/lit/ - Literature

>>20787463
>literally who
Jelinek wrote the original version of Gravity's Rainbow which Pynchon translated into English.

Pt2

This is my story

>>19646382
no, it's me

>>18435599
Max Spoggers

Max Spoggers

>>18425639
https://youtu.be/YYsAURUcp7Y

>>18425380
Max Stitsner

>>17669630
Oh God Oh Fuck

>>17669469
>picture of a bear.jpg
UH-OH I JUST SHAT MYSELF

>>16550499
dont listen to >>16550522

this is a decent chart for starting, add the Ode Less Traveled to the starting books, and read that one first. then Mary Oliver's handbook. you can skip the greek poets entirely but you should have a reasonably thorough knowledge of greek mythology, Edith Hamilton's mythologies is great. as for anthologies, the first two on that chart are great, I would ignore Harold Bloom's rambling notes on each poet though and just skip to the poetry, at least for a beginner.

Max Stirner

It depends on whether you place the intellectual betterment of anyone over yourself; do you think that your inability to access information which may be necessary for the cultivation and manifestation of your potential is justified so long as the average person in your society has potential access to it, regardless of their desire for it, or capacity to comprehend and articulate wisdom from it?

What if no one wants it?

Isn't society better served giving someone no one wants to the one person who needs it?

>>12832611
I'm virgin

>>12832455
I've not read the book, but the anime definitely hit close to home. Despite the fact that I have a well paid job, and my own apartment, I am too much like the protagonist (forget his name) for comfort.

>>12832342
no

/lit/, most of you are americans. Do you think protestant religion in America was part of the cause of the country's economic development?
I would argue that yes, the protestant work ethic has stoked the fires of Capitalism since its infancy.
>26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Dominion; no other religion so implicitly spells it out.

A poem from a psych. survivor.

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@PoetryNotPills

Not the worst aspect of being a psych patient is the way one sees the naturally 'nice' and or even 'kind' people routinely co-opted and so happily enslaved to the purposes of evil, which really crushes the spirit and your positive feeling for ordinary people. They corrupt you yourself by dint of forced association and civility. @PoetryNotPills

A gambit not to anesthetize and sedate our 'dangerous gifts', but to joyfully embrace them - and with them our own secret innermost selves - to live authentically in light of the inconvenient, M.A.D. 'short for 'Miracles A Dozen') truths of our existence.

I'll explain, let's just first define our terms.

Meaning: The purpose of a construction. The meaning of say a hammer is to hammer, determined by it's construction.
Now we deductively know the meaning of life, the meaning of life is to act out the purpose of our construction.
What does this mean for morals? Let's define good and evil first.

Good: What one ought to do.
Evil: What one ought not to do.
Now that we know objectively what we ought to do ( fullfil our meaning due to our construction) we can then determine if something is good or evil based on how it relates to our objective meaning.

I am 24 Years Old, Male

From Germany, Koblenz

And i read 1984, its amazing if you realize how old it is, and still so relevant.

Tell the Truth everytime and everywhere everybody else would be quiet.