/lit/ - Literature and Writing

>>6327
………what?
Are you vaguely referring to Marian Engel's Bear?

>>6125
I doubt Albert Pike said that considering how people love to attribute false quotes to him.

>>6126
Reality cares not one subplanck what YOU feel.

Found this epic book
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76586
Excerpt:

DE KING, EH DARTER, BUH WOLF, AN BUH RABBIT.

One time er King hab er pooty Darter. Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit all two bin a spark at um an a cote um. De sanfly bin berry bad. De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal.

Buh Wolf yent bin so scheemy as Buh Rabbit. Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: "Gentlemans, my fader had a black horse. Eh had a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day." Ebry time eh pint out de place way de spot bin, eh dribe off de sanfly.

Wile dis duh guine on, de sanfly mose eat up Buh Wolf. Eh bleege fur cratch an slap. So Buh Rabbit gain de day, an de King gie um eh Darter.

Buh Wolf, him berry sad, an eh wunt talk. All de lady bin a set in de piazza long de King an eh Darter. Den Buh Rabbit say: "Come, Buh Wolf, leh we broke [19] up. Ef you lemme ride you ter de big gate me guine tun de King Darter ober ter you." Buh Wolf happy. Eh gree fuh leh Buh Rabbit ride um. Buh Rabbit light on eh back. Eh hab spur on. Buh Wolf dunno nuttne bout dis. Soon es Buh Rabbit git on Buh Wolf back, eh clamp eh leg onder Buh Wolf belly, an eh clap spur ter Buh Wolf. Buh Wolf rare up. Eh jump. Eh kick. Eh leddown. Eh try ebry way fuh trow Buh Rabbit. Buh Rabbit stick ter eh back, an wunt fall off. De mo Buh Wolf rare up an kick an pitch, de wus Buh Rabbit spur um. Wen eh fine eh cant trow Buh Rabbit, eh tek de big road an lean fuh de gate. Buh Rabbit stick de spur in um ebry jump. Buh Wolf run. Eh run. Eh holler. Eh holler. Buh Rabbit duh set on eh back an duh spur um, an duh look dess as happy an content as eh kin be. Wen dey guine tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit light off eh back an jump on top de gate pose. Buh Wolf cant stop run. Eh gone. Buh Rabbit shet de gate, an tun back, an jine de compny, an tek eh bride.

>>6148
I guess misinformation is not that big of an issue.

>>215
join a youth group they said

>>6184
>To be honest, I've never been too inspired by the Founding Fathers outside of what they did to fight for independence. They may have been racially aware in some respects and a bit shitlordish by modern standards, but they all seem to have fallen short in terms of what they actually emphasized.
Yeah I get they wanted to create their own project, the problem was that project was inherently corrupted by "enlightenment values" that led to the problems we have today.
>the whole natural rights things comes across as silly to me too
Yeah the idea of "rights" in general in the enlightment terms are just fucking stupid in the context of the current year and even back than.
>although I definitely agree with them wanting to put the kibosh on hereditary monarchy
If they were able to continually pump out caesars without their aftermath upon their death I'd be okay with it as well, personally I would prefer an immortal worm-king/god emperor.

I just came across a few more quotes that I thought were worth posting. It really seems to me that neo-Confederates have done a disservice to the Confederacy by uncritically adopting the Quid outlook, as if the Quids weren't clueless and out of touch just like the Northern Republicans. The antebellum Davis Democrats and their successors among the Confederates were clearheaded enough to put aside the excessive hamstringing of the federal government that the Quids wanted and also the petty bickering along sectionalist, religious, class, and ethnic lines that it seems like everyone else was guilty of. They wanted white power above all.

Outside of their complete ignorance of the Jay Cue, they do seem like a pretty good template for a modern American nationalist movement. While within living memory it wasn't at all uncommon for Northerners to admire things about the Confederates or certain people within the Confederacy, I think a lot of people have been under the impression that the Confederacy was strictly against non-Southerners. Although there were people like that, Jefferson Davis was more broadminded and saw himself as holding up the ideas of the American Revolution as a whole. I tend to dislike the modern-day cheerleaders of the Union and the Confederacy, who seem to be all about seething over the other side over 150 years later, but I think it's well past the time people started giving credit where credit is due. And in that spirit, I think Northerners should be less shy to embrace the better parts of the Confederacy. It's not like there weren't guys in the North who sympathized with people like Davis back then anyway.

