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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 fullTitle = 'the greeks and philosophy is retarded shit';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:42:11';
String comment = '>I am told to study the Greeks
>I read the Greeks
>They are just fag fanfiction about some old fag teachings of life.
>They are just analogies to the fact that your wife fucked a black man and you have to support your new zambo son and your daughter is a whore, and your son starter to steal in stores and you kill yourself because trump lost.
Fuck philosophy, my parce.';
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String fullTitle = 'Rare Finds Thread';
int postNumber = "23325781";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)00:22:10';
String comment = 'Elephant anon here,
I was at the donation store and found an old looking bookcase that had the original key.
I took it home for free and did more inspection and cleaned it up.
Turned out it is a Berkey & Gay glass fronted barrister mahogany bookcase (1895-1930) based on the maker's plate on the inside.
It cleaned up really nice and there's still more restoration to do.
What did /lit/ find this week?';
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String fullTitle = 'No One Buys Books Any More';
int postNumber = "23324365";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:56:13';
String comment = 'https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-
The U.S. publishing industry is driven by celebrity authors and repeat bestsellers, according to testimony from a blocked merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Only 50 authors sell over 500,000 copies annually, with 96% of books selling under 1,000 copies. Publishing houses spend most of their advance money on celebrity books, which along with backlist titles like The Bible, account for the bulk of their revenue and fund less commercially successful books.'
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String fullTitle = 'WHAT PHILOSOPHER ACTUALLY CAME CLOSER TO THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW THE WORLD WORKS?';
int postNumber = "23324837";
String image = 1707549077910566.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)18:18:19';
String comment = 'Hegel? Heidegger? Plato? Aristotle? Who?';
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String fullTitle = '"What did Beethoven read?"';
int postNumber = "23325479";
String image = Joseph_Karl_Stieler's_Beethoven_mit_dem_Manuskript_der_Missa_solemnis.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)21:45:33';
String comment = '>Of the books of which he was possessed at the time of his death there have been preserved four volumes of translations of Shakespeare’s works, Homer’s “Odyssey” in the translation of J. H. Voss, Sturm’s “Observations” (several times referred to in the preceding pages), and Goethe’s “West-ostlicher Divan.” These books are frequently marked and annotated in lead pencil, thus bearing witness to the subjects which interested Beethoven. From them, and volumes which he had borrowed, many passages were copied by him into his daily journal. Besides these books Schindler mentions Homer’s “Iliad,” Goethe’s poems, “Wilhelm Melster” and “Faust,” Schiller’s dramas and poems, Tiedge’s “Urania,” volumes of poems by Matthisson and Seume, and Nina d’Aubigny’s “Letters to Natalia on Singing,”—a book to which Beethoven attached great value. These books have disappeared, as well as others which Beethoven valued. We do not know what became of the volumes of Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Xenophon, or the writings of Pliny, Euripides, Quintilian, Ovid, Horace, Ossian, Milton and Thomson, traces of which are found in Beethoven’s utterances.
>The catalogue made for the auction sale of his posthumous effects on September 7, 1827, included forty-four works of which the censorship seized five as prohibited writings, namely, Seume’s “Foot Journey to Syracuse,” the Apocrypha, Kotzebue’s “On the Nobility,” W.E. Muller’s “Paris in its Zenith” (1816), and “Views on Religion and Ecclesiasticism.” Burney’s “General History of Music” was also in his library, the gift, probably of an English admirer.';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)16:14:17';
String comment = 'Jordan Peterson is widely considered to be one of the most influential writer of all time. An absolute triumph and a giant of western philosophy.
His book the 12 rules for life is often considered as his magnum opus and labeled by the national literary society as a “Great American Novel”.
New York Times called it “in defeated masterpiece that few could ever surpass”
Times magazine “Peterson, the Confucius of the west, the 21st century Immanuel Kant, a National Treasure”.
We give our greatest gratitude to one of the greatest and most important writers of all the time: Jordan Peterson.';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)08:42:41';
String comment = 'Tell us about your backlog, anon';
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int postNumber = "23323761";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)12:15:01';
String comment = 'Explain how the greek myths relate to shakespearian own works.';
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int postNumber = "23324177";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:53:23';
String comment = 'What are his essential prose works? Guy wrote way too much';
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String fullTitle = '/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General';
int postNumber = "23318368";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)20:23:57';
String comment = 'Post your favorite art edition';
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String fullTitle = '/wg/ Writing General';
int postNumber = "23318810";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)23:06:00';
String comment = '"AI hack seething" edition
Previous: >>23306393 (Cross-thread)
/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ (embed)
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC (embed)
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:
>[YouTube] Improve your Writing: Show, Not Tell (embed)
>[YouTube] George Orwell's 4 Tips For Speaking Clearly (embed)
>[YouTube] How to Show, Not Tell: The Complete Writing Guide (embed)
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ST
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String fullTitle = 'Are Christians Mormon?';
int postNumber = "23325674";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)23:26:35';
String comment = 'This essay was published back in 1974. It argued that certain movements and currents within modern Christianity were Mormon-ifying it. It was written by a Mormon who viewed these as positive changes. I’m interested in your thoughts, given that a lot of you are interested in theology (especially old theology), ecclesiastical history, and things of that nature.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi
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String fullTitle = 'How to get over the "I just want to get this over with" mentality?';
int postNumber = "23326236";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)03:26:06';
String comment = 'I have noticed multiple times, mostly with longer books but not limited to them, that I tend to enter a state of mind where I just want to finish the book as quickly as possible and reach the end. It doesn't matter how much I'm enjoying the text; it just happens subconsciously. Sometimes I spend 3 minutes per page, but as I near the end, it sometimes falls below 30 seconds! Has anyone else experienced this? How do I stop doing it? Or am I retarded and is it over for me?';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:19:06';
String comment = 'This book basically tells that there is no difference between the Pope and a chairman of the CCP: both megalomaniac false gods worshipped by people, which through manipulation will grant them some long-term egalitarian rewards if they eradicate their enemies in the name of a faith/ideology';
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String fullTitle = '/wwoym/ - Write What's On Your Mind';
int postNumber = "23324263";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:27:36';
String comment = '/wwoym/ - Write What's On Your Mind
YOU ARE A FAGGOT edition
Previous: >>23318103';
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String fullTitle = 'Explain Hegel.';
int postNumber = "23325847";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)00:52:59';
String comment = 'Look, I’m a Redditor. This is my first day on 4chan.org.
