>I could care less
>>8607242
>I don't care about you anymore
>>8607247
What's the problem with this?
>>8607247>you' re a loser and the worst thing to that ever happened to me
Reminder that Hoppe is a god amongst men. His economic and political philosophy are unrivaled in terms of greatness and scope. Prove me wrong.
>it's an Alt-Right goon thinks he's found the elusive third-position and that it is surely the answer to each and every societal ill we face, clever fellow
>>8607295
hoppe isn't alt right or third-position lmao
>>8607295
>le alt right bogeymans
Every time lmao
post your poems get critique
post other people's poems and laugh/cry at them
or just get drunk and come chill
just imagine his boipucci
>>8607214
his french boipucci
>it's an OP makes a poetry thread without any poems to post episode
did i fuck up again?
ITT books that made you smarter, faster and able to see how the universe works.
>>8607209
That's too many titles.
>>8607244
He is just telling it how it is.
The Improbability Principle by David Hand is essentially a book about why very unlikely things happen all the time. Most of it is exploration of various principles of math and cognitive biases that explain les ###s.
>>8607272
kek
Give me some background music/noise that's good to read to.
please
>God tier
Silence
>Great tier
Ambient
Drone
>Good tier
Minimalism
>OK tier
New Age
Post-Rock
White/Pink/Brown Noise
>Meh tier
Downtempo
Ambient Techno
>Shit tier
Mostly anything else
>"Nigga what the fuck are you doing" tier
Classical
>>8607259
good post actually
What does /lit/ make of this book?
>>8607158
most like it, a lot say that they read it in HIghschool and ony really coud appreciate after while others could identify the most when they were in highschool and less so now.
There are a few who hate it vehemently and there is also a lot of posting about a supposed rape scene.
I haven't read it.
I mean I like pro tags with human traits, but Holden is just too damn annoying. I just want to irrabum him.
Irrabum is Latin for face-fuck btw
>>8607170
> I haven't read it but I'm posting about it anyways
/lit/
?
He was a nerd, I doubt he went to the theatre much. Also Shakespeare sunk out of view in the century following his death, only later did he start becoming popular again and well known.
Catalogues of Newton's personal library show no books of poetry or by any of the classic English writers, such as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, or Milton (see R. S. Westfall's Never at Rest, p. 581). Newton seems to have had little interest in the arts. His friend William Stukeley recorded that Newton told him that he had gone to the opera only once, and that he had enjoyed the first act, but grew tired during the second, and left during the third.
I don't think that Newton's education at Cambridge would necessarily have exposed him to Shakespeare, since at the time the university curriculum was entirely geared towards training Anglican clergyman, and focused on Latin, Greek, the Bible, and scholastic philosophy. Moreover, Shakespeare's reputation as the greatest English writer was cemented only in the mid 18th century, after Newton was already dead. On the other hand, it seems hard to believe that Newton spent thirty years as a wealthy and respected figure in London society (where he was friends with John Locke, Samuel Pepys, and leading Whig politician Charles Montagu) without hearing of Shakespeare.
Another interesting tidbit is that Newton is famously reported to have said, towards the end of his life, that
>I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
This poetic sentiment seems slightly odd for Newton, who as far as anybody knows never actually saw the ocean. Various commentators have pointed out that he might have been inspired by a line in Milton's Paradise Regained, in which vain philosophers are compared to "children gathering pebbles on the shore" (book IV, line 330).
>>8607081
Wouldn't he known of Milton since he lived during the time of Paradise Lost?
Hey everyone, I'm rereading v by thomas pynchon and this time, I'm trying to make more of a conscious effort to understand everything that he's saying rather than just take it all in as it comes.
my question comes from this passage
"even as the N.O.B. band is playing Auld Lang Syne and the destroyers are blowing stacks in black flakes all over the cuckolds-to-be"
What did he mean when he said the "destroyers are blowing stacks in black flakes" it's on the 3rd page of the novel and I get that the destroyers could be random assholes in the bar but I have no real clue what he meant by that and I figured one of you would.
unsubtle /pol/ thread
The destroyers are the docked ships, the stacks are the smoke billowing from their funnels as they prepare to depart, raining ash on the sailors (cuckolds-to-be) who are departing and leaving their women who will be unfaithful in their absence.
