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Twilight

>>8232499
I'm reading the Blackwood collection Penguin released right now and I'm really impressed. "The Willows" was legitimately spooky and I find the whole "nature horror" thing that him and Machen did very intriguing.

To add to that list
Robert Aickman (I think of him as a precursor to Ligotti in a way. very subtle and unsettling tales that stick with you long after.)

T.E.D. Klein (Lovecraftian horror from the 1980's that isn't a shitty pastiche with tentacle monsters. His novel "The Ceremonies" has a lot of Machen influence.)

M.R. James (the essential English ghost story writer. also see JS LeFanu.)

L.A. Lewis (more of a second-tier writer, but worth noting down for later. Had one book with some strangely hallucinogenic tales like "The Tower of Moab")

Haven't read a whole lot of their stuff, but Karl Edward Wagner and Clive Barker are solid for more contemporary horror.

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I got pretty bored.

The Settembrini/Naphta stuff did not do it for me.

>>8232250
Buddenbrooks >> Magic Mountain

>>8231356
nigga u on the right track, but what about the eastern shit? Li Po? Nuffin?

I smell sum Euro centrism

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If we are to consider the sensorial experience available to the reader between the pages of To The Lighthouse as sublime, methinks The Waves does it better.

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>>8231356
I haven't read much but i'd narrow the list down to Spenser, Chaucer, Goethe, Ibsen, Shakespeare
Middlemarch isn't that great, and i'd stay away Ovid and Milton (personal opinion)....not sure about the other authors mentioned.

>If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham.

>Like the drivers of donkeys, who have to belabor the donkeys incessantly with rods and whips, or they will not obey, so must the ruler do with the people; they must drive, beat throttle, hang, burn, behead and torture, so as to make themselves feared and to keep the people in check.

>Moses is an executioner, a cruel lictor, a torturer a torturer who tears our flesh out with pincers and makes us suffer martyrdom . . . Whoever, in the name of Christ, terrifies and troubles consciences, is not the messenger of Christ, but of the devil . . . Let us therefore send Moses packing and for ever.

>It does not matter what people do; it only matters what they believe.

>If we allow them - the Commandments - any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of all evil, heresies and blasphemies

>One should learn Philosophy only as one learns witchcraft, that is to destroy it; as one finds out about errors, in order to refute them

>It is more important to guard against good works than against sin.

>Reason is the Devil's handmaid and does nothing but blaspheme and dishonor all that God says or does.

>St. Augustine or St. Ambrosius cannot be compared with me.

>>8231112
Whatever you want it to mean...

>>8231122
when he says see you anon. how did he know we were reading?

All That Is - Salter

it's like Stoner, only without the insufferable passivity. and better written.

vurt jeff noon

There's already a thread. Bet you weren't expecting that one.

An actual one, google translated for time and hilarity. A little cringe inducing, but I think that's just the nature of journal entries. You're always in a pathetic state when writing for yourself.
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Nothing in life has confused me more than to be born as a woman. As a woman you are a woman before being human.
Through the ages, in every culture is man's domination of woman clear: from that tape feet in ancient China to men considered women's inability to walk and pain sexy, women who wear the burqa in Saudi Arabia today, women gender mutilated in Africa for that they should not have to feel pleasure - women should always be punished. And it is not about religion, religion is something beyond, and religion was additionally created by men. But note well how women accept the role, they allow themselves. Superior physical strength of men is not behind, but the woman's passive acceptance of the subjugation. Women have always been feminism's greatest enemy.
And this is why I think the modern feminism is trivial: in essence this deeper, existential phenomenon not discussed and dealt with. Psychoanalyze the entire female race.
It is tiring, exhausting, and I want to give up. Be fucked like an animal.

May 1st 2016

Today is Canada Day. Who Cares? I want the old flag back. I'd like to move.

-start a new book
-Write for 30 minutes
-tidy up room

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>>8230326

>>8229636
Here's mine:

Some refer to life
As being snuffed out,
Like a candle in your chest.

But frequently,
It’s like beating flames
With a heavy wool blanket.

Tenacious fire
Can force waves
Of buffeting suffocation.

Some even leave
Embers that spring
Alive with each breeze.

Meteoric extinction
Is somehow much nicer
With it’s constant thudding,

Than bursts of light
Piercing through ether,
Like a rushing, mighty wind.

will critique back

I dreamt I was a bean
rolling along
down the hill
filled with feels
not even a human bean
just a mess
I hope I taste good
when someone eats me for dinner

I am the space between my eyes and wall,
To which I look and think of naught, at all;
As empty as the atoms in the air,
Existing as the space from here to there;
I am the light projection of myself,
Upon the open pages of my shelf.
I live in flux of transitory whims,
And hold the fleeting folds of phantom limbs
Of memory, the wake in which persists
A presence, that my sense of self exists:
I am the empty space between the leaves,
The pattern on the ground that shadow weaves;
And when I gaze into my mirrored face,
I see the emptiness inside a vase.
I sit and stare at shadows on the wall,
And wonder why I’m even here at all.

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>>8229565
It's not that "recent" but I still haven't read any of them.

>>8229554
t. faggot

>>8229554
she does sound as if in real life she went though the polar opposite of what she's now suggesting in her book as a passive-aggressive coping strategy

A Critique of Pure Tolerance by Herbert Marcuse and co.

"Marcuse claims that tolerance shown to minority views in industrial societies is a deceit because such expressions cannot be effective. Freedom of speech is not a good in itself because it allows for the propagation of error; Marcuse believes that "The telos of tolerance is truth". Revolutionary minorities hold the truth and the majority has to be liberated from error by being re-educated in the truth by this minority. The revolutionary minority are entitled, Marcuse claims, to suppress rival and harmful opinions."

It depends on whether you mean leftism including its opposition to sexism and racism and such, or specifically the kind of lazy bourgeoisie pseudo-leftist liberalism that even leftists criticize today.

I don't think you should let others should tell you which actions are justified, OP.

If you have fun debating, then debate.
I think it's impossible to not pursue answers regardless of your decisions though.

Perhaps Nietzsche should have attacked apathy rather than nihilism.

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>>8228283

Barchester Chronicles are comfy af bro.

get out r9k

no, but it might sound correct if you only know the plot summary