/lit/ - Literature

Sometimes you meet someone decent.

Poetry readings are more of a cancer risk than 90 years of smoking a pack daily. 99.9% is so bad you want to die right on the spot.

Mags are fucking terrible and people who submit short stories never read short stories. Opinion pieces are usually a little better, but the type who think they will gather an audience by "shock" is high among those faggots.

MFA is people who are not ready to join the real world yet, and usually they are already bitter, jaded, and hateful of anyone doing their own thing.
The biggest problem with all of these things is people who write don't seem to read much or care about learning more about literature the same way people into music do for example.

If you have any experience with the culture around independent music, for example, don't expect the writing community to be anything like that.


The only reason to hazard these shitholes is in the slim hope of crossing paths with a similar lonely soul, whom might swap critiques and edits with you if you find each other to be sufficiently skills and serious.

He is relevant, as an artful theorist.

His works are an epic masterclass in how to theorize artfully.

Your stuck on the wrong question. Who cares if his work has enduring merit within its subject area. Ask instead how he presented his ideas in a way that made them powerful and convincing at the time.

Freud is relevant in the field of rhetoric--a far more important field than psychology.

Only rhetoric can explain the flow of ideas, or, dare I say it

>memes

>Currently listening to a unabridged professionally read audiobook of Oliver Twist whilst sorting screws
>This makes me more /lit/ than 100% of /lit/
>MFW

i needed a little break after working out and re-reading being and time; so i called up this girl i sometimes chill with when her manlet bf is at work, we ended up fucking then watching the movie "company man".

Its a korean thriller about a guy who works at an office for some metal company, but his wing of the company is a front for an assassination ring.

You can guess how it goes, but the movie was interesting on another level. Everyone at the company always talked about how important it was to "keep at it" or "stick through it" how you just needed to collect your retirement check and you "win". But among the young workers are older staff who never seemed to "make it". and older members seem to get soft and need to be "taken care of" more than anything else. One driver has his child die, and the company does not seem to even want to allow him time to grieve.
They make big deals of giving out company name plates and all that dumb shit that makes wageslaves think what they are doing matters at all.

At the end the boss says to the protag "i had the highest hopes for you" and the protag basically asks what he even means by that, or what those hopes even amount to, and the boss has no answer.

He tells a young guy working at the company not to waste his life, and instead to find a girl he loves and just live.


To me this was great NEET life enlightenment material. great movie i recommend highly if you want a bit of action/thriller with a little message in subtext.
If you can fit it into your routine you wont be disappointed.

>>6191405
You're just gonna have to take my word. It's all I've got--it's all I've ever had of any worth.

>2014
>going outside

no, sorry.