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the root word "information"
>add dis and it becomes what is intentional bad information
>add mis and it becomes what is unintentionally bad information
more like this?
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abuse, disuse, misuse
uninterested, disinterested
reprehend, apprehend
Latin, bro.
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This is basic as fuck
Do you not understand prefixes you can pretty much add in or un to any word and get the opposite meaning
Misuse abuse
Computable incomputeable
Comparable incomparable
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>>10021494
yes but its not all that use just three letter prefixes that rhyme
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Have any of you degenerates read this shit?
>No characters
>No narrative arc
>Repetitive as hell
>So boring your eyes start to melt
It's just four undeveloped edgelords talking about how evil makes their dicks hard while fucking shit-covered lolis. It never rises above copypasta-tier shock scenes.
It's divided into 4 parts. The fact that only one part of this thing is finished is proof that there is a loving god, because just one fourth of this godawful tome is over 200 pages. The rest of it is reconstructed from notes and presented as story beats.
The first part reads like that "Scroty McBoogerballs" book from South Park. Everyone's pissing and shitting on each other, people are pissing on each other's shit, then someone vomits on the shit and uses it as lube. There are only so many ways you can combine shit, piss and semen before it all just becomes a brown blur in your head. This goes on for 150 stories. You have to admire something so bad that it makes this level of degeneracy seem boring.
Part 2 is not worth mentioning.
Parts 3 and 4 are where things get unintentionally funny.
These two are supposed to hold the most decadent, forbidden passions. Y'know, the real good stuff. In reality it just comes off as side-splitting hilarity. Included among the "most forbidden passions", along with fucking horses and decapitating dogs as you climax, are the blasphemous passions. In these you get such gems as:
>A man who has a church built in his house and hires men to pose as Fathers and deliver a sermon. As the sermon is being delivered he fucks a whore.
>A man has another man dress as a bishop. He delivers a sermon and starts to pass out the eucharist. The man then takes the eucharist, shoves it up the bishop's ass and fucks him.
>Guy kicks a crucifix around in the dirt then jizzes on it.
After that hoot n' a half comes the last part, the ULTRA X-RATED FORBIDDEN PASSIONS (Gone sexual! Going to Jail? *crying laughing emoji).
Which are just Saw traps and a guy jacks off. That's it.
>Girl gets repeatedly dunked in a pool of acid... while a guy jacks off.
>Guy hammers a girl in the head... then jacks off.
It's like Marquis de Sade forgot he was writing "erotica" and thought "Uh... I'll... have a guy jacking off while doing this... that's... that's hot, right?"
The level of absurdity that these final traps reach is just side-splitting. Keep in mind this was written in the 1770's, which adds to the absurdity. He describes men having anachronistically complex machines just for the purpose of jacking off. Giant pulleys capable of suspending multiple people, rooms where the entire floor is a trap-door that drops into a pool of boiling oil.
Final verdict: It's awful. The unintentionally funny bits are too few to redeem the horrific first part. Just read "Blowfly girl" if you want to read about vomit-inducing sexual acts.
What did you faggots think?
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Lol
What could have made it good? Genuinely curious.
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Have any of you degenerates read this shit?
>No characters
>No narrative arc
>Repetitive as hell
>So boring your eyes start to melt
It's just four undeveloped edgelords talking about how evil makes their dicks hard while fucking shit-covered lolis. It never rises above copypasta-tier shock scenes.
It's divided into 4 parts. The fact that only one part of this thing is finished is proof that there is a loving party, because just one fourth of this godawful tome is over 100 pages. The rest of it is reconstructed from notes and presented as story beats.
The first part reads like that "Scroty McBoogerballs" book from South Park. Everyone's pissing and shitting on each other, people are pissing on each other's shit, then someone vomits on the shit and uses it as lube. There are only so many ways you can combine shit, piss and semen before it all just becomes a brown blur in your head. This goes on for 150 stories. You have to admire something so bad that it makes this level of degeneracy seem boring.
Part 2 is not worth mentioning.
