/lit/ - Literature

>>21208916
No.

>there will never be a good verse drama written in the 21st century

Prufrock.

>>20373804
I can't read Spanish well

>you will never read the Epic of Manas in the original Kyrgyz
>you will never read Kusadikika in the original Swahili
>you will never read Wizard of the Crow in the original Gikuyu

>you will never read Phèdre in French
>you will never read Grande Sertão: Veredas in Portuguese
>you will never read 紅樓夢 in Chinese
>you will never read Kusadikika in Swahili
>you will never read Mũrogi wa Kagogo in Gikuyu
>you will never read Maнac дacтaны in Kyrgyz

Yukio Mishima wrote the following haiku when he was seven years old:

Younger brother
spreads his hands,
maple leaves.

How do I cope with knowing I will never write something that beautiful?

>>17898152
>mfw I bought a collection of Borges' poetry as a birthday gift for my mom
Bros

Life of average Nip
>study your ass off for 8 hours every day since middle school to get into Tokyo University, will kill himself if he gets a B
>survives on vending machine ramen, too poor to go for sushi at a restaurant more than once a year
>>economy has seen 0 growth since the 90s, at best will get a job as a salaryman at a zombie Zaibatsu on life support
>will wageslave to support his Boomer parents, which unlike American Boomers, will live to 120 because they don't eat like pigs and because of the 1st world healthcare system
>lives in a society, gets money exhorted from him by black lackeys of the yakuza, abysmal birthrates, culture is a parody of what it was, atheist
>lives either with parents in suburban home or in a closet sized apartment in Tokyo
>too proud to get into the JSDF, doesn't know that the Osakan chads that join it lead better work, social and sexual lives than him despite being country hicks
>will be a lifelong virgin, girls his age are all engaging in enjo kousai with ugly bastard executives, too proud to shack up with the hot single Christmas cake/office lady that works in the same company
>only upside of his society is homogenous demographics, advanced infrastructure and non-woke media, fat lot of good that's going to do to an outcast NEET/hikkikomori that no one wants to interact with
>gets outcompeted economically by his supposed inferiors the Koreans, will get outcompeted in cultural exports in the following decades
>1 step ahead of the West, this translates in already bowing to his Chinese overlords
>almost entirely clueless about the world
>won't emigrate, vaguely aware that the West is fucked too, plus he got blackpilled about how Asian men are treated there, especially by women because of the occasional browsing of English-speaking imageboards
>too proud/scared to emigrate to other Asian or Latinamerican countries, despite his secret intense attraction to Latinas, if dating app data is anything to go by
>indulges in consoomerism, watches anime and plays videogames because IRL he lives in a society
>gaijin think his country is like in anime, invariably get disappointed
>his corpse will be desecrated for views by YT celebrity after he inevitably an heroes in Aokigahara
Such is life in Nippon

>>17611524
>>17611581
>The Collapse and Revival
>it only gets worse

>>17052819
>EOP

I finished Dune and have zero desire to read the next book.
Should I just wikipedia the good shit?

>>16843413
same

>>16668245
>They say it is all ones and zeros
>I only see zeros

>a posteriori

>>16292306

>>16284730
>ywn be anything more than a halfwit

>>16207914

>>15940376
>I'm even in a new relationship, but there is not a day I don't think about her.
iktf anon

>>15795066
>Book begins with male protagonist having sex with a woman

>Tfw 267wpm reading speed

>>15787217
>How do I stop being retarded?
You can't.

>>15777875
Ellen Page posting scriptfag stole another get

Time you’ll never get back