/lit/ - Literature

>>12880178
whichever source you want
>That really is the burden of dreams, isn't it? This penguin is entranced by this mountain, something in the distance that is completely alien to him. It seems as though he is staring blankly over the precipice of uncertainty simply to find something of himself. Unfortunately, he will discover only the common character of all living things, his own mortality. In that way, we are all like this penguin.

>>12880182
>I tell people "You can do this." and they write back "You were right. I can do this. And now I believe I can do anything."

>>12880197
>They dont want to answer for us. The ones that are burned by life. Don't tell that story. Just sweep it under the rug. They'll eventually stop. We don't want to hear it. They are not the subject of tragic stories. They never are. They'll be okay. So put it away. Don't talk about them. We don't need to talk about them. They are alright.

>>12880227
>I don't have... what you might call a dream. I don't even know where I'll be one year from now. I don't care what happens to me. I don't seem to be able to have dreams, plans. It's good enough just to be alive. My goal, is to be positive and joyful.

>I believed in a lie, a well write lie, lying there pretty, ondoing all my long-lied-life. Yet another one ready to take its place. I lied.

>Only one enemy remained; two if you counted God.

>Waking up to a loud crash rarely means something good is happening. It’s never “CRASH! Mom made pancakes!” or “CRASH! We decided to adopt a Golden Retriever!”

>Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods

>Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.

>”I believe in communism in practice, but not in theory.”

>>12880178
>mangareader
that's probably why.

As water, trembling in a brass bowl, reflects the sun's light or the form of the shining moon, and so the bright beams flit in all directions, darting up at times to strike the lofty fretted ceilings.

>either you will be you or you will not be at all.

>Mistah Kurz-he dead

>>12880182
Source?

>So it goes.

>>12880178
I still can't get over the line from blade runner, don't think I ever will. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Also
>>12880182 I'm begging for a source

>>12881528
werner herzog the nihilist penguin, i think

>If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?
>I don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?
>To shrug.

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>>12882385
Sounds like it's from Herzogs documentary about insane penguins in the arctic

>>12880178

>>12884153
why did he consider himself polish? his father was german and his mother sounds very german.

>>12880178
>On many evenings, while the people were sitting around or as they were about to turn in, a hyena, if it had found no goats to eat, would come into the village and grab a person and run off with him, with no one brave enough to go in pursuit and force it to abandon its prey. That poor person would scream in the middle of the darkness, saying “It’s picking me up! It’s putting me down! It’s picking me up again! It’s putting me down! Now it’s eating me!”

from Chaka by Thomas Mofolo

>>12884153
>>12884226
>Research conducted by heraldry experts as well as Max Oelher, Nietzsche’s close cousin and curator of the Nietzsche archive, revealed that over 200 of Nietzsche’s ancestors, related by both blood and marriage, were German. The same conclusion is reached in an excerpt of Maria Ziółkowska’s work
nice

>If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future


There's more to it but I don't have my copy to hand and no one online has deemed the rest of the very short passage worth mentioning

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

>>12884226
>>12884319
Germans, like most Northern Europeans, hate themselves

>>12884380
wrong we love our culture and just hate ourself

>>12884380
We like humanity but hate humans.

>>12884380
Nope. I don't hate myself; just everybody else.

>>12884444
Those dubs-quads can't lie.

It wouldn't make sense if I only posted the good parts so here https://pastebin.com/BXisEHyB

God what do I have to do to meet someone willing to invest the 5 minutes of mental effort required to read this? I just want to discuss neat literature with a friend bros

>>12884698
>Hetero village
Homophobic and toxic, stopped reading right there.

>>12884702
But it says Herero
brosssss please lit it's lonely here

>>12884711
Ok then, I personally liked it.
Is this just a small text on its own or part of something else?
Anyway, here are my thoughts.

Though I can understand their use, I don't really like all the ... everywhere.
There are some words that I think don't fit with the text and break the aesthetics of the vocabulary, like the whole "new cigarette wrappers in the garbage" sentence. It could be a little, I don't know, fancier.
I don't like the name "Babington", it sounds stupid and it annoys me.

What's with the sentences with capitalized words?

>>12881528
>>12882385
>>12883099
>>12884120
>>12881528
>>12883099
the inspiration is his documentary, however I'm pretty sure the source is a youtube comment which I slightly tweaked

Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.

>>12884252
The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

>>12884698
>https://pastebin.com/BXisEHyB
I like it, which book, anon?

>From Ariovistus to Arminius the Romans conducted ten campaigns to Germany: one against huts, two for show, one abandoned, five victorious, none conquering, the last one without return.

>Happiness can exist only in acceptance.