Parts 3 and 4 are where things get unintentionally funny.
These two are supposed to hold the most decadent, forbidden passions. Y'know, the real good stuff. In reality it just comes off as side-splitting hilarity. Included among the "most forbidden passions", along with fucking horses and decapitating dogs as you climax, are the blasphemous passions. In these you get such gems as:
>A man who has a church built in his house and hires men to pose as Fathers and deliver a sermon. As the sermon is being delivered he fucks a whore.
>A man has another man dress as a bishop. He delivers a sermon and starts to pass out the eucharist. The man then takes the eucharist, shoves it up the bishop's ass and fucks him.
>Guy kicks a crucifix around in the dirt then jizzes on it.
After that hoot n' a half comes the last part, the ULTRA X-RATED FORBIDDEN PASSIONS (Gone sexual! Going to Jail? *crying laughing emoji).
Which are just Saw traps and a guy jacks off. That's it.
>Girl gets repeatedly dunked in a pool of acid... while a guy jacks off.
>Guy hammers a girl in the head... then jacks off.
It's like HRC forgot she was writing "the campaign" and thought "Uh... I'll... have a guy jacking off while doing this... that's... that's hot, right?"
The level of absurdity that these final traps reach is just side-splitting. Keep in mind this was written in the current year, which adds to the absurdity. She describes men having anachronistically complex machines just for the purpose of jacking off. Giant pulleys capable of suspending multiple people, rooms where the entire floor is a trap-door that drops into a pool of boiling oil.
Final verdict: It's awful. The unintentionally funny bits are too few to redeem the horrific first part. Just read "120 Days of Sodom" if you want to read about vomit-inducing sexual acts.
What did you faggots think?
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Characters for one thing. The main characters are just there to rape everyone. They have some distinctions; for example: one of them likes filth and has a 2-inch rim of shit around his asshole and another is a fat gay. Other than that they don't evolve as characters and their base personality is boring. After a few pages they start to merge together. It doesn't matter if one of them is the fat gay one since they all love pounding man-ass the same. It doesn't matter that the filthy guy loves shit when the other three eat shit like hipsters eating kale.
The side-characters are awful, too. They're just names that get cycled in the rape train.
Variety would have helped, too. The story has a very rigid structure where every day is divided into the same activities. This was supposed to go on for 120 days (4 months), as the name implies. Imagine reading 120 cycles of the same thing. The author managed to get just the first 30 days done and it starts to drag like a motherfucker at around the 10th day. Like I said, you can't do much with shit, piss and jizz before it starts to get samey.
Every month is supposed to include 150 stories each, too. So you have to sit through 150 variations of the same thing.
The writing is pretty basic, too. It describes the acts in a very 'matter of fact' way.
"The Duc calls Side Characters A, B and C to his alcove. He makes B frig him while he eats a turd from C's ass. As he finishes he yells a most alarming blasphemy."
Fucking riveting.
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Do any of you have interest in becoming penpals?
I like this board a lot, and I wonder if I would get along with any of you. I have many, many friends in real life, but none are really the literature type. I'd like to talk to someone who values books and thought and the like.
If you're interested, email me at [email protected]. I'll respond with my real email if I deem you to be serious.
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I assume that's meant to read 'hotmail'?
