/lit/ - Literature

>>18635435
>Does it get better?
Such impatience, mortal...

>>18544085
>What do I read after this?
The second half of the series, obviously.
'White Luck Warrior' drags a little, but 'The Great Ordeal' and 'The Unholy Consult' are Bakker at his darkest, most gripping, and most kino.

>>18462359
Bakker's worldbuilding is extremely derivative of Tolkien, the point where the lines of homage/tribute and rip-off are blurred.

>The Cûno-Inchoroi Wars = Wars of the First Age
>The Ancient North = The realms of Arnor
>Dûnyain = Dunedain
>Illiserû = The elves of the Falas
And so on.

Tolkien's worldbuilding is obviously much more extensive. He spent an entire life doing it and cooked up many full working languages and their histories. Bakker "remixes" the Silmarillion with Dune and human history (particularly Greco-Roman-Byzantine). The only thing really unique about Bakker's creation is the gigadamned rape aliens.

Not that Bakker's a slouch at worldbuilding, it's just that he writes in a very genre-self-conscious way which befits his postmodern approach to fantasy. The Wertzone put together an extensive History of Eärwa, it's probably the closest thing we'll ever get to a Silmarillion style historic compendium of Bakker's world. It's a fun read desu.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_Gp-xTjsEXQBvkZQENi6dliyk8SFeHT/view

>Curses filled the silence, some murmured, others spoken quite out loud. Such was the monumental delicacy, the profusion of figure and detail, that the forms seemed more revealed than rendered, as though the sheeted cliffs were naught but mud rinsed from the stone of ossified souls. Even half-ruined, there was too much, too much beauty, too much detail, and certainly too much toil, a grandeur made wicked by the demands it exacted on simpler souls. It was a place that begged to be challenged, overthrown.

Ah, Men... always striving, always yearning, always driven by their basest desires yet confusing those desires for order, for clarity, for God. Like beasts they are... and yet so memorable.

>this fucking thread
Oh my. Oh my. The absolute state of Men— endlessly warring over meaningless trivialities. This is how they spend the brief candles of their fleeting lives... the futile seething of a lesser race.

>Honour? Love? What are these but dross before oblivion? No! I will seize the world and I will shake from it what misery, what anguish, I can. I will remember!

>Most... memorable...

>>14862731
A lot of words to say nothing while feigning as if you are helping anons. Also I can see you've practiced at inflating essays to reach that syllabus word count.

He is not the average traditionalist writer and is actually an outlier in comparison.

>NoooOooo Don't read him! Wahh he dumb I smart. I dont like!

This passes in your University but not here, bring substance or get better at shitposting.

>>14618316
Good thing all my posts are satire

>>13456140
Kind of ridiculous...

You can champion the technical uncertainty in relying upon what is presented to us via experience all you want, but it won't change the fact that this is the only conduit to any knowledge (or belief). Any belief you can have -- no matter how ultimately improbable or logically inconsistent -- is initially founded upon basic consistencies within our experience (basic logic). Therefore, there is no sensible argument for diminishing the primacy of logic, and of course any such argument would be an appeal (albeit a flawed one) to logic itself.

There is nothing prohibiting an utilitarian from considering the utility provided by tradition, ritual and religion, nor any negative utility stemming from technology. With a little extrapolation, it is easy to see how utility calculations could be weighted very differently (and I'd argue more accurately) in a civilization that wasn't profoundly indoctrinated with progressive liberalism.

I'd accept that consistent truth and refined logic are of limited direct benefit for the average person, but the average person shouldn't be wasting their time and resources on post-secondary education in the first place.

Incidentally, how does one 'smile logically'?

>>12786310
As straightforward as can be, even to the point of resembling analytic philosophy. Only psueds feel the need to make a difficult to comprehend subject even more complex

>When you start with the Greeks and you willingly add more than what's usual during and after.

>>7518074
And the sheep shall be separated from the goats.

>go around to the side
>unlock the stack roller
>start closing the stacks on her

THIS IS WOMEN'S LIT

NO ONE WILL EVER FIND YOU

>>6167481
I didn't even realize that he was implying that Ayn Rand was a stereotypical woman and that he dislikes her political views until I saw your post.Well done.

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>>5266583
>It's literally the 'how old is this stone' meme made to a movie.
Thanks guys, I needed that laugh.

>>5184059
>half Asimov- half Costanza master race
YES!

>>5118513
Oh jew!

Funny that I got that pasta here in /lit/ a year ago.

>>4609296
>microaggressions
Congratulations, sane social conservatives think you're an overgrown baby, and sane social progressives think you're one of the crazies who makes them look bad. Enjoy reporting people to the thought police for colloquially saying something was "gay," while innumerable cases of actual oppression go neglected and you post on your blog.

>>4609318
Protip: That's why people do it.

>espouse epithets
Protip: Don't do this ever again

Recommend me a book, where the author treats the world as an arena. Something akin to Might is Right is what I'm looking for

Recommend me a book, where the author treats the world as an arena. Something akin to Might is Right is what I'm looking for.