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have you ever been moved to tears by the written word?

>> No.13982934

Yeah, most recently two parts in Finnegans Wake, a little after the start of part 2 and the ending

>> No.13982935

Yes, plenty of times. Never because of the content but because I realize I will never be able to write as well.

>> No.13982946

>>13982923
Many times

>> No.13982952

>>13982923
Oh yeah, Of Mice and Men got me when I was young. Stoner got me when I was a little older. Ulysses a little older. Flowers for algernon got me in high school.

>> No.13982955

Tolstoy

>> No.13983062

The last chapter of The Brothers Karamazov made me cry a whole lot

>> No.13983070

when Stoner's waifu left reminded me of my waifu leaving me and i cried haha it's whatever haha

>> No.13983075

>>13982935
>>13982946
>>13982934
god you all sound the same, get a voice

>> No.13983079

>>13982923
near the end of Sudden Death

>> No.13983087
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>>13982923
Sure, reading the gospels for the first time has that effect on you

>> No.13983097

Marley and Me, age 10

>> No.13983166

>>13982923
Ending of Night of the Galactic Railroad destroyed me.

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>>13982923
No I have not. I really wish written word could make me cry like that. The only thing that can make me cry are those dog rescue videos.

>> No.13983197

>>13982923
Somebody make me cry with a quote

>> No.13983203

>>13983182
You're the worst mix of low iq, effeminate and race traiting.

>> No.13983215

Pretty sure last time was when I read Where the Red Fern Grows as a kid

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>>13983203
Sorry I love animals and don't eat them Chang. Go back to /r/asianmasculinity and complain some more about white men taking all the qt asian girls.

>> No.13983266

>>13983236
>race traiting
pretty sure that guy is white, dumbass

>> No.13983275

>>13982923
>dat moment when Bloom sees his dead woolwearing lad in circe

>> No.13983278

Anna Karenina
Unconditional Surrender - Evelyn Waugh

>> No.13983280

The Ballad of Reading Gaol makes me cry everytime I read it.

>> No.13983364

>>13983266
probably, but it was genius to assume he was asian and connect it with him hating dogs, come on

>> No.13983391

The end of Farewell to Arms got me damn close. Was misty for sure.

>> No.13983559

>>13983062
definitely brought a tear to my eye

>> No.13983565
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13983565

yes

>> No.13983575

>>13983565
this fucking piece of shit is, for whatever reason, in the check out lines at Fred Meyer where I live. It's gotta be trash.

>> No.13983602

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami absolutely destroyed my soul for really personal reasons

>> No.13983665

>>13983182
Why do I like boobs so much. Its stronger than me. Why? I want to touch, lick, kiss, fall asleep on them

>> No.13983703

>>13983565
my community college in kentucky had this as it's school-wide required reading and i never read it. i got the author's autograph when he visited our school.

>> No.13984103

Absolutely. The more I read, the more susceptible I become to being moved by good writing.

Just the other week I read Pawana by Le Clézio and started weeping at the library. Unfortunately this display of weakness immediately attracted the resident wino.

>> No.13984109

>>13982923
Only once, but I cry to every second anime I watch.

>> No.13984128

>>13982923
all the time. can't read a schiller ballad without shedding a tear. sometimes a single line or a pair of lines do the trick. my favorites
>"konnt' ich dieses herz verhärten, das der himmel fühlend schuf?" (jungfrau von orleans)
>"und teilt mit gewaltigen armen / den strom und ein gott hat erbarmen. //" (die bürgschaft)
>"und könnt ihr des herzens gelüsten nicht zähmen, / so mögen die ritter den knappen beschämen. //" (der taucher)
schiller is violent.

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>>13982923
Life and fate. Victors grandmas letter.

>> No.13984208

>>13984128
the words' sheer power will be lost in translation, but nevertheless
>"could i harden this heart that the heavens created sentient?"
>"and divided with mighty arms / the currents with the mercy of god. //"
>"and could you not tame what the heart does crave, / so may the knights put the knaves in the shade. //"
contexts
>jean d'arc prays to god in a moment of doubt and despair, reproaching him for choosing her, an innocent herder and virgin, to lead the battle against the britons.
>damon / möros throws himself in a gushing river, overflowing from a violent storm, that separates him from syracuse where he needs to return to save a friend who stands bail for him for a death sentence
> the king's daughter pleads his father to not provoke for his mere amusement a young knave into diving once again into a fierce maelstrom, with little chance of survival.

