an elf probably evil. And all these prehistoric creatures are really strong. I’m sorry for the quality of the clues I barely remember. I read it last year when it only had like 40-60 chapters. I’m pretty the sure the m in IMS stands for immortal. Please assist me. Also just to have some fun and give you guys a little challenge try to guess what the others stand for some are a bit easier than others Good luck (TR is the runesmith and CD is about detective)';
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String fullTitle = '/tolk/ - J. R. R. Tolkien General';
int postNumber = "23355870";
String image = 3af9f570-jrrtyolkien-2.png;
String date = '05/05/24(Sun)11:50:32';
String comment = '>Favorite Tolkien work
>Favorite Tolkien character
>Favorite Tolkien theme';
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String fullTitle = 'Stop reading Dostoevsky, chud!';
int postNumber = "23355612";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)10:27:53';
String comment = 'Ukrainians are getting killed!';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23358762";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)09:35:21';
String comment = 'Did Humbert really do anything wrong?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361030";
String image = Notes.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)23:47:55';
String comment = 'How do I chart out my book before I start writing?';
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String fullTitle = 'A Feast For Crows';
int postNumber = "23361759";
String image = GRRM.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)08:32:46';
String comment = 'Just marathoned this. What did I think?';
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String fullTitle = 'Ashbery';
int postNumber = "23287218";
String image = John_Ashbery.jpg;
String date = '04/14/24(Sun)11:05:15';
String comment = 'Thoughts on Ashbery? Any favorite poems or collections by him that you want to recommend or discuss? What do you think of some critics' accusations that his work is meaningless?';
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int postNumber = "23360715";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)21:16:03';
String comment = 'Outsider art literature
Which is your favorite';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361953";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)10:30:49';
String comment = 'How do I learn to write like this?';
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String fullTitle = 'Writers who';
int postNumber = "23360816";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:10:05';
String comment = 'wrote novels that you hated, and short stories that you loved.
Never managed to finish a novel by this lil corncobby nigga. Recently was given a complete volume of his short fiction and it cured my racism';
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int postNumber = "23355895";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)11:58:20';
String comment = 'Are you guys excited for the future of literature?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361833";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)09:15:37';
String comment = 'Objectivism is just Communism for egoists.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23362015";
String image = file.png;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)11:02:59';
String comment = 'will this help me get over my papa issues and begin the segs?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359973";
String image = Disquiet.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)16:29:59';
String comment = 'This book changed my life.
It was like finding a friend.';
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String fullTitle = 'what books make you wince like this?';
int postNumber = "23361784";
String image = meinkampf6.png;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)08:48:58';
String comment = 'made this meme while watching her review and was wondering what book has made you visibly wince?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361992";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)10:52:57';
String comment = '>write a book about how androids are literal demiurge creations
>make them as abhorrent as possible
>in the end the protagonist finds Christ after killing a bunch of them and questioning his own humanity
>Some hack midwit director decides to adapt it into a movie
>misses the point completely, makes androids seem like good people
>other midwits gather around your work after watching it
>they make an 'android' in your image
>have to look down from Heaven and see them desecrating your memory
Why do midwits?';
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String fullTitle = 'Favorite Iliad character?';
int postNumber = "23359274";
String image = Briseis_Phoinix_Louvre_G152.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)12:38:31';
String comment = 'For me, it's Nestor.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360850";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:23:39';
String comment = 'The system of logic is the realm of shadows, the world of simple essentialities freed from all sensuous concreteness. The study of this science, to dwell and labour in this shadowy realm, is the absolute culture and discipline of consciousness.';
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int postNumber = "23360573";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)20:06:45';
String comment = '>this city of stone and stridor is not a sentient perpetuation of Old New York as London is of Old London and Paris is of Old Paris, but that it is in fact quite dead, its sprawling body imperfectly embalmed and infested with queer animate things which have nothing to do with it as it was in life.
>the throngs of people that seethed through the flume-like streets were squat, swarthy strangers with hardened faces and narrow eyes, shrewd strangers without dreams and without kinship to the scenes about them, who could never mean aught to a blue-eyed man of the old folk, with the love of fair green lanes and white New England village steeples in his heart.
I understand Lovecraft is meant to be the ultimate chud or whatever, but where is the lie in all of this? It's exactly the same now as it was then, who can deny it? Why would they want to deny it?';
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String fullTitle = '/lit/ periodicals and newspapers?';
int postNumber = "23361994";
String image = 9cd1aca2485377b86ab1c984ab902ace.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)10:52:59';
String comment = 'What are the highest-brow and highest quality periodicals, newspapers, substacks, etc? (Feel free to list periodicals, etc in languages like French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese as well.)';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)10:36:04';
String comment = 'What is your favorite existentialist book?
