/lit/ - Literature

>>23168233
Live virtuously and commune with the Divine.

>>22914220
based

>>21600755
You actually need less

>>20278907
yeah part 4 of gr is where he gets most explicit about this stuff - the passage where slothrop is living in the mountains and practising augury comes to mind too - as well as certain passages in mason & dixon when they're deep in the american wilderness. he seems to have dropped it post-m&d though

Im not going to mock you OP, you seem like a guy who cares about people being treated unjustly.
Are you a young guy? I was a “communist” from ages 19-23. It was solidified by online communities like Twitter, bunkerchan, leftist YouTubers, other leftists in real life.
Then I got rid of social media, and started thinking for myself. All of these “theory” books I had amassed over the years I began to see as false. Instead of letting leftists online dictate what was a “racist/fascist” view and something I shouldn’t engage with, I did, and found that there was a lot of truth in anti-Marxism and leftism in general. It all correlated with what I had seen and done myself.
I knew many kind and religious people in my life, yet Marxists hate religion and want it violently destroyed. Most leftist today care more and more about identity politics nonsense than workers being abused. Transgender/black liberation are the hot talking points with most leftists/commies that solves precisely nothing.
Get out whilst you can. I mean that sincerely. It is a zero sum game. I was so bitter, angry, hateful, jealous…just mental and almost rabid with the ideas communism out in my head.
It’s never to late to be an anti-leftist. Better things are out there.

>>19888986
Indeed, happiness is for faggots. In the Renaissance depression was seen as the mark of the genius, especially among artists. I spend my days contentedly depressed in my room, painting and writing while the normies suffer with their struggle to be happy

The soul of life lies embedded in what is transitory. The very nature of beauty is ephemeral. To deny this is to deny the high destiny that is the ancient heritage of mortals. In a few flashing moments that are his, it is possible for a man to glimpse immortality, the only immortality he will ever know, in the presentation of what is, in its essence, perishing... Life is but a shifting floor. Tragedy, yes, and dark misery come forward and recede, intermingling their steps with light dances of joy and gladness. Though death cancels, though time obliterates, we have had experience of the eternal delirium. We have seen the sun. We have seen the moon. We have come out from a great darkness and looked upon a great light. How can we forswear our inestimable privilege?

>>19469058
My favourite image, for a similar reason to OP's.

>>19465003
>>19455219

>stage 0
talk to a girl you like
get her number (not sc, girls will think your immature if you ask for snap chat)
make friends with her

>stage 1
build up a relationship which involves going on lots of dates
get personal reveal yourself, make her laugh

>stage 2
one day when you two are comfortable with eachother's company, you have sex


>stage 3
you now live in the same apartment as her
meet her parents
you two are having lots of sex now
introduce her to your parents
meets her friends
introduce her to your frens
do actives with her (going to markets, movies, book stores)

stage 3
talk about getting married
think about having kids
buy a house
propose to her

stage 4
have wedding
get her pregnant
become a father


its a lot of effort but when you're in love its a enjoyable process

>Q returns with a video about L'Académie

Anyone recommend a good collection of Fairy Tales? Outside of just the Grimm's stuff.

I will never be happy. Books for this feel?

Has anyone gotten in contact with mister author since the threads from 2010?

I realize the email is no longer available, gone with the wind, but I am hopeful someone here, 11 years later, is still in correspondence with him. I am trying to reach him with the intent to discuss, well, my upcoming novel (more like rough, rough draft) as I no longer have any people irl to discuss it with save for my roommate and girlfriend yet both are not able to give me what I need.

I apologize if this has been done before, but I miss you, Not-Bill-Murray--I pray you find this.

I will attach a throwaway email if this thread gets going.

Does someone speak Spanish here? I do.

¿Y ustedes?

>>17634856
I was told to read & emulate Hunter S. Thompson, is it doable?

>>17597352
I listen to audiobooks while working on my farm.

>>17569358
I'm IQ 137. Here's my autobiography:
>Born 1990
>Dad drug addict, leaves. Mom 19
>Get step dad, 2 half brothers
>Get into fights at school
>Cry every day, I don't want to be there
>Very good at math and art. Hate reading
>Get obsessed with video games.
>No friends, quit sports at 12 because I hate competition and testosterone
>Learn Computers
>Graduate with C average
>Write a letter to the university explaining why they should admit me despite my crap grades
>They accept me into double degree program: computer science/business
>Quit in my first year because having nightmares about school
>I still have not read a single book in my life
>Move to a farm in Missouri (from Canada)
>Work out, read books
>Move home. Get laid a lot, read more books
>Move to oil patch, get high paying Roughneck job I saw on TV
>Make $25,000, go to amsterdam and eat mushrooms
>Move to Vancouver
>Go to 2nd best university in Canada for Philosophy and Literature
>Graduate with Honours, top of class
>Get into psychedelic drugs
>Waste 4 years, work bottomfeeder jobs
>Currently living on an island with population ~300, skipping work today. I'm a TA at the elementary school. The kids are dickheads so I just walked out yesterday. Help me exit the education system pls.

>>17295220
Thanks man, I want to believe not everything it's over

>>17200994
Just watched the mirror by tarko

Has anyone ever written about the process of dying? Specifically would like to read something about experimenting with dying on purpose in a lab setting and them being brought back to life. Has anyone actually done this?

I’m looking for an image, it is a collection of forum posts with a blue background to it and a list of books with a picture of Nietzsche, if you have it please post it, thank you.

If not please add to the thread
>what you’re reading
>why are you reading it

>the holy Bible
>want to understand the Christian lore