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I'm looking for books (fiction or nonfiction) about rituals, ideally very specific descriptions of some ritual.
e.g.
I liked Mishima's description of young couple and a tea ceremony with added breast milk.
I like prehistory and the medieval church's fight against pagan rituals in rural areas.
But I mostly find books about 'theory of rituals' or horrible trash along the lines of 'handshakes as modern rituals..'
any novels or even anthropological field work?
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>>9170175
Mo Hayder is always cool. This one is about "muti".
There's a few pages on aztec rituals in Bataille's The Accursed Share, but the general purpose is much larger (ethnological-economical-philosophical theory of the unnecessary).
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Anathem by neal Stevenson. Full of religious rituals.
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Maybe the book of Rites by Confucius
Confucianism is heavy on rituals
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How many books do you read at once?
How long will you leave a book unread after starting it before thinking that you'd have to start again? There's a book I gave up on after 300 pages and I want to start it again and finish it just for the patrician cred.
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I only actively read one usually, very occasionally 2 (particularly if one is very long and I need a break).
But there are always a few lurking around that I got half way through and didn't finish. A couple of times a year I force myself to complete them. I got about 40% through "The meeting of east and west" by FSC Northrop early last year before deciding that I would have to go and read about some of the things he kept referring to. I think I'll have to start it again whenever I come back to it.
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>>9170073
Every time I see a political cartoon like this I print out a picture of Plato and shit on it.
A SHIP IS NOT A GOVERNMENT, HOLY FUCK, HOW MUCH WINE DID YOU HAVE THAT DAY
GODDAMN ANCIENT PEDERAST
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>>9170181
So you are saying that the government shuldn't be run by those who are best suited for the task
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Are 90% of the people on this board psueds? Not that I should expect anything of value on this teen book "discussion" board. Maybe I should go to the lit "humor" thread and see a bunch of shitty memes that don't show any depth or proof that the people who made them actually read the books and confirm my suspicion that 75% of the books "discussed" on this forum weren't read at all, just kids reading a short wikipedia summary of a work and thinking they know enough about the book to discuss it. Did reddit and good reads kill this place by being a much better format for this type of thing or did most of the people just realize that just because a site says 18+ doesn't mean that the users are actually 18+ and stop posting here because there's nothing of value in getting called "faggot" by children who can't formulate arguments against yours or come up with an interpretation of a novel that isn't in the Wikipedia article. "oh man I posted a DFW reaction image again!" "hehe I told him to start with the greeks!" "my diary desu!"
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my diary desu
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>>9169989
The people visiting this board are mostly very young and are probably just about to find out what they enjoy to read and how to analyze a book.
There's nothing wrong with being a pseud at this stage.
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>>9170027
>just about to find out what they enjoy to read and how to analyze a book.
Isn't there a colossal difference between being a pseud and being new to something? OP is probably more referring to all the posturing (and shitposting) on this board than anything.
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He's right, you know...
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>>9169857
>wtf I hate Platon now
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>>9169857
>Nobody likes me, so I must be right!
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>this whole website's reaction to Alex 'Icycalm' Kierkegaard in a nutshell
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wtf how did I just fall in love with a heroin addicted degenerate poet hipster? can we discuss the character Esme from the recognitions. what the fuck was her deal. she was so sweet and timid.
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I'm yet to read the recognitions but it really is a good book
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>>9169802
: - )
Morning lads
I want to finally read LoTR but at my school library I found not one, but three books.
Each separated: FoTR, TT, RoTK.
What other books should I read after I finish the main trilogy?
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wait, you didn't know it's a trilogy? How out of touch do you have to be.
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>>9169716
don't forget to read the hobbit first.
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Is there a literature-related way to actually increase intelligence? What kind of books can help in that endevour?
Pic unrelated
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>>9169682
Critical reading
reading poetry specifically will make you smarter (and a better programmer if you like programming)
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>>9169689
Source to the paper you got it from?
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books to boost IQ ?
