/lit/ - Literature

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>>12301081
I'll have my autobiography out in no time desu

>>12301081

the diaries of Tolstoy

I also remember a thing from Mishima's The Temple of The Golden Pavillion, where a young student discovers that the master enjoys whores and sake, and he calls his attention. The master answears something like: "So you know I soil my hands with girls and alcohol. So what? The Universe will end eventually and it would not make any difference if I sit alone in my hut or if I go to brothels: it's all the same, in the end there will be nothing".

The young monk then gets annoyed with the serenity and self-assurance of the master, who dosen't give a damn about what he thinks of him or about what the others might think. He compares it to a corpse that simply refuses to rot and remains fresh and beautiful even after death.

A Month of Sundays by Updike

>>12301081
That is a very interesting question but first my dear anon, let us examine what is the essence of pious. Are men pious because they are loved by the gods are they loved by the gods because they are pious? Or is it because of something else? What makes pious pious my dear anon. Please hurry up and tell me. I need to know before my inevitable suicide.

Maybe one of the most famous books ever? Confessions?

>>12301302
no need for the hostility, friendo. i'm trying to break free of the brainlet prison I've constructed for myself

>>12301081
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
brainlet

>>12301081
>are there any books about men who desire to be pious but can't stop lusting after boys

>>12301193
based master

>>12301081
MyDiaryTbh

>>12301081
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Name of the Rose

>>12301313
Just a brief subplot but
The Omen

>>12301313
There are some gay monks in The Name of the Rose
Their desire for piety isn’t all that impressive though.

The Disney movie with the tard in the tower has a guy who is so hard on for some pikey cunt that he belts out a number to the mother of god over the Confiteor.

>>12301081
Tolstoy, The devil.

>>12301410
one gay monk
Adso was a very good monk, as was William

>>12301508
Malachi and Berengar
And the one who whored himself for the book and an heroed

>>12301081
>>12301308
>>12301302
Augustine is who you want. Massive manwhore for roman girls and then straight up changed.

>tfw no roman gf

>>12301486
plus a decent portion of the lines in that song are directly from hugo's writing (or at least a translation of them)

>>12301081
Confessions.
St. Augustine

>>12301081
Jude the Obscure. Peasant village boy wants to study Theology. Problem is (aside from the fact he's working class), his life is written by Thomas Hardy.
More of /lit/ should read it, it's basically the nineteenth century Stoner.

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

>>12301081
>>12301894
just like me
it was a decision out of principle, totally not because it fit right in with inability to have friends or a sex life

>>12301081
Honestly everyone.
>>12301894
Must be nice to experience all that and THEN change lifestyles. Try being the guy who never even gets a taste.

Although my request wasn't about piety, I got these recommendations from my own thread (which the mods must have deleted as I can't find it anymore):

Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Ward)
The Imitation of Christ

Good luck, anon.

>Told my priest I was going to kill myself
>He refused to absolve me of my sins

I guess I'll see you motherfuckers in Hell
Thanks for the years /lit/, you recommendations were actually pretty good most of the time

>>12302835
this

>>12303785
see you on the other side

>>12303785
Start with the Greeks

>>12303023
>>12303049
>https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15%3A11-32&version=DRA
read it you tools

>>12303835
You seem to have made a bit of a mistake in your post. Luckily, the users of 4channel are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have linked to the Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) when posting, but your version has nothing at all to do with the truth! Whoops! You should always remember to stop using the Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA). Posting with a corrupt version when it isn't necessary is dangerous. You should always try to post from the Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV), unless your salvation means absolutely nothing to you.

Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bait to help you get used to the anonymous Christ-pilled culture!

>>12303785
>Asking preists to forgive sins
What a shame what a shame

>>12303785
dont do it,

>>12301313
Death in Venice

>>12301081
a portrait of the artist as a young man

>>12303785
NO WOJAK, NO!

>>12305003
>What is confession

>>12304376
dra is the most accurate, literal translation from vulgate for years sanctioned by the catholic church so shove your pastor jims scribbles up your ass

Unironically Lolita

>>12306715
>translation from vulgate

>>12301081
Unironically my diary desu

>>12307047
>being a snooty faggot about the ramblings of a narcissistic lascivious retard proselytizing his gay kike cultism to brainlet scholars and guilty aristocrats

Yes, e.g. Phaedrus:
>Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.' People who speak disparagingly of things that they cannot attain would do well to apply this story to themselves.

>>12308520
what if the grapes really weren't ripe? See the lack of understanding of duality or statistics among the ancients is extremely problematic to applying this stupid shit to modern psychological quandries. What if you can be lusty and pious, what if you can be pious without being pious explicitly? What if your frustration with lack of fulfillment of lustful urges is itself a form of piety? What if incels are the most pious? you're a nigger and so was Socrates

you read betrayal? that book about the catholic child abuse scandal? thats a good one

A Clockwork Orange
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>12302018
>t. redditor that watches too many """historical"""" youtube videos
an hero you cancerous redditor

>>12309152
Go back.