/lit/ - Literature

>>15296985
I feel an urge to purify myself. How do I achieve that?

>>15296986
Lots of water up your butt

>>15296986
Start with Fr. Franz

http://www.jmjsite.com/media/hunolt_ss_vol1/20sun_pent_vol_I.mp3

>>15297015
Zamzam water

>>15297015
How does one purifies himself when he is everywhere surrounded by vulgar philistines like this?

>>15297028
The other reply abounds more in good than that one offered in evil. Listen.

Is there a system or catalogue of objective correlatives between, say, musical beats or dances and internal psychological states. Allegro for stress. Tango for seduction etc.?

Also why is it so hard to explain myself and my reasoning to other people. Why the fuck do people insight on questioning my idiosyncrasies, "why don't you...?" and I have to calmly explain because I tried it and it doesn't work. Why is it when ever I try and explain a problem people invariably focus on the wrong thing.
>"I have trouble with self expression, like when I was talking to my girlfriend..."
>"sounds like your girlfriend doesn't listen to you champ"..
No, that's just one example, it happened with my ex, with my boss, with my friend etc. etc. etc.... Why is it so hard to coherently and concisely explain myself?
Unfortunately the extemporaneous nature of communication means that you can't sit in a room and write a distilled abstract of your 3000 word, well referenced and sourced, thought process.
So I never feel 'understood'.

>>15296985
I heard gunshots a few blocks away, wrote a poem, and came to /lit/ for a thread like this.

2 Minutes to 2
by A. Anonson
At one fifty-six
Four minutes to two
Four shots rang out
Lightning cracked the night

At one fifty-seven
I went to check on you
Struck with the doubt
That you were sleeping light

At one fifty-eight
My worries weren’t true
One shot gave shout
And that ended the fight

>>15297058
Based Bergman

>>15297038
I really can't take exoteric religion seriously.

>>15297084
well spotted. Love the end of that film.

>>15297077
How's Compton doing?

nigger

>>15297115
When Frost says he wants to curl up inside Alma like a baby ;(

I’m a newfag to /lit/ and I plan on getting into story telling (specifically horror/fiction type stuff). But at the same time I’m not much of a reader at all. I’ve read few books (I’m mostly inspired by vidya stories and tv shows) and from the short time I’ve lurked here apparently I HAVE to read a lot to be a good writer. Is this true?

Not only that but why does this board hate everything relating to fiction so much?

>>15297121
Wouldn't know, wrong coast

>>15296985
Did the Book Club delete his Nietzsche video? I swear there was one where he talks about Sargon of Akkad but I can't find it.

>>15297172
I think it is. Maybe not necessarily so but still good to enhance your writing ability, weltanschauung, interests toward subjects you (would) want to write about isn't it? Beside it may help you from falling into the same pitfalls of shitty writers.
>Not only that but why does this board hate everything relating to fiction so much?
Edgy faggots think shitposting makes them intelligent I guess. The board plagued by philosophy and non-related threads, the literature related threads are little to nothing. I think you can figure why people who read fiction don't bother to come here anymore by just looking at the catalog.

Coomer problem
I start writing a story and it slolwy gets way too erotic and then I jack off and hate it wash rince repeat over and over
so basicly I think I think i should drop writing

>>15297172
>apparently I HAVE to read a lot to be a good writer. Is this true?
In 99.99% of cases, yes. It would be like trying to build a table without ever having seen somebody else showing you how.
>Not only that but why does this board hate everything relating to fiction so much?
Some people would consider it a waste of time to read about things which never happened. Kind of autistic but whatever, you should read whatever you find intriguing.

>>15297341
Can we read it?

I am increasingly reaching the conclusion that porn as it is popularly consumed is utterly unjustifiable. I am not nofap and I have never read any nofap material, instead I arrive at this conclusion on my own. Aside from the ethical issues of the industry itself, it seems utterly perverse for one to experience repeated exposure to something so explicit. I am talking specifically of high definition hardcore pornography, such as is popular on websites like PornHub. I think softcore or drawn erotica is perhaps more natural and I would say Lindy. The fact that pornography works so much like an addiction is really want has cemented this view in my mind. I am able to go weeks or on rare occasion months abstaining from porn, but when I think about it, between now and when I first began watching porn as a teenager, there has barely been a day without exposure to it in some form or another. I wish I could say that I would never watch porn again. I quit on Monday, and I think even if I last a whole year I will eventually succumb again. This addictive quality, in combination with the rank exploitation which pervades the entire industry, makes it no longer tolerable to me in any capacity.

