/lit/ - Literature

>>22953940
What a gut punch of a feeling. Not many "celeb" deaths have cause me this.
Last post from 9 days didn't look that good and was praying he makes out :(
>>22954034
I agree with this. Not that he was some kind of authority but he was just awesome teacher. I wish I had such professor at uni for philosophy class.

>>13415703
Shut up man. Just shut up.

>>13334265
w-what's wrong with mandelbaum? ...J-James merril likes it.....

I'm done with this shit im going to do what i want to do the most. Bye Bye Uni, fuck higher education. Hello music, long time no see old friend.

>I thought, "I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin."

My poems sound like 19th century tongue twisters

>tfw all I want is a cute grill who I can recommend books and ideas to and with whom I can discuss books and art films

Books that will make me go:

*sobs* TEN! TENNNNN! *sobs*

?

>mom found the def poetry

>Friends found my journal
>Every single entry is about how much I hate myself and need to commit suicide

>>11293938

I am ugly, prospectless, friendless, will never experience romantic love, and have no real skill.

What are some books that can help me constitute an idealized self-image that gives me the feeling of being powerful and worthwhile?

So far I've read these books which have helped immensely:
Schopenhauer's 'On Women' (convincingly argues with logic that there's a hiarachy of sexes, and that women are like children and should be discarded)
The Bell Curve (presents facts that evidence that I belong to a superior creed who have built the West)
Sex and Character (proves that sexual relationships are disgusting and should be avoided at all costs because of women destruction)
Culture of Critique (shows that I am not to blame, our culture is dead and destroyed by pernicious forces)

Anything else that could help me cope? Does Jodan Peterson fight our cause for recognition?

>>10426999

>be in high school
>read Catcher in the Rye
>everybody hates it because "lol whiny kid"
>try to defend him and say he's admirable for caring for children's innocence
>everybody makes fun of me and makes jokes about me wanting to kill John Lennon

>go into book store
>too many good books/not enough money
I still haven't read Gombrich and became a patrician art connisseur

What do you live for /lit/?

>>9722948
>See beautiful girl walking down street
>Desire to kill self increases exponentially

anons, who've read the Iliad, what's your favorite part
>song of partoclus
>achilles sadness and rage over partoclus
>when hector's father comes to achilles, and they dine and talk about mortal man's fate

>30 pages of the Iliad left
h-hold me, lads... this was a ride...
>Hector's death
>Achilles defacing Hector's body
>Patroclus' death
>when he comes to Achilles in a dream

>>9474515

yes

>>9466066

>tfw the most beautiful art came from people born into privileged backgrounds and fancy educations and you're a mediocore middle-class suburban kid

>>9460466
Listen here little baby. You're gonna get a lot of hurtful and degrading comments, but that ain't what I'm about. Let me just say, you are perfect the way you are. You hear me sugar? PERFECT. Don't ever change. You deserve anything and everything you want. Stay safe for me, baby boy.

>mfw thinking of you hurting

>want to read books
>not really like reading

Can anyone help me with exploring contemporary literature?

People make fun of me for being out of touch and only reading classics. I do this because I find them a safe bet, reading works that have stood the test of time.

The few contemporary books I've read have been disappointments: Knausgaard gets old fast, Michael Chabon is just plain unremarkable, and Junot Diaz is obnoxious as fuck. I chose those authors only because they're famous, and I don't know how else to discover authors.

I've heard awards are a good portal of discovery, but I don't trust many of them, especially not the fucking Nobel prize (they call it the NObel because you see who won and you say "NO").

>>9147485
>because your life is shit

How do I get better life?