/lit/ - Literature

>>8540239

All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors.
1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body & a Soul.
2. That Energy, call'd Evil, is alone from the Body, & that Reason, call'd Good, is alone from the Soul.
3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.

But the following Contraries to these are True

1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age
2. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
3 Energy is Eternal Delight
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.
And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, & the Governor or Reason is call'd Messiah.
And the original Archangel or possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is call'd the Devil or Satan and his children are call'd Sin & Death.
But in the Book of Job Miltons Messiah is call'd Satan.
For this history has been adopted by both parties.
It indeed appear'd to Reason as if Desire was cast out, but the Devil's account is, that the Messiah fell, & formed a heaven of what he stole from the Abyss.
This is shewn in the Gospel, where he prays to the Father to send the comforter or Desire that Reason may have Ideas to build on, the Jehovah of the Bible being no other than he who dwells in flaming fire.
Know that after Christs death, he became Jehovah.
But in Milton; the Father is Destiny, the Son, a Ratio of the five senses, & the Holy-ghost, Vacuum!
Note: The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.

So a bunch of old retards have come up with their theories on what the fundamental drive is: Freud said sex, Adler said power, Becker said denial of death.

Has anyone written a book on what is obviously, especially now, the most fundamental drive, the drive to comfort..

>>8472138
>The Passion of Pound
Mark "Sharkie" Pound is an unambitious bruiser from Manchester. Following a robbery gone wrong he finds himself working as a personal shopper for a lonely old woman. Though initially reluctant to let another person through his grime exterior the two form a tentative friendship, causing tensions within his gang. As seen in O Magazine.

>>8469475
A couple are at first delighted by the birth of their first child. However it soon becomes clear that this child is horribly different from others - it sheds its skin every couple of days. At the compulsion of the midwife and family doctor - their only confidants - they keep the child a secret and keep all its skins in glasses for study. The midwife and doctor become live-in residents ostensibly working on a cure, but increasingly they are more interested in the level of power they have been granted over the small family and begin to use this power to perverse effect. It begins with forcing the family to eat the shed skins, and accelerates from there.

>>8468141
>Syn88 and Always Fodder
New wave sci-fi about a typical pulp hero who finds himself under endless siege by horrible creatures on a desert planet. The book charts his progress from complex, thoughtful and emotionally driven human being into an automata of pure death. Considered by some to be a worthwhile experiment but by most a cynical and unnecessary work, better suited for the medium of comics.

>>8467247
Biography of the band Placebo

>>8467200
Early 2000's YA series which riffs on Harry Potter and Goosebumps. Described as "woefully out of touch" and shortly discontinued.

>>8467146
sci fi dystopia concerning a totalised surveillance system

>>8467095
A highly experimentally effort to express bodily thickness in writing. Literally every letter in this book is embossed to that effect.

I never read a book in my life because I never sent to school. Some people don't have the same luck as you snobs

The Killer Inside Me

>>8389677
bigger image. it's so unsettling