PRESENTING: FREN-Z MAGAZINE ISSUE #8
THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL II
For the first time ever, we have released two issues of FREN-Z in as many months. We worked on Issues #7 and #8 at the same time, but the release of Issue #8 still represents a massive effort on the part of our team to meet this holiday deadline.
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Remember, these are all just stories, goys and ghouls! In real life, pure unadulterated WHITE POWER will protect you from the supernatural, so long as you believe.
To start with, we have a front cover based on the NSDAP publication Der Aufbau.
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What are your thoughts on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s hit novel “Crime and Punishment”? Are any of his other works worth reading too?
What are the best books for understanding women
If you want to know how the game of state power has and will forever be played against dissidents using the hidden hand, read and internalize the lessons of this book
Name one (1) other writer who was also a scientist
Why are banned books displays at bookstores always filled with books they forced me to read in elementary schools?
PRESENTING FREN-Z MAGAZINE ISSUE #7
Original art, 3D renders, literature, and analysis, written by frens for frens. We'll be posting every page in this thread so that you can read the entire thing without downloading it. If you prefer, you can read the PDF on Archive.org without downloading it. You can also get a compressed version from the below Catbox link.
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Starting off, we have the cover and a grip strength ad. The grip strength ad was fun to draw.
Is it worth reading? How good is it?
Let's brainstorm. We need a quick guide to books that distill the essence of our culture to interested outsiders without being overly long or scattered between two dozen eclectic titles. Ideally on the shorter side and straight to the point, with a minimum of airy political philosophy pomp involved.
I'm not quite sure what the entire series would look like, but here are books I think may work:
>Race: The Bell Curve (Dated, I think there are more current books)
>Identity: White Identity by Jared Taylor
>History: Tragedy and Hope by Quigley (placeholder, I know it's quite long)
>Economics: A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind by Goodson
>The New Nationalism: ???
>Culture of Critique? Mearsheimer's the Israel Lobby?
>Perhaps something from the Interwar thinkers for a throwback?
Obviously even this list is quite long. But perhaps this is sufficient to get the ball rolling
Hey y'all, amerimutt here. I've been getting more into literature as it's much less stimulating than video. I have previously read books like animal farm, 1984, and high fantasy slop. I also enjoyed "that was the, this is now". I am looking for books that are less doomer and have a positive message, particularly for white men or just men in general, or books that your average man could get alot out of. I never was much of a reader but I understand I am missing out on what is essentially an endless trove of knowledge and entertainment through writing.
What are some books in favor of tariffs?
What a pleasant surprise.
This book is a history of pol and the broader alt right from ron paul through to stop the steal. Donovan, the stupid fat liberal bitch, did write part of it but clearly not everything. She absolutely ruined the few chapters she touches in the beginning trying to claim HBD and race realism are unfounded and the like. Thankfully the actual journalists then take over and write the book. It's a good historical source with a lot of deja vu moments putting together a tapestry in context that we've only just lived through.
I would go so far as to say this is the best textual history of pol written for a publisher. Not good enough to buy of course, but to pirate is a different story. Just glaze past the stupid doubletalk crap that occasionally pops up. Mercifully, most of that is Donovan in her fat woman pseudo-preface.
The series peaked here as a resource for scholars and autists. They started pandering to plebs afterward. I have a copy of the version from 1980 and it may as well be the World Book Encyclopedia
Capturing the pre World War One world was also very timely
The novelization of Dark Knight Rises
>reading about a historical conflict
>don't know who to support because both sides are white chuds
>start to get a headache
This happen to anyone else?
Can someone recommend some good books or resources to help me get started writing?
I have ideas but I don't know where/how to start writing, never done it before
>gives Bohemia a sea coast
>has Hector refer to Aristotle
>gives Milan a seaport
>has a character in Corialanus quote Cato
>has billiards in ancient Egypt
A Canticle for Leibowitz was a book published by Walter M. Miller Jr. in 1959 and republished many times thereafter. Walter Miller was a prolific writer of various short stories, but published only a small number of longer-form works. Though I hesitate to call “A Canticle for Leibowitz” science fiction in the traditional sense, it certainly uses the framing of fiction to dig into extremely complex philosophical ideas regarding human society. It’s a book that is as relevant to the 21st century as it was to the 20th. More so in the 21st century, as we are now positioned to see the mistakes of the 20th century. With the rise of new technologies, human civilization looks to the future with the same trepidation with which we now look to the past. This book, in particular, is valuable in the way it develops ideas of culture, myth, and religion. I was inspired to read this book due to the YouTube video by Feral Historian visible here:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTN46HMCnM
The book is a combination of three short stories that span approximately 1000 years, between the years 2600 AD and 3700 AD. The stories take place after the “flame deluge,” an obvious atomic war that occurred around the middle of the 20th century. After 600 years of barbarism, a form of Christianity has risen from the dust and constructed an abbey in the deserts of Utah or Colorado (the exact location is never clarified). The abbey holds a privileged place on the edge of the slowly returning civilization.
I’ll try to avoid too many spoilers, but the setup of the novel is such that they aren’t that crucial. There aren’t resounding plot twists; rather, it’s a slow-paced examination of human nature and how we behave over time. There are plenty of details that I am leaving out, but in the first story, in particular, I’ll provide a clearer picture of the plot. Ultimately, the author is reaching down to truths that were very poorly understood at the dawn of the Atomic Era. Hidden behind the obvious fear of atomic inferno is something far subtler.
I can't read plays. It's too awkward. They need to be in prose form.
>dictatorship is good (Latter Day Pamphlets)
>might is right (Chartism)
>Anglo Saxon supremacy (Chartism)
>pro slavery (the Nigger Question)
>pro imperialism (Latter Day Pamphlets)
>capitalism is bad (Latter Day Pamphlets)
Was he a proto-fascist?
Starting the thread with a classic
>Waking up to a loud crash rarely means something good is happening. It’s never “CRASH! Mom made pancakes!” or “CRASH! We decided to adopt a Golden Retriever!
Is it good, or not? Quite a bit circulating regarding their modern nationalist perspective if you begin to look for it
I've never read a sci-fi novel, I'm not into sci-fi movies but I know you anons can recommend some kino. What should be my first sci-fi novel ever? Thinking about Philip K. Dick but not sure which book to start with.
Pic is my latest read lol
Why did he decide to become a hermit?
Now that jannies allow history on here, what does /lit/ think of Louis XIV?
Can't believe I wasted my childhood reading this shit
What did he mean by this?
From The Lost World (1996)
Why did Bernard Shaw feel the need to write a play about the Serbo Bulgarian War of 1885
The Constitution of the Northwest American Republic
DRAFT - October 2006
[Note: In the interest of historical accuracy, the draft Constitution of the Northwest American Republic was the work not just of Mr. Covington, but of a Constitutional Committee numbering around 30 men and women. The names of most of these people would mean nothing to most readers, and in some cases mentioning their names in public could cause them difficulties. In any case, no list has been retained and the bulk of the documentation and correspondence destroyed, for reasons which should be obvious. This material should rightly have been preserved for history, but the immediate physical safety from persecution of the people involved was of greater contemporary concern.
