/lit/ - Literature

>>12336180
>lighting candles in 2019
I hope you enjoy your house fire when you fall asleep and knock the candle to the floor

>>10784849

>>10620873
>>10621279
Or this.

>>8034250
I wouldn't even have thought that horse mask is supposed to be an example of sincerety. I'm just assuming the guy under the mask is "lol, look how funny I am" and doesn't really stand for the horse mask - it's odd and he knows it and he'd directly or indirectly distance himself from the mask as soon as you speak with him about that Obama coup.

>>8034286
>has rotted out collective consciousness
Can you explain? What was lost?

>>8036734
>Being sincere about something entails a vulnerability most people aren't comfortable displaying
Good point, thx.

>Everybody just memes about books and says everything sucks because genuinely enjoying a book and expressing your enjoyment puts you at risk of somebody on the internet calling you a faggot.
I don't think I'm afraid, if I'm not associated with other posts at least. I.e. I think I achieve using the anonymity fully.

In fact, I don't even care all that much about people calling me a faggot. I mean I still care, but if I like something (I'm mostly a /sci/ user) and I write about it and say I like it, I'm not extremely shaken by it if someone says it's bad. I know why I like it.
I will admit that for many things, I like them but I don't know their real use - and I don't like if people say I waste my time on something.
But this just brings me down to my lives purpose in general.

Does it ever happen that somebody with some non-/lit/ profession writes down his thoughts (a first work like a guide to fishing, or >>>/r9k/26964497 which made me thing that question) and it is "good literature", "good prose". I don't know what exactly this is and if it can be acquired just from reading lots, or if one also has to write lots before good prose comes.