For me it's probably Frankenstein.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361763";
String image = [email protected];
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)08:36:45';
String comment = 'I thought it was hilarious and loved reading it, but I don't really get the message it was going for. Everyone Ignatius interacted with ended up worse off, Ignatius didn't really learn any lesson or change his character, and in the end he was only 'saved' by an old friend he used to have. How do I stop myself from becoming Ignatius if I don't have any old friends to deus ex machina my life better?';
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String fullTitle = 'Things will never get better';
int postNumber = "23361983";
String image = 1704797335967130.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)10:50:18';
String comment = 'instead they will get worse and worse as life slowly passes you by.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361515";
String image = I16146914.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)06:00:58';
String comment = 'does anyone have this with subtitles?';
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String fullTitle = 'Books on incest? Fiction or non fiction';
int postNumber = "23350840";
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String date = '05/03/24(Fri)21:19:36';
String comment = 'Is it wrong that I agree with this?';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)21:40:34';
String comment = 'And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He never sleeps, he says. He says he’ll never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge. He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling at once. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.';
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String fullTitle = 'Pre/Post-Apocalypse';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)10:00:03';
String comment = 'Something of this mood. Singing comfort songs whilst the snowstorm or whatever is in the snowstorm could kill them.';
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int postNumber = "23343788";
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String date = '05/01/24(Wed)17:12:07';
String comment = 'It's kinda hard to take him seriously when you realise how unoriginal he is. Literally every thought he has is just stolen from Jung or Dostoevsky. You could just read their works instead and you'd miss nothing.';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)15:09:10';
String comment = 'Why are europeans so ludite?';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)00:37:56';
String comment = '>tfw trying to read Joyce yet again';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)10:27:37';
String comment = 'Her darkest book wtf';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)01:34:19';
String comment = 'Its not very good, scp tier but waste far more of your time';
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String fullTitle = 'how do i obtain a /lit/ gf';
int postNumber = "23356210";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)13:29:27';
String comment = '>I padded up from the sunken bed in the forecastle and through into the galley. It smelled of coffee and, on account of our recent refit in Nagasaki, turpentine. As I came up, Tilly returned from some chore on deck, swanning down the narrow teak stairs and onto the banquette opposite the chart table. She was wearing the carnation-colored export kimono I had given her the preceding week and, once she doffed her sun hat, nothing else. She struck a long kitchen match against the galley stove and lit a Cartier cigarette. Shifting, she selected her raggedy copy of Brideshead Revisited from where it lay interloping on my chart rack and began reading. The Japanese had put an almost mirror polish on the teakwood ceiling and as Longreach heeled slightly, the morning sun poured through a downlighter and glittered against it, bathing Tilly in fairy-light. I married her in that moment, everything that followed was a formality.';
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String fullTitle = 'Poetry thread';
int postNumber = "23350400";
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String date = '05/03/24(Fri)17:14:07';
String comment = 'What a tragedy
We want to live a real romance
In the age of blasphemy
Long are the days of Margaret's and Anastasia's
Who's purity was commendable
And made life rememberable
Now we deal with Stacy's and Becky's
Who's conduct is shameful
And makes men regretful
How good life could be
If women knew how to live?
But fear not
the end is near
The Incel Revolution is coming here!';
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String fullTitle = 'He's right, you know';
int postNumber = "23360515";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)19:43:55';
String comment = '>When a man tells me he is a conservative, I immediately ask him if he is a Roman Catholic, or perhaps a Jew. I ask also if he had a strict classical education. If he answers yes to either, or ideally both, then I know he has at least some moral or aesthetic justification for his views. If the answer to both questions is no, then I disregard him, as he can only be a greedy little bigot. I have a great deal of time for the conservative whose vision of civilization is a grand old cathedral, and none for whom it is a well run stock exchange.