Nonetheless, for the record, in addition to a number of people not named, the Constitutional draft presented here contains input, ideas, suggestions, inspiration, and in some cases written passages from the following individuals: Louis Beam, James Butler, Richard Butler, Rick Cooper, Harold A. Covington, Frederick Crandall, Byron de la Beckwith, Chester Doles, Scotty Earbend, Dr. Edward R. Fields, Joseph Paul Franklin, April Gaede, Carl Geharis, J. D. Grier, Michael Hoffman II, Richard Kelly Hoskins, Richard Kemp, David Lane, Kirk Lyons, Robert Mathews, David McCalden, Robert Miles, Edward Peacock, Bruce Pierce, Richard Scutari, Edgar J. Steele, David Tate, Eric Thomson, Bill White, Ernst Zündel, and many others. Thank you all. – HAC]
Preamble
In the name of the Divine Creator of all things we, the Aryan peoples of the earth, do hereby set forth this Constitution of the Northwest American Republic, in order that we may secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.
Section One - Nationhood and Citizenship
Article I. The Northwest American Republic shall be a Homeland solely for the use and habitation of White people of all nationalities, cultures and creeds worldwide, in order that Western civilization may be preserved and White children may be raised to responsible adulthood in safety, prosperity and tranquility. We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children. Such is the overriding principle of this Constitution. Nothing incompatible with this prime directive may be held by any authority to be constitutional.
Article II. All White people of any nationality, ethnicity, or previous citizenship, shall have the right to live permanently in the Northwest American Republic as legal residents.
Article III. Citizenship in the Republic, as opposed to legal residence and domicile, to include exercise of the franchise and participation in government and the political process, shall not be automatically conferred at birth, or through racial identity alone. Citizenship is to be earned through responsibility fulfilled.
Article IV. Residence and citizenship in the Northwest Republic shall be restricted, absolutely and for all time, to those persons of unmixed Caucasian racial descent from any one of the historic family of European nations, who shall have no known or identifiable non-White ancestry, and no visibly non-White element in their genetic makeup.
Article V. The race commonly known as Jews are in culture and historic tradition an Asiatic people, and shall not be considered White or accorded White racial status under law. No Jew shall be allowed to enter or to reside in the Northwest American Republic under any circumstances. Article VI. Citizenship in the Republic and the right to exercise the electoral franchise shall be divided into three classes, with each class of citizenship holding one, two, and three individual votes respectively. Those who demonstrate superior civic and political responsibility, and who display the greatest dedication to state service, and who thereby achieve a higher class of citizenship, shall thereby have the greatest say in the political process.
Article VII. Citizenship in the Northwest American Republic may be legally reduced or revoked by a court of law, by the Bureau of Race and Resettlement or other competent governmental authority, by act of the National Convention, or by decree of the State President, which bodies and authorities may also grant or restore citizenship. Grounds for revocation or reduction of citizenship shall be:
1. Conviction of a felony.
2. Medically certified mental defect or insanity.
3. Proven non-White racial descent to include Jewish ancestry.
4. Willful miscegenation with persons of non-White race.
5. Factual proof of the commission of acts of homosexuality.
Article VIII. Standards of race and citizenship shall be established by a Bureau of Race and Resettlement, which shall set all racial parameters and codes, establish scientific and cultural standards of racial identity, and which shall make determination in individual cases where applicable.
Article IX. Whereas the basis of all human civilization has been, and shall remain, the traditional nuclear family based on the institution of marriage, with the wife and mother as the heart and the gainfully employed father as the head, the Northwest American Republic herewith acknowledges this traditional family unit and the values historically attached to it as the foundation of the state, and declares that the protection of the family shall be and shall remain a primary goal and supporting pillar of the Republic, its laws and institutions.
Section Two - Government and Administration
Article I. The Northwest American Republic shall be a unitary or single-party state, with the Northwest Front serving as the official party of government.
Article II. The government of the Republic shall consist of two branches, executive and legislative;
1. All state and local governments, offices and agencies thereof that existed under the previous rule of the United States of America are herewith abolished.
2. Preexisting counties and cities within the Northwest American Republic shall create such local governments within the parameters of this Constitution as appear to be necessary for the maintenance of health, order, and prosperity, but all ordinances, laws, and functions of said local governments shall be subordinate to the central government and laws of the Republic, and the authority of the National Convention and the State President.
Article III. This Constitution shall be enforced and interpreted by a standing Constitutional Committee of the National Convention, to whom constitutional issues may be referred for determination by the Convention as a whole, by the executive branch, by state agencies, and by the courts.
Article IV. The basis of the body politic of the Northwest American Republic shall be the roster of all persons holding citizenship in the Republic, which citizenship roll shall function as the lowest level of government and the foundation of the state. The citizenship roll shall function in this capacity through general elections to the National Convention, and also through the institution of the national referendum.
Article V. National referendums shall take place as needed in conjunction with general elections to the National Convention.
1. National referendums on specific issues of immediate urgency or interest may also be called by the Convention as needed through special resolution, with such referendums to take place within not less than thirty (30) days and not more than sixty (60) days from the adoption of said resolution.
2. No national referendum or any other act of government may alter or amend this Constitution, in whole or in part.
Article VI. The historic role of the Northwest Front in implementing the Revolution and securing the independence of the Republic is officially acknowledged. The primacy of the Party in governing the Republic is formally acknowledged and enshrined in this Constitution.
Article VII. The chief executive of the Northwest American Republic shall be the State President, who shall be a first-class citizen and Party member not less than thirty-five years of age, and who shall be a military veteran.
Article VIII. The State President shall serve as head of the executive branch of government, as commander in chief of the armed forces and the Civil Guard, [national police force] and commander of the Bureau of State Security.
Article IX. The State President shall have the right to appoint a Council of Ministers of his own choosing, and to create or dissolve ministerial portfolios as he deems necessary, with the following exceptions: he may not dissolve or allow to fall into abeyance the Ministries of Defense, Interior, Finance, or Race and Resettlement;
1. The State President shall have the authority to assume one (1) ministerial portfolio himself for all or part of his term.
2. The State President shall serve as chief magistrate of the Republic and shall exercise full and final recourse over all actions and decisions of the judicial system and the National Honor Court, specifically including the power of full or partial pardon or commutation of any civil or military sentence of death, confinement, corporal punishment, loss of citizenship, amercement, or exile, with the following exception: the State President may not overrule or set aside any jury or other court verdict of not guilty, not proven, or other acquittal.
Article X. The State President shall be elected by direct popular vote of all citizens, through a primary election wherein all candidates for the office shall fulfill the basic requirements of eligibility, and who will furthermore be members of the National Convention;
Article XI. Subsequent to the primary election, should any candidate fail to gain more than 50 per cent of the vote, a run-off or general election between the two front runners shall take place. The candidate receiving a simple majority of votes shall become State President. Article XII. The State President shall serve a single term of six years in office, and may not be re-elected to the office of President for two consecutive terms;
1. In the event of his or her death, illness, or other incapacity, the State President shall be succeeded in office by the Speaker of the National Convention. In the event of the death or incapacitation of both the State President and the Speaker of the National Convention, executive power shall be collectively assumed by the properly constituted ruling body of the Northwest Front for a period of no longer than thirty (30) days, who shall during that time appoint a caretaker President who shall hold office for a maximum of one (1) year, until a special presidential election can be held.
2. The State President may be impeached and removed from office on foot of a national referendum of recall. Any national referendum on the impeachment and removal of a State President may be passed by the National Convention without the signature of the sitting State President, nor shall he or she have any power of veto thereon.
Article XIII. The legislative branch of government shall consist of the National Convention, which shall be elected by popular vote of all citizens every two years. The National Convention shall be presided over by a Speaker who shall be elected in caucus by the government members of each incoming convention, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the government parliamentary party.
Article XIV. The National Convention shall be unicameral.
Article XV. The National Convention shall consist of four elements: government, opposition, deputies from the armed forces and Civil Guard, and non-voting ministers of state.
