/lit/ - Literature

rec me some good transcendentalist works.

books to teach an 18yo guy masculinity?

What are some books where the protagonist finally finds something that gives his life meaning?

What are some books about finally discovering a reason to keep living?

Beautiful prose thread?

"He closed his eyes in the languor of sleep. His eyelids trembled as if they felt the vast cyclic movement of the earth and her watchers, trembled as if they felt the strange light of some new world. His soul was swooning into some new world, fantastic, dim, uncertain as under sea, traversed by cloudy shapes and beings. A world, a glimmer, or a flower? Glimmering and trembling, trembling and unfolding, a breaking light, an opening flower, it spread in endless succession to itself, breaking in full crimson and unfolding and fading to palest rose, leaf by leaf and wave of light by wave of light, flooding all the heavens with its soft flushes, every flush deeper than the other."

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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>mfw she's really cute and i would want to date her

why are most libertarians so selfish?
why can the community not build the roads togehter? right-libertarianism should be about community, responsibility, a sense of citizenship, and of helping neighbor from the good of one's heart. we should reject government and communistic power structure because we are better than them and can bring peace and order through rationality and love, not because all order is evil and it is the destiny of man to help only himself.

if noone else will, i'll build the roads. okay? someone has to. it could be a beautiful world.

What does literature say and the great philosophies about lonliness?

Why do I get such a hostile reaction when I mention I follow the teachings of stoicism?

Also is being a Wwoofer /lit/? I want to visit another place in the world with new different people and get life experience.

Wwoofing is basically working on a farm in another country. I'm thinking Japan or some poor ass country. Not Africa thought because I'd wake up being roasted alive or I'd get aids. Not sure which is the worst one.

China I'd wake up without my organs.

Who here so autistic they can't stop talking about literature, history and philosophy and in doing so makes everyone uncomfortable?

I'm really interested in existentialism and have been looking into existentialist novels. Is this book a good place to start?

>pulp writing is dead
>you will never be a pulp writer in the good ol times