/lit/ - Literature

Anasûrimbor! I WILL REMEMBER YOU!

Anasûrimbor! I WILL REMEMBER YOU!

I read a bunch of 500-700 page books but since I do it in an e-reader, it's displayed as 1200 pages so then I tell all my coworkers that I just knocked out another 1200 page book and they look at me impressed and when I'm introduced to others, my coworkers as "this is anon. He's a big reader."

And I smile.

>>18176436
>Is The Darkness that Comes Before a good starting point for fantasy/medieval genre?

It's more of an ending point.

Cicero on why machines will never compete with humans in any art:

>"No other animal feels the beauty, elegance, symmetry, of the things that he sees; while by nature and reason, man, transferring these qualities from the eyes to the mind, considers that much more, even, are beauty, consistency, and order to be preserved in purposes and acts, and takes heed that he do nothing indecorous or effeminate, and still more, that in all his thoughts and deeds he neither do nor think anything lascivious. From these elements the right, which is the object of our inquiry, is composed and created; and this, even if it be not ennobled in title, yet is honorable, and even if no one praise it, we truly pronounce it in its very nature worthy of all praise." - De Officiis

>>9281941

>Poorly written

The Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Upanishads, the Rig Veda, and the Havamal are all objectively better written than anything in the Bible. Even St. Augustine acknowledged the superiority of pagan literature, and wrote about how guilty he felt for enjoying it more than the Bible.

The pagan philosophical traditions, such as Platonism and Stoicism, are far more substantial than any form of Christianity.

>>9244116

Music is dangerous nonsense and 90% of it should be banned.

Over 2300 years ago, Aristotle spoke about music and its ability to communicate the emotional states of humans:

>"Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form."

Aristotle recognized that music communicates emotion, and that immoral music can shape our character for the worse.

Plato noticed the effect that music had on society in his day and made the following observation:

>"Any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state, and ought to be prohibited. When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them."

Plato also spoke about the contribution music made to the moral decline of ancient Greece:

>"They were men of genius, but they had no perception of what was just and lawful in music...And by composing licentious works, and adding to them words as licentious, they have inspired the multitude with lawlessness and boldness, and made them fancy that they could judge for themselves about melody and song...in music there first arose the universal conceit of omniscience and general lawlessness; freedom came following afterwards, and men, fancying that they knew what they did not know, had no longer any fear, and the absence of fear begets shamelessness. For what is this shamelessness, which is so evil a thing, but the insolent refusal to regard the opinion of the better by reason of an over-daring sort of liberty?"

>Not entering with the engineers

There are entire novels written in our DNA, the first real story humans have written.