/lit/ - Literature

>>14255722
Technological slavery or ATR. Based.

>>14240213
>>14240671
based

>>14157773
I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much technology had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of inventing machines, only they didn’t. They kept going without them. Because they were holding on to something.

>>9781226
Well at least you aren't rationalizing why you don't need to read those boring "hierarchy reinforcing" books this time around.

On Ted's lack of employment

>"To my knowledge Ted worked only two, short-lived jobs in all the years he lived in Lincoln. When he first moved to Florence Gulch he cut posts to sell at a local post-and-pole manufacturing operation [...] his second bit of employment was peeling logs for Butch Gehring during the mid-'80s, a pretty strenuous job of skinning the bark off with a drawknife [...] Ted didn't last more than a couple of hours before he walked off the job, saying that peeling logs wasn't for him."

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On Ted adapting to his environment

>"It just didn't seem to matter to him, the cold, the physical work, the inconvenience, anything. If he were caught too far from his campsite or either cabin he would just roll up in his coat - no matter where he was, at the edge of a meadow or in the trees - lie down and spend the night."

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Who are some good writers aged 25 or under?

Is anyone interested in reading some quotations (from various sources) about Ted Kaczynski AKA The Unabomber?

I'll focus on his life, the way people perceived him, and to make it /lit/ related his taste in literature.

Bump if you're interested.