/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16362239]

Name and summarize the last chapter that you've read in three lines of greentext or less otherwise you leave this board right now

[Anonymous No.16362350]

Fiiiineee uh!

>our weekdays are named after a system first used by the Chaldeans, who also invented the commonly used system of planetary hours that we in the west traditionally have used
>the system for planetary hours is built on the principle that the first hour (which always starts at sunrise, not midnight) is ruled by that day's planet, ie the first daylight hour of monday is ruled by the moon, after which the hours are categorized from the slowest to the fastest moving (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, the Moon). Because of the hours being dictated by sunrise and sunset they vary in length, hence why William Lilly called them 'the uneven hours'
>to quote Agrippa on the relations of the properties of the heavenly bodies: that which bears fruit is of Jupiter, that which bears flowers is of Venus, seed and bark are of Mercury, wood is of Mars, roots are of Saturn, and leaves are of the Moon

Not what you expected, was it?

[Anonymous No.16362370]

>>16362239
harry potter escapes the dursley family and arrives at hogsmeade, he meets other teachers and faculty and I didn't finish that chapter.

[Anonymous No.16363076]

>>16362239
a boy falls in love with a girl

[Anonymous No.16363108]

>>16362239
Have a haiku instead, pleb
>Hunter Seeker de
>-stroyed; I only care for Mommy
>Jessica's milkers

[Anonymous No.16363122]

>>16362239
>the world blows up cuz humans are shit but the monks escape to be space monks

[Anonymous No.16363123]

>Socrates explains why cooks will burn in hell

[Anonymous No.16363133]

>>16362239
>I don't like sex, it is against my morals
>Society forces me to sex and whip
>Kill myself

[Anonymous No.16363137]

>>16362239
>Leif and John discover a society of pygmies beneath the mist that covers the valley of the mirage
>the pygmies fear the witch-woman and her hunting wolves
>they worship the last remaining Hyperborean woman
>they've been in balance the last 1,000 years and the return of Leif as a prophetic figure has upset this balance greatly

[Anonymous No.16363147]

>>16362239
"rebellion"
>alyosha goes to meet dmitri, but runs into ivan
>ivan explains that he rejects the ultimate harmony promised in God
>gives a few detailed examples of children being tortured and murdered to justify this 'rebellion' of his

[Anonymous No.16363181]

Livy 23.32.5-12
>Carthage hears that they're being beaten in Spain
>But Sardinia is about to rebel against the Romans
>Carthage decides to send armies under Mago to Spain and under Hasdrubal to Sardinia

[Anonymous No.16363194]

>>16363122
> Surely our species is not degenerate enough to do it again
> Yes, we are cursed to eternally play the phoenix

[Anonymous No.16363243]

Year of the depend undergarment
>yo bro, tennis is infinite, lets get ice cream

[Anonymous No.16363962]

>Naoko is kill
>So let's have sex with her hot milf friend

Based Murakami

[Anonymous No.16364091]

>>16362239
>since birth it is our goal to achieve some sort of cosmic significance
>heroism is how we prove our self worth and is the greatest motivator and has destroyed and created entire nations
>todays society operates on the lie that giving money to these million dollar companies makes you a good person

[Anonymous No.16364114]

>>16362239
>Arseny and his Italian friend crossed the alps
>they were mugged by some highwaymen who later gave back the loot
>a Fransiscan monk lost his donkey

[Anonymous No.16364119]

>be me, addicted to let epic weed
>go to NA meeting
>it's a bunch of fat faggot instead

[Anonymous No.16364139]

>>16362239
>student kills old rich bitch and her sister
>takes a few valuables but overall bungles job
>gets rid of the weapon and gets home safely

[Anonymous No.16365131]

>>16362239
please don't shoot. I'll even do it in one line, from Letter XI, Seneca.
>not happy he who thinks himself not so

[Anonymous No.16365166]

>>16362239
>be me, tranny
>uhohnomoredope.jpg
>literally shit myself to death

[Anonymous No.16365210]

>two criminals go to mexico and hang out with a german guy and a mexican

[Anonymous No.16365236]

>>16362239
>Hyperboreans sent some bitches down south, two of dem be dead, buried behind Artemis' crib

[Anonymous No.16366356]

>>16362239
A Japanese fuckboi living in the 1000’s wants to fuck this old dudes young wife and is using her brother as leverage with her but she rejects him because she is loyal to her husband, despite hating the arranged nature of the marriage and preferring this young prince to her old bethrothed.

