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https://www.unipi.it/index.php/presentazione/item/20794-graziano-ranocchiahttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-siteNewly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy.In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative detailing how the Greek philosopher spent his last evening, describing how he listened to music played on a flute by a Thracian slave girl.Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato – who was known as a disciple of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, and who died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests.The decoded words also suggest Plato’s burial site was in his designated garden in the Academy of Athens, the world’s first university, which he founded, adjacent to the Mouseion. Previously, it was only known in general terms that he was buried within the academy.In a presentation of the research findings at the National Library of Naples, Prof Graziano Ranocchia, of the University of Pisa, who spearheaded the team responsible for unearthing the carbonised scroll, described the discovery as an “extraordinary outcome that enriches our understanding of ancient history”.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>23358242What are the odds of any discovery?
>>23356594The old attempts tried to literally unroll the scrolls but that destroyed most of the material and could barely be read. The newest solution is digitally scanning it (think MRI scan segments) then “unrolling” it virtually and by analyzing extremely minute changes in density the ink is separated from the page, then analyzed with programs to identify the text (remember these are carbonized fragments, the ink and the page are both burnt so it’s very faint data), and then researchers go through the output and refine it in case there’s ambiguity or things that don’t make sense. The current problem is that this requires a lot of hands on adjustments for each scroll so it’s slow as shit. The goal is to find ways to automate the process and while BRO IT’S AI is a meme right now, LLM is good at exactly this task, so they’re working to get machine reading of the scan results that don’t need to be fiddled with - at which point mass scanning of scrolls can begin. Only a small portion of the library has been excavated and we’re talking about thousands of scrolls. Most of it will be the private collection of a minor philosopher, but there could be anything in the scrolls. Lost books, even references or quotes from them could change what we know. There’s possibly an additional room of other works that could be a main library and the sky is the limit there.
>>23358242> What are the oddsConsidering we only have a small handful of a texts from that era, the odds are extremely good? Your weasel wording of “we care about” is just designed to hide that you’re a retard and whatever you don’t understand is something “we” don’t care about. Eat shit, fuckwit.
>>23355997>he was a homosexualbasedfuck women
>>23355902What's the fever, though?
ç'est sordide comment la vie continue editionprevious >>23352785
>>23358535Hmm? Sniff sniff, someone selling fish in the lecture hall?
>>23358535And yet even then, a loser like you would lick it clean
>>23358544It smells disgusting. There's nothing exciting about it at all. It's not like when girls have slightly smelly armpits or something. It's a putrid stench.
>>23358551Funny how girls call you a loser when you reject them.
>>23358531You guys are lucky though, you do have the cutest Indian women in the world, even India doesn't compare.
I would like to 'de-Nazify' alot of my beliefs about this world, what books should I read for this?
>>23355688>MacArthur pretty much responded, "So, nuke the chinks too."Potentially far worse outcomes for the World but also brilliant for someone who's job is it to win wars to think that way.
>>23358479>You supposedly fought to preserve your cultureWhat? Britain fought because Germany started a war where it wanted to conquer its neighbors, including Britain and its allies. That's just simple self-defense. And culture was going to fluctuate regardless. You think the average Bong today is a spitting average of a Bong in Churchill's England? Or that those Bongs are spitting images of Queen Victoria's England? Or that THOSE Bongs are spitting images of King George III's England, etc? In another century or so, future Bongs will look back on the early 21st century as a "better time" as people always do when looking at their ancestors' past, specifically because they never lived in it.The point I'm getting at with both these posts is that world domination by any one culture is retarded and will eventually pan out badly for all parties involved, including the conquerors themselves. Germany would eventually be the biggest multicultural shithole in Europe had it won, and all the Germans in that timeline are probably spitting on the first Furher's grave for all the reparations and gibs they have to pay out to all the Jews, Bongs, Slavs, Meds, Nords, Frenchmen, and gypsies whose ancestors they oppressed or massacred.
>>23356569>shoulda>coulda>wouldaDidn'tWhat did happen, was the complete and total destruction of Dresden from the air looooool
>>23355282This Hitler guy sounds like a real pussy.
>>23358521Correct, the british didnt want to be conquered because something something foreign rule. Most people see being conquered as bad because something something we have our own culture and we dont want to lose it.That's the whole idea behind why these things are said. Dont put words into my mouth on what I think lol, the brits can live or die for all i care. Just saying why these statements are made. And yea sure, poornigs go to their former overlord like a retarded wife goes back to their abuser. Doesnt mean they arent still losing their culture to a foreign one. A culture evolving or being influenced is not the same as it being subjugated and removed. Even the danes and the swiss suffer these fates btw.