1. Civilian deputies of the National Convention shall be elected by popular vote of the citizenship roll on the basis of two government members and one opposition member per county.
2. One (1) serving senior officer and one (1) serving senior non-commissioned officer from each branch of the military shall be appointed as deputies to the National Convention by a duly constituted body of senior officers of their service. Further, two (2) senior members of the Civil Guard shall be appointed as deputies by the State President. 3. Ministers of state [Cabinet members] shall have the right to attend all sessions and participate in the debate and work of the National Convention, but shall have no vote on legislation or resolutions.
Article XVI. The National Convention shall remain in constant session during the two (2) years of its term and may recess only twice per year, for a cumulative period of not more than sixty (60) days per year.
1. Neither the State President nor any other body may prorogue, dismiss, or dissolve the National Convention, except for the Speaker of the Convention immediately prior to and as part of a nationwide general election.
2. No deputy or other functionary of the National Convention may receive or accept any salary, commission, fees, royalties, or other income, benefits, perks, or any other thing of value from any source other than such salary, emolument, or benefits decreed to such deputies and functionaries by a national referendum and thus enacted into law.
3. All deputies and functionaries of the National Convention and all Ministers of State, specifically including the State President and Vice President, must file an annual full and complete financial disclosure statement with the office of the Speaker detailing their current net worth, financial status, all property held, etc. Disclosure statements shall be matters of public record and available for inspection to any citizen or resident of the Republic.
4. The State President may in time of national emergency or legislative recess rule by special executive order solely in order to preserve life, property, and the existence of the Republic. All such special executive orders are non-renewable and must be confirmed or rejected within sixty (60) days by the National Convention in full session.
5. The Convention shall function not only as a legislative body, but as a reserve of administrative manpower for the government and as an arm of the civil service. The Convention as a body and the State President shall assign to deputies of the Convention such additional governmental, legal, and social duties within the administration of government as they shall think fit, in order to gain optimal benefit for society as a whole.
Article XVII. The government parliamentary party and the Speaker of the Convention shall set aside a regular day of full session no less often than once per calendar month, for public questioning of government members and all ministers of state, including the State President, by opposition members on specific policies and issues facing the nation;
1. Said Ministers of State shall make themselves available and render public responses to such questions, except on such infrequent occasions when genuinely sensitive matters of national security are involved, in which case the State President or government minister concerned shall have the right to respond to such questioning to a select committee in closed session, under all applicable laws and regulations of official and military secrecy.
2. Opposition members and the Speaker of the Convention may require the presence of any government minister, military officer, or other functionary or person to respond to such questioning. Opposition members and the Speaker of the Convention shall have legally enforceable subpoena power to compel the appearance of any person for the purpose of public examination with the exception of agents of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS). The State President shall have the power to interdict the appearance of any member or operative of BOSS when, in his determination, it is in the overriding national interest that he do so.
Article XVIII. All members of the National Convention shall enjoy full parliamentary privilege and immunity from any arrest, prosecution, or investigation in connection with their official duties as members of the Convention or in connection with any written or oral communication, public or private, in connection with their official duties as legislators or members of government.
1. The Speaker shall as necessary convene a special investigatory committee of deputies, including both government and opposition members, who shall act as a tribunal to resolve questions of immunity, ethics, and specific allegations of unethical or criminal conduct against deputies.
2. No deputy to the National Convention may be stripped of his parliamentary immunity or expelled from the Convention except on the recommendation of the investigatory committee aforesaid, that recommendation must be confirmed by a vote of the Convention in full session.
Article XIX. Laws of the Northwest American Republic shall be enacted upon introduction of a bill by any deputy or group of deputies, or by the State President, into the National Convention;
1. Such bills shall become law by majority vote of the Convention only after two (2) readings separated by a time period of not less than seven (7) and not more than thirty (30) days, and only after two (2) public debates by the Convention on each individual bill. Such bills must then be presented to the State President for signature within seven (7) days.
2. The State President may veto all or part of any bill presented to him by the National Convention for signature.
3. A Presidential veto of all or part of any bill may be overridden and shall become law on a majority vote of the National Convention in full session.
Article XX. The National Convention shall have the sole power to levy all excise and customs duties, taxes, and other imposts, including any and all fees charged by the government for any goods or services whatsoever. All monies due to the state or any agency thereof shall be paid directly into the State Treasury and shall be apportioned according an annual budget laid out by the Finance Minister and approved by the National Convention as a whole.
Article XXI. The Finance Ministry shall have operational authority over all coinage and issuance of money or other legal tender within the Republic, but ultimate power over all such coinage and issuance of money shall reside in the National Convention, which shall have the power to amend or rescind any act of the Finance Ministry with relation to monetary affairs by resolution carried on a majority vote.
Article XXII. Neither the state nor any local government or authority shall levy any tax or impost upon individual income or on real property in the form of land, family housing, or homestead, nor upon any family-owned farm. Income taxes may be leveled upon corporations or organizations of any commercial, social, or religious character deemed necessary. Property taxes may be levied upon any land, buildings, structures, manufactories, or facilities used for commercial purposes, corporate agribusiness, or for religious purposes.
Article XXIII. The power to declare a state of war between the NAR and any foreign power or powers is reserved to the National Convention in full session.
>my local libraries have all turned into de facto homeless shelters
Libros for this feel?
What an absolute joke of a book this is. I will never take anyone seriously who recommends BAP after taking a look. Pseudo-intellectual narcissistic crap hidden behind an antiquity cosplay for a larping degenerate. Should have been called eastern european mindset, it would have gotten straight to the point
>open a book at Goodwill
>written message on the inside cover
>it was someone's gift from 2 months ago
>reading Anna Karenina
>there's a sentient dog
>reading Mason Dixon
>there's a sentient dog
>reading Against the Day
>there's a sentient dog
I read a lot books. I read so many books I don't have time to read all the books I want to read. Are there any AI text-to-voice services where I can drop in a .pdf and get an audio that is listenable? I have a lot of obscure old things that I want to gloss but don't have the time or inclination to read physically.
To legitimize post, book rec in pic unrelated.
>reading about the assassination of Jean Jaurès
>the guy who did it is literally named Villain
>happens outside a place called Café du Croissant
Wtf it reads like a parody
>come across the word anon
>it doesn't mean anonymous
The Wandering Jew
by Edward Arlington Robinson
I saw by looking in his eyes
That they remembered everything;
And this was how I came to know
That he was here, still wandering.
For though the figure and the scene
Were never to be reconciled,
I knew the man as I had known
His image when I was a child.
With evidence at every turn,
I should have held it safe to guess
That all the newness of New York
Had nothing new in loneliness;
Yet here was one who might be Noah,
Or Nathan, or Abimelech,
Or Lamech, out of ages lost,—
Or, more than all, Melchizedek.
Assured that he was none of these,
I gave them back their names again,
To scan once more those endless eyes
Where all my questions ended then.
I found in them what they revealed
That I shall not live to forget,
And wondered if they found in mine
Compassion that I might regret.
Pity, I learned, was not the least
Of time’s offending benefits
That had now for so long impugned
The conservation of his wits:
Rather it was that I should yield,
Alone, the fealty that presents
The tribute of a tempered ear
To an untempered eloquence.
Before I pondered long enough
On whence he came and who he was,
I trembled at his ringing wealth
Of manifold anathemas;
I wondered, while he seared the world,
What new defection ailed the race,
And if it mattered how remote
Our fathers were from such a place.
