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Ranking the horror novels ive read: Lovecraft Stories Fevre Dream House of Leaves Salems Lot Our Lady of Darkness Duma Key Pet Semetary Last Days Dark Harvest The Shining
House of leaves was pretty bad. Should've been a novela with only the main storyline with the house.
Thank you Brandon Sanderson.
don't do that, you'll get hemorrhoids
I forget what the specific term is but you would miss out on when characters are just used for their sound because it's similar to another one (only used in old texts) Like using 见 for 现 because it's jian and xian Also almost every character in cc can be used as a noun, adjective, and maybe verb so it might be quite difficult to do that
I almost said this in my response, which of course would mean certain poetry might fall flat. But besides that the meaning component is just visual and the semantic component becomes irrelevant to reading anyways, since there’s no semantic challenge. What was proposed is basically the equivalent of just doing Remembering the Hanzi and never learning the pronunciations.
considering I'd never heard of him until now and it's his first novel, maybe just show the guy some love and buy it?
For some reason the skeleton gives me the vibe of an alright guy but I don't really want to read this one. That spaceman/diver (?) on the left does look pretty cool. I really need to read more short stories in general.
is there something uniquely fascist about this idea, seems inherent to the concept of a society based on the rule of law
Well I thought for a while Fascism was a merger of business and state but now I realize it really is more like that in its true form. To be a citizen you must prove your worth in some way other than owning land or being rich. If they must prove thier worth through service to the state it strengthens the state while at the same time using a system that in theory could last for millenia, but usually succumbs to corruption before then. Spartans were given universal basic income, but they had some sort of communal eating requirement or something that they must attend as well as pay for. So if they couldnt keep the money they were given to pay, they were out. The other part of Fascism is some sort of unifying system. Through a system like this or other means. If Hienlens book was about Fascism, then its based Facsism. Because its a based book. Well liberalism is supposed to grant citizens individual rights. But most liberal countries are much more facsist, or socialist maybe in that regard then when they were founded. Facsism could range frome a heavy citizenry service/participation model like above. To a more State controlled style. Though this is more of an authoritarian socialist thing imo. Facsism doesn't have to mean citizens don't have strong rights and autonomy.
I've had some eerie paranormal shit in my life, but it was never as fun. I'd avoid her if I were you, but dive headfirst if I were me. Or maybe not. She seems too aggressive and her agenda is unclear.
Anon here. Sorry for typos. She believes time is nonlinear anyway, but, honestly, I think my best solution is to move using my NEETbux somehow and slowly ghost her. I do think I will become Christian soon regardless. Homo Abyssus was highly convincing. But do not wish to have her nefarious influence on my decision. Howsoeverbeit, she may visit my dreams for ancient sorceries and whatnot, yet I do feel I must move on soon and not fall for her illusionism. Mostly bc lease expires and rent is going up >\< She is hardly more prosperous than me. Gets by on various grifts. Tarot, herbs, crystals, the like.... If she could be a srs sugamama I might be more tempted hah.
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I enjoy archaic and purple prose and think women ruined it more than anything.
Why were you looking?
I read his review Bataille's Story of the Eye and wanted to see what else he had to say-- behold, his shrivelled cock was all I heard.
so when did hugo awards go to shit?
Hugo was basically dominated by SF until 2000s when influx of fantasy happened. It also wasn't THAT strange for repeat offenders to win multiple times in a decade, like Bujold in the 90s, but in 2010s someone basically decided "let's give Jemisin the award three times in a row for her trilogy" and the rise of Chinese authors winning in the years to come.
ninaeve and perrin for exemple
both white in the books
Starship Troopers is fascist because it depict a society where service in the army is required to vote or hold office. In the Roman empire senators were expected to have ten years of military service before getting the position and non-citizens had to serve to become citizens. The Roman system of government became the model for both modern democracies and modern fascist states like fascist Italy. I feel like right wing fans of starship troopers who say the book isn't fascist either don't know their history or are playing word games with the word "fascism" the same way the left plays word games with "socialism". There's a pretty clear line between what Starship Troopers says about voting being an act of force to the fascist idea that the state should manage individuals for their own good. Heinlein was probably influenced by libertarian writers of the time so it's not crazy to think he wrote the book with their ideas about governments being an oppressive institution in mind.
