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Just finished Civil War, need tips for a Mexican–American War

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Hey /lit/, this is a short story I wrote. I'm no literary great, but I thought you might appreciate it and I welcome your feedback. Do you think that I could get it published somewhere? Anyway, enjoy.

(Part 1/2:)

It was a Sunday morning, of course, when God returned to Earth. The people waiting for the Rapture got it all wrong, by the way. There was no careful judgment of the virtuous and the sinners, no separation of the wheat from the chaff.

Instead, it started with a thunderclap - or something like it. In an instant, all the hubristic works of man crumbled to ash as the gates of Heaven burst open, rending the sky in two like the blow of an enormous sword. And after a moment, as human beings around the planet staggered around dazed in the mounds of dust that were once their whole world, the wrathful voice of the Lord boomed out:

"It Is Time For You To Be Judged, My Children. Too Long Have I Ignored The Desperate And Feeble Pleas Of The Weak And Pious, Begging For Protection From The Strong And Wretched.

"Your Grasping Hands Have Stripped Everything Pure And Unsullied From The Planet I Created For You, And As Her Bountiful Plains And Oceans Became Barren From Your Greed You Simply Began To Rip Through Her Body With Machines, In Service Of Your Insatiable Lust For The Resources She Once Gave Freely.

"In Pursuit Of Money And Power You Have Enslaved And Tortured Your Fellow Creatures, Beings With Whom You Share This Earth. And Yet, Unsatisfied, You Next Did The Same To Your Fellow Man. You Have Forgotten Humility And Love, And In Their Place You Worship At The Altar Of Ignorance And Arrogance And Hate.

"I Have Judged Mankind Before, Much Like I Am Doing Now. You Know Of The Flood, And Of The Fate Of Sodom And Gomorrah. Although I Am A Kind And Merciful God, There Is A Time To Sow And A Time To Reap - And This Is A Time To Reap."

The monumental voice softened; a note of pity seemed to creep into His words. The tones which were plainly so unwavering moments ago now seemed to waver, almost as if in sympathetic recognition of the inescapable, anguished struggle that has followed humankind since our ancestors were banished from Eden. The struggle between the base and the divine, the sinful and the virtuous - that which we call the "human condition."

"But As Lot Might Have Found Pious Men To Save His Doomed City, I Offer You A Chance Today: A Chance To Prove To Me That You Have Done Something With The Gift Of Life And Free Will. Show Me That You Have Taken To Heart The Lessons Inscribed In Your Holy Books. Demand Not Of The Lord Your Redemption: Indeed Redeem Thyself, And Thus You Will Be Saved."

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What are some books with original and imaginative apocalypses?

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What are some books/papers about identity, identity crisis, and creating your own identity (specifically through the aesthetics)? Not really looking for cultural identity, but that may be part of it. More about how one could find or receive identity through different means.

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The whole of Althusser's theory is made up of the following elements:

1. common sense banalities expressed with the help of unnecessarily complicated neologisms;
2. traditional Marxist concepts that are vague and ambiguous in Marx himself (or in Engels) and which remain, after Althusser's explanation, exactly as vague and ambiguous as they were before;
3. some striking historical inexactitudes.

Althusser couldn't think, he couldn't write. There's no discernible talent.

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I recently read Mere Christianity by Lewis and was wondering if anyone had recs for a similar book about hinduism or a book outlining the main ideas and philosophies about hinduism?

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Private anon, atteeeen-SHUUN

Get off your maggot ass and do some work. We're at war god damnit!

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What does /lit/ think of this book?

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>Wrongly executed for the murder of his gay lover, Jared is resurrected by the crow to get vengeance and bring justice to the real killer. He is assisted in the mission by his lover's trans woman twin.

/lit/ will defend this

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What is your favorite Tamil poem?

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Vintage Fantasy Recommendations
The King of Elflands Daughter - Lord Dunsany
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrless
The Mabinogion - Evangeline Walton
The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
Conan the Barbarian - Robert E. Howard
Jirel of Joiry - C.L. Moore
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber
Darker Than You Think - Jack Williamson
The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
The Broken Sword and Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson
Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin

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When will somebody create the great feminine work of literature that finally frees us femanons from the prison of patriarchal modern society, the Great Female Novel?

When will I finally get MY book, the book that speaks to ME, in my native language?

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Tenshi.
She eats to remember,
She eats to forget.
She eats for those who can't,
and for those who couldn't.
She stands ready,
ready to eat a corndog.

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Does Eastern or Western philosophy make a more precise statement as to the nature of reality?

support you position

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I am planning on studying psychology when I finish school so I've been looking for some books to add to my read list, I wanted to ask if any of you guys know a good book that dwelves into the workings of the mind of the human. Thanks in advance