I started out thinking of the injuries as a fun bit and eventually found it to be making a very serious point: that these picks are concerned with the *impact* of violence, rather than merely the most extreme depictions of it.
Happy to see you back, Juan! I know you've been through a lot throughout the history of your channel, but look at where you started and where you're at now. It's incredible. Also, I wasn't planning on watching a 47 minute video right now but now I have to.
RIP Juan. He came back just to die. So good to see that Guyotat novel on here. That one is such an amazing exploration of the brutality of war and colonization. There's a bestiality scene in it that absolutely haunts my nightmares. I have that same Salitter edition too. They're pretty awesome and they're doing amazing work preserving these texts like this. I'm always a little reluctant to shout them out, because I'm afraid some busy body Karen will go complain and get their work taken down. John Baltisberger, who runs the press that published my play collection, actually said the same thing about Titus Andronicus being the first work of splatterpunk. I still need to read it.
@PlaguedbyVisions Ha! True, but I had a run in with one such character who was super offended I said I didn't mind people pirating my work and tried running to my publishers to whine.
Some of Beth B's short films bring to mind the work of Peter Sotos. In some of her pieces, individuals recount their personal traumas, which can be quite intense and potentially triggering. While her work isn’t as extreme as Buyer’s Market, it still delves into deeply unsettling territory. Her films seem to explore the lasting effects of generational trauma, presenting a raw and thought-provoking perspective.
Thank you for the video! I've gotten back into a Plagued byvVisions binge because of it, and you've once again helped me to value reading even more than before. If you ever produce Plagued by Visions T-Shirts (especially with a graphic of a frame from your opening/title video), I would proudly wear one! Thank you for everything you do, and keep being your bold, brilliant, hot ass self 😘🖤
Love your videos! Cool to hear you are a fellow Arizona native! Thanks for the Pierre Guyotat reprint link, Ive been wanted to dive into his work for awhile.
I made some guesses as to which books would be mentioned, at the start of the video: Exquisite Corpse (by Poppy Z. Brite), The Girl Next Door, Blood Meridian, and ANYTHING by de Sade. I guess 2.5 out of 4 isn't too bad! I should've guessed Sotos as well, that's on me. Amazing to see that you're back, your videos are always both very funny and incredibly insightful. A delight to watch!
Great video homie!! Off Season is definitely one of the bloodiest books I have ever read. I would say my pick for a favorite, violent book would have to be KIN by Kealan Patrick Burke!
What about Cry of the Cat? They LITERALLY decapitate a cat with a bike on like page 3. 🤣 Good to hear from you, Austin. 💚 I’ll send you a message on Goodreads!
This should be interesting. I've never found literature to be a good art form for action and violence in terms of making you feel it like cinema does but maybe you'll prove me wrong
I hope I at least didn’t bore you! 😅 Thank you for watching. I think it all has to do with how you arrange your meditative interiority when approaching a text.
As a fellow working class mexican who ignores healthcare concerns, a huevo. Gracias por el video chingon, tengo mucho por leer pero avanzaremos estos libros parriba
Amazing video! Always a pleasure to see you talking about the nastiest stuff out there. I’m surprised that your pick by Ketchum and the horror genre was Off Season and not The Girl Next Door. Love the HEALTH shirt btw.
Hey man! Chris or fantomeofthelibrary here. Loved the video and some of these recs sound super interesting. I was literally lolling with the Bible too lol
appreciate the review of lust, i have not seen jelinek brought up for awhile. have not read beyond the piano teacher but i need to read this one soon thank you
Jelinek is one of my favorite authors! She never removes her finger from the fearsome pulse of patriarchy. Her works are truly a singular kind of disquieting perspective.
Oh, I have not! I should check that out, thanks for the shout! Just the fact that she won the Nobel Prize in Literature thanks in part to her ZOMBIE NOVEL makes her the greatest literary icon of our time.