is there something uniquely fascist about this idea, seems inherent to the concept of a society based on the rule of law
Well I'm not the kind of racist invested into hating other races. Neither have I always been a racist. A few years ago I was open to all women. Only as I matured and read more books did I find the necessity of marrying a woman "of my own kind" both from genetic as well as cultural and socio-economical perspectives. As someone who is part West and Eastern European, I know the harsh treatment mixed people get. The funny thing is I never perceived myself as mixed, but everyone else unfortunately does. I don't want my kids to experience the same bullshit. I also grew up in a European neighbourhood full of immigrants, mostly Eastern and Southern European white trash as well as a couple Muslims, Asians and blacks. I never belonged to either of groups (the immigrants forming one block and the natives another). As a child I was without prejudice, but as I grew up I realized how bad growing up among these pot-smoking criminals was for my future prospects. And if I marry a foreign woman my kids will grow up the same, worthless migrant trash obsessed with nothing other than earning money in a country that isn't theirs. I just don't see a realistic future for multicultural society less the migrants stay a rightless proletarian class like is the case in my country.
you don't cough if there's no smoke in your lungs. you won't be racist if you don't experience living around browns
kek dance, monkey, dance
thanks for the bump!
My dear shallow npc, I am talking about goodness of heart and intellect.
in that case don’t use the b word. I think even S would agree with me there.
What's an example of that from the book?
Hard mode: Do not include syncronicity or profetical dreams
i love Robert Aickman, tho only the stories from Cold Hand in Mine have really completely worked. the ones in The Unsettled Dust somehow messed things up by having the weirdness either be too much or be too obviously metaphorical but Cold Hand in Mine is perfect and one of my favorite books in general. im bored to death by any hint of genre convention or any insistence of feeling and Aickman is the exact opposite. ill be reading the Fontana Book of Ghost Stories edited by him next month, as well as The Case Against Satan, Communion, and maybe Something Wicked This Way Comes. tried Bad Brains by Kathe Koja and couldnt connect with it. maybe its the third person narration conveying the inner voice of a cringy deadbeat in that supposedly colloquial way made up quote but you get it. is the cipher like this?
It's more about death, coping with it and how a tragedy can just completely mindbreak someone and destroy a family, the zombie stuff is almost secondary to that and serves that theme.
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs) For all of you who fell out of genre literature. What brought you back?
I haven't been to /sffg/ in over a year. What have I missed? Are you still pretending to read Bakker and pretending to like Mieville?
Lowry, including Ultramarine, is read by a great many.
of course he is but the thread is about posting books mostly or entirely unspoken of on lit
That's not really true. While his Habilitationsschrift was on (what he took to be) Scotus, one of his first lecture courses in the 20s was on Augustine with reflection on what Augustine owed to Neoplatonism. And of course Heidegger was plenty familiar with Aquinas, bringing him up in late 20s courses with some regularity.
I must have been misinformed. But if he was familiar with Aquinas and Augustine, how could he possibly have assumed that God is a "highest being" (seiendes) or confused ipsum *esse* subsistens with *ens* supremum? It is, after all, God "in which we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28); you cannot plop God on a Porphyryean tree alongside the world of its beings (plural). It seems strange because this very thing is denied explicitly again and again. It's the same with Kant and the supposed claim of the older "dogmatists" to have grasped the "things-in-themselves." Not only did that category not exist for earlier thinkers (arguably because it isn't actually coherent) but they deny exhaustive knowledge of creatures quite regularly. The Periphyseon opens with this and cites Saint Gregory the Theologian and Dionysius as core authorities on this crucial claim. And yet, the "twaddle" dismissal seems to still carry great weight in all but a few corners of philosophy, just as Heidegger's "critique" does. They seem to me to both entirely misrepresent their sources though, and not even in the "well, there are different possible readings," way, but in the manner of "they explicitly say the opposite."
