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Previous: >>25510633 https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25510633 ~Itinerary~ • Friday, October 2nd, 10:00 AM GMT (or a bit earlier) >Character & theme requirements revealed—start writing! • Friday, October 16th, 11:59 PM GMT >Submission deadline. Voting and critique begin. • Friday, October 30th, 11:59 PM GMT >Voting ends and winners crowned. Critique persists with thread. ~Rules~ Writing >Write a work that fulfills the character & theme requirements. >In all ways, your piece must belong to you—no plagiarism or AI. >And it must be written AFTER the requirements have been revealed—no previous work. >Do not edit your writing on Rentry after the submission deadline. Submitting >Format and publish your submission on rentry.co >In this thread, open a reply window, then type a unique tripcode (Name + “#” + Password) into the Name-field. >Using that unique tripcode, post your submission here as a Rentry link. >However, if your submission is short enough that it fits inside a single reply-window textbox, you can simply publish it here. Critique, Process, and Q&A >The deeper you delve into your peers’ stories, the more likely they’ll be to engage with yours. >Share your thoughts, advice, improvements, polemics—anything you think an author ought to hear, and you might receive it too. >If you had an interesting creative journey in crafting your piece, please divulge your process. >And, above all, ask questions! “Did this land?” “What were you going for here?” “Is this a reference to something?” etc. Voting >On Strawpoll, rank your top 3 submissions: 1st (top) = 3 points; 2nd = 2 points; 3rd = 1 point. >Do not vote for yourself. >Vote as the “Name” part of your tripcode. >Immediately after voting on Strawpoll, reply “Voted” in this thread, using your full tripcode. >Non-authors (Anonymous voters) can skip this in-thread verification.

Not Long! edition. Old >>25517283

What do I think of it?

Are there any Marxist books or write-ups about the ongoing AI revolution?

So what must I read to finally understand the ways women think?

"Thesaurus attack" edition Previous: >>25591898 /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. Discuss the written works below 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. Expect critique, not praise. Shitposters should be ignored and reported. >Beginner guides on writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM (Improve your Writing: Show, Not Tell) [6:08] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s (George Orwell's 4 Tips For Speaking Clearly) [23:00] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk (How to Show, Not Tell: The Complete Writing Guide) [27:19] >Intermediate guides on writing: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48654.Story https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3097766-borges-on-writing https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23056.Image_Music_Text >Advanced guide on writing: Just do it.

Post and discussion about any type of history book. >The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green >The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. The massive Greek victory, despite the Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for centuries to come. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/307159.The_Greco_Persian_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Persian_Wars Previous thread: https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25510774

>What is /phil/ Philosophy General? A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts. >Why read philosophy? Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously. >Why study philosophy formally? Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia. The server: https://discord.gg/uPvkn8Tcf6 /phil/ guide: https://www.scribd.com/document/324425214/Lit-Philosophy-Project-1-2

this is an philosophical dilemma somehow

It's a Bland New World! The very near future. Discipline lost the fight with laziness by forfeit. Benevolent AIs tend to Humanity in a «comfortable, democratic, polished unfreedom». Poverty is a mathematical impossibility. Work, a pasttime for the whimsical. Dodo – a pompous, elitist misanthrope – drags himself through apathetic days suspended between scabrous hedonism, rumination, and bleak remorse: a past act of cowardice cost him his art and Vittoria, the only woman he ever loved. He feeds his need for interpersonal contact by subjecting strangers on the bus to unhinged monologues that are the only form of conversation somebody like him can produce. When Vittoria reappears, it's as a member of VIGIL, a terrorist group whose motto is "Nihil Supra Nos" (Nothing Above Us). Vittoria tries to draw Dodo into a plan to assassinate Santiago, an old friend from their university days. Santiago – brilliant, neurodivergent, and, in his own way, as desperate as Dodo – has created a Superintelligence capable of eliminating pain from the world. But the price is the irreversible denaturing of Homo sapiens. Not that Dodo likes current Homo sapiens that much. >whole book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n7yZYutBzl1s0kIpc8ILwJe11BDoZ3jW/view

moat cailin edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/ So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/ Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/ SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy General search: http://searcherr.work/ TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters old: >>25581657

We're such a fertile board. Almost manure, really.

infinite breast

>read the bible of femdom >climax ends in cuckoldry I think I now understand why NTR is so popular now

what makes this such a pseud magnet?

