/lit/ - Literature

>tfw just got another 2-star review

>when you finish reading all the books in your indispensables list and feel genuinely complete and satisfied with how edifying this journey was

>>15108706
>finally getting my life in order
>plan to brush up on my studies over the Summer and start uni in the fall
>I wanted to go all in for a phd in philosophy
>very excited
>then I hear the news
>the inestimable business mogul, theoretical physicist, mathematician, and compsci whizz Dr. Wolfram tweeted something that had all the quora accounts abuzz
>a new project :Wolfram Physics
>ohno.jpeg
>with a sinking feeling I open the tweet, already intuiting the inevitable
>it's literally the ineffable glory of existence itself graphed out with Dr Wolfram announcing 'a path to the fundamental theory of physics'
>with a heavy sigh i resign myself to realization that reality has at last been laid bare
>walk over to my pile of philosophy books that are still arranged from the time i took a pic of them for that 'post your stacks' thread
>Kant is on top
>with a heavy heart i lay him into the empty Glad® HEFTY Trash Bags | ForceFlex® 18 GALLON BAG i have spread on my floor
>Jean Borella's La Crise du Symbolisme Religieux stares up at me. ah, but Jean, it is over now, you see. your book was the last little optimistic gasp of an archaic ideology, and disproved so soon
>Hegel? now merely 'Hell No'
>Schelling?, more like Shall Not (read) now that it's all been solved through other means
>Leibniz? a Leitweight with no place in this strange, new world
>Aquinas? ;more like I-quit-this
>and so on and on through all these great minds who in an instant have one and all been utterly refuted and rendered totally superfluous
>text my mom, tell her I'm going to be studying physics instead of philosophy this semester after all
>'oh thank god' is the instantaneously reply
>'god is dead mom, i numbly type back
>order The Grand Design on Amazon
>sit staring blankly at the latest @camscience tweet
>i shall learn to love this... in time
>but what to do with my Summer now?
>then I remember hearing how PornHub Premium was recently made free
>a brief twinge of what i garnered from my forays into formalist moral philosophy flickers through me, but then i remember we're all just chemicals and equations anyways
>mfw i am finally a free, scientifically enlightened citizen

>>13803960
>Midsummer Night's Dream
Reading this right now. Haven't read Shakespeare since Highschool (I'm 28). Holy shit it's so good.

>>13781294
too bad ive never touched a girl HAAHA

>>13420982
I know that feel.

Can I still go to heaven if I kiII myself?

They have to go back. Then they can write another book about their journey back to Somalia.

just deleted all my porn

any other recovering cumbrains?

>>13084724
You can't fuck Asuka cosplayers if you're not a chad

Thank you for realizing, anon. There is hope

>tfw got a gf who loves me and it cured me of everything instantly

we met once, and that once when we were young and you freckled and I already too tall to be for you. we parted, I on a train to the American Southwest, and you yet remained in that pensive mist of the Midwest.
I saw you again, then, In that desert, well after I had grown in my shoulders to match my length and the old man had died. Your freckles remained, rouged. A karate sparring tournament, funnily enough. For the purple belt. Before even recognition, the giggles of a sort of kismet-feeling bubbled between us. And when the inevitable recognition followed, how we fell into each other like some sort of destiny, eternal.

You are Raina, my Wife.

>tfw mother has been writing a book for the last few weeks inspired by this kind of thing
>its called 'The HomeMakers Guide to not baking up a F*CK!: How to keep your home how YOU want it and IGNORE your family and friends'
>is supposed to be about how you can better your life as a housewife by making your home however you want
>has an entire chapter dedicated to facing down critiques of curtains with pictures of animals on them
>isn't a parody, she is serious because me and my dad kept making fun of her decor

>ywn again read Infinite Jest as a drug-addicted teenager in the late 1990s and actually emotionally resonate with the New Sincerity
It could have been so good, bros...

>>12494694
>>12494942
>tfw you will never author a critically acclaimed erotic novel about a sexual relationship between a female elephant and some autist that is heralded as the greatest postmodern avant garde work of literary fiction in the 21st century so far.

>>12229287
>mfw I read the thumbnail as "the life-changing magic of giving up"

>>12224397
>welfare hotels
a NEET's wet dream
I was born too early

>>12219455

>>12097737
Brother...

At this point killing myself is the only ethical thing to do, both under a virtue ethics and utilitarian lens. I'm an ugly blight and drain on the world, and the sooner I send my malformed soul and hideous face to hell the better off everyone will be. Keeping myself around and subjecting people to my visage is the opposite of virtue.

>Your work is so shit people won't even respond to it

>>11957105
>That would be even easier than if she said yes
This is me right now. I'm more worried about what would happen if she said yes.

>>11569532
Because he wants you to fear him.