/lit/ - Literature

CR7 is better than Lionel Messi, btw. And I am not a Poonited fan nor a Spanish Fagdrista, hate or dislike all the clubs he played for, except Al Nassr.

>>23304319
>And so while Messi regretfully leaves Barcelona in a flood of tears and turns up at Paris almost despite himself, Ronaldo seemingly returns to United in triumph, the master of his own destiny, again bending the gravity of football to his will. This is why the speed and manner of his arrival – and the gushing, reverential coverage that followed – felt like its own statement of power, cucking Messi, Manchester City and Cavani in a single awesome swoop. Naturally, there will be haters and doubters arguing that Ronaldo doesn’t press, that his best years are behind him, that United still don’t have a midfield. But how many sit-ups have they ever done?

>The fight is eternal, and there are always new enemies to trounce and new ways in which to trounce them. As Ronaldo prepares for his second debut against Newcastle United on Saturday, the terms of success remain unclear. The merits of his transfer will continue to generate debate until United end their wait for a big trophy. But ultimately, you can’t argue with the numbers.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/sep/10/cristiano-ronaldo-phenomenon-tyranny-of-numbers-manchester-united

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>“Goals are like ketchup. When it comes out of the bottle, it all comes out at once.”
Cristiano Ronaldo channeled his inner Nietzsche with this analogy in 2010, while he was enduring a goal drought.

>>23304316
>There is a distinct, curiously insular world view being presented in these adverts: one that goes beyond a simple narcissism and reimagines the self as a sort of live project, a machine being continually honed and improved in the name of conquest. There’s no greater meaning in the world out there, beyond the meaning you will impose upon it. The fight is eternal, and only one person can win it, so you’ll need a regime. Do the sit-ups. Take the online degree. Use the pearlised mica-white anti-dandruff shampoo. Win a woman.

>Of course, Ronaldo the person is a much more complex and conflicted individual than popular representations of him would have you believe. The manner in which he hauled himself out of his impoverished upbringing in Madeira through clear-eyed ambition and a superhuman work ethic continues to provide a source of genuine inspiration to many. And yet there are times when it is not entirely clear where Ronaldo the man ends and Ronaldo the cult begins.

>In 2018, Ronaldo was publicly accused of rape by Kathryn Mayorga, a former teacher who claimed in Der Spiegel that Ronaldo had forced himself upon her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009. (In 2019 police concluded that criminal charges could not be brought as the accusation could not “be proven beyond reasonable doubt”.)

>Ronaldo has always denied raping Mayorga, describing the allegations as “fake news”. Meanwhile, those around him immediately mobilised a counter-strategy. In the weeks after the Der Spiegel investigation was published, Ronaldo’s mother and sister posted a picture of Ronaldo in a Superman cape, and urged his fans to do the same. Ronaldo’s lawyers described the accusations as “outrageous”, an attempt “to destroy a reputation built thanks to hard work, athletic ability and behavioural correction”. To this day Mayorga continues to be subjected to vicious, misogynistic personal attacks on social media.

>Of course, Ronaldo can hardly be expected to bear responsibility for the thousands of creepy fanboys posting abuse in his name. But for whatever reason, his feats on the football pitch have attracted a certain strand of angry young male towards him, the sort motivated less by his peerless penalty-box movement or immaculate technical ability than by what they feel he stands against.

>Or as his friend Piers Morgan put it in a recent Mail on Sunday column: “In a woke-ravaged world that increasingly seems to celebrate failure and weakness more than success and in which quitting in sport is now inexplicably seen as brave and heroic, Ronaldo is a refreshingly unashamed advocate of winning and resilience.”

>His Manchester United return feels like a statement of power from a man who has cultivated a brand of individualistic devotion

>The No 7 shirt already had an occupant: striker Edinson Cavani, and under Premier League rules Cavani was required to retain it for the season. Yet when you are as famous as Ronaldo, it turns out that there is an extent to which you can make up your own rules. When you see something you want, you don’t get too hung up on niceties and boundaries. You take it, as firmly and assuredly as if it had been yours all along.

>There was a kind of breathtaking ruthlessness to the way Ronaldo simply annexed the United No 7 shirt in a matter of hours: the necessary hurdles cleared, the necessary rules relaxed, the necessary arrangements made.

