/lit/ - Literature

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls
And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies

My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day
And a song I was writing is left undone
I don't know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can't believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme
And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I

Is it bad to annotate/underline passages in your books, /lit/? Reasons for/against please.

>>17587212
>painting depicts Diogenes bathed in brilliant sunlight
>"Step aside, you're blocking the sun"
>visible contempt
???

Camus literally shit himself in the woods /lit/, a colossal Grizzly Bear charged at him and he froze where he stood. Sweat rolled down his "gotcha" shaped brow, and then dripped onto his leather, moleskin Boots. He quickly imagined scenarios where the bear would just run past him or false charge him only for it to just dissappear into the thicket. He wrote about the matter in a letter to his friend, Jean-Paul Sartre: "I was trembling with the utmost fear, my mind picturing images of my childhood that came like a visceral tidal wave, in a fraction of a second I was flipped from one mood to the next. My heart rate was irratic. My brow sopping wet with sweat. My philosophy had achieved me nothing in the face of the ineffable sublime. I slowly meandered back to my lodgings with uncontrolled excrement seeping down my garments"

ABSURDISM BTFO'D
TREMBLING
CAMUSIANS IN SHAMBLES
nice one /lit/

Camus spends a lot of the book talking against "copes", which he calls leaps, and basically arguing against what everyone in this thread seems to think he believes.

>But Oriental thought teaches that one can indulge in the same effort of logic by choosing against the world. That is just as legitimate and gives this essay its perspectives and its limits. But when the negation of the world is pursued just as rigorously, one often achieves (in certain Vedantic schools) similar results regarding, for instance, the indifference of works.

Do you think Camus was a crypto-Advaitist?

>Camus offers to drive me and my family out of Paris on vacation
>I graciously decline but he insists
>The next morning he is at my door ready to go
>I tell him we had not expected him, my family is not prepared
>He takes my keys and says he will warm the car up
>I go and wake my family make them pack and load into the car
>Camus is honking on the horn swearing at us to hurry up
>Camus asks my wife if she likes to go fast and floors it
>We run every light on the way out of the city
>On the freeway we're nearing 150mph
>Iron grip on the dashboard I ask him to slow down
>He turns and laughs at me "C'est absurd!"
>Suddenly we're off the road and the car is flipping over
>Camus flies out of the window
>I wake up a couple hours later in the hospital, family is dead
>Cops ask who was driving and I tell them Camus
>They never find the body
>I receive a photograph of my mother and Camus and he's dressed the same as the day of the crash

from the diary of M. Gallimard

>talking to my new european gf about philosophy
>she asks if I've ever read "cam-oo"
>tell her I haven't and I have no idea who that is
>she tells me hes an existential philosopher and I need to look into him
>be trying to find "cam-oo" online later
>finally realize she's talking about camus, who I've read a lot of
>always pronounced him "cam-us"
>have to go back and explain to her that I just didn't know how to properly pronounce his name
>she calls me a dumb American and laughs at me

ITT: we guess the IQ of literary figures based on their physiognomy
>105

>>13756049
so Camus?

>tfw don't know where to start with Camus

Can someone drop a chart or recommend what books I should read in order to have a deep understanding of this Chad?

Throw in some Sartre recs while you're at it.

>>13071367
Touching you feeling you sniffing your panties

>one must imagine sisyphus happy

why?

>No Camus
Are you guys fucking kidding?