/lit/ - Literature

Just finished "Dream Children" by A. N. Wilson
What did I think of it and what should I read next?

>show is just tell but longer

>>19598225
Ah, so you're back with your thread anon? This is your 3rd thread that I am participating in.

My choice is same, A Little Fable by Kafka.

>>19577872
I am scared of scat chads. They're beyond the existential terror of shite.

>Excreting is the curse that threatens madness because it shows man his abject finitude, his physicalness, the likely unreality of his hopes and dreams. But even more immediately, it represents man's utter bafflement at the sheer non-sense of creation: to fashion the sublime miracle of the human face, the mysterium tremendum of radiant female beauty, the veritable goddesses that beautiful women are; to bring this out of nothing, out of the void, and make it shine in noonday; to take such a miracle and put miracles again within it, deep in the mystery of eyes that peer out-the eye that gave even the dry Darwin a chill; to do all this, and to combine it with an anus that shits! It is too much. Nature mocks us, and poets live in torture.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

>>18992805
If you’re born poor, there is no good reason to keep living. Life for anyone who isn’t rich in the post-God world is nothing but incessant struggle without any purpose. You can’t even enjoy the journey towards nothingness because you’re too concerned with survival. You’re deprived of the great sensory pleasures derived from travelling the world with no concerns or living in a highly comfortable house. All you have is sex, and if you’re unattractive, then you have nothing. Intellectual pursuits may fill your time if you’re a NEET who lives with your poor parents, but only for some time until life becomes unbearable again

If you’re born poor, there is no good reason to keep living. Life for anyone who isn’t rich in the post-God world is nothing but incessant struggle without any purpose. You can’t even enjoy the journey towards nothingness because you’re too concerned with survival. You’re deprived of the great sensory pleasures derived from travelling the world with no concerns or living in a highly comfortable house. All you have is sex, and if you’re unattractive, then you have nothing. Intellectual pursuits may fill your time if you’re a NEET who lives with your poor parents, but only for some time until life becomes unbearable again

Why the fuck do we impose meaning on it through language?
Faggot say intelligence is winning
Faggot says beauty is winning
Faggot say evil is winning
Faggot say his dick is winning
Faggot says his mouth is winning
....

Whales' commit mass suicides

I like modernity, yes you heard it right I fucking like modernity because I can throw endless amounts of shit at it and still get validation from fuckers online. Whining contests are so interesting for some reason. The modernity is give us opportunities for endless winning. Shit would be extremely boring if it wasn't for modernity. We cry about degeneracy and death of culture all day but still spend the most time our day in on one of the most degenerate culturally static website.

Which books explores the mindset of why wallowing in filth and shit while whining about filth and shit with total defeatism and impotency and secretly enjoying all of this?

>KEEEEEEK FAGGOT WHAT'S YOUR PLAN FAGGOT? SAME OLD BURNED OUT POLITICAL SOLUTIONS FROM EARLY MODERNITY? HAHAHAHAHA SUCK DICK FAG WHAT DON'T YOU JUST SHUT FUCK AND KEEP WALLOWIBG FILTH AND SHITE FUCK SOLUTIONS BECAUSE NOTHING EVER SOLVED JUST LAUGH AND THROW SHIT AT EACH LIKE ENLIGHTENED CYNICS WE'RE KEEEK YOU WANNA END EVIL? SUCK A DICK ABOUT RETARDJAK THE SAME PACIFIST CUNTS WHO KNEW LE """RIGHT""" MORALS ENDED UP CREATING MORE EVIL.
Okay I fucking agree and disagree. What the fuck is the answer? Why there isn't a theory of everything with common consquote?

This reminds me of a Bernhard quotes from Frost:

“How everything has crumbled, how everything has dissolved, how all the reference points have shifted, how all fixity has moved, how nothing exists anymore, how nothing exists, you see, how all the religions and all the irreligions and the protracted absurdities of all forms of worship have turned into nothing, nothing at all, you see, how belief and unbelief no longer exist, how science, modern science, how the stumbling blocks, the millennial courts, have all been thrown out and ushered out and blown out into the air, how all of it is now just so much air… Listen, it’s all air, all concepts are air, all points of reference are air, everything is just air…” And he said: “Frozen air, everything just so much frozen air…”

"Even dreams die. Everything turns into cold. The imagination, everything.”

>Finish reading 1984
>There wasn't a chapter about the 4channel Janitor deleting Winston's off-topic threads

what gives

>>16895057
Yeah I'll start being more adventurous with my wording regardless of the situation, I guess I was just too consciously trying to avoid the general travel blogger trope of describing everything as incredible or amazing
Don't know why I was trying to do that given I'm the only one reading it

>>16895069
That's true but I hoped you wouldn't figure it out

Better that than fucking

>I like to eat

>>16485043
Ya but that retarded trip fag ruined it.

You guys have ruined my bait thread.

I want to buy Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit so I can read it, but I'm afraid if I buy it I won't understand it so when it's on my bookshelf it'll look like I just bought it to look smart and people will judge me and I'll be embarrassed.

>>16476206
How tf do you overthink like nigga just stop thinking.

Holy shit, it seems piss easy to steal books from Barnes and Nobles. I bought a book from them today, but then went back to look for some other books. I obviously didn't steal any but I just walked out and no one said anything, not even to check if I stole anything. How do they make money, it seems so easy to shoplift from them?

I only read books if the cover looks cool.

>>16404641
Whenever I see Venn diagrams I think of naive set theory.

I own a Phenomenology of Spirit hoodie.

Reading Hegel's PoS made me an Analytic. Absolute Idealism is ridiculous.

>>15985502
>on the advice of /pol/