/lit/ - Literature

>>4863716

>1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

>>4646872

>Even philosophers as logically minded as Kant will point out the inevitable circularities and failings of logic and whether or not one can twist logic to suit their arguments is often more of a question of rhetorical skill than merit or truth

do you not see how this invalidates this entire "negative value" position on life that antinatalists have?

they are trying to quantify value toward the entirety of continued existence and they think that they can actually do so without hubris

>>4501607

>he hasn't outgrown his awkward adolescent edginess

How unfortunate.

>>4475045

>young neofolk fan displaying embarrassing amounts of edge

How unexpected.

>>4423574

>he is at 266 books this year

Sorry but this is just fucking insane.

...I feel so pleb right now.

I've.. I've become one of the unwashed masses....

What passages, poems, and soliloquies have you memorized.

Just out of curiosity.

>Numerous W. B. Yeats
>Numerous Wordsworth
>Most of Hamlet's lines in Hamlet
>Numerous Keats
>Some Shelly
>Some Wordsworth
>(ashamedly) Most of Tolkien's poetry and some of the dwarven tongue
>Lots of Notes From Underground
>Large portions of Beowulf
>Lots of Lovecraft "Dreamcycle"
>A good portion of The Importance of Being Earnest
>The best zingers from Jeeves
>5 poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins
>"Last Duchess" and "The Blessed Damozel"
> Dozens of KJV New Testament verses

I want some input. What can /lit/ suggest to this pleb who wants to expand his repertoire?

Hey /lit/,

In the past few months, I've lost all passion.

I need a pick me up.

I need a book that will give me a new perspective on things.

I need a read that will give me that temporary new perspective that allows me to withstand the bullshit that is life and university homework.

I need your help. You're all more intelligent, cerebral, and deep than I am. I need a hand I need an olive branch.

Just throw something my way. I need something that'll change my perspective on this dry world.

>>4104899

>Sartre
>important

>dickriding Bukowski

We get it. You're new to reading.
Try to shitpost less, please.

>>3859650

>'Don't be.'
>Do be.

make it stop

Just a few questions for /lit/.

What poems and literature have you committed to memory? Why?

Have you ever recited them public ally? If yes, where and why.

Are you currently working on memorizing anything right now? What?

Can /lit/ into based Wordsworth (and recognize his supremacy), or is this a board of typical teenage Lord Byron sycophants?

Romance thread, however the good Victorians and proto-Romantics (think Blake and Burns) are also acceptable.

"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. --Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn."