/lit/ - Literature

>>11394697
yeah

I can tell I'm on the verge of a heart attack. Any books for this feel? I'll need something to read while I'm in the hospital.

I'm a stupid piece of shit moron maniac loser faggot ugly fuck pathetic unlikable asshole idiot. Any books for this feel?

My theology teacher at uni just got arrested for driving drunk. He had almost sold me on the church, but he's just like the rest of the "good Christians". God truly is dead bros. Give me books for this feel.

>be 18 year old pseud
>gf gives me a copy of Ulysses for my birthday
>I'm blown away by its intricate prose and fractured narrative
>rave about what masterfully constructed characters Bloom, Stephen, Molly, and more characters are for weeks on end
>'isn't it impressive how Joyce, to some extent, manages to make us care for and, indeed, deeply get into the heads of such wildly different characters, while also making us see what they have in common — a common humanity? Not only that, but to make us see that such a meek and mild everyman character as Bloom really is a modern-day hero for his virtues of patience, tolerance, kindness, and empathy, a modern-day Ulysses?”
>she doesn't engage, gets this weird look on her face whenever I bring it up
>one day she starts to sob during sex
>worriedly ask her what's the matter
>pandoras_box.exe
>find out that she is heavily against the Jewish-Masonic-Satanic-Bolshevik-Illuminati influence on our society
>the book was meant to ease me into her world, to help her explain the apprehensions she felt about the breakdown and degeneration of modern society, the arts, and culture, which started even with such modernist and avant-garde literature as Ulysses, revered by Jewish-postmodernist-Bolshevik critics as a “masterpiece”
>she had trusted me to see beyond the veneer of Joyce’s enticing verbal virtuosity and not be seduced by his inane ramblings about people shitting, peeing, picking their nose, sexual fantasies and the glorification of a psychologically emasculated masochistic Jewish cuckold
>says there is subtle textual evidence and references made to Bloom being a Freemason, and Bloom’s androgynous psyche fits with Joyce’s references to Hermetic, alchemical, and Masonic images of the Divine Androgyne, matching the Jewish-Bolshevik-Masonic-Satanist-postmodernist-Illuminati elite’s obsession with blurring gender roles with feminism and the heavy focus on transgenderism, wanting to make us all androgynous neutered sheep so we’re easier to herd
>under the weight of this realization, I crumble
>I am become Bloom within my own mind with no means to overcome him except the autocastration brought on by my awareness of this very fact
>our sexual encounters turn into a nightmarish Circean corruption of what innocent, youthful lust is supposed to be
>can't come to terms with my fractured sexuality which eventually leads to our break-up
>haven't been able to establish a relationship with a woman ever since
How did pseudery ruin your life?

>By all means, get married: if you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.