Why do right-wing grifters like pensandpoison and that Joon girl complain endlessly about “Marxism” and “wokeness” allegedly killing the artistry of modern literature when right-wing conservatives were pumping out all sorts of slop novels in the 90s and 2000s? Picrel, for instance, was about a state governor covering up his daughter’s death from a botched abortion because he needed support from abortion rights orgs to win his re-election and is later exposed by a Christian news anchor with prophetic powers; this crap is no different from a Sally Rooney novel or “Yesteryear” just neocon/Evangelical in orientation with the same dogshit writing style. Tons of hypocrisy and ignorance on the part of the “anti-work” literary critic crowd.

Dialis editio >τὸ πρότερον νῆμα· >>25580183 >Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί· https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw >Mέγα τὸ ANE· https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg >Work in progress FAQ https://rentry dot co/n8nrko All Classical languages are welcome.

"There's no such thing as a banned book" edition Previous: >>25604586 >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg >Thread questions: What's the last book you read? What's the current book you're reading? What do you plan to read next?

we're just fucked. we're the last literate generation. please make it count

Halloween is fast approaching. What will you be reading?

What are some good novels or short stories that revolve around chess?

I was just with a guy who talked about these books for 20 minutes and reccomended them to multiple women. How are you supposed to act in a situation like that, as someone with actual taste? I nearly died of cringe, even though I don't mind the guy personally.

You vitalist homos spend too much time on clear cut pederasts like Evola, Junger and Mishima the Coco Muncher, I need some serious masculine stories within the Norse saga, no sissy stuff.

Discuss /x/-related books ITT. The weirder and more out there, and factual, the better.

hiatus Edition Stubbed >>25601379 >What is /wng/ — Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more >Why read web novels? Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be. >Why write web novels? Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning. Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'. >Advice for Noobs! ##READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP## Running your story like the business it is: www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847 On writing web serials: alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-web-serial/ Sanderson's Writing Lectures 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh_y1IFZY&list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZvzkfVo_Dls0B5GiE2oMcLY Recommended web novels rentry.co/d2yvczro Anon's guide to success rentry.co/RRBasicGuide FAQ rentry.co/pytefpxn

Recently got into 40k thanks to Space Marine 2 and i wanted to get into the books and stuff, but dunno where to start or what are my options.

thoughts on his work?

Are they worth it? I just want to get away from all the woke crap today

>The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other—he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy—but it would be the only strictly correct method.

yes YES

Is the plagueis book worth a read or is slop like 95% of sci fi books

ITT: /lit/ humour thread

What would be the first books you'd want your son and daughter to read as they begin their reading journey?

Yet, many military leaders did the exact mistakes listed in the book several years or even milennia after the scripts that constitute the book.

I have no idea how these bitches are used. I just guess and use them; however I feel like; and no one has ever; corrected me. They taught me in school but I have long since forgotten

Is there a name for the new quasi english that's all over this board? You've seen it, I'm sure. It sounds like ESL and might be, but it's everywhere and grug-like—but not the way BAP does his broken English. It's like >Haha me didn't read it until last weekend. Whenever it time for my work break is finally like at last reading. I feel fucking crazy reading some of the posts here.

Post some of the more rare ones

Thought that this book was decent. Post some personal recommendations, if you know any, to complement this one. Earnest responses please.

What books do I read to get started with Marxism? I'm not sure if I entirely agree, but I think Marxism is a fascinating field and I would like to learn more about it other than the brief overview I know of, especially the Hegelian side. I already read Wage Labour and Capital.

recommend me books that are about necromancy or dark/forbidden magic

Was Infinite Jest a meme after all?

Do il/lit/erates here read magazine?

Previous: >>25538506 https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25538506 You have until Monday November 2nd, 11:59 PM GMT to fill one /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inspired by this piece of public-domain art. Poetry, prose, greentext, etc. are all fair play as long as your submission—and that’s “your submission” (no plagiarism; no AI)—fits inside a single textbox posted in this thread. After the deadline has passed, I shall choose the best 3. An open vote will take place as well, so that everyone can have a say on the placements. >[Countdown to submission deadline] https://countingdownto.com/w4/display/submission-deadline-wibac-oct-2026-otzz Art: “The Sibyl”—“engraved by Francis Scott King from the painting by Frederick Stuart Church,” 1887. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sibyl,_by_F._S._Church.jpg

What's the most recently published book you've read...THAT WAS ***NOT*** SLOP?!?

