/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11084373]

You sicken me. Sicken me to death.

[Anonymous No.11084384]

>>11084373
I'm sorry to depress you, fellow knight.

[Anonymous No.11084394]

Is Dark Souls the most kierkegaardian(!) game?

[Anonymous No.11084474]

Shine my way to you, lighthouse.

[Anonymous No.11084510]

I wasnt coming on to you it was hyperreality

[Anonymous No.11084744]

Do niggers dream of wooled chicken?

[Anonymous No.11085261]

>>11084373
This post filled me with fear and left me trembling.

[Anonymous No.11085445]

ECCE HOMO

[Anonymous No.11085449]

>when he picks you up from Kindergarten and gives you "The Look"

[Anonymous No.11085453]

>>11084394
I've always wanted to get into those games, tried number 2 and 3, but it just feels so clunky and there is virtually no proper story. It's frustrating because I love the atmosphere and aesthetic of the world.

[Anonymous No.11085457]

>when she sidles up next to you and slips you "On Intentions"
YOU
JUST
KNOW

[Anonymous No.11085461]

>>11085457
>when you're in their bedroom and they hand you "Three Philosophers"
whew

[Anonymous No.11085492]

>ywn read kierkegaard for the first time again

[Anonymous No.11085512]

>>11085492
What have you read by Kierkegaard? His work in "Concluding Unscientific Postscripts" is radically different from TSuD, and "Either/Or" is just a big, beautiful piece of literature. [Not to mention the tearjerking homilies in "Works of Love..."] Or you could read the cultural prophecies in "Two Ages," or the foundational existentialist work "Repetition."

Failing that, you could always read his journals, which have some cool insights into the man hisself:
>In order to learn true humility, it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world, for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about ... But in the heart of nature, where a person, free from life's often nauseating air, breathes more freely, here the soul opens willingly to every noble impression. Here one comes out as nature's master, but he also feels that something higher is manifested in nature, something he must bow down before; he feels a need to surrender to this power that rules it all.

[Anonymous No.11085561]

>>11085445
wat

[Anonymous No.11085654]

>>11085453
Those are the worst entries in the series
Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne are the only ones worth playing

[Anonymous No.11085697]

The real Phenomenology of Spirit was the friends we made along the way

[Anonymous No.11085760]

I really did not find Kierkegaard to be interesting

[Anonymous No.11085783]

>>11085760
>I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

[Anonymous No.11085789]

>>11085783
Christ, what a whiny pseud.

[Anonymous No.11085790]

>>11085760
Your mother is the negative third to my dick, fag.

We form my father, his son, and the holy slag.

[Anonymous No.11085797]

>>11085789
Sounds like you never get invited to parties, anon.

[Anonymous No.11085809]

>>11085797
I'm not disputing that parties are soul-draining. This reaction is melodramatic.

[Anonymous No.11085814]

Kierkegaard is a good John Green

[Anonymous No.11085817]

>>11085809
Do you remember what you were like at 23?

[Anonymous No.11085831]

>>11085817
I am 23.

[Anonymous No.11085874]

>>11085817
I really do feel like im dying though. I DONT HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT LIT, OH YOU COULD SAVE ME IF YOU WANTED TO BUT YOU WONT AND I DONT EVEN WANT IT AT THIS POINT.

CLARISSA, I LOVED YOU WITH ALL MY HEART. YOU WERE THE ONLY IGUANA IN A DESOLATE DESERT. YOU WERE MY MUSE AND MY EVERYTHING. I KISS YOU GOODBYE DARLING EVEN THOUGH YOU COULD NEVER LOVE ME HALF AS MUCH BACK. I KID NOT. IT IS MY TIME TO GET PUSHED THROUGH THIS MORTAL COIL. HAPPINES HUGS AND KISSES MY LOVE.

[Anonymous No.11085877]

>>11085831
Then it's strange you can't relate to his alienation. Of course, he's not being emo and sincere, but neither is he purely detached: he's on so many layers of irony that it's not worth counting. I found it funny, but if you take it with too much gravity, I can see why you think he's a whiny pseud.

[Anonymous No.11085935]

>>11085877
I suppose I've been over-exposed to this kind of mockery already, but it seems a waste of time to point out the superficiality and fabricated sentimentality of something that all recognize as such from the outset.

[Anonymous No.11085966]

>>11085935
>He wants to convince [others] that he is not a lunatic and therefore paces up and down the floor and continually says, "Boom! The Earth is round!". But is the earth not round? ... is he a lunatic, the man who hopes to prove that he is not a lunatic by stating a truth universally accepted and universally regarded as objective?
I picked the first quotation from his private journals, which is unfair to anyone who has kept a diary. You may not find him funny, but I do.

[Anonymous No.11087044]

>>11084394
I've never thought of it that way but definitely. At some point you have to just tell yourself that the game is hard as fuck and will stay hard and you just got to throw yourself in to it.

[Anonymous No.11087049]

>>11085445
Ye Olde Cuck

[Anonymous No.11087081]

>>11085512
What part is the best in Works Of Love?

[Anonymous No.11087090]

>>11087081
The most important parts, IMO, were:
>making yourself 'no one' in conversation
>God is the middle-term
>the nature of Erotic love
but my favorite was the chapter, "Love Hides a Multitude of Sins"

[Anonymous No.11087103]

>>11087090
What is the best way to read it?

[Anonymous No.11087108]

>>11087103
Honestly, just dive in. No prior knowledge of Kierk is necessary, and prior knowledge of the Bible is helpful, but not required. It's a fast read, too.

[Anonymous No.11087115]

>>11085449
with which eye?

[Anonymous No.11087129]

>>11087108
Will i get anything out of it if im not a christian?

[Anonymous No.11087135]

>>11087129
Yes you will. You'd better sympathise with Christianity, though, even if not believing.

[Anonymous No.11088364]

>>11087129
It depends on who you are. Kierkegaard's Christianity is so severe and so far removed from Christendom (what he calls the secular churches that are """Christian""" in name only), it might be more palatable than boring, Protestant sermons.

I just realized that his style, while not atypical for his age, might be difficult to get accustomed to. He links a lot of clauses together without a period, which I think makes him more candid and realistic, but YMMV. Check the opening paragraph for a taste:
>If it were so, as conceited sagacity, proud of not being deceived, thinks, that we should believe nothing that we cannot see with our physical eyes, then we first and foremost ought to give up believing in love. If we were to do so and do it out of fear lest we be deceived, would we not then be deceived? We can, of course, be deceived in many ways. We can be deceived by believing what is untrue, but we certainly are also deceived by not believing what is true. We can be deceived by appearances, but we certainly are also deceived by the sagacious appearance, by the flattering conceit that considers itself absolutely secure against being deceived. Which deception is the more dangerous?
and then pic related to gauge your interest in it.

[Anonymous No.11088374]

>>11085445
Hot

[Anonymous No.11089023]

>>11087129
You will get something out of it if you at least read a few Plato dialogues first

[Anonymous No.11089702]

>>11085809
>>11085789
normalfags please go

[Anonymous No.11090422]

currently reading Concept of Anxiety
>people like anxiety
what did he mean by this
am I too brainlet to get understand that?
the only way I could somehow get it is if I assume that by his definition anxiety stems from the lack of knowledge and he ties that to innocence, almost making an equation between them therefore making that state somehow desirable at some level
please correct me