/lit/ - Literature

i just got to that part and the book is starting to slowly wear on me because of how much of it is determined by the childlike whims of the gods. what is the point of that? what point was Homer trying to convey here?

So many times in this battle spears have turned to dust mid thrust, or just magically disappear, etc. It gets frustrating. Is there room for human agency in this story?

>>20500780
he wrote and drew a lot of freakish comic books when he was a teenager they have been complied posthumously

>Artistically unexplored among Bowden’s obsessions are his morbid fear of obesity, for example, and his troglodytic indifference to technology. At a recent event in the United States, I noticed Bowden, who on previous occasions had refused to eat anything at all, dined out of tiny dessert dishes. When questioned on his rather singular temperance, he explained that he comes from the West country, and that people from his part of the world have a tendency to grow sideways.

shame that it was the weight that got him in the end. or as some say, a heart attack gun

>>17908292
I'm somewhat fearful of my ability to delve into what only appears to be the depths of subjective illusion. And though I don't want to theorise too much about it, it is like a semi-conscious force which I let take over yet has its own being, and my own character assumes a different persona, usually of a theatrical and narcissistic nature.

Also post schizo-inducing videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkh8IjqlpxQ (the first composition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQKIgzInYk

>The American poet’s quest for the hard edge announces the fracture between twentieth century Imagism and nineteenth century Symbolism. In the Imagist Manifesto, Pound states his opposition to the “cosmic poet” and something of this divergence is alluded to at the end of this piece.

>>16908743
He captures Hitler's outward appearance perfectly though. It's in the subtle mannerisms that he's actually quite brilliant at.

Simple as, I would like recommendations for this.

>>16582801
He's in my opinion wrong about a lot, and offers a perverted worldview for many which was but originally a personally indulged aesthete, as if partially some professed beliefs come from the mixed calcification of a traditional worldview and one very unique to the inhabitancy of modernity now (and liberalism), but almost never have I found someone so wilfully self-aware in all that he does, but unceasing in strength, and this is respectable and honourable. And he was of course one of the most educated and great-speaking figures of modernity.

LARPagans and those moderns prostrated to Nietzsche are the furthest from him as possible.

Also wtf does he keep referring to Heraclitus as a Sophist(and seemingly all the presocratics)? Get's on my nerves a lot, but it's probably just because where materialism heavily operates as fulfilling the facticity of the world(not because of a moral orientation, but because of an epistemological one-- so still believing in spirit and so on, rather like Wittgenstein), the real difference between especially a presocratic like Heraclitus, and then the very best of the Sophists, would be morally and functionally nil.

I'll post some of his art and other cover drawings.

This was apparently a depiction of his alter ego, "Kratos" I believe he named him.

Not American Psycho you stupid faggots.

>>16154146
No American Psycho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkh8IjqlpxQ

>>16081971
Yes! I need ecstacy! I need a dancing star! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>16064579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkh8IjqlpxQ

Am I monke?

>>15614257
Hello, I can answer, I am the village troll...

>>14888596
Funny, I've ebeen having the same wondering's around emotional Qualia, that is just pre-conscious, and psychologically forming. Where the spirit of man lies, that is his spiritedness. Now of course your interest of Qualia is the same as mine just a different terminoloy. It was truly amazing to see how far pure emotional perplexity can go, but that does not relate to it being un-reasoned emotion, on the contrary all emotion needs a reason purveying on different levels. But I soon realised the limitations of the unknown element to Qualia and so returned to a sort of proto-collective unconscious.

>>14883752
I don't know much about Bradbury(the advice wasn't that bad), but what I do know is that the creative force is not merely enjoyment. It is a primal drive, something essential to the figure. And the greatest of artists have always felt its insufferable blows, always willing to corrupt. There are many reasons for this(: the artists personality/madness) but you know what I mean for a 4chan post, even if it lacks depth.

As far as the "individual-man" goes, like Mishima(as opposed to someone like Beethoven or Plato or Hitler; "great men"), or on another hand Jonathan Bowden (both sharing something that would take to long to explain but if you feel it to you will know what it is without having to be told because it is precisely pre-conscious) you may want to look at this to get some intuitive idea, not necessary his actions or words or statements but something deeper, and more primal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MCtPhoRcIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74V6lHh97yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmuHs5-rJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3agVbX6K8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YVrF2DdTp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YVrF2DdTp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaG-RD6Co34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ufGA7UZ_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nyFRtmb2J4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0js0RZwtzsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYCCX9MXbvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQKIgzInYk

And I say and advertise this all as a Christian, that Bowden was wrong on if it is taken as literal thought and not instead an image of his psychological complexity. Engage in the mystical if you want, but it's not where the actual experience finds its end.

Oh and here's an transcription of one of his speeches, very good:

https://www.counter-currents.com/2014/09/martin-heidegger/

But if you really want the audio instead, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUn4l8C1g2c

It seems it takes a complex revolutionary reversal in order to appreciate that which is unperturbed.

>>14874911
HAHA- YES!- NIGGER CUM!

Now you've found it.

>>10103837
>Bowden was a keen artist, expressing a desire to "create new and ferocious forms" and "paint the most ferocious image of my time". He described his work as "passionate integers of fury."
lol