/lit/ - Literature

Romanticism isn't buying flowers for your girlfriend.
Romanticism is buying flowers for your girlfriends. Romanticism is
your wife admitting to you the rapist roleplay she's been so eager to
try. Romanticism is a gunshot victim dabbing his fingers into the
wound, painting stripes on his face before the medics arrive.
Romanticism is hunting down local Grindr users and beating them
with a phonebook or a sock full of coins. Romanticism is voluntary
celibacy. Romanticism is baseball bat hate crimes. Romanticism is
total debauchery or total anti-debauchery. Romanticism is sex, and
sex is just a fight where you come at the end.

>>17871395
>That's just silly, the central focus of Gatsby is clinging to the past to the point of forgetting all reason.
If nothing else you've made a convincing argument that schools shouldn't insist upon literacy in the general public.

>>15458025
Because you're unintelligent? Only unintelligent people go to college in this day and age, it's a vestige of quondam intellectualism, long since deprived of all meaning and which only lives on as a bureaucratic carbuncle. You were fooled into accepting its significance and now you enjoy the fruits of the 'authority' to which you defer. I suggest you embrace it, as either way you have no future in art, bourgeois mediocrity is your fate.

>>15106456
I like it when children use this kind of retard parlance because it means I can stop reading their post and disregard them immediately. It's an effective tool at outing poor quality contributions.

>>13786390
>We're trying to convey to capital Y You the most efficient way to understand the context of capital W What is happening now

>>13575631
Women are incapable of higher thought or feeling. The idea of female "art" is fundamentally equal parts laughable and perverse. Failure to understand this intuitively is suggestive of one's 'mind pozzed' conditionings.

>>13170009
>refers to works mirroring western mythology as juvenile
>is a marxist

>>12770440
>first page
>wikipedia link

>>11079922
Anything written in the past 100 years is pure rancid dribble that should not just be discarded, but disdained. In this sense white males are actually superior, as they've no pretensions of worth in this regard, recognizing the mediocrity of the times by not making earnest and pathetic appeals both for and by the intellectually and spiritually bankrupt.

>>9810367

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fyFAh29XY

Sometimes I can see the big picture. I can look at a bottle, or a sunset and for maybe 2 or 3 seconds I'll see reality in a inhuman fashion, as if I were looking at what I was looking while mantaining no previous knowledge, directly realizing how weird and alien everything truly is. Every object, even the fact that I'm there looking at things, all of it seems nonsensical and, in a weird way, for the first time apparent, as if every other istance of perception I've experienced was in some way "foggy", too influenced by human matters and concepts.
As weird as it may sound, I'm chasing this sensation costantly, and I can't seem to get the hang of it. Somehow it appears to me that those moments are the most valuable moments of my life, the ones that above everything else I would not ever want to forget.

So, is there a word for this impression? Any literature about it, and how to make it part of your own experience?

>>9603436
mmmhahaha
welcome to the water, kid

>>9541539
>mfw this anon is going to Hell
>tfw he will experience eternal agony just for the sake of being edgy on the internet

>>9542796

>if i misread sarcasm i get insanely angry and take it personal
>it shouldn't matter but i am a fuckin loser so it does matter okay it matters a whole lot

and there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>9283844
>pandolfini

>>9274411

>>9274081

Whaa?

No wait wait, what did he mean by THIS?