Thing is, thats exactly the kind of autism I need. Is it really so bad? Preemptive fuck off if you're just gonna shit on it without justification.Those who agree, what else is like this?
>>23357926Greg Egan
>>23357945its actually him that got me back into reading. Permutation City was pretty great
>>23357945I second Greg Egan
>>23357926>muh hugboxIt's genreshit, deal
>>23358526i said "without justification"
What books can I read in order to get an unbiased understanding of the driving forces and sociocultural context of (post)modernism?
>>23354304case in point I will offer you this article about an utopia which came into being in Canada and everybody was perfectly happy & content except women who complained that there are no drunkards or people shitting in the middle of the streethttps://web.archive.org/web/20070929195515/http://www.sttranslation.com/deepriver/content/m-index.htmlthey probably took care there was no communism near a nuclear power plant because if it were, they would have surely bussed in some aggressive negroes, hispanic criminals, or rampaging LGBTQQRSTUVWXYZ kiddie diddlersjust what's wrong with these creatures?!you can access the article here:https://web.archive.org/web/20070929195515/http://www.sttranslation.com/deepriver/content/m-index.htmlor straight from the horse's mouth:https://archive.org/details/Macleans-Magazine-1958-09-13
>>23349240>unbiased understanding of the driving forces and sociocultural context of (post)modernismthe driving force is biasmodern and postmodern currents see everything from the perspective of politics: whomever is not my bitch is my enemy; this can be extrapolated in all kinds of ways, for example class war which is dogs barking "they are BAD! EVIL!" and come up with a whole list of arguments... in reality they just want to take their peace, food, and gadgets... and when they do, they quickly set up a brutal dictatorship (e.g. "socialism," "communism," "democracy" etc.) in order to make sure that if anybody comes up with the same idea -- and why wouldn't they? it must be the BEST idea in the world because THEY came up with it in the first place and NOW they have ALL the gadgets and food -- will be neutralized as soon as possiblethis is of course doomed to fail because 1. people on the top will never take responsibility 2. nobody is motivated to do sustainable things, as you can't force people to be motivated (unless they have an IQ under 100, in which case they will do more damage than good anyway)... perception management is VERY expensive so you'll at most steal technology from real countries where people do other stuff beside surviving (those FOOLS! WE'LL TAKE THEIR GADGETS TOO!)tl;dr read pic related (maybe get the 2018 edition? and try to find the assumptions the authors started from and --if any-- fractures in the logic of their rhetoric. that's yer homework for which the Emperor will reward you greatly :3
>>23349240we'll have time for that once the number of people desecrating the planet drops to a teeny-tiny percent of what it is now
>>23349240wow, I can't believe no one has said The Oxford Very Shot Introduction to Post-Modernism. the VSI series is often the best place to start on any theory, I love the one for Post-Structuralism (which also explains post-modernism by necessity). not every VSI is good but the majority are. you can find most of them online for download too. there are so many random ones that are fun to read for autistic amounts of knowledge on random topics. like the VSI to Egyptian mythology or even Egyptian Art, (both different books IIRC)
>>23357798>not every VSI is good but the majority arethe good ones are always written by the leaders of the field... but considering the extent of the series, who has time to classify them by the author's qualifications? the one about prehistory is also good
Why aren't there any Hegelian monasteries?
>>23358525It's called the contemporary university.
retarded hegel fag, how ever many threads you make, you still won't understand the phenomenology of spirit because you are too busy getting distracted by 4chan
What do you guys think of this book? I remember read it many years ago and I liked it
Do Buddhists believe in Free Will or not? Can there be Free Will without an unchanging independent self?
>>23358434All the replies below this one would do well to note that free will as we debate in the West is a consequence of Augustine (and later Luther) attempting to reconcile an omnipotent, omniscient God with the ontological existence of evil. Augustine (and later Luther) reconcile the contradiction with the doctrine of original sin.In Buddhism, there is no omniscient, omnipotent God (see Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu), so we should not presuppose the Western paradigm of free will.