"It is all a matter of comparing one’s own life with something worse and consoling oneself with the relativity of human fortunes. When I was eight or nine I had an experience which came clearly to mind when I read your advice. I used to know a family in a little village near mine: father, mother and sons: they were small landowners and had an inn. Very energetic people, especially the woman. I knew (I had heard) that besides the sons we knew, this woman had another son nobody had seen, who was spoken of in whispers, as if he were a great disgrace for the mother, an idiot, a monster or worse. I remember that my mother referred to this woman often as a martyr, who made great sacrifices for this son, and put up with great sorrows. One Sunday morning about ten, I was sent to this woman’s: I had to deliver some crocheting and get the money. I found her shutting the door, dressed up to go out to mass, she had a hamper under her arm. On seeing me she hesitated then decided. She told me to accompany her to a certain place, and that she would take delivery and give me the money on our return. She took me out of the village, into an orchard filled with rubbish and plaster; in one corner there was a sort of pig sty, about four feet high, and windowless, with only a strong door. She opened the door and I could hear an animal-like howling. Inside was her son, a robust boy of 18, who couldn’t stand up and hence scraped along on his seat to the door, as far as he was permitted to move by a chain linked to his waist and attached to the ring in the wall. He was covered with filth, and his eyes shone red, like those of a nocturnal animal. His mother dumped the contents of her basket – a mixed mess of household leftovers – into a stone trough. She filled another trough with water, and we left. I said nothing to my mother about what I had seen, so great an impression it had made on me, and so convinced was I that nobody would believe me. Nor when I later heard of the misery which had befallen that poor mother, did I interrupt to talk of the misery of the poor human wreck who had such a mother."
Is this why Gramsci was a communist?
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Good question
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>tfw you learn that socrates chose to die and you shed a single tear, from your dry morning eyes
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He was already dead.
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How can you die if you never existed?
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>tfw Socrates drank the poison ivy because he would rather die with virtue than live in exile
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I'm currently reading Sidgewick's The Methods of Ethics, a great deal of which is devoted to arguing the existence of an Ultimate Good that serves as the basis for all philosophical investigation into ethics. Ethical theories that do not, at some level, reference a societal good or an individual good are inherently recursive. To elucidate this point, he critiques Plato's theory of justice, claiming it is circular logic.
>1. It is right to act rationally, and 2. It is right that the Lower parts of our nature should be governed by the Higher...we do not at first feel we are not obtaining valuable information. But when we find that "acting rationally" is merely another phrase for "doing what we see to be right," and again, that the "higher part" of our nature to which the rest are to submit is explained to be Reason, so that "acting temperately" is only "acting rationally" under the condition of special non-rational impulses needing to be resisted, the tautology of our "principles" is obvious.
In other words, it is right to act according to reason, yet acting according to reason is what's right. How would Plato respond?
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I don't know about this specific case, but I do know that the Ancients famously have a different conception of how willing, feeling, and thinking relate to one another. It's Christian and post-Christian philosophy (ourselves included) that thinks in terms of "being able to know what is right to do, but not do it." The Ancients thought that a faulty willing was a case of faulty reasoning. Proper knowledge would cause proper behaviour, and improper behaviour was caused by faulty knowledge.
We tend to think that knowing one shouldn't steal is in tension with various desires that urge us constantly to steal. The Ancients would say that if you really, really, really thought about it, and you were fully rational, you would simply not steal. It's a fundamental difference in the conception of human psychology.
Neuromancer next steps? Books similar to and darker than.
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The Hyperion cantos subtly has a transhuman/AI underlying plot
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>>10021048
For this type of prose get into Burroughs. Of course start with Junky -> Queer -> Naked Lunch -> anything
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>>10021048
Well, if you haven't read them already the other two books are pretty good. The different type of protag makes the story different, but I enjoyed them..
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>tfw listening to an audiobook, reading a book with each eye, and reading 4 different braille books at the same time.
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>Not having 2 sets of earbuds, and thus being able to listen to two audio books at the same time.
>Not having the volume of the audiobook at normal levels, then playing another audiobook from the stereos so you can hear it slightly louder than the volume coming from the earbuds. Three audiobooks at the same time.
>Not hiring someone to write on your back with a brush so you can read more through your sense of touch.
>Not having a two people do sign language in your far peripheral vision so you can see them while reading the books thus getting another layer to your information gathering.
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>>10021076
>He doesn't have an entourage of slaves to rub more braille books all over his naked body
>He doesn't wear an elaborate headset made of mirrors so his eyes can read 126 books at once in kaleidoscope vision.
>He hasn't learned to read the Cat alphabet from Red Dwarf so he can read two books at once with each nostril.
