/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Magic is real. It's the end of metaphysics, and it's present in all things and affairs. It's 0 graduating to 1; the ineffable, impalpable "something"; the ultimate antecedent. In humans, it's not a talent, optimism, pessimism, or any sort of philosophy, but the raw will to determine a goal and then fearlessly bruteforce it into reality. Humans with a strong will act on their goals posthaste with their entire being until the deed is done, understanding the results of their actions and going through with all those surmised consequences regardless. That's our proper magic. That's what Lambdadelta celebrates.

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It's okay. If you need help with Borges I'm still around. He's an exceptional author, and Umineko draws from his literary genealogy (that's true postmodernism, not meme postmodernism) among others. I suggested him because the short story format is felicitous towards new readers, and his writing is agile in its spellbinding, so that new readers have an easy time getting into literature as a whole after, doubled for us Umineko readers with thematic similarity. Those short stories lay betwixt and between our beloved Umineko and classical literature, which many Umineko readers would benefit from as writers (which I've seen some of you try your hand at) and as readers (also in preparation for WTC5).

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You might just need to immerse yourself with other texts, anon. This is why I started recommending literature last thread. Just like you can't fully appreciate Faust without reading Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphose, your Greeks, Shakespeare, etc, your appreciation of Umineko will remain weighty, crushing and immediate like ice if you don't sublimate it into the airy, timeless ether as vapor through thorough literary experience and investigation. You'll really come to appreciate past works more as you become a more sophisticated reader, since these things are all seamlessly interconnected in the corpus of human thoughts, through all time and space (in our history).