/lit/ - Literature

Oblomov, My Twisted World, Venus in Furs, Portnoy's Complaint.

How do I cope with being a slow reading? I read like 10 pages an hour

Dante's Inferno, translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
It's borderline incomprehensible without first reading the bible, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aenid, and several books pertaining to an entire millennium of Italian/Roman history.

>grandpa is an english prof
>when he first retired he would read a three hundred page book in two days
>now he's 93 and dementia is kicking in
>gave him The Peregrine for christmas and he just finished it
>talking to him its clear he didnt understand a word
>tells me the author was only a teenager when he wrote it
>tells me the peregrine is a small bird only a little larger than a hummingbird
>can't explain how he got these ideas but mutters "we'll see" when pressed
fuck why do i have to watch this. i hope i die before i get that old

>>12981232
>>12981243
I'm not sure I understand your IQ questions, maybe I'm a low IQ nigger myself. The thing is that, population wide, they have a lower average IQ by, what, a standard deviation? That's quite a lot, but again it's not wholly about IQ.

>>12981234
And this is what I mean about IQ not being the only (and probably not even the main) factor. East Asians seem to be much less individualistic and creative in their thought, more rigid.
In any case let's say we're arguing about white nationalism, that is white countries. This is also a reactionary viewpoint, a return to what was. Nations used to be mostly heterogeneous culturally and ethnically, except for polities like empires which got pretty unstable due to tensions. Even if whites or Europeans were the most idiotic, incapable people of all, why shouldn't they have a right to their homelands, or to care more about their own people?
I don't hate blacks or other races, for example the plight of blacks in the US is pretty sad, they were uprooted and they have no fucking idea about their ancestry beyond whatever negroes came in the boats.

>>12981257
Leaving race aside, would you agree that culture derives from biology? For example, gender norms being derived from the natural differences and dynamics between men and women? If not, why do you want to return to traditional gender norms, when it's all cultural?
If yes, don't you think race, simply being the broad categorization of different peoples with certain characteristics and differences, would also enter into the equation in some degree?

Sorry I think I wrote too much shit.

>>12847330
>It's still your fault

Simulacra and Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard.
Essential McLuhan, by Eric McLuhan.

McLuhan saw this coming and it's even worse than what I've imagined.

>be Indonesian.
>national identity constructed heavily around Hindu-Buddhist syncreticism was what's supposed to contain the low-IQ retards from getting themselves involved with other's business.
>pan-Islamism has been spreading more and more ever since the fall of the dictatorship in late 90s. Funded none other by Saudi petrodollars.
>islamist shilling became more intense as years go by. Now we have consumerism infused with Islamic virtue signalling just like woke capitalism phenomena in the west.
>some fuckers got the Japs to make halal refrigerators.
>pretty sure that this is all just a fucking illusion, i'm living in a maya world.
>NZ shooting happened. News outlets censored out many crucial informations about the shooting.
>tfw people actually take this shit too seriously as if they're part of the West vs Ummah shit flinging contest ever since the crusade.
>mfw so many things are now lost