>He doesn't have books translated into Willy-Wonka taste sensitive wallpaper and applied to all the walls in his house daily.
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>>10021086
>Not sleeping in a fakir with each individual needle replaced by a letter of Kanji and them making a piston like movement in a fraction of a second.
>Not learning the language the book has been written in, in order to understand it completely, then mixing all the languages into one .mp3 file which you can then listen to while sleeping with the speed set at 3x.
>Not learning to lucid dream while sleeping so you can do the same in your dreams what you're doing while you're sleeping.
>Not learning lucid dream while you're lucid dreaming to go one layer deeper into your dreams to do the same thing you're doing while sleeping.
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Is this the greatest short story of all time? 2017-09-14 05:39:22 Post No.10021027
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Is this the greatest short story of all time?
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Definitely genius tier.
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Any good books on estrangement? Parental-child.
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Vineland.
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>>10020999
A bit of Stoner
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Leavetaking
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Come up with an idea of something Lovecraftian, concept/entity/milieu etc. I'll go first.
A traveler enters a village for he hears jolly music and singing coming from there, he sees people dancing and singing around the village square and with his mood lifted decides to join them. This continues all night and the traveler finally exhausted falls asleep on the benches outside. When he wakes up the next day, he's surprised to find people still dancing and singing. Amused, he walks around and wonders if it's a celebration for something. Come night, he finds himself in the village center and out of curiosity asks the girl dancing in front of the inn what's the reason for celebration. Getting a closer look at her, he sees her legs are bruised beyond recognition and small streaks grace her cheeks, no doubt being formed from tears. Yet there she dances and smiles as the traveler asks. "What is the reason for this joyous occasion?" he asks, under the abnormally large smile the girl gives an answer "Oh, this is anything but a joyous occasion sir, we shan't stop dancing lest we die like the many before us." The man is visibly confused "Are you saying you're not from this village?", "Nay, I happened upon this village a week ago."
Still unable to grasp what she meant, the man decides to go into the inn to ask someone a little more knowledgeable about the situation. Upon opening the door, he is greeted with a mountain of partially eaten and decaying bodies. The girl pulls him back outside, "You're not allowed to eat just yet, wait for it to kick in first."
What "it", what on earth was she talking about, just as these thoughts are racing in his head, he starts to feel extreme pressure in his chest. "There it is, it will get easier after a while, just wait." The last thing he sees while conscious is the girl shuffling her feet in front of his face.
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He's gonna get a surprise lol
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"A deep sound of thunder echoed above the forest. Arde and I had been following the hideous traces left by the creature for the better part of the afternoon and the dark was beginning to settle upon the dense, damp foliage. The sudden flash, shortly followed by the rumbling sound, brought us back, if momentarily, from that cursed and almost unconscious compulsion to hunt the mysterious being. I, being prudent, or , you might say, something of a coward, stopped and suggested it was time to go back to the camp, to which Arde promptly disagreed. The thing, whatever it was, had been roaming around our fields for some weeks. It seemed to take care not to be seen from less than a couple miles away, so that its already dark shape became almost indiscernible at such a distance. It was about the size of a brown bear, but it looked different from anything I or Arde had ever seen. This sinister presence had been accompanied by the repeated disappearance, at somewhat regular intervals of around three or four days, of some of our chickens, rabbits and smaller cattle. The first day of the fourth week Arde, certain of the creature's guilt, convinced me to follow it and bring with us knives, should the thing behave dangerously.
