/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3418588]

ITT: authors that write exceptionally beautiful prose and some of your finest examples of it.

'Perhaps,' I thought, while her words still hung in the air between us like a wisp of tobacco smoke - a thought to fade and vanish like smoke without a trace - 'perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.'

[Anonymous No.3418596]

"Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.”

[Anonymous No.3418607]

“The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.”

[Anonymous No.3418612]

>>3418588
That's not beautiful, it's gaudy, purple and overwrought.

[Anonymous No.3418623]

>>3418612
1edgy6me "love doesnt real" 14 year old Nietzschean detected.

[Anonymous No.3418635]

>>3418623
16 year old internet sophist detected

[Anonymous No.3418644]

>>3418635
Cool, that means I'm older than you AND smarter than you.

[Anonymous No.3418648]

>>3418644
>implying I am

>>3418612

How do you know that you are smart?

[Anonymous No.3418653]

>>3418635
le above-it-all 21 year old long time lurker detected

[Anonymous No.3418659]

>>3418653
I was going to prepare a response to that, but that's about right.

[Anonymous No.3418662]

>>3418659
>21

This board really is nothing but kids isn't it.

[Anonymous No.3418666]

>>3418662
What gave it away?

[Anonymous No.3418667]

>>3418623
No, completely off. I'm 32, BTW.

[Anonymous No.3418668]

>>3418662
>This board really is nothing but kids isn't it.
Yeah.

[Anonymous No.3418670]

>>3418667
If that's true, that's kinda pathetic man.

[Anonymous No.3418683]

>letting assholes derail this thread

for shame

[Anonymous No.3418685]

>>3418670
Kid, you're going to be old someday too. It happens to everyone.

[Anonymous No.3418688]

>>3418683
I know, right?

[Anonymous No.3418700]

>>3418685
Well obviously. I just hope I'm not wasting my time on 4chan in 11 years.

[Anonymous No.3418708]

But this man, this man would not break. Life had crushed and cracked him. Time had withered and retarded him. Love had bled and boiled him. The acid of his primordial existence had washed over him, bathed him, and taken everything from him. Empty and defeated he stood: but not broken. He would rather be a void of echoes than a roaring body bent at the spine. And to me, with my accordion being, to me I saw a creature trying so desperately to be a man, and failing. Failing not because he lacked will or determination or anything becoming of a man, but because he had too much. He was too strong and too wise and too old. I realized, as I gazed on this bloodless sack that still refused to die, how ugly it was to watch a god pretend to be human. It is not a sight I wish to ever see again.

[Anonymous No.3418711]

>>3418708

[Anonymous No.3418713]

>>3418700
You hope to have no time left to waste by the age of 32? It's a goal I guess.

[Anonymous No.3418715]

>>3418711
Can't believe someone on /lit/ is actually paying attention.

[Anonymous No.3418716]

>>3418708
>I realized, as I gazed on this bloodless sack that still refused to die, how ugly it was to watch a god pretend to be human

what is that friend?

[Anonymous No.3418720]

>>3418716
Some 14 year old's diary entry just after reading Nietzsche for the first time.

[Anonymous No.3418721]

>>3418596
Fucking Joyce and his goofy eye patch. He does not have a face to wear an eye patch.

[Anonymous No.3418723]

>>3418713
I hope to have a slightly more fulfilling program of recreation.

[Anonymous No.3418724]

>>3418720
>>3418623
Now I'm kind of curious. Why is Nietzsche the preferred insult here? How is it even insulting to accuse someone of reading his work? What exactly are you trying to say?

[Anonymous No.3418725]

>>3418720
haha I think it's great

[Anonymous No.3418726]

>>3418721
You wouldn't be saying that if he plundered your ship and downloaded your copyrights.

[Anonymous No.3418728]

>>3418721
You leave Captain James Joyce alone.

[Anonymous No.3418731]

>>3418724
He's shit tier and anyone that reads him or takes him seriously past the age of 18 should be ridiculed.

I'm know I'm goring your ox here, and you're probably a little ass-sore about it, but it's for the best.

[Anonymous No.3418730]

>>3418724
>Why is Nietzsche the preferred insult here?
It isn't, it's a handful of idiots using it that need to read and lurk moar.

[Anonymous No.3418732]

>>3418726
>>3418728
Captian Dublinerbeard's scurvy bilge rats are out in full force today.

[Anonymous No.3418734]

>>3418732
Argh, deal with the knave, First Mate Hemmingway

[Anonymous No.3418737]

>>3418730
You're shitting me right?

The people that have "lurked moar" have been having to deal with fucking awful Nietzsche threads on a daily basis for way too long now.

[Anonymous No.3418739]

>>3418716
Not really sure. I'm working on a story and just started writing something up that I think I might put in it, that is if /lit/ didn't even notice it being a thread of selected quotes.

