/lit/ - Literature

Based rapture thread was pruned again, was enjoying the conversation. Rapture, if you’re still there: I go to Harvard now, would like to hear about your reading group. How does one join? What are the qualifications? Thanks in advance.

>>12399763

This was exactly my experience. Good review.

There are some redeeming moments, especially when it comes to some minor insights into the psychology of occultism and the general tendencies of democracies to forge not only totalitarian tendencies, but more insidious forms of unreality. But for the most part I felt that the authors insights were fairly juvenile and limited; he was implicated in everything he wrote and still took a weird, unreflected upon sanctimoniousness toward it all.

I’d summarize the entire book against the backcloth of our current trump Isom: take the first sip out of the cup of democracy and you will of course declare yourself a good liberal Frenchman, Englishman, american; but keep sipping, because Russia will be waiting for you at the bottom.

It’s a quick read, btw. I’d ultimately recommend it— Yurchak’s “everything was forever until it was no more” and Surkov’s “writings” are good and really better supplements to the Pomerantsev. Also, of course, this poster knows what’s up:>>12400994

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>>9346829

wow, thanks! i really appreciate the invite. logging on now.

>>9346824

hey, thanks, man--just made an account. gonna check it out. you seem pretty cool--hope to see you on there...

>>9346820
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little undergrad? I’ll have you know I graduated at the top of my class from every single Ivy League university, have been involved in numerous tech, consulting, financial, and law firms, and have over 300 books on my Amazon wishlist at any one time. I am trained in library science and I am the top archivist in the entire US Library of Congress lending network. You are nothing to me but just another philistine. I will wipe you the fuck out with dialectics the likes of which have never been seen before on this board, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of rare book dealers across the USA and your Barnes & Nobles receipts are being tracked right now so you better prepare for the intellectual storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your collection. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can scan and share PDFs in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with the stack of hardbacks I carry around at all times. Not only am I extensively trained in book-trading, but I have access to the entire inventory of every top colleges' library in the US and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of /lit/, you little amateur. If only you could have known what enlightened bibliothecography your little “modest” collection was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have put down your fucking camera. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn dilettante. I will shit shelfies all over you and you will drown in them. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>9346813

that's not me, but it doesn't matter. their tactics have been to just use my name and post like me.

whatever, as i said, i'm done. they have won. whether that makes them right--i am not sure. i don't quite understand any of it, but so be it.

goodbye, /lit!

>>9346796
i don't mean to brag, but before my cancer diagnosis I was already of a mental sharpness superior to that of my intellectual peers. the freedom of time has allowed me to reach an almost eudaimonic life, and sharpened my mind to levels beyond what is seen as possible for most men. i suppose i am something of a savant, except even in social matters i achieve more than most.

>>9346796
i've read around 20 books.

based on my past pace i hope to read the rest of my 15000 volume collection sometime over the next 3 months.

>>9346791
>>9346792

fuck it. war of attrition and you've won. i'm too tired to pursue any of this further.

i'll post again in another 3 years or so.

i apologize to anyone who wanted more. i am unwilling to participate in such inhuman contexts.

it's been real, gentlemen.

look, I'm speaking directly to any moderator who perceives this here post. i request my own position of power on this board, or at least powers to ban people who impersonate me and de-rail my threads. i ask this as you seem incompetent or at least now in waking hours during my correspondence with /lit/.

if you cannot grant me this, then you shall be at risk of losing a poster of great intellectual value.

this agreement will be mutually beneficial, of that you have my utmost assurance.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>9346764

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>>9346385
>>9346388

Why are the mods on this board so fucking useless? Do they just sleep?

I'm tired of dealing with rotten human beings. I am truly happy to share what I have- but here's the new condition: I'll post everything everyone wants as soon as these assholes are banned from my thread.

