/lit/ - Literature

>>14111332
Same here, anon.

>>13767187
apu is ontologically pepe

>>13737880
>fiction
Wasted your time.

Was Gatsby a fool or just a real huma bean?

>>13718206
It highlights the beauty of a seemingly ordinary life; Stoner faces life's common hardships stoically and tries his best as a busy teacher to make room for his (dysfunctional) family and love for literature.


It's nothing fancy, but a good read.

The fact that women are always looking for the "strong man" shows how women have no individuality, no self, no soul, no "I". It shows her desire to be nothing but property and they have no control over it.

"Women have no existence and no essence, they are not and they are nothing. One IS Man or one IS Woman, depending on whether or not one IS
somebody."
- Otto Weininger

Hei guys, I need help from those of you who knows latin.
I'm interested in translating this phrase from Sherlock Holmes in latin: "An exception disproves the rule".
My best guess is "Exceptio regulae improbat" but I'm not really sure about it. Anyone who'd share his knowledge with me?

brump

>>13539320
>Give them a nonattentive nod
>keep on walking nonchalantly
>Such is life
>Go home and read

Are there any other works similar to John William’s Stoner? stories about stoic men living unassuming yet dignified lives are welcome - the more tragic the better.


Also, Stoner thread I guess.

>>12023522
Jesus Christ that pic! Thank you OP!

>>11986936

Good post anon

>>11941734

''Non-NPCs'' often mistakenly think they can argue with and change the mind of an NPC, because they themselves can be swayed by well-reasoned arguments backed up by evidence without losing face. Often the NPC’s resolve in their own folly becomes stronger in face of an opponent’s argument. I don’t really believe in the NPC meme though, I just think people invest more time thinking-wise in banality than the average e/lit/ist or well-read 4channer, like personal relationships, status and social order.

>>11831838
>>11831857

Yes!

My buddy is a night shift security guard. His job is to watch the cameras and patrol the building every hour. However, he has no supervision and there isn't anything valuable in the building, so he falls asleep almost every shift without repercussion- when he's not sleeping, he's doing homework.

Needless to say, night shift security guard is a god tier /lit/ job

Ok so basically, I'm Monky. Books for this feel?

>be writing
>Writing sex
>picture it in my mind
>Get hard
>I'm doing a female inside my head
>Dick so hard can't hold it in
>Go jack off
>Lose the flow of the scene
>Writing goes to trash

>The book materializes and dematerializes sporadically through the day, always with new content inside. usually misanthropic rantings about a God that has abandoned us, or banal details about what the neighbor ate yesterday. You cannot throw it away or escape, for it will only reaper in your lap later.

>>11784048
>A
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>>11781441
Most of the people I talk to are just friendly acquaintances, no friends or lovers. I even feel to some degree alienated from my family. All talk is superficial, awkward, the whole ordeal. no real connection, just shallowness. It’s mostly my fault, I’m an introvert at hearth, I dislike being social. Things are getting better tho, I’m forcing myself into social situations. I join all the big parties, hang out occasionally with someone from my school. The only man I have had a good honest conversation with is my therapist, but the dude gets paid for it so whatever. Always a general feeling of Ennui.

>>11776101

This fucking image.

>>11757900
>>11761970
I'm kind of going through something related to these two posts. Finished my undergrad and work at what is considered a 'successful' corporation with a 'promising' career, but I loathe all of it and have self destructive impulses. The only last act of dignity I have left is to destroy it all. I've reached this position by spending the last two years of college working internships and sacrificing most of my time with building friendships to instead doing nothing at work and getting paid for it (hourly). It really didn't occur to me until the last semester of my undergrad that I sold myself out to become a well groomed STEMlord. Now I'm faced with the rest of my life of depressed salaryman in a company filled with married, fat, upper middle class, middle aged pencil pushers. The vast majority of them have superficial lives, talking about money all day and night. Buying shite for money, saving money, investing money, retirement money, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseam.

In a last act of desperation, I've turned to enrolling in a master's degree in order to possibly hold on to some vestige of a social life on campus. Even though these people are immature and exercise the same type of materialism (talking about pop culture instead of CAPITAL GAINS), what else do I have left? I've realized after I finished college that I really do enjoy tirelessly working towards a goal and studying all night. I'm afraid of what will happen to me if I give up.

On top of all this I'm a depressive weirdo incapable of finding a girlfriend.

My last ditch effort is to pack it all up and fuck off to the FFL.

What’s the most /lit/ job besides living off your writing as an acclaimed author? I.E The jobs you take before you find a publisher and an audience?

>>11722368
C'est la vie.

I’ve read about Anarcho-primitivists, those who would like to go back to a hunter-gatherer society, devoid of any technology or modern civilization. I have also read about transhumanists, those who want to go even further with this human enterprise. However, are there any authors who advocate for a very specific period and mode of being, arguing that that times culture, economy and technological development was as close to perfect as possible? For example, Edwardian England, or Medieval France as the pinnacle of the human experience?