/lit/ - Literature

>>21302615
Wind in the Willows
Comfy, Hang about with the lads, Fast Cars, Drive off those fukken Weasels (((Stoats))) and Ferrets.

>>17128998
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Graham.

>>16737257
>Fed through a tube till death
I think that's a little over-dramatic.

>Obesity is the result of lack of ambition and slothfulness
No it's not, it's just lack of self-control. Ambition is another matter entirely, and it's debatable whether it is worth anything. (I don't think it is because in my life I've noticed that having ideas about how my life should go doesn't change how it actually goes)

But I want to also say that part of what is wrong with what you're saying is that we are on the cusp of some utopia where we have everything we want, but are dissatisfied by it, so it's actually a dystopia. The truth of the matter, is that we're no-where near utopia, and life is hard enough even in the 21st century that I have zero fear whatsoever that I'll ever be fed through a tube and not have to work like the citizens of the spaceship in Wall-E. It's just unrealistic.

>>16687855
I know that this was supposed to be a race, but let's just say that I was inspired a week ago. So I'm racing against myself.

27,000 words so far. I've never felt more confident about a book idea.

>>16546044
These guys, especially Mole and Badger

>>16541534
Nietzsche's thought is based on a paradox; in order to follow him, you have to imagine a higher form of life to which mankind ought to aspire, yet his atheism makes the assertion of anything higher than man ridiculous. The Overman, is, whether intentionally or not, metaphysical. Mankind is not now the Overman, so the assertion that mankind will be the Overman is a blind assertion of teleology. So Nietzsche is not a philosopher, he is a prophet without a god, not a pagan, although you are right that he verges on that level of irrationality.

I mean he wants life never to lose its vivid colour and be debased by too much civility, but that's a crazy fear. If you made a utopia with enough material to produce and to satisfy the "last man," then you've already entered fantasy land so much that you are just writing pop fiction and the elements of the utopian vision that you withhold in order to make it into a dystopia are likewise completely arbitrary and are little more than plot devices.

You may as well write a story about a heaven with no angels; that would be a sad occurrence if it were true. If I were reading that there were heaven but with no angels in a book, it might give me the feels enough to consider that I need a drink at midday if it were done with convincing prose, but I could forget about it in an hour or two of having fun outside, because it is nothing more than someone's fancy despite the rhetorical flourish.

>>16531446
Kenneth Grahame was a banker

What do you think of The Wind in the Willows?