/lit/ - Literature

>>22516105
more like Feelssoa am I right?

Do you use a pen name, /lit/?
If so, why?

Is there any good Byzantine philosophy or did they carry on the Roman tradition of being shit philosophers?

>>18794233
My roommates just went out to party. They invited me, but I said no: I have been to parties before and all of the time I just end up feeling akward and out of place. I want to enjoy life, but I know I can't enjoy parties as much as others do.
I could read Nietzsche now, I could play guitar, like I've been doing in the last week, but I don't really know what to do. I don't want to just sit and masturbate like I've done during a large portion of my teenagehood. I'm in my 20s now, yet I feel as if I hadn't lived at all. Wasted all of my time in front of books, computer screens and playing music, things that always end up leading me nowhere.
I'm a little horny, maybe I could download an app and try to find some bitches while my friends are away, they will probably be out for like 6 hours. I don't know, sex seems like such a strange thing to be honest. I have seen it many times, I have imagined it countless times, I've written about it, yet I can't imagine myself doing it for real, I can't explain why, but it seems like a weird thing, like being in a relationshio aswell.

>>18448080
Based

I have to imagine myself as another person in order to feel motivated to do things, like reading, writing or studying, and invented myself a penpal to cope with loneliness.
Does anyone else do this?

>>18237218
I haven't written anything since I was 16 aside from some very bad unfinished short stories.
I keep constantly getting ideas for novels and poems in my head, good ideas actually, yet I can't find the correct words to put them on paper, and I hate bad literature, so I'm afraid of making something bad.

>>18225512
I grew up wanting to be so many things that I can't be all of them at the same time. Some even contradict others and it is impossible to reconcile them.

>>17863639
It might make it better, but you can still be a great writer even if you do. not live at all

>The world is for those born to conquer it,
>Not for those who dream they can conquer it, even if they're right.
>I've done more in dreams than Napoleon.
>I've held more humanities against my hypothetical breast than Christ.
>I've secretly invented philosophies such as Kant never wrote.
>But I am, and perhaps will always be, the man in the garret,
>Even though I don't live in one.
>I'll always be the one who wasn't born for that;
>I'll always be merely the one who had qualities;
>I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors
>And sang the song of the Infinite in a chicken coop
>And heard the voice of God in a covered well.

>>17838293
Yes, I formed one with my heteronyms

>>17539879
Myself

>>16966780

>>16852277
I used to dream that too anon, but it will hardly happen. The world is for those that were born to conquer it, not for those who think they can, even if they are right.

Onions el Pessoa hispánico

>>16825599
Also since you were asking for recs, I think you should read novels instead of bothering with other stuff. So go for nice novels, my favorite one is Ulysses, so that's my rec

I made big progress this week. I realized, fortunately early enough, that it's better for the two main characters to be brothers and not friends. I'll have to start it from scratch again for their backgrounds, but I can still use some key scenes with minor changes. It's 20k words up to now. WE ARE ALL GONNA MAKE IT, BROS!

>>16551385
Spanish speaker here. What's an easy read to start with portuguese? I've been reading O Livro do Desassossego, but I want to read a novel.

>>16488156
Bataille and Sade

Hey /lit/, I just wrote this poem. Could you tell me what you think about it?

And I shall turn your eyes into tears
When all that's left are the hollows of devotion
And, out of vision we shall bring the void
Crowned with hoods and crying with hope
Eagle on arm
And terror in eye
Resist and struggle
Your faith is a lie
And, the death of dreams
Shall be a beautiful end
With flowers of filth
And wine and fine men
Certains slips of the tongue
Are laced with disappointment
With disappointment
From start to end
Confront me with your dream
And lives so cruel I curse

>>16378992
I'm slowly recovering from all the damage I've done to myself, and in consequence I come here much less.
You need to find the reason that drags you back here first.

>>16333912
Yes, I do. Now leave me alone... please

>>16333757
>Yes, now leave me alone please

>>16264755
Good thing is that no one knows him in my country