I'm enjoying the entertaining depravity of Hogg right now. I'll give a go to Juliette after. I needed motivation to read it and you delivered. Read other of his work but hadn't tackled this one yet 😊
I was JUST going to mention Tool if you didn't do it in this video, and you did! But actually, I want to give you a slight correction: "Tool" is technically a collection of different stories, and the first one is the one you're referring to. It is simply referred to as "ONE" in the book, but it actually originally appeared under the title "Quality Time" in the fourth issue of the magazine "Answer Me!' in 1994. By the way, that whole fourth issue (known as "The R*pe Issue") might be worth checking out - most of the pieces are juvenile attempts to be edgy, but there may be other very shocking pieces in it. I wouldn't know personally because I ain't reading any more of that sh*t after the trauma of "Quality Time." Anyways, that printing is particularly interesting because the story is illustrated with some very early artwork by the now famous artist Trevor Brown. It was also illustrated with photos of real children, including one that appeared to be a (censored) photo from a crime scene depicting the n*de body of a dead child. So yeah... Another element you might be interested in is the fact that throughout his work, Sotos clearly has a fixation on one particular real-world crime: the abuse and murder of Leslie Ann Downey by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. He has very specifically referenced it and focused on it time and again, starting from the time of "Pure," and continuing for at least two decades, possibly all the way up to the present - I haven't checked. In any case, the murder was noteworthy for being audiotaped and photographed, but with only a few minutes and a couple photos released publicly, if I remember correctly. In any case, "Quality Time" is very clearly directly based on the circumstance of this particular murder. Many of the details, including specifics such as the specific age (10) and I believe even the exact phrasing of one notorious section are the same. Anyways, to me, this is the most fucked up thing I've ever read - or rather, attempted to read. I have repeatedly peeked into it hundreds of times now, reading just short bits, and it always just feels like it drains all the joy from my life. To sit down and read the full thing, start to finish seems an insurmountable task to me. Which is interesting because if you look carefully, the story does not actually have very vivid descriptions in it, for the most part. It's hard to explain, but everything about the story feels so genuinely cruel, authentically sadistic - it manages to conjure a gruesome, believable scene of dread, terror, and hopelessness with very little description. I'm curious if this one affected you the most out of shorter works, or if there are any other short stories you've read that were worse? Sorry for the incredibly long rambling comment, but this story is utterly insane and really kind of needs a long-winded discussion. Hopefully TH-cam doesn't censor this lol.
I imagine maybe my comment came off ruder than I intended it because we don't know each other and I always appreciate your content, especially from a leftist lens that speaks with levity rather than pessimism. I'm completely unable to read his work or listen to Whitehouse(which to be fair is pretty unlistenable anyway) but the name pops up from time to time across the avant garde/black metal and noise/subversive art sphere, I was just cracking a joke about it. The Bible was a great choice for abhorrent epic fiction, though 😉.
@@PlaguedbyVisions oh Juan I hope you start posting more regularly again. I've already watched this video 3 times since it came out. the children yearn for your thoughts on fucked up books
The point of Job is not that it’s a “bet” it’s that it’s a TRIAL. The name Satan comes from the Hebrew word for “accuser/adversary” and in Bronze Age Judaic culture this was the term used to refer to their equivalent of a “prosecutor”. Job is set up at the beginning of the story to represent all of/the best of mankind (“there is none like him/ he is blameless”), which Satan (the prosecution) contests that at his core Job, like all of mankind, is corrupted and selfish. Satan should know, the way he introduces himself to God when asked where he has been is that he has been traveling across the earth (presumably observing the worst that humanity has to offer). God allows Job to suffer not to necessarily prove it to Satan, but to settle an ancient cosmological dispute- is man good or bad in his nature? The way The Prosecution plans to do this is to break Job to his most bare and reduced state. In this trial Satan is the prosecutor, God is the judge, and mankind (exemplified through the “blameless” Job) is the unwitting defense. At the end of the story, Job never gets a satisfying answer from God, but the reader DOES. It’s an early example of dramatic irony. Job doesn’t know why he is tested by God but the audience the poem was written for (I.e. 8th century bc Jewish people) DO know, they know that, without realizing it, Job has proven the goodness of human kin and, in doing so, has paved the way for their own Salvation through God’s favor and love. Job is never made privy to what he has actually done, but that’s sort of the point- none of us are truly privy to the full nature of our suffering. At best we only understand small glimpses of it. It is easy to imagine that there is no point at all, that suffering is only ever suffering and there is no reason at all, but God’s speech at the end suggests to us that, no matter how awful, unfair, or seemingly random, there is a point to everything, man is but a small thing, he is not entitled to know everything- so in times of unbearable suffering, the only thing we can do is hold on to what we know is right and not forsake it. Job is a criminally misinterpreted book because so much of its subtext is completely dependent on tacit implications that would be understood by its original audience but largely are not by modern audiences who live in an unrecognizable reality comparatively speaking. It’s a dark poem, but at its end it’s an exceptionally hopeful one. It’s by far my favorite book of the Bible and it has helped me through severe bouts of suicidal depression multiple times.