What sucks about it aren't so much the characters (they do suck) but the implication of attraction / sexual tension between literally all of them. Fuck this very gay shit.
you got it
based and true gods love is the source of all great art
You don't understand philosophy, chatGPT
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This one might also be of interest!
When is it ever the other? What I actually can‘t get over is lending legitimacy to an industry which seems narrowly capable of entertaining and is unilaterally built on furthering the propaganda for neo-capital gay/brown shills. What do I even have to gather in an artistic/aesthetic lens from a work that aims at this? Hollywood hasn‘t made a good movie since Tár and that was a wild fluke based on a defunct wunderkind coming out of the shadows. I shouldn‘t be surprised that somebody who started out with the potential to become the greatest American filmmaker in history has taken to churning out slop after burying his lineage for lower mid nig kike pussy but somehow I am.
See my post again. Get over yourself. Also I'm sure the art YOU experience isn't "slop" because it confirms absolutely everything you believe about the world and tells uou everytjing you want to hear. Make a better movie if this is such terrible slop. But then again you probably haven't even seen it because you love to handwave away large swaths of life because you're, at your core, lazy. And believe it or not, the politics of the main characters don't align with MY personal beliefs, either. But by virtue of their being the main characters, I root for them and want them to win, this is a very basic thing, have you never watched a movie before? I bet you love Tony Soprano and Patrick Bateman, or some other character that is a murderer. You still root for them in a way because of this natural process of empathy. Maybe I'm not explaining it right but if you don't know what I'm talking about I can't help you. All this being said, if you hate the movie just because you think it's shit, then fair enough, but at least give it a shot, it's a genuinely entertaining and well paced action movie.
I’m not a prolific reader, but I do enjoy it. I’m going to try to deep dive into lovecraft to try and kickstart myself again.
Nice, lad. What story are you going to start off with? If you've never read it before, I suggest The Outsider.
How do you get banned from /tv/? I post porn, gore and racebait threads everyday and I barely get a warning every now and then.
King Solomon's Mines was a fun, short read. It's one of the first romantic adventure stories (same genre as Indiana Jones). In it, the protagonist travels to the heart of darkest Africa and braves savages, the harsh climate, and ancient curses to try to discover the vast treasure of King Solomon.
What does /lit/ think of Vril?
What is Vril? Explain this concept to me, please.
why did you whitewash the cast?
do you think I drew all of this fanart, anon
The end-state of all existentialist philosophy is nihilism. Even absurdism, which prescribes a lack of meaning as goal, is a chosen form of meaning, and is as arbitrary as the rest of them
Howard had his moments.
c'mon just 30 minutes a day
I want to read him
Also, reconstructed pronunciation is a LARP and a ruse. Latin should be pronounced in your own native phonology. Caesar, not fucking KYESARRRR. But again OBSERVE the vowel length or you're doomed. The reconstructed pronunciation sounds GAY and inauthentic, read it NORMAL you fucking faggots.
But my native phonology doesn't have phonemic vowel length. You're giving me contradictory instructions. (Also what if your native language doesn't have a traditional pronunciation of Latin? Is it okay to use the traditional pronunciation of whatever language that has one you're most fluent in?)
no but you see in this specific case what looks like pluperfect is actually the future perfect which is actually the perfect and basically you just translate it as the present
You think at some point we should just try to read naturally?
I loved the book but then I empathised with the blond chad that kept stealing fatties conch and eventually brained him
Jack Merridew, the sigma chad hunter, had red hair. He doesn't brain Piggy either, Piggy gets blasted by the boulder that Jack's crony, Roger, releases from Castle Bro. Ralph, the book's protagonist, had blonde hair. Sucks to your conch! I also enjoyed the book and empathize with Jack's struggle to hold onto power, even though his goals are overall poor and, short-sighted.
This is twink-suicide, those that upon seeing the first signs of aging give up entirely on their appearance and overall health.
Why were you looking?
