/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19253007]

Can anyone recommend me books that explore the existential crisis that comes with the knowledge of the vastness of space and of our own insignificance? No Carl Sagan or Neil DeGrasse Tyson shit, for Christ's sake.

[Anonymous No.19253016]

>>19253007
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

[Anonymous No.19253656]

>>19253007
Bump

[Anonymous No.19255083]

>>19253007
>our own insignificance
christ this is the most poison phrase retarded athetists have been shilling for the last 25 years. You don't even know if space or atoms are fucking real and yet you compare your gifted transcendental intelligence and phenomenal perception to a fucking vaccume and dust and deem it of no importance. It's honestly pathetic, to see human creativity, spirit, and potential waisted on such basic and insubstantial hang ups over things that can't even be directly experienced. That's why there's no literature for you, if you honestly believe there is no significance to the human condition then kill yourself, because that's what all art celebrates, that's what all art has at the focal point, the phenomena of living, memory, love and edurement, though retarded athetists are too busy reading dawkins and watching black science man say their lives dont matter too know anything about that or humanity.

[Anonymous No.19255113]

>>19255083
Not sure if b8 or just autism.

[Anonymous No.19255135]

>>19255083
>You don't even know if space or atoms are fucking real

[Anonymous No.19255143]

Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.19256719]

>>19255083
Filtered

[Anonymous No.19256747]

It's more of an absurd crisis; so, I'd point to Camus.

[Anonymous No.19256750]

the bible

[Anonymous No.19256860]

That's pretty much all H.P. Lovecraft wrote about.

[Anonymous No.19257132]

When I ponder the universe, it makes me feel really huge and significant.
Not my problem if you're kek

[Anonymous No.19257807]

This book deals with travelling through the vast of space. The series are supposed to be standalone novels that can be read separately. They can, but to get a full understanding of the story and characters you need to have read the others.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14654789-vast

[Anonymous No.19257831]

>>19255083
Based and everything-has-meaningpilled.

[Anonymous No.19258825]

>>19255083
this was one of the most retarded posts I've read in a while, and I'm not a fucking atheist. Being a christian doesn't mean you can't wonder about the meaning behind the vastness of the universe, you imbecile

[Anonymous No.19259123]

Pascal.

[Anonymous No.19259128]

Log off and go for a walk in the woods

[Anonymous No.19259141]

>>19253007
Quick someone post that quote where some guy btfo's Russel Brand by making a comparison between "muh vastness of space" and how according to this logic an elephant is slightly more ontologically significant than a man because it is slightly bigger.

[Anonymous No.19259269]

Thirst for annihilation
Also go for a walk in the sun