~John le Carré, 2001';
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String fullTitle = 'Spent all day doomsxrolling';
int postNumber = "23360946";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)23:05:53';
String comment = 'Give me a ban tranny jannies
Peace and enjoy Destiny's physique';
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int postNumber = "23352815";
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String date = '05/04/24(Sat)14:06:25';
String comment = 'Will zoomer literature usher a right-wing cultural revolution and finally produce contemporary prose worth reading?';
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String fullTitle = 'Catho/lit/';
int postNumber = "23355589";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)10:19:07';
String comment = '>Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
>Introduction to Christianity - Pope Benedict XVI
>The Confessions of St. Augustine
>St. Thomas Aquinas - G.K. Chesterton
>Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
>The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton
>A Shorter Summa The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica - Peter J. Kreeft
>Catechism of the Summa Theologi - Thomas Aquinas
>Catholic Catechism of Saint Piu - Pope St. Pius X
>Early Christian Writings The Apostolic Fathers - Andrew Louth
>History of the Christian Church (Complete Eight Volumes In One) - Philip Schaff
>Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament RSV 2nd Edition
>The Faith of Our Fathers - James Cardinal Gibbons
>The Spirit of Catholicism - Karl Adam Robert A. Krieg
>The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection
>United States Catholic Conference - Catechism of the Catholic Church-Libreria Editrice Vaticana (2000)
https://www.traditionalcatholic.co/
https://www.traditionalcatholic.co/
http://www.freecatholicebooks.com/
http://www.saintsbooks.net/BooksLis
https://catholicebooks.wordpress.co
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String fullTitle = 'what shoud i do?';
int postNumber = "23361669";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:39:40';
String comment = 'i only want to own books i like but i don't know if i like them before reading them but if i buy books i already read i feel stupid and if i buy books and don't like them i feel even more stupid to have paid for them and don't want them in my collection';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)12:07:39';
String comment = 'Was Junger autistic?';
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String fullTitle = 'Houellebecq thread';
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String date = '04/29/24(Mon)12:46:11';
String comment = 'Doomers get in here and talk about anything Houellebecq. I'm currently reading Interventions 2020. Approaches to Distress (3) is full of his potent cynicism that I'm loath to enjoy.';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)10:20:40';
String comment = 'Well, /lit/?';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)01:16:17';
String comment = 'write for peace all you wise men';
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String fullTitle = 'Books for pseuds.';
int postNumber = "23360454";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)19:18:33';
String comment = 'undefined';
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String fullTitle = 'Books that study gothic horror literature?';
int postNumber = "23357601";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)21:53:13';
String comment = 'I’m looking to expand my knowledge of this particular subject to better inform my writing, and lately I’ve been reading a great deal of gothic horror stories, but now I’ve been wondering about the deep semiotics behind certain tropes of gothic horror. For example, are there any books that explore the occult origins of the vampire? The theological symbolism of ambition and sin in Faust? The primalism and anti-propriety of Jekyll and Hyde or wolf men? Obviously, I’m somewhat familiar with these tropes based on my readings and perusal through various wikis, but I was hoping that someone here might have a more academic or theological examination of these ideas - of “gothicness” itself.';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)21:49:30';
String comment = 'The literal goat book';
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int postNumber = "23355181";
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)06:55:12';
String comment = 'New queen of /lit/';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:49:37';
String comment = '>Your favourite philosopher is Evola? Isn't he, like, a fascist? Don't tell me you also browse those loser misogynistic forums like 4chan? Anon I don't think we can see eachother anymore.';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)11:57:33';
String comment = 'Why did Pynchon become THE postmodernist? Seems like tons of people read him and maybe something like The Recognitions and ignore the rest of the scene entirely. Pynch is good, don't get me wrong, but there's nothing magical to him that Barth (RIP), Hawkes, Gass and so on didn't have, and it's frustrating to see him hog the attention (doubly so since he doesn't even want it). He's known for long difficult books so it's not like all the other pomo guys are too hard for his audience, nor is he a household name middle-class people feel they have to understand to pass for Well-Read. I like to think it's more than just the quirky shut-in angle but wouldn't be shocked if that was enough.';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:44:05';
String comment = '>be me
>open book
>read literally 8ish words
>close book
>think about something else
what is wrong with me';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)05:29:48';
String comment = 'books with this feel?';
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String comment = '>finished pic rel
>The conversation in the car at the end there was some good fun, but very little of the story had any staying power.
>The prose was... Okay. My favorite thing about Fitzgeralds prose is how it went on to change Salinger's, but Fitzgerald himself? He can write a good sentence, but I find he over explains the sky and under explains the movements.With him, it's rare that I encounter a phrase that makes me feel worthless for never having thought of it myself.
>The characters are fine. I often wondered while reading how many of the women troubles he based off of Zelda, which is on me, but nonetheless tainted my reading. His college friends were interesting, and I particularly enjoyed Monsignor.
