Hi /lit/ what do you think of my nonfiction collection?
Are there any other works you would recommend?
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Really tired of looking at your stack, Aussie.
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>>9437255
>stack
This is not a too read. It is already read
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Here OP I recommend these.
Also would love to get some recommendations myself.
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> muh all consuming evil
corncob paints some pretty vistas but he sure doesnt explore the idea at all. It consumes everything. The judge is evil as fuck. K. We can all agree warlock is the superior western.
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>>9437220
He is not evil you mong. He is the last man, the one who opened every door and defeated the wolves. He is always trying to make the world his and that's why he KILLS THE MAN, TO BE ONLY ONE in his twisted worldview.
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>>9437241
Exactly hes evil
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>>9437241
Do it. You won't. You won't do shit.
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Alright lads, just finished a first draft of a novel. Have been writing it on and off for a few years now.
It's about some wealthy Venetian traders who go and explore North America in the 1770s, they set sail before news of the revolution. The following describes where one of the more eccentric ones got his special chess pieces.
>The bleached bones of dead men were known to wash upon the shores. So many died in the Battle of Stamford bridge - 1066, that the banks of the river Derwent stayed white with the ribs of the Norse, the shins of the Danes and the osseous shrapnel of Anglo men long after the fighting subsided. The carrion took what they could, the blood settled in the marshes or washed into the sea. The line of Cerdic failed, a Norman took the thrones and died. A pope called a crusade at claimant and Baldwin, the youngest son of the fool from Boulogne became King of the Holy land. Oceans rose into the sky, were swallowed by the land and spewed back into where they rose a thousand times or more, and still parts of the Derwent were white with the stubborn matter of vanquished men. An old fisherman had retreated into the bracken and there collected “Michael’s driftwood”, after the archangel presumably which was after a moments inspection revealed to be the ivory and alabaster of long dead warriors, all that the fish did not eat and the gods did not claim. Being, now, too feeble to grave-dig Verdi believed the bones were sourced from the shores and the crevices of battlefields which were, but not for the fishermen, forgotten. The fisherman whittled at his haul in his twilight, making trinkets. The chess pieces appealed most to Verdi and he purchased several sets for the price of a barrel of wine and a Suffolk Dun dairy cow. The fishermen did not need this trade as he was supported by the benevolent reciprocity of the once hungry children he fed when he still ably fished and besides, he didn’t eat much. Thus, the whittled pieces of old English soldiers were sent about a checkered board to amuse a madman a world away and a Yorkshire fisherman, near death, drank good milk and the juices of Bordeaux.
I know it's not great, it's just a hobby for me really but I'd love some actual constructive criticism desu.
>pic not related.
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>>9437217
Totally uninterested in the narrative but it reads very nicely. Excellent job.
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>>9437240
Oh, and people will tell you to put this in the critique thread not to make your own egotistical thread for it. But I could see why you'd want to make your own.
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One of these threads
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>>9437079
A template would be nice :(
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What are some techno thriller, espionage or cyberpunk novels you would recommend?
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Necromancer
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>>9437044
Cyber punk that transcends thr genre is vurt by jeff noon. Its cyber punk for peopke who dont like cyber punk. Its not all internet in your face vr bullshit.
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>>9437059
He means Neuromancer.
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did nietzsche ever give his opinions on black people?
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If you gaze into the negro the negro gazes into you
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Aus meinem Leben, 1858 (From My Life)
Über Musik, 1858 (On Music)
Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 (Napoleon III as President)
Fatum und Geschichte, 1862 (Fate and History)
Willensfreiheit und Fatum, 1862 (Freedom of Will and Fate)
Kann der Neidische je wahrhaft glücklich sein?, 1863 (Can the Envious Ever Be Truly Happy?)
Über Stimmungen, 1864 (On Moods)
Mein Leben, 1864 (My Life)
Homer und die klassische Philologie, 1868 (Homer and the Classical Philology)
Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten, 1872 (On the Future of our Educational Institutions)
Fünf Vorreden zu fünf ungeschriebenen Büchern, 1872 (Five Prefaces on Five Unwritten Books) comprising:
Über das Pathos der Wahrheit (On the Pathos of Truth)
Gedanken über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten (Thoughts on the Future of Our Educational Institutions)
Der griechische Staat (The Greek State)
Das Verhältnis der Schopenhauerischen Philosophie zu einer deutschen Cultur (The Relation between a Schopenhauerian Philosophy and a German Culture)
Homers Wettkampf (Homer's Contest)
anybody know where i can get this shit? (pre-birth of tragedy stuff)
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>>9437028
try thinking for yourself m8
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I go to an """elite""" college and this Bio person I know shared this shit on Facebook. Fuck these people. What does it even mean to secure knowledge if it isn't empirically? First order logic? Mathematics in general? I sincerely doubt that's what po-mo continentals are talking about.
