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dick is fire af

not a raper, but also not a non-raper

>>7370266
Pic of me doing something expensive and WASPy
pic of me with attractive white women who look wealthy
pic of me with my mates playing sportsball

There ya go, that's the ideal tinder profile.

>>7370266
i am the kind of man
who your parents
wouldnt want to meet
in an alley

2666

La catedral del mar

>>7370136
he was chilean

because they are warriors fighting for social justice of course, you pig

>>7369653
>Why is this a trend?
Muh oppression, muh patriarchy. The same reason some black people think it's totally okay to be racist towards white people because of history. It's because they're retarded.

>>7369653
>we have gender neutral personal pronouns
we do?
Also I think it depends on which language you grew up with. There's a specific word for that, but it's language based, not universal. You're an idiot, seeing attacks against your dick where there isn't any. It's the same thing with boats and shit. In the uk and us, boats are always female- but not anywhere else.

Tu coño es mi droga, tu coño es mi droga, tu coño es mi droga, tu coño es mi droga, tu coño es mi droga, tu coño es mi droga, tu coñ

explain the poem

>>7369504
Alla dina drömmar är verkliga, du kan till och med känna dem med tungspetsen, ditt hjärta känner min själ och hitta sanningen.

>>7369368
Learn Arabic, most importantly.

>>7369368
Talk to an imam at your local mosque.

>>7369368
well, until now I've read Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan in which it argues that even without prior knowledge of God, the sentiment of his existence appears in the heart of man.
I also have Al-Ghazali's Alchemy of Happiness, but I didn't get a chance to read it and I didn't read anything about it(I don't want a briefing about what I'm about to read, and it has just about 100 pages or so).
If you're passionate about history you could also try "The Crusades through Arab Eyes" by Amin Maalouf

It happened.

>>7369098
A spiritual successor to Finnegans Wake, Joyce would be proud.

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Contender.

Because they have no empathy nor insight

Because the only purpose of woman is to ornament man.

>>7368008
>>7368077
>>7368082
I would have expected opinions such as these from /pol/ or /r9k/, not /lit/. Disgusting.

I posted a version of this in the last thread shortly before it died. As I said there, it is supposed to be chaotic, jarring, and a little inconsistent. With that in mind, how is my style?

A face behind a confluence of glass: rust-colored forelocks falling over eyes--white pools, dark tunnels rimmed with light blue: placental warmth, the memory of it, percolating through the still air. Shift. Wrinkles--little valleys, flesh runnels deepening with the cruel flowing of time. Shift. Crystal droplets: tears: on the swell of her cheek: tears behind a glass pane: artificial, the precipitate of an inorganic process, to be considered from a distance--look but don't touch. Shift. Her eyes, hair, soft curves and angles fading, evaporating into a gleamingwhite plate.
He lay there for a time, on the wrinkled sheets of his bed, lost in antemeridian stupor: forms recognized, not understood; thoughts reduced to impressions--vague, evanescent feelings that fade without consequence; his own body foreign, alien, separate. He considered his hands with fascination, contemplating the lines in his palms, tracing them with his fingers. Firing synapses, connecting neurons, proprioceptors whirring to life: he grasped the folds of his blanket, pulling it off, waves propagating across the surface while it fell, dying when it landed--still. He rose and dressed: suit, loafers, watch: what was expected…

Will post some critiques tomorrow, it's late.

As darkness fell the men fell asleep quickly and the forest became noisy with chattering animals. There were clouds overhead but through them glimmered the stars and the starry band of the Milky Way. The wind became heavier as the night went on and the trees started to sway aggressively. Alone on the island the two men slept under their rough roof of leaves and nature unleashed its fury.

They both woke up in time to see the vine holding their shelter to the nearby tree snap and suddenly the cold wind was upon them. They were groggy with tiredness and tried to hold the roof down but it was no use. A strong gust came and blew the whole thing over onto the ground. It started to rain.

‘Oh for God’s sake give us a chance!’ the professor shouted into the wind. They grabbed at the shelter for fear that it would blow away. The ground was getting muddy and the professor slipped and fell in the mud. Sebastian ran to help him up and their shelter caught the wind like a sail. It flew backwards into a nearby trunk and hit it, snapping into pieces. The rain was heavy and cold and they both began to shiver. It cut into the mens’ faces and ears and they ran for the cover of a nearby fallen tree which they ducked under and huddled in the rain. The tree trunk stopped a bit of the rain but whenever there was a sideways gust they would get lashed at the back of their necks.

The two hopeless, soaked and miserable men sat huddled with each other whipped by the wind and rain. The professor put his jacket over both their backs and they sat there trembling. Around them the animals had gone silent and there was only the sound of the rain and wind and faraway the crashing of heavy waves on the shore. They sat there for what must have been hours shivering as the storm unleashed its fury on the island. In the dead of night it stopped raining and the wind grew calmer and there was only the lonely howling of the trees. The air blew over their cool bodies like a gentle deathly hand and for the longest part of the night they thought they would both die under the tree together. At the earliest part of the morning a cold silence fell over the island and they could see their breath and their eyes began to close. Then the birds were calling in the trees and the sun broke over the horizon bringing with it a new morning.

