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 No.23[Reply]

Why does literature seem to lose its metaphysical weight once you've really internalized that God is dead? I don't mean Nietzschean cope-posting, I mean it literally. I've been reading deeply — Dostoevsky, Woolf, Beckett, Bernhard — and I can’t shake this sense that they were still, in some way, grappling with a metaphysical architecture that no longer exists. I used to feel awe. Now I feel like I’m watching ghosts pace a burned-down house. Is there a literature of post-collapse? Of spiritual exhaustion after the death of transcendence?

 No.24

Look at Blanchot "the Writing of the Disaster". He’s not even mourning anymore. He’s describing the ash that remains after mourning is over. Literature that no longer seeks to say anything, just to bear witness to the remains.

 No.54

You put into words a feeling I've had for a while now. Was reading Tolstoy recently and a sense of deep loneliness pervaded the experience. The central ideas of faith and God just made me feel bitter, like I was looking in through a shop window at something I'll never be able to afford. Haven't yet found anything that fills the hole, I'm afraid. Maybe one day society will see the "metaphysical architecture," as you put it, of today's books in a similar way to how we see the metaphysical ruins of Homer. The mindset and worldview and mental struggles of Raskolnikov will seem as foreign as the values and ethos of Achilles.

 No.55


The Death of Tragedy by George Steiner argues that some belief in a higher power, not necessarily religious in nature, is essential for tragedy as well as Epic novels/poetry.

 No.195

I used to feel this way, but now I have a direct connection with God and see that I was just stuck in my own head.



 No.3[Reply]

It seems odd to profane this empty canvas of a board. Post Number three (3).

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
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 No.170

>>3
Ok but what if you replaced every single part of that ship with an identical other.
Would it still be the same ship? Congrats for sailing to page 3 btw. The trinity synchronicity is growing.

 No.192

>>170
I think you'd pay some kind of tax for that in the Satrapy of Lydia. Maybe you'd be imprisoned for tax evasion.



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 No.32[Reply]

So what exactly are the rules for this place? You only have the /lit/ board and I guess a meta board? Is this like 4chan or are you trying to do your own thing?
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 No.79

>>74
Keep doing what youre doing, this place is great and really feels like an actual successor to /lit/… like a rebirth of its good old days. I hate what /lit/ became, and I remember we used to talk about making a /lit/ seperate imageboard, this is probably the best opportunity we will ever have of making that happen.

I'll do what I can to spread the word and make a thread about it this weekend.

 No.156

>>74
4chan is back and people will probably go there. But keep this place up, I think it will gain traction sooner or later.

 No.158


>>74
I think /lit/chan really has potential. Thank fuck for the anthill getting kicked this week, because if /lit/ can't find a way to distance itself from containment boards, its days are numbered.

 No.168

>>158
Christ, I visited lit a couple of times before finding this site after 4chan came back online and it's somehow worse?!

 No.169

>>158
I think a little variation from the 4chan original could spice things up. Creating a seperate board for scifi and fantasy /lit/ for example.



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 No.111[Reply]

Whats the rarest book you own?

Pic related. Its Kleine Welten a collection of prints published by Wassily Kandinsky in 1922. There were only 300 copies ever made. Very abstract, but the prints are interesting all the same.
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>>111
Nice trips my man.

 No.152

>>111
Schauspiel des Geistes (Spectacle the of Mind) by Marc Lang, a former world record holder for playing 46 simultaneous chess games while blindfolded. Published by an obscure German chess publishing house, funded by an international company for dental implant tech, who’s CEO at that time was an avid chess player (and someone who studied philosophy at university). Recommended reading for all fellow blindfold chess player out there.

 No.155

>>152
Fascinating. How does he keep track of all the different boards? I assume he goes into detail on his techniques?

Title reminds me somewhat of the work of Frances Yates on memory palaces.

 No.163

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>>111
This one I guess. At least I can't find it anywhere for a reasonable price now. Bought it while he was still alive. Around six years ago.

 No.166

>>155
As far as I remember, he is naturally gifted at visualizing several chess boards at once. In his simul, the most difficult part was getting through the opening phase, where positions can be quite similar, and memory inference is problematic.



 No.124[Reply]

/lit/ midwits. I summon you.

 No.133

>>124
Never read it. Is it good? I heard that reddit likes it. I think I would rather read Foundation from my sci-fi to-do pile.

 No.140

I've never read this book but am ready to larp as if I had.

 No.141

>>140
So, what is it like? Did you enjoy the ending of the first part? What is it about?

 No.157

>>133
The foundation series as a whole sucks unless you are already a fan of that dry sci-fi from that era. Read the first couple to get a gist but keep in mind that there is no big payoff or better book later in the series.



 No.147[Reply]

>/lit/ clone
>No Hegel thread
Let's fix that.

https://hegel.net/en/e0.htm

 No.149

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>>147
>>Hegel? Can you believe that guy… he's still haunted by the Begriffe of Scholasticism.
>>Doesn't even ask about the Sinn von Sein
>>Has he ever considered torturing his wife mentally for decades by cheating on her until becoming a literal vegetable after a stroke
>>smh!

