/lit/ - Literature

Finally read everything and can now give the OFFICIAL RATINGS, which are all incontrovertible fact, and any disagreement is a surefire sign that you have shit taste compared to me.

>IL CANTO DI UN PAZZO
5/10
>HIEROPHANT POEM
7/10
>STEAL THESE STORIES
7/10
>DEAD SPACE BUT...
4/10
>DECISION-MAKING: RISKS AND BENEFITS
9/10
>AABHER PATEL
4/10
>NEARER TO THE END
8/10
>VIA NORTHGATE
7/10
>POEM
3/10
>DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER
5/10
>FACE OF CARTHAGE
8/10
>COFFEE ZONE
9/10
>UNTITLED
7/10
>DEATH OF A PRINCELING
8/10
>GUNDEL'S DRIVE
8/10
>VAN ON FIRE
7/10
>THE TICK
10/10
>RE: THE FROG
6/10
>GARFIELD KART REVIEW
10/10
>THE NINAA OOTAKII
9/10
>SAWTOOTH CYCLE
8/10
>UNDIAGNOSIS
6/10
>MAC SAUCE AT 3525 FORT HAMILTON PARKWAY
8/10
>LIVING WITH THE REEDS
7/10
>DOOMERBOY INTERRUPTED
5/10
>THE BOG
6/10
>SKYPE
7/10
>MARLON BRANDO (1979) UNPROMPTED, ON THE SET OF APOCALYPSE NOW
10/10
>AUSTIN 3:16
9/10
>/lit/ OPENING LINES
8/10
>CLASSIFIEDS
6/10

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>>14612341
This for the most part. Although I disagree on it being subjective.
Caravaggio's work is a masterpiece, Gentileschi's is an excellent work. I like the sense of movement in the latter, however Caravaggio does this at a much deeper level. Many great works capture the eternity of the event, and what stands out to me is the opposition of time. Holofernes is not simply being killed, he is experiencing the moment before his death and what for him must have felt a betrayal, or even shock over his foolishness. Sobriety amidst drunken loss. Judith appears with the entire weight of her act, she exists beyond the moment, in the future of what this event will mean for her people. Yet, she remains there, ever present, perhaps even sympathizing with Holofernes for what must happen. Her movement is exacting, the eyes of a surgeon who sees beyond what must be removed. She does not let the human element in, a requirement of justice, and so her very being forms of this sacrifice. It is a true image of Christian character.
Gentileschi is focused on the human qualities of the story, it is a moment of struggle and finality. The story does not flow through the image, Judith is not beautiful, rather she appears as something of a prostitute, even though her seduction was merely a trick that would disappear at the moment of killing. Most likely the feminists who are comparing these works are taken with the sense of feminine power, the depiction of woman as she descends into brutality, and the masculine qualities rising to the surface. Their identification with the work suggests that its essence was not strong enough to retain its form. Sacrifice and the return to modesty seem alien to them, a lost world. Its Christian character is not eternal, it is weakened as one memory may be exchanged for another.
This is the great tragedy of subjectivity, one can no longer sense what is essential. Paradoxically, this destroys all that one thought was secure. The pillaging that lies at the heart of the museum, the attrition of time that returns being to the moment of creation. There remain hidden works beneath canvases, buried in the walls of churches, and the means through which these are sought out says more of our relation to time than any art produced in the late modern period. Subjectivity also implies that we are forever on our way to the next festival, and the tyranny of critique suggests the extent to which art itself has been stripped of its ritual and formative qualities. Both the left and right are united in this failure.
https://youtu.be/20n3N1uhztc

>A wise man knows how to satisfy all of his hungers by himself

>>14548678

former coombrain here. i see a lot of people asking for recs and how to get into reading.

i recommend The Illiad as the first book. specifically samuel butlers translation in prose, edited by louise r loomis.
There is no better way to start reading than one of the earliest works of man kind. It's easy to understand and if you still have trouble go on spark notes. i recommend reading The Odyssey after. I have still not gotten to it but i imagine it will be good.

