/lit/ - Literature

Stop browsing the internet.

The Hobbit

dead serious

Pic related or
*heavy breathing*
Infinite Jest

>>7905921
seconded. get away from 4chan.

>>7905921
>>7905938
You guys are probably right, but it's hard to leave.
4chan's brutal honesty and filter-less humor is a welcome respite from my dull daily life.

The side effect however, is this permeating bitterness that has eclipsed any vestiges of altruism or optimism.

>>7905950
4chan is a containment site where people vent their frustrations because of their shitty lives. it's angry but i don't think honest because people aren't raging about what's actually eating them up.

>>7905935
This guy knows what he's talking about.

>>7905961
>people aren't raging about what's actually eating them up
I'm inclined to disagree. Sure oftentimes the magnitude of emotional response is heightened for comedic purpose, but the intent is true.
And what better place to spew unrefined and honest opinions than an anonymous forum?

Infinite Jest is anti-cynical,

>>7905989
the arguments about lit, vidya, music, etc aren't actually about lit, vidya, music, etc. 4chan is a place for people to kick the dog when they're angry.

>>7905919
The Fateful Tales of the Good Soldier Svejk

>>7905989
I'm pretty sure they're going to discover there are incredibly cathartic properties in trolling and shitposting.

>>7906011
Well then what the fuck. I'm turning into this fucking facimile of a person and I don't know why.
I am a shallow and borderline sociopathic person, yet for some reason I'm always suprised when people treat me as such. I'm an insincere sycophant to an absurd degree and a common victim of my own self-destructive
tendencies. And my writing sucks. And I'm ugly.

And I wasn't so painfully aware of all this shit until browsing 4chan. Godammit fuckkiing captcha

>>7906025
Perhaps your ego is thence to great you expect to much?

>>7905919
Your diary desu

>>7906012
This book is becoming a meme
Read it before it's ends up like Stoner, A Confederacy of Dunces, or Don Quixote

>>7906185
I refuse to believe its' becoming a meme. What proof you have?

>>7906025
>And I wasn't so painfully aware of all this shit until browsing 4chan.

Fuck dude. Same. Seeing every single character trait meticulously broken down and made fun of has left me thinking that they are all shit.
I see people eating in public, talking to random people, smiling, wearing any type of clothes, and all I can do is inwardly laugh at them.

I can't be sincere anymore. I even shit and eat ironically. I have killed the person I once was and have replaced him with a parody of self.
Even now as I write this truth about my life I'm being ironic. I'm laughing at the stupid situation this guy is in.

I would kill myself ironically, but I'm too ironically lazy to actually do it.

>>7906025
This post is literally me

>>7905919
Read Steppenwolf

LIVE
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Just grow up jesus christ

You people sound really weak-willed. If you are such an influentiable retard that a fucking website can make you feel bad, then leave.
>but but I needz my shitposting :( look at all this intellectual discussion and 'truth'
There's nothing intellectual on 4chan, there's no truth, its just a huge hivemind that repeats the same things over and over again, mostly contrarian bullshit.
Sadly, I believe that a lot of people think like OP, they feel this lack of empathy for most people, this is mostly caused by a sense of superiority, they feel so superior because they are able to 'see' the truth. This truth is nothing more than 4chan shitposting,extremist ideas and retardness. It's really pitiful. I hope you people grow out of it.

>>7906978
oh le irony

>>7905950
I want you to try a little mental experiment

what if "brutal honesty" can be a kind of affectation?

Oblomov

>>7906989
This OP.

That and just realize that there's nothing to be ashamed of in trying to be happy.

>>7906978
You sound pretty cynical yourself mate

cynicism is for children
just stop being a milquetoast chucklehead who lacks a real personality

>>7907420
>just stop being a milquetoast chucklehead who lacks a real personality

So just don't be cynical. Thanks senpai. Problem solved

>>7906185
>>7906249
>becoming a meme
Back in my day we just said "popular"

>>7905919
Stoner by John Williams. Perfect novel about facing the harshness of life without pessimism and cynicism.

>>7905961
powerful yet strong. and true.