/lit/ - Literature

>ermm anon why don't you have a single female author in your book case?
>but you have all the Pynchons? Seriously??? Are you literally an incel or something?

>if something happens... then something else might also happen later
so this.... is the power.... of philosophy... what a good use of your time.......

ye olde: >>24835665

Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs).
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>Archive:
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>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

>Thread Question:
What's your favourite decade of sci-fi?

Is sex gender? It could not be, for that would mean saying that gender is sex, and then we would say nothing more than one or the other. But gender is not nothing; it exists within several individuals. What is gender? It is the discourse between the sexes in general and the singular sex. Let us set aside the question of discourse, for in any case, for there to be discourse, the singular sex must, instantaneously and as a whole, be one as substance. Otherwise, it could not be used to define gender, which would then have to be defined by itself or aesthetically, and we would go round in circles. If sex is one, can it, consequently, be the other while remaining one?

The being of the one appears multiple in abstraction, for abstraction does not partake of time in itself. The absence of time fragments the one in appearance. The being that, while partaking of becoming, is one, is one at the moment it begins to become. Let us see whether sex is one, instantaneously and as a whole—that is, whether it partakes of the instant and of becoming. If it partakes of the instant, it does not partake of becoming as one. In partaking of time, the one becomes older than itself, and since that which becomes older becomes so relative to the one that becomes younger, in becoming older than itself, it becomes at once older and younger than itself. When, in becoming older, it reaches the present, it no longer becomes but is older and younger than itself. But since becoming is as long as being for the one that is itself, it is the same age as itself and neither becomes younger nor older but one with itself and what it was. However, from the fact that a thing partakes of the one, can we also say that it is, and thus be able to say: “It is a thing”?

Does anyone have a link to download the anarchist cookbook? It doesn't matter if it's in Spanish or English.

This bitch could not make her mind up about anything.

Please recommend skeptical fiction in which there is a sense that anything can happen and which is not based on taken external world for granted

Who is your bookfu?

For me it's Dorothea from Middlemarch

Throwing random shit in a world and figuring it out later. Tolkien hated it (allegedly).

If it's so bad, why does this fascinate me? I don't want Tolkien to think I'm a Midwit.

I don't need or care for the 1,000 year history of how the beavers learned how to talk.
It's part of the mystery. Not everything needs to be explained.

And I like Christmas and Santa Claus. And I like Halloween. I really liked The Nightmare before Christmas.

Is it because I'm American?

Hey I hate to be the guy who posts this kind of thing but I truly don't know where else to ask. I feel lost in life. I am undisciplined and rarely get things done. Most of my time I spend in my head, pondering over matters I cannot solve, yet failing to switch topics or get my head out of a thinking spiral. Maybe I lack the will to do so. I went over the self-help and psychology slop, but it all feels like a sham, a fad constantly trying to sell me more crap (just buy my book bro, just try my online course, just follow these ridiculous rules I made up). Perhaps I am foolish to think a book will help me, but I want to learn how to be a simpler man, a man of action, of less thought. Any literature on the matter?

post books on general/philosophical grammar

Principles of General Grammar
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
https://archive.org/details/principlesgener00sacygoog

The general principles of language
Thomas Jaffray Robertson
https://archive.org/details/generalprincwest00robeuoft

General and Rational Grammar
Antoine Arnauld, Claude Lancelot
https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=137309368

A grammar of logic
Alexander Jamieson
https://archive.org/details/grammaroflogicin01jami

General principles of the structure of language
James Byrne
vol 1
https://archive.org/details/generalprinciple01byrn
vol2
https://archive.org/details/generalprinciple02byrn

The principles of grammar
Solomon Barrett Jr
https://archive.org/details/principlesofgram00barrrich

Is this good, it's been sitting in the used bookstore for months

Comfy books taking place in the modern era like The Crying of Lot 49?

Post your favorite fictional characters ITT

>be a supposedly superintelligent godlike supercomputer
>become totally undone by a simple logic conflict
Seriously?

>An alexandrine epic written before the events of the Iliad
>A crew of badass heroes, from Heracles and Orpheus to the fathers of Ajax and Achilles
>Starring a young man ushered by the orders of a tyrant king into traveling to far off lands on a pointless suicide mission
>numerous monsters, strange locales, cameos from other epics, alongside new and powerful characters
>all written with the benefit of hindsight and centuries of literary/scholarly advancement
>essentially the perfect premise for an epic to rival Homer
>turns to complete and utter shit after the first two books
Genuinely how did Apollonius fuck this up?

nay or yay

Any books that will give me the same feeling as listening to Bill Evans does? Or just has a similar mood/vibe?

