/lit/ - Literature

>people are evil, selfish, you see the fleshed out result of this
>evil people triumph, get to the top, honorable people or kingdoms perish
>next stage is dissociation, unable to deal with the crude reality of the world, he offers us dragons or people and creatures with magical powers

What is the most useful book you have ever read and what did it help you with?

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Cambridge, MA
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 by Béla Zombory-Moldován

It's okay.

>“Ensign! You will present your sword when you report! Perhaps you’re not aware that you’re in the field of battle?”
>I yank my sword out, and endeavor to comply sufficiently with Regulations to stop us from losing the war.

/lit/

it is like sailing the ocean divide,
never knowing what horrors will crash alongside your ship of glittering threads

Always moving, always blue. With no hospitable land in sight.

>Most people who subscribe to the post-modernist ethos are likely people with weak powers of deduction. Post-modernism provides an impervious shield to those of weaker intellectual faculties because of its false insistence that there is no universal truth and its inherent qualities containing elements of obfuscation, new age mysticism, patronizing self-esteem pathologies (there are no wrong interpretations, sandbox play interpretations), relentless irony, and an absolute refusal to acknowledge the great importance of science and the scientific method. Post-modernism is a regressive ideology, it’s literally the adult version of the self-esteem movement encouraged in children nowadays, creating competitions where every child can be a winner no matter how poorly they perform. Post-modernism is the idolatry of ignorance, and the refusal of the truth.

Truer words have never been spoken.

>>4848534
know that feel. You're cheating yourself. I lived like that until I was twenty five. Ended up landing this entry level data entry job and couldn't be happier. Can even browse the chan on my downtime. Don't ever have to interact with family again and I get to come home to an empty house with nothing but my books for company.


All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal

>>4836872
>The Mysteries of Udolpho (should have read that for a course, didn't)

One of my favorite books. "The Italian" by Radcliffe is really great too, especially if you like "The Monk". Really anything Radcliffe wrote is good to great, especially if you're like for some escapist fiction with long descriptions of terrain and characters.
If you enjoy "Melmoth The Wanderer" you should read "Vathek" by William Beckford. It is very short in comparison but much more surreal and atmospheric.
"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner." by Hogg is decent.
La Fanu's collection of short stories "In a Glass Darkly" is bretty gud, as is his book "Uncle Silas"
"The Castle of Otranto" was one of the first, if not the first, modern Gothic fiction stories. As the other anon said it is pretty boring from today's point of view and is really just a collection of Gothic cliches.

>>4352310
>tfw those feelings

>>3906224
I dunno man, /3/, /po/ and /x/ are the worst in my opinion (/mlp/ and /cgl/ kind of go without saying, total retard tier). This board is pretty damn slow and has been basically, slowly, turning into /phi/ which I think should have its own board, like on 7chan, and we should keep this place specific to literature. That probably won't happen, but it would be a good step towards fixing this board up.

>tfw your two favourite moments of the day are taking a hot womb like bath and drifting off to sleep into sweet nothingness

How do I write the best college paper ever?

I had a two-page comparative essay assignment on the Ox-Bow Incident (film) and Plato's allegory of the cave.
I only got a B.
If someone familiar to the art of college essays leaves their email I'd love to send them it.

>>3253369
This. It's why I'm trying to quit my philosophy habit and only read fiction. It's less pretentious and more useful.

>>3133070
>tfw you too will die

>>3093256
"Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened" - F. N.

vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas

>>3075658

tfw not attracted to dudes but envy how low maintenance they are compared to women

>>3056848
yes
usually these "be happy, life is too short"-people have large tv-dinner guts and live without dignity.