/lit/ - Literature

obligatory copy pasta:
>"My wife gave him [Wittgenstein] some Swiss cheese and rye bread for lunch, which he greatly liked. Thereafter he more or less insisted on eating bread and cheese at all meals, largely ignoring the various dishes that my wife prepared. Wittgenstein declared that it did not much matter to him what he ate, so long as it always remained the same. When a dish that looked especially appetizing was brought to the table, I sometimes exclaimed "Hot Ziggety!" --- a slang phrase that I learned as a boy in Kansas. Wittgenstein picked up this expression from me. It was inconceivably droll to hear him exclaim "Hot Ziggety!" when my wife put the bread and cheese before him." -Norman Malcolm, in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1966), p. 85

>he judges older works by contemporary aesthetics

>>10199063
KANSEI DORIFTU?!

>ruined Russel's magnum opus and made him go suicidal
>made Hitler hate jews
>failed to save Trakl
>hated woman
>ruined philosophy forever

Why do we like him again?

>>9707743
>Russell

>>9388889
>/lit/ is a bit more serious than other boards

>>9248087

she is so enthusiastic about poetry but her taste is so trash and she isn't very smart.

... i actually think i could trick this one into fucking me.

>>9115911

made it 2 da top

>>9101127
>Intellectual qt3.14 sees you reading, sits next to you
>"hey anon, watcha reading?"
>"oh, n-nothing. Just this book"
>"what's it called?"
>"uh... t-tractatus logico-ph-philosophicus"
>*look of condescending disgust comes across face* "Oh... nevermind"
>qt walks away because she thinks you have autism

>>8617284
Adolfnormies get off my board now

>>8533123

>I did it, so, uh, everyone does and it's always been this way

Citation Needed.

>>8391162

I think I'm genuinely ugly, and that annoys me.

So far in my life, I convinced some 6/10 English girl (18 y/o) to masturbate for me on webcam. Then I dated a 36-39 y/o single mum (3 years) from the ages of 18-21. Don't ask me how the fuck that happened, it was a mess.

All of my most meaningful experiences with women have involved low hanging fruit.

I have no friends and I'm always paranoid about going to movies/concerts/etc alone, as a single guy, because in mind there is this constant (perhaps paranoid) perception that people deem single guys going anywhere alone as suspicious/rapey as fuck. So I'm stuck in a vicious cycle where I can't make friends, but feel self-conscious doing anything alone.

But back to my ugliness. Because of the aforementioned perception, my only real way of meeting women is through shitty dating apps. I probably get as many 'matches' in a year of using Tinder, as someone attractive would in a day. Having been single for a few years, I average 1-2 dates per year, and they're always dead-ends.

My loneliness, both literal and existential, is making me depressed as fuck. I spend most of my time thinking about how ugly I am, *or must be*, to be so unappealing to women. What time I don't spend on this, I spend on trying to make myself (to the best of my ability) not ugly. I then consider that I must be inwardly ugly as well, to have no real friends.

Maybe I should just An Hemingway desu. Tomorrow I'm going to a concert by myself, as I have no one to invite or go along with. Maybe I'll meet people or something.

The best authors always have bad diets, weird routines and dangerous vices.

>>8310821

modern humanities are a meme and completely worthless if you aren't aiming for academia or teaching after

take the autodidact route or get meme'd on

>>8291808

>Allow me to solve one mystery.
>The meaning of life is

Fuck off, kid. Save it for your diary.

>>8250869

>i am shit at finding the right books and i blame literature for this

homework harder bruv

>>8235002

Read what Schopenhauer had to say about false humility. Nietzsche too.

Rabid anti-elitism is a symptom of slave morality. There are masters and slaves, patricians and plebeians.

Make sure you're on the right side.

>>8221060

>tfw people think Heidegger killed it