Overall, its fine. A decent first novel, but I'm not sure why people say it eclipses Gatsby. Might be one of those situations where normies pretend to like the obscure work of enormously famous authors, so it seems like they've read more. Gatsby is a tighter, dramatic story with a more evocative narrator. I never completely loved that book, but I can appreciate it's value, and I definitely liked it more than Paradise. What about you, anons? Did you prefer it? What were your favorite sections.';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)06:44:51';
String comment = '>Nothing has changed:
>the moon over Ten-hundred-foot Mountain.
>Five hundred previous lives unborn
>—who are you ?
Can /lit/ answer this question?';
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)06:45:42';
String comment = 'What are some good French novellas or short novels? Only 200 or so pages maximum, 50 pages minimum.
I'm looking to improve my French by reading many different authors with different styles and vocabularies.
So far I have
>Le Grand Meaulnes
>Trois Contes by Flaubert
>Candide
Also something by Balzac
I've already read Le Colonel Chabert but was thinking of La Vendetta and Un épisode sous la Terreur';
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String fullTitle = '/wbg/ Worldbuilding General';
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String date = '05/03/24(Fri)15:15:28';
String comment = 'Lovecraftian nightmare edition
Welcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion and development of fictional worlds and settings.
Here is where you can share the details of your created worlds such as lore, factions, magic systems, ecosystems and more. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art, either created by you or used as inspiration for your work. Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback!
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.
Last Thread >>23275199';
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String comment = 'Does the Book of Job teaches us that God is a sadistic tyrant who likes making innocent people suffer for no reason?';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:29:18';
String comment = 'In the dim light of early morning, the city seemed to pause, a rare stillness settling over its sprawl, the way breath turns visible in cold air, then disappears. Thomas stood by the window of his forty-second-floor apartment, looking down at the street below, where the occasional car moved with the tentative ease of a creature waking from a long sleep. The sky was a gradient of grays, the sun a theoretical concept behind layers of unyielding cloud.
He turned from the window, the room around him filled with the ghostly echoes of the city, sounds that found their way through thick glass and layers of personal indifference. The apartment was minimalist, almost brutally so, each piece of furniture not so much chosen as allowed to occupy space, the color scheme an allusion to concrete and shadow.
Thomas picked up his phone, the screen lighting up with a text from Michael, a message sent with the casual doom of the well-informed:
"Market's going to tank today. Watch the numbers."
He let the phone slip onto the couch, feeling the familiar tug at his stomach, that blend of anticipation and dread that marked his mornings. The markets were a language he spoke fluently, a series of numbers and trends that could be read like tea leaves for those who knew the patterns.
As he dressed, his movements were automatic, muscle memory carrying him through the routine. His suit was tailored, dark, almost blending into the room's palette, his tie a thin line of slightly less oppressive darkness. In the mirror, his reflection seemed like another piece of the apartment's decor, a study in angles and shadows.
He made coffee, the machine hissing and gurgling in what might have been protest or perhaps companionship. Taking the mug, he returned to the window, the city now slightly more alive, the early risers emerging, dots of movement on the canvas of streets and sidewalks.
Thomas knew these people, even if he had never met them. He knew them in the way one knows the characters of a well-worn novel, their routines and rhythms, the quiet desperation that clung to them like a second skin. They were part of the vast machinery of the city, cogs in an unseen apparatus that moved to the pulse of commerce and fear.
As he sipped his coffee, his phone buzzed again. Another message, this one from Claire:
"Are we still on for tonight? Or has the world ended yet?"
He smiled, a brief, fleeting thing that felt out of practice. Claire had a way of piercing his armor, a precision honed through years of shared cynicism and sporadic warmth.
"Not yet," he typed back. "But the day is young."
Outside, the city was waking up, the stillness of the dawn giving way to the chaos of day. Somewhere below, sirens began to wail, a desperate cry that was both an alarm and a lament. Thomas watched, the coffee cup growing cold in his hand, as the sky began to lift its veil of gray, the first hints of blue peeking through, reluctant and unsteady.';
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String comment = 'Hegel is careful to methodically derive each category of reality ('thought-determination') from its predecessor notion, with the completed system bringing the circle to a close, demonstrating its unity.';
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String comment = '>Nice mythology you've got there. It would be a shame if someone added some absolute concepts of good and evil to it.';
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String fullTitle = 'GREEK HAPPENING: PLATO LAST DAY ON EARTH UNCOVERED';
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String comment = 'https://www.unipi.it/index.php/pres
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2
Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy.