>This is in keeping with the nature of the Ronaldo phenomenon at large: a tyranny of numbers, a bewildering maelstrom of records and statistics that the player’s many fans all over the world like to blazon and trumpet as empirical evidence of their man’s supremacy. The numbers aren’t the adjunct to a wider point: they are the point. It is a curious sort of greatness, the sort that is not really meant to be appreciated or discussed, but rather something that is aggressively forced upon you, wielded like a blunt weapon.

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>Delve into the howling wildernesses of the internet, on sites such as Reddit and 4chan and men’s fitness forums, and what Ronaldo embodies above all is something larger than simply goals and medals. To a certain cross-section of disaffected young males from which he seems to draw the core of his fanbase, he represents a sort of ultimate masculinity: vindication, vengeance, pride, indestructibility, physical dominance, the satisfaction of crushing your enemies underfoot. Ronaldo wins, and so by extension everyone else – including the “manlet” Messi – loses.

>To an extent this is simply the brazen, warlike nature of online idolatry. But more than perhaps any footballer who has ever lived, Ronaldo has also cultivated this brand of individualistic devotion around himself. Watch one of Messi’s many endorsement adverts and almost invariably he is entering some sort of social setting. Messi turns up on a plane and starts kicking a ball around. Messi turns up at a petrol station and starts kicking a can of soft drink around. Messi turns up at your flat party bearing crisps.

>Almost without exception, Ronaldo adverts feature him and him only. Ronaldo lit against a dark background, holding a bottle of shampoo. Ronaldo alone in his empty mansion, surrounded by prickly plants and gold ornaments. An oiled and grimacing Ronaldo doing sit-ups. If anyone else is present it is invariably a woman, sultry and mute, moved to the very brink of ecstasy by Ronaldo’s mere presence, his smell, his ability to perform keepy-uppies with a CGI moon.

>>18014020
1. e4
your move /lit/

Why is music haram?

https://vocaroo.com/kaXm2GR6sFV

Have you learn to comprehend audio in 4 times speed yet?

accelerate with me brother

Best book to learn if you're ~1700 elo (rapid)?
Also: E5, use a name

>>8859760
Is it a general consensus that egwene is the absolute worst character?

>>5447216
Is that Khunn?

>>2825562

Also, you're fucking 19 years old. Do you even think that you posses even half of the maturity and knowledge that it takes to write even a half-good book? What do you want, to write a teenager fantasy book like Chris Paolini?
"I'm already way in head of you on that one".
Really? Are you really giving us this shit? You should know that facts prove thatalmost every and any good writer has had an unbelievably deep relationship with reality. He either ate books for breakfast, lunch and dinner or lived life in ways that others could hardly stand. I'm quite sure he didn't have the "become da big writer" thought in mind, because he wrote spontaneously.

>>2825534

It's not hard to see that there is a megacornucopia of styles that make a book worth reading. Focusing on picking one is the best way to imbue your writing of faggotry.
Just experiment, rise both your cultural level and your life experience, and develop your very own style. Otherwise you will most likely write stupid unoriginal content that catches the masses and falls into oblivion in a couple years. What can be defined as "pop writing", you know.

>>1365363
aw shit this is terrible

thanks dawg

>>1365359
i just wanted to read about submarines sneaking around and being awesome

like 80% of the book is on dry land, and involves long walks on the beach and vivid, lengthy descriptions of what the characters are eating for lunch and shit

>>1365350
i got rid of it

but he says stuff like "finding her love-channel primed and ready"

like really bad romance-novely stuff

soup /lit/

is there a generally accepted "worst novel of all time"?

pic probably not related, but it's pretty bad... ham-handed sex scenes, most of the book not on or about submarines, padding padding padding, all the dialog sounds the same, whether it's a chinese peasant or a thai stripper or a russian submarine commander, etc etc

>>1125329
That's the joke.

Dude, no malls have bookstores.

Ulysses.

>>1064060
A parody of old spy flicks is not worthy of being called modern literature. MGS2 is postmodernism and cyberpunk at its best, however.

Metal Gear Solid 2.

>>1058477
Nigga you trolling.

>>1049010
Now what is this?

It's mostly the average /lit/ resident's fault for pirating books and not buying them if they like them. So pat yourselves on the backs.