/lit/ - Literature

>>21550171
An Alpha confidently accepts whatever religion his culture hands down to him, and defends it as if it were his own.

Betas critique the religion handed down to them, and either borrow from other sources (syncretism), or assert an atheistic belief.

Sigmas think, and are therefore agnostic.

>>20826894
>How can I go into a schizo writing mode where I can write down every deranged thought of mine without barrier?
Unironically this used to be me when I cut off internet usage, took cold showers, and was meditating (vipassana) 15-30 minutes every day back when I was in my late teens. It's a level of lucidity that comes with eliminating all the noise in your psyche.
Since then I've fallen back into internet addiction and porn and I've lost/dulled that ability. I often have brainfog now. So there you have it.

The story of an animal trafficker who sees the capturing of exuberant exotic creatures and the selling of them to the über-wealthy as a form of art on its own. Told entirely in poetic prose that often describes beautiful nature or meditates from one philosophical musing into the next, most of which dealing with themes of man's relationship with animals, the material world, god, music, art, naturalism and more, verging into truly schizo moments of transcendentalism, gnosis and pantheism.

>>20407414
Melville (Anti-Transcendentalism) -> Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism) -> Pantheism -> Gnosis

>>20362156
Os Lusíadas
>>20362168
Naked Lunch
Any Edgar Allan Poe
Crime and Punishment
>>20362323
The Peregrine
>>20362334
Anything by Kafka or Kobo Abe
>>20362430
Quincas Berro D'Água
>>20362677
Infinite Jest
Ham on Rye
J.R.
>>20362700
Focault's Pendulum
Any Robert Anton Wilson
>>20362710
Sagas
>>20362826
War and Peace
One Hundred Years of Solitude
>>20362897
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>>20364192
The Woodcutters by Bernhard
Dosto's Demons
>>20364319
Walden
>>20364366
Story of O
Ladders of Fire
>>20364362
Absalom! Absalom!
>>20364380
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Third Policeman
>>20364406
The Idiot
Hamnet
>>20364411
Slaughterhouse 5
>>20364722
Edgar Allan Poe's Morella
>>20364770
1984
>>20365017
The Name of the Rose
>>20365121
Titus Andronicus
>>20365174
Fight Club
>>20365205
Hecate and her Dogs
Story of the Eye
Story of O
>>20365585
A Canticle for Leibowitz
>>20365599
Paradise Lost
Blood Meridian
>>20365622
Miss Lonely Hearts
Atlas Shrugged
>>20366003
An Act of Passion
>>20366027
War and Peace
>>20366445
The Obscene Bird of Night
>>20366882
Toilers of the Sea
>>20366917
Against Nature
>>20366926
The Tartar Steppe
>>20367382
The Library of Babel by Borges
>>20367621
Naked Lunch
Hunger

>>20168623
Herman Melville, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Conrad, Cormac McCarthy, Jack London, Michael Crichton.

>>19845302
I want to write a mostly aesthetic work and I don't give a fuck what anyone has to say about it. Extremely lavish, embellished purple prose that makes language into a form of beauty itself, mostly used to describe beautiful landscapes, architecture and interior design, life-affirming philosophical themes here and there, wholesome relationships (romantic or platonic) between people. I think it would be a hit with women specially, and the entrance for many into proper literary fiction. I just really follow a lot of instagram pages about nature and architecture and I just want to describe beauty. Approach literature as almost a form of cinema, scene of beauty after scene of beauty.

My influences are: Nabokov, Melville, Proust, Joseph Conrad.

>>5848953
>>5848995
>>5849079

Real fucking helpful guys.