/lit/ - Literature

>>14871862
>as long as you aren't ugly
Literally where do you think you are

>>13722791
>you people
>:(

>>13157210
Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation
>>13157844
Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulation
>>13159038
Marx's Capital
>>13160507
James' Bostonians

>Go to mass on Sunday
>Take seat in pew near the back
>The pews are not even close to full
>When the congregation is asked to stand I can see over the heads of everyone
>All I see are bald heads and heads of white hair
>Spot a few parents in their late 30s/ early 40s with one or two children each
>I am I the only white man attending mass older than 13 and younger than 35

It's a dead religion.

>>13130600
Missed this. I've already read Moby-Dick and a few of his piazza tales and a smattering of his poetry. Ars longa, vita brevis...I think I'll be able to make do without further context. I'm also particularly interested, given that Pierre was written only about a year after Moby-Dick, in his continuation of particular themes from Moby-Dick from what little I read of Pierre in my first attempt, e.g.:
>Ah, now the face departs. Pray heaven it hath not only stolen back, and hidden again in thy high secrecies, oh, tree! But ’tis gone — gone — entirely gone; and I thank God, and I feel joy again; joy, which I also feel to be my right as man; deprived of joy, I feel I should find cause for deadly feuds with things invisible. Ha!

So, now that I've outlined the topic of the thread, please recommend similar things.

Just read the complete works in order

>>13053873
Infinite Jest
>>13053900
Lolita

Is there anything more monstrous than the need to engage in labor? I've graduated from college, and worked a couple jobs, underpaidedly admittedly, and have fallen into the habitual track of spending all my free moments worrying over further education and long term career path and salary, salary, salary; it is also so tiresome, so loathesome, so woeful. I want to be established to begin with: I want my comfortable home and my comfortable salary and my comfortable expertise, my hobbies and my library and my wife and my children, all the orbiting bodies of a satisfied middle age...why must I climb my way up? But I know, I know, I know (o woe!) the alternative, I have seen it hundreds of times in hundreds of faces, that alternative being abject poverty, chagrinned failure, maladaptive modality, a stumblingly sputteringly dysphoric fall from the light of the world.

>>12842677

>>12618456
Hey, follow the path of Jesus and Buddha my dude.
The irony of religion was that it was meant to be a guiding path for the sheep, because the sheep need a rigid path, they need someone to tell them what to do. Don't take it too seriously. religion, hollywood, the news, politics, its all just things that conditions the simple mind. Brainy quote can teach you a lot about people. This is just the tragedy of the human mind, it is always one step behind. But, isnt that kinda beautiful? The Greeks considered Tragedies the same way we consider Seinfeld. Maybe thats too passe. ... the same way we consider Rick and Morty. Meditate until you feel like you are going to die, and then let the ego die.

And stop fucking trying to control people. You just make things worse that way.

the black crack head fiend is more enlightened than everyone else on that train.

>>12615866
yo nigga, just be buddhist home dawg. It's a lot more simple, and you wont get that STD thang that that wack nigga Nietzsche got or sumtang. You know god did smite his existence for being the anti-chirst!

here, read this motha fucking Zen Koans nigga. Dis shit is all you really need my dude, just read this shit over and over again until something clicks in yo brain. Then just go about yo day nigga. Life aint nuttin but a thang.

pic related

Philosophy was a mistake.