/lit/ - Literature

>>15260774
to what end? you get your replies but no one engages honestly and both sides just want to puff up their egos. Argument and debate for the sake of argument and debate is the hallmark of a juvenile mind and temperament. Better no replies than vain squabbling; the amount of people actually interested in discussing the book with you is the same either way.

>>11825819

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

>>11219399
Nothing makes sense or ever works.
If I had to choose an ideology it would be AvoidEverything-ism.
90% of the human race is just garbage. It's not even that I wont them gone or dead but I don't want to have to think about them or be subjected to their abnoxious existence.

I've also never heavily browsed this board despite being on this website for a decade. The downfall of this website actually played a hand in my depressive nihilism and hedonistic narcissism.
While I don't care about the grey matter of humanity, the people who ruined this site dying would be fine by me.

Anyway those are my thoughts right now.

What do you guys do when you're staring at a blank page and don't have any ideas? I've searched about this topic several times and something often repeated is that you should jot down things that you notice in a notebook and then expand upon them later when you sit down to write. I've tried this, but nothing ever really stood out to me, and when I force myself to write something anyway, it never provides me with any insight; when I try free writing without a set topic, I usually just churn out nonsense. I've only ever been able to write effectively when I had a scene in mind before I sat down to write, but I can't think of anything right now.

>teenage little sister has read Les Miserables cover to cover and signed her name on the last page
>can't even get past the Bishop of Digne

>>10662102
tfw read way more murakami than i probably should have but still no hipster gf

>>10625967
tfw no friends can ever replace a true book

>tfw Japan could've become communist
>tfw there aren't any more leftist student protests in Japan