I did not know which board to go to so I picked the one that seems to be the least racist and the most peaceful, Literature Board.
I have been seeing a lot of pictures of Hegel on here and as a Redditor and a communist, I know he is very important to our movement.
I want to understand him more deeply and his philosophy.
Can you explain to me to the best of your ability, the importance of Hegel and his book the phenomenology of spirit and its impact to philosophy. Thank you.';
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int postNumber = "23324221";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:14:17';
String comment = 'reading Harry Potter while pretending that you don't exist hits different';
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int postNumber = "23323956";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)13:37:21';
String comment = 'Nietzche would have picked Tate. This is the classic apollo vs dionysus situation. Which way modern man? Life denial or life affirmation?';
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String fullTitle = 'Litmu';
int postNumber = "23322549";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)00:10:04';
String comment = '>favorite poet
>what you're listening to right now';
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int postNumber = "23324369";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:57:28';
String comment = 'Did Plato really write Alcibiades I and II? I'm guessing these go into the "unsure" category.';
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String fullTitle = 'Female Essayists';
int postNumber = "23325096";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)19:36:54';
String comment = 'recommend female essayists please
>about me
I have only read GK chesterton and Gore Vidal.
should I just read old copies of Vogue when it had actual writers in the 50s?
nothing that deals with intimacy please, I am an incel';
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int postNumber = "23325932";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)01:14:23';
String comment = 'Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax!';
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String fullTitle = 'You have 20 seconds to think up an interesting story for a book';
int postNumber = "23324798";
String image = Untitled.png;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)18:06:51';
String comment = 'pic unrelated';
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String fullTitle = 'Books on grindset?';
int postNumber = "23324637";
String image = Grindset.png;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:27:23';
String comment = '>Inb4 just do it!
Many people try, many people fail. What are these grinders doing different? Any literature written on sigma grindset?';
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String fullTitle = '/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General';
int postNumber = "23324486";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)16:37:55';
String comment = 'Temple by the Sea 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: >>23314259'
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)02:24:47';
String comment = 'Fickle sugar-coated bargaining has never appealed to the inferior retrospect of causal [naïvet]y.
A la the superior of never having experience negen-cedes non-experience finé';
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int postNumber = "23312592";
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String date = '04/22/24(Mon)07:04:09';
String comment = 'Has anyone read this book? Thoughts on it?';
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int postNumber = "23326154";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)02:51:37';
String comment = 'Why don't you just buy your books from Amazon?';
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String fullTitle = 'Red flag books';
int postNumber = "23323980";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)13:48:45';
String comment = 'What's a book or books that are red flags in a partner make sure to say why';
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int postNumber = "23326020";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)01:57:08';
String comment = 'Trevor was six foot three. He was clean and fit and confident. I’d choose him a million times over the hipster nerds I’d see around town and at the gallery. In college, the art history department had been rife with that specific brand of young male. An “alternative” to the mainstream frat boys and premed straight and narrow guys, these scholarly, charmless, intellectual brats dominated the more creative departments. As an art history major, I couldn’t escape them. “Dudes” reading Nietzsche on the subway, reading Proust, reading David Foster Wallace, jotting down their brilliant thoughts into a black Moleskine pocket notebook. Beer bellies and skinny legs, zip-up hoodies, navy blue peacoats or army green parkas, New Balance sneakers, knit hats, canvas tote bags, small hands, hairy knuckles, maybe a deer head tattooed across a flabby bicep. They rolled their own cigarettes, didn’t brush their teeth enough, spent a hundred dollars a week on coffee. They would come into Ducat, the gallery I ended up working at, with their younger—usually Asian—girlfriends. “An Asian girlfriend means the guy has a small dick,” Reva once said. I’d hear them talk shit about the art. They lamented the success of others. They thought that they wanted to be adored, to be influential, celebrated for their genius, that they deserved to be worshipped. But they could barely look at themselves in the mirror. They were all on Klonopin, was my guess. They lived mostly in Brooklyn, another reaoson I was glad to live on the Upper East Side. Nobody up there listened to the Moldy Peaches. Nobody up there gave a shit about “irony” or Dogme 95 or Klaus Kinski.
“The worst was that those guys tried to pass off their insecurity as “sensitivity,” and it worked. They would be the ones running museums and magazines, and they’d only hire me if they thought I might fuck them. But when I’d been at parties with them, or out at bars, they’d ignored me. They were so self-serious and distracted by their conversation with their look-alike companions that you’d think they were wrestling with a decision of such high stakes, the world might explode. They wouldn’t be distracted by “pussy,” they would have me believe. The truth was probably that they were just afraid of vaginas, afraid that they’d fail to understand one as pretty and pink as mine, and they were ashamed of their own sensual inadequacies, afraid of their own dicks, afraid of themselves. So they focused on “abstract ideas” and developed drinking problems to blot out the self-loathing they preferred to call “existential ennui.”"';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)16:51:23';
String comment = 'Let's discuss Chinese poetry. Who are your favorites? What periods do you like? Do you have particular translators/sinologists/critics who you believe to be good curators? What are you interested in reading?
I'm reading Du Fu right now, I *almost* see what people mean about how great he is but I think I'm a little too caught up in the immediate experience of reading to really take stock of the whole, once I'm done I'll be able to look at him with more clarity.
But it's obvious enough that he has the sense of scale/humor that is the seed of all genius.';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:57:23';
String comment = 'This is the library on my wagecage ship. Since nobody here reads, what books do I steal?';
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int postNumber = "23318275";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)19:55:29';
String comment = 'Is Blood Meridian worth a read or is it just a reddit meme';
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int postNumber = "23321281";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)15:01:39';
String comment = 'Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.';
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int postNumber = "23326150";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)02:49:34';
String comment = 'Comics are easy, the vinyl of books';
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String fullTitle = 'modern catholic philosophers';
int postNumber = "23323088";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)04:49:12';
String comment = 'What should I read before Edith Stein and Gabriel Marcel? Like Kant, Hegel etc... is that necessary?
I'm taking the Start with the Greeks approach -- so far, I've read the presocratics, some plato and aristotle, and some of the early church fathers but nothing modern at all.
