/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5873042]

What books give the feeling of the infinite?

[Anonymous No.5873066]

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[Anonymous No.5873109]

Hamlet

[Anonymous No.5873121]

infinite jets

[Anonymous No.5873124]

>>5873042
Just read The Library of Babel by Borges

Why read a long book about the infinite when you could read a short story?

[Anonymous No.5873125]

my dick in you ass hole

[Anonymous No.5873127]

Stuff by Borges. Library of Babel in particular.

[Anonymous No.5873129]

critique of pure reason
aristotle's physics

[Anonymous No.5873138]

>>5873042
I'd recommend Stewart's Calculus for a beginner

[Anonymous No.5873141]

infinity and more

[Anonymous No.5873153]

>>5873042
That pic is aesthetic as fuuark

[Anonymous No.5873162]

>>5873153
why did you use "fuuark" instead of fuck? do you not want to swear? if you didn't want to swear, shouldn't you have used a word that isn't similar to "fuck"? did you use "fuuark" intentionally for some comic effect? maybe some joke i didn't read on /b/?

[Anonymous No.5873166]

>>5873162
its a /fit/ related meme originating from zyzz
"im shredded as fuuark brah"

[Anonymous No.5873170]

People are already recommending Library of Babel, and you should read it, but I prefer The Lottery in Babylon. (The relationship with infinity is a bit more subtle but still clearly there.)

[Anonymous No.5873208]

>>5873166
fuuark doesn't mean fuck though

[Anonymous No.5873212]

Thus spoke Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.5873236]

>>5873208
It's 'fuck' written as though it was spoken with an accent.

[Anonymous No.5873239]

>>5873208
er, yes it does

[Anonymous No.5873249]

>>5873212
This

[Anonymous No.5873260]

>>5873121
This, it starts over again at the end.

[Anonymous No.5873263]

>>5873236
if you are too much of a pussy to say the real word then just don't say it ok.

[Anonymous No.5873270]

>>5873263
wtf its just a slang

[Anonymous No.5873276]

>>5873263
it must be exhausting to carry around that huge unwarranted sense of self-importance all day

[Anonymous No.5873292]

>>5873263
>autism

[Anonymous No.5873387]

such a magnificent de chirico

[Anonymous No.5873391]

A book containing a stream of digits which is equal to the diameter of your mother's vagina

[Anonymous No.5873489]

Kind of hit or miss but try Cloud Atlas

[Anonymous No.5873497]

This painting will soon replace the Mona Lisa as the most recognized in the world. A few centuries after that, its image will replace the air we breathe. Looking at it (which will be on mouse pads, t-shirts, and even full-scale throw rugs) will sustain us, and a glance at it will allow us to live a bit longer.

Magnificent, marvellous, astounding, all that.

[Anonymous No.5873523]

higher res

[Anonymous No.5873568]

>>5873212
>>5873249

i just bought this on thriftbooks for $4.02, in "Very Good" condition, the purchase was catalyzed by you two anons

[Anonymous No.5873650]

what a coincidence, another de chirico

[Anonymous No.5873667]

>>5873650
Yeah, de Chirico was inspired by Nietzsche's writings on Turin.

[Anonymous No.5873681]

>>5873667
interesting

[Anonymous No.5873712]

I like de Chirico and all, but you guys are giving him the sloppiest throatjobs ever.

[Anonymous No.5873730]

Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thousendsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

[Anonymous No.5873756]

>>5873121
>infinite jets

[Anonymous No.5873762]

>>5873121
>and but so, the the jets flew infinitely over the fields.

[Anonymous No.5873826]

100 Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.5873832]

>>5873826

Sounds pretty finite to me.

[Anonymous No.5873839]

>>5873826
the ending pretty much leaves no room for repetition.

[Anonymous No.5873855]

>>5873839
>>5873832
they want a book that repeats over and over?

I meant it gave a sense of the infinite as it applies to the human race, civilization; change and existance

[Anonymous No.5873859]

Finnegan's Wake

[Anonymous No.5873864]

>>5873832
>>5873855
>>5873826
the infinite passage of time

[Anonymous No.5873883]

>>5873066
epic

[Anonymous No.5873899]

>>5873568
I've not even read it, I just posted because I figured I'd get those precious (You)s of recognition from it

[Anonymous No.5873933]

complete works of Kafka

[Anonymous No.5873965]

>>5873066
I'm mildly impressed.

[Anonymous No.5873971]

>>5873730
Came here for this, wasn't disappointed.

Also - The Next Night We Ate Whale, by the Right Honorable Linus the Taoist

[Anonymous No.5874031]

>>5873523

I always have a strong sense of deja vu with de Chirico's art.

[Anonymous No.5874068]

the third policeman

[Anonymous No.5874087]

OP here

I'm not talking about books that GO ON forever, but that give the FEELING of the infinite; a deep existential melancholy.

[Anonymous No.5874098]

>>5874087
more chirico pls

[Anonymous No.5874109]

>>5874098
no

[Anonymous No.5874176]

>>5874087
If you're going to speak in vague terms, expect to be made fun of. Clarify what you mean - there are about a billion books that touch on melancholic feelings of some sort or another.

[Anonymous No.5874862]

>>5874176
Not OP, but are you >>5873832 and/or >>5873263? Because there's something vaguely autistic about how you seem to view /lit/ as some kind of exclusive club of which you're an integral part. Kind of like you're speaking for everybody? Clearly OP doesn't want a book that loops around on itself like FW. Granted his request is somewhat abstract, but most readers here with brains are able to discern what kind of reading experience he is looking for. I thought of Blood Meridian and how it spans years and, in the judge, describes a kind of otherworldly evil that existed long before the events of the book and continue long after. Maybe the OP will take that suggestion and run with it, or maybe he will discard it, but either way, we'll both just let the conversation continue or end or change and not be shitty about it. Know what I mean?

tl;dr stop being shitty

[Anonymous No.5874923]

>>5874087
Read the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. It's been years and I'm still damaged.

[Anonymous No.5874947]

>>5873042
Grendel by John Gardner

[Anonymous No.5874961]

>>5873042

perks of being a wallflower

[Anonymous No.5874975]

All of you are fools. OP is clearly interested in mysticism. I recommend Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion.

[Anonymous No.5875924]

>>5874961
I was gonna post that.

[Anonymous No.5875945]

Ignore every response ITT and get to work with:
The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings