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there are two opposing forces.

the first disguises itself as an intelligence agency based in Brussels. very few people know that about one-third of the operatives are basic telepaths, or that the man who runs this agency has the psychic ability to convince people to do what he tells them to. he is, of course, the richest and most powerful man on Earth, but is a borderline sociopath, because he has never been denied anything he wants.

the second force is less powerful, more amorphous, and is largely represented by a loose "Cell network" of brilliant researchers who have been keeping some of their discoveries to themselves. building on these discoveries, they have attained some almost magical abilities in some fields - biochemistry, fabrication, and computer design.

the agency has only recently learned of the existence of the cell network, and seeks to obtain their research. the cell network has only just learned of the existence of the agency, and as a true hive mind, has no desires beyond survival; as such they haven't formed a plan. but they have the means.

>>8760176
Not sure if this counts as mythology, but one of my stories is about a hermit who tries to find the perfect place to live by looking for the brightest spot in the sky. His thinking is that since city lights block out the stars, wherever you can see the stars the brightest must be the most isolated in the world. But its more of his own mystical belief than an actual reality in the story.

Still trying to make it work right tho

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>>8760176
>lovecraftheads also welcome
thanks anon.

there are several different "horizons" or planes of existence. earth's horizon's beginning is yet unknown. all that populate the earth are colossal beings the size of mountains. for a time these beings were all that populated earth. until a being humanity calls "mother" gave birth to 6 winged humans. these would become the gods that humanity would pray to for thousands of years to come. they are also thought to be the ancestors of humans.

ive got a bit more but i might change some things or scrap it completely.

>>8759986
Kys, virgin.

Must be an American thing

>>8759946
explain how temporality and historicity are related

>>8759946
>übermensch
>needs validation from strangers online

>>8759946
reading is for losers and nerds, we all know and accept that.

>>8759928
>reading fiction to 'learn'

>>8759928
That a tanner gets the name of his profession from his use of tannic acid.

Greek Gods are assholes

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>>8759927

>>8759927

It's not that gory tho just violent

>>8759927
You haven't read Blood Meridian, and you barely have the reading comprehension to regurgitate whichever meme reviews you've read of it.

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I think there are a lot of things in human life and emotion that are exceedingly hard to articulate, and I've always assumed that poetry was an attempt to articulate such things in an indirect way. The chicken-clucking that usually happens AROUND poetry is a mystery to me though.

The best poems for me, personally, are the ones that manage to convey ideas without stating them overtly, and communicating the most information in the smallest space. The first poem that comes to mind here is Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias.

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>>8759915
>objective value

>>8759915
>without being a pretentious cuck about it.

You first.

"they have to violate Occam's Razor"
is it they who have violated it?
if i ask you 'what is 1+1' is the simpler answer '2' or 'whatever it so chooses'

>>8759795
what? deterministic arguement very simple. present state of universe is the inevitable result of the previous discrete state. how can you refute that? nothing arises from nothing.

>>8759844
>nothing arises from nothing.
Except, you know, the Universe

Gandalf reading the Odyssey is god tier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgB9vxYT9kw&list=PLO4w6YrRB31BTAqDnTClVNsClUh6cVG6i

The Martian narrator is fantastic.

>>8759755
>Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series read by Martin Freeman
Why is that a thing? It's actually real guys.

I hate that. Literally any book in existence requires the act of page-turning to progress through it.

>>8759628
do you have autism by any chance?

>>8759628
see >>8759631

fuck you shithead

My sister gets a book because she turned me onto literature. Also she's my sister so I know what she'll like.

Dad gets a book because he turned me on to mid-century sci-fi. That one is harder because he has read most of it already.

Best friend gets a book because he is a pleb and needs to fix his shit before he gets old and dies. What book should I give him?

>>8759599
The Fault in Our Stars

>>8759604
I loved Looking for Alaska so I might do that

>>8759563
Here it is in context:

>In Westland row he halted before the window of the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company and read the legends of leadpapered packets: choice blend, finest quality, family tea. Rather warm. Tea. Must get some from Tom Kernan. Couldn’t ask him at a funeral, though. While his eyes still read blandly he took off his hat quietly inhaling his hairoil and sent his right hand with slow grace over his brow and hair. Very warm morning. Under their dropped lids his eyes found the tiny bow of the leather headband inside his high grade ha. Just there. His right hand came down into the bowl of his hat. His fingers found quickly a card behind the headband and transferred it to his waistcoat pocket.

>>8759593
>>8759563
I'm stumped and can only think of pleb interpretations.

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>>8759659
I have one now.
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/religion/ha.htm

/lit/ posts are the best poetry that I have ever witnessed

reddit tier

>>8759705
this, 4chan is for big boys

>>8759547
Wrong board.
You want /co/

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The only replies you'll get are Alan Moore, and for good reason

>comics
>good

fuck off

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>>8759515
Why'd you hate it?

>>8759515
WHY DON'T YOU ELABORATE ON WHY YOU 'HATED' IT, YOU FUCKING DENSE CUNT

I'm in Salinas right now and can't see a single reason why you didn't like the countless pages of descriptive California Central Coast landscape passages

>>8759500
It's fine

The covers are horrendous, though

>>8759504
I don't know, I find them kek inducing for some reason.

>>8759504
I choose to believe that those covers are on a very deep layer of post-modern irony.
I mean, no one could seriously put those kinds of covers on a book...right?