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Recent releases
A thread for new releases, or at least books published within the last ten years.
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ITT: Last book you finished
and the one you're reading next.
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Post what's interesting to you and why. Link or post your own art if you like.
Global rules apply.
/a/rt and critique
This thread is dedicated to the discussion and presentation of visual art.Post what's interesting to you and why. Link or post your own art if you like.
Global rules apply.
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Sculptural Art
Carving, Modeling, Casting, Assemblage, Installation, …
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How this works:
>go to: https://topsters.org/
>add your 9 favorite books
>download chart
>post result in this thread
>rate others tastes, give each other recs, hate, psychoanalyse, be pretentious about translation or edition choices, guess age, employment, chin length, sexuality, daily routine, … the possibilities are endless.
>???
>profit
Foolproof guide for the technologically illiterate:
>options > Width: 3 > Height: 3
>add items > books > search for: [insert favorite book here]
>no result or wrong cover?
>search for cover on the webz
>open as image > copy image url
>add items > custom > paste url (="image link")
>insert title and creator manually (optional)
>click "Generate chart item"
>drag it to the right (clicking on it works aswell)
>repeat x9
>arrange however it pleases you
>click download button
>post result in this thread
>see above
book taste chart thread
3x3 editionHow this works:
>go to: https://topsters.org/
>add your 9 favorite books
>download chart
>post result in this thread
>rate others tastes, give each other recs, hate, psychoanalyse, be pretentious about translation or edition choices, guess age, employment, chin length, sexuality, daily routine, … the possibilities are endless.
>???
>profit
Foolproof guide for the technologically illiterate:
>options > Width: 3 > Height: 3
>add items > books > search for: [insert favorite book here]
>no result or wrong cover?
>search for cover on the webz
>open as image > copy image url
>add items > custom > paste url (="image link")
>insert title and creator manually (optional)
>click "Generate chart item"
>drag it to the right (clicking on it works aswell)
>repeat x9
>arrange however it pleases you
>click download button
>post result in this thread
>see above
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Starting off with some classics.
The Lost Art of Illustration
Talk about your favorite illustrators, the most beautiful books you have ever seen and share some illustrations with other enthusiasts of this almost extinct art form.Starting off with some classics.
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• Widespread (willful) ignorance, apathy, misinformation, and disinformation about anorectal anatomy, physiology, and health are facilitating rampant anorectal violence.
• People with (self-)destructive inclinations, some affiliated with pornography companies, are having a field day with anorectal violence and spreading disinformation. This is contributing greatly to societal decay, aka decadence.
• Watching violent pornography can have numerous effects on some viewers (including inspiring them to the point of emulation, even using coercion).
• Pornography is being used as a substitute for sexual education in many cases.
• There are, or arguably most certainly should be, criminal implications for people who perpetrate anorectal violence against one or more others due to the possibility of serious injury and even potential for subsequent fatality. Furthermore, various additional factors on their own or combined can in some regions (and anywhere else arguably should) invalidate consent from a legal perspective; these include an actual result of serious injury, consequent fatality, use of a strong mind-altering drug, and the presence of a significant mental disorder such as a severe case of sexual masochism disorder.
It is long past time for many people to address these matters seriously and effectively.
• Blatantly injurious erotic anorectal violence—anoreceptive activity involving a combination of rapid thrusting, a girthy penis/object, and a prolonged duration—is rampant worldwide. It is impossible for resultant anal and rectal injuries and serious/chronic/permanent health consequences to be uncommon due to anorectal fragility relating to anatomy and neuromuscular physiology.• Widespread (willful) ignorance, apathy, misinformation, and disinformation about anorectal anatomy, physiology, and health are facilitating rampant anorectal violence.
• People with (self-)destructive inclinations, some affiliated with pornography companies, are having a field day with anorectal violence and spreading disinformation. This is contributing greatly to societal decay, aka decadence.
• Watching violent pornography can have numerous effects on some viewers (including inspiring them to the point of emulation, even using coercion).
• Pornography is being used as a substitute for sexual education in many cases.
• There are, or arguably most certainly should be, criminal implications for people who perpetrate anorectal violence against one or more others due to the possibility of serious injury and even potential for subsequent fatality. Furthermore, various additional factors on their own or combined can in some regions (and anywhere else arguably should) invalidate consent from a legal perspective; these include an actual result of serious injury, consequent fatality, use of a strong mind-altering drug, and the presence of a significant mental disorder such as a severe case of sexual masochism disorder.
