/lit/ - Literature

>tfw started yet another new story instead of working on the main ones

>>18897495
>a thing without a consciousness can make an act which requires consciousness so that it can obtain consciousness

What do I do, bros? I wrote a story that's too damn scary. My hands are literally shaking when I'm writing. I'm barely halfway through the draft and the suspense is killing me. Jesus christ how horrible

>>12530650
iktfb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6Co_Kyyj0

>>12032763
mfw this thread

>>11927561
>get told later by my parents that my brother didn't want me around his daughter and it is weird that a grown man gave a little girl a present for no reason

>>10688865
>be me
>been dating the perfect girl for about two months
>sense that she's being shy and apprehensive (I always message first) but slowly start to fall for her anyway
>spend an entire day writing a love letter to her expressing my feelings for her, written in honestly good prose poetry, to give to her the next day
>next morning she cancels
>tell her its okay and arrange for another day
>next day comes around
>message her in the morning to confirm the date
>she explains that she forgot about the date and she's actually out of the city
>this annoys me but I say not to worry about it, arrange another day
>next day comes along, meet her at the botanical gardens in our city, a location she chose
>give her the card and ask if I can kiss her
>she says okay but then asks me to stop
>says she's sorry and then shortly afterwards says she has to go
>walk her to the station
>hug her (the first time I ever hug her) and say lets meet up soon
>that was the last time I ever saw her
>she cancels on the three next times we arrange
>don't know what the hell is going on
>call her to find out what is going on
>"I wanted to want this, but it's too hard anon. Being with you has brought up things in my past that I need to deal with. I've made an appointment with my therapist to deal with that. I'm sorry."

I miss her.

>>10206601
Oh, but there is your face. I catch your eye. I, who had been thinking myself so vast, a temple, a church, a whole universe, unconfined and capable of being everywhere on the verge of things and here too, am now nothing but what you see—an elderly man, rather heavy, grey above the ears, who (I see myself in the glass) leans one elbow on the table, and holds in his left hand a glass of old brandy. That is the blow you have dealt me. I have walked bang into the pillar-box. I reel from side to side. I put my hands on my head. My hat is off—I have dropped my stick. I have made an awful ass of myself and am justly laughed at by any passer-by.

>>10151793
>tfw you'll never sit shoeless in the grass drinking sasparilla and having melancholy conversations with Carson McCullars

>>10140641
I'll go kill myself now bye

>>10105288
2nd grade teacher read this to us. i remember it being a cool fantasy story and enjoying it. the xtian elements were not explicit to me at that age but the gist of the story is pretty neat for a child's story.

>tfw you weren't born 700 years ago when Christianity was still real
>tfw the only sheep life possible in the modern world is the consumerist life
>tfw Meister Eckhart was right, God dies when we forget Him

Venus in Furs desu

>>9200135
I can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there's no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with iron bars, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.
>—Franz Kafka, The Castle

>>9189325
> There also used to be bookstores, now they're almost extinct

I remember a Louis CK interview where he talks about how every bookstore used to be unique, representing some particular niche. You'd go to whatever store matched your interests, or you could go to a different store and find something new. But these days EVERY SINGLE BOOKSTORE IS THE SAME. The same books you can find anywhere and buy for half the price online. What reason is there to check them out? And without that the resource of your favourite bookshop as aggregator, how are you supposed to find the good shit without doing copious amounts of research yourself? The only bookstores that have any soul left to them are the big second hand stores.

In conclusion, i want do tie

>tfw you realise that philosophy and religion will never make life easier to live

>>9118990
>tfw dated a clumsy Catholic girl back when I was an atheist and I dumped her because her faith gave me anxiety and now I've discovered the Catholic faith for myself and since she's married another guy

/lit/ rec me my new favorite book. i can't find anything i really want to read, and i need a heightened emotional experience. hit me with those feels /lit/

>inb4 my diary, desu

>used to bring out a 9/11 conspiracy book in my english lessons

>>7462336
>Google metamodernism
>Find http://www.metamodernism.org/
I don't like this

>wake up at 8:20am if my meds don't make me sleep through my first two classes
>Class until 3:30
>All my classes are with the same group of people 5 or so of which would say they're my friends but clearly aren't
>Go home
>Eat the same thing every day at 6
>Go back to campus
>Do hw or study until midnight with the same people I take classes with
>Go home and take my meds
>Maybe read for 30 minutes before I fall asleep
Living the dream

bump

Love isn't real
t. virgin who will die alone

>chapter starts immediately after the previous chapter ends rather than on a fresh page
>often in the middle or right before the bottom of a page