Take the Islam pill, anon… >Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan civilization. The wonderful culture of the Moors in Spain, which was fundamentally nearer to us and appealed more to our senses and tastes than that of Rome and Greece, was trampled down (—I do not say by what sort of feet—) Why? Because it had to thank noble and manly instincts for its origin—because it said yes to life, even to the rare and refined luxuriousness of Moorish life!... The crusaders later made war on something before which it would have been more fitting for them to have grovelled in the dust—a civilization beside which even that of our nineteenth century seems very poor and very “senile.”—What they wanted, of course, was booty: the orient was rich.... Let us put aside our prejudices! The crusades were a higher form of piracy, nothing more! The German nobility, which is fundamentally a Viking nobility, was in its element there: the church knew only too well how the German nobility was to be won.... The German noble, always the “Swiss guard” of the church, always in the service of every bad instinct of the church—but well paid.... Consider the fact that it is precisely the aid of German swords and German blood and valour that has enabled the church to carry through its war to the death upon everything noble on earth! At this point a host of painful questions suggest themselves. The German nobility stands outside the history of the higher civilization: the reason is obvious.... Christianity, alcohol—the two great means of corruption.... Intrinsically there should be no more choice between Islam and Christianity than there is between an Arab and a Jew. The decision is already reached; nobody remains at liberty to choose here. Either a man is a Chandala or he is not.... “War to the knife with Rome! Peace and friendship with Islam!”: this was the feeling, this was the act, of that great free spirit, that genius among German emperors, Frederick II. What! must a German first be a genius, a free spirit, before he can feel decently? I can’t make out how a German could ever feel Christian....

No other biblical poet exhibits the virtuosity in the command of rich synonymity that is displayed by the Job poet. He compounds the primary term hoshekh, “darkness,” with tsalmawet, “death’s shadow,” ʿananah, “cloud-mass,” the unique kimrirey yom, “day-gloom” (or, perhaps, “eclipse”), ʾofel, “murk,” and a series of verbs that indicate a befouling, obscuring, or shutting down of light. The extraordinary breadth of the Job poet’s vocabulary is one of the traits that has led some scholars to imagine a foreign source for the poem, but this is a rather silly inference. There are poets in many literary traditions whose imagination and relation to language lead them to stretch the lexical limits of their medium—one might think of Shakespeare, Mallarmé, and Wallace Stevens—and the writer who fashioned the poetry of Job was clearly such a poet. This is another reason for his being drawn to tap Aramaic, as a resource that enables him to extend the reach of his vocabulary (the just cited kimrirey is the first instance in the poem of an Aramaic root Hebraized in order to enrich the poet’s lexicon). The other chief resource deployed in the poetry that Job speaks is its extraordinary metaphoric inventiveness. This strength is already observable in the death-wish poem in the exquisite expression of the desire for unending darkness, “let it [the night of Job’s conception] not see the eyelids of dawn” (3:9). In a procedure that is by no means typical for biblical poetry, the Job poet ranges far and wide through unexpected semantic fields for the sources of his similes and metaphors, drawing on weaving, agronomy, labor practices, meteorology, the sundry crafts, the preparation of foods. Here, for example, is a representation of the formation of the embryo from shapeless plasma in the womb: “Why, You poured me out like milk / and like cheese You curdled me” (10:10). The chiastic pattern of this line, a b b' a', is one of which this poet is especially fond. The fecundity of metaphor, moreover, is allied with a keenly observant interest in the processes of nature that is also rather unusual for a biblical poet. If Job compares the way his friends have betrayed him to the drying up in summer of a wadi, a desert gulch that may be filled with water during the rainy season (6:15), he then proceeds for five lines to follow the seasonal cycle, the melting of snow and ice, the caravans crossing the desert desperately looking for sources of water. It seems almost as if the vehicle of the metaphor—that is, the natural panorama—interested the poet as much as the sense of betrayal he has Job express through the metaphor.

Recently started reading this guy, and he's pretty interesting and nuanced. I was fed propaganda by /lit/roons that he isn't worth reading, but he's so based and redpilled. Why does he get slandered all over the internet despite the fact that most people who criticize him never read him and engage with a strawman version of his arguments?

>borrow my sister's book >it's a softcover >open it at more than a 30 degree angle >she spazzes out that i might bend the cover and crease the spine Why are there so many book autists like this?

what is /lit/ currently reading?

in one sentence prove you weren't filtered

What do you think is the core meaning of Hamlet? Or, do you think it is mere entertainment for the masses?

you too have been spooked

Me and my two based litbro buddies are going to a hallowe'en-party (with lit-foids and art-hoes) What is a properly lit-pilled and intellectual costume? (Preferably in the form of a "trinity") For context our favorite authors are: Pynchon, Joyce, Jung, Bolano, DFW, Tolstoy, Smith, and that guy who wrote Brothers Karamazov (that shit was cash).

You guys know that McCarthy, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, DeLillo, Proust, Faulkner, Joyce, etc. are just junk food right? And that you should be primarily reading ancient history, philosophy, and metaphysics, right?