I don't think Peter Sotos is a diddler, but more someone who stared so long into the abyss, it stared back. The way he documents transgressive ideas feels like an attempt to document *how* these people think, as an almost blueprint to understanding them. Oftentimes, the stark portrayal can feel sympathetic or confessional, even. His form of violence reminds me more of a movie like "Come and See" than it does something like "Terrifier." There's a much deeper analysis intended beyond just "revel in my edginess."
I used to think this way about him, too, until he said in an interview that when police raided his house they didn’t even find all the rest of the CP he had. Whether for provocation or not, distribution of those materials repulses me, given that I was a victim of such crimes as a kid. So I choose to mark Sotos as a diddler. Idk. But your analysis of his writing, of course, I agree with! Hugs.
This has been such an incredible list of books some that I have heard of, but a lot of them are new to me! I'm so happy to have caught your video, and thank you also for sharing that indie publisher with us! I already found some things I'll be purchasing. 🫡 I love the theatrics in this video lol every loud crack made me jump 😂
I started out thinking of the injuries as a fun bit and eventually found it to be making a very serious point: that these picks are concerned with the *impact* of violence, rather than merely the most extreme depictions of it.
THE BOOKS ARE KILLING ME!!! 😂❤
@@PlaguedbyVisions we need literary self defense classes. i guess in a way that's what this channel is.
The books are doing direct violence to the reader. Brilliant! P.s. the health shirt is also a good touch.
Glad to see you back professor
😂 Thank you so much! ❤ Our freak a$$ class is now in session.
"Guinea Pig 2 had a better script than the Bible"
Okay FINE, I subscribed!
Charlie Sheen read the Bible and thought it was real.
Twist: Everyone's pain is minimized, trivialized or discounted outright. Most people lack true empathy.
My man like Health? Hell yeah! Welcome back man :)
HEALTH is awesome! One of LA’s best.
@@PlaguedbyVisions music recommendations video?
Health is wealth 😀
@@vitamin_eszettIf enough people care! Haha. My music taste is all over the place.
@@PlaguedbyVisions so much the better :)
You are one of the only creators I will ever take book recs from & I jumped for joy to see your notif on my feed!
🥹💖🙏🏽 Hope to keep delivering the goods!
Happy to see you back, Juan! I know you've been through a lot throughout the history of your channel, but look at where you started and where you're at now. It's incredible. Also, I wasn't planning on watching a 47 minute video right now but now I have to.
Your comment legit almost made me cry. 😭 Idk, it’s just… What I really needed to hear right now. Thank you. 🥹💖
@@PlaguedbyVisions I'm an empath, I also thought it's what you needed to hear. And you deserve it!
I respect the dedication, actually causing physical injury to your body for the bit. That's a class act, brother.
This channel has transcended to performance art. 💖💖💖
@@PlaguedbyVisions I'm here for it, my man. Stay eloquent.
Love seeing your new video. Happy to see you still creating.
I am trying, my friend, but making this video was so much fun. I think the spark is back! Thank you for your support, Michael. 🙏🏽💖
"Shakespear walked so Death Wish could run" ...best line i heard in a very very long time...
Hahaha, well, Last House on the Left was inspired by a 13th century Swedish ballad. It’s not too far out! 😂
Oh blessed day, Juan is posting and with a heaping pile of violent angry homicidal books, I am so ready for this
Christmas CAME 💦😳 early!
Welcome back!
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Holy shit Juan is back!!
*the trumpets of Judgment Day begin blasting at ear-breaking volumes*
He is the chosen Juan
So good to see you again!
Also I'm from and in Arizona too! Born and raised in Mesa
@@Bell.- So good to be back! I’m from Baja California, Mexico, but I travel to Arizona a lot. I’ve worked with the Quechan tribe there!
Love your videos! This is one of my favorites. It's incredibly well written and I can't wait to watch any other videos you have planned.
