/lit/ - Literature

>Still nobody spoke. They were silent as the crescent crept wider and the splendid sun broke free from behind it. They could not speak one word for the miracle of it. They were struck dumb, deaf and dizzy by its sublimity.

>At last it was Laur Vyann who spoke.‘Oh, Roy darling,’ she whispered. ‘We have arrived somewhere, after all! There’s still a hope for us, there’s still some sort of a hope.’
>Complain turned to look at her then, to force his choked throat to answer. And then he could not answer. He suddenly knew what the big something was he had wanted all his life.

>It was nothing big at all. It was a small thing. It was just to see Laur’s face — by sunlight.

>>13722262
Honestly I always associated with the anarchy component for a good chunk of time, just my lived reality schema. I see now what you mean. I suppose now I’m empathetic to an anarchist Christian then.

What are the best books with a philanthropic theme that you know of? I want to be reminded of how great humanity can be despite our massive and numerous flaws.
>ibn4 my diary desu
We all know you're a misanthrope who hates himself, so I know you're lying.

>>11173617
Well, OP, this question is very vague yes, because the list of books who had impact on humanity is like... HUGE. And some had more impact than others.
The chart >>11173655 posted is nice, but you will also need to choose with kind of impact you are asking for. Because books who had impact on humanity may well be stuff like "Mein Kampf", "The Quran", "The Book of Mormon", alchemy treatesies, law books, so on and so forth. Stuff that you or todays society think is either very wrong or know's its wrong. Like, you may read Euclid's book, but today we know more than what Euclid knew at the time. And so on and so forth.
So, after this, do you have any area of special interest?