I intend to read everything in between eventually but I'd like to take a break and go off on a tangent for a few months.';
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String fullTitle = 'God Emperor of Dune';
int postNumber = "23323926";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)13:24:54';
String comment = 'Just got this fella what am I in for bros';
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int postNumber = "23326032";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)02:01:39';
String comment = 'What is the best quote from a book you have ever read, seen, or heard?';
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int postNumber = "23323257";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)06:58:32';
String comment = 'What's /lit/'s opinion about Stefan Zweig?';
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String fullTitle = 'Book of the New Sun';
int postNumber = "23319845";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)06:50:29';
String comment = 'I'm not sure I feel invested enough to go on.
Shadow of the Torturer felt like a really big prologue that had to end at a specific point so the author put lots of filler, with some enjoyable moments.
Should I stick with it?';
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String fullTitle = 'Depression and suicide';
int postNumber = "23320553";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)11:26:59';
String comment = 'I'm going through a really tough period in my life right now, plagued by very dark thoughts.
What are some books that helped you get through challenging times?';
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int postNumber = "23324888";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)18:33:12';
String comment = 'Currently reading a book on Islamic Gnosticism and Shi'a ghulat sects and it's fucking wild
I'm wondering if there were any similar movements within Sunni Islam, in Sufism maybe? I'm talking esoteric Qu'ran readings, transmigration of souls, God incarnate faking His own death, stuff like that';
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String fullTitle = 'LOTR';
int postNumber = "23323916";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)13:21:20';
String comment = 'Im looking for a picture of the map of Middle Earth thats in the HIGHEST resolution possible. This ones not bad but there must be a better one somewhere. Can anyone assist?';
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String fullTitle = 'Books that will make Socialists and Communists finally see the light';
int postNumber = "23323298";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)07:47:40';
String comment = 'undefined';
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)00:57:59';
String comment = 'Any books/authors similar to the work of Shane Stevens (dark, brutal, well written pulp)? Read pic related and loved it, currently about halfway through By Reason of Insanity.
Amazing author I haven't seen widely discussed.';
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String fullTitle = 'How does dependent origination make sense?';
int postNumber = "23323811";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)12:40:29';
String comment = 'Why do pajeets believe in this shit? It's literally impossible according to classical logic';
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int postNumber = "23324625";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:23:46';
String comment = 'What can we do about the illiteracy problem?';
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String fullTitle = 'Psychopathic Geniuses';
int postNumber = "23326088";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)02:24:13';
String comment = 'A server for rare individuals who possess both a psychopathic personality and high intelligence.
Are you one of us?
https://
discord
gg/netherworld';
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String fullTitle = 'Buddhism or islam';
int postNumber = "23317863";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)17:46:46';
String comment = 'Which is superior?';
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int postNumber = "23318640";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)22:04:37';
String comment = 'Will Duolingo actually help me read Tractatus or Being and Time in the original German? I feel like a lot is lost in English translation, rendering a lot of the text nonsensical.';
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String fullTitle = 'Name another Dostoevsky.';
int postNumber = "23322527";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)23:59:45';
String comment = 'How can someone be so accurate and so skilled in expressing in words the introspection of the human condition?
Does anyone even come close?';
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String fullTitle = '/wbg/ Worldbuilding General';
int postNumber = "23275199";
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String date = '04/10/24(Wed)19:51:26';
String comment = '/wbg/ Worldbuilding General
Eons 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.
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)01:11:13';
String comment = 'Feel like I was too much dumbfuck back then to appreciate Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and I get the impression that, what was a beautiful emotional reading experience was completely lost on me at the time because of that fact. Glad enough time has passed to give it another shot. hbu?';
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String fullTitle = 'Platonov';
int postNumber = "23321185";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)14:36:20';
String comment = 'What does /lit/ think about Chevengur?';
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String fullTitle = 'Book Review (16/50): Manservant and Maidservant - Ivy Compton-Burnett (1947)';
int postNumber = "23323766";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)12:19:27';
String comment = 'This book is absolutely freezing cold. There is no passion, no love and no vitality whatsoever in the Lamb household, it is of course not permitted. Horace Lamb, the father and head of the family, is maybe a perfect ascetic, physically, mentally and spiritually, his only desire is to make use of as little of the life around and inside him as he can. Yet he is also at all times clutching at a kind of perverted, polite Victorian domestic tyranny at all times. Very reminiscent of certain Dickensian characters, but for me in many ways even more disturbing than the likes of Scrooge or a Uriah Heep.
As for the titular manservant and maidservant, the butler Bullivant who has "served the master for forty-five years" and the family cook Mrs. Selden, it seems to me that they for the most part serve as extensions of Horace's ascetic ideals for much of this novel, perpetuating the generational misery through their influence on the younger servants, the orphan Miriam and workhouse boy George. Even more than Mortimer or Horace's wife Charlotte, it seems that their lives can only exist if the master does, or at least the correct kind of master since "not even Mr. Mortimer has the mien of one having authority, as the master had."
Some of the most strangely written children you're ever going to come across in any book. So much of this book feels like a kind of exaggerated homage to the domestic drama of Victorian literature, and nowhere is this clearer than in the Lamb children, especially in their speech. The vernacular of the children feels completely to odds with the reality of their lives. Despite it being brought up several times that not even all of them can read or write, and the eldest of the flock being only about a dozen years old, they all still argue, speak and reason in an even more serious manner than you would expect adults to, and often times they do. However strange this stylization might be, I don't think it takes away any of the sympathy that you might develop for the children and their situation, I know it didn't for me. There isn't for example, almost any scene with children that I can remember affecting me more than the beyond miserable Christmas Day that they are subjected to by their father, and despite the severity of their speech all the emotion behind it feels real.';
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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 = '/strongmind/ literature';
int postNumber = "23324402";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)16:09:01';
String comment = 'I've just realised that just because you are best of the best doesn't mean that you are strong minded. Infact the best can be incredibly weak-minded, pic-related. What books help you build a strong-mind?';
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int postNumber = "23324286";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:33:26';
String comment = 'Where does Jung talk about heroic individuation and facing the Dragon?';
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int postNumber = "23324578";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:10:42';
String comment = 'Do I gotta read The Hobbit before Lord of the Rings?