>>9346385
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little undergrad? I’ll have you know I graduated at the top of my class from every single Ivy League university, have been involved in numerous tech, consulting, financial, and law firms, and have over 300 books on my Amazon wishlist at any one time. I am trained in library science and I am the top archivist in the entire US Library of Congress lending network. You are nothing to me but just another philistine. I will wipe you the fuck out with dialectics the likes of which have never been seen before on this board, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of rare book dealers across the USA and your Barnes & Nobles receipts are being tracked right now so you better prepare for the intellectual storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your collection. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can scan and share PDFs in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with the stack of hardbacks I carry around at all times. Not only am I extensively trained in book-trading, but I have access to the entire inventory of every top colleges' library in the US and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of /lit/, you little amateur. If only you could have known what enlightened bibliothecography your little “modest” collection was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have put down your fucking camera. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn dilettante. I will shit shelfies all over you and you will drown in them. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

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>>9344473
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little undergrad? I’ll have you know I graduated at the top of my class from every single Ivy League university, have been involved in numerous tech, consulting, financial, and law firms, and have over 300 books on my Amazon wishlist at any one time. I am trained in library science and I am the top archivist in the entire US Library of Congress lending network. You are nothing to me but just another philistine. I will wipe you the fuck out with dialectics the likes of which have never been seen before on this board, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of rare book dealers across the USA and your Barnes & Nobles receipts are being tracked right now so you better prepare for the intellectual storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your collection. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can scan and share PDFs in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with the stack of hardbacks I carry around at all times. Not only am I extensively trained in book-trading, but I have access to the entire inventory of every top colleges' library in the US and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of /lit/, you little amateur. If only you could have known what enlightened bibliothecography your little “modest” collection was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have put down your fucking camera. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn dilettante. I will shit shelfies all over you and you will drown in them. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>9344333
and by the way, I can read these all in about two days.

>>9343816

i got you. tired, gonna finish for tonight, but it's added to the list.

>>9343831

yeah, you're paranoid. stop.

>>9343710

Bernard Williams, "Democracy and Ideology" (essay):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ve632qw5qyfp123/AACJblOVtexvXOqqFjc5RsTLa?dl=0

>>9343699

a pleasure. request at will.

>>9343780

for sure. a little backlogged with requests--i'll try to intersplice when i can, but i'll get on it.

>>9343704

as tiem goes on, note how ishmael becomes less and less a figure entirely: he begins to merge with nature, becoming more of the backdrop than the foreground, fading and dissolving in the solvent of all that is.
compare this to ahab, whose intensity only increases as the novel goes on--the focus shifts almost entirely to his obsession, his desire to dominate nature.

and so the two great forces are defined and set in opposition to one another. which one are you?

>>9343560

forward, introduction to Eric Voegelin's "New Science of Politics" (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oj40i83z4yb365m/AADq5rlFzEoyXTob9VpB8sfVa?dl=0

again, sorry--this is a very marked up text. on another note, i have written a summary of Voegelin's intro here (any and all criticism is welcome):
https://catilineconspiracy.com/2017/04/04/1-16-on-eric-voegelin-intro-to-the-new-science-of-politics-part-i/

>>9343460

Samuel Johnson, "Preface to the Works of William Shakespeare" from Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 2009):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yumsa7tqcxymwor/AACC00qb7aOk6dPsClR3aDJ7a?dl=0

>>9343368

assorted short stories:

David Foster Wallace, Incarnations of Burned Children
David Foster Wallace, The Depressed Person
Donald Barthelme, The School
J. D. Salinger, A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
James Joyce, Two Gallants
Jamie Quatro, Demolition
Jennifer Egan, Safari
John Cheever, The Swimmers
Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
Junot Diaz, Alma
Ken Liu, The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
Ken Liu, The Waves
Keven Brockmeier, The Year of Silence
Kyle McCarthy, Ancient Rome
Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer
Mona Awad, The Girl I Hate
Raymond Carver, Viewfinder
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern
Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Wells Tower, Leopard

all from various sources:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/281895i5t4yc5ot/AAAoZwyPDxHuUc0ZNXn64zMPa?dl=0

>>9343327

cheers, man--thanks a lot. feel free to request whenever.

>>9343301

preface, forward, introduction to Robert Jay Lifton's "The Nazi Doctors" (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mjal6m8iylx4ep5/AACefnk3Rbo7n4sGiCzaa1dia?dl=0