In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative detailing how the Greek philosopher spent his last evening, describing how he listened to music played on a flute by a Thracian slave girl.
Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato – who was known as a disciple of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, and who died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests.
The decoded words also suggest Plato’s burial site was in his designated garden in the Academy of Athens, the world’s first university, which he founded, adjacent to the Mouseion. Previously, it was only known in general terms that he was buried within the academy.
In a presentation of the research findings at the National Library of Naples, Prof Graziano Ranocchia, of the University of Pisa, who spearheaded the team responsible for unearthing the carbonised scroll, described the discovery as an “extraordinary outcome that enriches our understanding of ancient history”.
He said: “Thanks to the most advanced imaging diagnostic techniques, we are finally able to read and decipher new sections of texts that previously seemed inaccessible.”
The text also reveals that Plato was sold into slavery on the island of Aegina, possibly as early as 404BC when the Spartans conquered the island, or alternatively in 399BC, shortly after Socrates’ passing.
“Until now it was believed that Plato was sold into slavery in 387BC during his sojourn in Sicily at the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse,” Ranocchia said. “For the first time, we have been able to read sequences of hidden letters from the papyri that were enfolded within multiple layers, stuck to each other over the centuries, through an unrolling process using a mechanical technique that disrupted whole fragments of text.”
Ranocchia said the ability to identify these layers and virtually realign them to their original positions to restore textual continuity represented a significant advance in terms of gathering vast amounts of information.
He said the work was still in its nascent stages and the full impact would only become apparent in the coming years.'
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String fullTitle = 'Books simply can't compete';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)07:04:05';
String comment = 'What is life like for a subvocalizer?
do you actually have to read every single garbage post on this or any other website aloud in your head to parse them?
I only subvocalize when I want to, usually for very good books or very technical acadmeic papers.';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)01:40:39';
String comment = 'According to the stories that circulated in Moscow and St. Petersburg he had completely lost his head, loudly lamented his approaching end, tried to push his way into the lifeboat, brutally shoving aside women and children, and finally, in full sight of the entire company, seized a sailor by the arm and offered him ten thousand roubles in his mother's name if he would save him, saying that he was the only son of a rich widow and could not bear to die so young.
-Isaiah Berlin on Ivan Turgenev's alleged behavior whilst on a sinking ship.';
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String fullTitle = 'QUIZ — HUNT THE POET';
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String comment = 'undefined';
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String fullTitle = 'The Tale of Genji vs Three Kingdoms';
int postNumber = "23359643";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)14:43:36';
String comment = 'Which one is the greatest asian novel?';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)06:36:30';
String comment = 'Do Buddhists believe in Free Will or not? Can there be Free Will without an unchanging independent self?';
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String date = '05/05/24(Sun)13:09:33';
String comment = 'He was right about everything';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)06:59:44';
String comment = 'Happy 200th birthday to Beethoven’s Ninth symphony';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)06:33:07';
String comment = 'How do you make the publishing industry less gay?';
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String fullTitle = 'Plato's Parmenides and Heidegger';
int postNumber = "23329698";
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String date = '04/27/24(Sat)01:59:52';
String comment = '>As the dialogue argues, Being (ὄν) and the One (ἕν) can be said of all, and neither can be primary. The problem, then, is how to understand the unity of the ἰδέα if it also is. There must be a difference between One and Being if they can be said to constitute a multiplicity, but the difference cannot be or be one. If, as Heidegger argues, Being is difference itself, we arrive at an understanding of difference that does not efface itself in favour of the identical, and an understanding of Being that does not get conflated with beings.
Wtf, so Heidegger was like a German proto-Deleuze? Wow.';
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)02:59:39';
String comment = '>my favorite author is Dostoevsky
Who let them in';
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String comment = 'I can’t be the only one that deems Kraftwerk the definite artistic achievement of the 20th century. Is there any literature on how earnestness inextricable from deadpan humor can be so prophetic?';
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String fullTitle = 'travelogue recommendations';
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)06:06:12';
String comment = 'i'll take anything';
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int postNumber = "23361376";
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String date = '05/07/24(Tue)03:46:18';
String comment = 'Are these as good as I remember?';
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String fullTitle = 'Wanna get into Hinduism';
int postNumber = "23328651";
String image = shiva.jpg;
String date = '04/26/24(Fri)19:24:52';
String comment = 'What do I read first? The Rig Veda? The Bhagavad-gītā? Upanishads? Sankara?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23312477";
String image = poetry.png;
String date = '04/22/24(Mon)05:13:29';
String comment = '/pg/ - Poetry General
Post poetry, your own or otherwise, and discuss. Critique and discussion constantly in dire supply. If you're looking for critique, consider giving details on what exactly you're wishing to improve in the work(s).';
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String fullTitle = 'What are your top 3 poems & Poets?';
int postNumber = "23361209";
String image = 1673829479437918.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)01:24:00';
String comment = 'Trying to get more into poetry.
