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?
And before I go to bed, I bought it from him for $4000. He had it listed for $5000 on abebooks. Like I said. I will take real photos of the book in the future to share with you guys. night
>>23326248It’s bound in human skin, isn’t it.
>>23326248Collecting old books sounds cool, but in actuality is sadly extremely gay. Congratulations with your find.>>23326260Nigger the story was first published in 1908
>>23326221You’re not the Dunsay autist from the forums are you? If not he’s going to have a fit because he doesn’t own this.
>>23326284I’m in bed now. What forums?
A scale of 1-blasphemy
What's the point of a film made about a book where the entire appeal is how artfully it's written? As in the literal text on the page, and not any figurative nonsense.
>>23324358I hate how it's written but I love the book>>23324325picrel
>>23322448lmao kino
>>23324325>>23324396Michael Chiklis maybe?
They are going to bastardize it into some politically relevant flick. The judge is going to be a woman or be defeated by a woman, slave or indian and the ending will be morally directed towards supporting liberal values. It's not going to be close to anything like no country for old men, it will be peppered with liberalism, diversity and trump/biden politics.
>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.
>le culture_war.exeget patched
>>23324140What did he mean by this?
>>23324140>>23324237Whatever. Bye.
>>23324245There surely is a newfag wave. I have read the word "onions" more times today than in the rest of the year
>>23324237>>23324140Filtered. But here's your (You)
Hegel? Heidegger? Plato? Aristotle? Who?
>>23325872A blight that ruined philosophy.
>>23324837Bergson and Whitehead In terms of contemporary philosophers there's only really Iain McGilchrist who is continuing what Bergson and Whitehead started
>>23324837Beatrix Potter.
Define truth
>>23326255God.
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.
>>23325659I was thinking of reading Ten Rules for Life but I didn't know Peterson was a neo-nazi. He seemed like a pretty chill guy from the podcasts I listened to.
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>>23324480It turns out the context is the octopus was being used as an anti-kike dogwhistle in reference to some old political cartoon about a jew with tentacles spreading across Europe, but it's so obscure it's funnier just to assume he's yelling about stuffed animals.
>>23324480>That's not real..is it?Nope.
>>23325691>>23325698Thanks fren, I didn't think clown world was this bad.
Explain how the greek myths relate to shakespearian own works.
>>23323761Didn't Shakespeare take more from Ovid and the metamorphosis (roman mythology) than any greek?Maybe I need an explanation as well.
>>23324934>roman mythologylmao, he doesn't know
>>23323761It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned. So the king sent and called for Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and solemnly warn you, saying, 'You will know for certain that on the day you depart and go anywhere, you shall surely die'?
>>23324934Roman mythology is exactly the same as greek mythology. The myths from Ovid were writtenbefore by apollodorus, a greek.
>>23323761Do your own homework you underaged retard.
reading Harry Potter while pretending that you don't exist hits different
>>23324221>>23324239>Is Harry Potter really demonic?Yes Harry Potter is demonic.>In what ways? Invocation of magick, Rowlling used the names of demons whilst writing the magick system in the series.>>Source? Fr. Ripperger told me so.
Guys, I can't stop reading Harry/Fleur fanficsI've lost the count of how many times I've re-read "Letters", I even consider it canon at this pointWhat do?Also what are some good H/F fanfics outside fanfiction.net?
>>23324616Good to know.Thanks!
>>23324636this is your sign to write the H/F fanfic you want to read
>>23324636thanks for the rec, mysterious stranger
>favorite poet>what you're listening to right now
>>23323295
>William Blake or S.T. Coleridge>Wagner (Tristan und Isolde)
>>23322549John MiltonFuture (Nayvadius DeMun Cash)
>>23325656Ah, my parents never cared for him, they aren't really old enough or "sophisticated" enough for him, they're Bruce Springsteen fans - as am I, really. But it was cool discovering Dylan as an adult. What else did you like from his collection?
