/lit/ - Literature

If you have a spell in a video game named "Consecration" or "Redemption" or similar, is the correct past tense "Consecrated/Redeemed" or "Consecrationed/Redemptioned"?

I've only read his poetry. It's okay.

Why is he so angry?

>>7458769 (me)

Anyway, I'm going AFK.

Mods are idiots who can't tell what's on-topic and what isn't and ban me for posting things people are probably just uncomfortable with hearing. (Possibly, the janitors/mods are just obeying mass-reports by users who feel uncomfortable with some of the content of my posts.) And I can't be arsed to ban evade repeatedly.

Seriously though, the boards here seem to have turned into as much of a hiveminded hugbox as any other online community. Well it always used to be like that, but merely via massive amounts of shitposting against opinions people didn't want to hear. Nowadays the moderators are just enforcing the opinions.

(If anyone's curious, the three posts that got me banned: 1. a porn-critical thread referencing "Pornography and Civil Rights" on /his/ because apparently it's "off-topic" even though it's plainly about recent history (Civil Rights Ordinance) and about humanities; 2. a thread on /lgbt/ pointing out flaws in aggressive pushing of the trans narrative, in particular how strongly it reinforces gender stereotypes for some people and/or how strongly people are going by gender stereotypes when they consider whether they're trans -- the thread was supposedly "advertisement" because I linked to a website that was giving examples of the bad logic; and 3. a post informing a pedophilia-curious poster on /lit/ that they can look into the "Pedophile Support Community" in Tor if they want to see/have civil discussions with anonymous pedophiles without the sharing of illegal material -- this post was admittedly technically off-topic, but it was a friendly response to the curious OP.)

Fuck the moderators. I'll start obeying your bans when they make some fucking sense.

I have an 8 year-old sister. As soon as she's 14-16 years old, I'll force-feed her Dworkin.

>it was all a dream

i didnt know authors actually did this shit until yesterday

i am so fucking mad

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>>4339006

Are you trying to insinuate something about my mother?

it said i could be anything. why couldn't i write? i knew i could write. i liked what i wrote. i loved what i wrote. i believed what i wrote to be the best work of fiction i had read. i cherished it, and practiced it, and improved it. i let it grow inside me, my baby. i took care of it, never tiring it, and feeding it when it wanted. whenever it accomplished, i applauded it for what it had done. it excelled to me. i had never experienced better.

it was laughed at and ridiculed, but it kept trodding, improving and improving, always expelling a great. it never faltered, always putting out new ideas, making art where there was art, for the sake of making art. it never strived for anything but improvement. it loved itself, no matter how much they laughed at it. it always would. it was happy.

then it seeked to be more. it stopped to look at itself for improvements, for flaws. it stopped to look for the wrong inside of it, and it fell. it fell and picked itself back up, a scrape on its knee that grew to become a scar of weak skin, but always trying to improve, always looking for a flaw, always a step away from perfection.

it grew and grew, always searching, finding, addressing and looking. it labored harder and harder to improve, hoping with every search that no flaw could be found, that no flaws could be seen, but always finding.

it transformed itself into doubt, disguised as improvement. it no longer loved itself, instead judging.

it stopped being it.

Are you retarded? It's so obvious that this has to be a troll post but I'll explain what I thought of it anyways.

So the whole book is about the westernization of Japan after WWII. Ryuji represent Japan's shift from traditional Japanese values to western values(eg he goes from being a sailor to working in a store that deals almost exclusively in western wares), Fusako represents the west as a concept(her house is western, her business is western, etc. She has completely rejected traditional Japanese values for new western ones), Noboru and his band of retards represent traditional Japanese values. The sea symbolizes freedom and old Japan while the land represent western culture and new Japan.

From there it's pretty simple to figure out what the story is about but because you(OP) are too thick to figure it out I'll explain it further. Fusako(the west) seduces Ryuji(traditional Japan) with sex, fashion, etc away from the sea(freedom) and onto the mainland(prison.) While at first Ryuji, like most Japanese people after WWII, was tentative about this transition but eventually he is accepting of the west(he gets married to Fusako.) During the whole novel Mishima uses Noboru to(now I forget that literary word for this) convey his own opinion. If you know jack shit about Mishima you know that he detested new Japan and western culture(whether or not he's an objectivist is up for debate though I believe he is considering he followed the Bushido Code in his life.)

So knowing all that the ending makes perfect sense. The sailor comes to an epiphany and realizes what he's truly given up(symbolic of what Mishima hopes will happen in Japan) and he accepts that the only way to die honorably is to reject western culture but he never had time to because the boys killed him before he could redeem himself. Though his death serves the same purpose whether or not the children killed him, he died honorably.

I'm drunk and it's been a while I might be wrong/forget some things.