>A Medieval Fantasy novel doesn't talk about Taxes or other realistic things like A Song of Ice and Fire.
Explain this.
>>9656894
ASOIAF doesn't even talk about taxes at all wtf, I've been lied to.
>>9657995
They do though.
news flash, the genre’s called fantasy
It’s meant to be unrealistic, you myopic manatee
>But I do think he is more or less right when he says ‘We live in an age in which our liberal media elite and most people who call themselves Christian in social surveys treat liberalism and Christianity as strangers to themselves and each other. Farron sought relief from his public trial by recalling the proud history of his faith in the reformation of British politics. No one wanted to hear it. He called upon the decency and forbearance that are supposed to mark British society. There is none left.’
>Why is this? Because Antonio Gramsci’s advice (first offered to the revolutionary left almost a century ago but only really grasped and understood in the late 1960s) has been taken. Because those who want to begin the world over again now understand that you sort out the culture first and the barracks (and the banks) later rather than the other way round. The political party, the charity, the research body, the think tank, the pressure group or membership organisation, the university, the TV station, the newspaper, the primary school, even the church itself, must be quietly turned to the purposes of the utopians. Then the rest will follow.
>So utopian revolutionary views, once confined to openly totalitarian and violent factions in Western politics, have now become the apparently respectable ‘centrist’ aims of ‘mainstream’ politics, culture, media and education. And, while they have not adopted and will not ( I hope and trust) adopt the secret police and gulag methods of their 20thcentury forerunners, they have discovered many almost equally effective weapons for crushing Christianity or any other force which stands against worldly utopianism. In these times, soft power threats to promotion, employment and status, backed up by the public shaming which social media can visit on any target at any time, does the job pretty well. Whether it will be enough, in the end, I don’t know. I rather hope I won’t live long enough to find out.
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/06/thoughts-on-the-resignation-of-tim-farron-as-leader-of-the-liberal-democrats.html
You horrific pseuds love sprinkling Christian references everywhere in your dumb writings and world view but you are not on the side of P Hitch.
Kay.
>>9676700
He's correct. And I think we should use the teachings of Gramsci to facilitate a conservative revolution.
I'd be the first to put the gays into camps.
le peter hitchens
>"Addiction doesn't exist! You can't point to it in the human body!"
>"Eh, Peter, does grief exist?"
>"Yes, of course."
>"Point to it in the human body."
>"That's a false equivalence!"
>"Just admit you're playing with semantics, buddy."
>"The Liberal establishm-"
>"Man-made Climate change is a farce! It's not real!"
>"Peter, why do you think that?"
>"The climate has always gone through warming and colding periods, that's a fact!"
>"Peter, the previous changes in environment formed a natural equilibrium whereas our output is putting off balance this equilibrium and resulting in rapid shifts in the climate."
>"You simply, CANNOT, dO THAT!"
How long did the earth exist prior to Noah's Ark?
Long enough for all the people in the world except one family to become corrupt.
>>9675914
The dimensions are wildly off on all of those fucking animals, not to mention the ark. Why does that faggot artist think children aren't entitled to accurate depictions?
>>9676287
So a day?
Greatest books of all time
>>9675513
My diary desu
My nomination.
Sometimes I can see the big picture. I can look at a bottle, or a sunset and for maybe 2 or 3 seconds I'll see reality in a inhuman fashion, as if I were looking at what I was looking while mantaining no previous knowledge, directly realizing how weird and alien everything truly is. Every object, even the fact that I'm there looking at things, all of it seems nonsensical and, in a weird way, for the first time apparent, as if every other istance of perception I've experienced was in some way "foggy", too influenced by human matters and concepts.
As weird as it may sound, I'm chasing this sensation costantly, and I can't seem to get the hang of it. Somehow it appears to me that those moments are the most valuable moments of my life, the ones that above everything else I would not ever want to forget.
So, is there a word for this impression? Any literature about it, and how to make it part of your own experience?
Sartre - Nausea
This sounds like ego death, try psychedelics
>>9675277
h boy, I know exactly what you mean, I think everyone gets these elusive moments. I love them, it feels so strange for the couple of seconds it takes your brain to catch up.
>>9674999
No, he's just a dog barking.
>>9675002
Please elaborate.
>>9675020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEA54Sqgno
>TFW not smart enough for original thoughts.
This is soul crushing. The only thing we are able to do is synthesise or "re-invent" what has already been discovered.
>>9674600
I've heard that before.
It doesn't stand up to scrutiny, we are not significantly unlike those who preceded us. Someone had to invent or discover something in the first place for others to manipulate and reinterpret it, if it was possible then, and it by necessity must have been, then it is now as well.
>>9674600
But... that's the point! There is never an original idea! We are only a bunch of imitators showing our own perception of the Carpenter's chair.
>>9674600
This is a literature board full of kids
How do I read without fucking up my neck and back?
Have any of you bought any products before?
Of course I've bought products before you fucking retard. When am I going to buy them, in the future?
>>9674131
Yeah sure
So what's your reading position?
>>9674131
wow anon is very clever
good job boyo
Has he ever been surpassed as a psychologist and moralist? The only better writer I can think of is Shakespeare.
who?
>>9673940
henry james muhfugga
>>9673942
Oh yeah, he's alright, but Herman Melville is better.
Stopall the clocksITT: Your favourite poem
>>9673323
Non Chiederci La Parola
Non chiederci la parola che squadri da ogni lato
l'animo nostro informe, e a lettere di fuoco
lo dichiari e risplenda come un croco
perduto in mezzo a un polveroso prato.
Ah l'uomo che se ne va sicuro,
agli altri ed a se stesso amico,
e l'ombra sua non cura che la canicola
stampa sopra uno scalcinato muro!
Non domandarci la formula che mondi possa aprirti,
sì qualche storta sillaba e secca come un ramo.
Codesto solo oggi possiamo dirti,
ciò che non siamo, ciò che non vogliamo.
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat,
Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay;
Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
When I awoke and found the dawn was grey:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind,
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
My shoulders ache beneath my pack
(Lie easier, Cross, upon His back).
I march with feet that burn and smart
(Tread, Holy Feet, upon my heart).
Men shout at me who may not speak
(They scourged Thy back and smote Thy cheek).
I may not lift a hand to clear
My eyes of salty drops that sear.
(Then shall my fickle soul forget
Thy agony of Bloody Sweat?)
My rifle hand is stiff and numb
(From Thy pierced palm red rivers come).
Lord, Thou didst suffer more for me
Than all the hosts of land and sea.
So let me render back again
This millionth of Thy gift. Amen.
Is there any book that can give me guidance to keep on living while being a 3/10?
>>9672591
Go to /r9k/, ugly loser
>>9672596
so no?
>>9672591
If youre a man, this doesn't really matter. Use your excess time wisely youll be fine.
What does /lit/ study?
me mathematics
>>9672413
I dropped out years ago and never returned. I studiedanthropology.
Philosophy with a minor in maths.
>>9672413
OP is not a faggot. Math is the real alpha male degree.
Can political discourse be saved from books like pic related (Both from the right and the left)?
>books
>posts picture of a pamphlet
no
>>9670000
In theory, everything is possible.
But if you look at your average American voter... no.
What's wrong with this book that we need saving from? It's just an essay.
What's his endgame?
>>9668791
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGunRKWtWBs
>>9668791
this guy is fucking stupid
Nazbol is the ultimate meme ideology.
What do I have to read before these niggas?
>>9676314
Homer and Hesiod
>>9676314
Homer and Hesiod would be helpful but probably aren't necessary.