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>headed towards
We're already living in a hybrid of the two

>>8187934
We are living in neither exactly. We will continue to live in neither. We are living in something that doesn't have to have parallels in speculative fiction.

>>8188049
This, and it's only getting worse. Next US president is going to be a huge turning point.

>>8187829
He had to make an important life decision

Pink or stink.

He meant a boring, facile allegory in one of his most overrated poems

Looking for something similar to Throne of Bones or the Witcher

>>8187788
Maybe Elric?

Has anyone read any of Elizabeth Moons stuff? Looking for a sci fi/fantasy series to read this summer.

For a Nobel Prize winner I was underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong- the story is good, just a tired concept. The "virus sweeps across humanity and we resort to animal-like behavior" shtick has been done time and time again. It's been a few years since I've read it, but I still recall myself wondering what all the hype was about. Mind you, this is often listed as one of the best novels in recent history.

>>8187300
i dont think that was the point at all. in fact i think saramago was famously suspicious of people who tried to infer a grand, larger meaning like "humanity is base and animal" or something like that. the book resists simplification despite the simple, fable-like narrative. people are neither good or bad (it sounds like a platitude the way i say it here...), but rather, events simply unfold as is. you can easily find significance and meaning in individual actions, but the way saramago portrayed the world during the epidemic is, in my opinion, far more sophisticated than what you see in, say, day of the triffids or lord of the flies.

and, indeed, the book is simply beautifully written in my opinion. the unadorned style still had moments of great visceral beauty - the scene inside the church, for example, is still super vivid in my mind.

the book is super strange in that when you try to summarize or generalize it, everything sounds like trite banality. quotes like "I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see" and ""There are no blind people, only blindness." sound absurdly new-agey handwavey bullshit when taken out of context, but assume a kind of dignified power when read in context of the book. i think it speaks to my point tat saramago actively resists generalization and distortion.

i recommend you read seeing. it's a "sequel" to blindness and it's not really related plot-wise beyond mentioning people went blind in blindness, but i think it's quite illuminating. the two novels complement each other nicely. be warned that the lighthearted, comedic satire that the book starts with does not last the whole way and the tone shifts drastically.

My favourite novel

I have never been rejected.

>How many of the works has been rejected?

I don't like to talk about it.

>>8186483
is it because you've never sent the works out?

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is probably the greatest historical piece of fiction ever.

>>8186386
"Imma Eat That Booty Like Fried Rice" by Ching Chang Ping Pong

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>>8186130
no you didn't

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>>8186131
did too

you read a (bad (more than usual)) self help book. grats.

>>8185740
Use a library. Just because /lit/ are fascinated with bookshelves does not mean you should have to spend money on books.
Spengler didn't own a single book when he wrote Decline of The West and he managed just fine.

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>>8185740

Same. Before anyone asks why don't I go to a library:

>go to library
>want to get library card
>have to give them two phone numbers
>"You can pick a friend's number, or your girlfriend's number."
>mumble something about having to leave quickly and run out trying not to cry

You live in the age of Internet, it's fucking full of books for free, are you really this retarded

>>8185081
my diary desu senpai

10 Crack Commandments by Smalls, Biggie

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>>8184400
>Formless, yet capable of any form.

Water is patrician.

Is your setting someplace wet?

I end up with a lot of religious motifs in mine, due to being raised in a strict Catholic household. I enjoy writing characters who challenge authority too.

>>8184427

And beyond that, water is just such a central experience in everyone's lives. We all know what water sounds like (assuming we aren't deaf) by intuition. It's eminently understandable.

>>8184440

I grew up on the West Coast so my default setting is beachside town. The beach is just such a lovely place...

NEET

read for at least 8 hours a day

The most lit lifestyle is not being a fuckig self destructive idiot and doing what makes you happy while providing you plenty of time to read and reflect

>>8184224
just mix and match all three and add alcohol and voilla you're a beatnik

>>8176140
Take the redpill, cuck

>>8176140
yeah thats why I quit stirner. been reading normie shit like nietzsche to gain some discipline.

stirner made me a sociopath

>>8176153

Nietzche is just Tony Robbins for pretentious people

>>8166207
someone post template?

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>>8154294

I can't post anything ITT, because I'm bringing back philosophy in the form of aphorisms.

If I post any, people will steel my ideas.

>>8154299
At least you got the dubs.

Post a sneak peak maybe?

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>>8154294
The café Claire worked at was built inside a space originally used as a warehouse, presumably to store parts of the boats they used to build down by the river nearby. The original walls were still there, grey cinderblocks stacked on top of each other held together by thick white cement that sometimes ran and left chalky marks there like raindrops or tear stains. Claire had grown more sluggish at work in the past few weeks. She’d subconsciously trained herself to act on autopilot, gliding through the space, spectral-like, but also slow. Her manager often asked her kindly to work faster, but Claire didn’t feel like it was in her ability to do so – her body could only travel the speed at which her mind moved, and lately she’d felt her mind slowing down – the processes in her brain decelerating, growing more simple, monosyllabic. Claire understood that something was different, a small part of her worried that her persistent drug use was numbing her brain – another part was relishing the calm space she now occupied – but for the most part, Claire didn’t think at all. During her breaks she would sit in the storage space behind the café, and feeling a cold breeze coming through the open window, imagined her breaths slowing down, her mind slowing down, her body slowing down to the point where she could subsist near-comatose, not dead but hibernating, like a bear in the forest.

Then her break would end and she would go back to work and carry plates around and take orders, writing them down on a small notepad because she could never remember them all in her head.

>>8190700
Start with the Greeks

>>8190708
I'm on it tho

>>8190708
It's a tedious meme but he's right.

Actually I'd read up on the history of philosophy, the big names and themes up to the present day (e.g. Plato to Popper). Then start with Plato.

This series is veeeeery comfy, and you can pretend you're a student at Oxford while watching his lectures. All free with videos and lecture notes/slides. Takes you through history, and then David Hume (the lecturer is a Hume scholar) and up to the 20th century.

After that you should have enough background to decide where you want to go.