Writing here is like throwing stones to the void so I can get all the cringe stuff out. Finished Tehanu this morning. I wasn't very affected throughout the story by the horrors that little girl suffered. It seemed sensationalistic and dramatized and I feel like Le Guin is so didactic that it was just expected. Plus, it's not very realistic, who would do such things to a little girl (I mean, I guess people do but my mind can't even comprehend it so it's not scary). But then, at the very end, there's the stuff he does to Tenar. It's very short and dry. I don't know what it is that's so horrible. Of course, dehumanization is bad but I've read about so much worse. Jesus, I finished Blood Meridian this week. My mind keeps coming back to those scenes like touching a scar to ensure it's there, even though it hurts. Maybe it's my punishment, for enjoying being a powerless girl. It's a reminder that such a thing is not sexy or hot or comforting but so painful and ugly and does not end when you wish it. That I can never give up the control, must always stay strong and on my guard. I'm half afraid to sleep because I don't want it in my nightmares. I feel sick every time I think of it. Just want to understand why
L O N D O N O N D O N
*dethrones Zizek as the most influential living philosopher*
Who's this fat, ugly slob?
Greentext author here. Poster of: I can assure you I am a fag like you but it is all too real and straight. As far as Serrano goes, I think his book on Hesse and Jung is least crazy and best work of his. Only read that and a few others tho. But still. Before all the nazism if not mistaken, an early work methinks.
Tell the rest of the story
Trampled by donkeys, horses
I have run into a few otter-kin here but I think I’m the only one to read Williamson’s foray into salmon psychology
Multiple generations of students are being taught that they need to communicate in the ugliest, most turgid critical theory-speak to be taken seriously / be seen as intelligent. How do we defeat critical theory?
just refuting the underlying assumptions. People don’t control reality, people aren’t equal, people aren’t blank slates, people aren’t inherently good, people aren’t perfectible. Reality isn’t only material, reality isn’t only dead, reality isn’t only literal, reality isn’t only rational, progress isn’t inherent to reality.
STOP FUCKING DOING THIS THIS ISN'T HOW CLASSICAL POETRY IS MEANT TO BE READ. The normal accent should be preserved, the prosody is completely quantitative. You should read it JUST LIKE PROSE - you DO pay attention to vowel length when reading prose, don't you? But no, it's this UGLY RETARDED STOP DOING IT THIS WAY YOU FAGGOTS REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Also, reconstructed pronunciation is a LARP and a ruse. Latin should be pronounced in your own native phonology. Caesar, not fucking KYESARRRR. But again OBSERVE the vowel length or you're doomed. The reconstructed pronunciation sounds GAY and inauthentic, read it NORMAL you fucking faggots.
you got it
I have committment issues
Ugh the schizophrenic janny hater just posted an especially disgusting OP.
Yeah I saw it too, I remember someone posting a dog eating someone's dick off, what compels people to save these sort of videos and pictures?
The First Philosophers is an amazing secondary source for Plato and should probably be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to get in to the wider world of Greco-Roman philosophy. I do like how it dedicates a section to the sophists to contextualize their arguments as I feel like Plato does kind of misrepresent them unfavorably for dramatic effect in his dialogues. Apart from that I'd say the best secondary source on Plato would probably just be Plotinus. I think the issue can be attributed to Plato's method of delivery rather than the actual substance behind Plato's writing. Plato tends to over complicate his writing for the sake of artistic and dramatic merit which leads to people losing track of the actual arguments being presented and how they are deduced. A lot of his thoughts could be told in fewer words but if he were to do that he would actually be making the logical leaps that people accuse him of making.
Do you have something specific in mind?
I'm still on the outs. Modern fantasy doesn't agree with me at all.
you can choose between or
neither of those is first person, so i think sum is actually helpful here
I misread that as possui, not potuisti. Idk why. I don't care either way it's like typing out ego too much, it's weird. Sum is good at the back of a word without other verbs but with enough verbs it just feels like superfluous chance to be like "me me me".
I regret getting into the series late because I want to read them but the burnout is real. I've been on a 4 month break after finishing house of chains.
If a fantasy series has sentient, non-human creatures, it's shit. The only acceptable alternative is something like Bakker where they're basically completely homologous so it's likely just two races descending from the same, human ancestor, or shit like Witcher where the entire idea is mimicking every fairy tale trope possible. In all other cases, it's SHIT
I wasn’t going to watch this slop but when I read it was based off a Pynchon novel my interest was, dare I say it, piqued.
