/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15679771]

What literature can make you appreciative of your small narrow occasional enjoyment of life despite the overwhelming suffering?

[Anonymous No.15679846]

>>15679771
Epictetus, dude was a slave

[Anonymous No.15679850]

>>15679771
Whats this picture

[Anonymous No.15679877]

>>15679771
How the fuck can he be smiling here I mean honestly what the fug. If that were me first thing I’m doing is blowing my head clean off. This is just straight up aberrant behavior. 1488

[Anonymous No.15679907]

>>15679850
Right: man with all his extremities
Left: same man-penis-ass-legs-arm+a bag

[Anonymous No.15679911]

>>15679877
Idk man science is progressing like crazy. What if you shot yourself but then five years later they come up with the cure for not having legs, what a fool you would be

[Anonymous No.15679962]

>>15679771
Lord Of The Rings, they do it all to save there simple midget town. Not lit but I still reread to remember what matters.

[Anonymous No.15679972]

>>15679907
how is that the same man the one on the left is a child, I think you have the before after mixed up

[Anonymous No.15679995]

>>15679972
https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/forklift-accident-leaves-young-construction-worker-with-several-amputations-c-619121

[Anonymous No.15680065]

>>15679771
i admire that guy. if that happened to me and i survived i would spend the rest of my life screaming

[Anonymous No.15680073]

Next time they do a Q&A on their youtube channel, I dare someone to keep asking politically charged questions until they say something wrong, and then get them cancelled. They're from Montana, can't be hard to trip them up in a politically correct mind-field of questions about trans rights and BLM etc. Is cancel culture unflinching enough to cancel a kid who got chopped in half at work?

[Anonymous No.15680135]

>>15680073
>Is cancel culture unflinching enough to cancel a kid who got chopped in half at work?
In the land of the free? Of course!

[Anonymous No.15680143]

>>15680073
anon, i can't imagine just how unpleasant you actually are

[Anonymous No.15680155]

>>15680143
t. would 100% go along with ostracizing the kid if everyone else decided to do it and doesn't want to confront his own lack of moral compass

[Anonymous No.15680178]

>>15679771
>>15679877
>>15680065
Reminder that he has a gf that takes care of him.

[Anonymous No.15680180]

>>15680073
If this actually happened I’d simultaneously laugh my ass off and vomit from how bad I’d feel

[Anonymous No.15680184]

>>15679877
The morphine hasn't worn off yet.

[Anonymous No.15680197]

>>15680143
I bet if he said "all lives matter!" or "there are only two genders" you would fly into a rage and join the nearest twitter lynch mob. You know it's true.

[Townsends No.15680218]

>>15679771
Bump

I need answers

[Anonymous No.15680221]

>>15679962
>Not lit
Yes it is.

[Anonymous No.15680234]

>>15679972
construction clothes make you look a thousand times older and unappealing

[Anonymous No.15680236]

>>15680073
>I want to expend the effort to sacrifice a kid whose life was absolute rekt to rabid retards whom I know will eat him alive so that I may feel morally superior to them after they do what I know they will do
My solace is that your existence is sad and pitiful.

[Anonymous No.15680239]

>>15680178
what's the point of having a gf if you don't have gonads

[Anonymous No.15680256]

>>15680155
>>15680197
are you bots?

[Anonymous No.15680262]

>>15680239
Ok coomer

[Anonymous No.15680274]

>>15679995
>He was operating a forklift, which he says he was not certified to do, through the site when he saw a car barreling towards him.

>Thinking it would come to a stop before any collision, he continued.

>The car, however, did not stop and ploughed into him, sending him and the forklift sprawling down a gravel mound.
what the literal fuck

[Anonymous No.15680288]

There's a flip-side to the hedonic treadmill where even people with severe accidents and longtime injuries will often return to their baseline level of happiness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

[Anonymous No.15680333]

>>15680288
I once read this long ass essay from the point of view of some hotshit law student who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident, and kills himself at the end. That shit was chilling and still disturbs me to this day. The guy seemed like a real asshole before the accident, and just couldn't come to terms with it. It was compelling because you felt bad for him, but at the same time he seemed rather unlikable, which ultimately leads to his suicide. The reason someone linked to it was to poke holes in this idea that people just get used to their new lives.

[Anonymous No.15680351]

>>15680239
Don't worry. She will leave him once the attention wears off and she needs a good dicking.

[Anonymous No.15680420]

>>15680274
Australians think that the world stops for them.

[Anonymous No.15680463]

>>15680256
>being told by bots to develop some sense of individuality
did Kojima write this

[Anonymous No.15680790]

>>15680274
Best thing to do in that situation is put the forks up to driver height, put the parking brake on and enjoy the show.

[Anonymous No.15680803]

>>15680420
It happened in Montana. Also, who the fuck thinks the car is just going to keep going. Forklifts usually weigh at least 3 times more than a car

[Anonymous No.15680813]

>>15680790
He'd known that had he been in forklift certification training.

[Anonymous No.15680815]

>>15680333
I know which one you're referring to anon, saw someone post it here a year ago and it got me good back then (though I only jumped around and read two thirds or so), he's doubtless overly extreme at points nonetheless.
Here's the link http://www.2arms1head.com/

[Anonymous No.15680845]

>>15679907
Losing everything below the waist is the real soul-crusher. Just having leg stumps would be a thousand time more bearable.

[Anonymous No.15680883]

>>15679771
A day in the life of Ivan Denysovich

[Anonymous No.15681178]

>>15679771

[Anonymous No.15681253]

>>15679771
steppenwolf

[Anonymous No.15681290]

>>15680351
bingo

[Anonymous No.15682023]

>>15679771

[Anonymous No.15682070]

>>15679995
>>15680274
>>15679877
>>15680178
>>15680239
>>15680351
>>15681290
God I feel so terrible for him because he seems like he'd doing ok mentally but as soon as their socialmedia followers get bored of him, his gf will leave and he'll have nothing but the feeling of being trapped and alienated. He'll only be an inconvenience to his family, he'll have no one and his smile and character will slowly wear away into bitter subsistence.

[Anonymous No.15682142]

>>15681290
Maybe, who fucking cares though it’s not like they have to be together forever, you can’t look at all things as needing to be held up to some standard of forever. I doubt she’ll just abandon him and just get plowed by Tyrone in front of his immobile baby face. It doesn’t have to be a schism though, they might keep supporting each other anyway. Nothing at all compares to being bisected though, no metaphors to be made from that. Maybe he’ll even leave her, who fucking knows you coont

[Anonymous No.15682337]

>>15682142
>they might keep supporting each other anyway
Not a chance. These stories always play out the same way.

[Anonymous No.15682385]

>>15682337
Luckily these stories are rare and hardly ever happen in real life anyway
Also calm down your overactive imagination you preteen, “support” means a lot of things. One example, for instance, could be very distant business partners

[Anonymous No.15682755]

>>15679962
Stop capitalizing articles and prepositions in titles.

[Anonymous No.15682846]

>>15680813
Kek

[Anonymous No.15682856]

>>15679846
based

[Anonymous No.15683715]

>>15679907
how does he pee and poo?

[Anonymous No.15683800]

>>15682337
this one sucked to read about, though it's almost more admirable that she didn't even bother putting on a fake smile. that expression pretty much says "you know what's happening here. can you even blame me?"