/lit/ - Literature

I swear bros, I'm going to lose my mind over The Eternal Return someday. Why the fuck that fucking lunatic came up with this horrible idea as something life affirming?
>inb4 it's a metaphor faggot
Not it's not. Billions of years have passed but I was seeping and it all felt like nothing. When I will die, billions of year will pass and it will feel like nothing. The universe will be dead someday and fluctuations in zero entropy will cause another Big Bang and the process will be repeated endlessly, ENDLESSLY.

Fuck you /lit/ for not warning me about this mortal disease.

>Debord, an hero
>Deleuze, an hero
>Althusser, went mad and shot his wife
>DFW, an hero
>Mark Fisher, an hero

>>17103145
the most horrible idea in the universe

>>17076950
this is literally me
what should I fucking do?

>>16927609
Which novel?

>“The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

>>15911626
how should I de-americanize myself?

>“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways—the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever. It is a terrifying dilemma to be in and to have to live with. The lower animals are, of course, spared this painful contradiction, as they lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in a world without time, pulsating, as it were, in a state of dumb being. This is what has made it so simple to shoot down whole herds of buffalo or elephants. The animals don't know that death is happening and continue grazing placidly while others drop alongside them. The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it. They live and they disappear with the same thoughtlessness: a few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over. But to live a whole lifetime with the fate of death haunting one's dreams and even the most sun-filled days—that's something else.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY THE FUCK IS ON THE MARBLE CLIFFS, A FUCKING NOVELLA OVER ONE-HUNDRED DOLLARS? WHY CAN'T THEY JUST REPRINT THE GOD DAMN BOOK? IT'S BEEN THIRTY-SIX YEARS AND ERNST JUNGER IS LONG DEAD. I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THOSE FUCKING PRICE GOUGING KIKES ON THE SECONDARY MARKET WHO HAVE THE FUCKING NERVE TO SELL ME A BOOK IN SHITTY CONDITION FOR AN UNREASONABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY.

i've been a nihilist, a muslim, a hindu, a buddhist, a pessimist antinatalist, and now i am larping as a sufi and want to be a hermit poet.

>“The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
>Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

there's no hope after ussr
it's over

Writer. Husband. Geek.

>>13880253

>>13869518
are you me?

I despise academic English. I hate all the posturing, the jargon, the total bankruptcy of creativity in all its sectors, by professors who use the great texts as a platform to push their agendas, the students who know they have to toe this precise line in order to get the grades that they want, the researchers who publish their dusty, half-hearted essays in journals that won't ever hold half of the grace and charm as the subjects which they discourse about.

This whole business of 'studying English' is a Ponzi scheme, except that one person in a class of a hundred will have prostituted their intellect enough that the conspirators of this scheme will trust them to carry the reins and give them that tenured position they have been salivating over since they first stepped foot into a lecture hall.

Get out of it while you can. If you want to be a novelist, short story writer, poet, or actually write creatively, then just fucking do it, send it to the New Yorker, and cross your fingers.

If you want to better yourself as a person, read in your own time and study something like law or politics which will actually give you a key to help people instead of writing about how Oscar Wilde is a martyr for modern-day faggotry.

Fuck, even philosophy will give you some critical thinking skills. That's more than I can say for my uni's English department.

The only way to beat them is to starve them. 'English lit' was hardly ever something that you studied, but something that you produced for the pleasure of others, not so that it could be torn down from a dozen different directions.

Don't waste your time with it. There is nothing in an English course you cannot learn quicker and more comprehensively at that in your own leisurely time.

>>12665935
>leftists when they find out the greatest philosopher of the 20th century was an unrepentant nazi

>>11000873
that is not correct

Slowly but surely I'm falling for esoteric Hitlerism. The Heil Hitlers are getting compulsive. I feel like having to shout it every few minutes. Furthermore I'm constantly trying to wrap with my hands and think of omnidirectional Hitlergruß stances, combing them as a flow of movements to further hitlerize myself. I catch myself giving perceived jews the Hitler stare and feel forced to imitate Hitler speeches in front of my mirror for hours. Help me out.

>>10670240
>libtards reacting to this

>>10658739

books are dumb