It's kino. Excellently paced, funny, very entertaining and well made. If you can't get over the politics being one side or the other you have no brain. Get over yourself fucking faggot retard Nope, lmao.
Plotinus was accused by rough contemporaries of being derivative of Numenius of Apamea. Numenius, although little of his work survives, seems to have thought Plato was consistent with the "Wisdom of Moses," showing how far the connection goes back. Consensus has shifted as to whether the Ammonius who Plotinus studied under for 11 years is the same as the Christian Ammonius active in Alexandria at that time, although without any shift in the underlying evidence. It may well be. Plotinus' writing comes another decade plus after leaving his teacher so the fact that he has abstracted away and Christian content doesn't really say much. Personally, I find the genealogy less important than that the idea of the One is obviously much changed from Plato and, particularly in its later Christian form, is pretty much immune to the attacks of Heidegger and the post-modern metaphysics of difference (Heidegger only studied late medieval nominalism, and being a grad student doesn't make one an expert. The fact is that his claims about ontotheology are explicitly refuted in the opening pages of many of the key earlier Christian texts, so the whole analysis rests on a backwards projection of a much later theology onto the earlier epochs). IMO, pic related represents the summit of these ideas. There are certainly worthwhile analyses and ideas from the Islamics and later Scholastic thinkers, but more seems to be lost than gained. Unfortunately, Eriugena, who appears to have considered himself an orthodox and faithful monk, and who was considered so by peers, is often today depicted as some sort of weird Medieval Hegel or pantheist to gin up interest. This is akin to "Meister Eckhart the Buddhist" or "Eckhart the Gnostic," and results from anachronistic readings.
That's not really true. While his Habilitationsschrift was on (what he took to be) Scotus, one of his first lecture courses in the 20s was on Augustine with reflection on what Augustine owed to Neoplatonism. And of course Heidegger was plenty familiar with Aquinas, bringing him up in late 20s courses with some regularity.
I really love movies I think film is the best artform
Ugh the schizophrenic janny hater just posted an especially disgusting OP.
I haven't been to /sffg/ in over a year. What have I missed? Are you still pretending to read Bakker and pretending to like Mieville?
This is a Red Rising general now with occasional bakkerfag screeching
Latin vs Ancient Greek, what's better?
false dilemma, latin is a development of the trojan dialect of ancient greek
To add to this, the characters are not turned outward toward the world they are supposed to do stuff in and explore, but toward faggety internal relationships and drama.
No, but I'm reading his Divine City trilogy right now and really enjoying it. He's a good writer. I'll be checking out his other works after this.
I'm the second most active poster there, thanks for the bump and publicity, spiteful mutant
kek dance, monkey, dance
Does anyone have a chart for the Irish Hegelian witch's book club?
I know the greentext is probably fake and gay, but is Serrano worth reading? I'm interested in checking out one of his books, but a lot of it just seems like a schizo pseudo-mythology, although that impression only comes from hearsay and I'm open to being proven wrong.
and that didn't trip any alarm bells for you?
Sanderson is just very readable because his prose is simple. He goes too far with it in latter books, though.
P > H is when the equation hits diminishing returns. P being amount of dicks and H being amount of holes a woman has.
Zanzibar Tales (1901), transl. G.Bateman. by the niggers from Zanzibar Includes important life lessons and behavior models like Truly an eye-opening glimpse into human nature. We have much to learn from them.
Maybe you do
he had claritas in mind
What does /lit/ think of Vril?
I mean as a literary work
hysterically, I was also incredibly freaked out by another image in the same books
this one didn't actually scare me at all, I thought it looked friendly when I was little. the other one was akin to witnessing gore for my child brain
Did anyone read Still life with Woodpecker.. I never see Robbins mentioned here. Never read it. Cool cover art.
Worst ending I have ever read. I don't remember anything else about it.
