/lit/ - Literature

>>21592209
What if the sinners love the sin? What if hating the sin offends the sinner and put them against me?

>>20305334
>mfw it's real

>>18594343
I mean, wew.
I'm legitimately speechless

>>17300893
>I hope you are all here forever.

>mfw I didn't know that but I realize that it makes metaphysical sense

>>16457616
holy fuck i finally realized why is there a fan in that pic.
it's the "cool" zone, the fan keep the frog cool but also the frog wear shades because it makes him look "cool". it's a double entendre!
guys what are some books about having a epiphany?

>early americans thought the paris catacombs gave artists creative energy so hollywood was built over an indian burial ground
did it work?

judges 9: 22 - 25
judges 19: 22 - 29
1 samuel 16: 14 - 15
2 samuel 8: 2
2 samuel 17: 14 - 23

>>14478258
>You have to follow one course until satisfied.
>Here's what you need:
>Cup of White Tea (learn how to steep it properly, less than 4 minutes in water that is not hotter than 185F.)
>Then get to work.
>Work on it.
>When a distraction comes into your mind.
>Stop take a sip of tea. Control your emotional urge to take the distraction detour. Get back to work.
>You have to WORK.
>Finish your project then reward yourself with the research.

>>14465248
>lesbian telling anon to kill his mother

Hear me out, I have a problem where my mind drifts off into the book world and it's hard for me to shift back to the real world. It's like I can see and hear shit that happens in the book quite intensely. Am Schizophrenic or something?

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>>14124648
>a scene where the protagonist dreams he escapes being raped in a bathroom by going into the toilet and emerges with a "fuzzy negro dingleberry" in his nose.
>scene is about a different character receiving a message in invisible ink that is activated by semen.
>the main plot seems to revolve around getting boners from rockets.
>Did you get that it was Malcolm X trying to rape him
>I think his description of ivy leaguers as shit-eating sewer goblins who secretly lust after black penis is pretty accurate.
>And then with whites and semen.
>the novel is about rockets (penis) destroying minorities (shit)
>and then you see how often anal intercourse happens in the book
>you begin to realise that Pynchon is a repressed homosexual
>but you also become paranoid because of the sheer number of accumulating associations and contradictions that can be fit into a single image.
What the fuck is this book.

>>13791254
Christian's are fucked in the head. Forever and always

Recommend me some unnerving books please.

W-wait, are there people who can read WITHOUT subvocalizing?

What can we do then?

is art/literature the only thing humanity is good for? everything else seems pretty useless.

>A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained weddingveil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or saber done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses’ ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse’s whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen’s faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

>dad found the thus spoke Zarathustra

He literally asked me why I am reading this loser

Why is my writing shit?

>Philosophical cuckoldry.

>>11345850
Everything in this is incomprehensible to me. Am I a brainlet?

Quick tell me which version of Moby Dick i should buy