/lit/ - Literature

>>21776523
>to distract the Dread Lord from their fury?

>>18589370
coup d'état

Are we not getting tired of all the ideological insincerity? I am. Politics is a retarded game to play, but at the very least zoomers should stick to one ideology and dig through its deeper levels - what a future in that system would really look like - rather than all this nonsense wherein ideologies are just brief aesthetic fancies. It's an incredible feat of ironic detachment (which of course they view as unironic under an ironic guise) and hollowness that masquerades as political knowledge. An ocean wide, a puddle deep
>>18364370
And seconding this in part, the words are chosen well enough, it's just samesy stylistically

>Anakin Skywalker is basically Dmitri Karamazov
>Padme would be something liberal
>Han Solo would be Catcher in the Rye
>R2D2 would be Blood Meridian or the Unabomber manifesto
>Jar Jar would be Joyce's Ulysses
>Sheev would read Foucault purely for the joy of reading someone as evil as he is
>Baby Yoda would read Green Eggs and Ham
>Mando would read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
>DH Lawrence for Kenobi
>Luke reads the Bible
>Rey is into chick lit
>Poe audiobooks Tom Clancy on long X-wing voyages
>Kylo likes Byron and Shelley
>Finn reads Infinite Jest
>Snoke is mentally controlled by Palpatine
>Leia is a secret Rand fan
>Jimmy Smits reads non-fiction
>C3PO reads Murakami
>Jabba likes the Art of the Deal
>Elan Sleazbaggano reads Scar Tissue
>Mace Windu reads The Republic
>Boba Fett reads The Road
>Hux reads Mein Kampf
>Pryde reads Hitler's Table Talk

Don't know about Yoda. Something Buddhist/Hindu.

Is imagining shit while read a meme?
I dont imagine shit when I read.
Is this a sign I'm retarded or do people just meme about ""VIVID DESCRIPTIONS"" in books

>>17600335
I thought that about myself too. Turns out it was all just life ruining long term habits that took much patience and many failed attempts to turn around. It sucks to find out that your brain is just a poorly trained puppy, but happiness really is on the other side of that transformation.

People, women among them, are not all good, but they are worthwhile. It takes long, patient effort though.

Proust said "Leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination."

>>17495320
I just wrote something similar to that in my diary in the past hour. So maybe you were looking for something more rational in response to this, but I've got something more personal so I'll share that with you instead:

>I want to start over with [my girl], as a changed man. ... I don't want to be a weak man anymore who dreams up more and more problems where none before needed to exist. I wanted too much from [my girl] that I didn't deserve, and I was indignant when I had little to no justification to be about being refused what I wanted. I want her to give me a second chance to prove that I'm worthy. I didn't realize I was in the wrong until she punished me by taking herself away from me.

>I was overly arrogant in a way, and I needed my ego checked. I say "in a way", because although I'm not exactly a prideful or vain person, I still refused to come to the conclusion that my inadequacies truly made me nigh worthless, and that I needed to shape up or eat shit. I thought I was better than I had the right to believe. I know I'm a fucking loser and potential doesn't mean shit when you spend [5+] years past age 18 doing nothing to manifest it. I was used to coasting by life without putting in any real effort until the final hour; I lacked the discipline to actually make tangible real world gains that weren't easy pickings.

That's what I wrote, reflecting on a recent and tragic fuck-up.

Essentially, immature men will think they're good enough to deserve attention and effort from women, when they're really not (yet). But instead of realizing that they need to work on themselves more, they get angry they aren't being accepted "for who they are" as if it's wrong for women---after reading so many horror stories about women who tried and failed to "change" their men"---to not want to take a chance on what is essentially a stalled project: a man who goes on and on about how he has the potential to one day be something great, but is at this point far too arrogant to admit he needs to start getting his ass in gear sooner rather than later. And it's the lack of honest self-reflection, the unwillingness to admit how much they suck, that is holding back so many men these days from reaching for happiness.

>>13119423
I found Oblivion as a whole pretty good, the Soul is not a Smithy and Another Pioneer along with Good Old Neon were the best of the collection. Obviously it's a biased viewpoint knowing what we know now but for anyone who's read Oblivion it mustn't have come as a shock that DFW killed himself. Each story was so bleak, so profoundly hopeless that just got more depressing the more one analysed it (Mr Squishy being a particularly potent example). One could say that parts of Good Old Neon are uplifting, where he says he's found peace in the afterlife, but the story even ends on a depressing note where he says he wants to be remembered as more than a batting average, yet the story ends with [ NMN.80.418], the characters initials, year of graduation, and batting average. Reading Oblivion made me want to cry because these words didn't just appear on paper - someone had to create them, and the sadness needed to create something like this doesn't come from a vacuum