What's your top 3 Poets AND individual peices, authors aside?';
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int postNumber = "23356789";
String image = 1714469724834996.jpg;
String date = '05/05/24(Sun)16:47:18';
String comment = 'So, you think you're good at letters and shit? Explain the difference between these words:
>opposite
>reverse
>inverse';
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String fullTitle = '/wbp/ - Write By Post #1';
int postNumber = "23357381";
String image = writebypost.jpg;
String date = '05/05/24(Sun)20:35:42';
String comment = 'Last thread died on me RIGHT as I was finishing my next post to bump it.
Previous >>23354522
/lit/ was supposed to be a slow board edition.
Why not use the text entry feature of /lit/ to write?
/wwoym/ is for /r9k/posting, not writing
/wg/ encourages you to limit excerpts to one post and post high quality edited works
I just want to read and write with anons and I do not care about the format.
ITT, write in the 4chan quick reply box.
If you hit 3000 characters cut off the end or edit it a bit, post it, and finish writing it and reply to the first post.
You can write single posts or long chains of posts.
You can tripfag if you want to make it more clear which posts are yours.
You can write about whatever, poetry, prose, even boring philosophy type stuff. Don't edit. Don't agonize. Don't be insecure.
Simply WRITE, FAGGOT, WRITE!';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360215";
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String date = '05/06/24(Mon)17:49:21';
String comment = 'I'm trying to write a short for my local literary magazine but all the shorts they publish are almost void of substance. See the link. The prose is good, but it seems that's all it has going for it.
What's with Indie publishers and the hardon they have for prose poetry void of theme or concrete narrative? Why does genre fiction have a monopoly on story? It seems that there's a huge divide between stories that are "literary" which are impressionistic ennui-focused prose poems void of substance or fantasy-slop.
https://www.yolkliterary.ca/article
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int postNumber = "23343841";
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String date = '05/01/24(Wed)17:25:30';
String comment = 'Are there any classic novels/plays where an aggressive woman relentlessly pursues a man and forces him to make her his wife?';
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String fullTitle = '/crit/ Critique General #2';
int postNumber = "23340717";
String image = Li Huasheng.jpg;
String date = '04/30/24(Tue)17:42:25';
String comment = 'What happened to /crit and feedback threads? Let's bring them back.
OP will crit every submission posted here. I promise to help and be fair. I'll post my own stuff later.
Post your fiction excerpts, non-fic rambles, poems, whatever and in exchange give feedback on others' work.
>No matter how bad you think something is, try to find at least one thing good to say about it.
>And please provide your fellow anons with more advice than kys, stop writing, etc. Just a few sentences, what works, what doesn't, and ways their work can become better.
ok somebody post something they're working on and i'll read it.';
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String fullTitle = 'Stop reading Céline, chud!';
int postNumber = "23360919";
String image = 43543.png;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:56:48';
String comment = 'He was a piece of shit!';
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String fullTitle = 'Letters of Note';
int postNumber = "23361436";
String image = LettersofNote.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)04:45:55';
String comment = 'How do things like this make you feel?
The letters of famous people themselves are fascinating. But they are curated by an Author who presents things like he "created" them rather than just having found them.
He puts himself square in the frame of the intro and seems to hold himself in high regard for putting this book together.
He didn't do anything but the book remains of quality not because of him but other people.
