/lit/ - Literature

>>22123105

>>21526895
WELCOME

>>19601102
I can prove my hand exists, just look-

>>19176332
Silly poopy monkey. You think that because you have language the world must have intrinsic value. Laughable. See >>19175273

>>17810405
Fuck Locke, and fuck Rousseau even more

>>17810405
Fuck Locke, and Fuck Rousseau even more

>>17223098
I forgot this faggot >>17221474

>be german
>read translation moby dick
>enjoy it, even the parts some would describe as boring or tough
>finish it, pretty good read
>research a little about different translations
>turns out I have the one where 2/3 of the book were just cut out
>mfw

What are some fiction or non-fiction books that best depict scenes of violence? From fist fights to shoot-outs to tortures, I'm having a really hard time trying to describe action scenes in my stories.

>>15590210
>tfw you realize all the /pol/ talk about muh jews is nothing but a cope and defense mechanism against a hostile, random, unpredictable world

Books are for fags

When Zapffe talks about a deer whose antlers are so big and heavy they pin it to the ground and kill it, making an analogy to how consciousness makes us absolutely miserable, he's right. However, what stops us, intelligent deer, from cutting off our own antlers? What keeps us from giving them a shape that is useful for our survival?
The first time I read The Last Messiah I felt nothing short of despair, but now I see it as a guide to life, as an explanation on how to be happy.
Isolation, anchoring, distraction, sublimation. The four remedies to the horror of being alive, and what good remedies they are. Having a good time is not an automatic process, is something you must constantly seek and fight for.
I believe I have suffered from deep depressive episodes, and never during those episodes did I think of trying my hardest to take control of my own thoughts, to really investing energy and time to control the feelings that went through my mind. It is absolutely possible to pull yourself into a beneficial direction, but it takes dedication and willpower.

All my life I have suffered of different kinds of anxieties that have crippled me. I experience incredible amounts of anxiety that delve into terror when I get high, it always happens when I let the trip take control. But through this panic attacks I discovered that the mind is a powerful, powerful thing, and if we are intelligent about it we can take the fucking reins of it and have a fucking blast.
I'm yet to try this process on harder drugs like LSD or DMT, but so far, it seems to me that "being positive" means taking control of your thoughts and focusing them on achieving a good result, making use of the 4 methods to keep the bad thoughts away.

>>14906153
Did I reply to you?

>>14906156
That's because it is the religious mesh of meaning, and Plato does his best to get past that into the objective characterisation of Being or the meaningful meaning itself, similar to Heidegger's uprooting of theological terms(man before Being), as he was taught by Jesuit theology.

>>14714992
Interesting. Have you read the knuckles of my fist, /pol/fag?

>>14690749
SHUT UP WHORE I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!

>>14555017
>guenonfag replied to me

do i need to wash myself now? are the shit particles dangerous?

>damn

>>14545574
>woman detected

>>14071093
There is no sound in space so your story hook is fucked make it a signal or something like that

>author uses a word I'm not familiar with

>>13750355
We had /r9k/ but you tranny cucks had to start spamming and flooding it with your racebait and faggotry. Incels are here to stay, deal with it bitch

>>12452937
DELETE THIS YOU MEGA FAGGOT