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>>8678884
He's only worth reading for the prose, the order will change jack.

>>8678884
I found The Antichrist to be his most accessible work.

>>8678884
genealogy of morals if u want a more structured overview or if u plan on long term nietzsche reading then best is chronologically but if u mainly for the prose look up some neche ideas and go to zarathustra

>>8678852
My diarist- Hegel's prose is great, honestly.

>>8678852
Schopenhauer.

Nietzsche desu. Hate the philosophy if you want (though that would make you a pleb), but his writing is top-tier.

I would like the title in english to be :

"Come closer

putting an end to the story"

You really came to the wrong place for this.

>>8678818
I master english and spanish 90%

Spanish is my native language, so perhaps if you find someone to translate it from french, i can help you with the spa translation or viceversa.

Also, how many pages does your book have?

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>>8678750
>implying he isn't our guy

this isn't /lit/
sage

What's the deal with mencius moldbug? I looked at his blog and he just has a superiority complex over everything.

Now, my question;

In this book given that the main characters are professors and such and that a lot of the book revolves around the development of their theory, a lot of conversations go on in between these characters which are based on real-life studies. One of which I found interesting and did further reading on was Konrad Lorenz On Aggression. As somebody who up until a few months ago mostly read non-fiction on philosophy (general, religion, spirituality), science (chaos, quantum, time) and psychology (strong interest in psychedelic drugs relevant to psychology but also science and philosophy) I very much enjoyed the inclusion of real life studies and theories. It fulfilled an aspect of science fiction which I strongly enjoy more than other books have - questioning the logic, philosophies and other implications that these realities/societies present. Whilst typically the science fiction that I read invokes such thoughts and leads me to further reading based on these thoughts, this book actually delivered some of the information which I desired and even gave me thoughts and answers to things I perhaps wouldn't have come to alone.

Does anybody know of other books which would deliver to me as this book has? Or any other sci-fi recommendations based on what I have mentioned here?

I apologise if my structuring or general means of communicating my ideas and questions hasn't been ideal for you. I do highly appreciate any input, I'm thankful for your time. Thanks very much and have a lovely day/evening!

>>8678702
Neal Stephenson love his info dumps so maybe check that.

popping back up

>>8678642
This post needs more ellipses between every "question" (read: veiled statement of fact)

>>8678642
I'd argue very much so yes. Christianity (and by extension Islam) was never pre-determined to wash over most of the World. It was afterall in the beginning a minor sect of relatively irrelevant minority religion within the Roman Empire yet it managed to inspire millions of followers not simply without the aid of power institutions of state but in direct opposition to them.

Say what you will about the legitimacy of religious belief but there is something in the teachings that held so much power and that is what the purpose of all those interpretations over the centuries sought to find out.

>>8679268
>Christianity (and by extension Islam) was never pre-determined to wash over most of the World.
"And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." - Matthew 24:14
"And he said to them: Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation." - Mark 16:15
We could even go back to places in the Old Testament like Isaiah 49 and Zechariah 2 where the conversion of the Gentiles is prophesied

Wikipedia?
It discusses the major works of an author in depth.

how to read and why by bloom
how to read a book by adler and van doren

>>8678596
Well, sadly this is my current source of information. But I'd like something more academic and focused on literature.

>>8678598
I don't think these books have information on every author, do they?

I'm normally pretty forgiving of pompous talkin' from legit smart dudes, but Bloom definitely seems like he hams it up a bit. There's a bit of gay theatre in him or something.

Butthurt guntard?

>>8678548
>1cuccco
damn...

I don't think any author ever has heightened the book medium to its full potential

>>8678547
That's where I come into play

>>8678555
You need quads for that

the trash

ew..

>>8678530
>>8678531
If you guys have nothing helpful to say I'd suggest you sod off and go back to /b/

>>8678349
I don't even like to read, my narcissim just forces me to try to become a human being I can love.

Moby Dick. And it was every bit as excruciating as I feared.

>>8678349
Your pic related
(though not to say I've read it - rather to call it shit in good conscience)

>>8678314
Well it makes sense to me

>>8678314
Only if you fall for the pleb misconception of what it means.

Idiots on reddit seem to believe it means analyzing the authors intentions and intellectual mission is now to be avoided which it does not. Rather simply that the author isn't the final authority on the meaning of a text

>>8678314
>being cucked by the author

>>8678228
Yes he's one of my favorite poets

Hurt Hawks

The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,

No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game without talons.

He stands under the oak-bush and waits
The lame feet of salvation; at night he remembers freedom
And flies in a dream, the dawns ruin it.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
The curs of the day come and torment him
At distance, no one but death the redeemer will humble that head,

The intrepid readiness, the terrible eyes.
The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those
That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant.

You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him;
Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him;
Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.

II

I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk;
but the great redtail
Had nothing left but unable misery
From the bone too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.

We had fed him six weeks, I gave him freedom,
He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death,
Not like a beggar, still eyed with the old
Implacable arrogance.

I gave him the lead gift in the twilight.
What fell was relaxed, Owl-downy, soft feminine feathers; but what
Soared: the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river cried fear at its rising
Before it was quite unsheathed from reality.

>>8678424
Have you visited his Tor Home in Carmel?

>>8678474
no just seen pictures.

That impressed me as well. He lived in a beautiful house in a beautiful place that he built with his own hands.
The way he lived his life impressed me as much as his poetry.

Think of it like a resumé. They won't have read your short stories because there are too many zines to keep track of, but if you can include in your cover letter that you were published by a few they've heard the names of then they'll be more likely to pay your work attention. Just because they pay it attention doesn't mean they'll want to publish it though, it's not unusual to get accepted after 40 rejections or so, you just have to keep trying different pub houses.

>>8678183
Yeah, the way I see it, more interest is better than no interest. Have any of your stories been published? Simply curious about experiences with short story publication.

Anyways, thanks for replying, mate.

>>8678173

I'm in the same boat OP, been considering short stories as a means to recognition. I think at the most a prior publishing record will get you to the top of the slush pile but in the end it's down to the individual work and the reader.

But I might be wrong, in which case someone feel free to say otherwise.

>muh political tribalism
I genuinely, unironically hate you and everything you stand for, op. I wish that you were dead.

>>8678129

"Ok"

Ayn Rand bait, is it 2011 again already?