Comfy edition.
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
What's your favorite non-edgy fantasy (or SF) work?
First for Patrick Rothfuss being a misunderstood genius
>hero finally finds the legendary blade
>it turns out to be serrated
has this ever happened /sffg/?
‘I tend to concentrate on courage, loyalty, love and redemption,’ David Gemmell once said. ‘I believe in these things. I refuse to be cynical about the world, and I won’t join the sneerers or the defeatists.’
Based Gemmell telling grimdark faggots to fuck off while still writing fantasy that was pretty brutal and violent.
Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread (QTDDTOT)
Post your question here instead of making a thread just for that.
I'll start Kagan's "Introduction to Ancient Greek History" and noticed it has an assignment for the first lecture (Introduction), that is to read 40 pages of Pomeroy's book.
Now, I know this is an awfully dumb question, but I'm expected to read the assignment before or after watching that first video?
I'm not used to have this "tasks" for my classes at college.
Why is qtddtot thread not a thing on /lit/?
How did Pynchon manage to be so talented
Post stuff, critique stuff
Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity, while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the reality of the self). This is the real exteriority of the absolute outside: the reality of the absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the darkness: the shining of the light univocally predicated of the limit of the darkness: actuality univocally predicated of the other of self-identity: existence univocally predicated of the absolutely unconditioned other of the self. The precision of the shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity of the light. The precision of the absolutely minimum transcendence of the dark is the light itself/the absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence for the first time/the absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the dark itself equivocally, in “self-alienation,” not “self-identity, itself in self-alienation” “released” in and by “otherness,” and “actual other,” “itself,” not the abysmal inversion of the light, the reality of the darkness equivocally, absolute identity equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the other-self-covering of identity which is the identification person-self).
lmk what you guys think I guess
>>9355995
Idk what this even is, i'm not a poet in the slightest but did write it
i think there is nothing more beatiful
than passing by a beatiful girl
seeing nought but her smile,eyes and a flutter of hair
the air charged with possibilty , a glint in your mind
you look behind , and see her
and smile
briefly
and then move on
your love perfect and undisturbed
The single most acclaimed superhero comic of all time is a direct attack on the very concept of superheroes and implies that it's really fucked up to like superheroes.
Does such a work exist for YA fiction?
>>9377349
Harry Potter
>>9377351
How is Harry Potter anti-YA fiction?
>>9377354
Oh, whoops, you're right.
I meant War And Peace by Tolstoy
can i get a quick rundown on Thomas Ligotti?
>>9377042
>the call that saved the human race
>>9377042
>dude metaphysical nihilism lmao
He started writing in the 70s but thought his own work was shit so he discarded it. It wasn't until the 80s he felt his stories were worth keeping. He started publishing in small zines like Nyctalops, Nocturne, and Crypt of Cthulhu, the latter in which he caught the attention of people like Lin Carter (famous Lovecraft scholar and archivist) and writer Ramsey Campbell. He remained a cult figure until the past couple years, with the tv series True Detective throwing some light on him, as well as Penguin Classics re-publishing his first two books.
He's an oddity in that he writes horror stories, but his influences aren't horror writers. Style-wise he follows in the steps of Bruno Schulz, Thomas Bernhard and Vladimir Nabokov, though thematically he's closer to Poe or Lovecraft, with his already-kinda-insane protagonists existing in an indifferent or hostile world that only accentuates their madness.
His worst stories read like pastiches of the above mentioned authors (though they're still miles ahead from most writers in the genre). But when he's good he comes up with something like: http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12/the-red-tower-by-thomas-ligotti/
Doesn't write or publish much due to mental and medical issues.
I understand Parmenides claim about reality being one and unchanging, but I don't understand the reasoning. Are change and many things impossible because they imply a space of nothingness to separate different things, and by its definition nothingness cannot exist?
>giving a fuck about pre-Socratics
>>9377005
It all stems from a simple recognition of the fact that that what-is-not cannot be. This means something always was, generation and destruction are impossible because something has never arisen from nothing, meaning change is impossible and there is in fact only one principle of nature: being.
Hard determinism, soft determinism or libertarian free will? Which one is it?