[Anonymous No.16366392]

>>16362239
>be me, space duke, constantly looking behind my back for potential signs of betrayal
>at least my doctor has loyalty conditioning from space feudal med-school so I can trust him
>why do I feel so woozy?

[Anonymous No.16366457]

>>16362239
>Roughly speaking, Greek mythological discourse starts with local affect-laden and often prehellenic folklore, who often became unreadable or unintelligible over time, and who was progressively recuperated and covered by less local theogonies (genealogies of gods) relying on images, metaphors and personification, often in with the intent to explain or erase that now barely intelligible original folklore (Hesiod's Theogony being the typical example)
>from the permutations, associations and substitutions allowed by theogonies (which are in a way more symbolic and imaginative than the folklore were) two types of discourses branched out: the early presocratics discourse of physics dealing with raw energies and phenomena, and the theological discourse dwelling on the properties and attributes of the god, often with relapse of the physical discourse into the theological, as seen many times in the later history of Greek philosophy
>Night occupies a ambiguous place in that process, as it was often one of the first general principle to emerge from the theogonies and to be substituted to the local gods, hence its multiple associations with lesser gods (Aphrodite, Hermes, Hades, Dionysos, Aslepios, the Dioscures...) as well as with Gaia. It may have or not have been an inspiration for Anaximander's undirected concept of the Apeiron (unlimited, without appendages or edges)


>>16362350
Very interesting anon. Which book.

[Anonymous No.16366470]

>this girl makes me horny, uneasy, but also gives me a greater appreciation for beauty in the world, i enjoy speaking with her greatly
>i should ask her mom if she wants me to fuck her
>i wish i could finish writing this letter so i could kill myself already

[Anonymous No.16366474]

11
>Horses are alive.
>Tractors aren't alive.
>Cats adjust to a feral lifestyle rather quickly.

[Anonymous No.16366482]

>>16366474
kek made me laugh
thanks

[Anonymous No.16366527]

>>16366457
>Which book
Christopher Warnock, secrets of planetary magic.

What's yours?

[Anonymous No.16366591]

>>16366527
Clémence Ramnoux, La Nuit et les Enfants de la Nuit (Night and the Children of Night).

Shamefully untranslated yet, and I doubt it will be anytime soon. But she was a student of Bachelard, whose work has definitely been translated.

[Anonymous No.16366600]

>>16366591
Ah mais c'est parfait parce que je parle le français. Merci bcp

[Anonymous No.16366636]

>>16362239
>The examining magistrate is embarrassed that young Rouletabille is better at investigation than him. Frederic Larson arrives in last moment to remind us he is the asshole of the story, by accusing the father to be the accomplice to his daughter's attacker.

[Anonymous No.16366640]

>>16362239
>goldfrey gets in the room with the perfect timing after the butler announces his prescense,after that,umm,that woman gives the butler the order to call raquel.
>the narrator,and the woman exchange greetings with goldfrey,little later raquel gets in the room,scruffy,and hastily sets goldfrey aside.
> -blablabla,was it the moonstone that "i forgot his name" introduced in the bank? -yeah,i was pawning it. -you're really good. She proceeded to make him write something,when finished it was firmed by raquel and left. Goldfrey burned it,was praised and the narrator caught up with the previous events

I don't really remember what the papers where from,i think it was to free goldfrey from burdens

[Anonymous No.16366789]

>>16362239
>Romulus and Remus is a cool story but probably didn't happen but gives us an insight to how Romans viewed themselves and their own history; when you imagine your beginnings being steeped in fratricide, rape and war does it make you more or less likely to tacitly accept the violence of your people and time?
>Roman genesis stories always revolve around an origin elsewhere than rome, a permanent populous of nomads and this feeling helped the growth of Rome as it could more easily take in outsiders and incorporate them culturally.
>Don't let your FUCKING animals poop near the altar.

[Anonymous No.16366803]

>>16362239
>Calculating standard deviation
>Find the sum of the squared difference between each individual piece of a set of data
>divide the result by n-1, then find the square root of the resulting number.