>>23358453>Matthew R. Dasti & Edwin F. Bryant (eds.), Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press.>As Karin Meyer's judicious 'Free Persons, Empty Selves' shows, Buddhist philosophers had no interest in controversies about free will. Buddhists deny that there are any enduring substances and a fortiori any selves worthy of the name. Most of us suppose ourselves to be individual continuants, but this is a misconception perpetuated by conventions of thought and language. No selves, no free will and no real individual agency here, just successive complexes of transient events. Meyer's formulation of a Buddhist version of 'compatibilism' (which Kant called 'a wretched subterfuge', and I call 'the freedom of the free-range chicken') looks promising, but hopes are dashed when one reads that 'it is important to note that this solution is not described in any classical [Buddhist] source' (p. 44). That sad admission is confirmed by Jay Garfield in 'Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Freedom, Agency and Ethics for Mādhyamikas'. Given that there is no self with a will that might be free or otherwise, it is unsurprising that 'it is impossible to formulate the thesis of the freedom of the will in a Buddhist framework' (p. 175) and only to be expected that recent exponents of Buddhist philosophy have been doing precisely that!ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/free-will-agency-and-selfhood-in-indian-philosophy/Read Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu, Augustine, and Luther (especially The Bondage of the Will, WA 18: 600–787). Then read Philip Melanchthon, Martin Chemnitz, and Johann Gerhard, who represent the apogee of the Christian tradition and reveal that asking how Buddhists reconcile free will with determinism is a presupposition failure akin to asking why Aristotle never considered organic synthesis in his study of chemistry and physics.
>>23358484It depends on if you’re looking at it from the outside or inside don’t it? I mean, their explanatory model doesn’t allow for selves, but as far as instruction goes, buddhism is fairly straightforward; do these things to escape the cycle of rebirth. Clearly something is taking this action, the analysis of suffering and the solution of how to break the wheel were discovered and don’t seem formulated as if they were inevitable. Doesn’t that require active agency? The circular worldview suddenly has a linear ending available to everyone who chooses to become “aware”.
>>23358510You would need to distinguish your terms.Aristotle never presupposed contemporary chemistry, physics, and astronomy, but he could still describe life, gravity, and the moon.>something is taking this action, the analysis of suffering and the solution of how to break the wheel were discovered and don’t seem formulated as if they were inevitable. Doesn’t that require active agency?A psychophysical complex can have agency and responsibility without presupposing free will in the same way that Aristotle can describe the moon with his superseded and erroneous geocentric paradigm and without presupposing contemporary astronomy.The Lutheran scholastics are relevant because they reveal how alien the Western presuppositions undergirding free will are to Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu.
Tolkien was just BUILT DIFFERENT FRFR
>>23358031https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n29qPqGql8
>>23358031>completely mew possibilitiesI'm on to you
>>23358074Your soul is your own. Everything else corrupts it.>>23358082The brutal Romans turned into lazy Italians.>>23358142Le tigre.
The Return of the King is quite possibly the best thing I've ever read.
>>23353603>grrm>writing
Is it wrong that I agree with this?
>>23356380that sort of person is mentally ill
>>23352238The major stumbling block and "real reason" incest is illegal is that blanket criminality makes it easier to extract youths from familial sex abuse without having to "prove" they're nonconsenting. The latter is pretty hard to do, since the leverage required to routinely sexually abuse someone in the first place is usually also enough to force them to marry you or otherwise deny you're abusing them. I doubt the norm is going away anytime soon, even though incest per se isn't the real problem.
>>23353055coomercore?
You freaks make me sick.You might find support on 4chan but God will never approve of these deranged unions you fantasize about.
>read about a religion>"ooh, maybe I'll convert">read about a political ideology>"ooh, maybe this is what I should follow?"Books that will help me stop being so weak-minded and suggestible?
>>23357523Everything’s legal as long as you don’t get caught
Here’s a pop sci book on the subject, but I haven’t read it
Op, there is no book for this. You will just realise one day that everyone that wrote those books you are being swayed by are themselves flawed and foolish individuals and are full of folly too.
It must be terrifying being low iq, always susceptible to being swept off by the newest captivating idea because you have no ability to sit down and think for yourself.
>>23358524Brings to mind the former youtuber Sneako who loves getting on the bandwagon of every other influential person who appears more successful than he does and staking his life on them, ready to defend them with his life then abandoning them once someone more interesting enters the picture. Its fucking terrifying to think normies live like this, ignorant and even hostile to the truth, and ready to die for ideas they have no ability of scrutinizing.
Ukrainians are getting killed!
>>23358380Okay, Boris.
>Islamaphobia BAD>homophobia BAD>Russophobia GOODthis is why I don't listen to NPCs.