Thank you so much!!! 🥹 💖
RIP Juan. He came back just to die.
So good to see that Guyotat novel on here. That one is such an amazing exploration of the brutality of war and colonization. There's a bestiality scene in it that absolutely haunts my nightmares.
I have that same Salitter edition too. They're pretty awesome and they're doing amazing work preserving these texts like this. I'm always a little reluctant to shout them out, because I'm afraid some busy body Karen will go complain and get their work taken down.
John Baltisberger, who runs the press that published my play collection, actually said the same thing about Titus Andronicus being the first work of splatterpunk. I still need to read it.
Thankfully, I don’t think Karens are reading Guyotat. 😂
@PlaguedbyVisions Ha! True, but I had a run in with one such character who was super offended I said I didn't mind people pirating my work and tried running to my publishers to whine.
Back and greater than ever, really loved the video! Love your insight
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WELCOME BACK! Fantastic stuff
Thank you so much, my friend! ❤🎉😊
Did you know they recently released an unabridged version of The Obscene Bird of Night? I want to get a copy of it soon.
Some of Beth B's short films bring to mind the work of Peter Sotos. In some of her pieces, individuals recount their personal traumas, which can be quite intense and potentially triggering. While her work isn’t as extreme as Buyer’s Market, it still delves into deeply unsettling territory. Her films seem to explore the lasting effects of generational trauma, presenting a raw and thought-provoking perspective.
Welcome back! Always great to see Off Season get some love :D
Jack Ketchum always deserves recognition for how uncomfortable he made us all. ❤
It seems like you might be the first BookTuber to mention de Sade without The 120 Days of Sodom. :P
I may also be the first Booktuber to die on camera!
@ lol I guess your ghost came back to see the comments
@@winfieldwinfield5450👻
Thank you for the video! I've gotten back into a Plagued byvVisions binge because of it, and you've once again helped me to value reading even more than before. If you ever produce Plagued by Visions T-Shirts (especially with a graphic of a frame from your opening/title video), I would proudly wear one! Thank you for everything you do, and keep being your bold, brilliant, hot ass self 😘🖤
I’m so excited to see a new book video! Your videos always bring me joy and new knowledge and I deeply appreciate all that you do on this channel
I'm so glad! Thank you! Long live books!
Love your videos! Cool to hear you are a fellow Arizona native! Thanks for the Pierre Guyotat reprint link, Ive been wanted to dive into his work for awhile.
Much love, Juan
I made some guesses as to which books would be mentioned, at the start of the video: Exquisite Corpse (by Poppy Z. Brite), The Girl Next Door, Blood Meridian, and ANYTHING by de Sade. I guess 2.5 out of 4 isn't too bad! I should've guessed Sotos as well, that's on me. Amazing to see that you're back, your videos are always both very funny and incredibly insightful. A delight to watch!
You’re alive!
Too bad I died at the end of the video. :(
Great video homie!! Off Season is definitely one of the bloodiest books I have ever read.
I would say my pick for a favorite, violent book would have to be KIN by Kealan Patrick Burke!
What about Cry of the Cat? They LITERALLY decapitate a cat with a bike on like page 3. 🤣 Good to hear from you, Austin. 💚 I’ll send you a message on Goodreads!
This should be interesting. I've never found literature to be a good art form for action and violence in terms of making you feel it like cinema does but maybe you'll prove me wrong
Read Blood Meridian and you'll be in for a nice ride.
I hope I at least didn’t bore you! 😅 Thank you for watching. I think it all has to do with how you arrange your meditative interiority when approaching a text.
As a fellow working class mexican who ignores healthcare concerns, a huevo. Gracias por el video chingon, tengo mucho por leer pero avanzaremos estos libros parriba
Amazing video! Always a pleasure to see you talking about the nastiest stuff out there. I’m surprised that your pick by Ketchum and the horror genre was Off Season and not The Girl Next Door. Love the HEALTH shirt btw.
Girl Next Door definitely carries more impact, but to me, in the sense of literary history, Off Season is the one that made it all possible hahaha.
Hey, where ya' been? So glad you're back.
@@XenIsWhen I’ve been studying the blade.
Hey I can't but notice Rick Hautala's "Night Stone" right behind you! I'm reading that book right now LOL
the return!
