/int/ - International

>>4236 >Afair only hokajonki (or whatever the guy with the bow is called) speaks a distinguished dialect. In the original Honkajoki doesn't speak in dialect but in a sort of academic "booklanguage", while the others mostly speak in various dialects.

>>4237 oh thats why this character was so weird. Why would he speak in academic booklanguage? And what does that even mean?

Read this little book by Seneca (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Constantia_Sapientis). It’s basically a typology of the wise man, a man that stands above all injustice and insults. Was pretty good, we should strive to be like the wise man to find peace and happiness.

>>4240 He was some sort of (self proclaimed) intellectual who liked to mock the army officers in a passive-aggressive way that made them unsure if he's being serious and whether he's mentally ill or not. I'm not sure if his personality in the events of the book was genuine or if he made it up just for the army. Speaking in an "academic booklanguage" is like using a lot of big fancy words and strictly using the official language grammar, like what you use to write books. Like you'd be reading aloud from an academic book.

Just read this Zweig novella.Deals with the topic of homosexuality rather empathically I’d say. This has great psychological depth, but I had some problems with Zweig‘s style and thought it sounded a bit pretentious at times, but still a good book.

>>4240 he is larping as an assburger to amuse others

>>4252 the narrator says he is larping for the lölz in the scene where he is introduced

>>4260 Stefan Zweig is shit SHIT

>>4281 Not really. He writes excellent prose.

Finished this one. I'm listening Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis currently, quite a brilliant performance. >>3441 I read Sorokin extensively, trying to find glimpses of sense in his prose. There's none. Believe me, Day of the Oprichnik is one of the more readable one of his--god forgive me--"works". What's even worse is that this is not even fuelled by some peculiar autism, fascination or otherwise: this is just pure distilled liberal butthurt. Read Pelevin instead if you want some quality Russian surrealism, especially his 1991-2011 stuff. After that point he kinda began to value quantity over quality.

>>4344 Guenon is /lit/ tier

>>4345 What the fuck is "/lit/ tier"? The book's amazing, it's very delightful to see that even a century ago the degenerate corrupting fruits of globalisation were plainly visible.

>>4346 The only people who would read something like that are the guys on 4kanal/lit/ is what I meant to say by that, they love Guenon

>>4347 Well, fortunately we can can conclude with a very definite degree of certainty that Guenon of all people would not have liked 4kanker. I think even Dugin notes it somewhere in one of his lectures that one must be cautious with people, because whenever somebody nowadays calls himself a "guenonist", or "heideggerianer", chances are high that it's a retarded globalist clown wearing their respective philosophies like corrupted flayed hides, a total perverted simulacrum within the post-modern world.

>>3946 > Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn’t overreact or underreact. So fucking deep man. If I was 15 and high on weed, it would totally blow my mind.

>>4394 He's not wrong though.

>>4395 Water doesn't react at all. It's water. It's an inanimate material.

>>4401 YOU ARE AN INANIMATE FUCKING MATERIAL

>>4350 >whenever somebody nowadays calls himself a "guenonist", or "heideggerianer", chances are high that it's a retarded globalist clown wearing their respective philosophies like corrupted flayed hides, a total perverted simulacrum within the post-modern world Unsurprising because serious ideas require serious people, and if a person's idea of seriousness is identifying with ideas he only superficially understands, he is a performer at the absolute best. This is especially true if said person is most known for his hot takes on social media. Those people are just performing for an audience. Whether or not you wish to call them grifters is up to you, but whatever their intentions may be, they add nothing of substance to any given conversation and instead inflict their vanity upon the marketplace of ideas.

>>4401 Your definition of react is too narrow.

Might as well ask here. Does anyone have the old German translation of the Game of Thrones books? Preferably in epub file? Thank you

>>4421 What do you mean by old translation?

>>4416 Maybe I'm just not ready for the philosophy of this self-help work-better book.

>>4424 Most modern self-help books are just stoicism repackaged, no? As I said before, just read the actual Stoic philosophers to get a better grasp of the topic. Why read a watered down slop version that was created for modern capitalist society.

>>4422 The first four books were translated first and then they were retranslated when the 5th was published in German. Jon Snow became Jon Schnee in the "new" translation.

>>4428 Did you check Anna's Archive?

>>4476 it's blocked for me ATM (vacation), can you?

>>4480 Seems to be down right now

>>4481 thank you for checking

>>4482 It's back. Gibe ISBN

>>4491 sorry, I have no ISNB, this is how the covers look like

>>4500 Found it on Anna's archive. I hope the first one is enough for your vacation.

>>4521 Thank you :3 <3

>>710 Niggeeeeerrrrr

>>4428 >Jon Snow became Jon Schnee in the "new" translation. That's what my sister hates about the books lel. I have all Asoiaf books at home, the new ones (10 books). Got them cheap on Ebay Kleinanzeigen And I rented them to my sister but she says she won't read further cause "Jon Schnee" doesn't fit.

>>4544 > I rented them to my sister Ah, Jews.

>>4544 She could simply read them in English.

Didn’t post an update in quite a while. I’m currently reading Dostoevsky‘s last great novel Brothers Karamazov. I am halfway done and hope to finish it by the end of this week.

I've reached well into the Two Towers, and while Andy Serkis is indeed a great voice actor, every time I'm re-reading LotR, I am reminded how much more do I like the Silmarillion. >>4654 One of the greatest books.

Bernd is currently reading: A City On Mars by the Weinersmiths Jürgen by Heinz Strunk Zauberberg 2 by Heinz Strunk

>>4715 Just read the original Zauberberg. It’s better.

>>4717 Bernd usually dislikes what everybody is hyping.

>>4718 Why do you read Zauberberg 2 then?

>>4729 Because it's by a different person and not as hyped as the original?

>>4732 Where is Zauberberg hyped? Majority of people like https://youtu.be/QkYlYTeIRJY?si=jfE_Pht6MnVaS5hC&t=3495 get filtered by it

>>4740 I have no idea who that YouTube guy is and what that video is supposed to prove. "Zauberberg" is one of the most sold books in Germany history and universally considered to be a classic by schools, cultural institutions and the legacy media. Publishers just printed a couple of new editions on the occasion of its 100th anniversary last year. I highly doubt that's going to happen for Zauberberg 2.

>>4741 >I highly doubt that's going to happen for Zauberberg 2. Is that something that concerns you greatly? That it might happen to Zauberberg 2, and then you will have to immediately cease reading it?

>>4771 No, if it happens I was a visionary who read it before its greatness was discovered by the mainstream. Bernds world view is completely closed.

>>4784 I bet it was already a Spiegel Bestseller and you’re cooked

Zauberberg is the nickname for Hertha BSCs tribune in the plumpe. Sadly the Stadium is dead Sinclair round about 40 years. There was the Zauberberg and on the opposite the Uhrenberg, because there was a clock above the tribune. After WW2 it was heavily destroyed but Hertha rebuilt the stadium, but the capacity of 35k visitors was never reached again.