/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11723747]

>grab the nearest book
>open a random page
>go to the third paragraph
>read the fifth line
>that is your future

What do you got?

[Anonymous No.11723755]

>>11723747
'You, who first seduced me to violate my vows' (from The Monk)

[Anonymous No.11723757]

>The coffee was black and there was no cream or milk, just packets of white-yellow powder.

I drink my coffee black so I'm ok with this.

[Anonymous No.11723759]

>This was that caution giv'n thee; be avised.

what does this mean

[Anonymous No.11723766]

>Disappointing.
Welp.

[Anonymous No.11723769]

>>11723759
It means be cautious dumbass

[Anonymous No.11723773]

"Yes, sir"

Guess I'm submissive

[Anonymous No.11723777]

In the future, most paragraphs are less than five lines. Maybe try third line. Also, lines are shit, sentences make for a better thread. My examples sucked, just saying.

[Anonymous No.11723779]

>finding adequate time and [dedicate] oneself to good deeds

[Anonymous No.11723791]

Through a return to archaic values we must envisage man no longer as

[Anonymous No.11723797]

>>11723791
fuck you'll lose your sanity

[Anonymous No.11723800]

"impossible for any one man to maintain a siege for a year with his army idle."

I need to write again

[Anonymous No.11723801]

But the problem is too
theoretical when posed this way.

[Anonymous No.11723809]

>>11723747
"He is no gossip; he will neither talk about himself nor about others; for he cares not that men should praise him."

[Anonymous No.11723816]

>>11723747
>Rune xv, for example, "eolxh" or ᛉ, is used as part of the compound word "eolxh-secg," generally translated to mean a kind of marsh grass, perhaps favored by elk: "elk-sedge."

Guys, I think I'm gonna be alright.

[Anonymous No.11723823]

The crouching man looks that way and half rises.

>>11723777
this I think... But some other people got some good ones anyway.

[Anonymous No.11723835]

>>11723747
giving him the finger to see what would happen

[Anonymous No.11723837]

>The propositions are lures for feelings, and give to feelings a definiteness of enjoyment and purpose which is absent in the blank evaluation of physical feeling into physical purpose.

[Anonymous No.11723851]

>>11723777
Yeah I know but I just took it from Guillermo Arriaga's The Night Buffalo.

[Anonymous No.11723854]

>>11723747
>destroy the wicked man, a god can come to the rescue. One seeks to speak
Walter Burkert, Greek Religion, p. 272, 3rd 'graph, 5th line. English translation c. 1985 by Basil Blackwell and Harvard UP.

[Anonymous No.11723874]

>>11723816
book?

[Anonymous No.11723891]

>>11723747
>"John's had some critics, but hell, even Jesus Christ had critics." - Jim Daly

[Anonymous No.11723928]

>>11723747
>less than those of an adolescent who only strengthens himself spiritually, has his head buried in books

Reading the entire paragraph, he's actually correct.

[Anonymous No.11723948]

>wherever you worked you had to turn in every evening

[Anonymous No.11723966]

>>11723747
>"How this would turn out I could not guess, and that was a good thing, because otherwise I might have put Miss X on the wrong track from sheer helpfulness."

Yep, sounds pretty much like me posting on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.11723969]

>Altogether, we shall carry on doing what we are prompted to do by our emotional drives of every sort; and in choosing the means to those ends we shall follow our accustomed association of ideas.

[Anonymous No.11723970]

woops, misunderstood direction. try again:

>whether the next dream will give him new light or not. Moreover, he is


still true.

[Anonymous No.11723971]

>>11723747
>weapons racks and lockers lined the walls.
kewl

[Anonymous No.11723973]

"We diminished it practically to nothing only used painkillers like Percodon a little Amitol , and something for nausea"

Sounds fun.

[Anonymous No.11723998]

>The saviour.

Feeding my messiah complex, one craps-shoot at a time.

