/lit/ - Literature

>>20242200
Eternal universe

>>20189931
I can always tell that most of the peoe here shitting on the book haven't read it and probably couldn't even name the main character. Get the skeleton key by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. It gives an outline of the plot and characters of the book and "translates" a good amount of the text.
The very basic gist is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker comes home to Dublin on a boat from the East, and on the way home he has a sexual/inappropriate encounter with two young women, which three soldiers witness. HCE then has his name stained with this sin through all time, past, present, and future, and is put on public trial by the four judges (cardinal points of the compass, Matthew Mark Luke and John). I could summarize the rest of the book but just read it anons, put down your pride and your arrogance and give it an honest go. You are not smarter than it, it is not gibberish, in fact it's almost the complete antithesis to gibberish in that every word has several specific meanings within the immense, world-large web of meaning the book weaves.

Or could you just read half of the first paragraph and say "lmao it's shit"

>>20063205
>>20063205
You are right to observe the vast imperceptible bounds that are beyond our conscious control in desire. However you are fatalistic from your skepticism. It is a good heuristic to ground yourself with blackpills but this has buried the greatest ethos that man can strive for: The dream of the wheel turning monarch is to take desire and recondition it from its deepset grooves. Guarding the sense doors is preventing attachment. Novelty has to face the inertia of everything past. I think of it like Tarzan grasping vines and letting go so he traverses the jungle in agile fashion. Discrete experience is painful when ruminated at the expense of the next discrete experience like grasping to vines that snap against the grasper beyond their range of motion grace period to let go. However the teaching goes further and further having given you enigmatic clues that had no fun western Tarzan tutorial. It repeats its blackpilling mantra dogma but reveals a deeper layer under my fancy and momentary adaptation still. When wil Tarzan grasp something that hurts to even reach for? How is he lost? Why does he do this? Deeper than virtue still after virtue requires heavy duty economists to sell me on renunciating amenably and seeing a continuum between me and the temples. But the Buddha is there far above his monks and their piety like a mountain in the distance. He has seen to it ineffably leaving behind riddles.

Pic unrelated I just like this duck being grasped.

>>20029278
You quack like a duck. You name your children after ducks. Pretty sure you're a duck. But then you insist the other ducks are geese and have abandoned the true way of ducks, which was shown by the founder of your religion, who came from a princely line of ducks, had been prophesized in the duck scriptures, lived in a duck community, swam into the Second Pond to argue with the other ducks, was betrayed by the ducks and given up to the eagles for execution, then quacked from the grave to his duck followers. It's all about the ducks. As a third-party to your debate, I see two ducks quacking. Now, maybe you are the true duck because those other ducks aren't upholding the waterfowl covenant like they should be. But you being the true duck and them being false still makes you a duck.

>>19192842
You give your children their names. You worship their god. You read their literature. You follow their laws.

>>19130384
>India, China, etc. are Jewish
>but not the christers who give their children their names, read their books, follow their commandments, honor their covenants
Quack quack quack

>>19093516
Walks like a duck, etc.

>>19050399
>>19050427
If it walks like a duck....

>>18879293
>getting personally invested in and agitated about issues you have zero control over whatsover, especially regarding the trajectory of society, lowest common denominators, world, etc.
Did you know that the diversion of your impotent seething energies to these kinds of inactive outlets is a feature and not a bug? Have you tried not being mad? Maybe you can't be happy, but you can try not letting yourself be so easily butthurt.