Does anyone think King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard's album "Murder of the Universe" is all about Neoplatonism and the creation of a demiurge? The demiurge being Han-Tyumi.I think there could be some Hegelian stuff in the Altered Beast section, but I'm less confident about that.
>>pic related
Cunt, no one outside of Melbourne knows about these guys. Even people here don't fuckin care.
>>9943742
they're actually pretty well-known at this point but also this barely belongs on /lit/. Also I don't think they had any of that in mind necessarily when making the album
Only SoCal Mexican skaters can appreciate the yell in each of their identical songs
>claims to care about literature
>doesn't actively seek out what the next classic might be
What books from the past couple of years have you actually read?
>>9943040
this book is good except it kinda loses focus in the third act and it's really dumb to have the character's names appear AFTER their dialogue
>>9943040
also I highly recommend Ben Lener's 10:04, the structure is masterful
>>9943058
Is that the sequel to 4:48?
is there an updated version of this chart?
>>9943007
>2pac
>poetry
pick one
prove me wrong
>>9943007
>rupi kaur in top tier
Tolkien T B H
Best books involving addiction or entrapment
>>9942992
Infinite Jest, unironically
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater?
>>9942992
A Scanner Darkly
/thread
I was expecting this to be a shitty catastrophe with all the negative opinions on it here but was honestly disappointed on how little of a shitshow it actually is. The sex scenes/nudity reads like a 14 year old virgin wrote it but that's my only consistent complaint.
>>9942957
A lot of people on /lit/ are hypercritical of popular books because it makes them feel more sophisticated than the unwashed masses.
>>9942957
I read the first book and even though there was up and downs and I'm not a fan of his writing style, the final 100? 200? pages were actually good.
The second one though I couldn't do it. It's complete crap and I understand it's only downhill from there.
>>9943047
The third is actually the most highly regarded. The fourth is the downhill (or, to be more accurate, a cliff).
First, a metaphor for God (all these statements should of course be understood "as it were" not "as such," for even a high-school education would undermine that): Dionysius the Areopagite calls physical light an "echo" of God. I will use light as an analogy: God's essence is akin to the *point source*. His energies are akin to the *radiation*. The Trinity is akin to a threefold spectrum that comprises the light, or primary colors if you will.
As was previously pointed out here, the Bible, in contrast to pagan mythologies, is concerned with internal and existentialist conflict, not so much conflict of might or craft. Even Samson's conflict is not about might or craft, he is not outwitted, his conflict is whether to reveal his secret knowing what that will entail. But what you might not know is that the Bible is also the first subject of comprehensive literary examination. Prior to the rise of Christianity, literary theory in the West examined many things, plot structure, spiritual metaphors (so-and-so represents the soul, so-and-so the body, etc.), BUT even though characters often had distinct, individual psychologies, there was no sophisticated analysis of their psychologies. Christian exegesis brought literary analysis to an entirely new height, sifting scrupulously through what was going on in the heads (even unconsciously) of the various characters, both through regular methods, and through literary symbols; now literary symbols were examined before, especially by Platonists, but they were always applied to have general spiritual meaning, not as subtle expressions of a character's psychology.
I have noticed people putting down the King James Bible as antiquated here. Please note that the King James Bible is not a "Bible of its time". It completely disregards the popular, baroque, intricate style of the period, and follows very closely to the Bible's minimalist style and vocabulary, even following the tense of the Bible (the Gospels, for instance, often use present tense in places where it would seem out of place to us). It is a very accurate Bible compared to most, and if you can parse it you would not go wrong in reading it, even if some terms are archaic. The King James Bible's literary qualities have nothing to do with a baroque method of translation, rather they have to do with adhering to the Bible's idiom and phrasing, which are quite beautiful.
King James translates "Said in his heart" as just that. NRSV uses "he said to himself" to translate this idiom.
King James translates "seed" as just that, NRSV translates it as "semen" or "descendants"
King James translates "he knew her" as just that, NRSV uses awkward terms like "he consummated their marriage" to translate it.
King James translates "slack not thy hands" literally, NRSV changes it to "do not abandon".
King James translates "thine heart be lifted up" literally, NRSV translates it as "exalt yourself"
King James translates literally "mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water," NRSV uses "my eyes flow with tears.". They deleted the repetition of "my eye"--which is not just stylistic, but an expression of intense emotion--it's not the "Nevermore" of Poe's Raven, it's the "Never" of Shakespeare's King Lear.
The NRSV, as many contemporary translations, is compromised. The King James version keeps the frequent use of "and" in both the Old and New Testament, the NRSV deletes the use of the word as much as possible for no reason other than a stylistic choice, which in fact impairs the writing (for an example of how "and" can be integral to a style, see Cormac McCarthy, who was heavily influenced by the King James prose).