Lile biographies or history books';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361419";
String image = 1714657997268226.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)04:27:47';
String comment = 'GIIIAAAAAAAAANNTTTT!';
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String fullTitle = '/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General';
int postNumber = "23350723";
String image = EZNoWZZX0AA_F61[1].jpg;
String date = '05/03/24(Fri)20:09:59';
String comment = 'we got archived where are you guys at edition
dead: >>23318368';
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String fullTitle = 'ANTI-WORK - PRO NEET BOOKS';
int postNumber = "23356932";
String image = 1696767956942.png;
String date = '05/05/24(Sun)17:43:00';
String comment = 'What's the /lit/ consensus on NEETdom and related literature?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359774";
String image = ebook-reader-2048px-0061.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)15:16:15';
String comment = 'Best E-readers for PDFs? large screen preferably.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359045";
String image = Lolita_1955.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)11:15:32';
String comment = 'Would a degenerate like myself enjoy reading this or is it overhyped?';
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String fullTitle = 'Post your literally me character';
int postNumber = "23361367";
String image = a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man-james-joyce.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)03:37:15';
String comment = 'I'll start:
Stephen Dedalus';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361311";
String image = 1714751022108496.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)02:48:52';
String comment = 'What is the best single book encompassing all of world history?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359467";
String image = maxresdefault.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)13:51:58';
String comment = 'I feel like my vision is getting worse, and I attribute it to the amount of time I spend staring at small letters on a page, aka reading. What can I do to remedy this?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23355036";
String image = 431292059.jpg;
String date = '05/05/24(Sun)05:31:47';
String comment = 'Thoughts on Saoirse's Shelf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpC
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23351684";
String image = ceo mindset.jpg;
String date = '05/04/24(Sat)07:22:14';
String comment = '>read about a religion
>"ooh, maybe I'll convert"
>read about a political ideology
>"ooh, maybe this is what I should follow?"
Books that will help me stop being so weak-minded and suggestible?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361116";
String image = edre2zuxpudva2gg56dx.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)00:21:24';
String comment = 'original sci-fi story idea:
>a boy is attracted to his mother
>his house bathroom has a sunlight
>he spends his life perfecting faster than light travel
>calculates how far he'd need to go to see his mom naked from the sunlight
>once he gets there he sees himself being raped by his mom
>realizes he had tried to supress that horrible experience all this time
>he shoots a faster than light bullet at her
>accidentally shoots himself as a kid
>seeing himself die in the past triggers a new big bang from where he's at';
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String fullTitle = 'Do you think it's important to read every worldview, especially the one that is opposite of yours?';
int postNumber = "23359629";
String image = Rorschach-armageddon.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)14:39:14';
String comment = 'Sure it may help you develop with unlike science there's no objectivity, testing or null hypothesis. Doing so at most means your philosophy changes based on your feelings towards your circumstances. Wouldn't sticking to a single one make you stronger than abandoning at every problem you face? What you anons think?';
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String fullTitle = 'So i gather that you lot hate this trilogy because its more idea-focused than person-focused';
int postNumber = "23357926";
String image = 1714971046235.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)00:52:40';
String comment = 'Thing is, thats exactly the kind of autism I need. Is it really so bad?
Preemptive fuck off if you're just gonna shit on it without justification.
Those who agree, what else is like this?';
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String fullTitle = 'Picking the Pinker Brain';
int postNumber = "23359808";
String image = jung.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)15:30:52';
String comment = '>be Carl Jung>
>pioneering psychologist>
>developed concepts like archetypes, collective unconscious, objective psyche>
>sitting in my armchair smoking a pipe>
>thinking about the nature of human beings>
>wormhole opens up and drops all of Steven Pinker's work on my table>
>discover Pinker is a prominent cognitive psychologist>
>argues for evolved psychological traits>
>says human behavior is shaped by evolution>
>realizing that I agree; our traits ARE evolved>
>see parallels between Pinker's work and my own>
>natural selection has shaped us over thousands of years>
>we both believe in innate psychological structures>
>both believe human behavior is shaped by evolution>
>it's not just physical traits, but intelligence, empathy, navigation of the social world>
>cooperation with others to build relationships>
>we are not ONLY products of our genes, we have free will and can make our own choices>
>those choices are influenced by our evolved traits>
>realize we can't escape our evolutionary heritage>
>humans throughout history and across cultures have always had similar patterns of thought, emotion, and reaction>
>mythologies always seem to have similar ideas no matter the physical or temporal distance>
>the books disappear after I make the connections>
>realizing that I am correct, or at least my ideas still stand>
>can return to writing Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies>
this is just for a uni project, thanks :)';
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String fullTitle = 'What is some great literature from Zoomers for a Zoomer?';
int postNumber = "23359585";
String image = b_gard.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)14:23:36';
String comment = 'I'm mainly looking for works written by zoomers, not just published in recent times. From another thread someone mentioned Honor Levy which I can't really judge how good of a book that is since its not released, but it made me want to find more books of people my age.
