/lit/ - Literature

>Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
>What have we in common with the rose-bud, which trembleth because a drop of dew hath formed upon it?
>It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.
>There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.
>And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.
>To see these light, foolish, pretty, lively little sprites flit about—that moveth Zarathustra to tears and songs.
>I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
>And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall.
>Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
>I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.
>Now am I light, now do I fly; now do I see myself under myself. Now there danceth a God in me.—
>Thus spake Zarathustra.
- le depressing nietzsche

far called, our navies melt away
on dune and headland sinks the fire
lo, all our pomp of yesterday
is one with nineveh and tyre
oh lord of nations, spare us yet
lest we forget, lest we forget

>>20100261
yeah i basically tried to skip out on free legal education through first hand experience. my life is way too boring to have a valid excuse or personal value stopping me from it. basically i'm a lazy fuck.

>buying beans
>on sale for $1.50
>take them to counter
>"sir, that will be "$2.00"
Kafkaesque

Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow

>>18672338
>have an abysmal seed to leech ratio so i can't get into any private trackers
i-i'm a responsible pirate, i swear!

>Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
>Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
>To the last syllable of recorded time;
>And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
>The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
>And then is heard no more. It is a tale
>Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
>Signifying nothing.

>I grow old ... I grow old ...
>I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

Delayed AGAIN

>>17020039
F

>>16736665
A play but, I read Endgame by Beckett. wtf.

>>16573696
Plato loved fun things you pleb. They found works of Aristophanes under his pillow on his death bed.

>>16125967
>kills his own daughter
kinda deserved it desu

>>14915457
Why was Heraclitus so sad bros?

>>14798559
I look at feminism threads because I enjoy watching a shitshow, I didn't mean to be rude though so plz forgive

The internet is centralising. there is no longer seperate communities that can develop in isolation, but total cross pollination of users and content. One tells one, who tells another: reddit—4chan—twitter—tumblr. Total independence is no longer possible, as anyone who wants to travel to a new site must have hiked through the bog of the big social media, and they track their muddy footprints wherever they go. For where two or three redditors are gathered together, there reddit appears with them. It should be no surprise that there are redditors and twittertards and instahoes and tumblrinas and discord tranny's tied with lefty/pol/, just like there are all of the above tied with every board on this site (twitter pseuds are particularly prevalent on /lit/, for example). There is no pure 4chan anymore, just an ever growing homogeneous mass of 'internet culture'. Really, only a forum with totalitarian levels of moderation and and a username extremely hostile to all the above-mentioned sites could escape this trend.

Google "philosophy of religion arguments for the existence of God", it'll be better than anything you'll find in this thread. The meme is just christLARPers who want to paint anyone who isn't part of their religion as midwits, even though they could probably only cough up the ontological and cosmological argument, if that. The popular discourse from both sides of the aisle is shit, but actual philosophy of religion is pretty interesting.

>>14674747
I wish he'd taken the time to describe his infamous blankie fort arrangement, I can only speculate as to what ingenuity lay within the nuances of his design.

>>14516595

>watch facialabuse video with a dude pissing into an emo girls mouth 10 minutes after meeting her
>today an exact copy of the girl just without tattoos sets beside me during class
While I'm not big on absolute morality and not against promiscuity this kind of shook me. It's not even the porn, it's the absurdity of how it must've gone down in front of the camera. Very curious.