/lit/ - Literature

>>16108638
No earnestness in he. But in a fool, less wise than a fool are you Op? That makes you less than a fool.

>>16062623
Cooming can be a Falstaffian achievement, but there is no denying it subtracts from the moment.

>>16000976
>What is reality, if not a fiction we are willing to believe?
That's a bit cringe bro, but I like it.

>>16001878
Also
>I have hundreds of notes like these all over Plato's work.
Again, as I said, almost everyone I have seen who buys from the prometheus trust are narcissistic philistines such as yourself. Self-obsessed, and you think you're some special mystical individual philosopher-king for taken onto your beliefs the images of their mythico-religious worldview, but is as in so many cases an empty and pointless abstraction of your own first misunderstanding, and lack of education ever past that.

No amount of reading will fix that bookworm, you need but life experience. The Falstaffic energies.

>>15854087
>>15854209
Based.

>>15644042
I'm sorry but this is just what happens when gets sucked into the degenerate entertainment of cinema, it can only ever be a lower art but man is stimulated by the instant gratification the ability of cinematography gives, without giving anything beyond this. As I said, whenever film is in becoming of an achievement unique to its own form, that is through cinematography, it can only ever be a lower art, but is predominately merely entertainment. It's why whatever minuscule of value a normal film has, it's always dependent on the script. Because it must be play first, and film second, for it to have any real content. Kurosowa and Riefenstahl are great because of this, even Kubrick though I'm not as much a fan. Someone like Bergman is an overrated ingenuitor of film, with little actual content, whereas for the most part content only comes by the hopeful inferrence of the audience that it does have some more meaning. Or the occasional luck of a short period of a scene to actually pull of some sense of the vague imaginative idea he first had, like playing chess with death for the first time is a rare example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4yXBIigZbg

I haven't watched Welles yet, but he seems to obviously follow the play first and movie second, however he is also more of ingenuitor than an artist. Very few true directors-as-artists.

>>15591604
You killed your Falstaff! Hah!

>>15533864
He's a bit cringe and reddity, but essentially yeah he's right if he wants his friend to stay alive;-- enjoy what is, for there are beautiful rolling hills as well as there is decrepity and perversion of all kinds. Rudimentary joy there is; you'd have to be a fool to deny it!