>> No.13984359

The end of "Beneath the Wheel" by Hermann Hesse

>> No.13984476

I cry every time someone on here calls me a faggot.

>> No.13984501

>>13982923
Nope, sadly not. Only music and visual media with music can make me cry.

Closest I got was reading an article in first person about a human trafficking survivor sold by her parents as a fucking kid, the contrast of the stuff and her humour about it was damn good but still not enough.

>>13984128
Not feeling a thing, although the Jean D'Arc thing would be far more powerful if I had the context before.

Appreciate the direct example though, would be great if more anons posted theirs. I'd love to have a strong emotional reaction from text alone.

>> No.13984555

>>13984476
based faggot

>> No.13984565

Dearest,
I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.

>> No.13984577

>>13982923
That conversation Dresdemona has with her servant in act 4 literally brought me to tears and was extremely touching, also made what was to come that much worse. Also, another recent example would be John Williams' Augustus, beautiful novel.

>> No.13984581

>>13984565
Co-dependant relationshits always gave me dem cringes; although I see how someone could've find this emotionally touching.

>> No.13984590

>>13984565
pretty gay. is this a suicide note?

>> No.13984601

>>13984590
Yeah, Virginia Woolf's.

>> No.13984603

Yes, many times,

Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Bastard out of California, Go Down, Moses, Jane Eyre

>> No.13984606

>>13982923
Yes. Graham Greene's End of the Affair did that for me towards the end. Bernanos as well.

>> No.13984631

unironically where the red fern grows

>> No.13984649

>>13984565
This

>> No.13984672

>>13982923
I'm not really able to cry when reading, I just don't connect to the books in way like that. Maybe it's due to my autism, but when I read parts of books considered as 'sad', I don't really have a sudden change in emotions, I just continue reading, noting that something sad had happened.

>> No.13984675

>>13984672
Yeah, might be your autism or the fact that you never read anything that could have such an impact on you, but I reckon it's the former.

>> No.13984681

>>13984208
how do you tear up from this nonsense

>> No.13984695

>>13984681
Joan's life was one of gigantic triumph and profound poignancy.

>> No.13984767

>>13984681
its really mostly the power of the words themselves, which is lost in translation. i don't know how schiller does it. his words sometimes just strike me to the core as if they were a force of nature and then it feels like the way they are formed is both elegant and violent, but also inevitable, as if dictated not by a man, but as a law of nature by nature herself.

>> No.13985561

I remember feeling really sorry for Augustine's loss of his mother in Confessions.

>> No.13985585

>>13983075
It's the DFW voice

>> No.13985600

>>13983062
Same here. First and only book that has made me cry

>> No.13985661

>>13982923

>But to the Mind-less ones, the wicked and depraved, the envious and covetous, and those who mured do and love impiety, I am far off, yielding my place to the Avenging Daimon, who sharpening the fire, tormenteth him and addeth fire to fire upon him, and rusheth upon him through his senses, thus rendering him readier for transgressions of the law, so that he meets with greater torment; nor doth he ever cease to have desire for appetites inordinate, insatiately striving in the dark.

>> No.13985845

>>13982923
I remember crying on The Three Musketeers. But then again I was 11.

>> No.13986664

>>13982923
Reading the Brothers Karamazov for the first time right now. Grushenka’s speech about the Onion absolutely got me.

>> No.13987344

Slaughterhouse 5's bit about Sodom and Gomorrah.

>Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them.
>And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
>She was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.
>People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
>I’ve finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun.
>This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.

>> No.13987347

>>13982955
This

>> No.13987380

Unironically DFW's essay on 9/11. You can feel how disturbed he was by the event in his prose.

>> No.13987551

>>13982955
Based
>>13983062
Grow up.

>> No.13987612

>>13982923
Not really crying, but the friends suicide in Fabian by Kästner really moved me, escpecially after the reveal that it was motivated by a pity act of revenge.
>>13987344
Not near tears, but still a very moving passage.

>> No.13987749

>>13982923
Only the spoken word hold such power over my soul.
I did get that choking tearfulness that Des Esseintes in Against the Grain talks about. Mostly when reading poetry like Baudelaire's Moesta et Errabunda or Rimbaud's Sister of Charity.

>> No.13987763

>>13983182
>>13983236
Completely unrelated anon, do you think Asians men have towards whites the same complex American men have towards black? In the sense of stealing yo girl with that fat
cock and manly exterior.
I find the idea oddly amusing.

>> No.13987882

>>13982923
I cried when my dad died and never since. I think I might be an emotionlet.