I bring tales from my journey, tales of really upsetting books.
Always glad to see a new video from you, my friend! Excellent work.
Thank you for watching! Cheers! Always happy to have my beautiful audience. ❤
Hey man! Chris or fantomeofthelibrary here. Loved the video and some of these recs sound super interesting. I was literally lolling with the Bible too lol
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you for watching!
I was just wondering YESTERDAY where you've been! So glad to see your face today
This video had been in the backburner since last year. I need better work discipline. 😅 Thank you for watching and for your patience!
You are honestly kind of a goofy goober. I love it ❤❤❤
Juan!!! Realy good to see you again!!!!
And good to hear from all you lovely viewers! 💖
Always a good day when I see that Juan made a new video 🎉
I’m sorry I haven’t been making much content. 😢 But releasing a new video always feels very special. ❤❤❤
Man I have been watching a lot of your older videos then you pop up 200lbs lighter lol. Good for you man
How do we love thee, let us count the ways…with more ultra-violent books. Glad to see you’re doing well.
Beautiful poem. ❤ Thank you! I’m doing incredibly well. Loving life. ❤😊
babe wake up juan posted
@@BigPapaClaire Babe Found Dead in Miami Hotel Bathroom
Dude I started to believe you're actually injured. Kept wanting to ask you if you're ok haha
heyy you are backkk
Great video to watch before my world wars class!
I like to imagine that one lecture will be about WWI and the second about WWII and that’s it. 😂
appreciate the review of lust, i have not seen jelinek brought up for awhile. have not read beyond the piano teacher but i need to read this one soon thank you
Jelinek is one of my favorite authors! She never removes her finger from the fearsome pulse of patriarchy. Her works are truly a singular kind of disquieting perspective.
@PlaguedbyVisions have you seen her nobel prize lecture it might be something you might enjoy. thank you again ♥️
Oh, I have not! I should check that out, thanks for the shout! Just the fact that she won the Nobel Prize in Literature thanks in part to her ZOMBIE NOVEL makes her the greatest literary icon of our time.
Excellent video and recommendations, as always. You do seem a little bit under the weather though.
Thank you so much for watching! I’m all better now. Thankfully I have seven lives like a cat.
Our man is back!!!!
I have returned with even more nasty books and questionable philosophy. 🎉❤
GEE WEEZ what a great video
Tender is the Flesh made me physically ill. You should give it a shot
I reviewed it on my channel some years ago!
I'm enjoying the entertaining depravity of Hogg right now. I'll give a go to Juliette after. I needed motivation to read it and you delivered. Read other of his work but hadn't tackled this one yet 😊
Giving people the motivation to read De Sade is one of my superpowers. Thank you so much for watching!
yayyy 🌵sonoran desert mentioned 🤗🎉dont even worry about it🎉☠🎉🎉
WELCOME BACK
So happy to always have a beautiful audience to return to! 😭💓
Nice shirt. You keep showing me things we have in common.
My viewers have IMPECCABLE taste. ❤😊
Great synopsis of cormac McCarthy’s best work. Love the video
Thank you so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed. 🥰
I was JUST going to mention Tool if you didn't do it in this video, and you did! But actually, I want to give you a slight correction:
"Tool" is technically a collection of different stories, and the first one is the one you're referring to. It is simply referred to as "ONE" in the book, but it actually originally appeared under the title "Quality Time" in the fourth issue of the magazine "Answer Me!' in 1994. By the way, that whole fourth issue (known as "The R*pe Issue") might be worth checking out - most of the pieces are juvenile attempts to be edgy, but there may be other very shocking pieces in it. I wouldn't know personally because I ain't reading any more of that sh*t after the trauma of "Quality Time."
Anyways, that printing is particularly interesting because the story is illustrated with some very early artwork by the now famous artist Trevor Brown. It was also illustrated with photos of real children, including one that appeared to be a (censored) photo from a crime scene depicting the n*de body of a dead child. So yeah...
Another element you might be interested in is the fact that throughout his work, Sotos clearly has a fixation on one particular real-world crime: the abuse and murder of Leslie Ann Downey by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. He has very specifically referenced it and focused on it time and again, starting from the time of "Pure," and continuing for at least two decades, possibly all the way up to the present - I haven't checked. In any case, the murder was noteworthy for being audiotaped and photographed, but with only a few minutes and a couple photos released publicly, if I remember correctly. In any case, "Quality Time" is very clearly directly based on the circumstance of this particular murder. Many of the details, including specifics such as the specific age (10) and I believe even the exact phrasing of one notorious section are the same.