Stop watching TV, stop playing vidya, uninstall steam, delete porn, stop smoking weed, stop consooming
>waaah its hard

Too bad faggot, it was hard for me too, but i said enough is enough and i had to put a stop to it. The alternative is spiritual and physical death

Thank you /lit/

the greeks are boring

Leah Sublime,
Goddess above me!
Snake of the slime
Alostrael, love me!
Our master, the devil
Prospers the revel.
Tread with your foot
My heart til it hurt!
Tread on it, put
The smear of your dirt
On my love, on my shame
Scribble your name!
Straddle your Beast
My Masterful Bitch
With the thighs of you greased
With the Sweat of your Itch!
Spit on me, scarlet
Mouth of my harlot!
Now from your wide
Raw cunt, the abyss,
Spend spouting the tide
Of your sizzling piss
In my mouth; oh my Whore
Let it pour, let it pour!

You stale like a mare
And fart as you stale;
Through straggled wet hair
You spout like a whale.
Splash the manure
And piss from the sewer.
Down to me quick
With your tooth on my lip
And your hand on my prick
With feverish grip
My life as it drinks—
How your breath stinks!

Your hand, oh unclean
Your hand that has wasted
Your love, in obscene
Black masses, that tasted
Your soul, it’s your hand!
Feel my prick stand!

Your life times from lewd
Little girl, to mature
Worn whore that has chewed
Your own pile of manure.
Your hand was the key to—
And now your frig me, too!

Rub all the much
Of your cunt on me, Leah
Cunt, let me suck
All your glued gonorrhea!
Cunt without end!
Amen! til you spend!

Cunt! you have harboured
All dirt and disease
In your slimy unbarbered
Loose hole, with its cheese
And its monthlies, and pox
You chewer of cocks!
Cunt, you have sucked
Up pricks, you squirted
Out foetuses, fucked
Til bastards you blurted
Out into space—
Spend on my face!

Rub all your gleet away!
Envenom the arrow.
May your pox eat away
Me to the marrow.
Cunt you have got me;
I love you to rot me!

Isn't believing you'll be sent to heaven/hell a sign of severe narcissism? Works which go into this?

I lived the last 10 years of my life as a ghost. Prior to 2010 I was a normal enough individual with friends, a sex life, social skills etc. But due to mental health issues I got lost in my own head and around 2010 I decided to isolate myself. To everybody who knew me prior I've been dead for 10 years (cousins, friends, etc) they had already mourned my passing (they thought i had gone crazy and it was just easier to ignore it). I felt like I was trapped in the shadow realm. I couldn't establish connections with anyone and couldn't maintain the connections I had made throughout of my life so I spent 10 years by myself and the whole time I thought how horrible this was and what a curse this was i had to bare, Fast forward to this year I start taking prozac after coming very close to killing myself. I had a pessimistic outlook on ssri's but they actually worked. Within in the first few months of taking the drug I have a girlfriend after spending more 10 years alone and can now easily navigate social situations without even a second thought. But I find myself missing being alone, I miss the independence of it. Not having to rely on other people for anything. I also can see through social interaction, it being such a waste of energy and so unenriching. I find myself just doing all these normal things because I can, not because I necessarily want to. There's a freedom that feels like its gone now and I want it back. I got off the drugs and within 2 weeks I was already beginning to lose the ability to maintain a relationship with my girlfriend but I got back on them because I was scared. But a part of me desperately wants to stay off them so I can have my world back even though I know just how horrible it felt being alone for so long.

Can someone recommend me a book relating to this feeling?

can i get a source on this thot

>>14302916
I feel bad for all you dudes missing out on all the great anal sex being had these days

Why does this image infuriate incellectuals so much? LOL They don't actually understand great art, they simply pretend to.

And if they are so against blacks and jews breeding with white women, why don't they contribute to the gene pool by starting a family of their own?

>>14294906
Now that's a religion I can get behind if you comprehend what I'm hinting at

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>>13830975
Irrelevant.
Learn how memes work, rdt.

Because women are superior in every way.

>tfw no Bataille reading gf to go through a transgressive phase with

>>13227601
hot as fuck senpai

You know, those who decided they were going to be a writer at the same time everyone picks their career choices, majors in English, gets a graduate degree, teaches and writes postmodern fiction without ever having a real job or life experiences that weren’t bought. David Foster Wallace is one that comes to mind, and probably the best. Any others that are actually good?

How do I start with the Greeks? I’ve got the selected works of Plato and meditations. Haven’t read either of them. Should I do the Iliad/odyssey or what

How do I start with the Greeks? I’ve got the selected works of Plato and meditations. Haven’t read either of them. Should I do the Iliad/odyssey or what?