Still need to read this one, I've got a physical copy so maybe I should put it higher on my tbr. Had to look it up, but god damn you're right
TRUST ME it's really good. Some of the stories capture the autumn vibe in such a great way. It's got a bit of everything
At the end of the day the individual minutiae of different systems of government aren't all that important because regardless of how they function they all hold a monopoly on violence and use that monopoly to perpetuate themselves at the expense of the common man. There's nothing wrong with calling a Romanesque sci-fi government fascist even if it doesn't have every single little detail right.
At his expense... in what way?
Is ChatGPT a viable way to understand books? I'm reading Man and His Symbols, and pretty much after every page or two I'm left thinking like "what the fuck is he talking about??" and so I take a picture of the page and ask chatgpt what the meaning is, does anyone else do this?
NO.
Ah, and xe for Blue is probably Xenon isn't it
Yeah. I think reds are the only ones that don’t have it? I wonder what it would be. Maybe Fe for Iron?
Why did Red Rising take over? Wasn't it some space opera published over a decade ago?
current normalfag FOTM
the sufferings of young werter
Not a book but Troilus & Cressida. One of my favourites tragedies. 'Fly not, for shouldst thou take the river Styx I would swim after.'
It'll never not be funny that wignats steal non-white myth and history so they can larp.
That's what Hitler thought.
My father is a Western European and my mother is a South Eastern European. I also live in Western Europe. I want a tradwife, but I can't decide for her nationality. I live in one of the most racist parts of Western Europe, the locals here don't accept me despite having a Western surname and being fully white. But after having spent two years in South Eastern Europe I was treated like a foreigner too and was not accepted into their society. Should I get a Western European or a South Eastern European wife? Objectively speaking who has the better genes and the better character qualities?
No woman wants you, you autistic fuck.
You care too much about culture and not enough about increasing the profits of capitalists
Has any janny in the history of this board ever seen this?
Be the change you want to see in the world
I'm too poor and stupid to attend Cambridge
I'm still on the outs. Modern fantasy doesn't agree with me at all.
you can choose between or
Yea, it absolutely was. Turns out literally every book we were asked to read was propaganda of some sort or another.
Every single book teachers did a read along for in school was just... the absolute worst shit. Tangerine, Hatchet, The Outsiders, Ender's Game, Lord of the Flies... Absolutely abysmal shit. I hated Childhoods End when I had to read it for class but I grew to appreciate it once I read it myself for pleasure though. That's the only instance of that happening.
No, there isn't. Watching cartoons is visual and borderline passive. Nothing like that exists for Latin.
utinam numquam
Her big hangin’ vintage milk bags.
Netanyahu reminds me of my late Polish grandfather. Physically a lot and he also has that deep baritone that seems to come from the middle of him somewhere. My voice comes from somewhere in my lower throat. Anyway I was going to watch a live interview he was doing with Trump earlier, but I remembered the last couple times I caught my self arbitrarily nodding along with everything he says in complete agreement, because pop pop
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs) For all of you who fell out of genre literature. What brought you back?
Just finished WoT. I do not expect this character ranking to be unique, but fuck it
Mignola cites Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John series as an influence on Hellboy. Maybe try those, they’re very fun
Oh cool? What edition of it should I buy? Is his stuff in-print currently or should I go for a used copy? Also interms of “occult detective” type stuff, is “carnaki the ghost hunter” by Hodgeson or “John silence” by Algernon Blackwood worth checking out?
Different anon but Pynchon is only somewhat enjoyable at his least serious. The bulk of Gravity‘s Rainbow was kinda fun as a nonsensical romp through the ruins of Europe with a lot of psychotropics and classical music allusions but I threw out my copy immediately after finishing when the last hundred pages were an almost straight diatribe about how you secretly want to fuck literal shit. It‘s fitting that he‘s on board with the US mix-a-lot program since he‘s CIA. High art of the classical and romantic societies it is not.
I can only boggle at the scale of retardation it took to type that.
Just finished WoT. I do not expect this character ranking to be unique, but fuck it
why did you whitewash the cast?
