/lit/ - Literature

Last year my short story didn't even get into the top 5 of my uni's competition and I don't feel like even trying this year
Has any of your written works got rejected by anyone to the point you just wanted to give up?

>be me, uni student
>there is a girl from another class I kinda like
>been thinking about asking for her insta for a while now
>be studying in the uni library
>A girl enters and sits in a table in front of me
>Wait, it's THAT girl!
>Be fantasizing as per usual, like the delusional schizo I am
>a guy enters, a good 10 cm taller than me
>he walks up to her, they kiss and hug
>Try to continue studying as my hands visibly shake with a mix of impotent rage and deep sadness
If the demiurge hated me so fucking much why did he create me?
I didn't ask for any of this, to exist just to suffer and be inssuficent
I guess like light is meaningless without dark, successful men can only be considered such thanks to failures like myself. That's why I exist, to exalt other peoples accomplishments with my failures.

>join discord call for weekly book club
>meditations on first philosophy by descartes
>have severe farts problems
>set push to talk so I can fart between speaking
>couple minutes in everyone bursts out laughing
>turns out I was on push to mute
>completely silent when asked for my thoughts then aggressively farting over everyone as they spoke
>they start calling me "desfartes"
>turn off pc in shame
why live

>ask Santa for an English translation of Damascius' commentary on Parmenides because I've been such a good boy this year
>open presents this morning
>got an Intro to Ancient Greek textbook

>tfw you spend your time neither reading nor going to parties, neither hard working nor properly studying. you spend your life on absolute nothingness like shitposting or jerking off.

>materialism
>dialectics
>post-moderdism
>sophistry
>intersectionalism
>deconstruction
>power structures

big words, head hurty

>>20494299
Frogs are frens not food anon

>>20209210
Yeah I didnt get that part of the atrium stuff, but that does make alot of sense.
It's great that even IN the books Severian is like "aye if you think I didn't tell you everything, read it again, my dude"
For me, Sword was my favorite. It was great from start to finish. I liked citadel but I'm not happy about the actual ending. It's a great ending, but I would have prefered if Sev got a happier ending instead of going on to become autarch. There was a passage where he said he desperately wanted to become the successor, but the very next passage was about how he wanted to run away because he treausred the privacy he had with Thecla and didnt want a hundred other minds intruding on their bond. I wish he would have refused and lived a happy life, maybe found dorcas and become a farmer or whatever, like casdoe's family. But of course he wasn't going to do that. Of course he was going to sacrifice the last thing he had left in order to serve humanity...
>mfw "until the New Sun comes"

>>20042141
I'll be your fren

>>19951373
play with my hair and tell me the nice things you like about ms RIGHT NOW!

>>19881314
Stay strong fren

>tfw no femboy god bf

I want to be sixteen again, bros. My youth went by way too quickly, and I wasted most of it. Literally crying right now, btw. I hate being alive.

>Homer's works
Oddysee, The Illiad in part
>Plato's works
Phaedo, The Republic in part
>Greek tragedians
Antigone, Oedipus Rex. That's it.
>The Bible
Matthew, Mark, Luke. That's it.
>Dante
The Divine Comedy.
>Shakespeare
Got filtered.
>Ulysses
Yes.

tfw midwit

I don't need to interpret Die Verwandlung. I'm living it.

Is it okay if I listen to audiobooks?

>author has no book

>with further ado

>>17767237
>mfw someone yells at me for riding a donkey while grampa walks

>12-31-70) In the afternoon the quartet players from Zurich, R. rehearsed them in the F Major Quartet, Opus 59 (a favorite work of mine, if one may speak thus of such divine things), then the last (also F Major). Toward eleven o'clock the musicians go away, we stay up, Prof. Nietzsche, our good Richter, and we two. Midnight arrives, we wish each other a Happy New Year. May God bring us all peace! —
- Cosima's diary

>>17112394
>just finished the bible like ten minutes ago after 2 years (slowed down after the first few books and came to a complete stop for a LONG time once i lost faith for a while)
>feel empty and don't know what to read now
merry christmas bros

I isolate myself because i dont want to create conflict in my familly and friends.
I alienated most of them.
They can't see past regurgitated ideologies and i refuse to shut up anymore if confronted to it ,but i dont want to shake the core of their being.
I suffer so much in silence for them.
I am so alone. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK..

>>15805269
No. As a Christian I don't know how to handle my daemonism.

i didnt get invited to the secret club :(

what are some books i can read to start my own secret club, but for retards?