/lit/ - Literature

>>8117588
I worked as a tutor at my university's writing center when I was a student. Other students would bring me their written assignments and I'd go over their work with them, basically just help them out with whatever they were struggling with. So often I'd read a kid's essay and I'd just want to swipe the computer monitor off the table, tell him that his work is absolutely devoid of value or substance, that I'm not going to cross his t's for him when he can't even put a single coherent thought to paper, much less an intelligent one, that I feel a certain sadness or anger imagining what it would be like to actually be his teacher and have to waste my time reading his shit for an entire semester and then imagining the cumulative time that he has wasted of others' lives over the course of his academic career, tell him that he needs to look hard at how if his waste of my life for this hour can be so unbearable, the constant enduring waste that makes up the entirety of his own life should be that much more devastatingly unbearable, so much so that I can barely fathom how he's had the strength to refrain from just killing himself except that, no, wait, it's actually quite clear that it isn't strength at all that keeps you from stepping off the ledge or pulling the trigger; it's simply that you are too fucking stupid to even realize that the entire world would be better off if you did.

Anyway, that's what I thought of when I read your essay. You ought to start by narrowing your thesis.

>>6989397
thats droogs m8tey

>>6875579

>It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

>>6693386
>tfw the thought of writing in books with pen

I could find the very edition of the very book I want in fantastic condition in a book shop. If there's pen in there, back on the shelf it goes.

>>5065975
Ayn Rand.