[ 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: 83 KB, 497x406, prose-cons.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR] No.3973104 [Reply] [Original]

Share the best piece of prose you've recently had the pleasure of reading. No more than a paragraph.

This thread will inspire people to become poet astronauts.

>> No.3973112

This:
Share the best piece of prose you've recently had the pleasure of reading. No more than a paragraph.

This thread will inspire people to become poet astronauts.

>> No.3973118

This:

This:

>> No.3973120

>tfw when the day before you left for college to study political philosophy your stem father told you "there is two type of people I despise: politicians and philosophers"

>> No.3973135

The fall of the Monarchy had been so rapid that, as soon as the first stupefaction that succeeded it had passed away, there was amongst the middle class a feeling of astonishment at the fact that they were still alive. The summary execution of some thieves, who were shot without a trial, was regarded as an act of signal justice. For a month Lamartine's phrase was repeated with reference to the red flag, "which had only gone the round of the Champ de Mars, while the tricoloured flag," etc.; and all ranged themselves under its shade, each party seeing amongst the three colours only its own, and firmly determined, as soon as it would be the most powerful, to tear away the two others.

Flaubert - Sentimental Education

>> No.3973221

This:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>> No.3973351

c/lit/s only read critiques of philosophy books and reviews of the classics so that they can pretend to have read them on the internet. They wouldn't know of any.

>> No.3973395

>>3973135
I thought this was "good" to "very good" via "excellent"

>> No.3973402

>>3973351
you're wrong, /lit/ only makes impossible absolute statements of people they don't know an of which they have no proof at all

>> No.3973434
File: 13 KB, 220x326, Soren.Kierkegaard.1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3973434

Are you proud of choosing to love only the extraordinary, the rare? If it were best to love only those who are extraordinary then God would be puzzled, because to him there is no extraordinary. This claim of loving only that which is extraordinary, then, raises a question, not against love and not against the extraordinary, but against that love which loves only that which is extraordinary. Perfection in the object is not perfection in the love. Romantic love is a desire for the extraordinary object, the beloved. Friendship is a desire for the extraordinary object, the friend. Only love of the neighbor is the desire for love. Therefore, authentic love is proved by this, that its object lacks any of those qualifications that differ in people, which means that this love is recognizable only by it being love.

>> No.3973446

>>3973104

Measuring people is hard. People are complex by their nature in the most literal of ways; a man's mind is not only the product of his experiences but what understanding he takes from those experiences. To further convolute the weighing of any one psyche, you will come to find that what one takes from a great act of generosity another can take from a particular piece of music or vision. Before you try to estimate the experiences, therefore the lessons learned, furthermore the motives and ultimately infer the future actions of one intelligence please take a moment to reflect inwardly; what could you have learned differently?

>> No.3973450

>>3973446

Fuck.

>> No.3973478

>>3973434
>If it were best to love only those who are extraordinary then God would be puzzled, because to him there is no extraordinary
no wonder the fucker did so much terrible things, he loves nothing