/lit/ - Literature

>tfw you discover solipsism / evil demon theory / teleportation paradox

What are your thoughts on my writing, prose, etc.

>Handshakes in the dark. Each party searching in the black for another hand to grasp. Words are said and paths are made, but only in vague words and intimates. Large and vast machines lurch to life and begin to make their move. A man meets another and both only know half the story but begin to cut rough estimates: death tolls, profit margins, witnesses. In the end another machine has been built, its goal unknown to most, its effect known to all.

>>17040703
Son all i have to do is be myself? Thanks bro

>>16741085
>he's literally me i hate women too

Where the greeks and romans, dare I say it, based?

"From thy smile, O Jove, sprang the gods,
But man was born of thy sorrow" - Orphic poem

"Whom the gods love die young" - Menander

“Pity him who is born, because he faces so many evils; but the dead are to be accompanied with mirth and blessings, because they have escaped from so many sufferings” - Plutarch

"If death is the withdrawal of every sensation, if it is like a sleep which no dream disturbs, what an incomparable blessing it must be! for let any one select a night passed in undisturbed and entire rest, and compare it with the other nights and days that have filled his existence, and then from his conscience let him answer how many nights and days he has known which have been sweeter and more agreeable than that. For my part I am sure that not the ordinary individual alone, but even the great King of Persia would find such days and nights most easy to enumerate." - Plato

“Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man, never to behold the sun’s scorching rays; but if one is born, then one is to press as quickly as possible to the portals of Hades, and rest there under the earth.” - Theognis

“Never to be born is far best; yet if a man lives, the next best thing is for him to return as quickly as possible to the place from which he came.” - Sophocles

“All the life of man is full of misery, and there is no end to affliction and despair.” - Euripides

“Of all that breathes and creeps on earth there is no more wretched being than man.” - Homer

“Therefore may everyone acknowledge first of all, as a means for saving his soul, the view that, of all the good things meted out to man by nature, none is more valuable than a timely death.” - Pliny

"Life seems pleasing only to the fool, the wise regard it with indifference, and consider death just as acceptable. Death is as good as life; it is but a supreme renunciation in which man is freed from idle complaints and long deceptions. Life is full of pain, and the pangs of the flesh gnaw at the mind and rout its calm. In countless ways fate intercepts and thwarts our hopes. Contentment is not to be relied on, and even wisdom cannot preserve us from the treachery and insecurity of the perceptions. Since happiness, then, is intangible we should cease to pursue it, and take for our goal the absence of pain; this condition is best obtained in making ourselves indifferent to every object of desire and every cause of dislike, and above all to life itself. In any event death is advantageous in this, it takes us not from blessings but from evil." - Hegesias

"There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable." - Seneca

>>15937327
I wasn't joking

>If we picture to ourselves roughly as far as we can the sum total of misery, pain, and suffering of every kind on which the sun shines in its course, we shall admit that it would have been much better if it had been just as impossible for the sun to produce the phenomenon of life on earth as on the moon, and the surface of the earth, like that of the moon, had still been in a crystalline state.

>any career at all

>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
>Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
>Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
>Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
>Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
>Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
>Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
>Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
>Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
>Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
>James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
>Proust was 25 when Pleasures and Days was published
>Mishima was 23 when Confessions of a Mask was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 21 when Less Than Zero was published
>Kenzaburō Ōe was 23 when Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published
>Emile Zola was 24 when Contes à Ninon was published
>Balzac was 20 when Cromwell was published
>Baudelaire was 24 when Salon of 1845 was published
>Hitomi Kanehara was 20 when Snakes and Earrings was published
>Stig Dagerman was 23 when Ormen was published
>Strindberg was 22 when The Outlaw was published
>Ibsen was 22 when Catiline was published
>Milan Kundera was 24 when Man: A Wide Garden was published
>Adam Thirwell was 24 when Politics was published
>Ned Beaumann was 25 when Boxer, Beetle was published
>Norman Mailer was 25 when The Naked and the Dead was published
>Eleanor Catton was 22 when The Rehearsal was published
>Robert Walser was 23 when Schneewittchen was published
>Noah Cicero was 23 when The Human War was published
>Jorge Luis Borges was 24 when Fervor de Buenos Aires was published
>Tolstoy was 24 when Childhood was published
>Johan Harstad was 23 when Amublance was published
>Kim Insuk was 20 when Bloodline was published
>Evelyn Waugh was 25 when Decline and Fall was published
Its over bros

>>14109375
>every single book protag is better than you

ok thank you for your time

What the fuck is dialectics, really?

>Wikipedia: a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.

>Dictionary: the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.

>Also dictionary: inquiry into metaphysical contradictions and their solutions.

>Marxist website: Dialectics is the method of reasoning which aims to understand things concretely in all their movement, change and interconnection, with their opposite and contradictory sides in unity.

This is akin to the "logos" bullfuckery you goddamn morons made me go through. It's a non-word defined not even by it's usage and definition but by it's context within a sentence, almost a deus-ex-machina that often is used to justify the very thing it's supposed to help define

>>13763337
>Would rather blow generative essence down the drain than transmute it into the next stage of human evolution

Yep, this is a modern wh*toid alright.

>>13366227
No it never has. I spend the weekends reading and shitposting and no woman loves me

La Nausée

>>13203229
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>>13095289
>ywn kidnap this brainlet and turn him into a sissy post-op tranny