/lit/ - Literature

>>19162991
I am to believe that Horace's Odes with all their infinite depth of subtlety and feeling were written in the 9th century by a contemporary of the hagiographers? No. The texts date from that time because the Carolingians started to gather all the texts and make 'official' copies.

>>9522941
Considering Dune is poorly written drivel with paper-thin characters and an idiot plot, plenty
1) The Skylark of Space series
2) Lensmen series
3) The Dragon Never Sleeps
4) Space Viking
5) The Childe Cycle
6) The Alliance-Union Universe
7) The PsychoTechnic League
top of my head

>>9212464
>Wrote stories with Arab protagonists that were heroic
>Wrote stories with Asian protagonists that were heroic
>Wrote stories with White antagonists that were inbred, bestial monsters
>Wrote stories with White protagonists that were corrupt and evil
>Wrote stories with White protagonists that were monsters/corrupt/etc
>Wrote stories with obvious Jewish characters that were money grubbing and deceitful
>Wrote stories with obviously Jewish characters that were talented and brave
Huh.
It is almost as if trying to distill the actual attitudes of a complex person with a nuanced perspective down to a 'Super-racist/non-racist' false dichotomy doesn't work very well.

I remember back in the 1970's discussions of HPL were about how he lived at home his entire life, never left his hometown, was afraid of women, and died a virgin.
Yes, really. I have an APAzine and some fanzines in storage alllll about that.
Then, of course, it came out that he travelled quite a lot especially when younger), was banging women here and there, and was married for quite some time.
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Ever read King Solomon's Mines? Late 19th Century fiction written by a White Brit about explorers in Africa. If you pay attention it is the story of the return of an exiled king to his kingdom, his defeat of a tyrant usurper that killed his parents, and the beginnings of his own benign rule. The returned king is presented as noble, honest, brave, strong, fearless, and wise. The returned king was held up as an example of what young boys whould strive to be for quite a few years.
The returned king, Ignosi, was a native Black African - Alan Quatermain and the other White adventurers are, effectively ,just witnesses to Ignosi's return, like the hobbits to Aragorn in a book written by a fan of the book.
Did the author say things wwe'd call racist? Hell, yeah, in his correspondence and a lot of other things.
Did he hold up a Black African as an exemplar of all that is good, true, noble, and admirable in Man?
Yup.
How?
He was a complex, nuanced person with attitudes different from yours.

>>5554486
What are the hands?

>tfw commodification is not accepted as a word by word processing programs

Fucking anti-marxists.

>be me
>open notepad
>begin to write erotica
>have the story roughly thought out in my head
>get hard
>jerk off to the thought
>finish
>lose interest in writing it

Does this happen to anyone else?

>>5165678
there is a point of satisfaction in not repeating oneself.

thesauri help with this

>2014
>calling oneself an atheist
>not calling oneself a humanist
ISHYGDDT

Atheism is hardly even a thing.

>Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.

Truly the greatest writer of our times.