Any books which offer a serious critique of Marxism?

requirement: character has to off themselves

Aquinas attempted to resolve the tension between reason and revelation and inadvertently began the process that lead to the collapse of Western Christianity Also, most apologists don't know that Aquinas had a direct experience of God and was basically slapped silent, said that his writings were little more than fire fuel and never wrote again, and yet nobody else learned the lesson God tried to teach

Is it possible to like this jew? I've read a bunch of his plays and it seems to me that they're preoccupied primarily with cuckolding and degeneracy. Why are they like this?

Archive of our own is going to be down for 2 weeks for maintenance. https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/g12jnxck9g6h I don't really use the site personally, but it's surprising they need that much time to fix it.

What explains this phenomenon?

What's the political make up of /lit/?

I have read Dazai, Soseki, Murakami (Haruki and Ryu), Murata... and yet Mishima seems to be a few leagues above these other authors, both in the depth of his characters and the prose of his writing (although I am a fan of Dazai's stories). But it seems lame the idea that the best Japanese author was a psycho who died in an embarrassing failed coup. Surely there's another author to take the mantle? Are there any other /lit/ japanese authors or books I am missing?

Comment on her body of work without resorting to ad hominem attacks.

Check out my collection of great Canadian literature

why does this show up when I search for this book on google? someone said "ACOTAR" in my work group chat so I googled it. is this related to the book or something completely unrelated?

>found pic related completely, utterly incomprehensible Did I get filtered? How retarded am I?

Plato Was Right About Everything

In his dialogue, Schopenhauer considers religion and philosophy as two means of finding truth. The difference, however, is that while philosophy presents the truth as it is, religion attempts to spice it up and sugarcoat it with allegories that make it more appealing to the masses. In this sense, he argues that religion is for the many, while philosophy is for the few. He often attacks Christianity (which is hardly surprising, considering that many intellectuals of his time did the same), yet he admires Buddhism, which arguably makes his position somewhat questionable. Nevertheless, what do Anons think about this? Personally, I think that in this day and age, philosophy has increasingly come to resemble religion. With the rise of thinkfluencers and similar figures, philosophy is often served to the public in much the same way priests present religion to their congregations. Both seek to attract and capture a large audience. This, in my opinion, makes Schopenhauer's distinction rather obsolete in the modern age.

there you go https://i0.wp.com/thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Rosa_Lux_series-4e62565777d41d6372884d86cc0fc620.jpeg?fit=1124%2C1124&ssl=1&w=640 Guys what I just did wail looking at this picture.... I'm gonna go smke a cigeretter, but first wash my hands I guess there just wasn't anyone smart enough for Lenin, maybe he is Jewish idk so really I am a virgin. It is to me the most ebbarising think ever I just keep pretending. Jews are right sexual energy does drive the world. I was wrong. I need to have sex for real... And that doesn't mean immediately. But I do need to get on it

The Plutarchian ideal of man is not talked about enough. The Plutarchian ideal man is driven by virtue, strives for greatness, seeks to conquer the unconquered through his virtues, and remains uninfluenced by his lower bodily instincts. Such men are becoming increasingly rare. Few men today embody this ideal, and we must bring it back to create ideal citizens and a great nation. Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are among the few who embody this ideal. They display a disdain for bodily gratification reminiscent of Cato the Elder, virtue reminiscent of Cato the Younger and Brutus, a hunger for greatness reminiscent of Alexander the Great, and courage reminiscent of Caesar. It is therefore no wonder that leftists detest them. Only when we restore this ideal to the minds of men can we produce more great men who shape the course of history

She's so humble

This isn’t for lit (All Quiet in the Western Front) or for pure pulp (Mack Bolan) but books somewhere in the middle. Authors like Larry Correia, John Ringo, Matthew Reilly. What are some good and/or silly books on operating and such. Also, looking for submarine recommendations. The sub parts of Red Storm Rising were my fav.

Oh yeah... NPCs are a SPOOK! No humans are NPCs.... you all just look at your phone for everything so it controls you. No different than a dog that has been trained... Pavlovian style... Wait.... THOMAS PYNCHON IS A GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE FUCKING GOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with Jews you win...

Saying you read a book because you listened to the audio book is like saying you played the game because you watched a YouTube walkthrough

Has anyone read these? Why is it dominating women's reading lists so much?

I get all my reading recommendations from ChatGPT

post examples of /lit/ worthy lyrics

Naked Lunch came out in 1959. Gravity's Rainbow in 1973. What do you think, was Pynchon inspired by the technique? Did he write a normal novel and then just cut up paragraphs/sentences and put them quasi-randomly back together?