Before there was an hour for me
To contemplate with less concern
The crumbling realm awaiting us
Than his that was beyond return,
A dawning on the dust of years
Had shaped with an elusive light
Mirages of remembered scenes
That were no longer for the sight.
For now the gloom that hid the man
Became a daylight on his wrath,
And one wherein my fancy viewed
New lions ramping in his path.
The old were dead and had no fangs,
Wherefore he loved them—seeing not
They were the same that in their time
Had eaten everything they caught.
The world around him was a gift
Of anguish to his eyes and ears,
And one that he had long reviled
As fit for devils, not for seers.
Where, then, was there a place for him
That on this other side of death
Saw nothing good, as he had seen
No good come out of Nazareth?
Yet here there was a reticence,
And I believe his only one,
That hushed him as if he beheld
A Presence that would not be gone.
In such a silence he confessed
How much there was to be denied;
And he would look at me and live,
As others might have looked and died.
As if at last he knew again
That he had always known, his eyes
Were like to those of one who gazed
On those of One who never dies.
For such a moment he revealed
What life has in it to be lost;
And I could ask if what I saw,
Before me there, was man or ghost.
He may have died so many times
That all there was of him to see
Was pride, that kept itself alive
As too rebellious to be free;
He may have told, when more than once
Humility seemed imminent,
How many a lonely time in vain
The Second Coming came and went.
Whether he still defies or not
The failure of an angry task
That relegates him out of time
To chaos, I can only ask.
But as I knew him, so he was;
And somewhere among men to-day
Those old, unyielding eyes may flash,
And flinch—and look the other way.
>reading about the wars of German unification
>"two wrongs don't make a reich"
Who are some other politicians who have written novels
'ghost writer' has always sounded like a retarded term to me
>trying to read a French book
>the table of contents is at the back
Post a pic of the library you are standing in right now
>is a poet
>is named Wordsworth
Huh, really makes you think
I think it's time to accept he was on to something here
Ok, if you could only reccomend 5 books for anyone to read- what would they be
>(inb4fucking Siege or Mien Kampf).
....
I'll start:
1. Treasure Island
2. Starship Troopers
3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
4. The Odyssey (with notes)
5. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 1-3
Can celebrities be good authors?
Does anyone have this book?
e careful what you wish for; you just might get it.
One of many words of wisdom that never truly registered for me before.
I remember, back when I was younger, I used to daydream. I dreamt of magic and amazing power, of being unconstrained by society, existing as a force of nature that everyone had to account for and take care not to disturb. Such a cool guy, that is me, would also live in a world where ancient secrets, treasure, and interesting people could be found everywhere, under practically every rock.
Childhood fantasies, nothing more, and as one grows older, it becomes harder and harder to daydream about such things and extract real enjoyment out of them. You can feel only so much righteous fury about an imaginary battle against non-existent Sith Lords after all. You can only feel warm and fuzzy inside, imagining the adoration of a non-existent maiden for so long.
Still, in the back of my mind, there was always this silent hope. That maybe something 'magical' will happen in my life. Maybe aliens would turn out to be real, maybe god, the one from the Bible, can hear me when I sometimes address him. Maybe humanity will unlock faster-than-light travel during my life, and I will live to see a wild-west era of space exploration.
I know that at least some of my hopes must have been right. I am sure God was listening.
Because here I am. Born with power beyond humanity, immortal, in an alien world, living in a literal fantasy setting.
But as always, there is a twist.
I sat amidst the trees, on a small clearing not far away from a crude cabin I constructed for myself. The birds sang loudly, as is normal for the season, and a small river, practically just a spring, flowed close by.
I caught a glimpse of my reflection - an image both familiar and alien. A youthful face stared back, untouched by time, appearing no older than eighteen. Golden hair cascaded down like a silken waterfall, framing features so symmetrical they bordered on the divine. Eyes of piercing blue held a depth that belied their age, and the delicate balance of sharp cheekbones and soft lips could have graced either gender with equal grace.
Yet, amidst this near-perfection, two thick, curved horns arched gracefully from my temples, their dark-crimson hue contrasting starkly against the pale strands of hair.
The image in the crystal clear water reflected a man dressed in rags, remnants of an old cloak, yet the body itself was pristine, with skin so lustrous any human woman would die of envy. A small worn journal on my lap, and with it, a feather in my hand, and a bottle of ink by my side, gently placed amidst the short grass, were also there, I the reflection.
But as I gazed upon myself, I felt nothing.
Which was the crux of my troubles, was it not?
Demons do not feel as humans do. We feel emotions, but they are stunted, undeveloped. Satisfaction of doing a task, especially if it's related to hunting humans, pride in something you do, in an accomplishment, anger at being hurt or slighted, fear of death or pain, all of that I can experience. Even though the stimuli felt much weaker than what I vaguely remembered from my human life.
But more complex emotions eluded my kind, and by extension, me. I wasn't able to feel guilt anymore. I could never again feel pride in someone else, I couldn't experience hope, and I couldn't feel compassion. Not to even mention love or affection. From my research, crude as it is, I hypothesized that the demons' minds simply weren't wired for such things.
It made sense. An apex predator, naturally gifted with magical might that a human would need a decade to cultivate, a being who can regenerate with magical energy, who can effortlessly enhance its own body, and who is born with an instinctive ability to mimic and quickly learn languages… why would such a being need more complex emotions?
Humans and other primates developed those gradually, as pack animals, to better survive and function as a society. Demons didn't need a society, a single demon was a self-sustaining being who could only die if killed, which in the wild shouldn't have ever been possible, unless the death came from another demon.
I closed my eyes for a moment. Then, dipping the feather into ink, with careful strokes, I continued to write in the language I learned to write in from staring into books I found. Something we, demons, apparently could do, just as we could learn to speak a language by merely observing humans for a day or so.
…For a long time now, I've been forgetting what certain things feel like. The memory of my human life grows dimmer. I do not believe it's a supernatural phenomenon or a byproduct of my reincarnation; rather, it's simply that my new experiences with passing years overwrite my previous ones. We, demons, are beings that are composed of magical energy in solid form; while our bodies, even internally, emulate humans, most of this emulation is surface-level at best. We have livers, stomachs, kidneys, and brains, but they are all redundant organs that do not serve a purpose. I conducted numerous vivisections on weaker monsters, I know that even damaging a brain, as long as the wound isn't too big and does not disturb their body's structure too much, does not affect them. I am certain it wouldn't affect me either, though I wasn't brazen enough to wound myself to check.
The only real essential organ in both monsters and demons is our hearts, and from what my research indicates, it would be more accurate to call it a 'core'.
There are two ways to kill a demon, one would be to destroy enough of our bodies that our regeneration can't catch up, and the whole construct starts to fall apart into ambient energy, as it can't cope with the increased load of trying to maintain it's shape, or to destroy our heart.
The heart is the only thing we can't regenerate.
My research indicates it's because a demon's heart is the core. A core from which all our mana originates, and which houses our consciousness, memories, and thinking. It's functionally both a heart and a brain, it's the center of our being.
That is to say, just like a human's brain is filled with neurons and hormones that dedicate their personality, memory, behaviour, and manner of thinking, we, demons, must have a core processing unit within ourselves, and without a doubt, it's our heart. Hence, a term 'core'.
The change in my memories is likely because just like neurons in a human brain are restructured with new experiences, making some memories more vague, or some associations more pronounced, demons likewise are rewired by the way we live.
In layman's terms, if I've felt pity in my previous life as I saw a wounded animal, but in this life, for years, I've seen animals die without feeling anything about it, so I will inevitably start to forget what that pity for wounded animals felt like. Or with enough time, I will cease recognizing that I am even supposed to feel pity for the wounded animals.
