/lit/ - Literature

>wanting to be a writer
is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

>These are the writings of a young, a very young man, who has grown up anywhere; without mother, without country, indifferent to everything other people know, fleeing all moral courage, like many other pitiful young men before him. But he, so full of anxiety and so troubled, did nothing but set his course toward death as toward a terrible and fatal decency. Not having loved women,—fullblooded though he was!—his soul and his heart, all his strength, were taken up with aberrations, strange and sad. The following dreams,—his loves!—that came to him in his beds and in the streets, and from their sequence and from their ending sweet religious considerations may arise. Who will recall the continuous sleep of the legendary Mohammedans,—brave though and circumcised! But this fantastic suffering possessing a disturbing sovereignty, it is sincerely to be hoped that this Soul, among us lost, and who desires death, it seems, should meet at that instant authentic consolations and be worthy.

Rimbaud, Arthur. Illuminations: Prose poems (New Directions Paperbook, No. 56) (pp. 153-155). New Directions. Kindle Edition.

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nothing you cant walk out on in 30 seconds

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protip for everyone in this thread, because i am a true patrician. the only LIVING directors worth being a fan of are:

gold medals:
>costa-gavras
>david cronenberg
>terrence malick
>jacques audiard
>michael mann
>paul verhoeven
>nicolas roeg
>michael haneke
>roman polanski
>werner herzog

silver medals:
>jim jarmusch
>alex cox
>larry clark/harmony korine
>lars von trier
>william friedkin

bronze medals:
>john carpenter
>ridley scott
>brian de palma
>peter weir
>steven soderbergh

if the names david lynch, terry gilliam, the cohen brothers, etc. you should just neck urself and take a re-roll on ur life

>>9672013
welcome to the water

>The third man argument (commonly referred to as TMA; Greek: τρίτος ἄνθρωπος), first offered by Plato in his dialogue Parmenides (132a–b), is a philosophical criticism of Plato's own theory of Forms. This argument was furthered by Aristotle (Metaphysics 990b17=1079a13, 1039a2; Sophistic Refutations 178b36 ff.) who used the example of a man (hence the name of the argument) to explain this objection to Plato's theory; he posits that if a man is a man because he partakes in the form of man, then a third form would be required to explain how man and the form of man are both man, and so on, ad infinitum.

who gives a fuck if they go on to infinity?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPKXvHjor1g
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