We kept walking through the forest, still tracing its fading steps, until we came to a dead end and completely lost track of its trail. Had it not been for Arde's sharp sight, we'd have turned back right then. But my friend noticed a subtle rustling in the bushes underneath a huge, age-bent oak and with an agile leap brought himself close enough to pull the bushes apart and peer. A chilling scream tore at my ears and scared the birds up, away from the trees. I immediately went after Arde, whom I found lying face down on the ground, collapsed directly in front of the bushes I was about to inspect. As I squinted across the deepening darkness, I noticed the shrubbery hid a sort of hole. An abhorrent, sickening smell like that of death reeked from it. As I was about to lower myself into the grim cave, the knife held tight in my hand, a bolt of lightning struck a tree very close to the entrance. What I have seen in the light of that damn flash I still shiver to think of, let alone describe. I am haunted by that terrifying vision. My first impression was that of a deformed, evil body like that of a hairless, mostruous ape, covered in a dark cloth and with an eyeless face so profoundly decayed and mangled that it held only a vague resemblance to the human profile. But even in those few, endless instants I could tell, before the light went out, that the face was not creature's own. It was worn, as a mask is."
Have fun anon
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Fuck
*the creature's own
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Hi /lit/, were there any audiobook experiences you particularly enjoyed? Are there genres better suited for the form?
I just recently discovered that I can borrow audiobooks from my library easily on my phone so I'm looking for reading material, but I'm not sure what would best be suited for the audio format. I've read most of the high school and college required reading, but feel free to suggest anything.
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There's an audibook of poems by Rilke on librivox read by a woman with such a beautiful voice that it's actually ecstatic. I listen to it on the bus quite often.
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>>10020910
i got a boner listening to american psycho. Never finished it and never listened to another audio book since that boner. It was when Patrick was fucking Courtney for those interested
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>>10020925
>skeptically open app and find the book
>Holy aural orgasms
I don't even know what she's saying but I want her to sit on my face. Voice of an angel.
https://librivox.org/reader/11417?primary_key=11417&search_category=reader&search_page=1&search_form=get_results
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How do I find new authors to enjoy without needing input from a bunch of losers on the internet?
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wikipedia
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>>10020905
HAHA! /lit/ has the market cornered on obscure and extremely intelligent writers, so good luck finding those that escape our gaze, because you know that o+ei writers is your preferred genre.
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>>10020905
Do what Kubrick did and literally pick them at random from a library.
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write what's on your mind
reactions to jim carreys interview has further solidified my feeling that a good number of the world has gone full retard. at the same time i'm disappointed that it took this long for me to solidify that feeling.
rick and morty is lame and hiding behind comedy to make shitty pseudo-profoundities.
fuck her.
i need to do it.
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I just stuck some pizza in the oven but I can't remember if I turned on the right oven. I don't want to go downstairs in like 20 minutes to find out my pizza has just been sitting in the oven doing nothing but at the same time I don't want to get up again.
Lately I've also been feeling like I'm spending too much time listening to the same songs over and over. A couple of years ago I would always listen to new albums and find new artists but now I'm not sure what I want to listen to so I'm caught in a loop of just following my recommended youtube videos for songs I know are good. I don't listen to complete albums anymore either.
I've noticed people are using the phrase "pseudo-profoundities" really often on /lit/ today. I'm not sure if it's the same guy or its just the trendy thing to say.
I'm really proud of a shitpost I made in another thread and I'm still giggling about it. I'll be a bit sad if it gets no (you)s because I hope everyone else thinks I'm as funny as I am.
I've noticed I begin most of my sentences with "I". I wonder what that means.
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I wish i could write a proper sentence.
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>>10020867
well if you were in the rick and morty thread i was the guy who used it.
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Mormons have got to be the most boring luciferians ever. Anyways luciferians general, how are the secret chiefs doing. How's the unknown doctrine doing...?
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>tfw living the luciferian life
>tfw leeching money off the government and making art and music for cash on the side
>tfw smoking the devil's lettuce and engaging in viral memetic warfare 24/7
>tfw meditate twice daily for an hour to keep mind sharp
>tfw thirty minutes of yoga daily to keep fit
>tfw adorations at personal altar to keep aesthetic
>tfw attend latin mass once weekly with gf to fool the normies
>tfw experienced goetic summoner
>tfw possessed of an ever-unfolding upg which puts me in the company of crowley, mckenna, wilson and dick
>tfw sexy occultist gf who makes fun of new agers with you
>tfw tantrically riding wave after wave of orgasms for blissful eternities together