Non-existent, books merely give you a different insight on life, every persons ability to distinguish and comprehend a certain text differs and you won't get "magically smarter" reading books.
They are for pleasure only, just like sex and masturbation .
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>Just be yourself, bro!
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Nietzsche is about purifying yourself at one point, so that statement is kind of right.
Taking that inner authencity for the eyes to really see it so you can drive towards it clearly.
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>dude just become what one is lmao
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favorite passages from this?
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>the nasty stench of her shameful hole filled my brain with primeval desire which shattered and dissipated in a myriad tiny pieces under the mighty swings of an undulating schlong forcefully making it's way through my insides
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I like it when he uses full stops such as ".".
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>the entire doctrine of stoicism hinges on the easily falsifiable idea that people can 'choose' the way they feel about certain events
Nice """"philosophy"""" you got there, reddit
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It's based on the idea that people shouldn't let 'muh feels' affect your behavior, dunce.
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>>9169446
>on the easily falsifiable
Stopped reading right there, Popperian cuck.
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Sure
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Is anybody else here well on their way to inhabiting a totally solipsistic universe in which only their own value judgments are of any concern? I am. And here's how. For the longest time I thought I wanted to be a writer, and I tried writing novel after novel hoping for validation from people I really don't care all that much about, including editors (known for their preference of marketability over talent) and the reading public (mostly comprised of naive, feelgood, ideologically submissive dilettantes). Then it struck me. What was the actual purpose of "achieving" external validation? It was merely a means of allowing my own internal validatory function approve my existence and feel secure in the notion that I am in fact a genius. But if I could simply convince my internal validatory function to do this without having to first appeal to external other people, then what's stopping me? Surely enough, I wrote my debut six-part memoir comprising some 780,000 words, the work in part and in whole meting the very strict and very high standards I inflict on myself at all times. And what happened next? I assured myself of my genius. Any lingering desires, both of the brutish and impulsive kind and of the socially inculcated, diminished over the course of only a few weeks. I became a one-mind ecosystem, a producer and consumer of my own intellectual commodities, my moral values became entirely my own, my thoughts pure of any external influence (corruption). At the present point of writing this post I can write as confidently and as lucidly as I do, articulating my internal phenomena as well as I currently am, due to the fact that I am living a life of pure and genuine expression, unmarred by external considerations. I am the source of all my thoughts. I am the master of my craft. I am the God and the believer. My craft is my expression. My will is my fate.
Any good books on this issue?
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>Any good books on this issue?
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>>9169382
I enjoy your posts but please use paragraphs.
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>>9169382
Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self.
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what are some books about capitalism
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Not my niche but at least tell us whatever you want a critique of capitalism or something else
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Every literary work written since the 19th century
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>lol i love Dionysus hes so cool XDD
>BUT ALCOHOL IS FOR IDIOTS STRAIGHTEDGE 4 LYFE
What the fuck was his deal?
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>>9169308
Schizophrenia.
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He was too sick and weak for alcohol, his body would have rejected it.
However without the opiates he took he never would have been pain free enough to write.
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He wanted to find a balance between the Dionysian and the Apollonian
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Hey /lit/,
New to the whole recreational reading thing - longtime /mu/ lurker - music's always been more of my cup of tea.
I'm considering reading Infinite Jest. Does this board have an opinion on it?
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>>9169270
is he putting ketchup on his muesli?
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>>9169275
I think so.
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>Hey /mu/,
>New to the whole recreational listening thing - longtime /lit/ lurker - literature's always been more of my cup of tea.
>I'm considering listening to Merzbox. Does this board have an opinion on it?
You're just another teenage retard who desperately tries to be patrishun on the internet. Start with the Greeks or kys yourself.
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>tfw get published in a prestigious journal
So this... this is true patricianhood...
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Which journal? Airways?
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>>9169177
First Things
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>>9169183
>First Things is an ecumenical, conservative and, in some views, neoconservative[1][2][3][4][5] religious journal aimed at "advanc[ing] a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society".[6]
Also inb4 catholic circlejerk