/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6585630]

What is the Evangelion of /lit/?

[Anonymous No.6585689]

I wouldn't know because I'm not a faggot who watches Evangelion

[Anonymous No.6585696]

>>6585630

Confusing, weird, people love give the worst and dumbest interpretations of it even though they really have no idea what they're talking about?

Any of the meme trilogy would apply, and if you don't know what those books are, lurk more.

[Anonymous No.6585702]

>>6585630
i would say house of leaves. as in it's pretty mediocre, a little bit mindfucky, and you think it's the best shit in the world when you're 15

[Anonymous No.6585706]

Catcher in the rye.

Overhyped on one hand. Actually decent on the other with some moderate depth, and the people who hate it are usually retards who miss the entire point.

[Anonymous No.6585721]

FUCK OFF WEEBS

[twinshia !b2E8KBMQGk No.6585722]

Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke.
Hideaki Anno read it while in a mental asylum after attempting suicide after his girlfriend left him and it helped form what would be writing and drawings which contributed to the ultimate conception of the show.

[Anonymous No.6585734]

>>6585721
he said, angrily shitposting on the literature subsection of a mongolian cave painting exchange forum

[Anonymous No.6585735]

ASOIAF

[Anonymous No.6585748]

>>6585696
Infinite Jest and Ulysses, but what is the third; I can't remember. I think it Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.6585768]

>>6585722
wow he sounds like such a weak cunt

[Anonymous No.6585863]

>>6585630
steppenwolf kek

[Anonymous No.6586353]

>>6585689
Open your mind for once, anon.

[Anonymous No.6586626]

>>6585630
Without a doubt "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Anonymous No.6586865]

>>6585722
>Hideaki Anno read it while in a mental asylum after attempting suicide after his girlfriend left him
This is absolute bullshit.

[Anonymous No.6586871]

So this show apparently has Lacanian themes, anyone know where?

[Anonymous No.6586881]

>>6585630

[Anonymous No.6586892]

>>6585748

Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.6586899]

>>6586871
IN YOUR ASS

Is more Kierkegaard/Hegel

[Anonymous No.6586905]

>>6586899
>Kierkegaard

So Shinji is the Knight of Infinite Resignation?

[Anonymous No.6586935]

Who is the Shirou of /lit/?

[Anonymous No.6586939]

>>6585706
As someone who likes Catcher in the Rye, I'd say this is pretty accurate.

[Anonymous No.6586974]

>>6585689

that's quite sad tbh

[Anonymous No.6586993]

Definitely Gravity's Rainbow:

>le quirky skits about sex, watermelons, penguins and other stuff mixed with le serious passages
>2deep
>literally gainax ending
>weird characters

[Anonymous No.6587013]

Gravity's Rainbow turned out to be a lot like it

[Anonymous No.6587141]

>>6586935
Me.

[Anonymous No.6587156]

What is the Punpun of /lit/?

[Anonymous No.6587168]

>>6586993
Fuuck i can't wait to read it

[Anonymous No.6587170]

>>6586935
Mersault.

[Anonymous No.6587172]

evangelion is basically what you get when you throw GR in a blender and base the script around whatever comes out.

[Anonymous No.6587178]

ur mum cause she's gay.

just like evangelion

[Anonymous No.6588118]

>>6587156
Anything Camus writes

[Anonymous No.6588169]

>>6585696
>>6587172

Who are these retards who think Evangelion is confusing? It's literally just a mecha show with symbolic allusions and character analysis.

That's it.

How the fuck is it confusing to people who don't have Down's?

[Anonymous No.6588345]

It's Rant.

Any other answer is wrong.

[Hamlet !!PVWzrEOBu3b No.6588370]

Candide

[Anonymous No.6588604]

bump

[Anonymous No.6588617]

>>6587156
Punpun is shit. So basically the entirety of YA genre

[Anonymous No.6588838]

>>6588169
>just a mecha show
That's like saying The Wire is a crime thriller.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6588846]

>>6588604
You got your answer.
It's a ripoff of Clarke.
You can go now.