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We had a music 3x3 sneak into the book thread. Since the /a/rt thread seems to be active - What do (you) listen to?
I recently discovered NTS Radio (https://www.nts.live/radio) and it has changed the way I expand on the music I already like. It's crazy that they're able to offer this for free in this day and age. Especially with the variety. More niche music is probably cheaper to license, but the sheer scale of tracks waiting to be listened to is astounding.
Given that with music you can easily tell if you like something or not. I suppose it's no surprise that more e/lit/e music can still be discovered easily, while the only way to actually discover new literature seems to be by hanging out in a Florentine xilografia forum, hoping someone shares what he found in a alley bookshop recently.
literate & music
Do you listen to music, compagno? I need to listen to something when I write. I only turn it off in moments where I need an almost monastical focus.We had a music 3x3 sneak into the book thread. Since the /a/rt thread seems to be active - What do (you) listen to?
I recently discovered NTS Radio (https://www.nts.live/radio) and it has changed the way I expand on the music I already like. It's crazy that they're able to offer this for free in this day and age. Especially with the variety. More niche music is probably cheaper to license, but the sheer scale of tracks waiting to be listened to is astounding.
Given that with music you can easily tell if you like something or not. I suppose it's no surprise that more e/lit/e music can still be discovered easily, while the only way to actually discover new literature seems to be by hanging out in a Florentine xilografia forum, hoping someone shares what he found in a alley bookshop recently.
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Is this it?
Is this it?
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Христос воскресе!
Christus resurrexit!
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!
Christus ist auferstanden!
I wish /lit/chan a happy Easter!
With this Easter greeting, we officially open /lit/chan.
To keep it literature-related, post your Easter greetings along with your favorite books or poems that remind you of the Easter spirit.
Happy Easter!
Christ is risen!Христос воскресе!
Christus resurrexit!
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!
Christus ist auferstanden!
I wish /lit/chan a happy Easter!
With this Easter greeting, we officially open /lit/chan.
To keep it literature-related, post your Easter greetings along with your favorite books or poems that remind you of the Easter spirit.
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Best novel of the 19th century
Better than Moby-Dick and only 250 pages
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Let's share some here, I'll start
Charts
What first brought me to 4chan's lit was the charts. I am not saying that I took them at face value, or that I read through the lists in the exact order etc. But it was a useful and visually pleasing 101 guide to many subjects!Let's share some here, I'll start
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That's it.
Think about it.
Everything starts to make sense from this perspective.
I just solved Theodicy
God is traumatized.That's it.
Think about it.
Everything starts to make sense from this perspective.
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What do I mean by that? I believe that there are certain books that you can only read, appreciate and really immerse yourself in their atmosphere at a certain time of year. An example of such a summer book for me is Albert Camus' “The Stranger”, where I think you can only really get into the mood when you read it in temperatures of at least 30 degrees Celsius and in the blazing, stifling sun. A similar book would be Jean-Philippe Toussaint's La Télévision.
Do you have any other ideas for summer books to read this summer?
In Search of Summer Books
Summer is just around the corner and I'm on the lookout for “summer books”.What do I mean by that? I believe that there are certain books that you can only read, appreciate and really immerse yourself in their atmosphere at a certain time of year. An example of such a summer book for me is Albert Camus' “The Stranger”, where I think you can only really get into the mood when you read it in temperatures of at least 30 degrees Celsius and in the blazing, stifling sun. A similar book would be Jean-Philippe Toussaint's La Télévision.
Do you have any other ideas for summer books to read this summer?
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Thread theme: https://mythenmetz.bandcamp.com/music
Which aspects from Moers' books have had a lasting impact on your life and personality?
Or if you're a casual reader: which parts did you find the most interesting?
For me, it was:
1) The concept of the "Orm" as a divine force that bestows creative inspiration upon writers during moments of profound artistic brilliance. (The City of Dreaming Books)
2) The idea of a Silver Thread as a fateful force that pulls towards one's destiny and leads towards true love if you follow it to the end. (Rumo)
3) The statement: "When you are loved, you always love back at least a little."
(regarding the mountain Hutze Fredda in The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear)
Which book is your personal favorite and why?
Zamonia Thread
A thread dedicated to the underrated genius that is Walter Moers.Thread theme: https://mythenmetz.bandcamp.com/music
Which aspects from Moers' books have had a lasting impact on your life and personality?
Or if you're a casual reader: which parts did you find the most interesting?
