/lit/ - Literature

>>12710365
because crazy people are sooooo quirky!

Madness is hot

“We’re all mad here”?

>>12710365
It’s original.

>>12710376
:3

Compare Emily’s poetry to that of her sisters and realize they all had basically the same upbringing and influences and similar intelligence.

There’s your answer.

>>12710365

What's the alternative? Sanity is so boring.

>>12710376
not me

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>>12710375
Donna Tartt thought so.

the only intelligent people not slightly mad in 2019 will privately admit they have to live in denial

the fight against one's mind while the state, the people don't understand?

better to just burn me at the stake.

>>12710376
Time to get therapy?

Madness is most safely explored through literature. Madness is a mental and emotional experience that is guided by a series of thoughts which brings the person into an unstable mode of being. The problem of madness is that a deep core of thoughts and feelings are fractured and made out of alignment with the person's viewpoint of the world around him. There are too many contradictory feelings and thoughts that the person acknowledges, and this creates the insanity that other people observe.

When expressed physically and socially madness can be incredibly harmful to himself or to other and possibly lead to ostracizing or death, but when expressed through writing the madness of a person can potentially be resolved or elevated and fixed into a more complete state of mind. It may help to discover the unseen issue in the madman's life, which has been, for one reason or another, neglected or simply not realized through regular conscious thought. A madman who writes out his thoughts or feelings is able to pull them out of his head and observe them as a separate entity. In this endeavor, the madman could use this technique of written expression to find the critical flaws of his thoughts and feelings and discover where/when/why they splinter into an incoherent mess.

However there is a potential danger in engaging the process. One might splinter himself further into madness if he allows the writing process to further fracture his thoughts and feelings. It is something of a gamble to write down one's own madness, especially when it is done in secret or alone. The reward of resolving one's own mental and emotional state is a great one, but if it fails the madness could take hold even deeper and the person's mind could fracture too far beyond repair. It's a risky process, but that makes for an interesting read.

Madness is the only way to escape the utter faggotry of the contermpoaray state of being

>>12710851
>The reward of resolving one's own mental and emotional state is a great one, but if it fails the madness could take hold even deeper and the person's mind could fracture too far beyond repair. It's a risky process, but that makes for an interesting read.

Do you have literary examples on this (I know Sylvia Platt's diaries and poetry)? I've found it difficult to confront psychotic writing actually because I feel it hijacking my own instable mental state, driving it down paths I don't want to trod again.

>>12710365
Madness has an aspect of sincerity and wonder about it that's lacking in the postmodernist haze that we all live in, which makes it refreshing and desirable.

ONLY SHOOTING STARS BREAK THE MOLD

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>>12710380
Since somebody used her as the thumbnail, I must say, read Emily Brontë's poetry for the ultimate in mad, naive, melancholy and cute sincerity.

https://archive.org/stream/completepoemsofe01bronuoft/completepoemsofe01bronuoft_djvu.txt

>>12711383
We could all use a little change

>>12710365
I like how even in that portrait of her by Branwell, which, keeping to the style of time, would have sought to flatter, poor Emily still has bags and dark circles under her eyes. She must have looked pretty haggard in real life. That makes sense, she had lifelong problems with insomnia and was prone to stay up until nearly dawn reading. She also cried herself to sleep a lot when her sisters were away.

>>12710455
What year did you start posting on /lit/, I've been here since like 2010 and i cant remember a time you weren't here

Its because people who are mad shun other humans and use art as an escape from their horrible lives which equates to them doing way more art than any normal person. This is the only reason most of the best artists were weirdos irl.

How do I know if I'm mad or not?

>>12711547
Well are you mad?

>>12710365
Because it makes the most sense.

>>12711547
"Mad" or mentally ill? A lot of modern people would be seen as mad by the people that used that term, but are not, presently, seen as mentally ill. The inverse is also true. Emily Brontë's family swore up and down she was sane, and she functioned well enough in her home life, but she things that weren't real and had panic attacks when encountering people she didn't know.

>>12711527
Sounds about right.
Back when /pol/ was still /news/

>>12711575
talking to yourself again eh faggot

>>12710376
Fucking namefag fuck off back to r*ddit