/lit/ - Literature

>Man-at-arms position to the Renaissance Era Hermetic text section keeps getting filled
>I have to keep murdering them with a bec-de-corbin to get in
Fucking stop taking applications dammit. Trying to get the pick out before the local gendarmes come around is eating into my time too much

>>13789616
Anyone who goes around serving up blackpills is pathetic. They've resigned themselves to defeat, presume their own worthlessness, and yet are now hypocritically trying to scavenge up a sense of purpose they themselves should believe to be entirely false by making a nihilistic witticism out of it. That kind of despair should be instinctively phrased as a sincere question in the search for meaning. Otherwise, it's just exhibitionism.

Egoism is the biggest spook of all.

You guys think you're so based and powerful but in reality, you're puny.

Everybody hates egoists because they're shit to work with. And everybody knows that groups of people can (but don't necessarily) get a lot more shit done than individuals. The reason why group projects don't necessarily succeed is because of the fucking egoists in the group.

You all think that you're the universal cosmic destroyer thanks to crackpot Stirner's bullshit, uber-contrarian philosophy. In fact, you're pathetic worms who will fail in life insofar as you clench on to your false "ego".

Do something better with your life.

I just want to see the year 3000, live in a space colony, play a hologram vidya. Is that such a bad thing?

O'Brien from 1984.

>see chick on train
>she's reading
>walk up to her
>"H-hey what are you reading"
>it's A Dance With Dragons
>"M-Martin's prose is shit you s-should read G-Gatsby"
>she looks at me like I'm a weird pervert
>fucking told her
>victorious, I do a 180 heel turn, swatting her with my cape
>cape gets stuck on armrest, I trip to the floor
>my fedora falls off, spaghetti starts spilling out of my pockets
>stand back up and try to regain my dignity
>turn back to look at her, smug look on my face
>she looks at me with despair, as her world-view starts collapsing from witnessing my patrician tastes
>pick up my fedora and spaghetti, walk away with my head high

Fucking plebeian whores.

Hey /lit/, I just finished moving, which forced me to finally organize my books. In the process I realized I own over 100 graphic novels, but less than 20 prose books. I wish to change this. My ass is almost 30.

You guys wanna recommend some genuinely cool stories?

>>2127176
>When Jim said "kill the fater, fuck the mother" he used the Oedipus story to make a clear point.

What do you mean?

Alright /lit/ I don't know if this is allowed, but I'm going to try.

I remember reading a book in about seventh grade (18 now) about a kid and his family moving to a new town. And everything was all set up for them, they moved into a house and such, etc. However, over time the boy realized things were too 'perfect', and (I think) he started to try to break the mold of the town, the perfectness. He also meets a girl in the book, she works at I think it was the welcome booth into the town or something, but she ends up actually being normal and him, her and like, I think his grandma flee the town leaving his mom and dad behind, I think they die. The book was, it seemed, to be about Utopian society.

I remember the book having a purple/black cover, and it was hardcover. I think there was a male boy's face on it and I remember a palm tree, I think. However I know for sure it was purple/black. Can anyone help me find this book to add to my collection? I have no idea when the book was published, sadly.

Pic unrelated.