/lit/ - Literature

>>22979398
It always comes down to low IQ brownoid hordes that will breed like animals until the sun explodes and cause as much suffering to the world as possible.

>>22713440

>102k words
>28 times
I could delete all without any change worth mentioning.

>>21602480
Sounds keyed.

>>20547624
>goodreads groups that are exclusively /lit/ anons that have their personal details

>someone bought the kindle edition of my book
>refunded
God damn, how bad do you have to get triggered to refund 4 dollars? Wish I knew what went wrong

who is responsible for the Rupi Kaur instagram poetry genre? who created it? who inspired it? I have no idea but I blame Ezra Pound anyway

>tfw chad Razumikhin fucks your sister and replaces you in the family while you rot away in Siberian prison

/his/ has unironically ruined this board. I appreciate that "traditionalists" and catholic/orthodox apologists exist, and everything that comes with it, but I'm sick and fucking tired of every thread being hijacked by /pol/tards and christards. thread about existentialism? Some faggot posts a picture of Aquinas with "only belief in christ shall free you" with intentionally obscure dogmatic bullshit. Get the fuck out of this site and out of this century you pathetic larpers. Same with Jordan peterson

>30
>Martin Heidegger - What is Called Thinking?
> Kawabata, Yasunari - House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
> P.K. Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (short story collection)
> Michael Herr - Dispatches
> Thomas Mann - Death in Venice

>>10849816

Now this is the thread I have been waiting for. I became quite sick recently but it happened at an opportune time. My doctor set me up with a nice stash of opiates to get me through it all, so I've been doing pretty much nothing but /getting comfy/ at my parents' house, reading books, napping, and writing. At first it was pretty awful because I was legitimately sick, but now that I'm starting to feel better I think I will remember these days as some of the best of my entire life.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a must-read for anyone interested in philosophy and living well generally. I've read that he enjoyed a bit of opium in his wine quite frequently as well. Definitely comfy.

For fiction, I always recommend Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Both comfy for completely different reasons, though if you're here you've probably read and thoroughly enjoyed both.

Right now I'm REALLY enjoying "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton and Arabian Nights translated by Sir Richard Burton. I've always liked "classical" works but these two have been hitting the spot like none other in recent memory. Highly recommend both.

>>10850623

Never seen this before. Thanks. The titles I recognize are definitely comfy. Especially the Shakespeare selections.

Any of you guys aspiring to write /comfy/ literature in the future? I'd love to - I think it would be the perfect "4chan scene" some day in the future. Would be hilarious.

Any recs for /dark comfy/?

>spent three years trying to write my magnum opus
>every attempt to assemble a plot has failed miserably

How do I hook up a tank of helium to an oxygen mask?

>had an idea for a story two and a half years ago
>haven't gone a day without thinking about since
>some days I can sit for three hours straight just wondering about possible ideas for it

>and yet after all this time I still can't think of a plot I'm remotely satisfied with

How do I perform a home lobotomy on myself? I can't take this anymore

You know what's annoying? Having one really fun idea that you want to write a story around, creating a solid story around it with a bunch of characters and themes that feel so perfect...

and then you realize that one idea you started with doesn't fit the rest, so now you've got a story to write, but then you'll have to wait until after that to introduce your flavorkinetic MC who kicks monster ass with applied food science

>>10589495
As a rule, I don't trust any book that puts its breach from cliche in the title is worth the brain cells it costs to read it. though I remember liking abraham lincoln: vampire hunter when I was like 14

>read a story many years ago that completely reshaped me and how I viewed the world
>got into writing so I could give someone else the same experience
>seven years later I realize all I've been doing is copying someone else and then hating myself when it doesn't match up

Anyone here been through the same thing and found a way out

>>10482857
>choice awards for sf&f
>Fantastic Beasts and Artemis
>a movie script and a book that most people that voted for it admit is shit after actually reading it

>>10136056
>>10136063
>tfw I spend too much time on /fit/ and not enough on /lit/
>tfw I can't lift and barely read

>>9795065
>And, of course, Keving Smith

>>9793635
I slept in too long today, had a few fucked up dreams that had no connection whatsoever but were all really unnerving in a way.

The biggest, longest segment had to do with Jews in Egypt or somesuch (I know next to nothing about this part of history, never cared for it).

Anyway, I was standing as an Egyptian guard with a bunch or other people and watched as a Pharaoh mutilated/killed a baby in front of some nondescript Jewish man.

And then the other part I remember was my dog, who has been dead for almost a year now, encased in a mural on a ceiling, he looks filthy, disheveled, of course, dead.


I miss my dog..

>>9168597

>the author is a young woman struggling to become a writer
>the protagonist is a young woman struggling to become a writer
>sold for a six-figure sum

>>8629427
more nihilist donald memes please

mickey is in the right.
if we are to exist than we shall exist to highest degree that we can. it doesn't matter if our perception of our existence doesn't take into account knowledge that is provable or unfounded. As long as we operate at the edge of our perceptions, we are fighting the good fight. Donald's point of view doesn't take into account that those chemical states also change and can not stay constant, internally or externally. The absurd reaction of chemicals will lose it's potency.

>>8610470
I'm only here for the dank memes
does anyone else have any more donald duck nihilist reaction images?

>>8429408
>ADHD

end ur life

Hrmm... Is it readable?

Well, it uses ink characters deriving from the accepted Latin alphabet assembled into units of meaning called "words"; these units can typically be found in a codified and elaborated state in refefence materials known as "dictionaries", and Joyce had arranged these "words" into sequences for the most part obeying the accepted grammar and syntax of a popular tongue known as "English".