/lit/ - Literature

Is it futile for authors to attempt to write characters more intelligent than themselves?
Is there any good way to pull this off?

>>12913636
>I'm a boomer! I'm 30years old!

lay off the redpills lol

>>12909918
>His ideas could bot be further from identity politics

>>12788920
>I believe in Jordan Peterson

>>12720204
lol

>>12621572
>"But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are."
i dont get it
>I cannot bring a world quite round, Although I patch it as I can. I sing a hero's head, large eye And bearded bronze, but not a man, Although I patch him as I can And reach through him almost to man. If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.
Is he saying heros are idealized and not human and people don't like when they are humanized and not worshiped? And then saying to just dismiss the disillusionment if they don't like it?
>Ah, but to play man number one, To drive the dagger in his heart, To lay his brain upon the board And pick the acrid colors out, To nail his thought across the door, Its wings spread wide to rain and snow, To strike his living hi and ho, To tick it, tock it, turn it true, To bang from it a savage blue, Jangling the metal of the strings
Is this about exposing someone's every idea and thought to critique?
I also don’t get that last part.

>>12303033
>lust is healthy, lust is strong

>>11881194
Tfw far left atheist but still think abortion is murder

>>11863390
This is so self evident that you wouldn't think it'd require explaining

>Eternal onahole thread

>>11797233
>>11797252
>>11797254
I'm not even a nihilist but holy shit guys

But I'm absolute bottom left and like K and Shinji

When discussing literature from Spain, are we referring only to spanish language works? If we include galician, catalonian, and basque literature, should we also talk about Mozarabic and other dead or dying languages' works?

>>11657797
First of all, the quote is not from El Topo. It is from an interview with Jodorowsky.

You seem to be essentially arguing that critiques against Christianity are inherently wrong if you look at it from a Christian perspective, and that "true" understanding of the Christ figure exists within your personal interpretation of the Christian interpretation of Christ (which of course is itself far from monolithic). A shadow of a shadow of a Christ-image massified and shunted downwards from high atop the Holy Mountain that is The Vatican or The Bible itself or whatever else. This goes along pretty well with the critique from the film on Christianity and religion/dogma in general, so I won't go over it again, and instead redirect you to previous posts on the subject.

Not only this, you accuse Jodorowsky of misunderstanding when you yourself misunderstand what he meant. "To be Christian is to betray Christ: to fill the role of Judas Iscariot" is a fun interpretation, but it is just that.

Here's another quote on the same subject in the same interview: "Live books; don't adore them. Kill Christ so
you can have Him within you." As this anon >>11654903 said, this is a Buddhist idea. This idea is tied heavily to most of Jodorowsky's films, which tend to be about individual vision, and collective as a group of fully realized individuals rather than as a unity under dogma (similar to the Jungian ideal of individuation). Again, I'll point to previous posts, on the rebuke of dogma.

You are reading Buddhism applied to Christianity so totally within the realms of your own theology that you are arguing with phantoms of your own creation. Building up strawmen and knocking them down.

Reminiscent of this scene from The Holy Mountain: https://youtu.be/h86uye11eD8?t=2m56s

Taking a lateral step into a theological argument to literally 'conquer' "The Holy Mountain (1973)", declaring yourself a champion. Yet, from bottom to top, you cannot do. You refuse to interact with the material itself. Ironic that you are exactly the kind of person the film hopes the viewer will stray from being.

I wish I could be religious
Fecken luv anime