/lit/ - Literature

>>20744794
oh no...

>No native writing system was known among North American Indians at the time of first European contact, unlike the Maya, Aztecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs of Mesoamerica who had native writing systems.
>tfw just learned this

plz no buli

>>20193015
>tfw identify with Caliban

>>13967213
It was above 180
>>13967272
I lack work ethic (working hard on improving it however) and my passion can never truly be realized except after I go through the motions of doing what society and my family want, which is much more exhausting than it seems.
I truly do hope what you say is correct, but whenever I think about it I always seem to come to the conclusion that this genius is like a parasite and the only ways of fighting it are death and insanity.
Sorry if this was drivel.

>Greatest writer of all time
Kafka
>Greatest Poet of all time
Al Mutanabbi
>Greatest Novelist
Proust
>Greatest short story writer
Borges
>Greatest philosopher
MARX, plato, wittgenstein, Spinoza, Kant, Whitehead
>Greatest artist
My friend
>Greatest painter
Picasso, Van Gogh, Velazquez
>Greatest Musician
My friend, mozart
>Greatest movie director
KUBRICK
Then a tie of all the following. Eisenstein, NWR, Wong Kar-Wai, Kiarostami, Bunuel, Fellini, Dreyer, Ozu, Tarkovsky, Coppolas, Tarr, Jodorowsky, Villeneuve, Ceylan, Haneke, Chan-wook park, Oshii, Korine, Anger, Bertolucci, Some Godard, Bresson, Kim ki-duk, Guadagnino, zvyagintsev, lynch, carruth, wes anderson, bergman, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, aronofsky, kaufman, Kurosawa, Gaspar noe, Malick, Lanthimos, some polanski, OP
>Greatest scientist
Godel, Einstein, Khwarizmi, Darwin, my other friend

>>13891196
i remember rereading the prologue out of curiosity a couple of days after finishing the book. that line hit me pretty fucking hard too. it's well done that you read it first but have no fucking clue what it means before finishing the book. man, she was turning her life around, got married, was pregnant, they moved far away to start anew, HH had given them a bunch of money... didn't he also said something like "i hope you have a son"? and then she dies at like 17 after knowing her child is dead too.

How in the actual fuck can there exist people who thoroughly enjoy life?. Is there any cure for pervasive nihilism and if there is how do you avoid deconstructing it?.