I mean I get the gist of The Hobbit and think I may have read it when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC3
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String fullTitle = 'Live and Let Die was good as Bond ever got';
int postNumber = "23325620";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)22:58:18';
String comment = 'The movie is probably nobody's favorite, but having read the whole Fleming series twice this is the one I keep coming back to
>Nigger Heaven, hands down the best Fleming's travelogue writing ever got
> Mr. Big, 'What if Fu Manchu was black' and it fucking WORKS
> First shark pit in the franchise
>> 'He disagreed with something that ate him'
> Death by coral keelhaul
> Bond hits this mf with a fucking BOMB and it's still barely enough to kill him
Don't get me wrong, later books have their good points, but the villain alone makes this one GOAT';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:17:13';
String comment = '>Heracles';
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int postNumber = "23325341";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)20:50:55';
String comment = 'Where do I go after this?';
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int postNumber = "23321970";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)18:30:36';
String comment = 'What Kant was trying to do was tell philosophers
>why the fuck are you trying to run "does God exist.exe", "Total Annihilation" and "Do we have a soul.exe", at the same time on a 1998 IBM you fucking retard. It doesn't have the specs to handle it.
But some other retard had to say
>works fine on my machine
So Kant had to lay, in detail, the specs of the computer, what could be added, what came with the manufacturer, what could be inputted/ outputted, as well as all the general principles of a 1998 shitbox, so he could try to definitely say what programs could be run and what couldn't.
This analogy is useful in explaining the limitation of the human intellect, but fortunately the human brain as material correlate to the human intellect is organic and capable of growth and change in a way an inorganic electronic computer is not. To run DoesGodExist.exe on an inorganic electronic computer you would need a computer that already had those specs, if not, you'd have to get a new computer, or upgrade with after market parts; on an organic computer, you can start with one that may not be able to run it yet, but can, in time, develop and grow itself to be able to run it. And the same goes with the human body. In fact, this is what I believe the Greys to be. Imagine the intellectual capacities of beings with significantly more vast and complex neural matter correlate, even a more complex physiological matter correlate as a whole. Kant actually addresses this in the first critique as well:
>It is, moreover, not necessary that we should limit the mode of intuition in space and time to the sensuous faculty of man. It may well be that all finite thinking beings must necessarily in this respect agree with man (though as to this we cannot decide)...
>It may be true that there are intelligible existences to which our faculty of sensuous intuition has no relation
>...the categories do in some measure really extend further than sensuous intuition, inasmuch as they think objects in general, without regard to the mode (of sensibility) in which these objects are given. But they do not for this reason apply to and determine a wider sphere of objects, because we cannot assume that such can be given, without presupposing the possibility of another than the sensuous mode of intuition...
>we cannot form the most distant conception of the possibility of an understanding which should cognize an object, not discursively by means of categories, but intuitively in a non-sensuous intuition...
and so on.';
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String fullTitle = 'Tolstoy thread';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)20:57:11';
String comment = 'In this thread you will post about the life and works of Count Lev Tolstoy';
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int postNumber = "23325198";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)20:06:32';
String comment = 'what do femcels read?';
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String fullTitle = 'Are Nietzschean midwits?';
int postNumber = "23324860";
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String comment = 'undefined';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)20:53:28';
String comment = '>Humans are inheriyely tribalistic animals and modern society is falling apart because the market and means of communication promote division and no cultural homogeny
Any books for that feel? I've had that idea in my mind for a while but I don't know what it's called or what to read about it';
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String comment = 'give me some schizo core books. the more esoteric/weird, the better. i have a feeling they may hold true knowledge past all the hand wavey bullshit, just think about it. continuously aiming and approximating and getting silly wit it is bound to lead us towards some unmovable truth. right anons? so far, i know of the kyblion, emerald tablet, secret teachings of all ages. post more';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)19:58:49';
String comment = 'What are your favorite books that in some way feature aliens?';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)14:46:02';
String comment = 'Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.';
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String fullTitle = '*Ruins Your Life*';
int postNumber = "23325599";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)22:47:41';
String comment = 'undefined';
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String fullTitle = 'Ashbery';
int postNumber = "23287218";
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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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String fullTitle = 'Scandals';
int postNumber = "23325826";
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String date = '04/26/24(Fri)00:44:35';
String comment = 'Let's talk about our favorite literary scandals. I'll start: William S. Burroughs accidentally shooting his wife in the face during a party in Mexico.';
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int postNumber = "23319832";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)06:47:35';
String comment = 'What am I in for? New to reading by the way';
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int postNumber = "23321427";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)15:47:28';
String comment = 'How do we reconcile David praying for the destruction of his enemies with Jesus commanding to love and pray for your enemies in a positive manner?';
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int postNumber = "23323346";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)08:17:33';
String comment = 'The time has finally come for me to tackle this beast.
Where should I start?
I want to learn the complete story from the rise to the fall.';
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int postNumber = "23316083";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)08:15:26';
String comment = '>>In the Bhagavadgita, Krishna teaches that one can kill only the body; the soul is immortal. At death, the soul is reborn in another body, or, for those who have fully grasped the true teachings, it achieves release (moksha) or extinction (nirvana)—that is, freedom from the wheel of rebirth.
Wait, if Hinduism contains the main Buddhist elements, that is to say to escape the cycle of birth-rebirth then what original ideas did Buddhism bring to the table to make it a separate religion?';
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String fullTitle = 'Lust provoking image';
int postNumber = "23325709";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)23:47:50';
String comment = 'Jo K.R. is cool and writes literary fiction.
(get it? her name can be rendered as Joker, like the Joker from JOKER)
What do you enjoy about one of the few women actually writing literature?';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)23:59:18';
String comment = 'I skim read.';
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String fullTitle = 'Stacks/recent purchases';
int postNumber = "23315642";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)03:54:23';
String comment = 'Let's see 'em.';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23325433";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)21:26:29';
String comment = 'Did I get an incomplete copy of this? Almost none of the major plot threads were resolved';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23323875";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)13:06:47';
String comment = 'What are you currently studying about, /lit/?';
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String fullTitle = 'this is what peak performance looks like';
int postNumber = "23324958";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)18:49:08';
String comment = '>considered a hack and a fraud in his own day
>his downfall was predicted and awaited with relish by Ibsen, Wilde, Woolf, and many other writers and dramatists
>hated almost all professional writers and poets, preferred the company of businessmen
>died the equivalent of a billionaire
>is still widely read and performed today.