[Anonymous No.16366891]

>>16366803
Sounds like a pretty short chapter, was there nothing else in it?

[Anonymous No.16366912]

chapters?
uhh that's not really how the greeks work, newfriend

maybe you should leave?

[Anonymous No.16367125]

>>16362239
>Nominalism killed the medieval world view, the Black Death buried it
>It led to political and religious instability resulting in the death of the ideals of Kaiser and Pope, frequent peasant rebellions and increasing scale of warfare, and a materialism in the growth of towns and commerce
>Nicholas Cusanus concluded the era with his philosophy of the unity of opposites

[Anonymous No.16367168]

bretton-woods was poorly designed to give the us the upper hand as long as they had a trade surplus and nixon suddenly pulling made europe react stupidly and fucked its finances to this day

[Anonymous No.16367172]

>>16367168
*pulling out
fuck

[Anonymous No.16367238]

>beating children with a cane
>nonsensical court hearing
>sexual harrasment

[Anonymous No.16367267]

>>16362239
>dude and his eldest son explore the island
>they find some sugar cane, piss off some monkies, fuck around with some coconuts
>that night the dogs fight some jackals

[Anonymous No.16367314]

>Great kingdoms exist, and then they fall.
>In this way, so do kings accomplish great things and then go into a dormant state, to recover.
>These both represent the vital human force, rather than specific historical figures, although some of them can be associated with resurgences of the spirit.

[Anonymous No.16367330]

>>16367125
P interesting as it seems. Nicholas Cusanus is a very underrated figure. One of my physics prof used to help one of his colleague in Latin translate his scientific work, apparently he was amazed by the intelligence the guy displayed in his handling of experimental protocols.

[Anonymous No.16367331]

>Nur al-Din croaks
>Saladin starts looking at Aleppo and Damascus with rapey eyes

[Anonymous No.16367405]

>>16362239

>CHAPTER: "Nietzsche"
>BOOK: "The Crowning Privilege" (Robert Graves' lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford)
>SUMMARY: Nietzsche was a complete lunatic, like all Germans. And his mustache is over-rated. *

* OK, Graves doesn't actually say this bit, but the general tenor is correct.

[Anonymous No.16367412]

In the last chapter of The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the Twenty First Century, Norwegian sociologist Stein Ringen once again ponders the raison d'être of the Chinese state, how it maintains control, and what the burdens it places upon its people are both in terms of taxation and reduced liberties. He criticises the naive view that economic freedom need necessarily translate into political freedom and considers what paths the china may go down in the future.

[Anonymous No.16367416]

>>16367412
What paths may China go down in the future? You intrigued me

[Anonymous No.16367513]

>>16367416
Well the book is from 2016 so it's a bit outdated, but basically
a) Nothing really changes and the programme begun after Mao's death and reimposed in 1989 continues on as normal. Tight controls, "socialist market economy" etc. He ties this with the notion of the "trivial state", a state that exists only in order to exist, which is introduced earlier in the book. After Xi's rise to power he sees as a bit less likely than it was before 2012.
b) Demise. Either as in the Mao era, with the man at the top going off the deep end without a party/state structure strong enough to oppose him, or through slowed down economic growth and continued corruption. Alternatively anti-corruption drives may be too strong and paralyse the bureaucracy, liberal agitation from Hong Kong and Taiwan may spread to the mainland, ethnic minorities may revolt, etc. Stein's thesis throughout the book is that China is not as strong as it seems, but he does believe that it is strong enough to make this quite unlikely.
c) "Utopia", or more like strong social democratic policy. Theoretically speaking China is devoted to socialism, but a return to the central planning of the Mao era doesn't seem on the cards, without revolution anyway. The party may see that it is in its best interest to deal with China's massive inequality and introduce a strong welfare state, deal with corruption, colaborate with NGOs, establish rule of law, etc. Also not very likely, forces beyond the party state apparatus being more likely to be in opposition to it rather than working with it.
d) "Democratic" reform: both within the party and in the state. Villages are theoretically democratic, and if actual competitive elections are allowed, it could spread to urban centers. and then upwards. Within the party, lower level officials could choose their superiors through a kind of indirect democracy. Basically impossible.
e) A "fascist state". He argues that the architecture of such a state is already there, with the party-state, and the current centralisation of power. In his typology, to become an "ideological", rather than "trivial" state, China needs a driving ideology (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Dengism being window dressing), which he sees in Xi's China Dream, which according to him argues that "National Greatness and Individual Happiness are one and the same and inseparable" and that "there is no individual happiness without national greatness".