Okay, so I've recently remembered an old folktale from my childhood but I am unable to find any information on it.
The story is about and old woman and a magician. In the story the woman challenges the magician to see who knows more. The first question that is put for is where the center of the earth is, the magician claims the center must be somewhere in the ocean and the old woman claims it's right under his feet. She proves this by suggesting the magician measure the earth using a rope. The second question that is asked of them is how many stars in the sky. The woman claims there are as many stars in the sky as hairs in the magicians beard. She suggests he count the stars as she plucks his beard hair out.
Unfortunately this is all I can remember of the story. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any help would be appreciated.
This rings a bell, I think the story may have been Romanian in origin
It sounds cool so bump
>>9942933
The thing about folktales is they get appropriated, different cultures like them so they switch out the major characters with characters THEY like and appropriate it as their own, and they basically spread like wildfire with it being difficult to find the origin of it.
Anyway, that aside, you're in luck because I've been reading Idries Shah recently and it's apparently a Mulla Nasrudin story.
How do I deal with unwanted popularity especially with the ladies? What do the classics recommend?
Notes From Underground. It can work both ways, even
>>9942901
Plant and cultivate warts on your face.
>>9942901
Start with Schopenhauer
What are some books where despicable human beings get BTFO?
Anna karenina
catcher in the rye
>>9942863
Holden gets thrashed several times, is an overall beta, no karmic justice is to be found.
Does anybody know any books that are basically just long shitposts? Like https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pt7yVtCLdPQ287uPO1An2tpKqXm9TP6ERuMeuV_qVak/edit
And if you have a pdf/epub/mobi/mega drop it senpai thx
Snow Crash is the closest book to a shitpost I can think of. I have other things I can think of but they're fanfiction.
Gravitys rainbow
If you like tim & eric and all the surreal shows on adult swim, its the book for you.
Infinite Jest
>>9943026
Fuck you for suggesting Gravity's Rainbow is a shitpost
>he hasn't taken the Deleuze Pill yet
nothing matters fuck life and fuck pain just let it all out and fuck shit up
Tmnt 2: The secret of deleuze
>>9942789
ok so what do I do then
sounds a lot like every other philosopher since nietzsche
>uhhhhhhhhhhh yeah, you do you buddy
>but like you gotta care, just like really do it
>also for some reasons reading and learning a lot of philosophy is a very important thing to do
>>9942789
Did Deleuze touch you when you were a kid? Why do you want to turn him into a meme so much?
I need help, idk on what board should I post this but, what is "space and sexuality"? so far I understood that its a space for sexual acts such as gay villages and so on, but i was browsing youtube and videos about this subject were so strange for me. . .
Does anyone know anything about this?
(there is a book called space and sexuality)
i have no clue but 'space' is probably more of a term to describe the way people interact physically in a general sense, rather than meaning literal designated boofing zones
>>9942756
The physiognomy of sexual relations.
>>9942756
Anon, you're approaching this question like it's a STEM thing.
Space and sexuality is probably bullshit. Just from the sound of it, you know it's bullshit. Just... nothing. Just a complete waste of time.
Just finished reading metro 2035 (after reading 2033 and 2034). What did you guys think about it?I think it's a sad and beautiful ending imo. From what I gather, it's not worth to be the hero.
>>9942734
Oh fuck the spoiler check mark is for the image?
>>9942734
Are the books better than the games? If not I won't bother because the games are fun.
>>9942734
I liked the first one
Are these English translations of Nietzsche from Stanford University Press way better than Walter Kaufmann's? Anybody got a link to them?
>>9942667
How the fuck would anyone on this website know? Do you expect anyone here to actually be familiar with the original text and the methodology by which to translate it? Do you honestly believe there is even a sliver of a chance that a single god damn person on this god damn website is qualified to answer such a question? Jesus fucking christ
Kaufmann can bottleneck your interpretation of Nietzsche in a sense, because he too strongly denies protofascistic elements in Friedrich's thought. I'd stick with Kaufmann for Nietzsche's work but consult secondary literature about Nietzsche extensively.
The Stanford Complete Works are a fucking dumpster fire
almost every single one of his fucking works has a DIFFERENT FUCKING TRANSLATOR
the only thing of worth the project will bring to publication is many of Nietzsche's unpublished little fragments, and though that may sound enticing keep in mind they were unpublished for a reason. There will be tremendous crossover between his unpublished notes and his published works and thus many will be redundant.
>>9943776
lol stay mad
Obligatory
>be me see
>go to asia
>see a buddhist monk approaching me
>this is it.jpg
>greetings sage! are you come to be my personal teacher?
>he teleports behind me
>MASAKA! H-HAYAI!
>he unsheathes his sword
>"heh, nothing's peronal, kiddo..."
>NANI!
>I fall down, cut
>mfw shitposting waiting to be reborn
well where are you?