[Anonymous No.11724018]

>I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me

Yeah I'll take that

[Anonymous No.11724034]

>>11723747
>What of the others, those for whom the iron age had come, when 'men never rest from labour and sorrow by day, and from perishing by night'?

[Anonymous No.11724045]

>>11723816
gib book

[Anonymous No.11724054]

>>11723747
"The Africans
are civilized up to their bones, and the idea of their being barbarians
is a European fiction"

[Rhodes !LAJJPW3TaY No.11724069]

>>11723747
“Probably post-historic man, as I have heard him called, will be allergic to science for at least a century or two!”

[Anonymous No.11724095]

>>11724054

[Anonymous No.11724125]

>>11724069
Lol

[Anonymous No.11724138]

>death
The bible

[Anonymous No.11724199]

>"But no! The poor boy suffered in anguish."
Well...

[Anonymous No.11724225]

>Il lisait avec attention, puis s'arrachait à sa lecture pour écouter Agafia Mikhaïlovna qui bavardait sans cesse ; et, en même temps, les divers tableaux du mariage, et de la future vie de famille, se présentaient à son imagination

why is it always about getting maried?????????????????????????????????????????????????? every fucking time. quit posting this fucking thread.

[Anonymous No.11724238]

>>11724225
it's written, pal. marry her.

[Anonymous No.11724247]

>The river laughed. Yes, that was how it was.

[Anonymous No.11724262]

>>11723747
‘Then what about the man who, contrariwise, believes in beauty itself and can see both it and the particular things which share in it, and does not confuse particular things and that in which they share?

[Anonymous No.11724502]

". . . night was gentle as the sighing of a woman in slumber."

I guess it's gonna be comfy. Just as planned

[Anonymous No.11724516]

>>11723747
>She even paid one visit herself: but by this time the patient was already recovering.
From Anna Kavan's A Scarcity of Love.

[Anonymous No.11724939]

>He did not solve this social problem because he knew it was not of importance at the moment and would solve itself.

[Anonymous No.11724945]

''the jews are responsible for this ''

[Anonymous No.11724949]

>>11723747
>the meaning of being and the tendency towards its concept

oh no dude

[Anonymous No.11725000]

>you will notice that this Haydn minuet has a considerably more dramatic effect
Does this mean I will listen to Haydn's Symphony No. 100 in my future?

[Anonymous No.11725010]

“A squanderer.— As yet he does not have the poverty of the rich who have already counted all their treasures one; he is squandering his spirit with the unreason of squandering nature.”

Can almost guarantee most of /lit/ doesn’t understand what’s being said here or in most of his aphorisms.

[Anonymous No.11725013]

>vision behind the banal content:

it's a book about Rothko, written by yet another Jew.

[Anonymous No.11725022]

"For how can this be done but through those men who, because of their stature among us, we raise still further in tall tales and legends that denote our respect, and which are taken by the world and the generations, from us, as standing for us?

[Anonymous No.11725103]

"It was a type of villa commonly found in Britain- a so-called winged corridor house, built on foundations of local mortared flint, a material visible in churches and houses in the local area today."

omg i'm getting a villa

[Anonymous No.11725480]

>>11723747
>Glans, glanz, n. an acorn or in the form of an acorn; a strumous swelling; the rounded end of the penis.
Was a dictionary

[Anonymous No.11725865]

>>11723747
"But neoconservatism is a Jewish movement, led by and dominated by Jews since its inception, and neocons' positions on certain key issues align with broader Jewish positions"

[Anonymous No.11725878]

>hearing and following the instructions, the show of devotional service

[Anonymous No.11725890]

>It was Bela, poor Bela!
>Th-thanks, Lermontov.

