/lit/ - Literature

>>20588009
Walked in a gypsy's tent with a food stamp
And walked out with a magical lamp, yeah
I met Milenko, he gave me three wishes
That night, I fucked three fat bitches

>>20588009
who gives a fuck, all contemporary humans are faggots that have nothing novel or notable to say and there are a thousand years worth of tomes that will last far longer than the few remaining years in your pathetic life. now stop posting simpsons images like a fucking teenage emo youtube commenter and pick up a fucking book.

>>20588068

>>20588013
Ty for proving his point

novelty ends with itself.

>>20588009
Literature? Humanity itself is done for. We sealed our fate long ago.

>>20588068
who hurt you?

>>20588512
rudimentary observation of the current population and overarching zeitgeist hurt me, anonymous internet imageboard poster

Is it worth writing a book for the stories in my head or would a comic or something that's mixed media work as well? I find making visuals easier than writing.

>>20588009
tfw you realize you're in a declining global empire that hasn't been able to produce any timeless culture in the past 20 years

>>20588516
>rudimentary observation of the current population and overarching zeitgeist hurt me

>>20588009
Cormac McCarthy is still kicking

>>20588013
Well, they let the gate up so I bail
It's been six months pick me up from the county jail
With a smog mother payin' my dues
Steel toliets, worn blankets, and rubber shoes
But I ain't naggin'
Here come the fellas I can hear the muffler draggin'

>>20588695
Cormac McCarthy is still writing.

>>20588868
>>20588073
pick up a book faggots

>>20588952
based catposter defending me in my absence

>>20588009
AI would have killed it soon anyway. Besides, there's still plenty to read.

DM me, anons

>>20589136
AI is only good for those coomer role games.

and even for erotica the genre is exausted after Sade.

hmm

>>20588009
Yes, and I did it, your welcome.

It's not tho, you can write a masterpiece and simply self-publish.

>>20588672
I don’t have the data but I don’t think Western comics are more read than novels. That’s just Japanese manga.

I think you have to just identify what medium suits you and run with that. Ideally, it should feel like you have to do that one.

>>20588695
Did you mean to write 20 or did you forget another 0?

>>20588009
Stop reading contemporary literature, you retarded faggot. There is more highbrow literature available than you can possibly read in your entire life

>>20590754
It's been downhill since Don Quixote

>>20590768
Part of the problem. Isn’t it? There is very little demand for contemporary writing and thus nobody writes.

>>20590833
Because American society is cancerous and has plagued most countries with our deranged fixation on face, shitlib politics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion frameworks. Look at what’s being published in the most “prestigious” literary journals and who gets accepted to Iowa’s writing workshop: all affirmative action acceptances

>>20590851
Idk I think most Western countries had a bit of tjay going on in different ways totally independent of us, but still, it’s not even just that this idpol shit gets put in everything and rammed down your throat. Even if you remove all that, it’s just not good. Nothing is good anymore.

>>20588009
Wrong

>>20590892
Define good literature.

>>20590927
Literature that is the opposite of bad

>>20588068
I can't find the strength to put any work into creative or otherwise good things anymore because people's behavior is so appalling and alien I don't feel like giving them anything. I think whatever I am going to give to people will only feed the never ending circle of consumerism and cynical deconstruction. How can I create something with all of my heart and mind when I see people rape and devour everything they touch like a bunch of rabid animals? And at this point I doubt I would be able to create something that speaks to anyone anyway. It seems like people only want things I hate.

I used to think Roth was right that the novel can’t compete with the screen but seeing manga outsell not both novels and comics as well seems to show it’s not just a problem of print but of culture also. I think the culture is basically pure poison at this point and I want to withdraw from it personally.

>>20589402
>Boards of Canada
I still don't get how overly hyped and rated they were. It's bare bones shit. Electric Gems YT channel has a thousand of that nostalgic 80s shit and even the 80s had a lot of music like them. But women and hipsters need to signal they're cool. Also she ironically wears Mariah tee. How embarrassing and immature.

>>20588009
books don't die you fucking idiot. And Schlock has always been a thing. First example of it I know of are the Roman Travel logs, where sailors would leave for a few years, come back, and lie through their teeth about bullshit adventures they had. it was mass-produced trash that was the ancient equivalent of Marvel movies. Satirists of the time would repeatedly shit on them for being complete bullshit

>>20591010
Sometimes i wish i were born at the beginning of the 20th century. Say the 20s. So i would get to witness the last literary movements and die before the 00s, preferably.

>>20590981
Find people you admire and create for them.

>>20591031
I don’t admire anyone.

>>20588009
The Literature is dead.
Long Live the Literature!

>>20588009
There is hope on the horizon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>20588871
thomas ligotti as well

>>20591031
I would, but those people whom I think I might connect to always let me down in the end.

>>20591028
Sometimes I wish I was born in Japan or Korea, or China or just about anywhere else.