/lit/ - Literature

It's funny because I can't stand him now, but Andrew Sullivan's book "Virtually Normal" had an influence on me because he straight up talks about the beauty in it and how it's good, which is something I needed to hear at the time.

I think the club scene with its airheaded scene boys gets old really fast. Some people find ways to escape into art (I like Paul Sepuya) and aesthetic structures, or their careers, because you normally feel out of sync in some strange way. My politics are the opposite of Mishima's but you can't say he didn't write some great novels. Then you have some rare gems like Glenn Greenwald whose whole ethos is rebelling against being told he was disordered and wrong as a young man, so he has dedicated his life to be like "no, YOU'RE WRONG" whether as a debate kid in college turned lawyer turned journalist and being in your face about it. He's like Magneto.

I also love the beauty of a Russian chick in drag makeup singing about their army, because what seems gay to us isn't gay at all to Russians.

https://youtu.be/h6Vxwb-gJ1Q