/lit/ - Literature

>>8353919

with words like "quell", "morose", and "precludes" I'm sure your IQ is more than well equipped to solve the problem of existence.

>>7924709

wew lad this thread sucks.

You're just a Romantic, and that's been out of fashion for a couple hundred years

>"transcendent" values
>the glimmer of the sublime
>a splash of the mystical dionysian fire

We've inherited the disenchantment of industrialism, a couple world wars, and a few decades of possible nuclear armageddon.

We cannot write the Divine Comedy any more than we can go back in time.

Stop grasping for values that have been tested against history

If you want to watch a Terence Malick film, go to the orchestra, play the videogame Journey, and read epic poetry you can. But to whine about not having a 21st century shakespeare is intellectually and emotionally dishonest.

Now for the inspirational part

>Embrace the constraints of 20xx
>Create a new mouthpiece.
>Meditate on a contemporary definition of spirituality.

You were born in a culture that produced Yung Lean. I think you should be capable of realising that our aesthetic sense encompasses an absurd range of definitions.

Also read the Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde. You can see someone much more articulate than yourself moan about exactly the same problems.

>>7132139

>>7132139

>>>anything by Chris Ware

Building Stories is more difficult, start with Jimmy Corrigan.

These novels will make you a sad cunt