[Anonymous No.11725898]

>>11723747
>For banality is a form of intelligence, and reality, especially if it is brutish and rough, forms a natural complement to the soul.
What did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.11725910]

>Refuge in its bosom and by its favor gain shelter from the blows and.
Sounds pretty good tbqh

[Anonymous No.11725932]

>>11723747
>they’ve become too heavy for the vitality he has left

But... this is already my present

[Anonymous No.11725941]

>>11723747
It [the ballet Petrushka] has become familiar to millions of Americans now, and it is possible to listen to it today [1966] as a succession of cheerful, vigorous, even quaint bits of musical tapestry.

>that's a future?

[Anonymous No.11725973]

>>11723757
It means you will have a bitter but productive life
>>11723759
Very ominous. Keep on your toes and you may avert an imminent disaster
>>11723773
Expect to be in a position of authority in the near future where people will address you as "sir"
>>11723779
Time is running out, do something with yourself before it's too late
>>11723791
You must study the past to discover a new way of seeing the world
>>11723800
Success will come to you, but only if you work on the little things. The big things will take care of themselves.
>>11723801
Change your approach to your problems.
>>11723809
You will lead a humble life, never seeking man's praise― but on the flip side you will never accomplish anything praiseworthy.
>>11723816
You may have been cursed by a Jewish witch. Check your left testicle for cancer
>>11723823
You are at the exact halfway point of your life
>>11723835
You will make yourself a dangerous enemy through a foolish act

that's all for now...my prophetic powers require rest

[Anonymous No.11725998]

>Now something, we do not yet know what, has occurred, and it is for us to stamp out the evil, or better still, get rid of it quietly, without fuss, as one does with swill.
- Concluding by Henry Green

Omg I am drunk

[Anonymous No.11726007]

>>11723747
>I would find it easy to talk to you for a whole year without coming to the end of my sorrows and all the hardship that the gods have made me endure

[Anonymous No.11726041]

>been two weeks since she was killed. The body was completely naked,

yikes

[Anonymous No.11726055]

and ropes upon our heads, and go out to

[Anonymous No.11726060]

>"required an immense effort."

[Anonymous No.11726072]

>>11723747
>Gob, they ought to drown him in the sea after and electrocute and crucify him to make sure of their job.

[Anonymous No.11726084]

>>11723747
>Every action then becomes a ritual in which you are honoring God.

Oh wow

[Anonymous No.11726112]

>>11726041
2666?

[Anonymous No.11726125]

>>11726112
yea

[Anonymous No.11726148]

>>11723747
were, so that at some later date, out in freedom, one could walk

[Anonymous No.11726173]

>as a snake in the hills, guarding his hole, awaits a man
doesn't sound good :/

[Anonymous No.11726181]

>>11726173
sounds like rape :(

[Anonymous No.11726184]

>>11726181
wouldn't mind it desu

[Anonymous No.11726223]

>>11726112
>>11726125
yes

[Anonymous No.11726244]

>>11723747
>as one of their number began imitating the grey
From Martin the Warrior.

[Anonymous No.11726264]

>...reavealed the secret that he was
had been forced to know. The excitement...

[Anonymous No.11726857]

>>11723747
According to this principle, e.g., all ills are nothing but consequences of the limits of created beings, i.e., negations, since these are the only opposing things in reality (this is really so in the concept of a thing in general, but not in things as appearances).

[Anonymous No.11726883]

>>11723747
>A is a n x n matrix. It's the case that det A = det A^t
Amazing knowledge really.

[Anonymous No.11726898]

>>11723747
"pull the cord so that the firing strap is held back"

[Anonymous No.11726908]

>>11723747
>In France he embodied the 'American Spirit' and was tremendously popular
I could live with this

[Anonymous No.11726914]

>>11723747
>They would also very much like to organize politico-criminal syndicats

based

[Anonymous No.11726930]

>>11723747
Lõpuks peamine, mis meid huvitab, on tõestuses esinevate loogikavigade küsimus, ja see küsimus, nagu edaspidi näeme, seatakse üles ja lahendatakse hoopis teistmoodi kui järelduses.

[Anonymous No.11727222]

"He also didn't give enemas that often, but did it at least sometime in every case of sickness."

