/lit/ - Literature

>>22640519
Link your stuff fren

>>22630789
The black cat, by Edgar Allan Poe.

>>22078022
go right ahead fren
also checked

>>22065159
Burn in hell, spammer

I don't get a lot of (You)s but at least they're honest (You)s.

After reading notes from the underground, you get the feeling that Dostoyevsky went through a similar phase that many of us went through when we hit our late teens to early twenties. He didn't like the bleak view of being uncertain about death and having to deal with the dact that his existence as he knew it will possibly have some kind of finality. I don't like thinking about it either, but I couldn't go back to being Christian. The only thing that comforts me is the fact that everyone that I will ever know will join me in death. The question of what happens afterwards or what the purpose of humanity ought to be is beyond my grasp. I don't care enough about the question these days and the threats of hell don't even slightly scare me these days. Most active Christians I grew up with weren't that good of people. I think they used it as a mechanism to become better, but they were by no means model citizens. I question anyone that says I need to give my absolute devotion for nothing tangible in return. Too many good non-believers in this world to have a personal belief that they will achieve eternal suffering for lacking faith. Atheism will never give an answer to the eternal question and humans at their base level will never be satisfied with that. Religion grounds the average person to stop them from panicking about death. I won't say their is nothing after this, but it won't be the nonsense we decide to construct in our heads.

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Best books on understanding finance, economics, stocks, crypto you name it. Any books even introductory. I cannot live my life in ignorance of things which are important whether or not I act up I said knowledge once gained

>>20185117
I think that tomorrow the girl I've been seeing for the last month and a half is going to ask me to be her boyfriend.

>>19161829
Reading anything autumnal right now?

I noticed that a lot of successful people are very ritualistic. They have their own little rituals when they wake up, when they start doing something. This reminded me that a lot of indigenous tribes are also ritualistic. Maybe it's way we meant to live? Recommend me good books on, preferably pagan, rituals that I can incorporate into my life.

I feel pretty retarded almost all the time. But then I meet normal people and they're pretty dumb and that makes me feel better about being a brainlet.

Holding Jane Austen's hand as we walk through the park, then kissing her on the cheek when no one is watching.

Imagine writing parts of the Bible and retards dissect every word of it to find meaning. The ability to scam the general populace is far too easy and acceptable. If it weren't for my own personal morals, I would have done this a long time ago. This is the major issue with every successful intelligent person. They all learn to justify their reason for swindling people.

Reminder to read the complete works of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, Augustine, Erasmus, Luther, Dante, Petrarch, Camoes, Tasso, Bruno, Boccaccio, Leopardi, Cervantes, Chaucer, Gilgamesh poet, Beowulf poet, Poetic Edda poet, Chretien de Troyes, Malory, Marie de France, Sterne, Fielding, Montaigne, Pascal, Burton, Browne, Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Donne, Herbert, Hopkins, Marvell, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Kyd, Ibsen, Strindberg, Austen, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Defoe, Richardson, Manzoni, Laclos, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Browning, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Norris, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Verga, Flaubert, Mallarme, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Thackeray, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Stein, Powys, Hawthorne, Melville, George Eliot, O’Conner, Anne Porter, Carver, Agee, Carlos Williams, TS Eliot, Pound, David Jones, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Ted Hughes, Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Larkin, Trakl, Rilke, Tsvetayeva, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Peake, Murdoch, Greene, Wharton, Wilde, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Cioran, Du Bois, CLR James, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Lispector, Rhys, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentier, Celine, Marquez, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Conrad, Wells, Salinger, Madox Ford, Maugham, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Kavanagh, Pinter, Tennessee Williams, O'Neil, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Laxness, Simenon, Svevo, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Moravia, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossman, Pasternak, Mahfouz, Boll, Doblin, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Queneau, Calvino, Calasso, Bernhard, Gass, Coover, Delillo, Barth, Gaddis, Markson, Hawkes, Roth, Salter, Dennis Johnson, Powers, John Crowley, Soseki, Murasaki, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Oe, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Adorno, Barthes, Bakhtin, Shklovsky, Todorov, Lotman, Jakobson, C. Booth, Kenner, Davenport, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Arno Schmidt, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Naipaul, Claude Simon, Robinson, Morrison, Langston Hughes, Ellison, Hurston, Walcott, Ginsberg, Merrill, Zukofsky, Olson, Oppen, Ashbery, O'Hara, Wilbur, Lowell, Merwin, Koch, Geoffrey Hill, Hecht, Bishop, Lowry, Dara