The same principle applied to practically every single one of my emotions, but most importantly, patterns of thinking. Intellectual, I knew that I used to think and consider my actions while taking into consideration other people and their feelings, but I am completely incapable of it nowadays; it takes real, tangible effort to imagine what a human may feel if I were to do a certain action. While I was a human, it would've been effortless, a part of my normal pattern of thinking; nowadays, it's an exercise in creativity, trying to force yourself to consider someone other than yourself and your immediate goals.
Those changes in patterns of thinking are what concern me the most. In my previous life, there was a famous quote: 'I think, therefore I am', but at this rate, I will cease to think the way I used to, and instead of being a human trapped into a wrong body, I will be a true demon with vague memories of once being a human. The former is me, the latter would be someone else.
I do not feel anything thinking of this transformation, there is no revulsion or fear. I suppose it's similar to how a human would think about being a different person once they become older.
But on an intellectual level, I find that change unacceptable, and ironically, my demonic pride supports me in the objectively stupid decision I am making today;
That is, I am conducting an experiment that will most likely kill me.
This is not an introduction to you or anyone else who is reading this message. This journal is simply that, my ramblings; the other journals you would find alongside it are filled with autopsies and my research into monster and demon anatomies, and magic. I tried to adhere to a scientific method, though I lack a formal education in magic; as such, most of the terminology was invented by me, for my own needs. If you are a mage, maybe you will find something useful amidst my notes.
In the latter parts of this journal, I listed, in broad strokes, what I remembered of the technology and science of my old world. Concepts such as steam turbines, various fuels one can use for industries, concepts of factories, railroads, cellular theory, and what I remember of gravity and space, and some other smaller details concerning science that I recall.
You may be wondering why I bother taking any notes at all, and the truth is, my demonic mind doesn't feel stimulated by this idea of sharing knowledge. Leaving a legacy, trying to help someone else follow my footsteps, simply sharing my knowledge for the betterment of others, to the current me, all of those are hollow concepts. They produce as much emotional stimuli as thinking of helping humans, and if, for some reason, you, the reader, are unfamiliar with demons, that means I feel nothing.
The real reason why I write this is because I think the human me would've done it.
Now, as for the nature of my current experiment, it's simple. All of my research, magical or otherwise, was centered around trying to find a way to influence a demon's 'core'. The end goal is to be able to reshape it into something that can simulate a human's mind. The heart of a demon is comprised of solidified mana, much like the rest of our bodies. Demons can also solidify our mana at will, to regenerate ourselves, or even modify our bodies to an extent, for instance, growing sharper claws or teeth. Naturally, if we extrapolate this, a demon should theoretically be able to modify its core, if our personality and thinking patterns are created based on the magical equivalent of hormonal and neurological activity inside our core, changing those neuron/hormone-equivalent mana particles and their arrangement will change our personality. With enough mastery, one should be able to reshape our core in such a way that a demon would think, feel, and experience a world not unlike a human, except while being stronger, faster, and biologically immortal. This is a goal I strive towards, a being with all the benefits of being a demon and a human, this is what I wish to be.
I, as a former human, am probably the only demon who can even approach to attempt such magic. Though this is a herculean endeavor that will likely take centuries of study, and likely vivisection of monsters, demons, animals, and likely even humans, to understand everything about how brains and 'hearts' function, and to be able to modify the latter freely.
However, if I were to lose my memories of being a human, if I were to lose all my patterns of thinking, habits, and goals, I would lose my advantage in being aware of how demons and humans think. There is a chance I wouldn't even be interested in pursuing the path of returning my humanity. It's troubling.
Therefore, the current experiment. I created a curse that should allow me to relive my memories, not as one would see a dream, but with physical effects on one's body.
Currently, I lack most of the necessary knowledge to directly affect the inner workings of my core. I am still very much in the observation phase of my research, in the monster's I've vivisected, I am yet to name every mechanics and interactions of solidified mana within the core, obviously I didn't yet make sense of how the 'heart' of a monster works, much less a 'heart' of a much complex beings such as demons.
My curse is less working with tangible variables such as mana-particles in one's heart, and more centered around bringing up the memories from within one's soul and projecting them onto one's brain… or a core.
As a demon, magic comes almost instinctively, but developing this curse took me over a decade. This curse was my original focus ever since I mastered enough basics to defend myself, as I wanted to be able to perfectly recall my previous life in perfect clarity, especially any scientific articles I've read or studied, and the current application of this curse wasn't originally my plan, I didn't even consider my personality and very manner of thinking being changed gradually with my new state of being to such an extent.
Foolishly, I believed my morals and mind were more resilient than this. Alas, the mind does not persist over the body.
This curse I created was tested on monsters, which are abundant in the surrounding forest; they survived. They also trashed in their restraints while reliving them, as I mostly made them relive the fight I had to capture and subdue them. But I couldn't find, nor would I've been able to restrain a fellow demon. Demons and monsters are similar, but monsters are much more primitive in terms of cognitive functions; an apt comparison would be a human and any other animal. Essentially, I am going to cast a curse tested on dogs, on an equivalent of a human, a spell that is equivalent to a brain surgery, and hope for the best.
This is the main reason for this note. I am almost certain I will die.
I do not know how spells are normally recorded, and if I can even write down a demon's curse in such a way, so I am unable to share this piece of my magic. Demon's way of doing magic is half-instinctual, half proper knowledge. If I survive this, I will try to broaden my magical education with systematic human knowledge.
For a second, I considered the journal, the notes I wrote. They irked me. The fact that I wasted the ink, the paper, and the time to write this bothered me.
My pride demanded that I structure my message properly, make it more grandiose, even if it would impact its clarity, and make it more sympathetic. So that, at least, if a human reads it, it may benefit me if he takes pity. I wanted to write something more manipulative, something that serves me, my purposes. However, rationally, I knew that this was good enough.
Besides, amongst other things, I resolved myself not to lie so brazenly.
This note worked. It was good enough to emulate what I would've written if I were still a human. Or I think that's what I would've written.
It wasn't likely anyone would find it if I were to die, anyway. However…
Written by Albert.
I wrote that down; it seemed like something a human would do, too. I remember clinging to what remained of my previous life back when I got here. I promised myself to act morally, to follow the ten comandaments, to use my real name, and even though the original emotions that drove me to do so are mostly forgotten, and promises mean nothing to a demon, I followed those rules so far, out of habit, even if I felt nothing for them anymore.
No, probably, it's precisely because I felt nothing about those rules anymore that I followed them. In a few years, that might have changed.
Silently, I stood up, my body wasn't sore despite the hour I spent meticulously trying to write like my old human self. My body felt relaxed, yet ready to explode into violence at any single instance.
Like it always did.
Silently, I went back into my hut, the crude building was constructed out of evenly shaped logs and a tiled roof. I couldn't produce clay - I didn't remember how - but it turned out that carving rocks from the nearby mountain into identical flat stones worked almost just as well. Lining those 'tiles' across the roof made of logs, and clogging the holes with mud from the spring, seemed to make a decent shelter. Not that a shelter is needed for a demon in the first place.
Inside, it was barren. There was a pile in the far side corner, armors, swords, hammers, a lot of junk made of metal, like lanterns, pots, or even hinges from doors. I hammered a few daggers and bolts I found into the logs that made up this hut, to keep them together, for a demon, this wasn't difficult, but that was the extent of the uses I found for steel.
Many flying monsters lived on and around the nearby mountain, and they seemed to like stealing anything shiny. When I found their nests and used the monsters for research, I took the metal they collected too, the metal that wasn't rusted completely, anyway. I even had some coins due to that.