Can't wait to sparingly administer ass flushouts

[Anonymous No.11727231]

>>11723747
>when he cast a hasty glance towards her, he saw that she was not looking in his direction
kek
from Gogol's short stories

[Anonymous No.11727232]

"Be there at the gathering of power!" ~ The Upanishads

[Anonymous No.11727242]

>>11723747
>We now proceed to see how reward-and punishment strategies similar to those previously proposed for the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma will allow our firms to coordinate on monopoly profits in a self-enforcing subgame-perfect equilibrium, without the need to use binding contracts that violate such regulations like the Sherman Act.
Not sure what this says about my future other than I won't be a libertarian any time soon.

[Anonymous No.11727254]

>>11723747
> Methods for assigning names to cells and ranges.

[Anonymous No.11727271]

>the corner, roared gay and hollow under the electric chandelier

[Anonymous No.11727470]

>>11723747
"And a glad sight to our fellows were we that had fled from death, but the others they would have bemoaned with tears; howbeit I suffered it not, but with frowning brows forbade each man to weep.

[Anonymous No.11727479]

>>11723747
>"Mais non, il n'avait pas pris la bêche."

[Anonymous No.11727502]

>Still--
Gonna get drunk tonight

[Anonymous No.11727513]

"He looked round," she thought.

[Anonymous No.11727566]

He was as much estranged from imagination as from reality.

[Anonymous No.11727599]

>>11723747
>He is enormous and warm inside that rich winter

[Anonymous No.11727617]

>>11723747
>'three thousand men. Then Judas prayed'
From the Bible, 1 Maccabees 7:40 (well a bit of it). It's not the Gospel Judas by the way.

[Anonymous No.11728305]

>>11723747
>Must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God (Luke 4:43 NIV).

tfw chosen by God

[Anonymous No.11728327]

>onward flight with augmented fleetness

[Anonymous No.11728337]

>>11723747
>Koester identifies four basic christological trajectories that arise, independently of each other, in different Christian circles

[Anonymous No.11728354]

>[... of the society we]
>live in, and the strategy by which we shall destroy it. When you [...]
sounds fun

[Anonymous No.11729240]

(b) Explain why, even though the identical-schools model fits under this test, it is still unacceptable for some practical purposes.

[Anonymous No.11729267]

“fifteen inches in thickness”

>Moby Dick

lmfao

[Anonymous No.11729272]

> Pitch slides into duration as it decreases, as harmony becomes monometric rhythm (the properties of consonance and dissonance result from the factorial resonance of combined frequencies)

[Anonymous No.11729324]

>>11723747
>so i finally read the new draft...i have to say i wasn't expecting such big changes! let me know when you can skype so we can talk it over and see if we can see it through to the finish line.

Probably drink because I hate businessy emails.

It's from Behead All Satans by the way.

[Anonymous No.11729516]

>>11729267
you finna get FUCKED white boi

[Anonymous No.11729532]

>In one of the workings were found two male skeletons (no.54 Bubnova, 1963, pp.256-7).

Okay

[Anonymous No.11729541]

>>11723747
"cancer."

[Anonymous No.11729812]

>>11723747
“The impact hypothesis dealt with a single moment in time — a terrible, horrible, no-good day at the end of the Cretaceous.”
From The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

[Anonymous No.11729875]

"It can be inferred from the paintings which adorn the corridors of old universities and from casual observations as the one which follows"

E. Jünger, "Das Sanduhrbuch"

[Anonymous No.11729892]

>"This new product wasn't a sliced potato (as the traditional chip is), but a wafer made from "reconstituted potato granules".

[Anonymous No.11730191]

>>11723747
>the process of life had ceased to be intolerable

nice

[Anonymous No.11730318]

"to weep is to make less the depth of grief"
fuck

[Anonymous No.11730324]

>>11723747

>Suppliant: OTOTOTOI MA GA MAAA GAAAA

[Anonymous No.11730534]

>No longer the chronic waste and splendor of those blazing adolescent drunks

[Anonymous No.11730557]

It had been a dull summer and they were restless.