>>23358501Dostoevsky was a Russian shill that has importance only in Russia. Claiming Catholicism was Roman when in reality it's Russia that's the true successor to Rome.The adoption of Greek, calling their emperor Caesar, the belief that their aristocracy is Roman.Some Russians literally think they are the Eastern Roman empire. And they've always followed the cult of personality and believe in the leader principle and authoritarianism for the sake of Russia.
How long will it take me to read golden era russian literature in russian from scratch?By read I mean looking up 1 or more words per sentence and understanding what the sentence means rather than say, having to break down the sentence on paper in order to understand it?
>>23358518The 'emperor' in Catholicism is the pope and he doesn't hold absolute political power in any country and neither does he run a cult of personality. That makes Catholicism anti-authoritarian.In Russia the emperor is Putin. Russian Orthodoxy is not Christianity at all but much closer to Islam and the Asian authoritarian mentalities.
Last thread died on me RIGHT as I was finishing my next post to bump it.Previous >>23354522/lit/ was supposed to be a slow board edition.Why not use the text entry feature of /lit/ to write?/wwoym/ is for /r9k/posting, not writing/wg/ encourages you to limit excerpts to one post and post high quality edited worksI just want to read and write with anons and I do not care about the format.ITT, write in the 4chan quick reply box.If you hit 3000 characters cut off the end or edit it a bit, post it, and finish writing it and reply to the first post.You can write single posts or long chains of posts.You can tripfag if you want to make it more clear which posts are yours.You can write about whatever, poetry, prose, even boring philosophy type stuff. Don't edit. Don't agonize. Don't be insecure.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>23354712Yuki gripped the caribiner rail above her with all her strength, her hips swaying side to side and her knees buckling as she struggled to keep her composure.Having been occupied, and seated, for several hours, she had not noticed the growing pressure in her bladder until getting to her feet again, and now she found herself again in dire straits, but this time without even the relative privacy of the medbay. Though her UTI had been improving steadily thanks to Nursey's daily dose of super science medicine (thanks, doc), her bladder was now overfull thanks to her her insatiable, feverish thirst, and she was trapped in place and maglocked to the floor, with the eyes of her unit upon her as she shook her hips back and forth in a bizarrely sensual loop as insistent trickles of urine started down her thighs into her space suit despite all her best efforts.Her suit comms crackled to life. It was Nursey."Come on, Sato, it's alright. Give it up, stand ready."Yuki hung her head and surrendered to her painful and humiliating ordeal, feeling the eyes on her although her accident was hidden by her protective suit - due to her own stubbornness, as she now realized. The urine puddled in her magboots and her privates felt like they were on fire from the burning agony. Her knees buckled and she hung limply by her carabiner until her bladder was empty, then sheepishly re-assumed a ready stance and trained her laspistol on the obscured portal, avoiding any potential eye contact with her team.The grinding continued, seemingly making some slow progress, and the team remained braced for decompression, but the promised disaster was not forthcoming, and after some time, the sparks ceased.Still they remained ready, fearing some final blow was about to undermine the portal, but Sarge soon spoke over all comms, informing them simply that the trappers had arrived, the replicants were neutralized, and to commence what repairs could be arranged within their power budget, as they would proceed to Magellan on aux impulse, but with the security of heavy trapper escort.>>23355716Yeah, I know what you mean, it's like a growing undertone of fatalism/behavioral sink/destiny, you mean? Dune (the first one) really leans into this theme to the point of Paul's prescience taking the form of simultaneously striving to avoid a warlord's destiny and temperament, but eventually realizing it willingly rather than succumbing to it, even as he philosophically sees other possible destinies slipping away from him, in a combination of the male navigator intuition of likely outcomes, whatever it's called in the book, and the female bene gesserit training yielding advanced cultural intuition that ends up cementing him to the Fremen cause more than his own personal circumstances otherwise would have. I don't know a term for it either.