We don't know
>>9376989
Cop out. Are you saying that determinism isn't a poor thesis
>believes free will may exist
>even considers libertarianism a valid ideology and not just a facet of bourgeois hegemony
>posts epic alt right irony man
literature is not for you. might I suggest a video game?
What do you think about Game of Thrones /lit/?
I don't.
>>9376940
Reads like a television show. It's alright, but like all plot-focused books gets boring, because nothing is intrinsically interesting about any sequence of events
even at 12 i knew that shit was trash
>faulkner
why didn't he write a book about being a turbomanlet lmao
>>9376887
>le height is important meme
you have to go back.
Adjusted for inflation, 5'5" in the early 19th century is about the same as 5'8" today. He was short, yes, but not a complete manlet.
>>9376920
Shame he lived in the 20th century, innit
>punch a philosopher
>he realises that knowledge is meaningless in the face of brute force, undergoes existential crisis, and kills himself
>>9376766
>he didn't already know this
Seems like just one of those ordinary guys who call themselves philosophers because they're atheists and read wikipedia a lot.
>>9376766
if you tried to do that you would get murdered before you succeeded
>>9376766
>knowledge is meaningless in the face of brute force
>what is BJJ
>what are guns
>what are drones
knowledge wins every time, bucko
Wanted to see if anyone had read this yet, i'm always looking for new sci-fi.
https://www.amazon.com/ANGELUS-OMNIBUS-PART-Brothers-Angelus-ebook/dp/B06Y4P1J2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492103512&sr=8-1&keywords=angelus+omnibus
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>>9376465
>Stephen Anthony Floro is a pedophile and a rapist
>pedophile and a racist
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Come on now, Stephen Anthony Floro. We need you to tell us that you've understood what some sadly malicious people might do to your good name if you spam here again. Adverts for your book and references to your name might start to spring up in all sorts of ... unsavoury places.
Write a poem about something you miss.
>>9376277
And remember what it felt like—
Alone in your room, Again, Again
Crucified martyr to saint tragic teenager—
Anything can be made sacred
If you see yourself as if watching a movie
Low Filter
Focus on Expression
And like a movie you are the star
And the audience fills your head
Feels what you feel
And without you there are only peripherals
Planets orbiting a space
Where the sun should be
And you find with yourself you are never alone
Squishy squashy face pup
Sized like a dainty tea cup
Goofball love from down below
Circling joy 'round my feet shows
Gentle snore all day and night
Never a bore, he was all right
Unconditional play and fun
I miss my pug-dog, hun
;_;
>>9376277
Cloven eyes, I rest
On your cupid-bow where
I lay down myself
Where i sleep, solve, sing of sadness
In the overgrown palace gardens, we played
Our promises of dark romanticism
Your paper-flowers still stands
On my shelf of my forgotten self
Something I miss
What's the most high testosterone book ever written
>inb4 the Illiad
>inb4 way of men
>inb4 geneology of morals
no memes plaease
memes aside, Moby Dick.
>inb4 your diary desu
>>9375864
Storm of Steel, especially considering the way Junger matures in his later literature.
Suttree
Why haven't you read this yet?
>>9375844
I did, it sucks. Pick up aquinas instead
>>9375844
>YA apologetics
I see a lot of people talking shit on this book but I've never seen the arguments as to why. Redpill me on "Mere Christianity" where does it fall short?
Top post on r/books:
15 things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anyone else ever has or will
>"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'if this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
>"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
>"Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit around and wonder, 'Why, Why, Why?'. Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand."
>"There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind."
>"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing."
>"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
>"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too."
>"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
>"That is my principal objection to life, I think; It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes."
>"Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
>"All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."
>"Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the moooooooooooon?"
>"So it goes."
>"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'science fiction' ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
>"We must be careful about what we pretend to be."
/lit/: bait after abit after even worse bait
Why even waste time here?
>>9375787
Keira was such a qt in that movie
>>9375799
I would love to turn this into a keira appreciation thread but I'm sure it won't last long then.
>>9375817
I mean, it was a stupid bait thread to begin with, but we could make it beautiful for a short while