[Anonymous No.11730957]

>Once you've constructed a basic TMS file, you can access many of the maps provided in the ArcGIS gallery simply by making a small adjustment to the url-format attribute, as shown here.

[Anonymous No.11731186]

>they were obliged to mix a large proportion of pine park with their other diet
fuck, I hate pine bark

[Anonymous No.11731202]

>>11723747
>the resulting trust among democracies should nip in the bud the Hobbesian cycle in which the fear of a preemptive attack on each side tempts both into launching a preemptive attack.

Dont know how to feel about this

[Anonymous No.11731259]

>broader perspective of human psychic exploration throughout time and across continents. What

[Anonymous No.11731621]

>Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness
We're all gonna make it (:

[Anonymous No.11732603]

Very sad, your majesty. (Leonce and Lena/Büchner

Well that might get interesting.

[Anonymous No.11732619]

>Kim wanted to go to the North to help with the reunification efforts

Fuck, guess I'm a commie after all.

[Anonymous No.11732636]

>their places, though every other respect be perfectly equal.

[Anonymous No.11732756]

>>11723747
Fifth line or fifth sentence?
Fifth line is:
>act I was privileged to perform . . .
Fifth sentence:
>Those early days as a priest remain in my memory as days of fulfillment and tremulous happiness; something precious, and yet too fragile to last, like a romantic love-affair brought up short by the reality of an ill-assorted marriage.

[Anonymous No.11732770]

>>11723747
>And when she moved on, she left a strange, human-shaped emptiness in her place
uh oh

[Anonymous No.11732802]

>Come, my Captain, study out the course, and let us away!
Ah. A-whaling I shall go.

[Anonymous No.11733322]

>>11723747

>He answered: 'i have been thrown into this trough'

Wow, thanks Dante

[Anonymous No.11733332]

>In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude, the walls, and hates to observe its own isolation.

[Anonymous No.11733338]

>>11723854
I was literally just looking at two of his books, one of which was this one, when looking for stuff on Dionysian Mystery cults. Wtf?

[Anonymous No.11733353]

>>11723747
>Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote
Thanks Milton

[Anonymous No.11733419]

>I didn't take a bath for a week, so my pussy's stinking!
oh my

[Anonymous No.11734654]

>>11723747
>"To this may be added the litchi, retaining a Chinese name, and the persimmon, to which HIndi has understandably extended the word for ebony fruit, a related species."

Looks like I'm gonna be a fruit vendor in case my hopes of becoming a Historical Linguist remain unfulfilled.

[Anonymous No.11734732]

>>11723747
>calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face
book was quoting Isaiah 64
>Prayer for Illustration of God's Power

[Anonymous No.11734889]

>>11723747
from the magic mountain german version
>"Ich habe da noch allerlei Zeisige sitzen, - wenn es Sie interessiert."

[Anonymous No.11734922]

>>11723747
>It consists of milk to which are added two things from the vegetable kingdom (such as flower-petals, or herbs, or small fruits).
o-ok

[Anonymous No.11735551]

>it's a matter of 5 minutes or so at the registrar's office
Sounds like I'm entering into a loveless marriage so an immigrant can get their visa. Well, time to browse the mail-order wife sites.

[Anonymous No.11735609]

>"not with a word of truth - he choked it back"
guess imma liar now fuck

[Anonymous No.11735629]

>". . . on the last occasion, she even ventured to address me, on her own . . ."
A-am I gonna make it? I'd spill my spaghetti hard if any girl approached me

[Anonymous No.11735632]

>significa empero el fin de la analitica existencial, sino que hace tan solo aparecer
Quick, shitty , non-literal translation for angl*speakers
>meaning however the end of the existensial analysis, but just does showing
Any interpretations?
This is Heidegger btw

[Anonymous No.11735722]

>>11723747
In fact, since Eternity is in Time, and the eternal Concept is related to Eternity in TIme, all possibility of going outside of Time is excluded.

