/lit/ - Literature

>>10776894
Yes, how about this one OP?

>>10776909
>>10776894
Is there like a page for this shit? These look awesome.

>>10776894
have you fucked off yet?

>>10776909
lmao thumb nail look like boy got di stiffy

>>10776922
https://nullk.github.io/penguin.html

I used to be a Rei man but I'm not so sure anymore. I still think that Rei is superior for her sincerity and fortitude, things which Asuka only postures, but Asuka's mania and will as when fighting the automated Eva is perhaps better. And Asuka is clearly fragile and cracked emotionally by the influence of her mother, but isn't fragility also a beautiful thing in a woman? Either way, redheads are hot and I would take either of the girls, sexually

>>10777054
Waifufaggotry is poison

>>10777060
This is true.
However, when it comes to the eternal debate, it should be easier to empathize with Asuka since all her weaknesses and flaws are quintessentially human, whereas Rei is a socially retarded deity.

>>10777054
>not being a kaworu man

>>10777092
Rei has to be considered human for the purpose of this debate, because she is for all practical purposes human and displays normal human traits, and it would be unfair to exclude her on the technicality of her origin.

>>10777054
Rei can barely be called a human being. Attraction to her is odd. Asuka, on the other hand, is practically begging for a man's love. I don't know how anyone could choose Rei over Asuka.

>>10777054
Rei is the manchild's choice.

>>10777110
I think Asuka's and Rei's problems differ on a fundamental level. Asuka initially strives for emotional autarchy to the point of hurting everyone who gets too close, but has to learn to relate to others. Rei starts out as somebody who is only dimly aware of human emotions and most importantly connection with other humans and has to learn to understand these facets of human existence. She will do so via her interactions with Shinji.
This difference is probably most plainly found in their distinct roles in instrumentality. Rei, having by then achieved independence, rejects Gendo's plans and chooses to hand the power to decide the fate of humanity to Shinji. She acts as a guide in a dialogue with Shinji, questioning him about his perception of the human condition and contrasting his initially spiteful attitude with her now fully developed affirmation of the connection between human beings.
Asuka on the other hand goes through instrumentality like any other human being and has to come to terms with the hedgehog's dilemma. In her case that means allowing herself to rely on and open up to others.

Rei is the only one who acts like a soldier when the other pilots are acting like children. Also the only one who reads so of course this board can't relate to that.

>>10776894
I am reading this currently.

>>10776894
That's a really great mockup. On the topic of End of Evangelion, I think the movie is a masterpiece, but it's so fucking brutal. I think about revisiting it occasionally, but just the memory of Komm Süsser Tod shatters me.

I hope the world appreciates the artistic and emotional power of the story Hideaki Anno and co. wrought. I know I tend to project and get caught up in the more melodramatic, works like Paula, the moments where Nietzsche gets more vulnerable, Mahler's 9th, or Bergman's Cries and Whispers, but I don't think I'm alone, not completely unjustified.

Out of the way, plebs.

>>10776894
Good taste, OP.

All of you should demap yourselves

>>10779023

This one's really underrated

>>10779054

>>10779084
damn, nice one

>>10779084
nicela

>>10779289
LOL keep it coming

>>10778792
>tfw I watched it 2-3 times or more a week on heavy doses of DXM for a few months straight and now anything that remotely reminds me of it gives me PTSD-esque flashbacks

>>10779289
Kek

>>10779309
sorry dude. If you don't mind me asking what have been some unexpected triggers for those flashbacks?

>>10779418
>fucking cicadas chirping
>any of the music used throughout the film
>water sounds

>>10779629
pack it in boys. we've done it

>>10779801
Those seem difficult to avoid. Do they intrude at your ability to function and, if so, are you seeking ways to remedy, alleviate or simply cope?

>>10779893
They don't affect functioning too bad and have gotten less intrusive since I stopped my pseudo-binge on DXM, usually it's just uncomfortable when I don't manage to avoid them at this point

>>10779441

Holy shit I didn't know that was a thing.

What's some other good Egyptian Literature?

>>10778967
I want this to exist so much that now I'm just sad.

>>10778967
>>10776909
>>10776894
good thread

>>10780332
Should be Bleak House

i will never tire of these anime covers

>>10780664
nice

>>10780726

>>10777054
>Even considering Asuka over Rei
the easiest way to spot a normalnigger

>>10780746
brilliant trump likeness

>>10780867
cyborgs are the most powerful race on earth

>>10780505
>>10780508

>>10780867
reifags have psychological disorders and rape fantasies

>>10780867
Rei/Asuka dichotomy is for plebs.

>>10780964
No u

haha this is neat

>>10780978
I agree.

>>10781037

Rei(s) has/have the purest soul(s)

>>10780261
>>10780225
>>10780850
Fucking gold.

>>10781121
Rei has literally no soul.

>>10781267
She develops one.

>>10780726
>The Margarita

>>10781252
actually good

This board is a fucking miracle.

