/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16295050]

You are going to die alone, anon.

[Anonymous No.16295128]

>>16295050
That's a lovely passage -- I didn't know that book possessed such interesting meditations.

That said, a truer and fuller understanding of de Quincey's intuition is, I think, set forth in Newman's Dream of Gerontius:

I can no more; for now it comes again,
That sense of ruin, which is worse than pain,
That masterful negation and collapse
Of all that makes me man; as though I bent
Over the dizzy brink
Of some sheer infinite descent;
Or worse, as though
Down, down for ever I was falling through
The solid framework of created things,
And needs must sink and sink
Into the vast abyss. And, crueller still,
A fierce and restless fright begins to fill
The mansion of my soul. And, worse and worse,
Some bodily form of ill
Floats on the wind, with many a loathsome curse {329}
Tainting the hallow'd air, and laughs, and flaps
Its hideous wings,
And makes me wild with horror and dismay.
>http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/gerontius.html

(Spoilers: there's a happy ending)

[Anonymous No.16295131]

>>16295050
everyone dies alone

[Anonymous No.16295134]

>>16295050
This the first time you've thought about that? I'm 30, it's old news.

[Anonymous No.16295143]

>>16295050
i'm not. i'm taking everyone on the plane with me

[Anonymous No.16295151]

>>16295131
Not Goebbels

[Anonymous No.16295161]

What's this extract from?
>inb4 Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.16295163]

>>16295151
Killing your children before yourself != Dying with a team
it's a personal matter

[Anonymous No.16295333]

>>16295161
De Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis.
>>16295128
I like this. Never heard of Newman before. Might have to check out his stuff.