>his librettos and his collection of poems (Bab Ballads) have never been out of print.
>a critical re-appraisal at the turn of the last century has only improved his posthumous reputation.
Gilbert-chads, I kneel.';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)20:16:24';
String comment = '>pedophile
>fat
>extremely ugly face
>didn't shower
>homeless
>homosexual
>racist
>authoritarian
>misogynist
>illiterate
Was Socrates the first chud?';
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String fullTitle = 'anti-democracy books?';
int postNumber = "23323341";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)08:14:37';
String comment = 'i'm looking for critiques of democracy. as of now, i've read schmitt's crisis of parliamentary democracy, moldbug's open letter and escolios a un texto implicito by nicolas gomez davila';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)19:52:25';
String comment = 'Where in Marx's corpus does he talk about money being a commodity in it of itself?
i.e deflation if new money is not created
Ty';
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String fullTitle = 'Plato's theory of forms is narcissistic pigeonholing';
int postNumber = "23322598";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)00:35:51';
String comment = 'I can't believe I didn't see it before. What defines a gay man is his narcissism and narcissists are known to pigeonhole i.e. they the world as the essences that they learned in childhood.
They never move on from the fantastical world of essences and always desire what made an impression on them as kids. They see new people as only like people from the past. They can't see you or anything as what it is.
The more narcissistic the person the more blind and few are more narcissistic than gay men.
Plato is a hack.
When Nietzsche and Heidegger criticize metaphysics - this is what they mean. They are based on the fantastical and they box you into only seeing what you want to see.';
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int postNumber = "23322452";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)23:08:50';
String comment = 'Does anyone else have "Book-Wear Anxiety"?
When I buy a brand new paperback, I'm often times so awed by it's beauty (The crisp page edges, the smooth spine, the unblemished cover) that I get legit anxiety around handling the book and creasing the spine and knowing my thumbs will eventually stain the edges of the pages where I hold them. Sometimes it's so bad that I can't even bring myself to read the book until I've washed my hands and even then I only open the book as little as possible for me to read.
I know that a "pristine book is an unread book", but still, it bothers me and I don't know how to overcome these feelings.';
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String fullTitle = 'Fichte on the Idealism/Materialism (he calls it dogmatism) debate';
int postNumber = "23325580";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)22:32:42';
String comment = '>Idealism cannot refute Dogmatism. True, the former system has the advantage, as we have already said, of being enabled to point out its explanatory ground of all experience—the free acting intelligence—as a fact of consciousness. This fact the dogmatist must also admit, for otherwise he would render himself incapable of maintaining the argument with his opponent; but he at the same time by a correct conclusion from his principle, changes this explanatory ground into a deception and appearance, and thus renders it incapable of being the explanatory ground of anything else since it cannot maintain its own existence in its own philosophy. According to the Dogmatist, all phenomena of our consciousness are productions of a Thing in itself, even our pretended determinations by freedom, and the belief that we are free. This belief is produced by the effect of the Thing upon ourselves, and the determinations, which we deduced from freedom, are also produced by it. The only difference is, that we are not aware of it in these cases, and hence ascribe it to no cause, i.e. to our freedom. Every logical dogmatist is necessarily a Fatalist; he does not deny the fact of consciousness, that we consider ourselves free—for this would be against reason;—but he proves from his principle that this is a false view. He denies the independence of the Ego, which is the basis of the Idealist, in toto, makes it merely a production of the Thing, an accidence of the World; and hence the logical dogmatist is necessarily also materialist. He can only be refuted from the postulate of the freedom and independence of the Ego; but this is precisely what he denies. Neither can the dogmatist refute the Idealist.
-1st intro to Wissenschaftlehre';
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String fullTitle = 'Just how bad will it be';
int postNumber = "23322145";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)20:21:21';
String comment = 'A scale of 1-blasphemy';
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String fullTitle = 'Holy books';
int postNumber = "23323217";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)06:27:44';
String comment = 'Does the Quran just resonate with people better? Christianity is dying while Islam grows. Does this settle which holy text is does it's job better?';
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String date = '04/16/24(Tue)21:38:03';
String comment = 'What, no shelf thread? This is the one in my bedroom.';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)20:19:27';
String comment = 'Do you guys ever read old school magazines?';
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String fullTitle = 'HISTORY OF /lit/';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)09:45:14';
String comment = '/lit/ has produced multiple collaborative projects and periodicals over the years. Many of these projects are now defunct, and the few that are still active seem to have uncertain trajectories. There are also solo writers who frequent /lit/ and—for better or for worse—their namefagging and shilling has impacted the culture of this board.
This thread is for the discussion of the history of /lit/ writing and the future of /lit/. To those that have been involved in previous /lit/ collaborative projects, such as The Lit Quarterly, Pinecone, The April Review, miniMAG and &: what were your experiences like? Does the drama and infighting surrounding so many of these /lit/ collaborative projects inevitably result in their dissolution? Do you think that /lit/ has anything valuable to offer for aspiring writers, in terms of critique or support?
Additionally: Are there any new projects in the works? What do you think is next for the so-called /lit/ renaissance? And now that a /lit/ author has finally gotten a mainstream book deal with a major publishing house, do you think that more of our authors are likely to see similar success?
Mega archive of /lit/ periodicals:
mega.nz/folder/2gsHSSbA#Sl46P4LljGl
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)20:04:42';
String comment = '>At age 18, he went on a whaling voyage for about 18 months.
>At age 22, he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands and lived among the natives for a short period before being captured by a tribe. He was later rescued by a passing whaler.
>At age 27, in 1846, he was able to purchase a farmhouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and dedicate himself to writing.
>At age 31, he published "Moby-Dick."
That's quite a, dare I say it, based early life section.';
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String comment = '>short banal statement
>short banal statement
>and and and and and (x50)
>obscure architectural term
>short banal statement
So this is the best writing Americans have to offer, huh?';
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String fullTitle = 'History /lit/';
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String date = '04/09/24(Tue)23:45:53';
String comment = 'Post and Discuss Books about history, all eras and locations welcomed';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)21:00:11';
String comment = 'Is Take A Hint, Danny Brown any good?
Is Talia Hibbert a good writer?