>>10781582
yea these are the best threads on /lit/ by a long shot

If Eva were a novel, at least in America, it would have been a seminal moment in American literature. People would have hailed it as the fulfillment of postmodernism. A fucking Freudian, Lacanian fever dream of giant robots that are ACTUALLY giant people who are ACTUALLY giant mothers animated with the souls of the dead mothers of the horny teeangers that pilot them, all the while everyone involved in the secret paramilitary organization that operates these walking, roaring Oedipus Complexes is bursting to overflow with daddy issues, penis envy, repressed tension, and clash of the parts of the soul.

Evangelion, the novel, would be 1500 pages long and would be hailed as a masterpiece. DFW wouldn't have had the balls to write Infinite Jest, he'd have been shamed into oblivion by knowing he could never have matched with his own work what the Eva novel did.

>>10781706
I only wish that Eva was that deep, the only thing which anno communicates is his autistic hodgeheg dilemma

>>10781725
Only marginally related, but only retarded weebs complain about the "meaningless symoblism" - the symbolism is richly evocative, like poetry... not something to be analysed like a mathematical equation, the vice of the autist...

>>10781731
That's the saving grace of Eva, it's beautiful. Without its top-order aesthetic direction it would only be one long, dragging r9k suicide post
gainax do use crosses and shit purely because it looks cool though

>>10780978
>not ritsuko

>>10777054
>not even considering Misato

>>10781725
Read the Ecrits

>>10779972

>>10778967

If you liked that author, you are going to love this one, anon.

>>10780726
>the

Here's a fresh one

Who has read this sci-fi classic?

>>10782023
Behold everyone...
My magnum opus...

>>10782026
is that art from the ready player one movie? lol

>>10782052

It's concept art for bladerunner 2049

>>10776894
Who painted the original image? Looks breddy cool t b h

>>10779013
yes
YES

> tfw Evangelion platinum edition and End of Evangelion have no blu-ray releases

>>10776894
This is a really good thread (Thank you for the Evangelionposting)

>>10781593
> spoon

Subtle. I dig it.

>>10780332
>>10780746
>>10781054
>>10778967
>>10782049
>>10779054
>>10779064
>>10779084
>>10779092
>>10779629
moar

https://nullk.github.io/penguin.html

Here's the link to the cover generator, if anyone is searching it.

Get creative, anons ;)

and the last one, lads

>>10782245
yum

>>10781037

>>10781672
This one is so good.

>>10782049
Lot's of respect for this one.

>>10780964
yes, exactly

Best thread on /lit/ right now

>>10782762

>>10782285

>>10783077
KEK

>>10782817
more like this desu

>>10779013
What painting is that?

>>10776909
Haha penis :DDd

>>10779155
What’s the source for that image?

It seemed fitting

>>10783432
>>10782817
not enough zawa's

I mean, the moral was the same.

>>10783790
Aria had any moral? Besides "it's good to have friends"? Still a good show tho.

>>10776894

>>10783432
>>10782817

>>10783796
These are the final lines from Middlemarch, they encapsulate and summarize what I felt about both Dorothea and Akari:

"Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

That is, our lives are so happily and largely influenced by the unseen deeds of those who meant good to us and by how we keep our minds open to the beauty of the uninportant and the everyday.

>>10783805
Nice, I see and raise

>>10783824
I see your point but you can hardly call it a "moral".

>>10783843
A message would've been more fitting maybe.

>>10782060
It's a promotional poster I think, not a concept art

>>10776894

>>10783865
>Hirohiko Araki
>Steel Ball Run

>>10778967

kekekekek

>>10782219
Make one with a painting of an armpit.

>>10783849
Pretty good.

>>10776894

>>10779054
>U CAN'T BE SERIOUS

>>10784289
instant boner every time

>>10780978
lol misato the autopissed alki

>>10784746
>>10780978
Misato isn't the best girl, she's just the most relateable

>>10781706
>A Freudian, Lacanian fever dream
accurate

>>10783664
Space Dandy.

>>10783588
seconded

a testament to how amazing the actual cover is

>>10785039
Nice

>>10785136
I always thought Genndy Tartakovsky had a very /lit/ name.

>>10785131
alternatively

>>10784156
I remember you forever

>>10785183
i love this book so much

>>10783893
Fuck you

>>10783865
>Initial D
>FWD
Is that Shingo?

>>10785100
>tfw the remake is a gah damn shame
man, they could have done something so great in that AMAZING artistry style of the original
instead, they opted for some half-ass blocky polygon shit and lame ass teen-rom-com tier added voice overs
lame as fuck

>>10781787

Read this

http://www.richardwebster.net/thecultoflacan.html

>>10779972
10/10

>>10781121
>>10781267
They all have the same soul, Lilith's. dyewts?

>>10785818
LMAO 10/10 saved thanks anon

>>10785818
pengoos hab waifu ?

>>10785818
>

>>10779013
ffs anon pls say the source of the original painting

>>10785856
>save image
>cut off bottom part
>image search
http://cgwestfall.com/workszoom/1881919

Holy fuck what an amazing thread

>>10780726
Sauce?

