If this is true, why was he so pessimistic?
>>9839297
because compassion implies both the suffering and boredom he thought life consisted of is expanded beyond your own experience
>>9839297
He thought people couldn't get excited enough to act on their compassion albeit having it.
>>9839297
Because compassion/empathy requires exposing yourself to situations of self-sacrifice and most people are all about "muh dick", thus following the lack of self-sacrifice and rising individualism already apparent in the XIX century he become more and more pessimistic.
sorry if this isn't really the right place to ask but I figured someone here might have tried this before. I have a few books on my shelf that got really shafted when published in english as far as looks go and I want to cover them in something more like what their original run had. I figure making a new jacket would be fairly easy, it's just a matter of finding a high quality inkjet paper that wouldn't crack when bent. Any suggestions?
>>9839270
had to for design school.
any paper you like will do- the folds aren't sharp, so cracking shouldn't be an issue.
>>9839290
The only papers I've ever used are photographic which usually crack when bent (not that I'd use that kind of paper). Other than that I've just printed dollar posters at staples. Do you remember what you used?
>>9839352
90 weight probably. It wasn't anything special. Any heavy matte paper will work. If you're looking for something really fancy, then I suggest going to a printers, where us students spent most of our money. Depending on the quality of the shop, they'll have a variety of papers you can choose from- color, feel, weight etc. Might cost a little, but not a lot, and if you're jonesing for that professional feel without a lot of experience, then that's probably the best bet.
What happened to the read-along?
I thought it was going to start in August.
I think I dunn got goofed.
Didn't know that was going on but I'm just about to start the last chapter
>>9839263
Idk what happened. I hadn't planned on participating, but I ended up picking it up anyways, about 150 pages in. We could always start it ourselves
Where was he wrong?
>>9839237
Nowhere, murder is okay if you don't get caught. Especially considering she was a piece of absolute shit.
When he decided to commit murder.
>>9839237
Why is Willy Wonka killing Steve Howe with an axe
Thoughts about the Cyberpunk subgenre?
It's alright. Some of my favorite works are cyberpunk but I dont have a big fetish for it. Half the time its just an aesthetic.
>>9839076
It has produced very readable quality books, even the better titles aren't that good.
It also got everything wrong, reading earlier titles cause secondhand embarrassment towards the authors.
>>9839076
Not much of a genre when only two books are worth reading.
> Bob: i can i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
>Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
>Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
>Bob: i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
>Bob: you i i i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>Alice: balls have 0 to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
>Bob: you i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
holy...........
I don't think humans can artistically COMPETE anymore
>>9838983
>when you realize the singularity is retarded
Alice sounds kinda arrogant.
>>9839004
Alice, however, did nothing wrong, and was also in the right
Bob should have forfeited everything else as he violated the previously signed trade contract thus the NAP itself, giving alice the right to repossess bob's entire stock of everything else
Hello guys, so I'm turning 24 in a few months and I've all but given up on becoming rich and famous.
My only remaining dream is to buy a small forest cottage and living only off of the land, gradually becoming more and more self-sufficient hopefully to the point of not needing to rely on anyone but myself, Ted Kaczynski style.
I'm currently an industry worker making slightly above minimum wage and saving as much as I can for this purpose and I would be grateful if you could give me a few book recommendations on a similar subject to the very blurry image I have in my mind.
Anything related to small-scale agriculture, hunting, fishing and just basic survival I'm interested in.
Thanks in advance
Hi this is a literature board not a books on any given random subject board. Maybe you'd be better off asking the board that actually relates to your interest.
You'd better go and ask /out/. Most that you'll get here is probably Walden.
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun is fantastic.
Did intellectualism peak in the early 20th century? We had Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Freud, Jung etc. Now all we have is Zizek.
I would not be surprised to find, years later, that this exact era is home to many important philosophers, but that they work in blogs (e.g. Mencius Moldbug, etc, though I don't like his work) because the academy is rotted and still rotting.
