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>>9405949
Why is that robot pissing?

>>9405972
Because leaking coolant is all that makes an artificial being feel real

>>9405949
There's no sound, but I can hear it screaming.

>>9405947
It seems fucking weird to describe this as "forcing" anything. They're a small publisher. Apparently the people in charge of this particular small pub want to publish shit about gender. Surely the point of having small publishers at all is so that people can publish niche stuff that they're interested in. Sucks for you that this particular small publisher doesn't line up with your niche interests, but it's not a bigger thing than that.

>>9405947
You could write something that seems to confirm with the rubric on it's face, but is in fact subversive to the narrative. Like do a story about a boy who wishes to be a woman, gets operations, falls in love with a boy, boy accepts him, but the tranny kills himself anyways.

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>>9405947

That's one of those small pubs that has cosmopolitan pretensions that are actually self-defeating. Instead of acting as if they had the pick of all the writers in Scotland, and deciding which of them they like, they're way better off just saying "we want local talent." This'll let them find the talent early, instead of them trying to compete with all the huge publishers, who will snap up marketable, fashionable stuff like that quickly because that stuff gets easily represented.

That, or I guess if they're a niche publisher who primarily publishes stuff about that, then it makes sense: they just happen to be there. They also just happen to care about what everyone else cares about right now, but that's their prerogative. They better hope they have an interesting angle.

New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, cover to cover. Wasn't that easy?

>>9405882
No I spent hours looking this shit up.

>>9405895
Mt 7:7

The Leopard is great, but don't expect this board to have read it

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My favuorite book.

>>9407309
Nice collection. I'm looking to read some more Tomasi - how are 'The Sirens' and 'Two Stories and a Memory'?

Noah was an angry alcoholic

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2005/05/noahs-nakedness

>>9405800
I think Noah was pissed because his first son didn't take care of him but instead told his brothers who then were men of action and cared for their naked father in the most respectful way possible. Noah was disappointed, but his statement is more a prophecy than a curse as men of honest action will always rule over those who don't know what the correct action is.

Charles Taylor says that Hegel was reacting against the Romantic idealists, who had wittingly or unwittingly sacrificed Kantian radical freedom, by making man just a microcosm of the larger "Spirit" of the world, i.e., divine Nature.

But then Taylor says that man, for Hegel, is still only one part of the aggregate Spirit, and we are fulfilling its original goal. The Spirit has become Rational rather than imaginative or intuitive, sure. That part I get. Hegel prefers full rational knowledge. But what does that have to do with reintroducing radical freedom?

Aren't they BOTH sacrificing "radical" autonomy of the individual man to submersion in the greater "whole?" Whether that be the project of Spirit to realise itself Rationally, or divine Nature's union in works of art, what differences does either of those make to the RADICALLY individual individual? I'm still subordinated, or I ought to be if I want to fulfill my destiny, i.e., I have a destiny in something greater than me (whose projects or whose unity I carry out).

This muesli is some good shit, I can't believe housewives have kept this to themselves for all these years.

>>9405588
2. Hvis man soger efter ”literature forum” på Google, kommer der ikke just nogle særligt interessante eller aktive hjemmesider frem. De to forste der dukker op er online-literature.com, efterfulgt af worldliteratureforum.com. Disse to sider er mildest talt ikke særligt aktive, den forstnævnte kan har kun en tråd som er blevet kommenteret på inden for det sidste dogn, og selvom den sidstnævnte formår at præstere lidt bedre, lander den kun på to kommentarer inden for det sidste dogn.

>>9405592
3. Disse to eksempler er dog af det klassiske forum format, der har sin plads, men dog med tiden er blevet mindre populært. De er selvfolgelig ikke de eneste sider online at diskutere boger/litteratur. De to storste og mest kendte er 4chans litteratur board (altså en underside på 4chan) og reddits subreddit /r/books. 4chan formår dog på ingen måder at konkurrere med reddit hvad traffik på siden angår.

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På en god dag, men ikke extraordinær god dag, kan /r/books ramme 50.000 pageviews. På en virkelig god dag kan der være flere end 200.000 pageviews. Der er ikke data på antallet af pageviews på 4chan, men der er, når der er mest travlt, kun 255 nye kommentarer i timen. Der er altså mere traffik på reddit, men jeg vil argumentere for at 4chan har bedre kvalitet.

>>9405540
Meditation is just heathen prayer

>>9405540
There's no point in making such a big hubbub about it, just do it, there's videos and what have you, on the tubes.
I also don't see it as anything spiritual, in fact, that was what had me being skeptical of it in the first place.
It's really just a (re)focusing, calming technique, and it just werks.
But do read books on stoicism, that's never a bad thing to do.

>>9405550
*tips baseball cap*

>>9405430

Not familiar with Beckett, but he has a cult following that verges on the absurd at times.

Is he really that good?

People cum their pants over Waiting for Godot all the time.

>>9405430
I too was born

>>9405433
Waiting for Godot is great. Very funny. Entertaining despite the "plot." Just very impressive. It's a meme, but it's a good one.

The "trilogy" is probably his best work. Molloy is insanely good. Godot and Endgame are good introductions to his thought/style.

>>9405264
Alastalon salissa

>>9405264
Many of Borges's stories would fit the bill

>>9405264
they aren't necessarily short, but iirc most classical greek drama only requires 3 (or fewer) actors and only one location

Slovenian

>not latin
kys

>>9405240
I forgot to mention it, already studying it together with ancient Greek.

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>>9405172
Will bump for OP because I can't help but pick up a book sometimes based on its cover.

I really like the original Blood Meridian cover. It indicates the desolation, isolation and alienation that the book will gradually convey.

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i can't get enough of this pacific northwest forested twin peaks gravity falls-esque aesthetic. not sure what the name of it would be but i love it.

>>9405108
None of Shakespeare is "comfy" except maybe sonnets and bottom tier shit like Midsummer Nights Dream and Much Ado about Nothing. If you watch Ran there is nothing comfy about it.

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>>9405108
>gloucester gets his eyes gouged out with a spoon

funny definition of comfy you have mate

>>9405108
overrated hack, read milton

>>9405100
The old man and the sea

>>9405105
>good

The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

It's really short, bit there's some interesting parts.

I wouldn't know if you should read America's foremost prose stylist, I'm not american.

>>9405017
because he is a future classic.

>>9405017
he is a classic