/lit/ - Literature

no. there is no book like that

No. Books like to feature sane people so we can relate?

The sword of truth series.

Yassarian is a little crazy. But then again, everyone is a little crazy in Catch 22.

>>1560539
there's no reason you couldn't relate to an insane character

>>1560547
I mean yossarian. Like yo-yo.

Most of Ellis. All of Palahniuk.

The lead character in Motherless Brooklyn isa detective with Tourette's Not entirely batshit, but definitely mentally ill.

Nearly everyone in Lovecraft ends up rocking back and forth in a room with soft walls, even igf they didn't start out that way

A Clockwork Orange.

American Psycho. not batshit, but insane.

Most things with protagonists who are female.

Kafka's "Metamorphosis".

Macbeth, Hamlet, possibly Prospero. Actually, half the people and protagonists in Shakespeare are completely fucking hatstand.

Any story by Poe.
Also, check out the pedophilia thread over there, if you're looking for that type of crazy.

Moby Dick. Ahab is completely mental innit. Pacing around like a cunt all the time muttering about whales. Fucking chillax you one-legged wanker, plenty more fish in the sea.

>>1560746
BUT WHALES AREN'T FISH.

>>1560725
There's no reason to think either hamlet or macbeth are insane. They're both pretty stressed but sane.

>>1560745

Oh no you're right - walking around seeing imaginary daggers in front of yourself and imagining that your dead mate that you just clipped is showing up randomly for dinner, that's just a bit of work related stress - tough job being a king.

And Hamlet is clearly suicidal and depressive. Polonius claims he's melancholic, and there's evidence throughout the play that the other characters find him a little bit "challenging"

Hamlet:
Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that old men
have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging
thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful
lack of wit, together with most weak hams; all which, sir, though
I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty
to have it thus set down, for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if
like a crab you could go backward.

Polonius:
[Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

As a final point, what would you do if one of your friends jumped into an open grave and started doing a ventriloquist act with the skull of one of his old mates? How mental do you have to be in your world before someone says "Hey, he's mad that guy"?

Catch 22, Cather in the Rye and I Robot

pic related Aguirre, the Wrath of God

>>1560748

Prove it. What is a fish, exactly?

>>1560757
Something you eat with chips.

Whale is not eaten with chips, therefore it is not a fish, QED.

HAVE YOU EATEN WHALE?

NO, YOU HAVEN'T. I HAVE.

>>1560767
The next night we ate whale.

>>1560760
>>1560767

I've eaten whale, and I think that there were chips on the table. It was minging, actually, like fishy beef. Either way, your argument fails.

Also, I like to eat sausages with chips and brown sauce. Are sausages and brown sauce therefore fish? Hmmm?

>>1560768
I AM UNSURE AS TO WHAT YOU ARE WANTING TO SAY IN THIS POST

>>1560771
I WASN'T THE ONE THAT PUT FORTH THE CHIP ARGUMENT.

>>1560771
Two points:
>I think that there were chips =! I know that there were chips
>everything which is eaten with chips are fish =! fish are eaten with chips

>>1560772

Tao Lin, innit.

http://www.monkeybicycle.net/archive/Lin/poem.html

>>1560775

I know you weren't, stop shouting. I included you because you were also on the subject of whales, rather than whatever the fuck this thread was about in the first place.

Oh yeah, madness. That old man and the Sea bloke, the old man. He's pretty mental, and that is definitely a fish. No chips are ever mentioned, but perhaps the sharks have some when they eat the fish. Hemingway may have chosen to edit that bit out.

>>1560768
WHAT A SHIT POEM.

>>1560772
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcOK2T0lPo
Skip to 30s in if you want.

>>1560781

It's outrageously bad, he's not wrong. However, Tao Lin caught a whale while fishing - this seems to back up the whales=fish argument.

>>1560783
THIS LOOK LIKE A FUCKING FISH TO YOU?

>>1560786
SO IF I CATCH A HUMAN CARCASS FROM FISHING, IT TOO IS A FISH? NICE.

>>1560753
Macbeth has witches, once you accept the supernatural what would otherwise be hallucinations aren't necessarily so.

Hamlet is depressed, but not do to insanity, he is in a situation that is rationally depressing, he's in a shit situation and is trying to figure out what to do, but he's not insane.

>>1560786
But Jesus and his disciples were "Fishers of men". Are men then fish?

>>1560787

Remarkably like one actually.

What about this bitch? She look like a motherfucking fish to you? Cos apparently it is one, even IT HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH ANY OTHER FISH and even though it's the ancestor of nearly every four-legged creature on the land, including the big fishy cunts who fucked off back to the water and now go around calling themselves "whales" like their shit don't stink.

Whales=fish. Melville said so, and he killed way more of them than you ever will.

>>1560796
IT LOOKS CONSIDERABLY LIKE A FISH TO ME.

>>1560793

If your mate came up to you and said "hey, Anon, I've just been talking to these three old hags on a blasted heath and they say I should invite my boss round for dinner, then off him and take his job", would you consider that your friend was a rational, if ambitious, man, or a dangerous fucking nutjob?

God told Peter Sutcliffe to kill whores, it doesn't mean that superstition got him out of Broadmoor.

>>1560797

What about this ugly fucker? Oh yeah, he looks just like a lickle fishy with his ickle-wickle tail and fins and scales and HEY WAIT A SECONF THAT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A FUCKING FISH WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL ON ME HERE, GOD?

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonengut.

Bad chemicals, man.

Don't mind me, I'm just chilin and being a fish, apparently.

I once read this book where the protagonist was possible insane. It was called The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther and it was very very good.

Toodle-oo, I'm just going to sting this diver to death now. nom nom nom.

>>1560830

*blush*

>>1560830
U jelly?

HEY ASSHOLE
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING EATING WHALE
THEY'RE FUCKING ENDANGERED

no longer human by osamu dazai

Yo Brah, I'm a fish too, just like a whale.

Another famous mad person of literature is Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar, and Sylvia Plath killed herself after she finished it, so she probably had some insight into depressive madness.

Oh, and Humbert Humbert is a paedophile - is that a kind of madness?

>>1560848

There are some pretty good arguments for eating whale, actually - and not all species are endangered. For a food-kill ratio, it's hard to find a better animal. You kill one whalex feed a thousand people. Kill a thousand shrimp, feed one or two people. It's actually more ethical in many ways. And no part of a whale gets wasted. If you've ever been near a fishery, you get sick of all the heads and tails and fins just lying around on the beaches feeding the crabs.

furalles first

thou shalt have a fishy
on a little dishy
thou shalt have a fishy
when de boat come in

>>1560869

Here's de boat, with two fishies.

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf. She's mad as well

the next night we ate whale

>>1560935

We already did that. Do try to keep up old boy.

>>1560941

>>1560948
I have foiled your plans once again!

Infinite Jest - DFW
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielski
Richard Yates - Tao Lin

I'm surprised nobody had posted these yet.

>>1561360
>fat face

Who or what is fat face?

Yossarian is the only sane character in catch-22! Oh,its supposed to be ironic.funny funny...I'd go with clockwork orange as someone else suggested.

Batman: A Life

Best autobiography written by another person.

>>1560863

>Oh, and Humbert Humbert is a paedophile - is that a kind of madness?

It was before the internet - it's been kind of normalised now.

The Butcher Boy

Caveman's Valentine