/lit/ - Literature

>>12011765

>>11966412

Unironically

>>10554968
>reading book
>recognize an important theme or profound idea within the text
>imagine myself as a political dissident in a court room, blooding spraying from my recently slit neck, lecturing about my brilliant discovery to starry-eyed bailiffs and lawyers

I cant be the only one?

>>10228875
Watched There Will Be Blood with my mum and then read some of Charles Van Doren's A History of Knowledge before going to bed and having wierd nightmares about Jessie Andrews and Holly Michaels

>>10003898
lol

That most of the time my thoughts lack any real substance and are merely the appearance of thought. In other words, my own head is Plato's Cave.

Add me boys I need friends

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/31544336-a

Aiming for 40, got 31 so far

To the Islands by Randolph Stow
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser (reread)
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
A Common Humanity by Raimond Gaita
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
Inland by Gerald Murnane
Bhagavad Gita
Walden and Other Writings by Henry Thoreau
To Have or To Be? by Erich Fromm
A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation by John Corbett
How Much Land Does a Man Need and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The New Guard Movement by Keith Amos
The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
Candide by Voltraire
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Stoner by John Williams
The Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
Dubliners by James Joyce
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
Unscientific Essays by F.J. Wood
The Plague by Albert Camus

>>9915010
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Ariel by Sylvia Plath

i need some catharsis my dudes