/lit/ - Literature

>>13327744
back in your hole!

>>12408711
Not at all, friend. Debt is real though.

>>12388125
>Narratology is dead.
is is is crossed out....

>>12349415
does a child of twelve have to have parents that are economic migrants accompany him or her to acquire that status? Is it assumed that all people are economic migrants and not that the economic migrants are moving as fast as they can because that's the only thing that keeps their bitchy wives from offloading onto them the horrors of childrearing in desert with no hope of salvation, no choice but to apply rhetoric and exasperation, anger, tears, meanness, wisdom, caring, all in personification of the earths movements, all the ghastly female righteousness given to you in a gaze of kindness. What do you do for the men and children who have to suffer because these women cannot but do what the land has encouraged in them.

>>12203924
stay strong. Obrian out.

>>12196980
I feel like you're actually now almost breaking the fourth wall in setting me up on a joke about Spinoza finally being able to stretch himself in body and mind so that he was able to reflect upon his gonads, forever a law in mind cast.

>>12197962
Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being. Its weapon was like a sword without hilt or plate, a two-edged blade cleaving everything; but he who is to wield it must grasp the blade and turn the one edge toward himself. Despite his new eyes, man was still rooted in matter, his soul spun into it and subordinated to its blind laws. And yet he could see matter as a stranger, compare himself to all phenomena, see through and locate his vital processes. He comes to nature as an unbidden guest, in vain extending his arms to beg conciliation with his maker: Nature answers no more, it performed a miracle with man, but later did not know him. He has lost his right of residence in the universe, has eaten from the Tree of Knowledge and been expelled from Paradise. He is mighty in the near world, but curses his might as purchased with his harmony of soul, his innocence, his inner peace in life’s embrace. So there he stands with his visions, betrayed by the universe, in wonder and fear. The beast knew fear as well, in thunderstorms and on the lion’s claw. But man became fearful of life itself – indeed, of his very being. Life – that was for the beast to feel the play of power, it was heat and games and strife and hunger, and then at last to bow before the law of
course. In the beast, suffering is self-confined, in man, it knocks holes into a fear of the world and a despair of life. Even as the child sets out on the river of life, the roars from the waterfall of death rise highly above the vale, ever closer, and tearing, tearing at its joy. Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail. Not merely his own day could he see, the graveyards wrung themselves before his gaze, the laments of sunken millennia wailed against him from the ghastly decaying shapes, the earth-turned dreams of mothers. Future’s curtain unravelled itself to reveal a nightmare of endless repetition, a senseless squander of organic material. The suffering of human billions makes its entrance into him through the gateway of compassion, from all that happen arises a laughter to mock the demand for justice, his profoundest ordering principle. He sees himself emerge in his mother’s womb, he holds up his hand in the air and it has five branches; whence this devilish number five, and what has it to do with my soul? He is no longer obvious to himself – he touches his body in utter horror; this is you and so far do you extend and no farther.

>>12118124
very relevant historically if your are building better contextual narratives of the origins of different types of knowledge. the inter-meshing along with the unknown in-jokes make it seem incomprehensible, but if you get hooked on learning about certain eras it's hard not to want to think about what is going on with book trade and what did this narrative represent to who and why would it be widely distributed. Occult books have much to say about the real understandings of science today. The entire bringing-forth notion and god-making through social manipulation is insanely interesting. People who like to read history and see novels as cultural clues within those histories will get what I'm at. These are great books for positive psychology meme material folks, blankwalls.

>>12009707
>The greeks teach you how to think about things, thats really about it.

The personae constructed in reading the Greeks is the pure abstract embodiment of a hospitable rationality. Your involvement in their debates is a dismemberment of your self sentence by sentence, pieces falling, swerving, casting back and glimpsing forward into a fractalized light of a being.
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The Greek alphabet is the key to temple of ra and the harbinger of sophist-tyrant. Beware all that Phoebus' tree and tripod says.

>>11928105
Into a wound no concrete or fences could seal.

>>11871183
I'm still too afraid to read the bible directly. Plus, my Latin is shit. How did you do with the translations of your God's words, friends?

>>11696535
Hahaha... Teen suicide rates in certain higher class education institutions in the usa. It's a random fact cultivated from a fertile bed of uselessness, with just a hint of playfulness. This temperament bestowing on to me a position of advocate, hearer of woes, giver of facts, returner of critiques to their home in the eternal circle - much like the chicken and the egg.

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>>11473889
>Cyrenaics
>Aristippus of Cyrene, ca. 400 BC, is considered to be the founder of the school. While it is unclear how much of later Cyrenaic doctrine is derived from his life and writings, he does provide a crucial link to Socrates who is considered the founder of many other schools of thought in Ancient Greece and it lends credibility and authority to the Cyrenaic endeavor. Through Aristippus, the school spread, on one hand through his daughter Arete - Aristippus the Younger - Theodorus the Atheist, and on the other, from Antipatros – Epitimides – Parabates – Hegesias & Anniceris. The exact details of each individual's significance and position are outlined throughout this compilation.

A enticement bump. This sounds interesting.