Discuss.';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)22:03:10';
String comment = '>The Christian doctrine that man is by nature evil is loftier than the opposite that he is naturally good, and is to be interpreted philosophically in this way. Man as spirit is a free being, who need not give way to impulse. Hence in his direct and unformed condition, man is in a situation in which he ought not to be, and he must free himself. This is the meaning of the doctrine of original sin, without which Christianity would not be the religion of freedom.
-Philosophy of Right section 18';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)12:55:30';
String comment = 'Personally, I did Wheelock's first and I don't regret it. But I'd recommend this first for anyone else I know because I'm not a pussy and most everyone else is. And even if you did do traditional elementary level G-T learning this is a great supplement and quickly turns your accrued theoretical knowledge into practical instinct.';
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String fullTitle = 'Why do angloids and germs cope so much for not being Roman?';
int postNumber = "23325469";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)21:41:34';
String comment = 'Books to understand this mindset?';
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String comment = 'Roald Dahl is a fucking moron';
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String fullTitle = 'Catho/lit/';
int postNumber = "23317732";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)16:56:14';
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 comment = 'What's the worst book you have ever read? For me, it's Blood Meridian. Makes me nauseous just remembering that prose...';
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String fullTitle = 'Does crying this much help you get girls?';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)13:49:29';
String comment = 'People hype up Egan like he's this gigabrained higher consciousness who descended to our pitiful 3-dimensional reality to write this thing called a "book", but this isn't so bad. Still loving it, though. Is his best work Permutation City?';
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int postNumber = "23320363";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)10:23:05';
String comment = 'Do you agree?';
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String fullTitle = 'Negative Space - B.R. Yeager';
int postNumber = "23324441";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)16:23:40';
String comment = 'Do you like this?';
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int postNumber = "23322577";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)00:22:51';
String comment = 'Women care nothing for the truth to the point it almost doesn’t even matter, that’s why you’re bad with women. That’s why philosophers don’t get pussy. Women care about feels and want to be lulled into security, so if truth is a woman?? Nietzsche is too based';
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int postNumber = "23324586";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:12:29';
String comment = 'I'm looking for suggested readings on very eccentric historical figures. People who carried strong stage presence and commanded attention. Not out of fear or respect but because of the uniqueness of their personality combined with their talents. Anyone have suggestions? For example, I heard Da Vinci was a strange fellow according to people who met him. So I picked up a book about him recently.';
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String fullTitle = 'ITT: perfect books';
int postNumber = "23324316";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:39:09';
String comment = 'undefined';
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String fullTitle = 'Plato: The Republic';
int postNumber = "23324698";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:41:17';
String comment = '>being friendly or aggressive depending on the situation is a necessary quality of a soldier
>"certainly"
>dogs are friendly or aggressive depending on whether they recognise someone
>"indeed"
>therefore dogs must be curious creatures
>that", he replied, "is true"
>therefore good soldiers must also be inquisitive philomaths if they are to be friendly and aggressive at depending on the situation
>"I see no other way"
WHAT the fuck am I reading?
Everytime Socrates opens his mouth I hear see the most mind boggling analogies and ridiculous misapplications of logic
I get the general point though, that if children are so be raised with desirable morals, then they need to be shown good role models, but the way these conclusions are being reached are absurd
The first book was even worse...';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)20:36:44';
String comment = 'Lets pretend we are in an english pub in the mid 18th century, a couple of pints later, what would be the Bible's answer to Jeremy Bentham? Would they fight? Would they conciliate? Would they become best friend?';
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String fullTitle = 'wasted life';
int postNumber = "23323401";
String image = 419039379_122157266282071158_4016209895856948807_n.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)08:44:44';
String comment = 'how come so many of us just waste life for nothing ?
I know it's not right. I can't help it. I have no drive or ideas on my mind to succeed. So I just rot away and hate myself. 40 years like that.';
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String fullTitle = 'Why are writers like this?';
int postNumber = "23322009";
String image = F5L1V1-XQAAHNV-.jpg;
String date = '04/24/24(Wed)18:52:26';
String comment = '>Tolstoy: Chronically depressed, became a religious thinker after being suicidal for years. Ran away from his wife and family aged 82.
>Proust: Asthmatic, germophobic loner mama’s boy faggot
>Dickens: Bipolar insomniac. Said his characters introduced themselves to him in his sleep. Became obsessed with an 18 year old girl and left his wife, tried to have her institutionalized
>Dostoevsky: Epileptic, borderline personality disorder, gambling addiction, submissive foot fetishist accused of liking little girls
>Flaubert: Pessimistic asshole, hated everyone and everything, FRANKED a young Turkroach boy
>Kafka: Neurotic kike, self-loathing, porn addict and frequenter of brothels, engaged to many women but never married
>Chaucer: Aggressive cunt, charged with beating a friar in London, and with rape in 1380
>Boccaccio: Failed at fucking – turned full-blown woman-hater
>Li Bai: Drunken chink who drowned to death trying to grab the moon’s reflection in the water from his boat
>François Villon: Murdered a priest, assaulted others, was a burglar who ended up banished like the faggot he was
>Montaigne: Hid in a tower for 10 years
>Torquato Tasso: Persecution mania, went insane, committed to asylum for 7 years
>Jonathan Swift: Gloomy bastard, misanthrope, said he only laughed twice in his entire life, didn’t speak to anyone for a whole year, went mad in 1742.
>Voltaire: Chronically constipated, drank 50 cups of tea a day, spent 16 hours a day in bed writing
>Samuel Johnson: Monstrously cantankerous fucker, Tourette syndrome, rude manners
>Rousseau: Exhibitionist, oversensitive mommydom crybaby, abandoned his kids to an orphanage
>S.T. Coleridge: Drug-addict
>Byron: Degenerate sex-maniac and pederast, even fucked his half-sister
>Balzac: Gluttonous bastard, lived life in dressing gown, wrote literally all day long
>Hans C. Andersen: Wimpy crybaby hypochondriac
>Edgar Allan Poe: Depressed, alcoholic drug addict who married his 13 yo cousin
>Gogol: Went insane, burned his works, starved himself to death for Jesus
>Weil: Failed soldier and leftist revolutionary, starved herself to death for Jesus
>Euripides: Recluse, misanthrope, hated women
>Virgil: Weakling manlet, once held a lavish funeral for a pet fly. Died after being in the sun a bit.
