/lit/ - Literature

>>19235592
The globohomo publishing industry no long publishes books written by straight white men, for white people, unless they are already an established big name that they know is a reliable cash cow. The Big 5 will reject them on the basis that they "center whiteness and white voices" and that's the end of it. I am not joking. This is a constant problem with no visible solution in the future.

The great works are out there, they are just not given space to thrive anymore. Go into most bookstores hawking new books instead of used - the same uninspired minimalist digital art cover designs, YA authors who are women, non-white, LGBT; all with embarrassingly subpar writing - they are only approved because it helps to cement the current narrative. Publishing was cucked long before the rest of the established authorities in politics, academia, and media were. There will not be another great novel published unless there is a mass unrest that slays the sacred cow of globohomo pseudovirtues for good.

>>18597384
A lot of the major translators of Tibetan Buddhist texts into modern Western languages go to Tibet/India for years to learn both the language and material more thoroughly. Do you have any intention of pursuing that? Or are you just translating to test yourself?

>>18583162
maybe indie bookstores would be good but don't go to b&n and expect to see anything except YA landwhales

as an actual XX chromosomes haver, i torrent most of my books though, or buy specific used titles online. reading evola and devi rn.

i miss the /pol/ mega book dumps, can't seem to find them anywhere and i'm missing a bunch

but i'm not single so don't hit on me, you silly boys!! :)

>>16592100
Immortal Fame.
>What is it that does not decay under the earth?––The name.
Tarentum.
'A god of ways and byways' (transitions, guide)
Ginnungagap.
Chaoskampf.
All wheel and chariot analogies, since the IEs invented both.
Father Sky.
World Tree.
Gnomes.
Many myths hae their Parallel in Egyptian myth which from the secular standpoint would imply influence from IEs to them as supposed to Egypt to them (since the Egyptians were mostly passive and culturally introverted). A main distinction which goes against influence in either direction before 2700BC is that all the divine genders are reversed.
Divine Twins, Hero's Journey, Sun focus, death and rebirth focus (something not as present is desert demon religions where all year is almost the same/lack of real seasons, Egyptians had the annual flooding of the Nile.)

and not to forget
>The Faustian Spirit

Birth of Tragedy
Human, All Too Human
The Dawn
The Gay Science
Thus Spoke Zarahustra
skip the rest desu

>>15352677
Sadler's a stoic which makes him per automata a mid-wit, the same way using 'per automata' instead of 'automatically' is.
He has anger issues and, like Schopenhauer, projects his personal specific struggle onto the world; for Sadler Apatheia is the highest goal, just as non-being was for Schopenhauer because he was /r9k/.

12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind. 15 That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted. 16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. 18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

1 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, kαὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, kαὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.
2 οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν.

>>13350893
Listen to good song lyrics. Since artists have such massive egos it's always about themselves and what they feel about their present state (or poetry, I recommend YATES).

Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light;
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

>You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise-- and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature?

Are Twine games literature, /lit/? I'm talking about stuff like this
http://slimedaughter.com/games/twine/miniskirt/

I should be reading.
I should have been reading yesterday.
I haven't read all week.
Am I afraid of wisdom?
Afraid that it will imbue me with assignment, and end this comfortably numb life?
I could have read so much by now.

>>11483674
>science
>fiction
It means there's realistic science applied in a fantastical way, realistic means believable, realistic does not mean real, realistic is what could have been possible given different (but consistent) hypothetical laws of reality.
Fantasy is when fantastical elements occur in an inconsistent and unrealistic way.
Star Trek is an example of sci-fi with fantasy, there's believable science; as in: Could be possible given a very Petersonian "low resolution", or layman, interpretation of science; and there's fantasy in a semi-scientific "we don't truly know what is possible" way.
Same with Dune, although Dune captures 'wistfulness of potentiality' more than any other sci-fi out there it is a plunge into the unknown of reality.

>>11447752
here I am reading nothing, wasting

>29

>Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
>Common Sense - Thomas Paine
>12 Rules for Life - Meme Professor
>Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
>The Truth - Terry Pratchett

what are some books that deal with overthinking, or have characters that overthink things? is there books that can help to combat this?