>>10776982
Nice

^_^

Someone should do Welcome to the NHK

>>10786374
do it friend, i have faith in you, don't doubt your abilities!

>>10786374
>>10786410
The last thing that novel needs is a half ironic coverpage joke

>>10786423
here's my attempt

>>10786213
The Cat >the Returns

What's the name of that one painter, I think from the turn of the 20th century, who made a mannequin recreation of his ex-girlfriend and then painted it?

never had so much fun on 4chan as making these covers, thank you based Cover Generator Creator

MOTHER

>>10786539
solid

Is this board even about literature anymore or is it just about things people want to be taken as seriously as literature?

>>10779448
What actually is that image

>>10786587
it's from My Winnipeg by guy maddin

>>10785885
sauce for the pic?

>>10786584
It's also about people unsure if they should read Hegel, Major Depression, and occasionally, shitty youtube motivational gurus

>>10786703

>>10782285
Slight deviation

>>10786590
Oh wow, are they literally referencing don quixote with that painting? The 3 peasant girls whom they believe to be enchanted Dulcinea and her servants?
If so, mind blown, and I have NOT been giving SNL enough credit

>>10784803
Lol

>>10785818

>>10786879
amazing

>>10779013
Sexually Experimented Lain

>>10786649
The literary reference of the image is in the first chapter of Kapput, by Curzio Malaparte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vbF-T-HqKk

>>10779013
This should honestly be a modern classic, can anyone make a modern classic generator?

>>10786844
kek

It's been posted a few times but I prefer this cover.

>>10782026
goat anime but

you picked a bad image for it

>>10786473
I'll have to guess de Chirico

>>10776894
This one's a /y/ classic

I can't believe that this thread I made blew up. I expected it to be pruned by the fucking janitors.

>>10789781
There are quite a lot oft these recently, /a/ had some too. Someone got the spice and wolf one?

>>10789765
Lenina would be way hotter than that tbqh

>>10779013
Alternatively:

>>10785195
>>10790903
Any ideas for a Texhnolyze one?

>>10790920

>>10790920
Best I can do

>>10777054
Aesthetic pleasantness is not the same as aesthetic beauty. Just as a dark and scary night or even a corpse in the right mind set can be aesthetically beautiful so can a waifu that isn't necessarily conventionally beautiful or of conventional values. In the light of what deep meaningful truths does the girl express about the nature of humanity and its relation to the world around it I believe the choice is obvious.

>>10790920
Man, Tehnolyze was depressing as fuck. I still don't understand what exactly Ran was supposed to be and how she was related to The Class and the 2spooky ghost people of the surface.

this thread musn't ever die

Thank you anon for creating this.

>>10782049
>>10786358
>>10776894
>>10781252
>>10781869
>>10782026
>>10785853

This is actually brilliant.

>>10791579
punpun is for soyboys

>>10791615
>>10791616

These are gorgeous

>>10779441
was it kino or pretentious garbage?

>>10780964
tell me more mr freud

>>10778967
this is a good one.

>>10782049
I was expecting for this one

>>10792740
thats hot

>>10791517
It was a great show regardless.

>>10793426
oh no...

kek

OC

>>10793669
resized

>>10793977
Cute!

>>10793973
that is charming

>>10793615
alternatively

Oh wait

>>10794388
>He wouldn't sell the rights to penguin unless they put it under their "classics" publishing house
absolute legend

>>10781630
Nice.

>>10783823
now that's more like it

>>10781593
Underrated

>>10783849
>>10784613
>>10786473
>>10786879
nice

>>10777054
Asuka has a beautiful spirit.

>>10779084
Hal Pemulis, himself

>>10781252
>Nimbus cloud
>Powerpole

Fuck u that is dragonball without the Z my man

>>10791688(You)

>>10779055
>reading translations
still the best thread on /lit/ i love all you hiki morons

>>10781252
i think i just disturbed my neighbors with my reaction

>>10790903
that's clearly the wordsworth edition photo

>>10795344
t. soyboy

>>10776894
You're all unbelievably plebian for liking EoE
t. /m/

>>10795794
EVA's not renown for its mecha content, sorry it couldn't appeal to /m/aggot tastes in that regard.

>>10795804
Its not even novel in its non-/m/ ways.
Most of the scenes are ripped straight from Ultraman, Ideon, and Devilman with the overall theme being an almagation of the latter two plus Zeta Gundam.
The shows that Eva "borrows" from are infinitely more interesting than Eva itself.

>>10793426
brilliant

>>10795014
i like this one since that maymay is near and dear to my heart

>>10792736
(not him) it was worth my time but not perfect. Some aspects were very good others were pretty bad. It's pretty short so I say just watch it, in fact that's my main gripe, it was so short, that suddenly they just wrapped it up so quickly and I was like wtf did they really just do that

>>10778967
Amazing

>>10786337
How is that when I entered this thread I said to myself, "it would be great if we had a Sasha Grey one" and it exists itt. wtf

>>10796685
because this thread is the stuff of legends
i did that one, glad you like it

Image limit was reached, but here's another one I did: https://imgur.com/a/fTHWv