[Anonymous No.6588853]

>>6588345
>incest subtext
>father's evil plan
>religious subtext

[Anonymous No.6588898]

Childhoods End and EVA share very similiar plotpoints but thematically they're very different. Anyone saying it's a ripoff is just talking out of their ass.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6588938]

>>6588898
>Take Star Trek plot points
>Change the theme

>Not get sued

[Anonymous No.6588957]

>>6588938
>placing surface ideas over theme
>worshiping the golden calf

[Anonymous No.6588970]

>>6588846
you haven't seen Eva, fake Butters. The sci-fi aspect is just the fluff. It's like comparing Caves of Steel with A Dame to Kill For because both are sort of noir thrillers.

[Anonymous No.6588985]

the ending of the show was kinda Steppenwolfish.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE No.6588990]

>>6588970
I haven't, true. Too teen soap.
Not fake btw.
Shoving off now though, so have fun with your meme thread.

[Anonymous No.6589004]

>>6588990
>talking shit about things you haven't seen
>even thinking about supposing the high ground

When did /lit/ become so intellectually dishonest

[Anonymous No.6589018]

>>6588970
what sci-fi is to NGE the western genre is to Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.6589073]

>>6586881
This.

[Anonymous No.6589081]

Misato best gril

[Anonymous No.6589231]

>>6589081
Obviously

[Anonymous No.6589939]

>>6586899
>Kierkegaard / Hegel

Wow no. Why do people always try and shove Kierkegaard and Hegel into shit that has nothing to do with them?

Evangelion is literally "Hedgehog's Dilemma: The Show", which is Schopenhauer, you autistic fuck.

[Anonymous No.6589956]

The Bible.

[Anonymous No.6589963]

The Human Instrumentality project sounded pretty Hegelian.

and there was an episode named after a Kierkegaard book about "This sickness is not unto death"

The show included a lot of themes from the different philosophers, it wasn't overall particular to any.

[Anonymous No.6590041]

>>6589939
There is even a little Descartes "tribute", the entry plug is where him located the soul (the pineal gland), Rei Ayanami in one episode says something in the lines of "the entry plug is the seat of the soul" and the "seat of the soul" is a Descartes quote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland#Society_and_culture

There are also some Freudian vibes from it but it's pretty obvious.

[Anonymous No.6590054]

>>6589939
>Hedgehog's Dilemma: The Show
if you can't even accurately comment on eva what are you doing trying to discuss hegel you underage faggot

[Anonymous No.6590076]

Whats the muv-luv of /lit/?

[Anonymous No.6590082]

>>6590054
>implying EVA isn't literally Hedgehog's Dilemma: The Show
>implying Hegel isn't an irrelevant MUH ABSOLUTE meme philosopher for contrarian faggots on an obscure literature imageboard where no one actually reads anything

[Anonymous No.6590088]

>>6590082
just leave already it's getting awkward

[Anonymous No.6590091]

>>6585630
>What's the Fleshlight of /lit/?
>What's the mlp of /lit/?
>What's the action figure of /lit/?
>what's the fedora and trench-coat of /lit/?
>what's the (insert manchild paraphernalia here) of /lit/?
That's how you sound OP

[Anonymous No.6590100]

>>6590082
>Hegel
>Irrelevant

You ain't foolin nobody

[Anonymous No.6590109]

>>6590100
What is this, Anon?

[Anonymuos No.6590116]

>>6590100
Nice to see Pythagorus on the ups

[Anonymous No.6590161]

>>6590041
the pineal gland is in the brain though, that doesn't look like where they are putting it.

[Anonymous No.6590189]

>>6589004
At it's genesis.

[Anonymous No.6590210]

>>6590161
Well, I made a little mistake, I am talking about the seat and not the entry plug itself, that anyway it's pretty complex mechanism and I actually didn't understood so much about how it works, anyway, here's a pic of the seat, it's pretty similiar to the pineal gland to me and the concept it's the same as Descartes' anyway.