>>23357385>it's like a growing undertone of fatalism/behavioral sink/destiny, you mean?Sorta. What matters is not the specific theme used (like fatalism), but rather the fact a theme is introduced early on, in a very gentle way, and as the story goes on the theme oscillates back into the fore like a spiral and grows more and more intense until the climax of the story. The events of the story should feed directly into the theme, and if done correctly the moment of climax will be so powerful that the theme briefly obtains a sort of "universal power". The classic example is obviously Oedipus Rex, since it's fatalism like you mention, and there are hints early on that one's destiny cannot be escaped. Hamlet does this too. Personally I was never a big fan of how its handled in these two works.What actually inspired my post is a documentary from 20 years ago. It's called The Great Happiness Space and depicts the host club phenomenon in Japan. Even if you don't care about the subject, its writing is absolutely brilliant. I recommend you watch it blind but if you want to know what's so good about it then: Like most Western documentaries on Asia, it starts out pretty quirky and light-hearted. Initially, the mood of the film is "Wow what an exotic and silly thing!" But as the documentary continues the silly and fun scenes gently fade away and get replaced with oddly somber scenes. At first you think, "Oh that's weird. There's a sad side to this, but it'll probably go back to normal soon". And so it does. The bleak scenes fade away and things become relatively normal again......Until they come back. Digging deeper into the topic becomes like exposing a nerve, it just keeps getting worse, and you realize this whole thing is a tragedy of unreal proportions. Beyond a certain point the film is unable to soften the blows anymore and so the final 10 or so minutes is just falling off a cliff, a spiral into pure heartbreak. In the final scene you hit the bottom, and it's pure, pitch black despair. It's very similar to The Sun Also Rises, honestly.
>>23358206Thanks for the spoilers, I will actually watch it blind when I have the time if I can find it easily, in order to get a better idea of what you mean.>>23357385"Alright. Med bay open...uhh. One second." Nursey stepped the bedpan, long since shaken from its perch on the table beside the door by the many C-Beams, reached out for the towel still barely hanging from the table, quickly dropped it in the puddle on realizing it was rather damp, and went to get some more from a cupboard, fumbling with her still-cramping hands.Yuki removed her helmet and shrank back into the corridor."Sorry, everyone."The other crewmates looked away awkwardly, embarrassed for her, aside from Griggs."Come off it, Sato." He guffawed blithely, still hoarse. "You've been ill, nothing you've done wrong. You must know how it was for us, just leaving you out there and nothing we could do about it. If not for our good friend Fugbenis here, we'd have had a black trip back to Magellan. No one blames you a bit, it's just a mercy you've pulled through at all."The tripodi disengaged its situational camoflauge and stepped forward from the wall is had set itself against. Yuki, who had quite forgotten about its presence since the depressurization orders were called, startled a bit and blushed deeply, somehow far more embarrassed to have her humiliation witnessed and dispassionately analyzed by this outsider in a more complex setting. The tripodi, though, spoke with surprisingly apt social diplomacy given its limited sample data."Indeed. There is no more need for worries. We have all come preserved, if not unscathed, through a very difficult time, thanks at last to your Magellan Trappers, but with no small credit to all aboard. Forgive my ignorance of your structures, but I do not know what damage this portal has sustained. Given the extent of damage to this vessel, would it be too much overreach of custom to request permission to weld over it? I know my presence is imposition already, pray take no offense.""Of course, and careless of us all not to tend to it sooner." croaked Griggs. "Anonson, you're all right, son?""Right as rain." Anonson grinned, his old jovial tone already returning."Bring our guest a hull plate or two, and while you're at it, can you to take over for me in situating some accomodations for him? That craft's no longer habitable - it's the least we can do.""Right away, quartermaster. Lucky we kept a few extra hulls in the supply closet."Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>23358423As the lieutenant and quartermaster struck up a conversation in sick bay, and Anonson took the tripodi to the janitor's closet for some welding kit, Yuki took the opportunity to make her case to Nursey."It bled some but it's just a small cut. And I'm really getting better. Please, I'll be back by the time you're done with them. I just need to go below...change, clean up."Nursey shrugged unhappily. "Just take your time down the hatch. Up, too."Nursey ducked back into the med bay and began tending to Griggs, leaving Jane and Yuki awkwardly standing together."Well. I'm sure I'm overdue for seeing that aux thrust doesn't crap out on us. You hang in there." Jane ducked out in her usual abrupt way, heading back to the engine room."Going below, Sarge.""Copy." He called back from the bridge.Yuki waddled disconsolately into the port antechamber, piss sloshing about up to her ankles in her mercifully airtight magboots, cycled the hatch, and very gingerly began to descend the rungs to the lower deck. Her boots were unusually heavy, with little in the way of actual tread, and it was the first real physical exertion she had had since her long moonside crawl and subsequent illness, and by the time she found herself back in her familiar home turf of the ship's kitchen, she was all but exhausted.Finding at last the privacy of the below-decks toilet, she locked the door behind her and shuffled over to the sink, heaving a long sigh of pent-up mortification and running her hands over her face and her fingers through her disheveled hair several times over, hating to see herself in the mirror. She stooped and splashed water onto her face several times, then shuffled back over to the toilet to begin unlocking and unzipping her spacesuit.In front of it now, a sudden urge and stinging of her urethra struck her and she quickly crossed her legs, pivoting on her heels and lowering herself over the toilet while pulling her spacesuit down around her. Legs still crossed and thighs pressed tight against one another, the last remaining contents of her bladder trickled and tinkled down through the seat of her uniform and into the bowl.Half points?, she thought. At least the burning and stinging was more tolerable now, if still quite painful.She pushed the little foot rug away from the toilet, towards the door, and unzipped her spacesuit further, maneuvering her submerged feet uncomfortably until one after the other they finally popped free. Her bare, saturated feet slid precariously on the tiles as she stood up, but she managed to balance well enough as she went about detaching the suit from the magboots. To her dismay, a good quantity of pee dripped out from the legs as soon as they were separated; she threw the suit on the tile for now, and carefully lifted each heavy boot to empty it, cringing all the while.She grabbed a towel out of the cupboard, mopped up the floor piss as well as she could with her feet, dried them, and threw the towel over the suit.