Then there is the small table I made, and my treasures, the three empty books I found, and a few books that weren't originally empty. One of the monsters in the aforementioned mountain must have attacked and devoured a merchant. I found the remnants of an entire carriage just smashed into a tree, and inside it, across piles of junk destroyed by rain and time, there was a small chest, and inside it, those three books, originally used for accounting. It was the first entries in those books, as well as a separate tome detailing religious texts and history of some ancient time, and a belief in the Goddess of Creation, that allowed me to learn the language. I knew that, supposedly, divine magic, or whatever the proper term was, was coded into this book, but I've yet to find anything, and besides, I was not foolish enough to try and cast spells that are created to destroy my kind.
This book at least allowed me the understand that I was in the world of 'Frieren', which, all those years ago, for a naked and confused fledgling demon child, was very useful. It saved my life, and was the only reason why I avoided the human village in the surrounding area when I accidentally stumbled across it, and chose to observe from the shadows for a day, instead of following my nose and walking straight into it.
I remember finding it ironic then, and amusing, the holy book saving a demon… though, back then, while I could experience amusement and irony by proxy, by remembering it's supposed to be funny, nowadays I was incapable of even that much.
I gently placed my journal on the table and carefully wrapped the books in a piece of cloth. I then gently placed it into the chest I originally found it in, locked it, while leaving the key inside, and placed the chest on the table.
"It's year fourteenth of my stay in this world." I voiced, addressing no one. My voice is distinctly musical in its qualities, alluring, perfect to entice humans. It sounded odd in this barely livable hut. "Either this is the end, or the real beginning."
I did not speak out of sentimentality, but rather out of habit. Narrating my thoughts was the rule I made for myself. It seemed like a human thing to do.
"Now…"
I turned around and exited the hut, once again heading to the same spot, by the stream, under the shade of a nearby oak. It wasn't a bad place to die.
My mana ignited. Suppressed as it was, unnaturally and uncomfortably, stirring it awake always felt right. Proper. Suppressing it was infuriating and uncomfortable at first, I grew used to doing it, but willing it into action, feeling it ripple and spill out as my concealment failed, despite annoying me due to it being a failure of suppressing mana, still felt satisfying to some primal demonic part of my being.
"Resonant Soul," I whispered to myself, my voice suddenly turning otherworldly, as the sounds around me dimmed unnaturally.
What did we think about it?
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SWISS GONFEOERATION
SEPTEMBER 12, 1848
SECOND EDITION
PRINTED BY C.-J. WYSS
1867.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
To a native of Switzerland nothing could be more gratifying thnn to notice
the frequent manifestations of popular sympathy in England and the United
States, toward the country where republicanism has maintained a foot-hold
for the last five hundred years.
Having thus the love of country so innate in a Swiss, almost daily stimu-
lated by the many encomiums bestowed upon the land of his birth, its scenery,
institutions, and people, the translator was induced to think a rendering into
English of the instrument which so effectually cemented into a general whole
the varied interests of twenty-two distinct governments, could not but prove
acceptable to its Anglo-Saxon admirers.
It was considered irrelevant to give a detailed account of the causes which
led to the adoption of the present excellent Constitution , as it would occupy
a space wholly disproportionate to the nature of the present publication;
suffice it to slay, that prior to 1848, Switzerland was only governed by the
very inadequate laws of a Confederacy similar to those of the United Spates
previous to the framing of their Constitution, in 1787.
Washingtoh City, D. C, Sept. 12, 1868.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The first edition of this work has long ago been exhausted, yet the interest
it manifestly awakened and the frequent requests for copies at the present
time, prompts the translator after a thorough revision and careful compnrison
with the originals in German and French, to republish the same as amended
in Articles XLI and XLYIII January 14, 1866 and recently officially promulgated.
IN THE NAME OF ALMIGHTY GOD!
The Swiss Confederation, with a view to strengthen the Union of the Confederates, to main-
tain and promote the unity, power and honor of the Swiss
nation, has adopted the following Federal Constitution :
FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SWISS CONFEDERATION.
CHAPTER First.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
ARTICLE I.
The people of the twenty-two sovereign Cantons of Switzer-
land, united through the present Union, to wit: Zurich, Berne,
Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden (Upper and Lower), Glarus,
Zug, Freihwrg, Soleure, Basel (City and Country), Schaffhausen,
Appenzell (both Rhodes), St. Gallen, Orisons, Aargau, Thurgau,
Tessin, Vaud, Valais, NeucMtel, Geneva, constitute collectively the
SWISS CONFEDERATION.
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The object of the Union is : to insure the independence of
the country against foreign power; to maintain tranquillity and
order in the interior; to protect the liberty and rights of the
Confederates, and to promote the common welfare.
ABTICLE III.
The Cantons are sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is
not limited by the Federal Constitution, and accordingly they
exercise all rights which are not delegated to the Federal power.
ARTICLE IV.
All Swiss are eqnal in the eye of the law. In Switzerland
there are no subjects, no privileges of place, of birth, of persons,
or of families.
ARTICLE V.
The Union guarantees to the Cantons their territory, their
sovereignty within the limits prescribed by Article III, their con-
stitutions, the liberty and rights of the people, the constitutional
rights of the citizens, as well as the rights and powers which
the people have conferred upon the authorities.
ARTICLE VI.
It is obligatory upon the Cantons to secure the Federal guarantee
of their constitutions.
The Union assumes this guarantee, provided :
a. That these constitutions contain nothing contrary to the
provisions of the Federal constitution.
b. That they secure the exercise of political rights according
to republican forms, representative or democratic.
c. That they have been accepted by the people, and that they
can be revised whenever an absolute majority of the citizens
demands it.
ARTICLE VII.
Special alliances and treaties of a political character between
Cantons are forbidden. *
On the other hand, the Cantons have the right to conclude,
among themselves, conventions for matters of legislation, justice
or administration; these conventions they are however to submit
to the Federal authority for examination, which authority, should
these conventions contain anything contrary to the Union or to the
rights of the other Cantons, is authorizetl to prevent their being
carried into execution. Where there is no such incompatibility,
the contracting Cantons are granted the right to claim the co-
operation of the Federal authorities for their execution.
ARTICLE VIII.
The Union has the sole right to declare war, and to con-
clude peace, as well as to form alliances with foreign countries,
and to make treaties with them, especially such as relate to customs
and commerce.
ARTICLE IX.
To Cantons however, is reserved the right of concluding, with
foreign countries, treaties on matters of public economy, neighbourly
intercourse, and police; nevertheless these treaties must contain
nothing contrary to the articles of the Union, nor to the rights
of other Cantons. '
ARTICLE X.
Official communications between the Cantons and foreign gov-
ernments or their representatives , are made through the medium
of the Federal Council.
Concerning such matters as are mentioned in the preceding
Article IX, the Cantons can however, have direct communication
w^ith the subordinate authorities and functionaries of a foreign
State.
ARTICLE XI.
No contracts to furnish soldiers for service abroad (capitula-
turns militaires) are permitted to be concluded.
ARTICLE XII.
The members of the Federal authorities, civil and military
functionaries of the Confederation, and the Federal representatives
or commissioners, are not permitted to receive from foreign gov-
ernments pensions, salaries, titles, presents, or decorations.
If they are already in possession of pensions, titles, or dec-
orations, they must relinquish the enjoyment of their pensions,
the bearing of their titles, and the wearing of their decorations,
during the continuance of their functions.
