/lit/ - Literature

>>22894324
My wild charger
My mount (suggestive, but that shouldn't be a problem in a setting with centaurs)
Stud
Destrier (obscure, but French and thus romantic)
My little pony

>>22891913
Manas? Is it good?
In fact, I wanted to ask: is Döblin like Melville in that his other major works are almost just as good as his magnum opus, or is he more of a one-trick pony?

>>22886123
Barneyfag has not posted in this thread yet? Is he dead? And more to the point, who's your favourite pony, OP? Better not be some shit taste garbage side character.

>>22870526
>I loved Learning How to Learn. Motivated me to pony up the $80 bucks for Fihi ma Fihi.
You should definitely pick up Knowing How to Know and The Commanding Self, then, too. They make a sort of loose trilogy with LHTL.

Shah made special note of The Commanding Self’s importance in his corpus and, from my reading of it, it indeed seems to have this importance, being a sort of ‘master key’ to unlock more meanings in his works and the Sufi stories he gives.

>Also, al-Hallaj running down the streets screaming "I AM THE TRUTH" is a hugely significant event in spirituality. Hell, it's the spiritual version of E = mc^2. Shaths in general are great, but that one really takes the cake.
‘I’ is always phenomenologically and ontologically primordial in coming to understand or interface with Truth, Being, Reality, Existence, or whatever label you give this. It is the given, the presupposition of all thought, existence, or experience at all. Any interface with Reality always presupposes the ‘I’ who is interacting with it (or comprises it).

A dangerous misinterpretation of this can lead to spiritual narcissism and megalomania (like Jung’s idea of inflation, which could come from strong identification with an archetype in Jungian thought, but also, as I’d extrapolate it, could come from strong identification with a religious teaching or spiritual teacher). In Sufi terminology, to believe that’s one’s nafs, or ego, lower self, dog-like outer personality, or what Shah translates as the commanding self, is utterly divine, justified in everything, etc., and that it is the real ‘I’ being spoken of here, would be the risk here, and what authentic Sufi teaching tries to ameliorate.

‘I am the Truth’ is true for everyone. But, as in Hallaj’s case, it’s liable to produce some controversy when stated that plainly. It’s seen as blasphemy.

Honestly you should read Red Pony by Steinbeck. Blew my mind as a young disgruntled reader. Really got me into literature

I loved Learning How to Learn. Motivated me to pony up the $80 bucks for Fihi ma Fihi.

Also, al-Hallaj running down the streets screaming "I AM THE TRUTH" is a hugely significant event in spirituality. Hell, it's the spiritual version of E = mc^2. Shaths in general are great, but that one really takes the cake.

>>22859462
ok some more
>2.p1 insert elated for elatoed
>2.p1 something's fucked up with the phrase "a big fucking intense". not any particular clue here, maybe insert "a big fucking intensity"? not really sure what the intended effect is here
>2.p2 for "organisation and that" insert "organisation that" (unless this is intentional, indicating a run-on of thought. use your discretion)
>2.p2 insert "But in" for "But In"
>2.p4 insert "cock in" for "cock on"
>2.p2 has a case to be made for amending "post modern" to "postmodern" given the later usage of the term "postmodernism", for consistency's sake. i'd make the change, but i don't think it matters that much
>2.p4 insert "Java My Little Pony" for "java my little pony". this is probably a matter of stylistic taste tbqh, but i think the indication of title and status makes the point better. could leave as is if you wanted
>4.p2 insert "action" for "aktion" (unless i'm missing something here. this is a pretty unlikely mistake, after all)

>>22836381
I'm going to leave it on. I'd like to minimize the time I'm sifting through excel documents during the holidays.
>MFW someone writes a script to automatically create Google Accounts and post "My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic" hundreds of times.
>>22836397
When you access the form it notifies you that I won't be able to see the emails associated with the responses. There's no possibility of data collection on my end.

>>22836183
I remember watching the anon that hosted it last year delete 50+ My Little Pony submissions in real time.
I'll keep it locked.

Trump's win proves that the two parties collude to maintain their strangle hold. Clinton pretty much handed him the election, her campaign strategies after the primary were pretty much designed to alienate men and moderates, the more she lost from those demographics the harder she pushed on those strategies and her debate skills dropped to high school debate tier. She threw the election because a Trump win would push more moderates to the left, push the far left back towards the middle and push the far right out of the GOP, it was exactly what was needed to avoid a third party of any note arising.

The GOP primary was pretty much a dog and pony show.

And then we got the beige president so everything could calm down. Next year will either be the republican version of Biden or Biden. Last I looked at the list of GOP candidates left me leaning towards Biden, the Obama and Trump years are still too fresh in the moderates minds to go with anything but nice bland and safe beige.

>>22814103
>trying to slip a pony in under the radar
I still find it hilarious that you guys became enough of a nuisance to warrant a containment board and I miss the brony mass suicide threads that were common for a few years after pony content outside of /mlp/ became instant ban. Good times.

>>22813203
Ok faggot, pony up a selfie and I might begrudgingly sulk away.