Anyways, to me, this is the most fucked up thing I've ever read - or rather, attempted to read. I have repeatedly peeked into it hundreds of times now, reading just short bits, and it always just feels like it drains all the joy from my life. To sit down and read the full thing, start to finish seems an insurmountable task to me. Which is interesting because if you look carefully, the story does not actually have very vivid descriptions in it, for the most part. It's hard to explain, but everything about the story feels so genuinely cruel, authentically sadistic - it manages to conjure a gruesome, believable scene of dread, terror, and hopelessness with very little description. I'm curious if this one affected you the most out of shorter works, or if there are any other short stories you've read that were worse?
Sorry for the incredibly long rambling comment, but this story is utterly insane and really kind of needs a long-winded discussion. Hopefully TH-cam doesn't censor this lol.
guyotat! yeah, i still got the edition of "tomb" by creation books with bunuels "los olvidados" on the cover :-)
You’re the only other person I’ve heard recognize where that image is from! Los Olvidados is a masterpiece of Mexican cinema.
What was the metal song at the beginning?
Omgggggg he’s backkkkkkkk
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Wouldn't be a PBV video without Peter Sotos huh 😂
I reviewed THE BIBLE, and your takeaway is Sotos??? 🤨
I imagine maybe my comment came off ruder than I intended it because we don't know each other and I always appreciate your content, especially from a leftist lens that speaks with levity rather than pessimism. I'm completely unable to read his work or listen to Whitehouse(which to be fair is pretty unlistenable anyway) but the name pops up from time to time across the avant garde/black metal and noise/subversive art sphere, I was just cracking a joke about it.
The Bible was a great choice for abhorrent epic fiction, though 😉.
@@blackcrust330 Oh no! It’s MY comment that came across as rude! I was just cracking a joke hahaha. All love. 💖
Johnny Got His Gun is a must read.
Loved it and the film, too! Reading that and Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers can destroy the psyche.
We're making it out of the viewer discretion with this one!
😂 Gonna make it out of the barrio talking about dirty books. 😎
Nice Health shirt!
My choice, incase you haven't tried it, is Pierre Guyotat's Eden Eden Eden
I have not yet! I need a years-long break from him after Tomb hahaha
From sea to shining sea!
From blood-drenched sea to blood-drenched sea. 🤮
love the health shirt
Awesome band! In my head it was a reference to their song, “Die Slow,” which was the concept of the video. 😅😂
Oh, you've read Cannibal Pussy Skullfuck: EXTREME Vol. 3? Not as good as the first two installments but still a solid entry.
I only read the first two. I did love the stream-of-consciousness style.
Armie Hammer is playing the lead role in the screen version..
@@HellBoy-id6ss That is hilarious.
Welcome back Juan😎❤️👍🏻 What on earth happened if you don’t mind me asking 😎❤️
Just a cold 😊
@ Blimey! That’s a bad cold 🤣👍🏻
Well this is a surprise 🎉
Hey, it's Juan!!!
‘Tis I, everyone’s favorite mentally ill Mexican!
@@PlaguedbyVisions 🤣😂
yayyyyyyy new video
Rarer than a solar eclipse! ❤🎉
@@PlaguedbyVisions oh Juan I hope you start posting more regularly again. I've already watched this video 3 times since it came out. the children yearn for your thoughts on fucked up books
You look like you've been through the wars!
Only the war in my head, my friend, and believe me: I GOT SHELL SHOCK.
Survivor by jf gonzalez and the resurrectionist by wrath james white
AUSTRIA MENTIONED!
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While coriolanus is my fave shakespeare, titus is a close second .
My favorite Shakespeare play is King Lear!
The point of Job is not that it’s a “bet” it’s that it’s a TRIAL. The name Satan comes from the Hebrew word for “accuser/adversary” and in Bronze Age Judaic culture this was the term used to refer to their equivalent of a “prosecutor”.
