/lit/ - Literature

I think I'll go with Baudelaire. I admire both more for their way of life than their poetry though.

>>2999663
I agree with this. I studied literature for a year academically but noped the fuck out of there. It's probably my own fault since I didn't really have a clear picture of what it was about. It's analysing literature according to a select few methods that the literary academics like. I love literature, but I found that they were merely analysing it to death. Good literature works for me as an organic whole, something that you have to engage with as it is. Let it wash over you, so to speak. If you start picking at every little thing you kill the work as a whole. It's like the dissection of a beautiful woman. Once you start looking at individual lines of a poem according to theory X and discussing it with 30 bores in a little brightly lit room it loses what makes it great.

That said, it might have been interesting if I thought they were adding something to the world of literature by doing this. But that's not the impression I got. It felt more like a grand parasitic clothes of the emperor scheme.

>>2974600
>aesthetics
>sad
>mfw

>>2943139
>someone believing that 4chan is not entirely composed of young, white males - spawned from middle class families, sheltered from any immediate danger must automatically think we are all Tyler Durden

>>2939154
Nope. The Bohemian life of gloriously inspiring poverty it is.

>>2916435
/r9k/ are misogynists. We're just plain misanthropes. Why hate half of them when you can hate them all?

>>2832539
>gorilla magic

>>2802009
For me it is presenting me with something I can absorb and apply into my own life. It needs to become a reference point for something archetypical. In that way, some books become little bibles that I like to keep around. For me, ultimately, every great book is a manifesto for a certain view and way of life. Or perhaps even more of them.

>>2768237
>four tints of non matching wood in a single square meter
>forms an shapes of everything clashes with everything else
>no greater style that connects the room as a whole
>cushions look like they were drenched in cheap red wine
>fantasy everywhere
>neglected reptile thrown in for good measure

Not admiring your aesthetics, friend.