/lit/ - Literature

>>22568272
this is now a dubs thread
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>>20668944

>>18577611
I'm definitely going to have to check them digits son. Well done.

>>17112874
it's quite easy to explain actually.
If you ever have been in a mental institution, you would know that people who where institutionalised often act the same way: they compare themselves to others and basically fight for the title of "Who is the madest?".
It's often just a way to cope with the current situation, everyone wants to stand out and if you can win the title for the madest person, you surely do stand out.
Also, madness is, as said before, often romanticized, be it in hollywood movies or whatever, displaying mad geniuses.

The thing is: be careful what you wish for, for if you want to become mad, chances are that you might actually make it, and this then is where the fun part ends.

>are zoomers so disaffected with life they wish they were mad?
no, but they are so disaffected, that they wish they were special, or in other words, famous, and madness is just a lazy shortcut, a surrogate, for those who haven't yet acquired proper skills.

>>16575544
If I understood correctly:
>you'll end like Don Quixote if we read books
the alternative is to consider the possibilities of this limited reality enough; pretty dull imo
not a christfag, but this is kinda similar to not eating the apple: you choose to not live a boring, ignorant life at the cost of having to suffer
I would eat that apple without thinking twice; that's not life.
if you read you'll probably start to act/think like some characters from the story, but if you read enough nothing sticks
you'll always compare and replace the old models with new ones; the key word is diversity - that will ensure that you can develop critical thinking
double dubs....... pretty based anon; I wonder why nobody noticed that
also, are you a romfag?

>>13136988
checked and based

>>11682599
based

ask him what dressing he prefers with his salads now-a-days
also ask him if he knows nick land yet