/lit/ - Literature

>>22134795
Bible

>>22134795
Bullshit. The Iliad is a good read, but you have to be some level of pretentious to make a post calling out for books that emotionally moved you to tears, and posting the fucking Iliad. All you're doing is subtley bragging for fake internet points to prove how emotionally "smart" you are. It's all bullshit, and OP is a fag.

>>22134805
Idk, OP might be a fag, but I was moved to tears when Hector's mother and father beg him to turn back before the terrifying charge of Achilles

The loving shepherd - Alberto Caeiro

Symptoms And Treatment Of Malignant Diarrhea: Better Known By The Name Of Asiatic Cholera, As Treated In The Royal Free Hospital (1871). They were tears of joy and uncontrollable laughter. Something about the thought of losing the battle for your very life and soul to - diarrhea - makes me laugh a hearty laugh.
>Anon, your uncle passed on, I've heard. Sorry to hear that. Here to help if you need something.
>Thanks for the condolences.
>How'd he die?
>He lost his battle with diarrhea.
>*maniacal laughter*

>>22134797
this. i cried knowing that such a cheap desert superstition destroyed european culture

>>22134812
>I was moved to tears

>>22134812
you have no idea how full and intense it feels to live like this without doing much at all. ohhh christ save me, and then you jerk off on disgusting anime girls, sometimes you're trying to pray and you feel lust so you're like oh no please stop the sinful thoughts, but then you're like, I can't keep praying while I feel horny, so I'll jerk off, and then you write the filthiest smut and jerk off to it, and say wicked shit on 4chan while you're at it, calling people niggers and telling them to kill themselves, then you clutch your cross and go ohhhh I am such a sinner and you whip yourself, I'm a stupid pig, ohh I'm such a filthy pig, and then you see someone asking for charity and go eugh fuck off nigger but then you're like oh ohhh the world is so corrupt and hateful, and I'm the most hateful swine, shameful and unclean, SAVE ME LORD, and you whip yourself again, but it's sort of a turn-on, then you drink and shitpost, and then you despise yourself because you are a slave to vice, ohhh christ have mercy while I have another glass. You know how Gollum has constant conversations with Smeagol? It's like that, you never get bored. Truly a high IQ way to live.

>>22134795
>Odysseus' old dog Argos is the only one to recognise his master
>Odysseus can only ignore Argos or risk betraying his identity
>Argos immediately dies, thinking his master forgot about him

all quiet on the western front

>>22134929
kek this is why I come here

Mikes’ death hit me hard

>>22134805
I agree, but OP could also make the same case about you. Maybe OP isn't far deep into his literate adventure and this is the book he genuinely liked for moving him? That would make you a pretentious elitist instead.

>>22134797
Imagine engrossing yourself in Israeli desert delusions.

>>22134805
I cried too. Hector and Andromache were amazing especially her. I don't care you don't have emotions in fact I'm sure that even among those who like Iliad 90%+ are filtered and 100% of those who don't like it.

Flowers for Algernon

>>22134965
European culture is Christian. Christianity is deeply ingrained in the blood of Europeans. The idea that you can just revert us back to pagans without any consequence is silly and infantile.

>>22134805
KEK

>>22134795
>words on paper made me cry
Lol, what kind of a massive pussy are you?

>>22135065
That one hurt

>>22136214
Probably pretty easy considering the amount of pagan and native shit Christianity absorbed.

I cried when Achilles speaks with his horses.
Don Quixote's death.
Oblomov's ending.

>>22135065

>>22135745
Came here to post this. He was a hero and he deserved better.

>>22134805
>>22135041
>>22136219
Diagnosis: You are either too immature to experience this kind of emotion, or are an irredeemable sub-human.

>>22134805
I get what you mean and the phenomenon you’re describing is real, but the Iliad has some really deeply emotional moments. I can see how you would be skeptical of someone’s attachment because the psychology of the characters is pretty foreign, but if it happens to remind you of something in your own life, I don’t being moved by it is implausible.

>>22136375
> a noble warrior like me is moved to tears

>>22135068
good choice. I liked how understated the ending was

>>22134805
>never read the Iliad, but comments anyways
Hector alone has a couple emotionally touching moments. When his wife begs him to leave the war, his son doesn't even recognize him, and Hector explains to his wife why he must return to war. Also, when Hector girds his loins to face Achilles in battle, despite certain defeat.

>The Phaedo

Actually make me sob like a kid

I would have cried after reading Babylon Revisited a week ago, but I was in a coffee shop opposite my girlfriend, so I just took a deep breath instead

>>22134795
I had tears in my eyes once for The Catcher in the Rye, and several times for Crime and Punishment, which I'm only halfway through. Those are some of my first /lit/ novels so that's about it for now.

>>22136819
I remember it made me a bit sad too yeah
>>22136563
It's not noble warrior behaviour. Its just normal human emotions

>>22134795
Hemingway’s short story Soldier’s Home

>>22135065
>... yet even now, when Argos marked Odysseus standing near, he wagged his tail and dropped both his ears, but nearer to his master he had no longer strength to move. Then Odysseus looked aside and wiped away a tear, leasily hiding from Eumaeus what he did; ...

>>22137672
But I want it to be this way; because there is no other way it can be.

>>22134797
Which parts?

>>22135065
>Argos immediately dies, thinking his master forgot about him
oh my god I never thought of that interpretation. I've always thought seeing his master again after so long was too much, so his heart burst. But that's even sadder. Goddamnit Homer, you just had to do that, didn't you?
>t.had two dogs, watched them both die.

>>22134965
The NT is greek and I suspect that Christianity is more European than paganism which probably was from the desert

>>22139397
Christianity is an eastern religion, not a western one. Western religion would be Roman/Norse paganism, Albion's druidism, etc. Christianity is nothing like that.

>>22134805
This, I'd believe it it was the Odissey.

>>22134795
Lonesome Dove
Les Miserables
The Brothers Karamazov
The Old Man and the Sea
Siddhartha
The Dharma Bums
Germinal
Leaves of Grass

>>22134795
I came pretty close reading the Metamorphoses (AD Melville translation) when whatshisname is transformed into a stag and is killed and almost devoured by his own hunting dogs with his hunting party looking on while, in his mind, begging them to recognize him. There's a lot of parts in the Metamorphoses that have really hit me hard like that.

>>22137672
Yeah me too. Goddamn. These books wrecked me. Especially the Crossing and Cities of the Plain, but ESPECIALLY the Crossing.

>>22134805
This anon is addicted to porn and the internet. It fucked him up and that's why he's incapable of feeling attachment and emotions.