/lit/ - Literature

You learn that curtis yarvin considers this guy his primary influence and decide to safely skip reading him.

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>>16703785
I started with the Greeks... at like 6-7 and am seriously wondering if it fucked my life up. My mom gave me a book titled something like 'Greek Mythology - A Retelling for Children' (it wasn't in English). The author iirc was some fairly respected mythology scholar from the early XXth century and by no means a bad writer... and it's not like there was any explicit sexual imagery or violence in his book which could make it officially unsuitable for small children. But there was some vague unsettling thing about the way he told the stories, this poignant romanticism and beauty, but even worse, this sense of doom and tragedy about everything. The eerie 'moral': whatever you do, gods want to fuck you up and will fuck your life up, or worse, you will fuck your life up yourself, and even if you want to escape your dreary fate, you'll just make it worse. When I grew up and became prone to self-reflection I started wondering, whether absorbing this sort of fatalistic outlook so early in life has contributed to my lack of initiative, pessimism and melancholy. My parents being abusive and neglectful might've played a role too, but... Were I ever to have a child I definitely wouldn't give them this book (or any Greek Mythology book for that matter, because, after all, the fellow didn't invent anything and that stuff IS filled with tragedy, cuckolding, incest, human sacrifices and whatnot...) until they are closer to their teens, 11-12 maybe. But smaller children, especially if they're socially isolated and sort of autistic, like I was (my mom actively discouraged me spending time with my peers) have trouble distinguishing fiction from reality, at least subconsciously. And if at such an age you develop a subconscuious belief that 'life is inevitably shitty and tragic, you live in thrall of powerful entities which could fuck you up as they please, all the beautiful things you love will be taken from you, you'll die horribly and there's no point trying to change this beause it's likely to just make things worse'... it's pretty hard to shake this belief off in favor of more positive and proactive attitudes later on.

>>16603194
What happened in the eleventh chapter?

>back in high school
>had to write a quick poem about love
>read it out loud to class
>everyone looks at me like pic related
>teacher's staring at me for a few seconds
>anon, you wrote that?
>Would you give it to me?
>flattered as fuck

And I'm not even a good writer

>>6131409
you are very lucky m8

>tfw you find out The Fault in Our Stars was ghostwritten