>Melville: Had a mental breakdown, probably a faggot, was captured by native tribesmen
>Baudelaire: Sexual deviant, depressed, drug addict
>Dickinson: Agoraphobic recluse femcel
>Lewis Carroll: Pedo';
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String fullTitle = '/clg/ - Classical Languages General';
int postNumber = "23288574";
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String date = '04/14/24(Sun)18:13:41';
String comment = 'Cynic edition
>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>23256805
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 = '04/24/24(Wed)17:11:35';
String comment = 'why is this barely talked about? its a masterpiece rivaling all other postmodernist literature. does it filter most people, is that why no one talks about it?';
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int postNumber = "23323776";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)12:24:17';
String comment = 'Ok, so why is this novel split into four parts? I just reached the second part and I found it significantly easier to follow than the first part so far. Are each part supposed to signify something different or is it just Pynchon arbitrarily splitting the novel into parts just for the sake of it?';
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String fullTitle = 'Heidegger and Plato';
int postNumber = "23309372";
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String date = '04/21/24(Sun)07:44:37';
String comment = 'wtf, nobody told me that Heidegger actually liked Plato, especially Plato's Parmenides
this is a great essay to introduce us to Heidegger's Plato: https://philarchive.org/archive/BAC
a handful but nonexhaustive selection of key points at the end:
>The main point of these last hypotheses is that if there is unity, if reality is one, then this unity of reality both comprises all things and is no thing.
>If there is no unity, if reality is not unified, then there is no manifold reality at all but only nothing.
>Heidegger interprets: Being itself, insofar as it unifies reality and renders beings possible, is itself no being at all, but rather intimately characterized by nothingness [Nichtigkeit].
>As we already know from Heidegger: Being is the Nothing [Nichts], the background which makes the Something possible in the first place.
>Heidegger concludes his seminar with the following words:
>Maximal truth has been attained when appearance and Non-being have been included within truth and Being. The dialogue literally leads to Nothing [Nichts]. . . . Thereby the question of Being has been transformed, everything is now otherwise. The on is both hen and polla, and it is hen, insofar as it is polla and vice versa. The One and the Many are only insofar as they are in themselves negative [nichtig].
the last sentence is a bit confusing though... dont the One and the Many stand as having definitions in their own? i don't think they need to be defined as not the other, One as not Many and the Many as not One.'
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int postNumber = "23323429";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)08:56:42';
String comment = 'ITT: Post the juvenalia of popular authors';
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String fullTitle = 'Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann';
int postNumber = "23323179";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)05:48:39';
String comment = 'What do I need to know?';
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int postNumber = "23323041";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)04:27:21';
String comment = '>there's this guy and... get this
>BUREAUCRACY
amazing';
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String fullTitle = 'Greatest American Novel';
int postNumber = "23322071";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)19:19:41';
String comment = 'Captain Underpants, the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy, is considered the pinnacle of American literary excellence.
Created by Dav Pilkey, considered the “America Tolkien” is a 4 time best selling author and was awarded the presidential metal of freedom for his contribution to American Literature by Jimmy Carter in 1983.
Bloomberg called Dav “The New England Dostoevsky, A reborn Melville”.
Saint Petersburg Press “Captain Underpants, an Epic as Grand as Tolstoy, will stand the test of time, marked forever in the history books as a lighthouse for Human Creativity”.';
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int postNumber = "23324160";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:46:22';
String comment = 'Recommend me some obscure indie fantasy books with potential.';
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int postNumber = "23324854";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)18:24:17';
String comment = 'What do I need to read to get to the point where I can understand Kierkegaard and Whitehead?';
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String fullTitle = 'Buddhism General';
int postNumber = "23322273";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)21:35:14';
String comment = 'https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/S
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String fullTitle = 'How do you write Rwby fanfiction?';
int postNumber = "23322851";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)02:36:02';
String comment = 'Newbie writer here. I know nothing about anything.
What advice can you give me in writing rwby fanfiction?
So far, I seem to be struggling the most with writing dialogue for characters that actually sound like it would match well with how they talk in Canon.
Regardless, any and all advice is appreciated, thank you.';
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int postNumber = "23323534";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)10:04:40';
String comment = 'A (1) voluntarist Gnostic God can't exist, or else it would have negated the kenoma by now. The whole point of positing an all-powerful Alien is that they're not going to be putzing around with rulesets and transcendental conditions to begin with. Gnosticism doesn't admit the "God works in mysterious ways" argument.
So, we're committed to either a (2) martial Zoroastrian dualism where the good God is powerful but not all-powerful (cannot violate necessary truths; logical AND synthetic) and so cannot destroy the Devil who is an uncreated being, or a (3) passive Manichaean dualism where the light is powerless to resist being consumed by darkness.
In the other direction:
We cannot disprove the existence (1) of a voluntarist demon if the will of this demon is to deceive, since this demon would render even apodictic knowledge (like the cogito) contingent.
Since we cannot disprove a voluntarist demon, we have to commit to a (2) Zoroastrian dualism where the Devil is powerful, but not all-powerful, like the good God. The counterpart to the Manichaean option is (3) privation theory, where evil is a passive absence with no will of its own, which doesn't follow from our experience of the world.
How fucking fucked are we?';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:11:55';
String comment = '>Leave your wife and children to simp for some roastie who had an abortion
What did Sinclair Lewis mean by this?';
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String fullTitle = 'I need help';
int postNumber = "23324483";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)16:35:55';
String comment = 'Looking for the most precise latin translation for this phrase:
"If it is not RIGHT do not do it; If it is not TRUE do not say it” --Marcus Aurelius
Ive got these 2, but they are different
"Nisi iustum ne facito, nisi verum ne dicito."
