/lit/ - Literature

>>1787157

also this. hard.

that list is ludicrous. some of the most harcore second-wave feminists i know wouldn't agree with every item on this list.

oh boy fine whatever start with the standard definitional questions at least

-what is meaning

-what is god

pantheism the religion of metaphor mysticism the experience of the absolute beliefism narrative encasement the placebo effect blah blah blah

oh just do some acid already

/thread

my friend has WHAT MATTERS MOST IS HOW WELL YOU WALK THROUGH THE FIRE along the edge of his arm. don't have a pic.

>>1783870
i knew somebody was going to say it

>>1783848

who cares you prescriptivist nazi asshole

>>1783790

this. read The Moon and Sixpence.

how is this even a question on this board

OP, write about whatever you want.

>>1783083

you've got to be kidding me.

>>1782941

you need to read my comment again because you are not paying attention.

i'd say most of the people we read on this board fit pretty comfortably on the left side of that chart.

bravo, op.

Gogol's The Nose, too.

Nadja.

most of the shit in this thread is more interesting, dynamic, explosive, vulnerable, and heartfelt than half the things you people write when you're "trying" to write something.

something to think about.

>>1775655
nobody knows what a hipster is.

terrible. just read siddhartha instead.

>>1774350

music doesn't necessarily have to fit any of that.

PJ Harvey

Captain Beefheart

Kate Bush

>>1772684

i lold

>>1772324

>whine whine whine get off my lawn

>>1770598

i like this. sharp, concise, and brutal.

We can nose between the institutional architecture of this quiet madhouse-- the soft green walls, the comforting cages of glass and the sedative water-- to sniff sanctum, a benefit we undrug ourselves with, choate and purposeful imagination. Understand that you can remember the small red room, the incense and the tables, and realize that this is not about place at all, but about release from place. Our candle was demurely extinguished. Faith, sometimes you have a memory forever.

Once the Alzheimer’s begins to take your brain I’ll take the needle, and I’ll slowly tattoo the scene on your body. Ripped from my perfect familial recall, more vibrant than a photograph, I'll write a bloody monument to permanence in obstinate defiance of the creeping black. I have my tiny harpoon and you are the white whale.

I'll rub the tattoo into your muscles with oil that smells like a church censer and scent will flash alive your medullic neurons. You will sit up from your hospital bed and remember.

We sat releasing, and it poured through us. The darkened theater closed around our young bodies as a man, a prophet, a weak kid we're just like, a neurotic savant, brain on fire, drew together the threads of our pain and pleasure into a fever blanket for the children we used to be.

He created present from past.

He called up the saints, antique DNA.

Carved into raw remembering, we sat beside each other in the dark.

inb4 that won't happen because neil gaiman is a shitty writer

>>1771540
and by that i mean my favorite murakami. also, this list makes no sense.