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First for Patrick Rothfuss being a misunderstood genius

>hero finally finds the legendary blade
>it turns out to be serrated

has this ever happened /sffg/?

‘I tend to concentrate on courage, loyalty, love and redemption,’ David Gemmell once said. ‘I believe in these things. I refuse to be cynical about the world, and I won’t join the sneerers or the defeatists.’

Based Gemmell telling grimdark faggots to fuck off while still writing fantasy that was pretty brutal and violent.

I'll start Kagan's "Introduction to Ancient Greek History" and noticed it has an assignment for the first lecture (Introduction), that is to read 40 pages of Pomeroy's book.

Now, I know this is an awfully dumb question, but I'm expected to read the assignment before or after watching that first video?
I'm not used to have this "tasks" for my classes at college.

Why is qtddtot thread not a thing on /lit/?

How did Pynchon manage to be so talented

Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity, while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the reality of the self). This is the real exteriority of the absolute outside: the reality of the absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the darkness: the shining of the light univocally predicated of the limit of the darkness: actuality univocally predicated of the other of self-identity: existence univocally predicated of the absolutely unconditioned other of the self. The precision of the shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity of the light. The precision of the absolutely minimum transcendence of the dark is the light itself/the absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence for the first time/the absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the dark itself equivocally, in “self-alienation,” not “self-identity, itself in self-alienation” “released” in and by “otherness,” and “actual other,” “itself,” not the abysmal inversion of the light, the reality of the darkness equivocally, absolute identity equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the other-self-covering of identity which is the identification person-self).

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lmk what you guys think I guess

>>9355995

Idk what this even is, i'm not a poet in the slightest but did write it

i think there is nothing more beatiful
than passing by a beatiful girl
seeing nought but her smile,eyes and a flutter of hair
the air charged with possibilty , a glint in your mind
you look behind , and see her
and smile
briefly
and then move on
your love perfect and undisturbed

>>9377349
Harry Potter

>>9377351

How is Harry Potter anti-YA fiction?

>>9377354
Oh, whoops, you're right.

I meant War And Peace by Tolstoy

>>9377042
>the call that saved the human race

>>9377042
>dude metaphysical nihilism lmao

He started writing in the 70s but thought his own work was shit so he discarded it. It wasn't until the 80s he felt his stories were worth keeping. He started publishing in small zines like Nyctalops, Nocturne, and Crypt of Cthulhu, the latter in which he caught the attention of people like Lin Carter (famous Lovecraft scholar and archivist) and writer Ramsey Campbell. He remained a cult figure until the past couple years, with the tv series True Detective throwing some light on him, as well as Penguin Classics re-publishing his first two books.

He's an oddity in that he writes horror stories, but his influences aren't horror writers. Style-wise he follows in the steps of Bruno Schulz, Thomas Bernhard and Vladimir Nabokov, though thematically he's closer to Poe or Lovecraft, with his already-kinda-insane protagonists existing in an indifferent or hostile world that only accentuates their madness.

His worst stories read like pastiches of the above mentioned authors (though they're still miles ahead from most writers in the genre). But when he's good he comes up with something like: http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12/the-red-tower-by-thomas-ligotti/

Doesn't write or publish much due to mental and medical issues.

>giving a fuck about pre-Socratics

>>9377019
Kys

>>9377005
I'd say you got the gist of it. Go through Zeno's paradoxes, he attempts to prove that movement (i.e. change) is impossible, thus providing interesting philosophical arguments in favor of Parmenides.

>>9377005
It all stems from a simple recognition of the fact that that what-is-not cannot be. This means something always was, generation and destruction are impossible because something has never arisen from nothing, meaning change is impossible and there is in fact only one principle of nature: being.

We don't know

>>9376989
Cop out. Are you saying that determinism isn't a poor thesis

>believes free will may exist
>even considers libertarianism a valid ideology and not just a facet of bourgeois hegemony
>posts epic alt right irony man

literature is not for you. might I suggest a video game?

I don't.

>>9376940
Reads like a television show. It's alright, but like all plot-focused books gets boring, because nothing is intrinsically interesting about any sequence of events

even at 12 i knew that shit was trash

>>9376887
>le height is important meme
you have to go back.

Adjusted for inflation, 5'5" in the early 19th century is about the same as 5'8" today. He was short, yes, but not a complete manlet.

>>9376920
Shame he lived in the 20th century, innit

>>9376766
>he didn't already know this

Seems like just one of those ordinary guys who call themselves philosophers because they're atheists and read wikipedia a lot.

>>9376766
if you tried to do that you would get murdered before you succeeded

>>9376766
>knowledge is meaningless in the face of brute force
>what is BJJ
>what are guns
>what are drones

knowledge wins every time, bucko

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>>9376465
>Stephen Anthony Floro is a pedophile and a rapist
>pedophile and a racist
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>>9376277

And remember what it felt like—
Alone in your room, Again, Again
Crucified martyr to saint tragic teenager—
Anything can be made sacred
If you see yourself as if watching a movie
Low Filter
Focus on Expression
And like a movie you are the star
And the audience fills your head
Feels what you feel
And without you there are only peripherals
Planets orbiting a space

Where the sun should be

And you find with yourself you are never alone

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Squishy squashy face pup
Sized like a dainty tea cup
Goofball love from down below
Circling joy 'round my feet shows

Gentle snore all day and night
Never a bore, he was all right
Unconditional play and fun
I miss my pug-dog, hun

;_;

>>9376277
Cloven eyes, I rest
On your cupid-bow where
I lay down myself
Where i sleep, solve, sing of sadness
In the overgrown palace gardens, we played
Our promises of dark romanticism
Your paper-flowers still stands
On my shelf of my forgotten self
Something I miss

memes aside, Moby Dick.

>inb4 your diary desu

>>9375864
Storm of Steel, especially considering the way Junger matures in his later literature.

Suttree

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>>9375844
I did, it sucks. Pick up aquinas instead

>>9375844
>YA apologetics

I see a lot of people talking shit on this book but I've never seen the arguments as to why. Redpill me on "Mere Christianity" where does it fall short?

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>>9375787
Keira was such a qt in that movie

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>>9375799
I would love to turn this into a keira appreciation thread but I'm sure it won't last long then.

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>>9375817
I mean, it was a stupid bait thread to begin with, but we could make it beautiful for a short while