/lit/ - Literature

>"My fiancée represents my participation in life; only by her mediation am I a human being and not just a lemur or a gnome. ... With her love, she has redeemed me, already nearly lost and marooned in a remote no-man's-land, a barren underworld of fantasy….Is it not a great thing to mean everything for someone?"

>>23059647
>Everyone in college seems to be saying Achilles is gay

>>22641709

mom was diagnosed with cancer today

If GPT-5 can write competent novels, will literature die? What happens to /lit/bros?

>pre Socratic texts are lost forever

This is nu-/lit/.

>Please remember me when you reach your kingdom.

>five page essay due in one week
>still havent started

It's over, isn't it.

>>20812022
I have over 40 blank unused journals. I know journaling would help me but I can never stay consistent with it.

>>20776131
>during your horniest years, best years of your life, you didn't have completely sweaty, life draining sex, cumming raw inside her 5 or 7 times in a row completely in love with a girl your age, you were at home jerking off, having missed out experiencing the pinnacle of what life has to offer, the only one that you have.

I tell a normal human being / professor that I want to start reading Fakeian Literature
>Okay Anon, just start with one of these two books and go from there :)
I ask /lit/ to help get me into Fakeian Literature
>heh, well, for starters *chortles* *wipes lips on sleeve* you'll need to pick up one of these seven books from 10,000 years before the Fakeian Civilization even sprouted
>Make sure you dedicate 10 hours a day studying the Bullshitikus language so you can read the Garbagenisian in its original Fecalatin.
>Oh and we cant forget to study all the post-contemporary criticism written by famous philosophers in the mid-Diarrhean era... Hmm better start you off small with a 4,000 page pocket guide to Goofyism and Sillybaby Philosophy (dont accidentally get attached to the works of John F. Herbenguber and wind up believing in my niche ideology :^) oh no what a tragedy that would be! :^) )
>A word of caution, dont actually bother reading any Fakeian literature to begin with. Its all substandard dreck compared to the Neo-Ante-Fakeian Transhumanistic Cynical-Utopian Quasiaccelerationist Environmental Oxidized Post-Rebuttal Minge movement. Now, if you want to read up on *that* I have at least twenty copies of...

>>20308947
>tfw I read Frankenstein every halloween
>Utter despair every time

>>20225548
>This is the kind of person who shares /lit/ with you.

>started with the ego and it's own
Is it possible to reverse it and start with the Greeks as any sane person or am I doomed to coming to the same conclusions with the same arguments over and over again?

>>19991743
This reality is so fucking depressing. Is there really no way to stop it?

>"This book is principally the story of a man who lived out the greater part of his life in Western Europe, in the latter half of the twentieth century. Though alone for much of his life, he was nonetheless occasionally in touch with other men. He lived through an age that was miserable and troubled. The country into which he was born was sliding slowly, ineluctably, into the ranks of the less developed countries; often haunted by misery, the men of his generation lived out their lonely, bitter lives. Feelings such as love, tenderness and human fellowship had, for the most part, disappeared. The relationships between his contemporaries were at best indifferent and more often cruel."

>be mad inspired
>actually sit down to write
>head goes empty the moment my but touches the chair
>try to write a few phrases
>holyfuckingshitthat'sterrible.jpg
>continue feeding the monstrosity I wrote
>gets more terrible with each sentence
>continue anyway
>put the pen down
>look at the clock
>two hours spent writting the shittiest piece of garbage ever written
>"I should be punished for writting something so horrendous"

>>19691710
I can't into jokes. All hidden meanings and nuances are completely lost on me. I can't read faces and I can't percieve anything beyond obvious sarcasm. I'm every fisherman's dream fish because I always bite. My only defence against unforseen jokes irl is to shut up, never give my "true" opinions on anything and act as detached as I can.

>in 1970 the average house cost four times the average salary
>today the average house costs nine times the average salary
>people still expect "great art" to be produced in this kind of environment

How is a marginal, sensitive, socially maladapted artistic type even supposed to survive in the materialistic dog-eat-dog society of today?

The likes of Raymond Carver, John Steinbeck, Philip K. Dick, John Kennedy Toole, Cormac McCarthy all sacrificed a full-time career for their art and still managed for the most part to live a halfway decent life while working part-time and writing. If people followed their lead today they'd be living in a crack house on the wrong side of Bantuville hoping that their novel achieves more than a quickfire rejection from the Judaeo-Feminine publishing industry or brief, viral, financially unprofitable success in the shifting-sands culture of the internet.

How are artists supposed to survive today?

I see so many adopting a kind of jaded, self-aware attitude towards society and culture in general, and while their takes are superficially entertaining this attitude is not nourishing on a deep, authentic level. Everything moves too fast, is more far more likely to achieve attention by means of the criticism aimed towards it (e.g., racial micro-aggressions, the author's flaws), and will be forgotten by that time the following week. It is sick and I am tired of discussing society unseriously, laughing at the "clownworld" aspect of it as though it is actually funny. It really isn't and it depresses me to think there is no coming back from this. There is no innocence left, nothing wholesome, naive or unguarded. I am sick of personas and casual transgression. I don't see beauty anywhere.

>which translation of the Bible should I read?
>what order should I read the Bible in?
>which books are the best books of the Bible?
please just stop, we don't need to have these threads every day

Every single woman I've ever loved has been a lesbian.

I Don't know if I'm going to make it bros