/lit/ - Literature

>>6193325
Have we read the same book?

>>6193736
>Mersault doesn't behave like a human being
>this anon never opened himself to the gentle indifference of the world

>Galileo, Isaac Newton, Voltaire, and Thomas Hobbes were all burned at the stake by the Catholic Church

>tfw the moon is as often a male deity as a female one

why live?

>tfw you think too hard all the time about depressing dumb shit and you look back on it and realize it was all just pretentious, incoherent dribble


God I've wasted my time

>talking with friend about literature
>he started with the Greeks and has made it all the way to the Romantic period, following the Canon according to Sir Harold Bloom
>tell him that it's no how widely you read, it's how deeply you read, that literature is largely just the same parables and allegories over and over again in different styles, and that the point is to deeply internalize the wisdom of the parables/allegories
>he tells me I'm mad because I hardly ever read and he's a legitimate intellectual
>tell him that you can only really remember so much of what you've read, and of all the different aesthetics / lifeviews presented in literature you can only really adopt one of them unless you are going to synthesize with an ugly result
>he tells me that all he needs to do is remember the key quotes and outline of the stories to impress "concubines"
>tell him straight up that it's better to be a man of a single poem, living by a single statement and fully realizing as ones life idea, than to flirt with every poem in history like a disgusting reprobate
>tells me I'm jealous that he's had as many "paramours" as he's read books, and asks me what poem I'm being faithful to by shitposting on 4chan all day
>he then quotes about a half a dozen famous authors and takes off with two beautiful literature students
>mfw

>the softcover has the nicer cover art than the hardcover

>you have to wait a while before reporting another post.

I do remember this from my childhood.
... I'm fucking up my life