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#51
books / Re: Book Club
Last post by 666 - Dec 05, 2025, 06:41 PM
One of my favorite books is The Dwarf, by Par Lagerkvist. He's always brilliant, but for my money this story is easily his best, in fact the only one I ever have read more than once or ever plan to.

https://goodreads.com/book/show/214805.The_Dwarf

It's been a while since I've read it, but thinking on other shorter novels that don't mince words studying archetypes, Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe struck a chord. I've wanted to get back around to this one for a while:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9998.The_Woman_in_the_Dunes

And lastly, in the same vein, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, another terrific book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9537951-they-shoot-horses-don-t-they
#52
metal / Re: Translations
Last post by 666 - Dec 05, 2025, 06:09 PM
I like the newer Parkes translation of Zarathustra, the only copy I own:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thus-spoke-zarathustra-9780199537099?cc=us&lang=en&;

And this was enjoyable albeit probably quite libertine, but that's what he was going for I think and anyway I don't speak German. A good book for the less invested reader of Nietzsche regardless:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13827305-hammer-of-the-gods

#53
hou2600 / Re: Internet resources
Last post by prime - Dec 05, 2025, 04:17 PM
#54
books / Re: Book Club
Last post by prime - Dec 05, 2025, 11:17 AM
This is interesting: cliff/cave dwellers of ancient Europe.
https://archive.org/details/cliffcastlescave00bariuoft/mode/1up
#56
notions / Re: National Conservatism
Last post by prime - Dec 04, 2025, 01:12 PM
1788 > 1488 although 1488 was right about race, eugenics, supply-side economics, and conservation.

https://www.amerika.org/politics/what-is-a-1788-conservative/
https://thecivilright.org/faq/
#57
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - Dec 04, 2025, 12:50 PM
QuoteEgo-syntonicism is a mental state wherein a person's behaviors, thoughts, and attitudes are consistent solely with their sense of self or ego. They experience and act out only in ways they perceive are best for them. What they want for themselves. What brings them pleasure. And they make their self serving decisions regardless of the effect on others. Even if help is available they will deny the help if it conflicts with their goal of self satisfaction. In highfalutin terms it is extreme solipsism. In simple English it is extreme selfishness.

https://www.literotica.com/s/03-a-btb-the-best-btb
#59
hou2600 / Re: Internet resources
Last post by prime - Dec 03, 2025, 09:09 PM
Decentralized Git hosting
https://tangled.org/
#60
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - Dec 03, 2025, 12:55 PM
QuoteA 'sadistic' wife forced her husband to live in squalor with sixty chihuahuas, making him clean up their faeces barefoot and locking him in their kennel during a year-long campaign of torture, a Belgian court has heard.

The court was shown shocking images documenting what the prosecutor described as the husband's descent from 'a healthy partner at the beginning of the relationship to a burned skeleton'.

The abuse only ended on March 18, when the victim managed to flee the home and desperately banged on neighbours' doors for help.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15349029/Sadistic-wife-tortured-husband-year-forcing-clean-SIXTY-Chihuahuas-round-clock-locking-kennel.html