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Help me find this book, /lit/.
A boy falls in love with a girl.
Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.
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Reminder that Keit-愛 is genre fiction garbage
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MOTHERFUCKER
DEMON
PEDOPHILE
SISCON
BIGOT
GREAT POET
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>>10017245
I like his poetry but know little about the man....
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>>10017558
He imprisoned his sister, Camille Claudel, in an asylum.
It's all the world needs to know.
Also atheist that converted to catholicism during one christmas.
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>>10018191
Have a bio rec?
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Is horror a dead genre since movies can do it so much easier and the general populace is much more desensitized?
How do we save it?
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Identify what is horrific about modern life.
For Lovecraft, in the era of unexplored oceans and territories and religious superstition, he poised a noumenal realm of malevolent gods whose earthy representatives still lurk terrifying but usually hidden from sight.
For that Japanese guy who wrote The Ring, it was early tech (videotapes etc) and the notion of technology having the potential to be cursed as well as beneficial to one's indolent lifestyle.
For Ligotti, it is advanced capitalism and the modern corporate workplace, wherein mysterious managers lurk behind frosted glass ready to cull another batch of employees and co-workers who use any means possible of attaining a more superior rank.
Now, for you, dear Anon, it is surely the Internet and its capacity to know everything about you, to reduce your existence to a form which you do not feel resembles you, or even imitate you in a way that is beyond your control, it is also multiculturalism and the waves of subhuman shitskin scum destroying urban environments from Sweden to Austin, Texas (Lovecraft touched on this theme in a roundabout manner), it is an advanced culture which fears no war or invading force who, despite the lack of immediate threats, has pursued ideologies promoting degeneracy and the aggressive pursuit of Fun (TM) rather than more noble ideals, it is the implosion of the traditional family and the reduction of each citizen (read: consumer) to an isolated, demoralized hoarder of solitary pleasures, it is me unsheating my katanaandCHOPPINGYOURFRIGGINHEADOFF*blood spurts from your neck stump*hehe kiddo nothing personnel *wiped blade* *sheathes katana* maybe you'll learn not to Mess With The Best next time hehehe
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk6HB609po
What is German Idealism? Never studied philosophy and am looking for a layman explanation.
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Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte.
Knowing the "real" world is impossible as knowledge depends on the knower. The knower can therefore only know what it is capable of knowing, and the "real" world conforms to these capacities for the knower.
Moreover, what we know depends on the historical development of concepts, so that what we know at any given time depends on that time's comprehension of itself in thought.
Trump doesn't have anything to do with this and the clip is mostly funny because of the juxtaposition of high and low.
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Read this
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>>10017286
and this
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How do I learn sanskrit?
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Recently read this and truly loved it. Are there other similar things? Novels that deal with the pain of disappointment in such a simple, humble way.
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>>10016907
The Waves by Woolf fits thematically, though "simple" and "humble" are not words I would use to describe that book, great as it is.
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb might work too, it's another great mid-century melancholic Hungarian novel.
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>>10016913
Already read The Waves and I agree with you, Woolf is too sublime to fit in what I'm looking. Great book nonetheless.
I'll check Journey by Moonlight, sounds interesting.
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Emily Dickinson was probably a skylark
read her poetry
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A history of greek mathematics, volume 1, is what I'm reading at the moment. Now there are these quotes and greek words here and there, can you tell me what they mean?
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>>10016867
it says "mathmata" and "mathematiks", and its an unusual contraction for both (more usual: mathemata; mathematikos).
it look like the person spelling out the greek doesn't speak much greek, or else speaks a different dialect to attic/koine. they're pretty well defined and mused over in attic.
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>>10018378
sorry saged by force of habit, have a bump in case anyone recognizes the dialect
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Westward Spreads the Fire was written as a sort of free-market answer to The Grapes of Wrath. It was about Judd Puckett, a young man who was forced to become the head of a family traveling the Oregon Trail after the death of his father. The subtext was about the dust bowl migrations, and how the migrant farmers should look to their past and rediscover the American spirit of rugged individualism etc etc...
Anyone else read this one?
also, Obscure Novels Thread
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>>10016837
>published by Penguin
>obscure
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>>10016837
did you make this up
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So can you tell me a little about yourself?
Well, I'm 26, five foot 9, 160 pounds... I like classical music... But I think the most important thing about me, the most relevant, is that I don't exist.
You don't exist?
No, I don't.
Could you elaborate?
Well I have a birth certificate, a drivers license, a bank account... I'm enrolled to vote... but I don't actually exist. I'm not a person, not an entity. I'm not real.
If you're not a person, why would you need a drivers license?
Well I'm in a key demographic. It looks good for me, and others like me, to appear to be living a normal, happy, successful life. It evens things up a little I guess.
There are others like you?
Oh yes. Lots.
And why does it look good? That you live a normal life, as you say.
Well crime, poverty, stocks... there are all sorts of problems people have these days, you know? It would be good if these things weren't such a big deal. It makes a lot of sense to just create people who don't have these problems, people who have it made. If you have four people and one is obese that's 25%. But if you create five additional people who are happy and healthy, the figure drops to 10%. It's a much more reasonable amount, don't you think?
That is an improvement?
Definitely. I definitely think this trend will continue. I think in the future there will be a large proportion of the population who don't exist. I think in ten years time you'll meet people, or there will be people who you've known, or people you've worked with, who never existed at all. That will be an improvement in my mind.
You think that would be better?
Yes. Yes, I think I do.
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>>10016810
>five foot 9
Youre sort of right, to women you definitely don't exist
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>>10016964
YAHTZEE
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Trying to get into reading again but I'm finding it difficult. I used to be able to finish multiple novels in a night but now I'm 40 pages into a book after a week. How do I get back into reading?
inb4
>turn off pc/phone/etc
I already do this.
>audiobooks
Awful meme, make me fall asleep.
>spend more time reading lol
Been trying, if I dedicate any more time to reading I'll start to fall behind in my studies.
I don't understand. Why can't I process information as fast as I used to be able to? How do I fix this? I spend way longer on a single page than other people. I don't know what's changed.
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I got my hands on a huge collection of Forgotten Realms books. Which one should I read first? I'm thinking Baldur's Gate because I liked the games.
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>>10016682
The Baldurs Gate book isn't very good . I'd suggest finding a release order guide,start from there (I wouldn't read book to book that way, but trilogy to trilogy, considrring that's how they used to do it). For what it's worth, if you like the Baldurs Gate games, the first Drizzt trilogy and the first Eliminster trilogy are must reads.
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Can't even read literature anymore out of fear orf resentment of my unfulfilled youth.
Anyone else ever feel this? How do I get past it?
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>>10016672
By reading the Greeks.
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>>10016672
Do it. Resent. Feel. And then get over it.
When you break your leg, you have to learn to walk again. And it's hard work, maybe even painful; it's not a walk in the park by any stretch, but you can be certain that if you put it off, it's not going to get any better.
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Why didn't you guys tell me the classics were so hilarious?
>instructions on grooming children and teenagers
>advice on making up excuses to touch women's breasts
>refers to women as ''prey'' and constantly compares them to ants and bees
>all in exquisite latin verse
wtf Ovid
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It's funny until you realise that you are indeed a sexual predator
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>>10017368
And even funnier when you realise there's literally nothing wrong with that
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>>10017388
you have to go back
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/
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What was his end game?
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Why doesn't society turn out more masterpieces if there're more educated people now then ever before in history?
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People today aren't educated, they're trained.
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>>10016545
"education" is not what makes people intelligent or creative.
after a point more education only stifles people
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>>10016545
Because modern education is awful.