Subordinate functionaries and employees may however be per-
mitted by the Federal Council to continue in receipt of their
pensions.
ARTICLE XIII.
The Union has no right to maintain standing armies.
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Without consent of the Federal authorities, no Canton, or in
divided Cantons , no part thereof, is allowed to have more than
three hundred men of standing troops exclusive of the police corpa
(gmdarmerie).
ABTICLE XIV.
The Cantons are bound, when contentions arise among them-
selves, to abstain from employing individual force or arming
themselves and they shall submit in such cases to Federal
decision.
ABTICLE XV.
Should a Canton be suddenly threatened with danger from
abroad it is obligatory upon the government of said Canton ta
notify other Cantons to render assistance; at the same time giving^
the^ Federal authorities notice thereof, and submitting itself entirely
to their further orders. The notified Cantons are in duty bound
to render aid. The expenses are borne by the Confederation.
ARTICLE XVI.
If civil disturbances take place, or if one Canton is threatened
with danger from another, the government of the threatened Canton
is immediately to apprize the Federal Council thereof, in order
diat the latter, within the limits of the authority vested in it
(Article XC, Nos. 3, 10, and 11), may adopt the requisite measures^
or convene the Federal Assembly. In pressing cases, the govern-
ment in question is privileged, when notifying the Federal Council,,
also, to inform other Cantons , that their assistance is required^
and such as are called upon are in duty bound to render aid.
If it is out of the power of the Cantonal Government to apply
for assistance, then may, and if the safety of Switzerland be placed
in jeopardy, fJien shall, the properly constituted Federal author-
ities interpose of their own accord.
In case of intervention, the Federal authorities will see to
the observance of instructions contained in Article V.
The expenses are borne by the Canton applying for assist-
ance or causing the Federal intervention, unless, owing to peculiar
circumstances, the Federal Assembly determine otherwise.
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ARTICLE XVir.
Iq cases designated by Articles XV and XVI, every Canton
is bound to allow free passage to the troops. These are forthwith
to be placed under Federal command.
ARTICLE XVIII.
Every Swiss is subject to military duty.
ARTICLE XIX.'
The Federal army, which is composed of the contingents of
the Cantons, consists :
a. Of the Elite, to which each Canton is to contribute three
men from every hundred of its Swiss population.
h. Of the Reserve, which consists of half the number of the
Elite,
In times of danger the Union has also disposition of the
Second Reserve, which consists of all the remaining military forces
of the Cantons (Landwehr).
The scale of the contingents which determines according to
the designated ratio the number of men to be furnished by each
Canton, is to be subjected every twenty years to a revision.
ARTICLE XX.
In order to secure in the Federal army the requisite uni-
formity and efficiency for service , the 'following principles are
established :
1. A Federal statute determines the general organization of
the army.
2. The Union assumes :
a. the instruction of the Engineer corps, of the Artillery and
Cavalry; it being however, obligatory upon the Cantons which
are to furnish these branches of the service,, to provide the re-
quisite horses;
h, the military tuition of instructors for the remaining branches
of the service;
c, the higher military instruction for every branch of the
service, and for this purpose in particular erects military insti-
tutes and orders the assembling of troops;
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df. the fttrnishing of part of the materials of war.
The oentralizatioo of the military education can if needed,
be further developed by Federal legislation.
3. The Union exercises surveillance over the military instruc-
tion of the Infantry and Sharpshooters, and likewise over the
purchase, construction, and maintenance of the materials of war
which the Cantons are to furnish to the Federal army.
4. The military regulations of the Cantons are not allowed
to contain anything contrary to the Federal military organization,
nor to the Federal obligations incumbent upon them, and niust
therefore with a view to ascertain this, be submitted to the Federal
Council for examination.
5. All corps of troops in Federal service, bear exclusively
the Federal flag.
ARTICLE XXI.
The Union is empowered, when conducive to the interests
of the Confederation or to a considerable part thereof, to construct
or assist in the construction of public works at the expense of
the Confederation.
For this purpose it is also authorized to exercise upon grant-
ing full indemnity the right 6f expropriation. The more definite
provisions relating to this subject are entrusted to Federal legis-
lation.
The Federal Assembly can prohibit the erection of public
works which would be detrimental to the military interests of the
Confederation.
ARTICLE XXII.
The Union is empowered to erect a University and a Poly-
technic School.
ARTICLE XXIH.
The Customs and all relating thereto are aflfairs of the Union.
ARTICLE XXIV.
To the Union is delegated the right to abolish, wholly or in
part, all land and water customs, road and bridge tolls, obligatory
warehouse and other similar imposts, granted or recognized by
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the Diet, be they levied by Cantons, Communes, Corporations or
private individuals, upon justly indemnifying the recipients. Those
customs and tolls which burden the transit, are at all events to
be redeemed and that simultaneously throughout the whole extent
of the Confederation.
The Union has the right to levy on the frontiers of Switzer-
land, import, export, and transit duties.
It is empowered, upon proper indemnification, to acquire pos-
session, either as property in fee or under lease, of such buildings
on the frontiers of Switzerland as at present are in use for cust-
oms purposes.
Political science peaked here. We can only add footnotes to it, or degenerate from it
Did aliens really belong in the psychology section?
What went wrong and will Barnes and Noble ever go out of business?
Did it live up to the hype?
I've been trying to find an answer to this and have yet to come across anything extensive. Imagine you break down the past 2500 years by century. Now for each century, what were the most widely read and/or distributed works? You could further break this down by geography, but I think just answering the initial question is a good enough start.
Why is this important? I think we tend to filter the works of the past to fit into our modern mindset. I think that if you happened to control all our ((textbooks, universities, and media)), you could find obscure or even just lesser known works of the past to use to create whatever history you want. Knowing what was actually read is a way out of that. Theres probably also a lot of great stuff that has been lost to time because the modern academy doesn't have a place for it.
On 4troons you used to have a lot of people bitching and moaning about real books being better than E-readers or that books were nowadays obsolete, but I have a different perspective on the matter.
Because I am broke the investment into an E-reader has paid off. I probably saved hundreds if not thousands of Euros by simply getting books online, however physical copies have their place. I usually just pick up books from
the trash (before people throw away stuff here they put it in front of their house in a orderly manner for others to take) and second hand bookstores. There is no comparison between the feel of real paper, however I think that the E-ink technology has come so far that the difference is barely relevant as far as the optical act of reading goes.
What do you guys think?
I mostly read non-fiction, but every once in a while it is nice to immerse yourself in an entertaining and easy to understand novel. One of these that I have liked best is The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. This is the book that the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movies were based on.
It takes place in a cozy 1950s California town called Mill Valley. The protagonist is a young doctor. His beautiful companion is named Becky. But all is not well in Mill Valley, people are beginning to suspect that some of their friends and loved ones are being impersonated by imposters. Moderately suspenseful conspiracy uncovering ensues.
Post similar if you got em.
Does your local library have a state of the art kot themed delivery robot yet?
What Catholic lit have you been reading recently? I have been reading a lot about Dignitatis Humanae recently, and whether it is in continuity with the Second Vatican Council.
Users from FrensChan probably remember FREN-Z Magazine. New issues are coming out this year. Past issues can be found on the FrensChan Library:
https://library.frenschan.org/series/stored/38
FREN-Z is a variety magazine, featuring literature, art, history, religion, politics, comics, and unhinged shitposting. We accept submissions. Feel free to post them in this thread or to send them to us via the contact info on our submission pages (see the end of each zine).
Mods/Admins: If /pol/ would be a better board for discussion of the zine, let us know.