Anyone here read "How to Read Donald Duck"? It's a 1971 Chilean analysis of Disney comics from an anti-imperialist Marxist perspective. I've been reading a lot of Cark Barks and Don Rosa Duck comics lately, and the stereotyping of indigenous cultures and glorification of capital do sour the stories at times. I feel Don Rosa did a great job injecting the heart back into Uncle Scrooge in his 'Life of Scrooge' series, in which he depicts his burning and pillaging of an African village as the most abhorrent deed in Barks's Scrooge's life - but even Rosa can't help himself but sing praises to Theodore Roosevelt multiple times in that same series. I think it's an interesting topic, especially now that Disney is banning some of Rosa's (and potentially Barks's?) stories from being reprinted. Thoughts?

How do you actually write sex scenes in a way that don't end up being just funny?

Accelerationism is the same error that all westerners make, thinking that humanity is the same as western civilization. So, they assume a collapse of the west is a collapse of humanity. When the west is just one of many human civilizations. Also, Nick forgets that human civilizations or nations have things like religion that has diferent egregores that can cause effects in reality, like magic. This nigga literally can't think outside of the framework of western materialism. Like most materailist frameworks, can only understand reality and humanity throught the lenses of capitalism. By example, muslims and hindus doesn't operate throught materialism.

For Harry Potter generally and to soak up /tv/ Malfoid rejects in particular. Something I'm curious about; how does /lit/ feel about the Ron/Hermoine romance subplot? Good? Bad? Salvageable? And what makes a good romance subplot for a story like this?

Long awaited and tremendously anticipated, Gryffincorg Edition Previous >>25620603

Take the test and find out which philosopher you are most in agreement with: knowsoda.com/philosophy I did 104 questions.

What am I in for?

>I'm the creator, I create Melkor and Mairon >I gave Melkor existential frustation and Mairon extreme OCD >I create a world with minerals to allow a fast technological progress, BUT YOU CAN'T USE THEM! >I create living beings that can die by age, battle, poison, etc, because I can >NO! I'm not the bad guy, my imperfect (on purpose) minions are the bad guys >I'M THE CREATOR, I CAN DO WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT!

Nietzsche says pity is harmful because it diminishes strength on the part of the one that pities. That much I can understand. But why is it harmful that the weak are kept alive? I thought the benefit of natural selection was that it develops strength, but I don't see how the survival of the weak prevents that. I can understand how perhaps you would be somewhat pleased if there were fewer plebeians running around spouting off their plebeian nonsense but other than that I see it as a matter of indifference whether or not they survive. Why is it necessary for Nietzsche to cull the weak?

>"Le fishe SUH SCURRY!!! AWW LAWD, IZZ DATS A POLACK I SEES!?! ISS BE GOIN' TOTALLY INSANE! IT'S JUST TO HORRIBLE TO DESCRIBE!!!"

what are the best female authors

Tips on putting your mind on words¿ I want to improve on that Don't care about no one reading them, I see beauty when I read good word-feelings

>make a brief, witty and smart bait post >zero (You)s >make a brief, witty and smart bait post but tack on an ai-generated essay after my bait >infinite (You)s You pseuds like the illusion of responding to somebody's essay and you don't care for anything other than the illusion of that. None of you read the essay. You like seeing the big blocks of text and you simply respond to the first sentence while ignoring the rest.

And now I'm mad. Going through all my epubs and changing them to UK covers immediately.

Write a better ending!

Books for capturing the feeling of being forsaken

>The Tao gives birth to the One, >the One gives birth to the Two, >the Two gives birth to the Three, >the Three gives birth to the Ten Thousand Things.

I have read and analyzed some 500 romance novels in order to complete the other half of Campbell's work. The archetypes herein are encoded into the female brain by evolution and can be observed even in simple high school social dynamics. Understand this and you understand women.

I personally believe that Jesus was a divine being, that he truly was sent by God and was raised from the dead but I have been meditating lately on what the alternative is if I'm wrong. Pic related, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb by Hans Holbein the Younger, is a painting that almost caused Dostoyevsky to have a seizure who said: >"One can lose his faith from a painting like that" It confronts you with the possibility that the whole story is false. My view is that if Jesus wasn't divine or empowered by God then to me the only reasonable option is that he was a harmless madman. That in a way has a certain power to it though for me. The idea that there was a lunatic who only had love in his heart and he said "Love everyone" and for that he was nailed to a cross. It's a sad and beautiful story. Maybe that's really what happened. I hope not, but I can't truly say

>writes a generic tragic yaoislop sub nerd x dom jock fanfic straight out of ao3 based on a oscure greek myth >but is written in free verse >wins a nobel Is it really that easy?