And if so, why?
>>9838903
>Heidegger, Sartre, Freud, Jung etc. Now all we have is Zizek.
these are all brainlets who are not good at rigorous thinking
>Wittgenstein
he unfortunately suffers from mental illness. He's like a car with a great engine whose steering wheel has been rigged to drift and be unreliable
What do you use to view cyberbooks and arrange them on a cyberbookshelf? Adobe Reader blows
>>9838842
there's no need to be rude
Sumatrapdf and windows explorer with folders.
>>9838853
thank you!
Does anyone know what that number at the bottom of the page means?
It pops up throughout the book in a sequence of:
3.1183. 3*. 4.1183. 4* and so on
>>9838782
books are printed in sections
you can see the effect in the books in pic related
the numbers are the section numbers (probably together with a book id) so the printers can make sure they are collated correctly
>>9838782
>Does anyone know what that number at the bottom of the page means?
That's a page number anon. It let's you know how far into the book you are. So if it says 50, you've read 50 pages, and if the book has 100 pages, that means you're halfway through :)
Post charts here. Someone please post the hermit lifestyle book chart; I can't seem to find it.
better resolution version
>>9838726
seconded about the hermit lifestyle book chart
I'm no good at thread aesthetic or whatever but I want to know if anyone would be interested in doing a group read of Paradise Lost?
Why do you need a reading group for something you can easily read in a week or so?
>>9838702
I don't know it feels less intimidating, I have seen some threads here that go through difficult books 50 pages at a time and convene each day and discuss and that is suited to my numbskullery.
>>9838703
paradise lost is not a particularly difficult book. if you've read Homer's verse epics you should be fine.
>man experiences a tumultuous break-up and starts to suffer symptoms akin to derealisation, leading to introspective and almost otherworldly wanderings around new york as he tries to make sense of the events with a heavy focus on the cityscape itself and the aesthetic of it
>soft re-telling of the legend of sir gareth set in autumnal new england with a heavier focus on romance and the beauty of the landscape as a whole
I want to write a story about a failed Nietzschean. Someone who, after going through rough times and turning to philosophies like Stoicism, finds new inspiration and vigorously goes after the whole life-affirming deal, only to be met with a Zarathistra-at-the-marketsquare experience and burn out, launching into a new crisis.
I don't want to actually name Nietzsche or the Stoa or anyone though, it needs to be something timeless and fundamentally human that is easy to connect to.
>two rednecks feud for the love of a pig
>teenagers addicted to meth awaken a demon
>politics at a scat fetish magazine
>infertile abortion protestor creates a monster from the parts in the clinic dumpster
> be on earth, heavily polluted and deadly with constant rain
> humans noped the fuck out for living hedonistic lives somewhere in space
> they left behind all their mechanic and biologic experiences
> some are engineered animals with human intelligence
> these animals, anthropomorphic or not, built feudal, neomodern civilizations with time
> war and misery at every corner
> Inhabitants see humans as legends or gods
> one group of human worshippers find a stasis chamber with a human girl inside
t. Furry writer
t. Trying to be Clifford D. Simak 2.0
>>9838654
Are you trying to write a democrats' Horror Show about their stereotypes about republicans?
ITT: Aesthetic covers
Looks like a Final Fantasy logo
>>9838593
not a /v person myself but have heard people describe the actual text as /lit's dark souls
Vintage Classics always have the best covers.
Here's a blast from the past, Goosebumps! Was at the book store and picked up 6 of them for a good price. Which is your favorite? Mine? (It's a 2 part-er)
>>9838518
OP here, I only bought 5 apparently
>>9838518
>not scoring "The Haunted Mask"
You failed, anon. Return those books.
>Best
The curse of camp Cold Lake
>Worst
The horror at camp Jellyjam
>tfw when lost The barking ghost in a bus and One day at Horrorland in a restaurant
Were they any good?