A and E are the two most likely scenarios, coming down to ideology.

The book is good and well backed up, and I worry that I might be simplifying his arguments a bit too much. I really want to read his work on South Korea.

[Anonymous No.16367869]

>>16362239
Krug is summoned to meet Paduk, the loathsome schoolboy he used to abuse when they were young--but now Paduk is the new dictator of the state and Krug is their most famed philosopher. Paduk offers Krug the university president post (with security and a huge salary) if he will read an acceptance speech of party propaganda and make the academics swear fealty. Krug refuses, despite Paduk having arrested most of his friends already.
(Nabokov, Bend Sinister).

[Anonymous No.16367878]

>>16367513
Interesting. Will read soon

[Anonymous No.16367895]

>man enrolls into being a surgeon to provide for himself but is actually mostly doing in hopes to become the next big celebrity in science

[Anonymous No.16367933]

>>16366457
Just realized forgot to name the chapter: The Holy Nights of Greece.

[Anonymous No.16368008]

>The iron gates are beautiful but dangerous for ships
>there is great charm in the towns on the shores of the river and on the island populated by turks
>now all is destroyed by the march of progress flooding the valley

[Anonymous No.16368015]

>>16368008
Oh, name:
The End of Middle Europe

[Anonymous No.16368088]

>man bored, joins army
>Listens to general talk about friend and girl he kidnapped to turn into his wife/daughter
>she dies, he doesn't care

[Anonymous No.16368120]

>>16362239
>2 friends are forced to kill each other but refuse too
>A bunch of black dragons show up and genocide a bunch of other dragons to troll the antagonist
>The main protagonist now has to fight his evil gf to the death and if he wins her bitch mother dies

[Anonymous No.16368207]

>>16362239
Cervates retconning the mistakes he made writing don quixote book 1 through a weird meta-self insert scholar

[Anonymous No.16368613]

>>16362239
>The Renaissance: Voyages of Rediscovery
>Protestantism, the recent translation of huge amounts of ancient Greek works previously almost unknown to West Europe, the invention of the press and the rise of practical arts and sciences due to the start of capitalism all give a big impulse to Humanism, firing up the thinking that would become the Enlightenment, thus ending the Middle Ages.

[Anonymous No.16368638]

>atom spontaneous movement proves free will
>atoms have limited shapes and sizes to account for species
>there are infinite worlds, this one is in its decay phase
guess what I'm reading

[Anonymous No.16368664]

>Bees
>Proteus
>Orpheus

[Anonymous No.16368714]

>>16362239
>Ishmael loses his shit with the barkeeper over a room and who he has to share a bed with
>finally decides "fuck it, what's the worst that can happen"
>Meets quequeeg, decides he's not so bad after all, even if he is a nig-

[Anonymous No.16368745]

>mrs Beaumont is actually Helen Vaughn
>Mary's corpse changed shape as she died, the room went black
>now we know what the boy saw in the woods

[Anonymous No.16368779]

>the SPACE Emperor shows up with his SPACE Marines
>he get btfo by the brave mujhadeen
>SPACE Mohammed (pbuh) marries into royalty

[Anonymous No.16368838]

>Escapes from a witch
>”Good thing you are a monk, and know better”
>not turned into an animal

Izumi kyõka is so damn comfy guys

[Anonymous No.16369710]

>>16362239
>drunk da fucks his son in t'bum

[Anonymous No.16369784]

"The happily ever after"
>watch some nice ass lights in the night through a telescope in a lighthouse
>dumb bitch thinks a photo of her kept you safe on the sea
>mfw it was his own strength that protected him

[Anonymous No.16369866]

"Confronting the real world"
>Hirohito is sent on a European tour after some internal factional squabbles
>it's a public relations success but doubts remain about the suitability of his character for a ruling emperor
>his father is clearly on his way out, so he becomes regent in '21