Do a lot of you prefer reading horror over watching it? I feel like I enjoyed horror movies and tv a lot more when was younger, but as time as passed I’ve found myself a bit board with the visual medium. There’s literally like a centuries worth of great stories that hardly anyone even knows about within Horror literature! It’s honestly nuts. Plus there’s so many ideas and concepts that are easier to explore in books, a lot of ideas that are easier to bring to life.
Going to start my Halloween month of horror tonight with this.
TRANSLATION EXERCISE, EASY: Diana dea silvarum erat. pharetram et sagittas portabat, feras in silvis cotidie excitabat. Minerva dea sapientiae erat, sed pugnas etiam amabat et hastam, galeam et loricam gerebat. Quoniam Minerva regina Athenarum erat, multas aras et statuas in Graecia et praesertim in Attica habebat. (it's from the book I'm using and I thought you would like it)
Ἡ Ἀρτεμὶς ἦν θεὰ τῶν ὑλάων· φαρέτρην καὶ οἰστοὺς φέρουσα θηρία καθ' ἡμέρην ἐλαύνεσκεν. Ἡ Ἀθήνη ἦν θεὰ τῆς σοφίης ἀλλά τε καὶ πολέμους καὶ ἔγχεα φιλέεσκεν, κυνέην καὶ θώρηκα φορέουσα. Ἅτε βασιλίσσης οὔσης τῶν Ἀθηνῶν τῇ Ἀθήνῃ πολλοὶ βωμοὶ καὶ πολλὰ ἀγάλματα ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδ' ἦσαν καὶ μάλιστα δ' ἐν τῇ Ἀτθίδι
Wash cars at home. bought yourself all the requiring stuff to make it as fast as possible, target posh people as customers
my food benefits went up $6 this month :) that's ice cream or ingredients for a sandwich or apples right there
What’s your favorite nautical horror? I just finished Hodgson’s The Ghost Pirates and I crave more
Not much of a help because I didn't enjoy it, but I just read Into the Drowning Deep by Seanan McGuire and it was not great. I thought it was going to be a sick story about a group of deep sea divers encountering some kind of Lovecraftian-style deep sea leviathan, instead it was fucking retarded. Sick title, boring dumb book.
Convince me that race isn't real and I will marry a (Christian) Indian girl and make her happy
It is very difficult to make people understand the impersonal indignation that a decay of writing can cause men who understand what it implies, and the end whereto it leads. It is almost impossible to express any degree of such indignation without being called 'embittered', or something of that sort.
Uh oh, don't tell me this is another reactionary chud pleb thread...
Uh oh don‘t tell me this is another reactionary coprophagia postmodernism lefty defense force thread…
where does this pronounce air thing come from then
the aspirate is a symbol for life because indicates it via breathing t. Pythagoras
While I didn't use the dowling method before LLPSI and just reading with a parallel, dowling's wheel has really helped me systematize, fill in gaps, and verify what I know. When I started doing this it seemed so far off to learn the case system but really just sitting down with Dowling's wheel now that I have a bit of reading under my belt and brute forcing it until I can type the whole table from memory really wasn't difficult or all that time consuming. I would say I learned everything from Donum onwards on this table (as in learned to type it out in order) just doing it during classes, especially zoom classes, because it was mindless enough that it wasn't distracting but mindful enough that I didn't space out. I probably did an hour a day starting Monday and now I'm getting the whole table consistently before finishing my lectures on Wednesday. I figure adjectives will be much easier, and I spent some time with the verb tables and realized I already knew most of the tenses for a couple of the conjugation paradigms at least for the active voice. So overall I'm very happy with the "carefully read first, review and systematize later" approach to Latin
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What does /lit/ think of Vril?
Why she got manface?
Jack Merridew, the sigma chad hunter, had red hair. He doesn't brain Piggy either, Piggy gets blasted by the boulder that Jack's crony, Roger, releases from Castle Bro. Ralph, the book's protagonist, had blonde hair. Sucks to your conch! I also enjoyed the book and empathize with Jack's struggle to hold onto power, even though his goals are overall poor and, short-sighted.