With the death of 4chan and it's /lit/ community, it would be good for us to share our memories of the site. So respond with what you loved, what you hated, the highs and the lows. Use this as a way to articulate the impact the board had on your own life
What based, possibly banned books have you read? What do you reccomend?
idb4
>Camp of the Saints
>Turner Diaries
>Lord of the Rings
>Uncle Fester
Hello, anons. I've been inspired by picrel to deconstruct this undergrad degree into a publicly available body of books after finding good copies through Library Genesis and Anna's Archive. If anyone is interested, let me know -- especially if you can think of any additions on a graduate level beyond this.
So far, I have pulled the titles and authors from the picture, and sorted them by name. I will post the books in a combined and organized archived file if anyone is interested after I'm done downloading and checking for the best copies available.
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Plato
• Meno
• Protagoras
• Gorgias
• Apology
• Crito
• Phaedo
• Ion
• Symposium
• Republic
• Timaeus
• Phaedrus
Porphyry
• On the Predicaments (Isagoge)
Aristotle
• Categories
• On Interpretation
• Prior Analytics
• Posterior Analytics
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• On Being and Essence
• On Conoids and Spheroids
St. Thomas Aquinas
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• On the Principles of Nature
• On the Combination of the Elements
• Selections
• On the Teacher
• Summa Theologiae: On Sacred Doctrine, On God, On Law
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Thucydides
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• On the Gift of Perseverance
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St. Anselm
• Proslogion
• Reply to Gaunilo
St. John Damascene
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
Lavoisier
• Elements of Chemistry
Avogadro
• Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules
Dalton
• Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere
Gay-Lussac
• Combination of Gaseous Substances
Pascal
• On the Equilibrium of Liquids
• Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of Air
• Pensées
Archimedes
• On Floating Bodies
• On Conoids and Spheroids
• Quadrature of the Parabola
Mendel
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• Experiments in Plant Hybridization
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• Principles of Philosophy
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• “On Light and Color”
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• Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
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• Phenomenology of the Spirit
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• Beyond Good & Evil
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• Communist Manifesto
• Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
• German Ideology
Engels
• Quantity and Quality
• Negation of the Negation
Ibsen
• A Doll's House
Dostoyevski
• Brothers Karamazov
Kierkegaard
• Fear and Trembling
• Philosophical Fragments
Cather
• My Ántonia
Flaubert
• Three Tales
O’Connor
• A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill
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• King Lear
• Othello
• Macbeth
• Twelfth Night
• The Tempest
• Sonnets
Boethius
• Consolation of Philosophy
• On Music
Dante
• Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise
Chaucer
• Canterbury Tales
The Pearl Poet
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Spenser
• Faerie Queen
Racine
• Phaedre
Locke
• Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Second Treatise of Government
Berkeley
• Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge
Hume
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Swift
• Gulliver’s Travels
Gibbon
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Leibniz
• Discourse on Metaphysics
St. John Henry Newman
• An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Pope St. Pius X
• Pascendi Dominici Gregis
Leo XIII
• Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum
Pius XII
• Humani Generis
Pius XI
• Quadragesimo Anno
Pope St. John Paul II
• Veritatis Splendor
Various Authors
• Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch
I think it was the most important book of the 20th century. Every now and again you read a book that is a revelation to you, Our Enemy the State is one of those books. It's only 100 or so pages long, but when you've finished it, nothing you see going on the world is a mystery to you anymore. Once you understand what The State is, why it exists, and what it exists to do, everything crazy, seemingly nonsensical, about politics and society that ever perplexed you, won't any longer.
This book is simply mind blowing, much like Machiavelli's The Prince. The book doesn't shit you with stupid ideologies, and political dogma. It lays bare the cold, hard bare truth of why things are the way they are. There is no other book written in the last 100 years I would recommend higher than Our Enemy The State. Must read, is a buzzword, like Seinfeld is must see TV. No, this is the real must read. The real thing. If you only read one book in 2025, make it this one.
https://famguardian.org/Publications/OurEnemyTheState/OurEnemyTheState-byAlbertJKnock.pdf
What are your favorite bloggers, essayists, et al.?
Frenschan (F) used to have book review threads, where anons would do a meaningful summary of works they had read. I think that would be a good idea to have here. At one point they even turned it into a book club where a bunch of anons would read and discuss a particular work every 2 weeks.
Another fren here brought up memories of the old book club from Frenschan. I didn't participate in that one but the discussions were interesting and I almost was goaded several times by my interest to take up reading the books of the club myself. Even though I didn't help out in the original one I would like to start a new one for Ourchan. We could stick to books from free e-libraries and archive sites to save costs for everyone and lighthearted discussions could follow afterward on what was taught and gained from the reading experience. Note taking is optional but learning from the material is key.
Any anons have the poem given to the kamikaze before flight? Very /k lit.
Thanks
I'm on page 71 and i really like it so far, also this is my first time posting on ourchan (never posted on 4cuck either)
Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Gunship Pilot and Mercenary
Authored by: Al J. Venter
Book Review by: Anonymous
Gunship Ace is the biography of White South African Mercenary Helicopter pilot Neall Ellis who upon retiring at the rank of Colonel after having served in the South African Air Force up to the early 1990's as a helicopter pilot took his skills international as a mercenary pilot throughout Africa, Yugoslavia, the Middle East, Asia, and Afghanistan.
The majority of the book deals with his upbringing in Rhodesia, his schooling, his short-lived conscription into the Rhodesian army, his moving to South Africa to pursue the South African Air Force, and then his pilot training followed by service in various bush and border wars. His introduction to mercenary flying within other African theaters is also quite descriptive with him having no choice after being forced into retirement with the ending of South African White rule and the dumb monkeys taking over. The descriptions of Ellis's childhood and his family history places the reader quite well in his place and why he chose the life path he did. Although the author does go into some detail about the historical backstory of events throughout the book he doesn't allow it to take over the narration and instead focuses completely on Neall Ellis and his descriptions.
The meat and bones of Ellis's memory highlights his service in the South African Air Force and the War he fought in Sierra Leone first as part of a PMC and then later independently with a team in their own helicopters. Some of the battle and operation descriptions will keep the reader excited while in others much of the details are glossed over by the author or Neall Ellis himself for his own reasons. One of the criticisms of the book that I agree with is that some events such as his mercenary service in Afghanistan drop off too quickly and the chapters in question don't entail long drawn out service records like the other detailed wars but this can be explained in that as the book went to print in 2011 Neall Ellis was still contract flying in Afghanistan and hadn't been in the theater that long. I do agree that he didn't divulge enough detail about his short-lived service flying supplies for Bosnian rebels, his service as the pilot of the Tanzanian President's reelection campaign or fighting fighting forest fires in South East Asia.
The book is quite enjoyable and the character of the man that emerges is one that I think anyone can respect whether they are reading it as a civilian or soldier.
You can download the book here for free either on EPUB or PDF format. The download was safe for me and no viruses were detected.
https://oceanofpdf.com/genres/military-fiction/pdf-epub-gunship-ace-the-wars-of-neall-ellis-gunship-pilot-and-mercenary-download/
I'm going to be pretty honest with you guys, the only reason I have heard of this book is because of Luigi Mangayone however I figured that eh had good tastes in terms of literature so I gave it a try.
Thus far it has not disappointed, even if the writing is a little too simplistic in my point of view. Anthropology is not a hard science and the author is obviously a neoliberal cuck, however the ideas expressed here are very interesting and the various theses regarding human development seem plausible, although mostly just shots in the dark in terms of concrete evidence.
If you have the time check this out, you can find pdfs and epubs of it anywhere really .