As gay as I think it is for people to fret over finding historical precedents for their own views (as if every viewpoint or ideology wasn't novel at one time), it does feel reassuring to find genuine American antecedents to the modern alternative right (or whatever you want to call it) before and during the Civil War.
>>6185
>the problem was that project was inherently corrupted by "enlightenment values" that led to the problems we have today.
I'm not opposed to everything that came out of the Enlightenment, but it definitely had its excesses.
>Yeah the idea of "rights" in general in the enlightment terms are just fucking stupid in the context of the current year and even back Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

We only had to listen. Why didn't we stop it?

>>6184
>>6196
>>6211
I finally got around to finishing this book and recommend it. Here's an interview with the author where he goes over the premise:
https://thewayofimprovement.blog/2020/01/16/the-authors-corner-with-jeffrey-zvengrowski/

This one's mostly dealing with a mix of 20th century and very recent history.

>>3657
I'm going to hold you to that anon. You'd better find the goods.

I like using Ao3 because the software is running is licensed under GNU GPL v2. Also my fanfic uses the n-word and no one gave me shit for that.

>>4028
>my fanfic
Post it.

>>4046
this tbh

AO3 is convoluted with tagging. Keep it simple stupid and keep the tag minimal to the ship and supporting characters. Learn to write a good summary.

My guess is he knew how gay jeets were.

Tom Buchanan from The Great Gatsby is based and redpilled, a chad. Fitzgerald was also based and if he were alive today he would be a big racist and anti-Semite.
Seeing so many faggots nowadays crying over this character and even drawing parallels between him and "MAGA" only reinforces this.

>>6113
Is Tom Buchanan the ones who goes on about reading the Lothrop Stoddard stand-in? I never read the book. If so, he sounds pretty cool to me.

>>6118
Tom is what speaks about the brown masses and the future of the white race if they do nothing.
It's funny that Fitzgerald makes the protagonist of Tender Is the Night become a racist throughout the novel, I wonder if Fitzgerald was one of those self-hating guys, he seemed to hate rich people but deeply desired to be one and accepted by them too.

What these guys are planning, I wish them the best.

>>6198
If only I could see all this happening for real before the end of my life.

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Eddy, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Denflick the Evil Ant had a very medieval philosophy: that if the Denflick was a good ant, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple. Eddy can say that Denflick imprisoned Jeffbrad and returned the world's food, and he was wise and good. But Eddy doesn't ask the question: What was Denflick's tax policy?

>>6153
kek

This thread just reinforces my hatred for Brits, especially those with the dark hair and dark eyes phenotype.

>>6120
Big Bengali Cock, SAAAAR.

Dumbing down American readers

By Harold Bloom, 9/24/2003

THE DECISION to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis. The publishing industry has stooped terribly low to bestow on King a lifetime award that has previously gone to the novelists Saul Bellow and Philip Roth and to playwright Arthur Miller. By awarding it to King they recognize nothing but the commercial value of his books, which sell in the millions but do little more for humanity than keep the publishing world afloat. If this is going to be the criterion in the future, then perhaps next year the committee should give its award for distinguished contribution to Danielle Steel, and surely the Nobel Prize for literature should go to J.K. Rowling.

What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Stop shilling your channel, child. You must be 18 years or older to be here.

I know this is 6 months old, but just use anna's archive, archive.org, or similar services

someone needs to start shagging those housewives.

>>5409
Similar case with movies or series
>Best rated shit, it's usually men having faggot orgies or female protagonist sucking off handsome and rich boys
<No need for complexity or substance, after all these used up dykes have the cognitive of a horny 13 year old

>>5409
> ran by bored housewives
Something here is contradictory. Are you sure you did not misspell "post-marital spinster cat ladies"? These tend to have excess of free time.
> What are we going to do about this?
Depends on who are those "we".

Anon, just say it: they're millennials. When's the last time you saw a non-millennial housewife read the schlock they put out today? Also:
>the only genres that haven't been completely taken over by bored housewives are thrillers
Thrillers were LONG taken over. A buddy of mine works at a thrift store - they get 'em donated in box after box after box and they're ALL written by basic bitch white women with the most bored housewife pandering plots imaginable.
Picrel applies yet again.

>>5482
It's true. Women these days want to eternally be a spoiled 16 year old girl. They don't want to be the housewife who tends house and takes care of her husband and kids, but neither does she want to take the man's role and be a provider. Instead she wants to be a childless "stay at home girlfriend" and if you press them for what they think this looks like it amounts to their boyfriend" being the only one with a job who pays all the bills, does all the cooking and cleaning, and buys them stuff while they sit around on their phones talking to their friends on their group chat, looking at Tumblr/Twitter/Reddit/TikToks all day, being rude and sassy, and sometimes texting other boys to flirt with boys when they're bored. They literally want their boyfriend to be their Mom and Dad while they act like a spoiled teenager for the rest of their lives and no one has called them out on it yet.