/lit/ - Literature

>>16036638

The most violent beauty arouses the most disgust.

That aside, who said anything about masturbating?

>>16036060

Editions of their complete works weren't available at my local place, sadly. They only stock a very small variety of the stuff I actually want to read, so I have to take what I can get.

>>16036580

This.

Although it is still a better way to clock out than just fading in and out of consciousness while indulging in coomercore gacha games about feminized depictions military freighters (that you want to fuck).

I read about 150ish pages today. Mostly Neechee and a little Jung.

>>16036032

It'll likely coincide with the hefty tip of my penis.

>>16035803

>Natural law equivalent to morality and aesthetic.

I'm going to rape your sister whilst wearing a loincloth forged of ivy.

>>16034919

Human all too human, especially, has this really nice soft cover. Sturdy spine too.

>>16034911

It was my first Freud (since I couldn't snag a copy of Beyond the Pleasure Principle) and I feel it covered his writings on dream-work, dream-constructs and latter the Oepidipian connotations pretty well. It's a fun read, though Freud's bullshit becomes pretty palpable.

This is one of the most delicious stacks I've ever engaged with. I also find myself veering much more towards non-fiction recently, which had never been the case prior.

Anyways, flaunt your stacks and degrade others.

>>16029810

One of the books I remember most fondly from childhood is 'Strider' by Beverly Cleary. It was this comfy story about a young teen (?) and a dog he befriends on the beach, then adopts. One of those books for a different era of kids, that you'd find in a fusty corner of some bargain bin, but I loved it.

As for your second question; take the dogpill. Woof.

>>16029285

I'm sorry to hear. The isolation gets bleak, yeah.

Just torrent the most generic looking romcom anime you can google and vegetate to it. Fairly therapuetic.

>>16029089

Anime and adjacent media are saturated with fanservice tropes. It could be said that these frequent bouts of titillation constitute the aesthetic-essence of these works, and I'm not complaining.

You sound interested.

>>16018667

Thank you very much. I really appreciate anyone enjoying it, since I get pretty insecure about it. Thanks again.

>>16017265

I'm in college, and I have online classes, but I usually just put them on in the background whilst playing vidya or reading, and text my teacher saying I'm having trouble with the Zoom client. Also, good on you for learning the moon runes. I wish I was disciplined enough to learn. Might give meditation a shot, yeah.

>>16017204

Chuckold Paluchnok.

>>16016413

If you enjoy those 20 pages, what's the problem? Just engage with text you enjoy and take measured breaks. The most important thing is visualizing it as a hobby rather than a chore.

>>16014893

Good on you for keeping yourself busy. I can't cook for shit. As for the reading, the start of quarantine was spent solely working on music. Then I switched over to excessive reading and got just as tunnel visoned, lol.

Also, check out my music. ::)
Nothing too grand, but it's a start.

https://soundcloud.com/sparemesunshine/sets/tweaker-princess

Quite a few manga definitely have literary merit to them, though this topic is better suited to /a/. I usually read them for niche wish-fulfilment, so most of the few I really covet aren't exactly /lit/.

Oyasumi Punpun is probably the best manga I've ever read, and it affected me profoundly, for better or worse. Won't ever read it again, though; I wouldn't be able to stomach it.

The author, Inio Asano, is a pretty /lit/ mangaka, so his other works pretty neat as well. 'A girl on the Shore' by him is stunning. Really beautiful and bleak. It might be my personal favourite of his works. There's something about it that really resonated with me, like the depression induced degeneracy the two kiddies fall into.

Onani Master Kurosawa has been an /a/ favourite, and I'd rather not spoil it. Let's just say it's the perfect palliative for every imageboard user.

>>15801395
I've been noticing a lot of Butters resentment on this board for a while now.

She comes off as pretty unlikable, and I can't stand her, but aren't the constant jabs a bit too much? Let's all be friends.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
The Secret Garden.
Lolita.
Snow Country.
No Longer Human.
First Love.
The Metamorphosis.
My mother, Madame, Edwarda.

I vividly recall blowing through the series back in 5th grade, being obsessed with the point that all of my daydreams were Hunger Games self inserts in place of Peeta, and dreaming about said fantasies for nights on end.

Art thou pale for weariness
Climbing the heavens and gazing upon the Earth
Wandering companionless?

- An excerpt from "To the Moon" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).

"Actual happiness seems pretty squalid, in comparison to the overcompensation's for misery."

- Brave New World, Huxley.

"Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night."

- Socrates.

"Their thoughts are as thin as lace, themselves as pitiable as lace making girls."

-Kierkergaard, Either/Or.

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

- NEETche

"Beware the love of women; that ecstacy- that slow poison."

- First Love, Turgenev.

"It was as if the shame would outlive him."

- The Trial, Kafka.

"True pleasure only begins when the worm has made its way into the fruit."

- Bataille, My mother, Madam, Edwarda

>>15506053
Yeah, his prose really resonates with a lot of people. Perhaps it's the fact that he most of his imagery is very fluid; in the sense that he uses red and white as the primary aesthetic tenants in Snow Country, which both unifies the prose and affords us greater freedom in assembling imagery.

I haven't gotten around to reading his other work; can't say.

There's a very unique and palpable tinge of romanticism present in all the Japanese literature I've read. The rippled folds of the geishas' kimono; the delicate, methodical peeling of a persimmon, the frequent "I have lived a life of much shame" 's before getting NTR'd by your sweet asian wife.

I found myself thinking of this book quite a bit lately, vivid recollections of the sparse, frigid inn-town Kawabata depicts, in just as sparse prose. The gregarious ripple of mountain, the pristine sheet of snow. Vermilion flowers adorning the white. The rosy-cheeked girl selling garments, the shimmering stones that bordered the town's houses. A pale face, apparated atop the hued window, a phantom superimposed upon the falling snow.

We don't get too attached to the the focal center of the novel, Shimamura; rather, hovering besides him, a slight ways off. Consequently the reader is as much an outsider to him as Komako, perhaps even more so. He's clearly worn and cynical, but his past is deliberately denied exposition, because it doesn't matter. His trysts in the Snow Country, on the other hand, do. This maltreatment of the reader is well deserved, because it preserves a sense of separation and individualization of the reader from Komako and Shimamura, who are already cryptic enough in their interactions. It is not our place to niggle at the crevices of themselves they fumble to obscure, and it is this alienation from them that makes it seem all the more human and self-contained entities. All the more poignant when Komako's misdirected desperation pierces through the veil, or Shimamura's quiet apathy becomes painfully apparent.

The end is in itself painfully hollow, and all the more striking for it. It seems to be the last in the chain of the events we witness, as opposed to the resolution of the chain itself. There, when Yoko lies in a delicate sprawl, unmoving, besides the burning embers of the theater, it when the novel cuts o-

I. The Trial - Franz Kafka.

II. A portrait of the artist as a young man - James Joyce.

III. Nichomachean Ethics - Aristotle.

>>15353739
Based.

>>15271910
Rupi Kaur.

>>14720586
Pretty average light novel. Despite being 85% porn, I didn't get off to it much, and the ending was pretty stupid.

Haru is a pretty funny titular character, as are the accounts she gives of her kinky exploits.