/lit/ - Literature

Rest in peace.

The Dark God has claimed another victim...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ieCjpmliSg

May God rest his soul

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Damn, what a sad story. Poor guy, may he rest in peace.

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>>11385813
>>11385826
>>11385830
good boys

I for one am now terrified of my endless columns of books scattered across my house.

RIP.

>>11385832
post pics

>Try to hoard entire knowledge of all mankind
>End up consumed by flames

Anyone else see the extreme irony here?

>>11385874
Holy shit? Was that a fucking Faust reference?

>>11385874

There's something quite Promethean about it.

>>11385890
It was a Jojo reference.

>>11385806
RIP

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>>11385806
Goodnight sweet prince.

Goodbye based Pete

>>11385806
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>>11385874
I don't see the irony, no

>>11385806
Maybe he shouldn't have been such an obese fuck.

Physical books are dangerous, as this story shows, maybe we should ban books from now on. It's too risky.

>>11385806
very effay and very lit death

>>11385806
At least his death was a personal tragedy, that's all most can hope for

>>11385806
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>>11385971
ayee

sounds like a total bro

He died doing what he loved...gasping and choking while trying to breathe smoke while his skin fried and eyeballs melted

This guy was literally posting on /lit/ the fay before confessing that he keeps buying books without actually reading them.

Better than eating a bullet i guess

>>11385806
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>>11386046
Organic matter doesn’t melt

>>11385806
Was it YA?

Goodnight, sweet prince.

>>11386113
What if he read all the books he bought. Then we lost one of the -- probably the only -- good poster on /lit/

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>I like to think if was suicide though.
>painful but poetic end

>tfw live close to where this happened
Don't know how to feel finding this out on /lit/

>Have photographic memory
>Your life flashes before your eyes before you die

He had extremely painful death

Books are really hard to combust if you shelve them properly. Usually a bookcase will burn more readily than the books within it, so long as they are properly squared to not allow oxygen circulation. He probably kept them loose or tried to use cases as stacks, which is an inefficient way to bear the weight for your foundation/floor too. If he just shelved correctly, this would be a couple hundred books estate sale. Instead it's a waste.

>>11386188
>Books are really hard to combust if you shelve them properly
There are exceptions. These babies printed in China would spontaneously ignite and the fumes would kill all life within a 3 block radius.

>>11386205
Fuck those are shinyy

>>11386046
Go to bed, Norm.

Is anyone else really obsessed with having a poetic death? I wouldn't say I'm obsessed, but it's definitely a concern of mine.

I don't know if it's a spectacle thing where I'm so fixated on prepared images that I want my life to play out like one or wether it's just my dedication to aesthetics, but I think about this a lot. I feel that if my death doesn't conceptually conclude my life it will have all been in vain.

Still haven't figured out how I should go, though.

i keep a fire extinguisher in my library

>>11386326
>I don't know if it's a spectacle thing where I'm so fixated on prepared images that I want my life to play out

I've had this too, I would often try to re-enact something from the movie I've watched or book read, some mimic, dress detail etc. Seems you're also having problems with the imaginary, I'd suggest you read Lacan's short paper called “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”

He probably died of smoke inhalation in his sleep. It's not like he was buried under an infernal mountain of flaming tomes.

>Living a /Lit/ lifestyle 'till a /Lit/ death...
Truly /ourguy/

R.I.P.

>>11386185
pretty funny

>YOU NEED A PAY PA BAK LOICENSE NOW

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>>11386133
Fat

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Reminds me of this old guy in Jordan whom
I used to go visit his bookshop every friday. He had this makeshift store/bus where he displayed his books. Had lots of obscure shit.
Then some faggot hit him with a car and sent him to hospital ruining his bus + books on display
Then another faggot burned down his warehouse, destroying hundreds of ottoman era texts and books museums would kill to display yet he refused
Old man died and the king had a special funeral for him. Books are a treasure don't dispose of them

>>11386503
based king

>>11386513
fuck off

>>11385806
>Bookworm burned alive in paperback inferno

Holy shit this is the best title I've ever read. Just rolls of the tongue. So aesthetic.

>>11386342
Smart choice. Seems optimal to have a dry powder based extinguisher so you don't end up with water or foam damaged books. Can simply shake and brush the powder off the books afterwards.

Have books stacked around the house is a proven firetrap. Remove all open flames away from your books and have a suitable and regularly serviced extinguisher on-hand in your reading room just in case.

>>11386399
>It's not like he was buried under an infernal mountain of flaming tomes.
All the accounts read that he was. Body wasn't found until a second pass where it was discovered cooked and buried under a pile of burned out books

>Eleven people were safely evacuated from their homes – but in Unit 8, where the fire had started, there was no answer.
>In the chaos, Sam Dare rushed to alert his neighbours.
>“I kicked the door in but the whole flat is full of stuff and there was fire everywhere and really thick smoke in it,” Sam Dare said.
>Inside the unit, firefighters found mountains of books piled waist-high, creating hazardous conditions.
>Given the large volume of belongings inside this unit, it took dozens of firefighters most of the day to safely get inside and make sure the blaze was fully extinguished.
>NSW Fire and Rescue’s duty commander John McDonough said the amount of material being hoarded in the unit made it “extremely difficult” to put the fire out.
>After combing through the ruins all day, police confirmed that a body had been found inside the charred remains of the unit.
>Fire inspector John McDonough said the damage created a difficult task for firefighters.
>"The unit is full of a lot of books and furniture and so on, and so, it's quite a small unit. We tend to call that a hoarder's unit. It makes it extremely difficult to find anything."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5887047/Hoarder-dies-fire-inaccessible-trapped-possessions.html

The most important part of a life worth living is a death worth dying for.