>If you aren't eternally humble, always being a weak highroader, and let everyone walk all over you at all times, you are under Satan's influence. >if you have any disagreement with doctrine you are being led astray towards Satan why are Christcucks like this

It's the same tiger

Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea. Beyond them to the east there lies a desert, for ever untroubled by man: all yellow it is, and spotted with shadows of stones, and Death is in it, like a leopard lying in the sun. To the south they are bounded by magic, to the west by a mountain, and to the north by the voice and anger of the Polar wind. Like a great wall is the mountain to the west. It comes up out of the distance and goes down into the distance again, and it is named Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean. To the northward red rocks, smooth and bare of soil, and without any speck of moss or herbage, slope up to the very lips of the Polar wind, and there is nothing else there by the noise of his anger. Very peaceful are the Inner Lands, and very fair are their cities, and there is no war among them, but quiet and ease. And they have no enemy but age, for thirst and fever lie sunning themselves out in the mid-desert, and never prowl into the Inner Lands. And the ghouls and ghosts, whose highway is the night, are kept in the south by the boundary of magic. And very small are all their pleasant cities, and all men are known to one another therein, and bless one another by name as they meet in the streets. And they have a broad, green way in every city that comes in out of some vale or wood or downland, and wanders in and out about the city between the houses and across the streets, and the people walk along it never at all, but every year at her appointed time Spring walks along it from the flowery lands, causing the anemone to bloom on the green way and all the early joys of hidden woods, or deep, secluded vales, or triumphant downlands, whose heads lift up so proudly, far up aloof from cities.

Who do you think came the closest to The Truth?

Have you read it? I don't typically read sci-fi. Was this the wrong book to break the ice?

a much-maligned lady!

Which translation of The Histories should I read?

what is you're thots on word of the year 2026? literaturely speaking.

These are the winners of the 2024 Imagination Creation school writing contest in Wyndham, Victoria, and I think something's up.

truth nuke from /vn/ about plotfags in lit 95% of dramas are cheating, rape, and murder

What would Hegel have to say about AI? He's all about the "doing" as the content of life, knowledge through experience. Laziness is now indistinguishable from competence. But he also focuses on mediation and connectivity, so maybe he wouldn't be against it.

In 2027 living as a NEET seems the only sane and actually human way of existing. Han was right, stop functioning, start contemplating.

Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying

fav monster romance book? I quite like Ice Planet Barbarians

When did you realize that what you write about matters a hell of a lot less than how you write it?

Aristotle says the magnanimous man is humble to those of low station and insolent to those of high station, whereas the petty man is haughty to those of low station and humble to those of high station. This is because to be humble to those who can’t benefit or harm you shows generosity and kindness, whereas to be haughty toward them shows fake courage. And to be humble to those who can benefit or harm you shows flattery or fear, indicative of a kiss ass, whereas to be insolent toward them shows courage and lack of concern for material gain

I could've saved her

>Nothing remains what it is while you count it Books for this feel?

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Would Jeremy Bentham support gay necrophiles molesting his corpse? Surely utilitarianism supports raping corpses because it gives positive hedonic points to necrophiles but doesn't really harm Bentham as a person.

What are some books about the process of losing one’s sanity or witnessing it? I know some horror like “House of leaves” has the narrative as well as the very formatting of the novel start to fall apart and wheel of time has a lot of “Mad” characters but what about the perspective of one solely mad? “Steppenwolf” was kinda what I mean where it was a man just going through a weird meta episode of his own psyche and “A confederacy of dunces” was like the outsider perspective of a madman, but what are more books that are from the perspective of the deranged?

It is said that men are suffering a crisis of identity over the loss of their usefulness in traditionally masculine roles e.g. provider. That may be true but I think women are suffering a worse crisis that drives much worse consequences than the male one. Women increasingly express the sentiment that they see no reason to have a man because whatever a man is supposed to do i.e. traditional roles such as earning money, handling finances, fixing the car etc, they can do just as well. This is not men getting worse as most men still do these things, this is women failing at adjusting their expectations to the new times since men no longer do these things *for* them. We can see that their accusation of men being unable to cope with the end of traditional gender roles is nothing more than projection. Why do I argue this crisis is worse than the one men are no doubt undergoing? Because men have no issue finding reasons to have women beyond doing the house chores. It's not even an expectation with men finding partners that they will do all or most of the chores. Prolonged bachelorhood a hundred years of liberal education ensured men are able and comfortable doing house chores. The replacement of the remaining female duties in the relationship, mainly sex and companionship are only attempted by a minuscule parcel of the male population, the ones who would never reproduce anyway. This is not the case for women. Women who find themselves in adulthood performing all the tasks traditionally associated with men have a hard time finding a reason to be in a LTR as they are able to replace all of a man's functions. Not only do they work and pay their own bills, unlike men they have no need to lock down a partner to have regular sex, and they can get a simulacrum of companionship from short term relationships and social media. Most women today are the personification of gen z boss and a mini and while a handful of gooners refusing to breed aren't a big deal, most women doing so is. This is the reason for the almost scientific constant of declining birth rates in developed countries. Women cannot answer the question "what's the use of a man?" once they gain financial independence. Even if it is the case that most men also don't want to breed, due to reproduction dynamics a lack of men is never a problem for fertility rates. The future of humanity depends on women figuring out this answer.