Just wait until I tell you guys about My Little Pony.

>>22801464
Kek I probably was, I'm a one trick pony

>can remember a meal he had 18 years ago
>extremely well traveled
>japanese father
>sri lankan stepdad
>monolingual
Why are top-tier chess players such one-trick pony pseuds?

>>22751188
>book that is cute and feels buoyant and surreal
maybe a my little pony fanfic lmao

>>22741251
>My Little Pony Adventures in Pedophilia

>>22733725
You should read the following books in any order. All the works of Blatavatsky. The Master and Margarita. Gravity's Rainbow. Hop on Pop. My Little Pony Adventures in Pedophilia. How I Did It. Everyone Poops. Giraffes Can't Dance. A Field Guide to Raping Rhinos. The Satanic Bible.

>>22718654
then there's this understated gem:
>Lady Emily Winter-Willoughby was the Duke's daughter; she was nearly as tall as her father, but she was not conspicuous for beauty of feature or of dress. For a fleeting moment, Curzon, as his eyes wandered over her face, was conscious of a likeness between her features and those of Bingo, the best polo pony he ever had.

91)
“Is love the only thing?” she asked, in low, sweet tones that seemed to bring a calm even to my wrung heart. “If love were the only thing, I would follow you — in rags, if need be — to the world’s end; for you hold my heart in the hollow of your hand! But is love the only thing?”


92)
What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?

[*]


93)
Who could fail to read the sermon in the stones of Newport? Who could think that the building of a railroad could guarantee salvation, when there on the lawns of the men who built the railroad nothing is left but the shadows of migrainous women, and the pony carts waiting for the long-dead children?


94)
Lordings, this question would I aske now,
Which was the moste free, as thinketh you?


95)
How cud any 1 not want to get that shyning Power back from time back way back? How cud any 1 not want to be like them what had boats in the air and picters on the wind? How cud any 1 not want to see them shyning weals terning?


96)
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?


97)
“What! art thou, too, one of them? Thou, my son!”

[*]


98)
The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever . . . I know where *I* came from — *but where did all you zombies come from?*


99)
What’s that by your trough, Mr. Pugh?


100)
Some years ago, being with a camping party in the mountains, I returned from a solitary ramble to find everyone engaged in a ferocious metaphysical dispute. The corpus of the dispute was a squirrel — a live squirrel supposed to be clinging to one side of a tree-trunk; while over against the tree’s opposite side a human being was imagined to stand. This human witness tries to get sight of the squirrel by moving rapidly round the tree, but no matter how fast he goes, the squirrel moves as fast in the opposite direction, and always keeps the tree between himself and the man, so that never a glimpse of him is caught. The resultant metaphysical problem now is this: DOES THE MAN GO ROUND THE SQUIRREL OR NOT?

&ampByLit.com Presents:
A thread:

>aspersions desperately cast
>projects shamelessly shilled
>crackheads categorically fingered
>lore perpetually established
>stalker hoes breakdown
>excommunicated artists seethe
>magazines entirely deceased
>authors ultimately quit
>many boundaries conceded
>turbo antisemites exposed
>exploitative contracts revealed
>time graciously wasted
>losers somehow winning
>winners always losing
>a dog in the fight
>some skin in the game
>freaks and geeks
>killers and thrillers
>fat virgin niggers
>homeless smack addicts
>lazy sordid NEETs
>regretful posts
>hilarious takes
>ghastly admissions of guilt
>acknowledgements of virtue
>dead bodies on the floor
>angels in the sky
>a fly in the ointment
>a murder of crows
>loose change
>sudden movements
>dog and pony
>cat and mouse
>cheap laughs
>shriek cries
>fat doobies
>small victories
>vacant stares
>bashful smirks

Thank you /lit/, I think I get it now.

Dumb mans smart writer. Guy's a one trick pony. Read Blood Meridian. CM is embarassing. And everyone praising him as High Lit proves himself to be illiterate

>>22673619
>>22673503
Berserk has an alarm to it that the old relics lack. The Bible has an alarm to it that if you believe in the last days alone this book has a threat to it. Berserk assumes you relate to Guts and his distance from the Holy See. It is written in Japanese for a Japanese audience and this Holy See symbol is a polite polemic that was ported to the west. This alone should give the westerner effaced self awareness. The Westerner is left like Guts alone in the wilderness with his painfully real realization that the castle strewn landscape is ignorant of. I felt it and resonated when I finally found someone signaling this massive departure from precedent. It is their native precedent. It is the precedent of my Pre Christian ancestors. It is a message of Exodus that is more valuable than the marketplace gallery and pony dog show. It simply says "i feel it too bro". Like Nietzsche's Zarathustra, it does not replace 2000 years of monastic civilization but it flips the narrative on its head. Milk for babes and meat for strong men says the evangelist. This one is meat. The fancy gala can starve for all I care, their full suite of curation is dust to me.

>>22667088
Put on a pony tail on him and make him slightly less repulsive and it’s my sister