/lit/ - Literature

>>7407733

And this is the site of OP's pic:

http://en.alisaverner.com/about/

>>7126611

Who were james joyce favorite novelists? And favorite writers?

If I remember well he didn't like Dostoievsky very much.

Who is your favorite /lit/ poster?

Why?

This image is paradigmatic for the nature of "the WO(E) of MAN, of WOMAN, Pandora.

They are doing exactly what is wanted of them, which is also exactly what they want themselves. But the faces are of resistance, rebellion, cockyness. They don't want to want what they want, they don't even know what they want. At a certain point they no longer want, I mean they always "want", as in are always WANTING, but never can there be for them a sense of contentment or achievement. To be a woman is to be in a never-ending war with yourself. Why?

The eternal paradox, in all its excruciating shapes and forms, is all they exist for, is all they are. All they know, all they LOVE, is striving, is the new, is the next thing. They set thousands of petty goals, only to be disappointed, only for their desire to already yearn for the next thing. This is an example of the fact that they are everything in a perverted way: they are A, but not really A: In this case: they are goal oriented, but not really, because the goal itself it is nothing to them, meaningless. Therefore evertything is meaningless to them, and throughout the ages men have been stumped by their lack of understanding of the virtues. Like a psychopath, they can only mimic things like 'loyalty', they are only familiar with its dictionary definition and the basic use of it in daily language and what it looks like on the superficial level. Like Nietzsche said, they aren't "deep", because there's no bottom to be found, they aren't even flat. All they do is move, move, move. Any steadyness, any sternness, be it in mental, moral, physical, logical sense, is to them rust, a weight, eventually depressing and destroying their petty, superficial spirit. Yet men never stop trying to please them, trying to satisfy them, which is exactly what is completely impossible for these creatures. That is why in Greek mythology, Pandora, the "beautiful evil", had a box which contained elpsis, "hope".

They are truly tragic creatures.

This image is parigmatic for the nature of "the WO(E) of MAN, of WOMAN, Pandora.

They are doing exactly what is wanted of them, which is also exactly what they want themselves. But the faces are of resistance, rebellion, cockyness. They don't want to want what they want, they don't even know what they want. At a certain point they no longer want, I mean they always "want", as in are always WANTING, but never can there be for them a sense of contentment or achievement. To be a woman is to be in a never-ending war with yourself. Why?

The eternal paradox, in all its excruciating shapes and forms, is all they exist for, is all they are. All they know, all they LOVE, is striving, is the new, is the next thing. They set thousands of petty goals, only to be disappointed, only for their desire to already yearn for the next thing. This is an example of the fact that they are everything in a perverted way: they are A, but not really A: In this case: they are goal oriented, but not really, because the goal itself it is nothing to them, meaningless. Therefore evertything is meaningless to them, and throughout the ages men have been stumped by their lack of understanding of the virtues. Like a psychopath, they can only mimic things like 'loyalty', they are only familiar with its dictionary definition and the basic use of it in daily language and what it looks like on the superficial level. Like Nietzsche said, they aren't "deep", because there's no bottom to be found, they aren't even flat. All they do is move, move, move. Any steadyness, any sternness, be it in mental, moral, physical, logical sense, is to them rust, a weight, eventually depressing and destroying their petty, superficial spirit. Yet men never stop trying to please them, trying to satisfy them, which is exactly what is completely impossible for these creatures. That is why in Greek mythology, Pandora, the "beautiful evil", had a box which contained elpsis, "hope".

They are truly tragic creatures.