I do physics+math here, btw
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>>9436873
>he's an empiricist
>at a honeypot uni
>who takes facebook memes seriously
I hope you never post here again
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>What does it even mean to secure knowledge if it isn't empirically? First order logic? Mathematics
HAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT
WE GOT AN ANGLO HERE
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>>9436873
>studies physics+math
>what is philosophy of science
Are you retarded? Also good job getting triggered over a facebook meme
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itt: post a woman's review of a book you like and other anons guess what it is
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Camus?
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>>9436856
I almost thought it was The Stranger as well, but I don't remember Mersault calling people bitches all the time. I don't even think that word is said in the book.
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Does /lit/ seem to generally despise deconstructivism because it under-girds intersectionality, which threatens to unseat the
already declining cultural domination by white men, which this board is clearly almost exclusively populated by?
I see people here responding all the time to the accusation that they should read women (of color), that white men made all the best cultural artifacts, but can't you see that that impression is obviously because of either 1) lackluster education or 2) outright hatred of people not like you?
It's funny how this board has reproduced the various problems of mid-century modernism, as if they haven't already been solved over and over again.
Yes, without racial and gendered superiority "meaning" is perhaps lost in the nations that once depended on those concepts, but that doesn't mean we can't find meaning again.
White man here btw.
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>>9436783
You are on a website for social outcasts filled to the brim with impotent ressentiment.
These people need to constitute their idealized self-image by incessantly having circlejerks against the supposedly inferior evil Other where they validate and pat each other on the back for not being 'normies', 'SJW', women, non-white, liberals etc., so that they get a momentary reprieve from the absolute squalor that is their lives.
You can't change this. Accept it, it's what fuels this site. It's a place where people go to feel a false sense of superiority instead of loneliness and alienation for a few minutes
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>>9436796
And yes, it's not lost on me that it applies to me as well.
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I can only speak for myself, but I'm a devout Catholic, and my religion heavily informs my approach to all things in my life, especially art. I see deconstruction as diametrically opposed to the truth of the organization of the created world. So my disavowal of it is pretty fundamental.
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why do so many /lit/izens waste their reading time on complete b.s? gnostic texts, julius evola, etc?
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>>9436770
I read anti-women and anti-leftist stuff. And the Bible. Call that bullshit? well maybe your bluepilled ever thought of that brainwashed drone?
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>>9436770
Fuck you evola is amazing
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>>9436770
Because weird ideas are interesting even if they're not right
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I unironically cried when she died
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>>9436702
try the redpill and realize what's happening with the west and how you should really feel about women
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>>9436709
I was 14 and in love with a girl exaclty like Alasca
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>>9436725
women are simply inferior to me. You should only love whiteness and masculinity and tradition
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Hey lit! I am a schisto just like my mother. I was wondering, would you be interested in reading about my life and mu thoughts? Or would it just be a waste of time?
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I am only now at age 30 coming to accept that I am not right
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Not really. Schizophrenia unless the paranoid type with a very active imagination e.g. Francis Dec, it is mostly repetitious rambling like Nijinsky's journals.
What makes you different?
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*blows marxism, socialism and communism the fuck out forever*
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>politics
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gr8 thread
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lefties will never understand
>>9436551
>/pol/
he's too good for /pol/ and he's black anyway
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What are you experiences like swapping books? Sometimes I never get them back but I still enjoy doing it.
Just got pic related from a coworker. Thoughts on Walden? Not really my style but I'll give it a shot.
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>>9436524
Walden is an absolute masterpiece. It is very underappreciated on this board. Thoreau was very profound, and really emphasizes his genius with this book. There are so many sublime, memorable passages.
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>>9436524
One of the top five American books ever written
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>>9436524
All of the readers I know irl have terrible taste. Are there any good communities for online book swapping?
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What is this? Well, something of an experiment. I want to see how long this can go. The rules are simple. Nothing over five bucks. In truth if you can link a free book or series, that's awesome, but absolutely nothing more than five bucks.
https://www.amazon.com/Preternatural-Affairs-Books-1-3-Helltown-ebook/dp/B00MRM8394/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1493335952&sr=1-12
(It's three free books, so why not.)
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https://www.amazon.com/Legend-10-Elemental-Masters/dp/0615348130
The height of New Sincerity
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Pick one.
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https://www.amazon.com/Night-Watchmen-Books-1-3-Boxset-ebook/dp/B01N3M6GMH/ref=sr_1_22?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1493338525&sr=1-22&keywords=Watchmen
Not a Bad read