/lit/ - Literature

>the universe dies with you

>>5131481
>heliocentric model is bogus
>the geocentric model is correct
>>>/x/
>shills
>agenda
>>>/pol/
>>>/b/

>>5015082
>Camoo
>Sarter

I'm working on a novel, guess I would like some feedback on the idea perhaps.

It follows a beggar of ambiguous place and time period, who suffers from extreme paranoia and has night terrors every night. The streetlamp that is outside his window has been out of service for years, and during the night he sits in complete darkness and imagines that there are intruders in his bedroom, keeping him awake for hours. One day the lamp is fixed (haven't gotten to how it is done yet), and he can see throughout the room, throwing away all suspicion. But he cannot sleep for he has developed insomnia over the years of lying awake in terror, and he never had the chance to contemplate much due to his paranoia of what may be around his person. He thinks about life and such and shows that he is a very reasonable man, but the reason was hidden under sleep deprivation and cowardice. The next day as he begs for money on the street corner, a town meeting is held. The republic hosts a discussion and vote for a current moral/economic debate (haven't got to that yet), and he speaks his mind. The town applauds him for his reasoning and crown him as king. He reigns as king for a while, hosting philosophical discussions and solving moral and economic problems (this is supposed to be the highlight of the book, I want it to hold a plethora of my personal philosophies). But transitioning from no social contact to being center stage jolts him and he begins to be paranoid of all those that surround him. Things like questioning if the cooks poison his food and such. This escalates and he begins to have people beheaded to protect himself. His reasoning skills again hide under his paranoia, throwing the town into economic chaos. In the end, he dies an ironic death. The townspeople kill him, his paranoia turned the fear into reality.

I know I wrote a lot, but I was wondering earnestly about this?