/lit/ - Literature

>>7071396
When I was eating a packet of Doritos whilst playing Call of Duty.

>>7071396
When I was gulping Mtn Dew whilst raping >>7073035's mom

When I read the Unabomber Manifesto I had to go for a long walk, and couldn't read anything for a few days since I was still thinking about it.

When I read My Twisted World I went on several long drives in my BMW 3 Series, listening deeply, of course, to the 'bangers' of the 1980s; I was butthurt because I know it could have been a masterpiece if Elliot wasn't such a spacker.

You walk and read at the same time?

>>7071396
Apocalypse Now.

>>7073099
Walking is the most /lit/ thing you can do tbh; your brain organises itself during this time. Plus it gives you an active break during your life of constant information and hedonism.

>>7071396
Made you stop what?

Like your shitty tumblr tier post made me stop reading it half way through or something like that?

>>7073612
Just kidding OP. Would like to know more about what made you go on that walk. Also thanks for letting me know about Off the Air, checking it out now.

I saw Clown Torture as a kid and I was spooked by it but it certainly stopped me.

>>7073628
Turns out I already knew about Off the Air without knowing it since I follow CC on facebook and they are featured on the Liquid video. Also, nice double exposure. Are you into film photography? I remember when I got into it, really good thing to start doing, a bit expensive sometimes but It really hits you when you get all excited about developing your 36 shitty pics. Do you think photography is one of those things where its better if you know less about it? I mean, theorically, like the less you know about composition and a that kind of things the less you are impressed by other people's photos and stuff?

>>7071396
Dedalus' epiphany in The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I was jumping and dancing around in joy for five minutes after reading it. Just so perfect.

>>7071396
>Off the Air

Mah nigga
That shit is amazing, there was one clip in particular that literally took my breath away the first time I saw it. I think it was called "Citius, Altius, Fortius" or something like that.

I read 'Death of the Author' and it rustled my jimmies so much that I couldn't think straight for a few days

Been slowly reading through Invisible Cities, can only do one section at a time, because each inspires a long night of contemplation

>>7073697
I'm having the same feeling with The Book Of Disquiet. Except the sections are really short so I find it to be kind of exhausting to just go from 'that moment' to another one inmediatly. My soul weas out man!

>>7073645
you're fucking gay dude

>>7073070

I tried reading that and it was complete shit. He contradicts himself in the first three paragraphs, giving two opposing motives for the 'leftists'. Unsurprising, you ever met a mathematician who could string together a logical piece of literature?

>>7074819
>Unsurprising, you ever met a mathematician who could string together a logical piece of literature?

>Who was Lewis Carroll?
>Who was G. H. Hardy?
>Who was E. T. Bell?

I've got a few, and a few hours to spare, so I'll go medium-by-medium.

>Literature:
The ending of Infinite Jest.
Part of it was "Wow, I finally finished this fucking thing." THe other part was, "Wow, that was so sad and ugly and beautiful."

Finishing "A River Runs Through It".
Those last lines are some of the most beautiful in any work of literature.
"I am haunted by waters."

Jeff Vandermeer's "Acceptance."
"Annihilation" was some easy, well-written horror. "Authority" was a slower, more thoughtful examination of our flawed perceptions.
"Acceptance" actually had something to say. Control's ending killed me, as did the Director's letter.

>Film:
The very last shot of "Miami Vice".

The knife fight in "Rebel Without a Cause".

Every single minute of William Friedkin's "Sorcerer".

>TV:
Major Briggs' speech in "Twin Peaks". Haven't been able to get it out of my head since.

Frank's long walk in season 2 of "True Detective".

>Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUHAs1ooZs
The orchestral section.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78AVc2jV4Sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR_0nbEzVdY
The sax solo.

>Vidya:
The ending of "Mass Effect 3," in the worst way.

The ending of "Hotline Miami 2," in the best way.

The bucket scene in "LISA - The Painful RPG" had me laughing harder than any other work in the last five years.

>>7074934
Cool blogpost m8

The Things They Carried

>the scene when he decides on not going to Canada

>>7074985
Thnx ;)

'Deutsches Requiem' by Borges. I just sat in my chair and stared at the wall

The final moments of Cortazar's Hopscotch. Oliviera realizing he changed Traveler's life for the worse and his systematic ennui and pseudo-student lifestyle and his lost love all culminated in making a decision. The outcome didn't matter, only the fact that the decision was made. I had to take a walk after he flung himself out of the window.

>>7074934
So is the Southern Reach trilogy worth reading? Been interested in it, but reviews I've read said that it doesn't really go anywhere and is drawn out, but I suspect they're just people with no patience.

>>7075160

Is this the conclusion reached after reading through the shuffled chapters?
I've only given it the 'in order' read.

The last bit of part 1 made me pause
>Oliviera losing it
>prose breaking down into incomprehensibility
>All that business of Heraclitus, the kaleidoscope, kibbutz

loved it.

>>7075540
Well, obviously I'm a fan, but I loved them. In fact, I loved them in a different way than most people.

Most say that Annihilation is the best because of le ebin eldritch whatever, that Authority is too slow, and that Acceptance is too obtuse. On the other hand, I think that Acceptance is the best, followed by Authority, followed by Annihilation.

Don't get me wrong: Annihilation is still a good read. But Authority plays with the reader like few other books that I know of. Acceptance is just fucking heartbreaking, and one of my favorite books now that I've read it.

Authority and Acceptance forced me to reevaluate myself. Few books have that effect on me.

Granted, you'll have to deal with some narrative obscurity and a whole lot of loose ends, but that's the point. It's a trilogy that functions as a cohesive whole, and that's rare.

>>7075594
Fuck it dude, Gene Wolfe is my favorite author, I can deal with obscurity
>Authority is too slow
Exactly what I was talking about. imo it takes a lot of filler or meandering to make a book "too slow", and I'm betting the general consensus comes from people not getting a usual scifi novel

Annihilation almost sounds like a Michael Crichton novel, though. Think I might go pick up the trilogy later today.

>>7075611
Might wanna pick up Annihilation first, just to see if you like it or not. Having the trilogy in one volume is cool, but you miss out on the baller cover art.

In either case: godspeed, brother. It's a good read.

>>7075580
The last chapter of the linear read ends the same way. Oliviera is sitting in the room in the asylum and he's setting up the defenses against Traveler's encroachment, and finally he and Traveler talk, all the while Oliviera is sitting halfway out of the window. This all happened in chapter 56, I believe

>>7071396
The chancre on your mom's labia majora.

>>7075630

yeah, it does.
The difference is that on the surface it's justified as a defense, whereas your conclusion is Oliviera has come to the logical conclusion of his wasted fuck all life.

I thought maybe the other chapters played up his bad conscience, while the normal ending just leaves that as an implicit conclusion.

maybe I'll go read them now

Stephen Dedalus' epiphany in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Rothko's exhibit at the Tate Modern
The crescendo to The Exile's Letter by Ezra Pound

And if you ask how I regret that parting:
It is like the flowers falling at Spring's end
Confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking, and there is no end of talking,
There is no end of things in the heart.

;_;

>>7071396
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKj1iK2WKS8