ValéryJanaček
recommend female essayists please>about meI 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
>In the winter of 1918-19, the do-gooding societies of the United Kingdom committed themselves to repatriating from France lunatics who were provably British subjects. This was not mere chauvinism, although the notion that Gallic asylums were at once too lenient and too barbaric did pervade, but also — correctly, I would say — founded on the thesis that the idée fixe of most madmen is that they are not being properly understood, and that if only they were understood they would not merely be released, but lauded for their incisiveness. If a madman and his keeper do not even share a language both are liable to great agitation. The second, and more money-spinning reason, was the forlorn hope that some of the names listed missing - death presumed on the rolls of companies, martial and voluntary, had not vanished into the maw of Passchendaele or Ypres but rather the back wards of the Republic’s rambling provincial madhouses then so ill-administered by the worst functionaries of church and state. >By way of this enterprise, I found myself in an attic room of a cheap railway hotel overlooking the Gare du Nord, stripped of all its furnishing save a mattress and a tin jug, and locked from the outside.
>>23325096Stein has some good stuff. Woolf is not bad.
>>23325096Cristina Campo
>>23325108>>23325127Chesterton is female in the sense that fat is estrogenic and turns you into a bitch.
>>23325096Simone Weil
Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax!
>tfw you realize the thunder words are nora's fucking farts
>>23325949Based Tabor gifMy father's favorite movie
Temple by the Sea edition>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/guIyhAzS>Archivehttps://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffgPrevious: >>23314259
>>23325534Fatty boombaty
>>23324486>I know i should tell a story with one point of view.>But like...uhhh>I know i know haha>But like uhhh...im not gonna hahaha>So you have to enjoy my four perspective'd story or you're a pleb haha
>>23325780it works if its a story with multiple interesting thread occuring at different places
>>23326106Whatever you say ADHD-anon.
>>23326165The threads have to relate, obviously. I am annoyed when the threads have fuck all to do with each other only to converge at the end like "haha see look! it was all connected!"My most recent example of multiple pov adding to a work is iron gold. You had three books worth of events spread out over an entire solar system. You need multiple POV to bring that all home in a reasonably sized book without it being contrived.
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
Ruining reputation?
BINGO :^)
>Utmost is trying to something
I was pretending to not have any fault when it occurs to me that having any imposition required something to come and harm who I am. >Utmost
Remind me why the blood is a myth.
What's a book or books that are red flags in a partner make sure to say why
Any femgoon 'romance' novels
>>23323980>anything by Rupi KuprTry-hard poet fagging at its finest
>>23323980Dan BrownJohn GreenMurakamiCoehloAny Young Adult fiction/fantasy writer after J.K. RowlingsJewish writers after the 20th centuryColored writers from this century and on a big publisher like Penguin, Knopf, etc.
>>23323980Hollowcost books. Modern social justice slop books.
>>23323980There’s a certain type of chick who thinks she’s a literary genius for having read The Great Gatsby even though it’s the only book of substance she’s ever read and she didn’t even understand it
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.”"
>>23326100Jewish
>>23326115She sounds horrible
>>23326020How many times are you going to post this dumb shit?
>>23326028>t. simp who doesn't get any
>>23326116Damn, dude. That's gay as fuck. You'll cut your balls off soon, I bet.
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.
>>23324751I don't see the point of a translation of poetry that makes no attempt to replicate the form of the original, unless it's just intended as a crib to aid with understanding the original.
>>23324764I agree that it's far from ideal, but it is capable of capturing certain dimensions of greatness nonetheless. I wish I had the patience to learn the languages of every poet I want to read, but that just isn't me.
>>23324772Well, if you like poetry Chinese opens up an especially great amount of good poetry.
>>23324783If I ever do it, Chinese will almost certainly be the one, yeah. And I've put a bit of time into it on and off, I know most of the standard poetic words, your yue, qiu, shanshui, all that. I'm just not enough of a poetic technique connoisseur to really feel like I need to prioritize it when my backlog is such a black hole of time and attention.
I'll just bump with random thoughts/observations/questions: Decided to skip ahead and check out the rhapsodies (ahead in the collection, that is, they were written very early on). Definitely feels a little smoother, a little more refined, with somewhat different concerns and a different flow, compared to the old rhapsodies. I suppose even the Wen Xuan rhapsodies were written over quite a long period, although even among those the later ones are already quite imitative. I had thought of it as a form that was not relevant after the Han, and I don't think Du's stuff disproves that really thus far, but it's interesting to see that it still existed in some capacity and great poets were still attempting to keep it alive.
