/lit/ - Literature

>>19715050
you're supposed to have a panic attack. That's what the universe is: a major dissociative episode of the cosmos. Distract yourself, forge further. Imagine further. Maybe we'll meet someone else out there. The universe is lonely, but desperately trying not to think about it.

>>19583823
This anon gets it.
>>19583859
This is a perspectival illusion resulting from the fact that you are not living in those ages. Most of the things you know and read about it are about what was interesting, and relevant, and what moved history forward towards your current point of observation. You read less about failed attempts and irrelevant people, and this gives a constant impression of living in a time that was not as good as the previous ones. But previous times were not better: they are just finished and complete, because most people in them are dead, and most situations in them have been crystallized by time, so that we can now select what was relevant about them to get where we are now.
The more you study a specific historical period - any period - the more you'll see that it was actually very similar to ours. Overwhelming spiritual misery was always there for the majority of the people in any historical period. Overwhelming material misery mostly went along with it for basically every historical period except for after world war 2.
War and Peace is a great novel if you want to deconstruct idealistic notions of history, or the general feeling that some ages are better than others. Sure, ours is not a fantastic age, but life is not a fantastic experience in general for the most part, for all humans, in all ages.

>>19558782
Satantango is a far better film.

But Tarkovsky still mogs Tarr.

>>19127673
>>19127719
Unironically Mirror is the best movie ever made and Nostalghia will make you cringe your insides out. Here, re-listen to this and try telling me Nostalghia is well written:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrjgPqX7nPs

It is still beyond me how the guy who made Mirror, which is perfect, would come up with the most irredeemably banal monologue in the history of cinema. Not only the character of Domenico is the saddest excuse for a "enlightned madman" ever seen in cinema, but he also preaches the most trite stereotypical bullshit about muh nature good muh modernity bad I have ever listened in a movie. It's as if he was filming stalker again and then decided to introduce this guy into the screenplay to just come smear his diarrhea over the beautiful sceneries, images, photography, etc. This scene is the living proof of how bad writing can single handedly ruin a perfectly good movie.