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THERE are seven keys to the great gate,
Being eight in one and one in eight.
First, let the body of thee be still,
Bound by the cerements of will,
Corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort
The fidget-babes that tease the thought.
Next, let the breath-rhythm be low,
Easy, regular, and slow;
So that thy being be in tune
With the great sea's Pacific swoon.
Third, let thy life be pure and calm,
Swayed softly as a windless palm.
Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound
To the one love of the profound.
Fifth, let the thought, divinely free
From sense, observe its entity.
Watch every thought that springs; enhance
Hour after hour thy vigilance!
Intense and keen, turned inward, miss
No atom of analysis!
Sixth, on one thought securely pinned
Still every whisper of the wind!
So like a flame straight and unstirred
Burn up thy being in one word!
Next, still that ecstasy, prolong
Thy meditation steep and strong,
Slaying even God, should He distract
Thy attention from the chosen act!
Last, all these things in one o'erpowered,
Time that the midnight blossom flowered!
The oneness is. Yet even in this,
My son, thou shall not do amiss
If thou restrain the expression, shoot
Thy glance to rapture's darkling root,
Discarding name, form, sight, and stress
Even of this high consciousness;
Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here:
Thou art the Master. I revere
Thy radiance that rolls afar,
O Brother of the Silver Star!

>>9370081
not quite, good try though desu

The curse of my curses
Seven days every day
And seven dry Thursdays
On you, Barney Kiernan,
Has no sup of water
To cool my courage,
And my guts red roaring
After Lowry's lights.

>>9367961
>virgin detected

Disappointment, if you expect something on the level of Orthodoxy or Agatha Christie.

>>9367961
Actually, theyre solid, cozy, very good.

Anyone have the a link to that yt corncob blood meme review that was posted here a good while back?

>>9367495
>reductionism

>>9367495
Or spit.

>>9376907
And a dystopia at the same exact time.

fuck no its not... try being a C class or lower faggot

>>9376912
Huxley believed that one mans utopia could be another dystopia.

>maybe this world is another planets hell.

Why would the ai associate black names with negatives? Is it reading new articles about all the Da'kwons and Terrels involved in robbery and murder?

>>9376896
This serves more to show how racist / sexist / classist the world still is at large, these machines are very clearly way before the point of being able to make actual value judgements.

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>What are the implications of this on Land's "All meatbags will be obliterated by AI" thesis?

>>9376562

10 on a good day

>>9376562
Page count is irrelevant. It's time spent reading that matters. To be /lit/ you need to read an average of three or more hours daily.

>>9376562
Depends what your reading. Your going to read more pages of Harry potter than Kant in the same amount of time.
You could read a half page of poetry all day.

>>9376319
Fiction or non fiction?
I'm Spanish myself and Orwell's account is easily the most engaging I've read desu (which to be fair is not that many). He was an amazing journalist

Also, check out the Spanish film La Vaquilla if you haven't already

good luck with that

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>>9376319
George Orwell. Can't remember the name of the book he wrote, though.

>pic related

it pisses me off how bad he is at reading teleprompters. like just put it on a piece of paper and read from that on the podium, he is not fooling a damn soul.

>only reads to say he read said book

I sort of do this

>>9376312
writing is for brainlets

never post here again

>>9376239
>why do you have to shove your Christian God in our faces?
Why did you read it? What were you expecting?

>>9376242
>>9376249
I thought /lit/ was supposed to be smart/savvy

>>9376165
get a cute literary waifu like me, anon

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>Went to the library to check out the manga section
>Teen boys and girls occupying the room
>Circle the library a few times
>They won't leave, reading their manga and chatting with no care in the world
>Leave library
>40 minute drive with the bus

Sucks pretty hard, desu, this didn't happen just once either. Back to reading scanlations.

>>9376169
Can I smell your hair?

>>9375990
He's just an academic gate-keeper, his own "criticism" is mostly Freudian bullshit. He never says anything insightful about anything and he never takes the chances to actually judge works in relation to another. A creative artist may not have half the encyclopedic knowledge that Bloom has, but would have a much deeper understanding of what he did read.

>>9375990
literally, no discernible talent lmao

Harold obviously bullshits about his reading speed. I heard that he claimed to read 500 pages per hour. That's 30 words per second, literally impossible.

Take lsd

try Sophie's World. nice, easy introduction to philosophy.

>>9375978
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/

Short answer: Morality is suicide.

Long answer: No, because the myth of "objective morality" has changed throughout history. Slavery and maiming your children have all been moral at one point in history. Subjective morality, however, also does not exist.
What people think they have for morals are just a matter of perspective.

If someone's morals are to kill gay people because their religion told them to, and you try to interfere, then you are technically the bad guy.

Yes, at least for us. A snake might not consider the moral implications of attacking a mouse, but it's important for us humans, because our brains have developed to become rational and emotional.

Murder can be rationalized, but something still tells you it's wrong. That's the part of your brain that has evolved to 'feel's, empathize. I think that ethics is such a confusing subject because logic cannot be applied to solve the problems it presents. Ethics require warm emotion, not cold rationality.

How can we determine what is the right thing to do in every circumstance? Is there a general principle? I think thats too difficult a question, but one thing is certain, morality exists, even in a godless world.

>>9375525
A continuation:

What is considered moral may change, but one thing is certain. Even if we don't know what is the right thing to do, the right thing to do definitely exists.

>>9375370
You know, I'm starting to think no one on lit has read this.

>>9375370
bump. it's something ive been wanting to read as well.

It's great, you should have a decent knowledge of European occult history, or at least e prepared to do some research as you read. I think Eco once claimed to have created Dan Brown, this book shows how

1. Lovecraft
2.
3. Hitler
4. Schopenhauer
5. Adam Lanza
6. Houellebecq
7. Ligotti
8.
9. Cioran
10. Elliot Rodger
11.
12. Morrissey
13. Pessoa
14. Celine?
15.
16. Gautama Buddha
17.
18. Otto Preminger
19.
20.
21. Kierkegaard
22.
23. MC Ride
24. Kasczynski
25. Ligota or whatever his name is, finnish fag
25. Goebbels
26.
27. Beckett
28. uh, i musthave fucked the numbering, oh well

>>9375313
Congratulations, you scored a B+

>>9375285

1: Lovecraft
2:
3: Hitler
4: Schopenhauer
5: Adam "retarded faggot autist" Lanza
6: Houellebecq
7: That faggot who wrote a 1000+ page suicide note on the ridiculous premise of a life bias, Mitchel something or other
8: Ligotti (I'd hate everything too if I had a non-chin like that)
9: Cioran
10: Elliot "supreme gentlemen listen to their sister having sex" Rodger
11:
12: Morrisey
13: Pessoa
14: Celine
15: That's a real faggy poem.
16: Buddha
17:
18: Otto "Bawww" Weininger
19:
20:
21: Captain Kierkegaard
22
23
24: Ted "I don't like marine biology or the sound of cars, therefore civilization was a mistake" Kaczynscki
25: Pentti "I don't like cars or houses, therefore civilization was a mistake" Linkola
26: Joseph ratfaced-faggot Goebbels
27:
28: Sam Beckett.