/lit/ - Literature

>But here is the real catch: If you want to become enlightened you will never become enlightened, because in Buddhism wanting things is just the thing that keeps you from getting the thing you want. Less circuitously, if you want to end your suffering, you will never end your suffering. This is the “wanting paradox,” or “paradox of desire,” and Buddhists are at the ready with both rational and non-rational propositions as to why this paradox is not a paradox. How to understand these propositions is past understanding, because, per Buddhism, there is nothing to understand and no one to understand it. And as long as you think there is something to understand and someone to understand it, you are doomed. Trying for this understanding is the most trying thing of all. Yet trying not to try for it is just as trying. There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you. But consciousness makes this fact seem otherwise. Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be.

Trying to find an author someone mentioned on here a few years ago.

>/Lit/ thread on horror fiction
>Anon posts a picture of a disheveled Asian woman sitting at a desk. Pic looked like it was from the 80’s or 90’s
>Anon also posts her name. Find a short wiki article with no pics
>Article implies her writing is more Kafkaesque then straight horror
>Pretty sure it said she was born in China but immigranted to America (Not entirely sure)

Does anyone know who I’m talking about? I might not have gotten all the details right.

Pic unrelated, I’m hoping some Ligotti fans might know her.

I want to try and make a theoretical Table of Contents for an anthology that would be the 100 Best American Horror Short Stories of the 20th Century.

I want to try and do 100 hundred different authors per year. But I’m having some trouble filling in the blanks.

Would love suggestions.

What is the fucking point of Ligotti? His stories go nowhere.

>>10393624
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

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>>9999447
I have a theory that there's a corellation between having a weird face and a talent for horror ideas

>>9775386
>mfw

>>9757050
>The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.

>>9351493
>implying Ligotti sleeps, or even owns a bed
You know he just stands in a dark room for 8 hours, staring.

What is your favorite story and why?


>The Frolic
>The pacing is perfect, the hints of "but what if", and the final execution is a fearful and insane ending you both did and didn't want to come true.