In my recent search of trying to escape the big tech filter(using neocities, altsearches, y99 lol, etc), I have been finding people with really interesting stories and much higher intellect than I have and it gives me hope that some lesser known literature exists and could potentially help me solve my own problems.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361054";
String image = Sj-TUIlP66BYLu-vTIaobg_UVVyJ1ZYnH6UNQzmFW18.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)23:55:55';
String comment = 'Who were the authors defending the ancien regime? You never read about them, the focus is always on the Enlightenment thinkers and how their ideas propelled the liberal revolutions in Europe. But surely there rebuttals to their works, right? Surely there were people from the French Revolution up to and beyond the 1848 Revolutions who were defending the political and social culture of the old world? Hobbes is the name that always comes up, but he was before all of this.
What authors and what works were being published in defense of the monarchy, the aristocracy? What well-thought-out attacks were there on secularism and the nation-state?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361183";
String image = IMG_9975.jpg;
String date = '05/07/24(Tue)01:06:46';
String comment = '>Thats the ignorance of an eligibility';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360438";
String image = Jean-Léon_Gérôme_-_Diogenes_-_Walters_37131.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)19:12:31';
String comment = '>Bible says you should give away all of your possessions (Matthew 19:21)
>Bible says if you don't work you won't eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
Which is it?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359716";
String image = IMG_1150.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)14:59:49';
String comment = 'ITT: we sum up books with Xavier renegade angel quotes
>He’s a man pretending to be a woman!
No!
>Okay! Then he’s a woman pretending to be a man!
No!';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360871";
String image = 1706869483252414.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:36:49';
String comment = 'What are you reading right now? I'm just starting The Tempest myself.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359924";
String image = 1714024638255861.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)16:07:26';
String comment = 'Do you guys think monkeys or other animals believe in God too?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360914";
String image = IMG_1304.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:55:06';
String comment = 'mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
-Russell, Mathematics and the Metaphysicians';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359596";
String image = vatican.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)14:29:04';
String comment = 'What books are they hiding in the Vatican archives?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23361017";
String image = DDC3B92A-868A-4F75-AD11-F38B39E1CE9D.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)23:41:56';
String comment = 'Why didn’t Tolkien describe the balrog like it’s portrayed in the movie? In the book it’s literally just some normal sized shadow dude.';
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String fullTitle = 'How do I get myself to enjoy reading literature?';
int postNumber = "23358848";
String image = image_2024-05-06_160253659.png;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)10:02:59';
String comment = 'Movies and Series are creatively bankrupt.
I do not enjoy reading since I had to learn heavily uninteresting books in elementary, just associating that with pure boredom and punishment.
Even from reading little parts of the books or anything I can just see how awesome it is to imagine things instead of seeing a film adaptation and having all that butchered.';
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String fullTitle = 'I read your pieces on vocaroo';
int postNumber = "23360855";
String image = lit.png;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:26:55';
String comment = 'until I get bored or pass out
https://voca.ro/1cfNQMqJGZ3p';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23354199";
String image = Kerouac_by_Palumbo_2_(cropped).png;
String date = '05/04/24(Sat)21:57:43';
String comment = 'Based or cringe?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360463";
String image = the-holy-bible-king-james-version-kjv-best-for-kobo.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)19:20:44';
String comment = 'Why do English-speaking readers continue to read a translation of the Bible that's over 400 years old, whereas readers of other languages tend to opt for more modern translations?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360929";
String image = IMG_9841.png;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)23:00:07';
String comment = '>A drowning person will drown the person saving them
Books for this feel?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360890";
String image = TheRealmOfShadows.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:44:21';
String comment = 'Every philosophy is essentially an idealism ... the opposition of idealistic and realistic philosophy has no significance. A philosophy which ascribed veritable, ultimate, absolute being to finite existence as such, would not deserve the name of philosophy';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23359880";
String image = pepe.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)15:54:46';
String comment = 'I just got called a nerd for reading a book.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23360806";
String image = 4580c3a8e9e358e12f5d395ed6f558aa.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)22:05:29';
String comment = 'Ishtar when Gilgamesh refuses to marry her and Endiku throws a cow thigh at her face';
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String fullTitle = 'Alphabet of Manliness';
int postNumber = "23360736";
String image = 1703662682811730.jpg;
String date = '05/06/24(Mon)21:34:39';
String comment = 'For whatever it's worth, it was a #1 New York Times bestseller, upon release, and when it was no longer #1, it sat on the #2 slot for way longer than it's contemporaries.
The first book was incredible. The second book was okay. The third book was meh, but I'm still holding out hope.';