>Proust would enter a brothel and ask the Madam if she had a hat pin and any rats. If the Madam informed him that she had both, or could obtain them, Proust would then request that the pin and vermin be sent up to his room. Once Proust was in his room and comfortable, a rat would be brought in by the Madam, in a makeshift cage, along with, preferably, a pearl-headed hair pin. Proust would then instruct the Madam to puncture the rat from its back through its belly with the hair pin. As the pin slowly went through the rat, Proust would masturbate; timing his ejaculation to occur at the exact moment the tip of the pin pierced the rat’s belly, so that its blood and his semen fell in time.
Why are good authors always so degenerate?
this never happened
Based
>>10019837
It actually supposedly did.
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=proust+rat+brothel
Is a character seeking to become immortal a good topic for a story?
yeah, so good it's now the plot of my next novel
thanks op
i already rote three nobels on this buject
No, fuck off
How do people generally feel about the translations of Iliad/Odyssey by Alexander Pope? I never seem to see his name brought up much when it comes to translations. But I checked it out, and I found the really poetic, rhyming style really appealing for these poems. What is the general consensus on the quality of his translations?
Also, I hear that Fagles is the "definitive" English language translations. Is this true, or no?
Lattimore or don't even bother
Pope's translation is beautiful but nothing like the original. I think Dryden said something to the effect of "It's definitely poetry and definitely not Homer"
Lattimore is preferred, because it keeps to the original rise and fall and sounds, along with being a clear translation. Fagles is a clear translation, but doesn't hew to the original as well.
>>10019742
this
but if you cant read Greek you're a pleb
>the greatest poets in any language
>also the most boring and banal novelists in any language
>>10019721
>I'm 20 years old and Russia has the greatest novels ever (translated) because muh nihilistic brooding edgelord
>>10019729
>what is France
>what is Germany
>what is burgerland
>what is literally anyone besides England
>>10019739
>American novels
only good one is Moby Dick
>book is spoiled in the introduction
>reading introductions
I have NEVER read an introduction and thought to myself "wow, that was great, having read this will surely enhance my enjoyment of the actual book!"
Because that's not a thing that ever happens to anyone
Introductions are hot TRASH
>reading for plot
>>10019724
I think that anon is talking about chapter 3 (?). Can't say for sure since I haven't read this since high school.
>calls everyone he doesn't like a Fascist
>hasn't read For My Legionaries, The Doctrine of Fascism, Mein Kampf, Evola or Spengler
>>10019677
who are you talking to
>>10019677
>calls himself a fascist
>hasn't read any of them either
Mein Kampf is largely irrelevant if you want to really get a handle on Fascism.
Also
>no Gabriele D'Annunzio
Come on, son. He practically conceived the thing aesthetically.
>All that has been done on earth against "the noble," "the powerful," "the masters," "the rulers," fades into nothing compared with what the Jews have done against them; the Jews, that priestly people, who in opposing their enemies and conquerors were ultimately satisfied with nothing less than a radical revaluation of their enemies' values, that is to say, an act of the most spiritual revenge...
>With the Jews there begins the slave revolt in morality: that revolt which has a history of two thousand years behind and and which we no longer see because it - has been victorious.
damn nietzsche is problematic as hell
I'm not sure you understand Nietzsche very well because in his view we should learn from the Jews on this one and do precisely that again.
>>10019684
He's praising their cunning behavior and their craftiness, not the result they've achieved. He saw the transfiguration of values as the death of yurop
>>10019698
He also saw it as a necessary and inevitable progression from master-morality and that another transvaluation of all values is necessary.
At no point is he suggesting that we go back to master morality.
>It isn't reasonable to be furious even at Hitler; let alone at God. MS 179 27: ca.1945
>>10019660
Means he gets a place on the alt right pantheon.
>>10019671
I don't think you interpreted him correctly.
>>10019688
Enough of your jewish tricks
Thoughts on this?
>>10019627
Kino of prose.
bumo
>>10019627
The pinnacle of literature.
Reading "Apology" by Plato was an incredibly powerful experience for me. Is it even worth reading any more philosophy?
>>10019510
What do you think?
>>10019510
Yes you euphoric moron.
Apology isn't even the best dialogue. My personal favorites are Euthyphro, Theatetus, Parmenides, Phaedo, Republic, and Timaeus. The Symposium gets a lot of attention as well but for different reasons.
What is the Evangelion of /lit/?
