/lit/ - Literature

>>17746427
I agree. While YouTube can still be utilized for useful purposes, TikTok is pure dogshit wrapped in liquid feces. It serves no other purpose other than making zoomers look at a screen hypnotically.

>>12623258
I apologize. I shouldn't have been aggressive and lashed out on you. Have a good evening, brethren. And you might want to lurk /lit/ for a bit before posting stuff.

>write 200 words
>go back to /lit/

Why do I keep doing this, holy shit.

>>12055743
I just noticed I called based Hesse midbrow while mistaking "he's" for "his".

>>11760312
>believing the possibility of the Divine outside religion and communion
>he thinks there can be a private belief in the Divine

A-anon, I'm so sorry...

>>11395331
>it's the haflway point of the year

How does one stop browsing /lit/ and actually starts reading?

This segment in Fernando Pessoa's 'Tabacaria' when he talks about all the aspirations people have in their mind but that are never realized. Posting in English so everyone can bask at Pessoa's glory:

What do I know of what I shall be, I who do not know what I am?
Be what I think I am? But I think of so many things!
And there are so many who think to be the same thing- there can’t be that many!
Genius? At this moment
A hundred thousand minds dream themselves geniuses like I do,
And history will not register, who knows? not even one,
Nor will it remain but manure from so many future conquests.

No, I do not believe in myself.
In every mental asylum there are mad deranged people with so many certainties!
I, who do not have any certainties, am more or less right?
No, not even in myself…
In how many garrets and non-garrets of the world
Are not there geniuses dreaming unto themselves?
How many aspirations high and noble and lucid-
- yes, truly high, noble and lucid-
And, who knows, maybe accomplishable,
Will never see the light of the real sun, nor be heard by human ears?

The world is for those born to conquer it
And not for those who dream they can conquer it, even though they may be right.
I have dreamt more than Napoleon accomplished;
I have clasped to my hypothetical breast more humanity than Christ;
I contrived philosophies in secret that no Kant ever wrote.
But I am, and maybe I shall always be, the one in the garret,
Even if I don’t live in one;
I shall always be the one who was not born for that;
I shall always be only the one who had (good) qualities;
I shall always be the one who waited for the door to be opened by a doorless wall,
And sang the song of the Infinite in a chicken-house,
And heard the voice of God inside a plugged well.

Do you feel angry when you notice the word 'meme' has practically replaced the word 'joke' within young people?

>tp in the crying of lot 49 when they start crying