Job is set up at the beginning of the story to represent all of/the best of mankind (“there is none like him/ he is blameless”), which Satan (the prosecution) contests that at his core Job, like all of mankind, is corrupted and selfish. Satan should know, the way he introduces himself to God when asked where he has been is that he has been traveling across the earth (presumably observing the worst that humanity has to offer). God allows Job to suffer not to necessarily prove it to Satan, but to settle an ancient cosmological dispute- is man good or bad in his nature? The way The Prosecution plans to do this is to break Job to his most bare and reduced state.
In this trial Satan is the prosecutor, God is the judge, and mankind (exemplified through the “blameless” Job) is the unwitting defense.
At the end of the story, Job never gets a satisfying answer from God, but the reader DOES. It’s an early example of dramatic irony. Job doesn’t know why he is tested by God but the audience the poem was written for (I.e. 8th century bc Jewish people) DO know, they know that, without realizing it, Job has proven the goodness of human kin and, in doing so, has paved the way for their own Salvation through God’s favor and love. Job is never made privy to what he has actually done, but that’s sort of the point- none of us are truly privy to the full nature of our suffering. At best we only understand small glimpses of it. It is easy to imagine that there is no point at all, that suffering is only ever suffering and there is no reason at all, but God’s speech at the end suggests to us that, no matter how awful, unfair, or seemingly random, there is a point to everything, man is but a small thing, he is not entitled to know everything- so in times of unbearable suffering, the only thing we can do is hold on to what we know is right and not forsake it.
Job is a criminally misinterpreted book because so much of its subtext is completely dependent on tacit implications that would be understood by its original audience but largely are not by modern audiences who live in an unrecognizable reality comparatively speaking. It’s a dark poem, but at its end it’s an exceptionally hopeful one. It’s by far my favorite book of the Bible and it has helped me through severe bouts of suicidal depression multiple times.
It's a bet 😈
Yeah man, sorry, it’s totally a bet haha. Read it again. God petty af.
@@PlaguedbyVisionsI genuinely can’t tell if your flippancy is a tongue and cheek joke or sincere here
@@Glassandcandy 😜 That’s the power of words.
My goat
*makes goat noises while eating grass* 🥰
I'd put the Old Testament up there near the top...
The part where some dude goes hunting for the foreskins of 200 men almost got a shout out. 😂
no way they made juan real
I had to enter an earthly vessel to make this video.
wahooooo first!! love the HEALTH shirt
I love HEALTH! ❤ Thank you for watching!
P.s. alkaseltzer is way better than nyquil .
Gotta tip my fedora and bail out
I think it’s time to bring back fedoras… Actually, no.
The health bar on your shirt is empty, bro. Drink a healing potion or something, I don't know.
I’m trying to stay sober. Been drinking too many potions lately…
Sotos mentioned!
Hopefully for the last time! 😂
BOOKS!
BERKS
You've lost a lot of blood
Lol, Nyquil for a bleeding forehead.
You dare laugh at the power of over-the-counter meds?!
@@PlaguedbyVisions What? No, no, bro. I often use Vick's to cure stuff like open wounds and skin rashes. I'll have to try your Nyquil remedy. 😁
I don't think Peter Sotos is a diddler, but more someone who stared so long into the abyss, it stared back. The way he documents transgressive ideas feels like an attempt to document *how* these people think, as an almost blueprint to understanding them. Oftentimes, the stark portrayal can feel sympathetic or confessional, even. His form of violence reminds me more of a movie like "Come and See" than it does something like "Terrifier." There's a much deeper analysis intended beyond just "revel in my edginess."
I used to think this way about him, too, until he said in an interview that when police raided his house they didn’t even find all the rest of the CP he had. Whether for provocation or not, distribution of those materials repulses me, given that I was a victim of such crimes as a kid. So I choose to mark Sotos as a diddler. Idk. But your analysis of his writing, of course, I agree with! Hugs.
Too many misandrist women in this video, yum yum TBR 💅
And there will be more to come!
This has been such an incredible list of books some that I have heard of, but a lot of them are new to me! I'm so happy to have caught your video, and thank you also for sharing that indie publisher with us! I already found some things I'll be purchasing. 🫡
I love the theatrics in this video lol every loud crack made me jump 😂
Thank you so much for watching, and glad you found new stuff to check out! Salitters is awesome! Theatrics were always part of this channel. 😁💖
WELCOME BACK
Thank you so much, my friend! ❤