and
"Nisi decet, ne facias; nisi verum est, ne dicas."';
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String fullTitle = 'Pied Piper of Hamelin';
int postNumber = "23323322";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)08:04:29';
String comment = 'What did he do to them?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23323618";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)10:56:17';
String comment = '>books women will NEVER understand';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23324598";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:15:09';
String comment = 'Mark my words anons, history will show the German idealists to have been right all along. The current realist common sense metaphysical paradigm has been fleeble flabbled since the time of the dinosaurs. In fact, and already, the descendants of the dinosaurs have lived on this same earth, and continue to live on this same earth, not necessarily among us, but beyond our major population centers. They have had millions of years prior to the emergence of modern homo sapiens to develop their metaphysics to a degree incomprehensible by the limitations of the present stage of human cerebral development. As Hegel has said, reason runs far ahead of understanding, and this is true. The world is rational, in principle, understandable, but that understanding is progressive depending on the progressive development of the physical counterpart to the mind, the nervous system and brain. Have you ever noticed the size of the heads of the Greys? The Blues? Even the Reptilians? That's right, their cerebral capacities far exceed anything we humans are currently capable of, or even can dream of given our current cerebral development. But the German idealists already knew this even 200 years ago, and the limitations Kant set for the human understanding in 1781, are just that: HUMAN limitations, or rather, the limitations of humankinds present cerebral constitution, which, as a our evolutionary theory has made irrefutably clear, is not static but dynamic. We can and must catch up to our current more evolved overlord species, often considered extraterrestrials, although this is also a misunderstanding through ignorance. Ultimately, the categories of the understanding are the necessary conditions for the transcendental unity of self consciousness, this is true, but we need not necessarily stop here, That unity need not be limited to SELF consciousness; it can and must be expanded to RACE consciousness, a Hive Mind, if you will, a super-organism composed of smaller organisms all consciously controlled and identified with ONE consciousness. This way and this way only can we defeat the more intelligent species of creatures on this Earth that have dominated us for centuries. The alternative is indefinite servitude and submission. Gott mit uns.';
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int postNumber = "23324223";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:14:33';
String comment = 'Has anybody been able to read Damion Searls' new translation of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus? Is it any good?';
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String fullTitle = 'Serial killers in literature';
int postNumber = "23324565";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)17:05:21';
String comment = 'How are they portrayed? What problems arise when depicting serial killers in fiction? Why do we find them captivating, eg American psycho, silence of the lambs etc';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23317353";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)15:17:48';
String comment = 'Why does /lit/ hate foucault?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23323706";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)11:46:19';
String comment = '>Paris, you now can taken Helen as your wife, I command you, I am a godess
>WTF, why did you do that, imbecile
>Now you will suffer a horrible death and your city will be destroyed';
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String fullTitle = '/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General';
int postNumber = "23314259";
String image = picsffg.jpg;
String date = '04/22/24(Mon)17:28:44';
String comment = 'Monday 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: >>23299375'
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String fullTitle = 'hello /pol/! any good books on dementia?';
int postNumber = "23324184";
String image = 1000006296.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:56:17';
String comment = 'I've been wondering, i don't know, I'll see how it goes';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23322195";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)20:45:18';
String comment = 'How would you like to be photographed for the book jacket, /lit/?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23318554";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)21:31:07';
String comment = 'Who should I read if I love James Joyce?
I've never bothered with Ulysses or Finnegans Wake but Joyce is probably my favourite author';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23324257";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)15:22:55';
String comment = 'Is there a book about this phenomenon?
>One generation starts having a bad and degrading attitude against "nerds" or people with "high functioning autistic" traits, basically the people who are more likely to become engineers etc.
>The next generation suffers from decaying infrastructure, the trains no longer run on time, unreliable postal service, and stuff no longer "just work" anymore.';
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int postNumber = "23324063";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:15:17';
String comment = 'I finally read the wiki on "Critical Theory" and I have to say people who read that know that it is horse shit baloney.
It is just a thought, a proposition which can't be proven true or false. It can only be appropriated with examples but equal number of examples exits to disprove to. Using lie as a base for social norm is call for the dictator.';
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String fullTitle = 'Any good books on dementia???? (education fact checked based)';
int postNumber = "23322627";
String image = 1000006276.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)00:46:35';
String comment = 'interest.. that's all...';
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String fullTitle = 'Turgenev's first love';
int postNumber = "23324178";
String image = 403642.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:53:30';
String comment = 'Did Zinaida groom Vladimir?';
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String fullTitle = '/wwoym/ - Write What's On Your Mind';
int postNumber = "23318103";
String image = sad.jpg;
String date = '04/23/24(Tue)19:04:39';
String comment = 'previous: >>23316351';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23324134";
String image = Title_Page_of_the_Negro_Question.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:39:45';
String comment = 'Is it even legal to own this in Britain in 2024?';
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String fullTitle = undefined;
int postNumber = "23324014";
String image = new-product.jpg;
String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:02:15';
String comment = '>12 books box set in an Indian internet bookstore
sirs...';
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int postNumber = "23324058";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:14:46';
String comment = 'what a strange thing to say about a book that's 30% spanish';
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String fullTitle = 'Canto XLV by Ezra Pound';
int postNumber = "23324096";
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)14:24:59';
String comment = 'With Usura
With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
that design might cover their face,
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
harpes et luz
or where virgin receiveth message
and halo projects from incision,
with usura
seeth no man Gonzaga his heirs and his concubines
no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly
with usura, sin against nature,
is thy bread ever more of stale rags
is thy bread dry as paper,
with no mountain wheat, no strong flour
with usura the line grows thick
with usura is no clear demarcation
and no man can find site for his dwelling.
Stonecutter is kept from his stone
weaver is kept from his loom
WITH USURA
wool comes not to market
sheep bringeth no gain with usura
Usura is a murrain, usura
blunteth the needle in the maid’s hand
and stoppeth the spinner’s cunning. Pietro Lombardo
came not by usura
Duccio came not by usura
nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin’ not by usura
nor was ‘La Calunnia’ painted.
Came not by usura Angelico; came not Ambrogio Praedis,
Came no church of cut stone signed: Adamo me fecit.
Not by usura St. Trophime
Not by usura Saint Hilaire,
Usura rusteth the chisel
It rusteth the craft and the craftsman
It gnaweth the thread in the loom
None learneth to weave gold in her pattern;
Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered
Emerald findeth no Memling
Usura slayeth the child in the womb
It stayeth the young man’s courting
It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth
between the young bride and her bridegroom
CONTRA NATURAM
They have brought whores for Eleusis
Corpses are set to banquet
at behest of usura.
N.B. Usury: A charge for the use of purchasing power, levied without regard to production; often without regard to the possibilities of production. (Hence the failure of the Medici bank.)';