/lit/ - Literature

>>16440447
Don Quixote
Anything by Junger and Mishima
The Complete Works of Gustavo Bueno (pbuh)

>>16440447
If you cannot grasp masculinity out of the deepest reaches of a metaphysical concurrence to your truth and knowledge, then you do not understand metaphysics.

>>16440447
Unironically start lifting. The rest will follow naturally.

>>16440454
>Don Quixote
Elaborate?
>Junger
Who?
>Mishima
any essential suggestion? I was going to buy Sun and Steel but there aren't no Thai translation
>Gustavo Bueno
can't find anything in Thai language about him.

>>16440483
>Thai
just join a muay thai gym

>>16440458
explain it to me like I'm 14, what's that suppose to mean.

>>16440447
>>16440483
>any essential suggestion? I was going to buy Sun and Steel but there aren't no Thai translation
Read the sailor who fell from grace with the sea, the best work to start with, is short, and encapsulates many of his own conceptions and methods, including the heroic.

>>16440447
>>16440454
>reading a book by a literal homosexual to find your masculinity
You do realize that Sun and Steel is a borderline homoerotic fiction, right?

unironically

>>16440483
Junger was a German philosopher who fought in WWI and had a lot to say about the transcendent aspects of war i.e. being ready to die at any time, the oppurtunity for bravery & heroism etc.

>>16440500
>like I'm 14
Lmao, okay.

There is a great mystery in and of life, in which you need to understand intuitively on some level. And that feeds into your current being in a very direct but free manner, it is your choice. Be the hero.

>>16440447
go to a gym and move metal. it appears banal but it will improve every single aspect of your life.

a man should be strong, right? lift weights. obvious.
a man should have good posture. the way to get that is to lift weights.
a man should be confident. a great physique helps tremendously.
a man should be disciplined. you could be walking around wearing the undeniable proof of your discipline on your body.
a man should be mentally resilient. squatting with 300+ pounds on your shoulders is scary and painful, and you'll do it anyway.

after weightlifting has cured your depression, you can start consuming media for the sake of personal enrichment. it doesn't matter what it is, only that you do so critically. remember : reading classics to posture in front of other /lit/ nerds is not "reading critically".

spend most of your time reading your contemporaries. they understand the world you live in and have poignant things to say about the human condition as it currently exists, something dead authors cannot do by definition.

don't be afraid to read trash. you don't have to finish a book if it fucking sucks. try to find diamonds hidden in the rough. don't be a classicist dullard.

PS if you're a grill and you're reading this, all of the above applies to you as well

>>16440602
>spend most of your time reading your contemporaries
>don't be a classicist dullard
Good post until this, Plato and Aristotle solved the puzzles of the universe and the things they said over 2,000 years ago still apply today.
>>16440447
Read the classics

>>16440616
definitely read the classics

don't ONLY read the classics like most /lit/ imbeciles

>>16440602
>>16440499
I don't do gym right now because there are some shit that I still need to figure it out and personal stuff. I will be free for next year though and the thought of going gym or learning martials art is always in my mind. I just came out of Reserved Officer Training. which is basically training young people in military camp about Discipline and very soft military stuff. been there for 11-12 days and it is anything but a comfort zone plus no phone or stuff like that that you do at home. so that's something I guess.

>>16440447
Zorba the Greek. Man is ridiculed by his best friend for being a bookworm and decides to travel to Crete to open a mine. Meets an adventurous old man on the way who pushes him to not be a coward and enjoy life.

>>16440618
from based to cringe in under 6 seconds

>>16440500
ignore the prick being grandiose and confusing for no reason, if you need a book to tell you how to be masculine instead of being able to figure out what masculinity is and how to become masculine without books you're not actually masculine you're just doing what someone told you to

>>16440479
This. Here's Yukio's scrawny fag ass when he started lifting at 30 for some motivation, OP.

what is the age range of /lit/?

>>16442151
oh good, I can weight another 5 years.

>>16441990
its ok anon your very smart

>>16440447
The Way of Men by Jack Donovan

>>16440602
>tfw when working out and getting bigger and doing muay thai and enjoying physical discomfort but still hating the modern world and too depressed to take any actions in life

>>16440447
>I need to a journey to find my own masculinity and pride.
Start with the Greeks

>>16440560
>Sun and Steel
>fiction
bait

>>16444661
It's fiction in that it's supposedly about his life and how me cultivated his masculinity but he's a homosexual so his masculinity is fictional.

>>16440454
Based and granujillapilled