[Anonymous No.16369956]

>Most of the liberal reforms credited to Khrushchev are actually Beria's doing, Khrushchev actually perpetuated Stalinism
>Beria and Stalin had similar upbringings and possibly similar psychopathologies, at the very least Beria understood Stalin's mind very well and used it to his advantage until around 1950
>The Soviet high command was an insulated mess cut off from the rest of the population

[Anonymous No.16369983]

>>16362239
>I am a prussian, know ye my colours? My flag floats white and black in front of me. That for freedom's sake my fathers died, to that, know it, hint my colours.
>Actually the prussian spirit was already dissolved by Hitler, an austrian, when he unified most prussian ministries with the national ones.
>Prussia has always been at least cordial with the US, and till Germany is restored once more, I'll be proud to say that I am a prussian, and my colours are black and white.

Bet nobody will be able to guess.

[Anonymous No.16369994]

>seven gates
>two brothers
>they kill each other

[Anonymous No.16370010]

>>16368638
My diary after a shroom trip?

[Anonymous No.16370239]

>>16369983
Der Fragebogen.

[Anonymous No.16370250]

>family reunion with an important priest
>father keeps blaspheming in front of him
>little brother cries

[Anonymous No.16370264]

>>16368638
Plotinus?

[Anonymous No.16370286]

>paradoxical and impersonal nature of bureaucratic military complex causes mass disillusionment and social alienation in soldiers
>manifests itself in erratic behaviour such as public nudity and hermetic seclusion
>chaplain observes this erratic behaviour and takes it as a spiritual omen rather than material consequences, reaffirming his flagging faith in the mystical and incomprehensible

[Anonymous No.16370290]

>>16370264
go earlier
hint: it's written in Latin, not Greek

[Anonymous No.16370305]

>close encounter at hotel
>shootout in the streets of eagle pass TX
>bloody he crosses the bridge into Mexico

[Anonymous No.16370308]

>>16370305
Corncob McCarthy?

[Anonymous No.16370312]

>>16370290
Lucretius? If not him I have no idea

[Anonymous No.16370320]

>>16368779
Clearly a Brian Herbert masterpiece

[Anonymous No.16370340]

>the Paraguayans suffer devastating losses at Tuyutí, possibly the point of no return

[Anonymous No.16370342]

>Phaethon goes from Ethiopia is to India to meet his father, the sun god Phoebus (or Hēlios if greek), asking him if he’s really his father

> Phoebus says he is, swears to the Styx to fulfill any wish Phoebus has; Phaethon wishes to ride the sun chariot across the sky, the one thing Phoebus fears granting him.

> Phaethon takes hold of the fiery chariot, but cannot handle it as he goes across the sky. He causes great destruction to the earth by riding the sun chariot too close to the earth turning the Sahara into a desert and making Africans black, he is then struck down by Zeus for fear of burning Olympus and is killed in the Po Valley

[Anonymous No.16370348]

>>16370340
>tfw only 10% of the male population remains

[Anonymous No.16370363]

>>16362239

Something something political transformation of the public sphere:

>the old bourgeois public sphere of coffee-houses and letter-writing was "genuine", people actually debated critically and criticized power
>In the transition from the 18th to the 20th century, private companies and governments were concerned to get the real public sphere under control via the new techniques of mass media and marketing. This gives rise to a "sham" public sphere of advertising, "public awareness campaigns" funded by certain groups, "public opinion polls" etc. Basically manufacturing consent, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Chomsky cites this book in his own book of the same name

[Anonymous No.16370381]

>>16370308

You’re good. I didn’t even mention sock-feet tortillas beans or spitting

[Anonymous No.16370406]

>>16368638
Epicurus

[Anonymous No.16370448]

>morality and rationality are spooks
>*proceeds to cut of his penis*

[Anonymous No.16370467]

>>16362239
>Stories as sharp as a knife
>Linguist and ethnologist laments that linguist and ethnologist from the turn of the twentieth century could not transcribe music
>A skilful translation of a Haida storyteller's(basically a Native skald) work and a comparison with a story told on the other side of the Pacific in Southern Kamchatka.

[Anonymous No.16370539]

>>16362239
>be me, Doomguy
>go down into the Phobos mine
>Uh, where's the rest of my squad?

