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>There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men—all are dead. Their bodies repose in caskets, in sarcophagi, beneath arches of rude stone, everywhere under the earth. Their spirits haunt our minds, ears pressed to the bones of our foreheads. Who can say how intently they listen as we speak, or for what word?

>> No.14140457 [DELETED] 

WTF, /lit/ told me BOTNS was an unreadable mess full of archaic words. This seems pretty readable.

>> No.14140470

>>14140457
Its only unredeable if you are a brainlet

>> No.14140475

Beautiful stuff, anon.
As life is just a long process of death enriched with more or less aesthetic expressions and creations of meaning, would you say that life in this realm is just striving towards the ideal one that is death? Am I making sense?

>> No.14140480

>>14140470
I consider myself a brainlet and I found it very readable and enjoyable. It was more difficult than a YA novel I guess but thats about it.

>> No.14141321

Based Gene

>> No.14142344

> It has been remarked thousands of times that Christ died under torture. Many of us have read so often that he was a “humble carpenter” that we feel a little surge of nausea on seeing the words yet again. But no one ever seems to notice that the instruments of torture were wood, nails, and a hammer; that the man who built the cross was undoubtedly a carpenter too; that the man who hammered in the nails was as much a carpenter as a soldier, as much a carpenter as a torturer. Very few seem even to have noticed that although Christ was a “humble carpenter,” the only object we are specifically told he made was not a table or a chair, but a whip.
And if Christ knew not only the pain of torture but the pain of being a torturer (as it seems certain to me that he did) then the dark figure is also capable of being a heroic and even a holy figure, like the black Christs carved in Africa.

>> No.14142427

>>14142344
Christ wasn't a carpenter, he was a stonemason

>> No.14142536

>>14142344
Where is this from?

>> No.14142589

>>14142536
The Castle of the Otter, which is a sort of author's commentary on BotNS.

>> No.14142593

>We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life—they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

>> No.14142931

>>14142593
This is some Borges shit

>> No.14142943

>>14140443
>>There is no category of human activity in which the dead
Programming

>> No.14142960

>>14140457
/lit/ SEEEEETHES every time it meets actually good books and honestly talented authors because it is 100% populated by pseuds who wouldn't be able to write to save their fucking life and who would be refuted in a paragraph by Plato, Aquinas or whoever they decided to call "brainlet" today. People who honestly hate reading except as an ego-masturbatory exercise.

>> No.14143992

>>14142943
Retard

>> No.14144230

>>14140443
Well, what about the anime shitposters, Sev?

>> No.14144244

>>14144230
You have to keep in mind that he is writing this millions of years in the future.

>> No.14144290

>>14143992
Not an argument.

>> No.14144317

>>14144290
I wasn't arguing.
I was just calling you a retatd

>> No.14145562

>>14142960
They don't even read their own memes if more in depth discussions on Joyce, Pynchon or Wallace are anything to go by.

>> No.14145571

>>14144317
I know. I just pointed out that my point still stands.

>> No.14145742

>>14142960
Seething: the post