That's a very, very /lit/ death. No pun intended.

I hope he took comfort in the aesthetic merit of his demise in the final moments of his life. Virtue is just aesthetics continued into the moral plane, so in that way this death is also virtuous.

What a way to go!

>>11385806
Rest In Piece, friend

>>11385900
Came here to post this

>>11386205
My God. So tacky and distasteful. The fedora of books.

>>11385874
>Try to hoard entire knowledge of all mankind
How?
Unless he was mightier than you brainlet while shitposting here how smart he was despite the fact that he came here from /tv/ and because of le epic youtuber, I don't see how's this ironic.

>>11386590
If you got a hundred books and you're poor and live in a small apartment you're suddenly a "hoarder".

>>11386599
Yes, he is very lucky. I like to think he set the fire himself though, to make it even more aesthetic.

>>11386345
Thank you, I will.

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We should donate Fahrenheit 451 to Sydney library in his name

>>11386654
that would be this

>>11385806
RIP /ourguy/

>>11386745
Well, no, son & xon is one of the best cover designs ever.

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RIP, Mr. Eisler.

A commentator at the Daily Mail affirms he was not a hoarder:

"Peter was a collector of Books and Movie props.He was NOT a Hoarder. Yes its a small flat, but this is not a garbage filled "Hoarder House" Books were piled high in places thats true, There was order and system to his collection. Have you any idea how painful that is to read as a friend or family member."

>>11386669
Put them onto a tiny tablet and suddenly your a fucking Spartan. People who enjoy building this clean smooth surface aesthetic have no sense of going into one of those particular houses where everything looks organised in this fashion, yet the closets and cupboards are filled with junk and tangles and loose ends. The entire minimalism movement is really only ever about being seen and being able to force your disorder into hiding so that you seem to be the Stoic you proudly meme.

>>11387001
*tip*

E-readers win again

Was he a poster on lit?

>>11387350
I think he was.

not reported on: the firefighters were the ones who started the fire

>>11386113
kek

>>11385961
>>11386655
Not that anon... But it's because he wanted to know so much, but he couldn't know that those books would eventually be his downfall.

tl;dr I guess the only fire of insight in this house... Was /literal.
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

>No wife
>No kids
>Modest apartment
>Very friendly and intelligent
>Well liked by his neighbors
>Died alone with his books
He was a lonely soul, wasn't he

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>>11385874
t. Library of Alexandria

>>11386503
There's always something sad about libraries/lots of books being burnt.
The old man died and his effort went up in flames.

>>11385806
fuck you, op

>>11385963
This is incredibly mean and you should feel very bad about yourself.

>>11385806
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That's a pretty sexy way to die. Respect.

>>11385806

...I'm so sad.
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fuck, you think he had any rare books in that collection?

>>11389210
almost certainly

>>11389210
Most likely Esoteric knowledge

The Gods are not pleased when you get too close to them. It was his downfall: Knowledge

>>11385806
>switch to kindle so when it burns it'll give you toxic fumes with the risk of battery exploding instead

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>>11389873
>implying millions of pages of burning ink isn't incomparably worse for you

>>11386522
>>11385874

>>11385806
I’m going to assume he was a paperback rat nest collector and not an aristocratic luxury hardcover collector like myself. If he had been he would have had more time to escape and the books wouldn’t have caught on fire so easy.

I honestly hope everyone here with a paperback rat nest dies innafire t b h.

>not a single Auto-da-Fé reference
For shame! It's like none of you even read.

>>11388176
Typical virgin paperback collector. He most likely tried to show girls his penguin and Oxford paperback collection and they suddenly told him they had to leave.

>>11386590
WOW, fat virgin book hoarder living in apartment at his age and has books piled up on the floor... nothing of value lost.

How do people usually get trapped in fires? I know I can just break a door down if I have to but apparently that's not usually the case

>>11389991

He was trying to save that one copy. We all have that one copy.

>>11390010
I would trap myself in a fire for Melville

>>11389991
idk man why dont they just close their eyes like fire isnt even real man like just walk out

Rest in peace, Pete.

I completely switched to kindle for now.

But there's still something about physicals, especially looking at the stacks threads. Still, I think ill stick with the kindle

>>11386326
I just want to die instantly in a really fast car.

>Why haven't you switched to a Kindle Paperwhite™ /lit/?
https://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf

>>11389877
No. Lots of people here burning papers. Much toxic than books. But I'm sure it's safer than inhaling some burning batteries fumes.

>>11385806
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There's something very Icarian about this.
He collected too much knowledge and was burnt by his exploration of books.
it's like poetry.

>>11390671
It's like pottery, burned at a thousand degrees

>>11390303
>implying i've ever paid for an ebook
lmaoooooooooooooo

>>11385806
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>>11388176
is this the future of /lit/?

>>11390737
>is this the future of /lit/?
I hope yes.

>>11390737
I hope I die earlier than he did.

>>11385874
>books
>knowledge
fuark erff, boomer