/lit/ - Literature

Take up the priesthood.

>>6099563

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>>6099563
Sorry that everyone's being a dick to you.

Would reading something more comforting help, like a good versus evil fantasy or sci fi novel?

Read the Bible, then leave behind your meaningless postmodern lifestyle and become reborn in Christ.

>>6099597
True that though.

>>6099563
Read P.G. Wodehouse for maximum comfy.

>>6099563
Fault in our stars with all the other whiny faggots. Just so you know John Green is probably fucking your bitch right now.

Start using opiates

>>6099585
ideally something that feels kinda transcendental, something that has everyday human emotion but it's portrayed in a way such that there is something divine about human affairs. something that kind of gets to the heart of things if you know what i mean. sorry it's hard to describe what kind of emotion i want from a book. i have a feeling borges might be good but i've only read one story by him so i don't know.

>>6099661
that's actually a really good idea. i do have one unread wodehouse lying around but it's a not a bertie jeeves wodehouse and i've never read any of those so i'm kinda apprehensive. i'll give it a go though

>>6099563
i'm sorry, OP. something funny to take your mind off it. I recommend the apple store, by seinfeld2000

Venus In Furs.

>>6099672
lel

>>6099563
don't read, go out and get laid.

>>6099563
No More Mr Nice Guy by Robert Glover
So you wont fuck up so bad next time.

>>6099563

>having a girlfriend

Normie.

>>6099563
Would you save him if you could travel to the past?

>>6099689
"Fever" by Raymond Carver. It's short so you can finish it in one sitting.

>>6099689
>ideally something that feels kinda transcendental, something that has everyday human emotion but it's portrayed in a way such that there is something divine about human affairs. something that kind of gets to the heart of things if you know what i mean.
You shouldn't bullshit your way through your emotions, anon.

>>6099569
>>6099597
>>6099611

The World and the Flesh are a meme.
The Devil is some serious business, though.

If I might be permitted to make a serious recommendation, I recently read Peter Brown's "The Body and Society", which tackles the question of sexual-continence and asceticism in the Early Church.

He's a heavyweight scholar, but the blistering erudition, wry humour and limpidity of his prose makes for wonderful and relaxing reading.

I saw a lecture of his at my Uni earlier this year, and despite the Parkinsons, his spoken delivery is just as snappy as his writing.
I can think of few other scholarly authors who can say so much, so well, in so few pages.

Brown's Latinist background (he's more or less the definitive biographer of Augustine) takes centre stage, but his command of Greek Patristic authors is effortless and his treatment of Coptic and Syriac Christianity very well handled. Seeing the way each tradition approaches the same fundamental fleshy ethical/doctrinal problems, especially in relation to Pagan, Jewish and Manichean contemporaries, is surprisingly comfy.

It should hopefully provide some relevant perspective on your Feels.

>tfw no Mediaevalist gf ;______;

>no bandana
what the fuck wallace?

>>6101513
I find something deeply moving about the childish simplicity of this question

>>6099563
norwegian wood.

Schopenhauer - On Suicide