/lit/ - Literature

>>21665942
>Can you turn off visualization at will?
Yeah. Wouldn't you be a schizo by definition if you couldn't?
>>21665946
Yeah I get the music thing. I stopped listening to music with vocals altogether for this reason. Having Bach's contrapuntal riffs stuck in my head all day is much nicer than some rapper yelling obscenities.

>>21665922
Don't you ever have the "nothing box" on. Inner voice being on for me means I'm in a dynamic state where some sort of change. I need to memorise something or I need to read something out loud or I need to plan which order I'm going to stack all the groceries, that kind of thing. It has its use but its not somewhere you want to be by default. That is basically my mom's default state and she is the most neurotic person I know.

>>21665340
This is literally what we do. Except we don't even react to other educated men of letters, we just react to 90 IQ social media and 4chan posts.

>>21665589
He talks about "The God" and gods constantly, this is retarded.

>>21665188
>I'm the same way with monologues, btw. I can't imagine what it would be like not to have a voice droning in my head.
That sounds awful, wtf? Are you more neurotic? My inner voice only comes on when I'm in a "I need to do something" planning state. I feel like people who are in this state too much are the opposite of zen.

>>21665767
>The sad truth is that everyone is and always has been powerless to the whims of fate and to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Getting a bit off topic now but I heavily disagree. Of course as a general philosophy this is and always will be true; but if you were a high IQ physically fit male in the Middle Ages for example, or really any time before the Industrial Revolution, like some of us are now, you could rightly expect to become a very important and valued member of your community and receive ample reward based on merit, regardless of class. And I say regardless of class because as a serf sure you couldn't expect to become a king or a baron but you could become a very valued member of your class and that would be a more worthwhile and rewarding endeavour than almost any today. After the Industrial Revolution, technology quickly made the working classes, particularly the males, obsolete, or at any rate made their labour worth far less. What we see now with the information/computer revolution is just that same concept reaching the higher classes, i.e. from those whose primary means of production was their body to those whose was the mind. Also I'm not a Marxist but technology "creating jobs" is almost always code for a shift in self-sufficiency and ownership of the means of production from a lower social class to a higher social class (the owners of the technology). To a transhumanist this is all wonderful news, but to anyone of a saner disposition, well you know what I'm talking about.
I do agree with your general notion that we have power over lives, and I thank you for the encouragement, and maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate, but it seems a little disingenuous to put all the emphasis on the individual.

>>21665614
It's funny because this is supposed to be the age of individualism, and yet never before has the individual been so atomised and powerless in all social and economic aspects. Even the middle class is a veritable myth at this point. As for social and political zeitgeist? Not even human, it's the work of algorithms in self-perpetuating tandem.

>>21665614
It's funny because this is supposed to be the age of the individual, and yet never before has the individual been so atomised and powerlessly in all social and economic aspects. Even the middle class is a veritable myth at this point. As for social and political zeitgeist? Not even human, it's the work of algorithms in self-perpetuating tandem.

>>21664274
>If you think the work of a critically acclaimed and well loved author is horrible, the problem is likely with you
Do you hear yourself?

>>21663537
This. Normies have the irrepressible power to turn anything into a soap opera or melodrama.

>>21657929
>>21657947
Actually this is the best board by far.

>>21662204
Is it as good as the cover?

>>21659613
All great. Good post.

>>21658049
>>21658059
I doubt either of you have been cheated on in a serious romantic relationship. My chest is literally convulsing during the day any time my mind wanders. I'm a dead man walking.

>>21657390
Did you write this? I really like it.

>>21657598
>t. p-zombie

Bros I am begging you. Feel free to laugh at me, but I am BEGGING you. Please in God's name, never write poetry for a woman who isn't your wife and hasn't given you several children. After you give her those most precious bounties of your soul you are completely and utterly at her mercy. If in a normal relationship she cheats on you, you can just shrug her off as some slut. But when you give her those words that to you mean so much, believe me, to her they are nothing but jewels to hang around her neck as a trophy that reminds her of the man she has conquered. If after that, she looks into your eyes, and tells you she loves you, and then goes and does anyway what unthinkable imperative woman has; you will detest yourself with a loathing deeper than any abyss you can fathom. Those Words you gave her will become your Demons. I don't even regret losing her that much, it's not so much about her. It's those words that play in my head over and over. Those words that she took with all of my sincerest trust with a smile on her face telling me how much they mean to her. Those deepest most painstaking extractions of yourself will become knives turned against you. Please anon, don't do it. Just write a silly jig about her ass instead, she won't appreciate the difference anyway.

There's a marked difference between the mere golden rule and the golden rule proved rigorously.

>>21656214
sneed

>>21657101
Thanks bro

>>21656741
>t. p-zombie

>>21657268
It's not me baka anon. It's Kipling.

The Way through the Woods

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.

>>21656672
Surely you meant to start with
>1. Hippolytus