>>7366875

only read the first segment because it didn't hook me. the writing felt like alasdair gray's sections in 1982, Janine where the narrator is building a narrative for the fantasies he wants to fap to. this is neither a compliment or an insult. i have the suspicion you were trying to go for something else but your tone shot out in all directions.

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Just picked this up for four bucks in perfect condition. Feels good man.

>>7365568
What the fuck are those? Why do they matter? (Genuinely interested.)

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My last Thrift Books order, for $10. I'm guessing the previous owner of the West never tried to read it.

>>7364359
Somewhere Between Vertov and Weerasethakul

Lights flicker as numbers count down
But never make their way to zero. Soon
The blank images are replaced by people
In motion. You can see the sweat of their brow or
The innocence of youth
Stolen by cannonfire.

The images continue to flicker
At 16, 24 frames per second.
They come to a standstill at Marker
And then move again. It is a motion
That can be paused
But never stopped.

>>7364379
I like the imagery

>>7364359
Poemis Experimentus

Der he is, the ancient gupis
Blood on my sheets, the beat
God has swept the earth, another sweep
Phones, decadence, super bleep.
Where dert are thou tragedy?
I shall conquer, never falter
The water swam like troibis fish
Running wildly, never to see foreign.

>>7360132
Cormac McCarthy

Learn some of another language.

Try to read books in that language.

When you don't understand parts of it just make it up in your head.

Congratulations, you made it!

Are you asking how to write like you're in an abandoned, dying world that was clearly once greater than you could imagine?

You know that everyone here is going to tell you Pynchon and then suggest that you trash the rest of those.. things.

>>7376118
I didn't actually. I got all these book recommendations here.

Probably Poe, since he influenced both Ligotti and Lovecraft.

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>>7375819

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Read this

The Bible isn't myth, pal.

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Here's another example. I love Requiem for a Dream, the movie, and would love to start reading the book. I just looked it up on eBay, and all I see are film adaptation covers, like pic related.

I'd never buy one of those obviously, and knowing that they even exist makes me sigh and all, sure
but is it really worth making a thread about

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>>7375616
(Sorry for all the posting, I'm just trying to post multiple images to give a good description)

Honestly, I like the movie so much that the cover is a pretty minor thing for me. I'll still probably pick it up. But I really wanted a previous print, like pic related, just so it feels more...original.

But, of course, it's $250.

What the fuck, man. I'm hoping there are other prints for this book that aren't super rare, I'll look into it later, but this is mainly just a rant so I can see who actually feels the same way about all of this.

>>7375563
The Tipitaka is bretty gud.

Here's a beginner selection:
Mindfulness in Plain English
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology from the Pali Canon
The Dhammapada

>>7375563
===IMPORTANT BOOKS===
>insisting on the setting the samatha first, this book recast the use of the mindfulness through the three angas
[swift introduction to the various sources PLUS good introduction to ''mindfulness'']
A History of Mindfulness Bhikkhu Sujato.pdf
http://santifm.org/santipada/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A_History_of_Mindfulness_Bhikkhu_Sujato.pdf


>the direct path to nirvana via the famous satipatthana sutta exposed by a theravadan
Anãlayo satipatthana direct path analayo free-distribution-copy2.pdf
https://ahandfulofleaves.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/satipatthana_direct-path_analayo_free-distribution-copy2.pdf
>This site is dedicated to the teachings of Venerable Ayya Khema (1923-1997), a Theravada Buddhist nun ordained in Sri Lanka . Her teachings (which were prolific) describe simple and effective meditation methods for development of calm and insight, for expanding feelings of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity towards others, and for overcoming obstacles to practice. She also gives detailed and lucid instructions for the meditative absorptions (jhanas) which provide access to higher states of consciousness, the way the Buddha himself practiced.
http://ayyakhematalks.org/


>an approach focused more on vipassana
In This Very Life, The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha, Sayādaw U Pandita (1992), (Serialised with the Sayādaw’s Express Permission)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pesala/Pandita/index.htm
>are the jhanas required for strem-entry ?
The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
http://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebdha267.htm
>a book to become a yogi in vipassana
Pa Auk Sayadaw Knowing and Seeing 4th Ed 2010.pdf
http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books13/Pa-Auk-Sayadaw_Knowing-and-Seeing-4th-Ed-2010.pdf
>This Burmese method puts forth the quality that is SATI [translated as mindfulness generally]: alertness/attention to whatever we perceive, plus a constant effort to recognize the five aggregates, learnt from the dhamma and remembering it, into every phenomenon. There are other qualities to have, such as effort [in walking or standing up], tranquillity, faith in the dhamma, wisdom [little insight, not the one of the five aggregates, but wisdom on being able to make headways], but the Burmese bet that the more SATI we have, the closer we are to nibanna. SATI does not need to be done a little, to be compensated by another quality if done too much, contrary to, for instance, samadhi [=concentration, generally gotten after samatha-tranquility of the mind and body] which needs to be balanced with effort. We can never ever do enough sati.
a general pdf more about overview on buddhism through this technique
http://www.paaukforestmonastery.org/books/teaching_training.pdf