/lit/ - Literature

>>11996833
will sad pizza cat ever be topped

Any books that deal with incels?

>>11452003
pic for (You)
>>11452055
shit am I the jew?

>>11298573
The Death of Ivan Ilyich

>>11298595
Peer Gynt

>>11298693
Kafka's Erzählungen

>“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning flashed, I saw that what I had thought to be a city was in fact a deserted plain and, in the same sinister light that revealed me to myself, there seemed to be no sky above it. I was robbed of any possibility of having existed before the world. If I was ever reincarnated, I must have done so without myself, without a self to reincarnate.
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me. I'm always thinking, always feeling, but my thoughts lack all reason, my emotions all feeling. I'm falling through a trapdoor, through infinite, infinitous space, in a directionless, empty fall. My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, books, boxes, snatches of music and fragments of voices, all caught up in a sinister, bottomless whirlpool. And I, I myself, am the centre that exists only because the geometry of the abyss demands it; I am the nothing around which all this spins, I exist so that it can spin, I am a centre that exists only because every circle has one. I, I myself, am the well in which the walls have fallen away to leave only viscous slime. I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing. And it is as if hell itself were laughing within me but, instead of the human touch of diabolical laughter, there's the mad croak of the dead universe, the circling cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds drifting blackly in the wind, misshapen, anachronistic, without the God who created it, without God himself who spins in the dark of darks, impossible, unique, everything. If only I could think! If only I could feel!”

>>11083658
>tfw have been faking confidence for years
>tfw people are politely uninterested in interacting, ignore me and think I'm Mr. Generico #9000
I probably am, but still. Really wish someone thought of me at least as a Generico they'd want to be friends with.

>>10914356
Yes but I’d be mad about it afterwards. She reminds me of Skylar in good will hunting.

I’m threatened by her desu and that’s why I lashed out I’m sorry

I'm reading 2 books, a book and a companion to the book so I'm constantly going back and forth. How does /lit/ read two books at once? How do you hold them both?

>>10809518
Don't trust this guy. Tried this once and only got a burnt crisp and sadness for losing two good bananas
and ketchup gas

>>10685345
>tfw don't remember 80% of those names
I wish I wasn't such a massive fuckimg plebeian

>>10674571
>only gods live forever under the sun
I was just a little late, fuck

>Dosto and Tolstoy will never meet

>>10346094
>tfw weird name so nobody ever calls me out
>tfw haven't read a book in years

>>10285955
I am very sorry anon. I am just getting into literature. I have never really read anything substantial before except books for school. To be quite honest the thought of what translation it is didn't even cross my mind. I just found the book and checked it out.

Why did you leave me? It was you who drunk called me and you who said they loved me. I never signed up for that, Christ I just wanted to talk to my friend.

It's been 3 weeks, I just miss my friend.

I miss her

>>10023740

Can somebody please explain compatibilism simply? Maybe I'm a pleb but I just don't get it. How can both determinism and free will exist? How do they not contradict each other?

I'm so angry. I'm a virgin and my friends stopped hanging out with me because all they do is spend every cent of their money on weed and smoke together, and I don't. We were friends since high school and were really close, but since they got into drugs they kind of pushed me out.

The girl I've had a thing for years is going to start dating someone else soon. We've been friends since high school and have discussed dating in the last few months but haven't since. I know I'm literally the /r9k/ meme about the beta orbiter but I can't help it. We are actually really good friends despite that, but I still get jealous and angry when I think about some sleazy trash faggot fucking her. It doesn't make sense and I know it, but I don't know what to do. I know enough about buddhism and the meme philosophy to not let it get to me too much, but it still hurts pretty bad. I'm so angry about women that I catch myself falling for the faggy redpill stuff sometimes, but I haven't gone that far out.

I am tall, not ugly, /fa/, have passionate interests, and am going to school. I have gone on so many first dates and even had serious plans for hooking up or FWB with someone, but it always falls apart for some reason. I have a few strong regrets of missed opportunities when I could have had sex but didn't, and that hurts too.

I think this fucking website ruined me. I don't spend much time here anymore, but did a lot in high school, and I think it turned me into the stereotype virgin recluse. I'm self aware enough to not be a fat fedora tipper but not strong enough to stop being a pussy about girls and my social life.

All I want to do is read, watch twitch, play runescape, go to the gym, and go to work. I don't make any friends in class because there isn't anybody that seems remotely interesting. I hang out with that girl fairly often and that's nice, but I am basically a shut-in other than that.

>>6187
Damn, anon