Book is a fun read.
some people gave me tips about CC readings and translations
After reading John closely I have spent less time with Lute, mainly just busy, but my Latin studies have focused on systematizing my grammar knowledge and I can now write the whole noun declension table from memory pretty easily. I'm considering skipping straight to the verb tables next since they're the next most important for reading comprehension and just coming back to adjectives later, but I know the adjective tables will probably be a little easier. I opened Caesar today and was pleasantly surprised with how much of it I could both naturally understand and also how much I could parse. I think a mix of being a classics nerd, having read DBG in English before, and now some real extensive reading practice are all coming together to help a lot.
But my native phonology doesn't have phonemic vowel length. You're giving me contradictory instructions. (Also what if your native language doesn't have a traditional pronunciation of Latin? Is it okay to use the traditional pronunciation of whatever language that has one you're most fluent in?)
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I don't know. But I never say anything rude, and I never send a message unless they specify that they want a crazy, weird, schizo, or insane man. They just don't know how crazy crazy can be.
"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle," one of Johnson's most famous quotes, is adapted from Anatomy. The full quote reads: "The great direction Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this, Be not solitary; be not idle: which I would thus modify; – If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."
Which ones what do you mean?
The travel vlogs of the geographic locations.
No, the acquisition of big fat Elma tits is
Killing as many people as possible before you yourself is killed, so that you gain all their spiritual powers for you to use in the afterlife, kinda like what the Zodiac Killer believed
Philosophy, music theory, architecture and math those are my only interest. Outside of it I'm a complete retard, just feel uncomfortable, out of place.
for me it's films, novels and music
Hugo was basically dominated by SF until 2000s when influx of fantasy happened. It also wasn't THAT strange for repeat offenders to win multiple times in a decade, like Bujold in the 90s, but in 2010s someone basically decided "let's give Jemisin the award three times in a row for her trilogy" and the rise of Chinese authors winning in the years to come.
A straight white man won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the first time in 13 years, with picrel. Has anyone read it?
Pretty much. I think community is stunted here specifically by posts like though. But I commend that anon for at least somewhat explaining himself later. Most don't. Lots of people across the internet in spaces discussing Latin in particular basically just call other peoples' Latin, or even original works, "bad latin" without really offering advice or trying their hand at composing anything of their own in Latin. While I don't doubt that the aforementioned anon knows his shit, many other posts by other anons are so vague as to leave it totally ambiguous whether they are giving cogent advice or just sit at the peak of "Mt. Stupid." in their Latin knowledge. I haven't seen that too much in what discourse exists for other languages, my Chinese friends IRL in particular have been overjoyed to help me with CC. Latin seems to have a unique problem with people who know Latin being resentful that anyone else is trying to learn it. It means that like a board like /fit/ I have taken extremely small pieces of cogent advice, and otherwise totally ignore most of the opinions I see on here, mostly browsing to remind myself that other people are doing the same hobby and that there is a community out there. The attitude that works best is to be a little more laid back, most of us here are students, many not even majoring in classics. Most are autodidacts.
Speak for yourself.
Thinking about the girl who got cancer who used to post her poetry
Nine Inch Nails is the best band of all time
The EU says that. Stalin said that. The Amish say that about the village. Even if I find a way to live sustainably on my own land I have to pay taxes as if I'm being paid minimum wage or be jailed. Even in an Amish community I still have obligations. Is every form of government that ever existed muh fascism? Including coop villages? Any yapping about "fascism" today is always propaganda. If you see the parody propaganda in the movie and think it's somehow more directed at 1930s Italy, muh fascism or whatever instead of fucking 1990s US culture you are a brainwashed retard. You think it's the "other" guys who fall for propaganda, not you which makes you the easiest target for propaganda that ever lived.
Yes.
That ending really got me good even if the name was a huge giveaway.
Yeah, the ending was pretty well done. Glad you enjoyed it!
i dont read books with lesbians in them
your birth certificate? oh yeah, not a book
I guess you're really into long ass books, huh. I personally thought It dragged way too much and had way too many tangents and background stories that didn't add to the plot. Misery is amazing though, completely agree.
Jesus fucking CHRIST /lit/ has an amateur hour, who knew?