[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 1.76 MB, 1920x1080, HFY_Avatar.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3490098 No.3490098 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good prose pieces? I need a 4-5 minute piece. I'd like it to be sort of a "fuck yeah, humanity rules" piece. But anything would do.

Picture related. This but longer would be nice, but anything you reccomend.

>> No.3490113

It's good to feel good about humanity, but it would only take a little effort for everyone to be doing a lot better.

>> No.3490156

>>3490113

Um... Yes? What does that have to do with the question lol.

>> No.3490170
File: 31 KB, 500x375, gd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3490170

Signs and Symbols

>> No.3490184

That's a pretty daft pic.

I recommend some Churchill. He has a way of making your blood boil.

>> No.3490204
File: 462 KB, 1108x499, pennyquote.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3490204

>I'd like it to be sort of a "fuck yeah, humanity rules" piece.

>> No.3490205

>>3490170

I read some, and like it a lot.

>>3490184

Thanks! Also I would like something with a bit more description, his speeches tend to be message based, which isn't bad, but it mostly lacks the feel I'm going for

>> No.3490210

Find a transcript for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo

>> No.3490211

>>3490204

Also pretty! Not long enough though :/

>> No.3490217

I also like this one:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Prolly not what you're going for, but motivational nevertheless.

>> No.3490223

>>3490217

I like it, but I can't use poetry. :/ Thanks though.

>> No.3490222

>>3490098

Desiderata

>> No.3490230

Almost anything from Dune is up your alley, OP. In particular, the death of Liet Kynes is a well written version of the dreck in your post.

>> No.3490266

>>3490230

Is there an online copy I can read?

>> No.3490270

>>3490266

Well no it's not in the public domain, but you can just Google dune pdf and you should find it.

>> No.3490281

If anything stated in the OP makes you feel positively about humanity then you're either a naive reader, or a profoundly sick individual.

>> No.3490290

>>3490281

It's okay. OP is in high school. This is a homework thread. I've tried to set him on the path by recommending Dune. It's the most that can be done.

>> No.3490348
File: 164 KB, 850x500, quatrich_retort.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3490348

>>3490098
Obligatory response to OP's pic.

>> No.3490360

>>3490348
>>3490098

Both of these are so dumb. James Cameron is just so incapable of thought. He has this bizarre talent for dressing up his dumb ideas though.

>> No.3490367

>>3490281
Or an engineer, you little humanities parasite.

>> No.3490380
File: 111 KB, 305x474, DanielQuinn_Ishmael.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3490380

>>3490360
If you want to see some of these ideas dressed up better, then Google the PDF for Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I think you'll find his discussion of the peoples he calls Takers and Leavers far more enlightening than the onscreen drama between the space-faring humans and the Na'vi.

For any of you who have already Quinn:
You are now aware that Humanity Fuck Yeah stories are really Takers Fuck Yeah stories.

>> No.3490462

>>3490380

I have read Ishmael, still considering using it, but that would be a good passage.

>> No.3490471

>>3490204
That is a pretty retarded quote. Just some mental gymnastics on how moral ideals are some how enforced onto people who could just do what they want anyways.

>> No.3490474

>>3490281
Why? It was a pretty good rebuttal to the movies protagonists, who thought nature was the be all end all happiness.

>> No.3490517

>>3490290

though it matters little, I have been meaning to read Dune, I'm just in the middle of a Song of Ice and Fire, and haven't had the time

>> No.3491622

>>3490098
>that picture
>me not remembering that quotation from any part of the movie
wtf

>> No.3491627

>>3491622
That's because an idiot on the internet wrote it.

>> No.3491666

What the fuck does this have to do with humanity, sounds like bullshit imperialistic Manifest Destiny to me

>> No.3492353
File: 43 KB, 688x842, who are you.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3492353

>>3491627
there are some weird people on the internet

>> No.3492361

OP needs to read some Joseph Conrad ASAP. We shouldn't worship ourselves, but instead be aware that we are always prone to irrationality and brutality. Self worship(and self hate) are detrimental to human well being.

>> No.3492379

HFY sucks on /tg/, and it sucks on /lit/. Eat my multi-jointed purple prick, OP. Aliens Unite.

>> No.3494813

“Little did they know that the place they were about to burgle -- the shop, and the flat above it -- had already been burgled the week before: yes, and the week before that. And the week before that. It was all burgled out. Indeed, burgling, when viewed in Darwinian terms, was clearly approaching a crisis. Burglars were finding that almost everywhere had been burgled. Burglars were forever bumping into one another, stepping on the toes of other burglars. There were burglar jams on rooftops and stairways, on groaning fire-escapes. Burglars were being burgled by fellow burglars, and were doing the same thing back. Burgled goods jigged from flat to flat. Returning from burgling, burglars would discover that they themselves had just been burgled, sometimes by the very burglar that they themselves had just burgled! How would this crisis in burgling be resolved? It would be resolved when enough burglars found burgling a waste of time, and stopped doing it. Then, for a while, burgling would become worth doing again. But burglars had plenty of time to waste -- it was all they had plenty of, and there was nothing else to do with it -- so they just went on burgling.”

>> No.3494825
File: 45 KB, 436x350, fraser2-436x350.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3494825

>>3490217
>And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

>> No.3494876

“Neologisms represent a need to have the right labels for everything. A need to say “this is just so”, and be sure of it. Some observers hear the foreign imports and sigh, wishing that the English language played host to such refined, poetic lexical artifacts. Personally, I am glad to find these lacunae. To really work for meaning is not a chore. To find the closest compound of words and phrases to approximate feeling is rewarding in itself; to make use of neologisms and ambassadors of other languages and still fall short means only that you appreciate that language is always a compromise where we must meet each other halfway and say not “I know” but “I understand”. Lacunae represent the sheer impossibility of categorising the entirety of the world; how appropriate it is that so often these are found when it comes to describing the describer. The gaps are always where we find ourselves.”

>> No.3494886

jesus christ cameron should've hung it up after terminator 2

>> No.3494889

>implying there is no self-engineering in nature
>implying there are no "voyages of discovery" in nature
>implying great insight into the nature of the universe can ever be found
>implying forging epics is interesting when you have nature

wow what a dumb speeech.

>> No.3494909

I cringe every time I see that edgy fucking pic