i am almost done with this. i have to read the introduction and epilogue. i have read through the main part of the book. my favorite chapter is chapter ten( called satan) which goes into the beliefs of the nation of islam(yakub and the creation of white people) i like alex haley as a writer because he's direct and not poetic. a lot of white writers are too poetic and like to sniff their own farts i also like the part where he talks about his trip to mecca and how seeing white muslims changed his view of white people. It shows how deluded he was thinking that arabs and muslims in general were non-racist. if black africans flooded saudi arabia arabs would become racist just like white people malcolm x was also inconsistent and hypocritcal. he was whining about white people stripping the black man of his culture while he is for stripping white people of their culture by converting them to islam. Converting white people to islam would make them culturally arab he would whine about the bad things white christians did while ignoring all the bad stuff muslims did(arab slave trade for example). he would whine about christians calling non-christians pagan while muslims call non-muslims kaffirs

What's weird about him for me is that I'm Italian and yet I've never heard anyone talk about him in my language. No mention of him at school either. I've only seen people discuss him in chuddy and niche places like this one. I have read some of Beyond Good and Evil and have greatly enjoyed it. I think about and quote specific aphorisms from that book almost daily, so if I am to believe that he lives up to Nietzsche and expands on his ideas I'd definitely consider reading him. Also "Ride the Tiger" is one of the worst and cringiest book titles I can think of. It sounds like what a 2024 ChatGPT model would come up with if prompted to create the most stereotypical reactionary 20th century philosophy book title.

>smirks

Cool life hack from booktok! Just skip everything but dialogue. I read this stack in a week.

Nazis are le bad

What should I read as an introduction to gender studies?

Hey do you like your ereader but think it's running a bit too well? Wanna make it more bloated? Here's a bunch of useless features! Start by installing an overlay that adds 3-4 extra steps to every action and then see how many plugins you can cram in!

Why hasn't the great incel novel been written yet? We need someone to accurately describe the struggles of young sensitive men today.

I'm having attention issues again. Help me

Reading the polemics against stoicism by Cicero and Plutarch, there is not one contemporary philosopher that comes anywhere near the discipline and asceticism they describe. In fact, the people today who call themselves stoics are merely following the doctrine of moderation prescribed by their critics.

Halloween Reads

UH OH! edition Previous: >>25612894 >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Banned Authors: Ty Johnston Karl Wagner Stephen Kristiansen David Gemmel Kazuo Ishiguro >Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg >Thread Question: Do you ever go back and reread books from when you were younger?

best works of absurdist satire? the more biting the better.

Necromancy, Ritual, Sacrifice, Sepulchral Culture, Underworld Travels, Afterlife, Eschatology, Books of the Dead, Dreams, Oneiromancy, Archetypes, Shadow Work, Illumination, Psychonautics, DMT Realm cartography, Holotropic breathwork, Sensory deprivation, Astral Projection, Automatic writing, Trepanation, Gnosis, Castration, Demonolatry, Orgone Energy, Hermeticism, Theosophy, Zoroastrianism, Psychological Alchemy, Hypersigils, Technomancy, Egregores, Insect Archons, le feckin Demiurg, Hypnosis, Trance, Dissociation, Kali Yuga, Luciferianism, Enochian magic, Crowley, Blavatsky, Austin O. Spare, Kenneth Grant, William Blake, Jakob Böhme, esoteric Kantianism, Éliphas Lévi, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Evola, Guénon, LSD, Ibn Arabi, Nick Land, the Antichrist, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels

Why do most people seem to like The Stranger more than Nausea? I read them both this month. I thought they were both great but Nausea was way more fun to read imo. The writing is way more expressive and Roquentin goes much further into the depths of his existential experience than Meursault. Is this just a case of The Stranger being more accessible/easy to read so simply more people have read it? Why do you think The Stranger is better?