For me, it was:
1) The concept of the "Orm" as a divine force that bestows creative inspiration upon writers during moments of profound artistic brilliance. (The City of Dreaming Books)
2) The idea of a Silver Thread as a fateful force that pulls towards one's destiny and leads towards true love if you follow it to the end. (Rumo)
3) The statement: "When you are loved, you always love back at least a little."
(regarding the mountain Hutze Fredda in The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear)
Which book is your personal favorite and why?
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https://open.spotify.com/track/7ey2mawPCIN8VjI4V8MkEN?si=UJfjRaqZSHSYXuefUwd-dA
https://youtu.be/mjq4pjvyPRA?si=11b9ZGkmV9pJRXTE
https://youtu.be/mjq4pjvyPRA?si=xYM3JP1AyiIkh70g
Time paradox
Do you know any good book about time paradoxes?https://open.spotify.com/track/7ey2mawPCIN8VjI4V8MkEN?si=UJfjRaqZSHSYXuefUwd-dA
https://youtu.be/mjq4pjvyPRA?si=11b9ZGkmV9pJRXTE
https://youtu.be/mjq4pjvyPRA?si=xYM3JP1AyiIkh70g
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So, this is what you guys were up to while 4chan was down?
So, this is what you guys were up to while 4chan was down?
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Furthermore, was the consequence of the female behavior the responsibility of the respective man or woman?
In other words, would a hypothetical Penelope have betrayed an Menelaus archetype and a hypothetical Helen have stayed with an Odysseus archetype?
Why did Penelope remain faithful to Odysseus while Helen quickly betrayed Menelaus?
I'm aware they are archaic allegories of different idealised women types but what inherent traits lead to this quintessential distinction. In Helen and Penelope aswell as in Menelaus and Odysseus.Furthermore, was the consequence of the female behavior the responsibility of the respective man or woman?
In other words, would a hypothetical Penelope have betrayed an Menelaus archetype and a hypothetical Helen have stayed with an Odysseus archetype?
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What are you writing currently?
I'm trying to write an anthology of interrelated short-stories. I think that's probably the best approach for trying to finish something publishable.
Even if I don't finish the work, maybe one of the short-stories becomes a little longer, maybe fifty or sixty pages, and I can try to get it published in some way separately. That's at least my rationale. I don't know who said it first, but a good idea can be portrayed as a poem, a short-story, and even a novel. The techniques may differ between prose and poetry, between the tempo and scope of a short-story and a novel, but literature conveys a theme, which is expressed in structure, more so than a structure that is filled by a theme. I guess Sanderson may object to that, or call me a Gardener here, but that's how even my academic works 'grew'.
What are you writing currently?
I'm trying to write an anthology of interrelated short-stories. I think that's probably the best approach for trying to finish something publishable.
Even if I don't finish the work, maybe one of the short-stories becomes a little longer, maybe fifty or sixty pages, and I can try to get it published in some way separately. That's at least my rationale. I don't know who said it first, but a good idea can be portrayed as a poem, a short-story, and even a novel. The techniques may differ between prose and poetry, between the tempo and scope of a short-story and a novel, but literature conveys a theme, which is expressed in structure, more so than a structure that is filled by a theme. I guess Sanderson may object to that, or call me a Gardener here, but that's how even my academic works 'grew'.
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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?
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?
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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
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
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
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
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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?
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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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.
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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OBLIGATORY GENE WOLFE THREAD
/lit/ midwits. I summon you.
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/wwoym/ - Write What's On Your Mind
loneliness edition
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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
/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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
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Still Waiting For Rubedo Press
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?
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Who was the sexiest author of all time? If the quality of their work is considered as a factor, I say it's Calasso.
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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So what is this shit?
So what is this shit?
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Epic Poetry Battles: John Milton vs Ezra Pound
Who comes out on top in this dispute?
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Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.
/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.
Looking for books online? Check here:
Guide to #bookz
https://www.geocities.ws/prissy_90/Media/Texts/BookzHelp19kb.htm
Recommended Literature
https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Recommended_Reading
The discontinued /lit/ magazine & [lamp] https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/
Welcome to /lit/
/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss /lit/chan itself, or have technical questions or feedback, go to /m/. Philosophical discussion can go on /lit/, but those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.
/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.
Looking for books online? Check here:
Guide to #bookz
https://www.geocities.ws/prissy_90/Media/Texts/BookzHelp19kb.htm
Recommended Literature
https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Recommended_Reading
The discontinued /lit/ magazine & [lamp] https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/