>>15296985
Aside from /lit/, do you browse for literature anywhere else on the internet?

>>15297368
You can find some pretty out there pdfs and epubs on lainchan

>>15296985
I see two options before me: South and North. Perhaps this is indicative of my manic-depression, and perhaps my manic depression is a symptom of my Russian-Spanish heritage. Mexico calls to me like a siren song. The vibrance, the creative entropy! The blood.

Above me is Montana, and eventually Alaska. Where there are no niceties besides potatoes and raspberries, where life is hard fought. The history or Europe was East to West but the history of the Americas is South and North.

Any advice Bros? After I save up money I want to live in Mexico/Latin America for awhile. I also had a vision that told me my destiny is in Alaska.

>>15297368
I sometimes talk about stuff like Brecht and Welles' Shakespeare on movie forums.

>>15297347
Its beyond autistic in premise
But unfortunately I delete by progress after jerking off
In reality I have rewritten the same beginning a dozen or so times

>>15296985
> mfw not in time to make a horse edition
his birthday is in 3 months bros, turning 19
we have the same birth year. he's such a chad horse

>>15297406
>19 in 3 months
>same birth year

This is an 18+ board retard

>>15297415
he's 18 now so i am 18 too.. is this the result of american education?

>>15297415
moron

>>15297428
>>15297432
18+ means ABOVE EIGHTEEN

>>15297452
hey you stupid?
*throws peanut at you

>>15297452
oh no i got bamboozled by this baiter
fuck you, alternative maths man

>>15297460
*catches peanut in mouth, deshells it with tongue, spits out shell, eats peanut *

who is stupid now, retard baby?

>>15297474
Two

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Can you see within yourself the door behind which the innermost essence of being lies? I just noticed the door (thanks to my great teacher), but as I think about it fear takes hold of me. Too afraid to look at it, let alone knock on it or even open it.

I think I've depleted my last reserves of self respect or patience. For many years I wanted to write but recognized I had no talent for it. I dragged my feet when it was time to practice, and I rationalized it by saying it wouldn't do any good to force out bad writing if I wasn't inspired. My life went on despite the fact and my mediocrity in every other aspect of my life was made apparent. Alright, no more excuses then. I'm rubbish at everything else anyways, so if I'm to get good at anything it might as well be something I like doing. I forced it out. I've been writing every day for months. Some poetry but mostly prose. Stories I've made up, writing prompts, imitating the prose of other writers. It's all terrible I can hardly stand to read it it's so bad. I Literally no improvement since when I was 16 and thought I could write a Joseph Conrad novel on the old broken Macbook my father gave me. If you put something I wrote last week and something I wrote 8 years ago next to each other I don't think I would be able to tell them apart. The one thing I actually enjoyed doing, the one passion in my entire solitary life and I'm just incomparably terrible at it. There is no salvation. I do not even have one breath of good prose in me.

>>15297479
Old meme

>>15297476
who's the teacher

>>15297479
The meme is that this post was supposed to written in good prose but it's actually not good at all.

>>15297535
IT'S NOT A MEME MOTHERFUCKER I FUCKING SUCK I FUCKING SAID SO TEN TIMES IN THE GOD DAM POST WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME

>>15297528
You will most likely not believe me.

Felt good today for the first time in months. I'm at around day 6 of running every day. Even though I'm still shit at it, the improvements really are noticable immediately. Grateful for my extroverted roommates since they're all I have during this quarantine even if they annoy me sometimes. Finally able to journal again, I haven't been able to even stand up to myself to say a single thing, even "I am a total fraud with no worthwhile thoughts" so being able to write anything at all again feels good. Hopefully this continues.

>>15297564
why not? i read Faust as a retarded edgy 14yo and it reformed my mind. good job, brother.

I have been working on a major work for a while, a work that contains works within it, a very large story cycle that has lots of poetry and prose in it.

