/lit/ - Literature

>>22966315
A profound sadness has erupted from within. If they are man’s best friend, why must they leave us so early? Do companions not live side by side forever? Are we not indebted to one another for our years of love and servitude? Why must they die so quickly, why must they be taken from our lives in such an undignified manner? Where is the god that took such a beautiful animal from my home, in such a state? Where is the lord when innocent creatures with such pure souls are taken away from me when all seemed so well? If I could re-arrange the stars I would, I would change the cosmos, the universe, and god itself I would. If I could only have them for as long as I live. If I could cast nature away, I would. If I could hurt the thing that did this to him, I would. But there is nothing, no lord, no creator, but a random occurrence. I stare into the abyss and nothing looks back, Jesus wept, I wept, and nothing changed. Where is my best friend? My companion? My family? My Tribe? My Creed? Where is anything when everything matters to me?. I am utterly helpless, all those years of living, all that ‘wisdom’, all those texts and life experience. Meaningless in a moment when nothing else is important. Nature, as it were, the thing that brings us together, binds us and enshrined us in destiny is nowhere to be seen. At some point, we were brought together, to be together, and to love one another. But you cannot go where I go, you cannot think what I think, you cannot do what I do. I am superior, but I do not wish to be. I wish to be just as you are, your equal, and even if I confess that we are equals, it does not make it so. There is so much in you that we can learn from, love, compassion, loyalty and happiness. Yet, we learn nothing, we see nothing, and we feel nothing. Many of us think of you as tools, as things that can be controlled for our will. Why can it not be that we are an equal, why did nature design us to be so far apart, so compellingly distant? Where is man’s best friend?

>>22740784
FUCK YOU!!!

>>19981896
>Old friend invites you and other friends in the WhatsApp group over for dinner
>You react excitedly, the others do too
>He proposes a date
>You agree to the date and are excited to see everyone again
>No replies from the others for days until they cancel at the last minute
>Friend says "Okay, maybe another time then"
>WhatsApp group has been dead ever since
>You know you'll never talk to any of them again

>>19975175
Somewhat related but I read the Trial recently and have been thinking: Does anyone else think the book is almost ruined by its unfinished state? A number of characters who appear to have been set up to be quite significant to the story never end up appearing again in the novel after the first encounter, but then are the focus of many of the miscellaneous unfinished fragmentary chapters. It seems to me as though the real idea and meaning of the novel only ends up being barely delivered at the end of the unfinished manuscript. Given that the first and final chapters were written first, it follows that the intervening bulk of the work would be quite necessary to create the full effect of the whole, and so much of it is missing that it seems the novel we have can hardly be said to compare to the one that Kafka had in his head.

>>19194933
Heres my favorite poem, kudos to anyone who can identify the source

https://voca.ro/1b7Df6N3FFWv

Okay anons, I have three hours, maybe four, until I need to go to bed and get ready for another day in the wagecage.
Here's how this is going to work: I'll get drunk and shitpost and you will reply, thus creating a comfy yet entertaining conversation. At points, you will shitpost and I will reply. Is this understood?

>reading communist bullshit

>>18047561
>I don't drink.
That's your problem, maybe if you drank you would go to parties

>>13363339
The Great Bell.
The Minister's Black Veil.
The fall of the House of Usher.
I'm drunk and didn't want to look up what the bell one was called but it turns out its just fucking called the great bell, dumb fucking chinese fuckers god damnit