/lit/ - Literature

>>21376985
I thought that some of it was quite good and that a lot of it was quite bad. Not watching the pozzed amazon series.

>>20624696
absolutely based effortposter

>>20015337
Couldn't be further from the truth. Men glorifying women has been a feature of human culture since time immemorial. Just look at stories like the Iliad. Men have always realised that they can be made unhinged and irrational by their desire for women, and it has often been romanticised.

>>17875128
>but more "modern day realism" is utterly boring as fuck and no more interesting than instagram photos

I find this take questionable, most ancient artists made their living by painting everyday realist scenes, such as human emotion and historical pieces. How is this different?

The fact that art was gatekeeped by lack of resources and not enough people having a guaranteed livelihood to pursue a non profitable path kept art as a unique area with a small pool of artists, which in turn allowed only a few to truly polish themselves.

Nowadays, pieces are as good as they have been at any age. The only issue is that we have so much to pick from that art has lost its "unique" value, oversaturation of offer has dwindled demand.

The desire for female domination arises out of sexual inexperience and ungratified lust. In primitive societies where promiscuity is the norm men lack that idealistic, worshipful view of woman that is common in our culture. It is only when womanly chastity became a virtue and men's lust became hard to attain that man put woman on a pedestal as the object of supreme beauty and frustrated desire. He began to seek ways to impress her, to win her favour, and in the heat of passion to worship her. The most extreme examples of this come from the medieval knightly tales, representing a time of intense sexual prudery, where the knight quite literally becomes analogous to a submissive in a BDSM relationship, performing all sorts of tasks for his lady, kneeling before her, and pining away in a forest at the thought of her absence/rejection.
In short, your issue is that you are probably an incel (I don't believe you have a girlfriend as you've said in this thread) with very little experience with women. This has made you sexually frustrated and so you've conceptualised woman as an object of yearning and worship. It is okay, all men do this in our society, it is just that in your case it has become extreme.

>>17413132
Solid theory, but allow me to expand. When a woman is checking a man's worth she is mostly reading cues off of him. That is, a woman will read a man's opinion of himself and decide based on that whether or not he is good enough for her.
You can be a shredded lawyer who volunteers with children but if you act like you don't deserve her time of day, she will go. On the other hand when a total deadbeat who doesn't even work out acts like it's the most natural thing for a girl who's way out of his league to swallow his cum on a daily basis, she just assumes that's the truth.

This us nit easy to put into practice but god help me I'm getting better every time

>>17362510
From Arthur Hacker.
>>17362607
A River Runs Through It and Other Short Stories.
>>17362619
The Castle of Ollada.
>>17362724
Selected Poetry and Prose of Stéphane Mallarmé.
>>17362869
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
>>17362873
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington.

>>17281567
What a psycho, sorry, anon.
I guess don't turn into your mother, but reversed. She hated men (your father) and all that psychological damage was played out on a substitute male, you.
I have no idea if this is the case, but if you seek female hate threads or shit like that from /r9k/ or /pol/ you're going to add fuel to the fire of the dysfunction of hating women. Hate your mom, hate what modernity has turned women into, but find a good gf and don't do the shit your mom did to you to your (potential) daughter.

Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes

>>17100510
you mean like this, or older?

>Have one shot at life to make the best I can out of myself
>Spend all my time worrying about how others perceive me which forces me into a state of inaction and self-loathing
Any books on how to fix this? I want to be a man of action like Napoleon but instead I'm a weak pussy who trembles at the thought of social disgrace.

What is necessary for an aristocratic, classical education?
I would like to know what I missed by being born into a poor, broken family in the 21st century, and whether I could attain such a thing of my own volition

so, /lit/, how do you turn a peasant into a Caesar?
books for this task?

>>15583054
Self help is dumbed-down philosophy/esoterism.
Start with Joseph Campbell (as an initation to Jung ideas), then Jung himself, then Nietzshe, then you'll be able to pick books yourself.
The hero's journey is self-help for people with self-respect.