/lit/ - Literature

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what the fuck is happening

Looking to brush up on all things nihilism, which Nietzsche works should I read first? Also open to works of fiction that are similar in theme(s) to pic related.

>this is what newfags have turned /lit/ into
I'm tempted to leave and never come back

>>14102103
Just wait until you realise that while you were actually learning to think, they were learning to autopilot their jobs well enough to make lots of money. Then you'll discover that even when you do find a job that is worth your time, you become exhausted doing it because you apply so much of your intellect, whereas these people just get their 20oz cups of starbucks and send off hundreds of borderline generic emails while subconsciously managing a complex network of social connections that they sharpened from years of watching reality TV.
That's when the real existential horror sets in, and then you'll start convincing yourself that the best way out is to just write some book and sell enough copies to be comfy, but then you'll realise every other smart person realised the same thing so the confidence in your writing that you attain from being around normies is decimated the minute you encounter the people ALSO trying to avoid normies. At this stage you will stare at a blank page, write something, delete, and then lie in bed crying.

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>In the evening he saddled his horse and rode out west from the house. The wind was much abated and it was very cold and the sun sat blood red and elliptic under the reefs of bloodred cloud before him. He rode where he would always choose to ride, out where the western fork of the old Comanche road coming down out of the Kiowa country to the north passed through the westernmost section of the ranch and you could see the faint trace of it bearing south over the low prairie that lay between the north and middle forks of the Concho River. At the hour he'd always choose when the shadows were long and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north with their faces chalked and their long hair plaited and each armed for war which was their life and the women and children and women with children at their breasts all of them pledged in blood and redeemable in blood only. When the wind was in the north you could hear them, the horses and the breath of the horses and the horses' hooves that were shod in rawhide and the rattle of lances and the constant drag of the travois poles in the sand like the passing of some enormous serpent and the young boys naked on wild horses jaunty as circus riders and hazing wild horses before them and the dogs trotting with their tongues aloll and footslaves following half naked and sorely burdened an above all the low chant of their traveling song which the riders sang as they rode, nation and ghost of nation passing in a soft chorale across that mineral waste to darkness bearing lost to all history and all remembrance like a grail the sum of their secular and transitory and violent lives.

Philosophy was systematically replaced by science in a utilitarian sense. Philosophy does feed scientific thought however. The "point" of philosophy now-a-days is to act as a conduit and a somewhat exhibition in critical thinking. The scientific method helps sort knowledge but he leaps needed to connect the dots needs to be buffered by a certain level of intellect. Philosophy, pure and/or applied mathematics, chess, puzzles, all things that can help towards this endeavor. It is and isn't used in the discovery of new information in this way.

it had a cabin or shack on the front , it wasn't mainly sexual, that was just a part of it.

The monsters also influenced the fertility of plants and it had flashbacks to the old west and Oregon trail shit.

I think the title started with the... Like the unfound or the untaken

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>theme of the book isn't egalitarian

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>tfw no patrician gf

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Nietzsche

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>Greek homosexuality

>yfw you finally realised schopenhaur was literally right about fucking absolutely everything

>Can't process the things I read

Am I learning disabled or simply low iq?

It must be ever so lovely to be able to read and process all of those words with ease. Just skim over the pages. Reading must be a great luxury for those of you that have this gift.

;_;

>>8829964
>LGBTfanbase

>finish my book
>reread it
>have literally no idea of what the fuck is going on

Goddammit /lit/ how the fuck do I write a coherent story that actually makes sense?

>tfw you realise most plots or premises of other media's (tv, games, movies, etc) are just all derived from one book or another