>>23358477Looking down at her soaked uniform, she strongly considered stripping bottomless before heading to her room to avoid some further mess, but decided it against it just on the off chance someone did have reason to be on the lower deck. She knelt and sat down on the now fairly wet towel, soaking her crotch against it until it was no longer dripping, and made a run for her room, straight into Anonson who had just exited his own and was heading for the hatch on the far side of the kitchen."Yuki, I didn't - uh, Sato, I didn't see you there, I..."She stepped back, flustered, realizing she had left a wet patch on his pantleg from the collision."My mistake, I just, uh, I..." she gesticulated desperately with her hands, "Well, I g-guess at this rate you'll just be getting used to seeing me like this. Uh.""I, uh...no, I um...I thought, in medbay...it's not...I needed..." Anonson stammered incompetently, holding up a toolkit from his room."W-well, I've gotta...ch-change..." she breathlessly slipped past him and scampered off to her room, ears burning, still breathless from the shock and her various exertions.Locking her door, she immediately peeled off her bottoms and spandex delicates, leaving them on the floor. The top, too, was wet around the hem, and worse for perspiration, so she removed that as well. Now ready to dry herself, she groaned in irritation realizing she had forgotten to bring another towel from the bathroom.Past caring, she thoroughly dried her thighs, behind, and pussy with her uniform shirt, tousling her bush vigorously as she went. She flopped down on her bed, worn out, figuring she was dry enough. What an infuriating, uncomfortable return trip this had turned out to be. She dried between her legs again, working the shirt more vigorously, then stopped a moment.Am I horny?, it occurred to her. It HAD been a while, between everything going on.Nursey likely wouldn't be ready for her for a while, and while she was very eager for a hot shower and sure everyone else was as hungry as she was, it could all wait.So Private Sato granted herself several minutes of personal leave in her bunk, and rose to redress herself feeling somewhat rejuvenated already.She grabbed some biscuits and a treasured bottle of champagne from the barracks larder on her way back to the main deck, laying them out on the common area table to tide the troops over until she found time to prepare a proper meal.Medbay door was closed, and looking in she window she found Nursey busy tending to Wrygraves' burns. Nearly to the main deck restroom, this time more prepared and knowing where her towel was at least, she bumped into Jane, who was returning to her quarters, her hands and forearms smudged in engine grease."Sato."Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>age>current book>your thoughts on it
>>23353568>No major plot points except maybe the ending I spoiled the ending >>23353861>Blood Meridian is Moby Dick for redditors I haven’t read Moby Dick yet but I don’t think that’s true.
>>23356970>Céline in English What's the point, his language is half of the appeal. Unlike Camus who's dull and ugly, Céline can't really be translated well.
>>23352422>32>Heart of Darkness>it's utter shite ruined by Marlow as a uselessly verbose narrator despite a well written introduction (the first few pages)
30EarthlingsStarted off pretty good, the book suddenly jumped forward 20 years so I'm hoping it stays enjoyable
>>23352422>age29>current bookThe Wake by Paul Kingsnorth>your thoughts on itFantastic. The 'olde aenglisch' language feels slightly gimmicky at first but you get used to it and it really does make the characters and setting feel like they're from a different time. Actually goes a bit beyond that occasionally and feels utterly alien, yet we know that people like this really did exist in this real place in a point in history that actually happened. You can't help but feel desperately sad for what happened to Buccmaster, his family, his home and his liberty that he loves more than anything.
