/lit/ - Literature

my gf has probably sucked at least 3 dicks
why are girls so promiscuous

>>13258453

>that feel when you can't handle being called a faggot like a normal person and have to insult someone's innocent mother

turn back man, you know this is wrong

>>10138230
Why do you give me these feelings anon? All you had to do was to post about literature and not about feminine girl giggling and sitting of Chad's lap

>>10118623
Me an intellectual is obligated to soak up the intellectual cuisine so I can be accepted among my peers

am i too autistic for the emotional/intuitive experience of poetry?

i like "poetic prose", i enjoy epics, and verse dramas, but i don't really like any poetry in standard poem forms. even the ones i understand and feel i ought to like feel flat and cold to me. i get no emotion out of poetry. at best i get the feeling of solving a math equation, or see a line i think would be better in the context of a larger narrative.

can i learn to appreciate poetry or am i doomed?

>Want to read Tristram Shandy.
>must read Anatomy Of Melancholy before
>want to read Schulz short stories
>must read Bible before
>want to read Gargantua and Pantagruel
>must read philosophy since greek until medieval before
>want to read Gravity Rainbow
>must know some obscure occultism works before
>want to read Schopenhauer
>must read Kant before
>want to read Kierkegaard
>must read Hegel before
>want to read Nietzsche
>must read every major philosopher who wrote before him
>want to watch Revolutionary Girl Utena
>must read Hesse before
Is suicide only way out of this pain?

>>7437369
tfw elliot lived the literary lifestyle more than you ever will

>tfw closed-minded
>used to have relatively high open mindedness on similar questionnaires.
Sucks getting old and being depressed

>ywn get to watch Socrates suplex a scrawny sophist straight into a paradox

Hey /lit/,

I used to love reading back in middle school but I'm pretty sure my reading level is stuck there. Trying to delve into all the recommended wiki books right now is really jarring and unpleasant and I don't feel like I'm getting the most out of it. What are some essential books that are also easy to read/will ease me into more difficult books?

Wouldn't it be even more prudent to add a section on how to be a better writer to the stickey?

Has any fellow /lit/izen noticed themselves developing a tendency to lie or exaggerate as a result of reading/writing?

I've been reading and writing since I was a child and I noticed that at age 13 or so I started lying a lot. Just making shit up to tell people like I did this cool thing or that crazy thing. Now, nearly 20 years later, I'm essentially a pathological liar in regards to social situations, making up stories to tell and stealing stories from people who aren't present to tell to others. I can't stop.

Anyone else having a similar experience? I feel like writing, in particular, has increased my capacity for lying and with that, the frequency.

>Tommy was most likely born in some shithole in Eastern Europe
>worked the streets of Paris as a street vendor to make it to America
>according to Gregg, for the first times he met Tommy in an acting class, Tommy told him that he always wanted to make films, but was too busy with his jobs and business. He later confesses that he finally decided to get-in after getting involved in a car accident that changed his perspective of life, which caused him to follow his dreams.
>Gregg later talks about how Tommy slowly opened up to him about his background a few times; expands about the car accident he was in, saying that he was with a friend (who was the one driving) that was trying to impress two girls in the back by speeding on a curvy road, and ended up losing control and flipping the car 4 times until it landed face down in a lake
>Tommy remembers hearing the girls screaming to help break open a window, barely makes it out alive without drowning. Doesn't expand if his friend or the two girls made it or suffered any injuries
>his family or someone close to him told Gregg that he suffered some head injuries from the crash
...
>tfw the reason why The Room didn't have a consistent plot and why Tommy can barely answer any questions or talk about things without being inconsistent with his thoughts, is likely because of his head-injury
>tfw he tried to follow his dreams to make films and to fit into American culture, but ultimately fails (even though he won't admit it) and gets mocked for it
>at theatre showings of The Room once it became popular for being considered one of the worst films ever made, he would play along with fans before and after the film when they wanted to do stuff that was done in the film, like throw footballs around pointlessly, but whenever the film starts he would walk out from all the laughing the 'fans' made
>tfw Tommy is basically like Don Quixote, where he partially knows the depressive reality around him half the time, but tries to escape it by living out his fantasies in real-life while being mocked by almost everyone he comes across who think it's just a harmless joke.
>tfw he, like Don Quixote, is probably going to realize at the end of his quest, that people weren't laughing with him--but at him; and that he basically wasted all of his time making a fool out of himself just to regret in the end.
>tfw

>>6247802
It is tough. I try to recommend books to my friends when they are going through hard times or something as a way for them to be able to think about how they feel.

But hey, that's life. I think I'll be moving more books than furniture when I move out actually.

>unless you work all your life, writing, reading and thinking you will never be remembered
>even if you do dedicate yourself to literature you may not produce anything worthwhile
>even if you do write something timeless, it may be unjustly forgotten
>even if you do create something that will be read by generations it still means nothing since humans may destroy themselves at any point since the creation of nuclear weapons
>millions of years from now nobody will remember Plato or Tolstoy if we make it that far

Why not kill yourself right now?

How does /lit/ deal with carrying a physical book around?

Whenever I leave my apartment I always bring a book, but it makes it kind of hard to bring one when it won't fit in my jacket pocket.

Should I just get lighter books?

>>6133002
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On track for 30 books

>>6119599
>No Hugo on that list

>>6093693
F-fug...

>If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Never had any trouble with that last part.

Is publishing a novel easier than publishing a short story? Obviously the level of work required to finish is much higher, but it seems like all you do is find an agent who then takes care of everything for you. With short stories, the onus is on you to send your shit out to magazines and hope one doesn't reject you.

I just want to get published, bros ;_;

>>6062018
I do. Usually I write about how superior I am to all the people I'm around during the day, and at night get fucked up on ambien or xanax and write in it.

The entry from last night isn't even readable as I tried to describe the snowy cul de sac last night and a few of my sexual encounters.

>>6034371
Jesus Christ, it can't really be that bad, can it?
C-can it?

>tfw finished the poetry collection I've been working on for months
>tfw no one to really share it with
C-can I post it here, bros?