/lit/ - Literature

>>14335562
Stone Fox

MY DIARY DESU

Assisted living.

>>14335562
Atlas Of World History

>>14335627
Post some pages famalam

>>14335562
ending to brave new world, but I'm a paranoid schizophrenic so the idea of just wanting to be left alone but people surround you like some circus act when you're just trying to live resonates with me

>>14335562
I swear to Christ if someone mentions The Bell Jar I will fuck you up

>>14335562

>>14336481
Dammit, not again

>>14335562
Johnny Got His Gun.
Yeah yeah it's a plebbit answer but holy fuck, I read that when I was 12 and it drove me to tears since I read it right after my brother got deployed.

Shoes for sale. Dead fucking baby shoes.

>>14337262
>THE BABY DIED
not an argument
also source?

>Another infidel will ask: How can God justly punish with eternal torments a sin that lasts but a moment? I answer, that the grievousness of a crime is measured not by its duration, but by the enormity of its malice. The malice of mortal sin is, as St. Thomas says, infinite. (1, 2, q. 87, art. 4.) Hence, the damned deserve infinite punishment; and, because a creature is not capable of suffering pains infinite in point of intensity, God, as the holy doctor says, renders the punishment of the damned infinite in extension by making it eternal.

>Moreover, it is just, that as long as the sinner remains in his sin, the punishment which he deserves should continue. And, therefore, as the virtue of the saints is rewarded in Heaven, because it lasts for ever, so also the guilt of the damned in Hell, because it is everlasting, shall be chastised with everlasting torments. ”Quia non recipit causæ remedium,” says Eusebius Emissenus, “carebit fine supplicium.” The cause of their perverse will continues: therefore, their chastisement will never have an end. The damned are so obstinate in their sins, that even if God offered pardon, their hatred for him would make them refuse it.

Made me cry

>>14336481
what's that

>>14337262
>>14337269
In other news...

>>14337269
Was this post automatically generated?

Children of Hurin. I don't like reading sad stuff but i could not skip out on any Tolkien. Most of his works have a sad cruel touch desu.

A poem by Fernando Pessoa called 'The Tobacco Shop'. It defines 90% of /lit/.

>>14335713
Yeah I hated reading that ending

>>14337340
A Scanner Darkly

>>14335581
Fuck man don’t bring up that shit

>>14338500
I honestly can't think of anything more guilt-inducing than A Scanner Darkly's ending

>>14338542
The whole book is so devastating. It seems especially poignant now during the ongoing heroin epidemic. I was close with a few people who were destroyed by drug abuse, so the book hits hard for me.

>>14338614
See I don't quite agree. One of the things I like about the book is that it isn't unrelentingly grim; in fact I'd say it's one of the funniest books I've ever read. All the sections where the characters just shoot the shit about nonsense like using a hash golem to smuggle drugs across the.border really give them a lot of life and color, and that's what makes their actual fate so sad. It really hammers home the message that these are vibrant people with rich inner lives that just get smashed like eggs on a railroad track. And then there are segments like Charles Freck's suicide that just turn that expected tone completely on its head.

for me, its All Quiet on the Western Front

>The Diary of a Country Priest
I'm only halfway through it but the narrator is a gentle, broken young guy who is only being held together by his genuine faith in God, and I get the impression that he's probably going to die in the end from this mysterious wasting disease.
>Under the Volcano
The Consul sees himself as beyond redemption, irrevocably damned. He knows it's his fault and is unwilling, eventually unable, to save himself.
>The Recognitions
Wyatt is pure and genuine but mired in such a world of greed and artificiality that the combination rips apart both that world and his own life.
>Warlock
Everyone has such a muddied combination of evil and good inside of them that they can't help but let everyone, and themselves, down in some fateful way.
All absolutely soul-crushing.

The ending to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It comes full circle, and the cracks in Deckard's worldview just grow larger and larger.

>>14335713
I was going to post this

>>14337296
great and rare choice, pal.
I can still not understand why it has received such a longlasting negative reception.

>>14335562
There's a lot. Excluding philosophy, I would have to say I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison.

>>14335562
Several deaths got me right in the feels
And when Newt realizes Call will never admit that he’s his father