[Anonymous No.16370541]

>>16370312
ding ding ding
Specifically Book 2 of De Rerum Natura.

[Anonymous No.16370550]

>>16362239
>archaic man's worldview is different from modern man's worldview
>modern man scientific, does not believe in chance, while archaic man believes everything is connected or that bad things happen due to "magic" or "sorcery"
>we're not that different, guys, we still have that symbolic way of seeing the world, we've just suppressed our nature for scientific dogma

[Anonymous No.16370634]

>religiosity and spirituality are generally thought to be synonyms
>spirituality is merely the opening of your brain to processes bigger than you that you don't understand
>nothing about this is inherently religious

[Anonymous No.16370658]

>>16362239
>going up to the arctic with my homies
>all of a sudden a blimp shows up and warns us about something weird under the ice
>wtf.jpg
>we go anyway and extract a strange stone sculpture from the deep ice
>it says some weird esoteric shit to us, it was strange but we laughed it off at the time
>we bring it back to the US to earn a buck
>it ends up glowing white and causing chaos and anarchy among the populace
>mfw

[Anonymous No.16370672]

>>16370658
>three lines

OOPS, didn't see that

[Anonymous No.16370688]

>>16362239
I'm reading Phaedo, which doesn't really have chapters. I'm about halfway through.

>Socrates is making a justification for the immortality of virtuous souls
>his buddies are contributing nothing to the conversation but nodding and agreeing

[Anonymous No.16370759]

>>16362239
>Don Quixote and Sancho arrive in Toboso
>the former desperately trying to find his sweet Dulcinea
>Urges Sancho to guide him to her 'palace'
>Sancho, who previously lied about having visited her, cracks under pressure
>Quixote insists that he knows where she is
>Sancho convinces him to wait till sunrise to go look for Dulcinea
>Also suggests camping outside town, and going back alone while his master rests
>Quixote agrees

[Anonymous No.16371459]

>>16362239
>the detective keeps switching genders
>where did the nuns go? they were just telling me something about walnuts
>what an odd train ride

[Anonymous No.16371963]

>toxic chemical released
>deja vu is a side effect of exposure to the chemical
>something about rats not being mammals because they're vermin

[Anonymous No.16372394]

>>16362350
Higher Laws
>niglets who dont go a-hunting and a-fishing don't grow up to b real niggas
>Now that Im a grown, hard hittin nigga, a-hunting and a-fishing aint it
>And then I was like "dam bruh *most* shit aint it doh. all sensual desires are one, and this unity is separate and polar from the unity in my notions of grandeur and genius. Lives in pursuit of common pleasures can be named only by those pleasures and are forgotten like a blurry dream. Lives lived under the true guidance of higher principles cannot be regarded as anything else.

[Anonymous No.16372416]

>>16368714
ger

[Anonymous No.16372475]

>>16362239
Icarus
>I fly to the sky
>Motionless, at the speed of light
>What am I

[Anonymous No.16372586]

>Why are we moving to this Dune planet?
>Why is this old lady trying to kill me?
>Why is everyone so tense about moving?

[Anonymous No.16372798]

Little over halfway through this chapter, sorry.
>prayer is essential to understanding theology and ethics
>there are roughly three levels of theology/theological works that we can see: beginner, intermediate, and advanced, here's an example of each level

[Anonymous No.16373105]

>>16362239
Maxims and Arrows
(Nietzsche - How to Philosophize with a Hammer)
>Music good
>Old philosophy stupid
>Haha Englishman dummie

[Anonymous No.16373122]

>the saviour who is actually a computer terminal in the body of a two year old girl dies
>the main character and his friends are shocked and upset at the fact the reincarnation of siddhartha, Jesus, and other religious icons could die so they stop believing that she was the saviour
>main character returns to split personality mode and goes on trips across europe
The end

[Anonymous No.16373338]

>tony threw a fit like a teenager as a 30yo woman when she suprised her husband during his fondling of some maid
>had a huge argument with her husband and took of to her parents home with her daughter
>her brother initially wanted to convince her that its not that bad, but has to realize that Tony really wasnt made for the bavarian way of life and just cannot be convinced to go back, no matter what, so he yields.
pretty entertaining chapter