 No.154

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>poopenfarten!



 No.64[Reply]

loneliness edition
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 No.82

>>69
Do fraternity students still do mensur in germany? Ive always thought it would be cool to get one of those scars but i heard thats not a thing anymore.

 No.86

>>82
They definitely still do. But the scars are less pronounced and noticeable, since fraternity members don’t rub dirt and whatever else into the wound to get it infected.
Most but not all fraternities still require fencing, but lost don‘t require mensur. Technically most never required you do mensur, but it’s always been a natural development from being a part of the fraternity and the fencing. These days it’s mostly about the drinking and being chuddy, but I guess that’s what fraternities always were about. The extend of the drinking has increased, however. One of the guys who was really into fencing in one of the fraternities I frequented also got himself into the hospital for alcohol poisoning four times in a year. That’s the last I heard of him.

 No.121

>>86
Rubbing dirt into a facial scar is a crazy thing to do. So are there any German politicians/public figures with Mensur scars today? I had thought the sport died out tbh, you never see the bug noticable scars these days.

Otherwise German fraternities sound exactly like the American ones. Shame. I thought they had more swordplay and funny hats.

 No.145

>>121
There are some in the more 'conservative' adjacent parties. You'd think there would be a lot in the AfD, but from what I've seen that's not the case.
Student fraternities are their own thing. They're conservative in their own way.

 No.153

This might be a good place in the future…



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 No.4[Reply]

To A New Beginning.
Call to Adventure Edition.

>Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)

https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb
>Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

 No.6

I recently read Elric for the first time, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
It's delightfully simple. I am missing all of the annoying DnD-isms and grand world building concepts, the competition in justifying fantasy and fiction from the viewpoint of rational scientific society and history.
It's just fiction, it's enjoyable fiction. Especially the first book is such decent read.
It really reminded me of the way I felt reading Howard's Conan stories…

 No.50

>>4
Ministry Of The Future was not as good as I thought it would be. Is the Mars Trilogy worth reading or nah

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This should be it's own board.
Call it "The Shadow Realm".



 No.126[Reply]

For years Rubedo Press has been one of my favorite publishers and a few years ago someone on the 4chinz /lit/ had mentioned that they highly recommended their book Alchemical Traditions which has been up at bad for a second edition (SOON TO BE RELEASED) for like 4+ years. I preordered it for 50 bux, but whenever I ask the publisher (every 6 months or so) when its coming out he will say its about to and then it doesnt. I trust the dude(s) but am I the only /litizen/ waiting on this?

 No.132

>I ask the publisher (every 6 months or so) when its coming out he will say its about to and then it doesnt.
Whenever I ask my (male) literate friends when they're going to release their 'basically finished' collection of short-stories and poems I get the same answer. They do eventually release, but it takes three years and for two of those three years they sat on the text doing Keta or smoking Opium travelling in Europe and jumping from one art hoe orbiter to another.
For women it tends to be a different story. Profoundly mid, most works are adaptions and collect rather than boast. They release, but it's flatulence and wet, mildly warm. Like women.

 No.134

>>132
based retort. yea i mean, i told Aaron Cheak I trust he will release it in the end, and hes been saying they are still working on doing other translations of some of Fulcanelli's source texts that are due to come out EVENTUALLY but its just wild to have a book preordered like 3 years ago almost now and still to get the same responses. I completely agree with you that most of the time they are just sitting around getting stoned or drunk and running after women or whatever. Im always tempted to say to Cheak "have you been so busy creating the Stone you havent had time to finish the book?"

 No.135

>>132
womens book releases are like wet warm queefs, with some exceptions. ill remember this analogy for when its needed. thank you.

 No.138

>>134
>>how do you get your ideas?
>>they come to me
>how they come to him:

 No.139

>>138
sauce please?



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 No.100[Reply]

Who was the sexiest author of all time? If the quality of their work is considered as a factor, I say it's Calasso.
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 No.113

Hipparchia of Maroneia

It shows a lot you guys all answered men

 No.114

>>113
Also Cleopatra the Alchemist

 No.119

>>113
>Hipparchia fell in love with Crates, and developed such a passion for him, that she told her parents that if they refused to allow her to marry him, she would kill herself. They begged Crates to dissuade her, and he stood before her, removed his clothes, and said, "Here is the bridegroom, and this is his property."[2] Hipparchia, however, was quite happy with this; she adopted the Cynic life assuming the same clothes that he wore, and appearing with him in public everywhere.[5] Crates called their marriage "dog-coupling" (cynogamy).[6]

 No.128

>>119
from the context of the time and place, infinitely more based was this than the lives of the beat generation and the remainder of 20th and 19th century writters.

 No.129

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>>128
also Xanthippe.



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