>>8607056
The sailors are at sea, made dirty by the ship exhausts while their wives are cheating on them back home
>tfw spending afternoons flicking through different prose and poetry books from my bookshelf
>tfw collect books from my favourite authors
>tfw reading book review magazines for ideas for new things to read
>tfw watching the sunny countryside woodlands outside my window
>tfw watching magpies and cats wander
>tfw watching the trees bristling
>tfw taking care of my dog
All the good quiet feels I've always loved.
Faux-depressed Better than Food watching edgy guys need not apply.
>>8607037
>I'm so content that I seek approval from strangers online
why dont you have any friends op?
>>8607121
Garlic addict.
How do you get to enjoy literature conversation in real life?
I don't really have any friends to talk books with, or anyone anywhere near the level of insight many show here
So when I read a book it's internalized, yet it doesn't seem to stick as I don't get to talk about it or have much reason for analyzing it or reviewing after I've finished it
Do you guys join book clubs? Have friends on a similar literary level? Or do you just shitpost about it here?
Hang around in independent bookstores.
>>8607007
The book club at my school is shit. It's all YA. I talk to my friends or my cousins about literature
Are there other authors similar to Matthew Reilly?
Jesus Christ for sure his books do not need much brain work to be read but they are entertaining as fuck, it feels like reading a videogame.
>>8606972
last bump
>>8606972
Why are you on the literature board?
>>8608440
To discuss literature, such as this book.
Anyone notice how the terms "critical" or "critical dialogue" are being used in almost the exact opposite of what they actually mean? Particularly among social justice types.
"Critical" means "scrutinizing the assumptions" to most people, but I hear it more and more used to mean "does not question ideology"
>>8606956
Yes.
Using words to mean things other than what they actually mean is a common and despicable practice.
We really do live in the age of bullshit.
>>8606961
yeah
Some "critical dialogue" workshop I overheard literally involved someone presiding over it making sure the discussion didn't step out of line with the narrative.
Thanks for this great original insight opie
Why couldnt the russians escape despotism despite having a massive revolution of the supposed proleteriat? They had a few years of freedom and creativity between the end of the revolution and Stalin's rise to power and opressions but was the revolution doomed to end up turning into a despotic regime?
What was it about the whole period which the bolshevic revolution didnt manage to evade that led to it succumbing to another form of dictatorship?
Waas russian society and people not educated enough? Was the infrustrcture or geography not adequate?
What is it that the revolutionaries missed?
>>8606828
Any governmental system that allows for changing of the laws without any restrictions, life long rule, complete economic domination, complete political and societal domination and the complete and the unchallenged ability to order the deaths of millions is bound to become despotic. Even America has become despotic, despite all of the actions taken to protect against that very thing.
>>8606828
Lenin was an authoritarian just like Stalin. Don't be fooled by his temporary democratic phase; this was his (genius and resoundingly successful) attempt at getting mass appeal.
The Bolshevik revolution did not fail. Lenin was a Machiavellian mastermind who said and did just what he needed to get his party in power.
Is there anyone else who cant take most of the shit talked about by cultural theorists / literary types seriously? Every analysis of culture / politics / history / wishy washy topic is filled wiht bland and "profound" over generalisations. At root some people like X and others like Y instead. Or people are acting for their own financial benefit at the expense of others. Thats all it ever fucking is yet people try to pretend otherwise.
>>8606827
Someone didn't fucking start with the greeks.
>>8606835
This. Plato literally has a dialogue just for people who think like you
>>8606838
Which one? Ive read only a small amount of Plato, just the first 6 dialogues in a big book of plato.
Plato, along with all the other Greats, is used as a pseudo intellectual posturing ornament to be placed throughout articles to try to gain more authority.
I cant be bothered going in to detail but everything the Greeks say can be disregarded as soon as you see the munchhausen trilemma.
sup lit