I find it funny /lit/ even does this. It seems to me what separates an amazing section from an average one is the prior build up to it.

[Anonymous No.3418745]

>>3418731
I'm not butt hurt.

>>3418737
The only people I've seen talk about Nietzsche here are people like you that name drop him as an insult. What are you really trying to say? Introduction to nihilism and angst go hand in hand? I thought that would be kind of obvious.

[Anonymous No.3418746]

>>3418737
Literally everything about that picture is fucking glorious.

[Anonymous No.3418748]

>>3418737
>The people that have "lurked moar" have been having to deal with fucking awful Nietzsche threads on a daily basis for way too long now.
It's amazing how one has to deal with something so regularly and yet still remains ignorant.

[Anonymous No.3418750]

>>3418748
Still remains ignorant to what? That Nietzsche has had a wide sphere of influence but is still shitty? Nope.

[Anonymous No.3418751]

>>3418737
>wow that is pretty good
>see bread piece in his zipper

Oh fuck. This guy it good.

[Anonymous No.3418754]

>>3418750
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise you knew Nietzsche had a wide sphere of influence but is still shitty. How much studying did it take you to get this far in your immense understanding?

[Anonymous No.3418768]

>>3418748
I don't even give a fuck that angst-ridden youths are drawn to Nietzsche. In fact some of his statements regarding slave-morality and religion, while extremely provocative for their time, are spot on. It's his boner for aristocracy, violence, exploitation, anti-intellectualism, collectivism, anti-egalitarianism and so on where he loses me.

[Anonymous No.3418776]

>>3418768
>It's his boner for aristocracy, violence, exploitation, anti-intellectualism, collectivism, anti-egalitarianism and so on where he loses me.
You've mistaken Nietzsche for Heidegger& co's view on Nietzsche. It's like saying you like Adam Smith, but his whole laissez-faire market thing loses you.

[Anonymous No.3418777]

>>3418768
Nietzsche is, and if this thread is any indication, will be a source of a lot of controversy. I actually like his exploitation and anti-egalitarianism views. He supported them well enough. But I highly doubt there is anyone out there that agrees with everything he says, or is a true "Nietzschian"

[Anonymous No.3418792]

>>3418776
>Nietzsche fanboy #3124728 commits a fallacy of presumption for the umpteenth time

But hey, since you're insinuating that Heidegger's view on Nietzsche are incorrect I guess that invalidates all of his work, and thus the work of Derrida as well? That's cool with me. All 3 of them are total shit tier.

I put the people that think Nietzsche was a good philosopher under the same umbrella as people that believe Reagan was a good president. Ironically enough, they both had diseases that rotted away their brains.

[Anonymous No.3418797]

>>3418792
views*

[Anonymous No.3418807]

>>3418792
>But hey, since you're insinuating that Heidegger's view on Nietzsche are incorrect I guess that invalidates all of his work, and thus the work of Derrida as well?
Let's pretend that I'm insinuating that: no, because Heidegger and Derrida did much more than just write footnotes to Nietzsche.
Now back to reality, saying not to take someone else's interpretation as gospel is not even remotely like saying they're wrong. You need to look at the primary texts more, not read secondary sources and pass it off as your own. This is Harvard Bar Scene shit. Fucking Vickers.

[Anonymous No.3418814]

>>3418792
>Reagan was a good president
By comparison, he was. Presidents of actual merit are few and far between.

[Anonymous No.3418823]

>>3418807
>Heidegger and Derrida did much more than just write footnotes to Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.3418827]

>>3418814
>merit
If you say so, cupcake.

[Anonymous No.3418840]

>>3418807
All it takes is one basic reading of Beyond Good and Evil and one basic reading of Zarathustra to understand that Nietzsche hated women, hated egalitarianism, hated intellectualism, loved aristocracy, loved violence, loved collectivism and loved exploitation. If that's your thing, then cool man. But it's got nothing to do with Heidegger.

That "Harvard bar scene" shit was funny though. I lol'd.

[Anonymous No.3418851]

>>3418827
Most of those are true, and yet he is still better than the majority of presidents. Like I said, he is good by comparison.

[Anonymous No.3418859]

This thread is complete dildos.

[OP No.3418866]

>>3418859
I'm thinking about just deleting it but I'm still holding onto a fleeting sense of hope that it might get back on track.

[Anonymous No.3418883]

>>3418840
>loved collectivism

Did you miss the part about him hating "the herd"?

[Anonymous No.3418888]

>>3418866
do it

[Anonymous No.3418895]

>>3418866
There's no hope. The philosofaggots have ruined it.

[Anonymous No.3418910]

Nobody has mentioned Fernando Pessoa?