Give us some book about pedopfiles or with large age difference Do NOT recommend me that Lolita shit. I read that not understand shit. Man in love with his dictionary. I must read some books about pedophilia or a book with a big age difference. Do NOT say Lolita.

Post your own/your favourite radical socialist poetry ITT. Here's mine: With our legion hammers With our many scythes With our unleashed genders With our human rights Our fists are the colours of the rainbow Yet we strike the orange husk Our spirits raise us higher than the low Yet we fight against Elon Musk For we are the children of Mandela For we are the children of Geronimo We are the disabled queers in the favela We are the trans blacks in your music videos You have taken the sweat of our labour You have taken our children's HRT Genocidal whites are not my saviour The future is the Democrat party George Floyd, can you hear me? We still ain't breathing Black lives matter, really So join me in kneeling

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American literature and medias skew anti-war while European literature and media glorifies it. Europeans are NPCs that are happy dying for some flimsy idea of nationalism. It's funny considering Euros even run a war-tourism business where they will let you buy a ticket to tour their demolished war torn cities. You also have to question why Europeans spend so much more time in war than Americans. Americans close out wars instantly, meanwhile Europeans spend lifetimes in war. Americans seem to have an entire literary and cinematic tradition dedicated to questioning the bloodshed, state, military institutions, mass mobilization, propaganda, and the general absurdity of getting vaporized for some politician's geopolitical ambitions. Meanwhile, European political discourse seems to oscillate between nostalgia for empires that collapsed a century ago, pretending the EU is the end of history, reading René Guénon and Julius Evola and deciding that modernity is the problem rather than the fact that your country has become an administrative theme park, or occasionally quoting Hitler, because apparently the continental intellectual tradition has run out of material. Why does European anti-war sentiment so often seem to be replaced by technocratic managerialism or romanticized historical militarism? Is it because Americans are smarter and realize that dying for your country like an NPC bugman is a retarded idea? Or are Europeans just NPCs running the same dialogue tree about European civilization, multipolarity, and the need for a strong leader?

>What is /phil/ Philosophy General? A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts. >Why read philosophy? Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously. >Why study philosophy formally? Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia. The server: https://discord.gg/uPvkn8Tcf6 /phil/ guide: https://www.scribd.com/document/324425214/Lit-Philosophy-Project-1-2

>Our mind has no issues. It’s like a scrap of cloth or a flag that’s fastened to the end of a pole and just stays there: Nothing happens. Or like a leaf left to its own nature: It stays still; nothing happens. The fact that the leaf flutters is because of something else: the wind. The nature of the leaf itself is that it stays still and doesn’t do anything to anybody. The fact that it moves is because something else comes and makes contact. When the wind makes contact, the leaf flutters back and forth. It’s the same with the nature of our mind. There’s no love, no hatred, no blaming of anyone. It stays as it is in that way—a condition that’s really pure, clear, and clean. It stays in peace, with no pleasure, no pain, no feelings at all. That’s the genuine condition of the mind. The reason we practice is to explore inwardly, >explore inwardly, explore inwardly, to contemplate inwardly until we reach the primal mind: the primal mind that’s called the pure mind. The pure mind is the mind without any issues. No preoccupations are passing by. In other words, it doesn’t go running after preoccupations. It doesn’t criticize this or that, doesn’t get pleasure in this way or that. It’s not happy about this thing or sad about that. And yet the mind is always aware. It knows what’s going on. When the mind is in this state, then when preoccupations come blowing through— good, bad, whatever the preoccupations: When they come blowing or cogitating in, the mind is aware of them but stays as it is. It doesn’t have any issues. It doesn’t waver. Why? Because it’s aware of itself. It’s aware of itself. It’s constructed freedom within itself. It’s reached its own condition. How has it been able to reconstruct its primal condition? Because the knower has contemplated in a subtle way to see that all things are simply manifestations of properties and elements. >There’s nobody doing anything to anybody. As when pleasure or pain arises: When pleasure arises, it’s just pleasure, that’s all. When pain arises, it’s just pain, that’s all. It doesn’t have any owner. The mind doesn’t make itself the owner of pleasure, doesn’t make itself the owner of pain. It watches these things and sees that there’s nothing for it to take. They’re separate kinds of things, separate kinds of affairs. Pleasure is just pleasure, that’s all. Pain is just pain, that’s all. The mind is simply what knows these things. https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/StillFlowingWater/

If the existence we experience is the only thing that we know, how do we know that there isn’t anything beyond our existence?

Recommended books about anticommunism? It can be about opposition to communist regimes, refutation of communism or memoirs from ex-communists.