How do you respond without sounding mad?

Thoughts on Karl Ove Knausgård?

I've gotten about half a dozen short stories and about a dozen poems published under my own name. Mostly in small venues, and only one ever paid me serious money. I've tried to get published at some of the big dog places like the New Yorker and the Paris Review, but no dice. This despite one of my poems actually being nominated for a Pushcart Prize a few years ago.

I have a major work I've been working on in installments for five years now, and there doesn't seem to be anyone who wants to take a chance on publishing the first book, so my plan is to put it up on a website I'm having built tailor-made for it, sections at a time, releasing it serially. Fortunately I have a decent social media presence which should hopefully help me slowly build an audience, if people think the story is good.

None of the big dogs seem to want to take a chance on me so I'm going to try to get my stuff out into the world myself.

When you read a book, do you visualize the landscape and the people, like a movie scene flowing through your mind?

Do you own books from La Pléiade ?
Which ones ?

Now that we know about Gaimen's deviancy, can we re-examine his literary catalog?

This is the bookshelf of rightwing intellectual Connor Tomlinson.

Is it time we recognise DC/Marvel works as part of the western canon?

Can chapters with mostly dialogue work?

Did he go too far here?

>cover
>cover japan :O

Any of you doing NaNoWriMo this month? We're only three days in, plenty of time to start still. I haven't, but maybe if enough people call me a fag I will.

The freemasons and the powers behind them lied to you about literally everything. Either half-truths, false concepts, or blatant lies to confuse you and give you a false understanding of the world, mankind, time, history, and your place in it so that you dedicate your life, soul, and energy to their doctrines in which they have full authority over every aspect. They control Science™, they are the priests that ex-plain and ex-plane the earth for you, they wield that trademark, and that means they control our space in life (if we give them authority over the earth).
Right from the start this world lied to you about the very ground you stand on, the 3 dimensional reality you live in. A fundamental lie, and everything people derive from this false reality will consequently be some kind of falsehood. We are now at the point where mankind believes they are mutated animals, and they are spinning around themselves on a perfectly spherical rock in random space that exploded once. A psy-op, mental conditioning. Do not underestimate the spiritual life-guiding implications of this godless concept. Most people are not level-headed, they are not stationary, they are not based, they are incapable to see physical truth at this point. Common sense isn't really all that common anymore. They rather believe in jewish mysticism like space-time and relativity, which leads to everything being "relative". No distinct up and down, which leads to good and evil being "relative", male and female being "relative", all empty space and imaginations in our mind. Let that sink in, the majority of people ultimately don't even know what is UP and what is DOWN. In other words, there is no absolute truth in this universe.

So I finally got around to reading this book and I must say, it's a pretty good apolitical introduction to the history of migration. I came out believing the same thing I did coming in, that we humans are a nomadic species and migration is a fact of life. The right to roam shall not be infringed, chuds.

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Write a scene where a small, ordinary object (a ticket stub, dented spoon, chipped mug) reveals a secret about the narrator. Begin in medias res with a sensory detail. End with a line that reframes the object’s meaning.

How is this guy not even relevant ? His Metaphysical and Epistemological arguments about Will-to-live being the Will-To-death and that Death is not a phenomenon of the Will-to-Live but the true halt to life and the will to death strives to die because the Universe is the corpse of a suicidal god.

Seriously how the fuck these genius is not popular it's literally the best argument

Any got it?

I reread The Dark Enlightenment at least once a month and it's probably the most impactful piece of writing I've ever laid my eyes on. How comes his reactionary writings get so little attention compared to his earlier methed-up schizo nonsense, asides for hand-wringing dismissal and moral grandstanding disapproval from political opponents? They try to act like it doesn't exist or that it's just "stupid" and nobody should ever read it, despite embodying one of the most compelling critiques of the Leftist project ever made.

Did he write anything worth reading ? Post some recs

>Add a random passage where the story enters a POV of a Fox
>You can hear the sentient thoughts of this animal
>This is never ever mentioned or brought up again throughout the entire LOTR Trilogy
What did Tolkien mean by this?

Should I care about this as a reader?

Writing dialogue is hard

I was disappointed that the wendigo wasn’t described as having a deer-skull head as most depictions have it, but the scene where Défago

Was he right about The Shards?

Could you recommend me novels with similar themes? Bonus points if they were originally written in russian, preferably pre revolution. Complex and lengthy novels are welcome but less serious works are ok too (i already know of Lidia Charskaya's works).

What book should I ask for for my birthday?

Where do I start with Nietzsche?

Which is the best? The most profound? The most literary? The most fun?

I just finished this. I was disappointed yet can't stop thinking about it

Yes?

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