[Anonymous No.11735836]

>>11735629
When they do and there is also some random and slight physical touching I get chills, I day dream about her the rest of the day, or even a week.
I'm a really pathetic and inmature person.

[Anonymous No.11735843]

>>11723747

>"...a dreaming without a dreamer (as all dreams really are, since the unconscious is not a subject)"

I don't know what this means

[Anonymous No.11735853]

>>11723747
>Compared to Lucretius, Freud surprisingly is almost modest: he explained only that women are a mystery.

[Anonymous No.11735860]

>>11723816
>>11723874
>>11724045

It was a poetry journal from 2013, but the quotation was from the translator's notes to this poem:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56322/from-old-english-rune-poem

[Anonymous No.11735862]

All day the sum has shone on the surface of some savage swamp, where the single spruce stands hung with usnea lichen, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulks beneath; but now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.

[Anonymous No.11735869]

>>11735862
Sun not sum

[Anonymous No.11735871]

>peasants? They lived in tents at 50 degrees below - but they made

[Anonymous No.11735912]

>>11723747
>I have dragged Hector behind my chariot and I will give him to the dogs to devour beside your funeral pyre.

[Anonymous No.11735944]

>"You are surprised, are you not?"

Wow it's just like I had consulted an actual fortune teller

[Anonymous No.11735973]

I was not long in discovering that she was a frequent visitor at the Castle; for on our going in, and my complimenting Wemmick on his ingenious contrivance for announcing himself to the Aged, he begged me to give my attention for a moment to the other side of the chimney, and disappeared.

[Anonymous No.11735981]

>>11735722
>when you ask the fortune teller why her predictions are always wrong

[Anonymous No.11735988]

>No mention of Keatings name had appeared in Tooheys column

[Anonymous No.11735990]

>>11730318
what is this

[Anonymous No.11735995]

>>11735988
Disappointing line, desu, could have been way more provocative

[Anonymous No.11736022]

>"Dog any good?" asked the Trader, removing his pipe and pointing to the observant Deuce.

I should remark that he is inquiring as to whether the dog is skilled at hunting, not whether it will make a fine supper.

[Anonymous No.11736035]

>>11723747
>love ever your neighbor as yourself

[Anonymous No.11736041]

>>11736035
well get over there

[Anonymous No.11736044]

>>11723747
"This depends vitally on the use to which it can be put."

woaaahhh

[Anonymous No.11736051]

>>11723747
"They haven't quite made up their minds yet. "
Guess I'm a polytheist now?

[Anonymous No.11736079]

>>11723747
>"The laborer is worthy of his food." Has the Lord healed you of the fever of sin?

[Anonymous No.11736082]

>>11736079
I will be a wage/christ-cuck

[Anonymous No.11736098]

"Thus they are always unconsciously etching these pictures of their thought enemies deeper and deeper in their character."

Fuck

[Anonymous No.11737585]

"I could sleep soundly."

i guess this is a sign to go through with it after all

[Anonymous No.11737593]

>>11737585
don't give up anon, seek the light

[Anonymous No.11737897]

>>11723747
with eagerness and anxiety in anticipation of the hand

[Anonymous No.11737911]

>>11723747
>She falls from the lower-most stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf.

W-what do I do???

[Anonymous No.11737955]

>"If you don't get annoyed giving some extra effort, then you will get the reward of copious yield."

[Anonymous No.11738051]

>>11723747
>The result is more than an admixture: he crystalizes and connects issues of perception and constitutive or regulative ideas, of associationism, of theories of lang. and poetic diction, and of the function of i. into a mimesis that "humanizes" nature not only by reproducing natural objects and forms (the "fixities and definites" manipulated by fancy) but also by imitating the living process through which they exist and through which we feel and realize them.