Reminder to read the complete works of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, Augustine, Erasmus, Luther, Dante, Petrarch, Camoes, Tasso, Bruno, Boccaccio, Leopardi, Cervantes, Chaucer, Gilgamesh poet, Beowulf poet, Poetic Edda poet, Chretien de Troyes, Malory, Marie de France, Sterne, Fielding, Montaigne, Pascal, Burton, Browne, Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Donne, Herbert, Hopkins, Marvell, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Kyd, Ibsen, Strindberg, Austen, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Defoe, Richardson, Manzoni, Laclos, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Moliere, Browning, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Norris, Colette, Duras, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Verga, Flaubert, Mallarme, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Thackeray, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Stein, Powys, Hawthorne, Melville, George Eliot, O’Conner, Anne Porter, Carver, Agee, Carlos Williams, TS Eliot, Pound, David Jones, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Ted Hughes, Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Larkin, Trakl, Rilke, Tsvetayeva, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Peake, Murdoch, Greene, Wharton, Wilde, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Cioran, Du Bois, CLR James, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Lispector, Rhys, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gracq, Gide, Jarry, Conrad, Wells, Salinger, Madox Ford, Maugham, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Kavanagh, Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann, Laxness, Simenon, Svevo, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Moravia, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossman, Pasternak, Mahfouz, Boll, Doblin, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Queneau, Calvino, Calasso, Bernhard, Gass, Coover, Delillo, Barth, Gaddis, Markson, Hawkes, Roth, Salter, Dennis Johnson, Powers, John Crowley, Soseki, Murasaki, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Oe, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Auerbach, Benjamin, Adorno, Barthes, Bakhtin, Shklovsky, Todorov, Lotman, Jakobson, C. Booth, Kenner, Davenport, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Arno Schmidt, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Naipaul, Claude Simon, Robinson, Morrison, Langston Hughes, Ellison, Hurston, Walcott, Ginsberg, Merrill, Zukofsky, Olson, Oppen, Ashbery, O'Hara, Wilbur, Lowell, Merwin, Koch, Geoffrey Hill, Hecht, Bishop, Lowry, Dara

How many of you mostly read pdfs off your laptops rather than reading physical books?

I am abandoning prose and will solely be reading poetry now. Goodbye.

Any books that will help me understand why I never fit in anywhere

>>17355733

I want to get into panpsychism. Redpill me on it. What are the best books?

>>17319182
Nope, not really. My high-tier aspiration is to have a semi off-grid tiny house far from other people where I can garden and read in peace. If I play my cards right and live frugally I might even be able to retire before 40. All we can really do is cope and insulate ourselves from the death knells of our society.

So my mom asked me for one (1) political book recommendation. She has Reaganite/boomer Republican politics and sucks off Blumpf. Everyone in my family has this same type of politics and you don't know how ashamed I feel to be part of a brainless and tasteless family. She also watches a lot of OAN which if you don't know is a more whack Fox that sucks off Blumpf and perpetuates retard conspiracy theories and fake news. She believes all the dumb rightist conspiracy theories like the qanon shit and "voter fraud" and that the radical left democrats are destroying the western civilization.

And so she asked me for a political book recommendation and this is my chance to make her less retarded. But what should I recommend? I have considered something by Foucault. I think he is easy to read but I'm not sure how tough he would be for a normie with dumb boomer politics. Help me out lads.

>>17215072
>How about actually having something to say?
That has genuinely never stopped anyone