And I reflect that my favorite thing about it is my four main characters, whom I have come to know so well, and who I rely on to carry the entire huge overarching story. They are somewhat young at the start of the story, and they have been rolling around my mind, building themselves up, for many years. So now, when I am finally actually writing them for the first time, I can't help but feel incredible joy when they are all together. It feels like I am in the company of friends when I write them all together. Or, maybe, that I'm a father in the company of sons and daughters, because they feel so much like children of mine, like they are alive and breathing because of me, and that I have responsibility for them, and that what I wish more than anything else is for them to experience life and joy.

>>15297581
Thank you. I haven't started Faust yet, though I'm excited to do it as soon as I'm ready. Reading Wilhelm Meister now. Each work of the great master that I have read so far has opened up whole new layers of the world to me.

Is the Joker a Deleuzian?

>>15296985
I get mad whenever someone I don't like likes something I like. Why am I such an elitist?

>>15297592
i know what you mean. i read mainly to enrich the database of life and living, each thing new and beautiful will find a place in my daydreams. classics are sometimes just divine in conveying the subtlest yet crucial hues of experience.

>>15297921
i get mad when people like what i find cringe

>>15296985
I would like to wipe out 99% of the population.

>>15297982
based. very based. whats your reasoning?

>>15297921
>>15297977
It probably stems from a deep insecurity and resentment at people being able to express themselves when you are too afraid to do so yourself.

>>15296985
i keep getting a specific image in my head of me lying in a bed in some blown out building next to my caramel skinned girlfriend from school.
the sun is setting and the bed is next to a broken window and were both covered in a thin blanket.
i think its just me daydreaming about running away from everyone, its my brown ex because neither of us care about each others race and were far away from anyone who'd take objection with it.
it's quite a nice image to have.

>>15297989
I just want to start a family in a nice community where we love and care for each other. Where we can live with mother nature and all feel pure, close to God and happy.
I want to feel the thrill of exploring the unknown world, discovering more of this amazing planet we live on. Becoming a man that people can look up to and ask for advice.

Instead, nearly everywhere I look, Im surrounded by degenerate sex/drug addicts it makes me extremely misanthropic. They have no motivation and only consoom, wasting the precious time we have. It wouldn't be so bad, if at least they were not severely depressed. I think most of it stems from broken families, technology, and the lack of religion.

im so fuckin emotionally detached haha reality is like a tv on in the background everyone who trys to help me makes me paranoid

>>15298161
Wouldn't it better to help people if they have problems rather than exterminating them? In most cases it's probably not their fault they're messed up.

I love sherlock holmes and I am a loser with a chode.

>>15297363
>I am increasingly reaching the conclusion that porn as it is popularly consumed is utterly unjustifiable...Aside from the ethical issues of the industry itself, it seems utterly perverse for one to experience repeated exposure to something so explicit
This is the primary reason I'm so hesitant to speak on the topic, let alone label it. At it's core, pornography isn't the problem. It's repeated exposure, which eventually leads to some form of pseudo-addictive feedback loop. It's akin to cocaïne. In a controlled setting and limited use, it has benefits, as do most other hard drugs. Issue is, few consume either product this way. In the latter case, it has been demonized. Pornography, however has not. In fact, it's been pushed to the extent of normalcy. It's considered healthy sexual behavior. Most see no reason to curtail their intake. This, in my opinion, is the problem.

>I wish I could say that I would never watch porn again. I quit on Monday, and I think even if I last a whole year I will eventually succumb again
God speed, anon. I'm currently facing similar struggles, and have been for some years now. Once the semester closes, I'll be putting away any and all devices that allow access to the internet (i.e., porn), aside from my phone. Fortunately, its battery is piss poor, and the touch screen has gone to shit over the years. Watching porn on it, of any kind, isn't a possibility.

>>15297574
>Felt good today for the first time in months. I'm at around day 6 of running every day.
Good job anon :)
Keep it up.

>dreamed about having a girlfriend again
>I looked into her eyes and could feel glad through my entire mind, knowing that she fully loved me I and I her
Reading Tolstoy has been feeling different

>>15298192
>Wouldn't it better to help people if they have problems rather than exterminating them?
Yes. Unfortunately, the majority aren't willing.

>In most cases it's probably not their fault they're messed up.
This is why. The large majority of what >>15298161 is pushed by the foundations which we build our lives around (i.e., society at large). So much so, that's it's seen as a norm.