/lit/ - Literature

>>12452974
thread definitely needs more of this and less of my nonsense. if my own nonsense produces stuff like this, that's fine; but ultimately, stuff like this is the right way to understand the world we live in. politics, and philosophy, is really only so much failed literature in the end. it's literature for people who hate fiction.

thank you most kindly anon. nice to know that some people out there get it, and much more richly than a thousand crusty shitposts about the state of the disunion. there is no Right Way to into this stuff, which is exactly why writers, authors, musicians and other artists are needed, even more than the philosophers and intellectuals and academics (and certainly more than the politicos).

less the Enlightenment, or the Madness, but the Enlightened Madness, the enlightenment within madness (and not only the madness of the enlightenment). landscapes of the Black Iron Prison, so to speak, with every attempt to dismantle it. but there is no dismantling it, any more than it would have been an exercise in futility to expect the Neolithic to produce Bach. Bach comes later, because civilization - incredibly - prevents itself from collapsing and scattering itself completely. that's how it has to be for us also, i think. such a continuance will conform to every previous description of the miraculous.

Any recommendations for paranoid fiction like Pynchon and PKD? I'm talking like everyone convincing you your version of events is wrong even though you know what you saw, but at the same time you know you can't trust anything you see.