>inb4 eva is shit
I know, I would rate it a 7/10
your diary
>>10019479
But I dont use pointless Christian symbolism, and I dont even have one
>>10019478
Unironically the meme trilogy, mostly IJ and GR.
>What's the big deal, it's just about some average's kid inability to communicate
>The ending destroys the work itself, bravo
>Should I be well-versed in Greek myphology and Kabbalah before starting this?
>Ha-ha, the author of this is so depressed/reclusive/fucked up in the fetish department
>What the fuck happens during the 23rd part
>Ego isolates us from being consumed by the totality of inter-connectedness, but not feeling any connections feels horrible, dude
>DRUGS LMAO
>Let's sing this poppy weirdly up-beat tune as the universe shatters
>et cetera ad infinum
OP you are right. 40 hours isn't nothing, like some people claim it is. My commute was only 30 minutes, my job 9-5, and i felt the same way. I still work the same job but barely go in to the office because I have no work to do (I'm an intern). Today I arrived at 1 pm, left at 4 pm and most of that was lunch. Obviously as someone with any seniority at all, that would not be possible. I also work a government job.
When I actually stayed from 9 to 5.30 with 30 minutes for lunch I was spiritually crushed. I was dumbfounded by how little free time I had after work. Obviously my mornings were gone. I resented all chores. Sitting in an office chair is like some sort of cuck shed tier punishment. My balls squashed in a chair, in an open plan office designed to breed conformity, hearing the normie platitudes all around me (not that I even talked to them, I could sit next to them and be classed as the ugly loser), struggling to hear myself think, was hellish.
With how little I work right now, such a ridiculously small amount, I am probably in some blessed period of life without being able to fully appreciate it.
Oh yeah, and all the stuff you're supposed to do: exercising 6 or 7 times a week (which I like), reading 30 to 60 pages of books a day to avoid being a philistine, cooking and eating healthily, socialising or internet to avoid insanity, learning new skills like programming, doing something practical, a solid 8 hours of sleep a nighg... there is NO WAY to do all this as a 9-5 wagecuck
>>10019446
>Oh yeah, and all the stuff you're supposed to do: exercising 6 or 7 times a week (which I like), reading 30 to 60 pages of books a day to avoid being a philistine, cooking and eating healthily, socialising or internet to avoid insanity, learning new skills like programming, doing something practical, a solid 8 hours of sleep a nighg... there is NO WAY to do all this as a 9-5 wagecuck
I agree. Been working 9-5 for a few months and ever since my reading has taken at hit. So has my exercise regiment and I had to completely quit another hobby. Basically you have to pick one of those things and forget the rest. Here is an average day:
>8:30 wake up run to work
>9am-5pm work. Sometimes I work later
>I bring my gear to work so I can take my dog for a run right away
>get home, shower... its 7pm at the earliest.
>eat some crap. if im lucky my gf cooked something but she works the same hours as me.
so it's 8PM and I have about 4 hours left to do whatever I want. Usually involves errands/chores. Usually I'm too tired to read so I play some video games. I've tried the google calendar thing JBP mentions but literally 2/3rd of my day is spent sleeping and working if not more and it's depressing as fuck to see it on the calendar.
this is what scares me the most.
>>10019446
have you heard of the slow movement? it says pretty much the thing you're describing, plus meditation
Post your one sentence logline of whatever project you're working on and its genre or main themes.
[biodigital fantasy, postcyberpunk, grimdark]
>A young genius, trapped on an increasingly hostile living world infected by biologically guided magic, is summoned by the Order of One to intervene in a thousand year war.
The offspring of gold diggers and successful innovators form The League of Normies.
>>10019442
A son of a divorced father who commits patricide and must continue to keep his fathers Co workers/friends and the local law enforcement from finding his body.
A midwestern vagabond is staying with his well-off brother in the hamptons, and decides to kill some time in one of the many art gallaries out there. It's supposed to be a satire on the upper class, specifically their out-of-touch elitism.
Do you have any articles published in scientific journals? (/lit/ only domain: literature, psychology, philosophy etc.)
I have 5 short articles, relatively good impact factor (~6-7 lol).
Psych is science. Not /lit/
>>10019762
Freud is a good fiction. Psychology is not science.
>>10019354
Post links or you're larping
Short thing I wrote. Let me know what you think.
looks good
This is FIRE, OP. Send it immediatley.
Holy... I want more...