/lit/ - Literature

Can anyone help me find a short story i've not been able to locate in years?

I read it years ago in an anthologies book i had for school, the title of the story was something along the lines of "the offended husband".
In the story, a husband who has caught his wife cheating on him, goes to a gun shop to buy a revolver to kill his wife, her lover and then himself.
While the shopkeep is showing him his wares with incredible enthusiasm, describing him the features of one gun after the other, the inner monologue of the husband keeps circling around his plans on what to do, and he starts permutating his options on who to kill first and who to let live: he thinks of only killing the wife, the wife and lover, the lover and himself, the wife and himself, just himself, and then, ultimately, chooses to kill nobody and just have them face the consequences for having been so dishonorable. He then, embarassed, tells the shopkeep he will only purchase a cheap net for hunting birds (i think?), and leaves the store with it still very much offended, but without a gun.

I've been trying to find it for a while now. If memory serves me right, it was from a russian author, and the time period from the late 1800s, maybe later, but i do not know for sure at all. Does it ring a bell for anyone?

Thanks.

>>19339238
>it's wrong to buy or sell scripture and it mostly tells us that most christians don't understand their own faith

How the fuck do we classify historical knowledge? Is it a priori? Analytic? Synthetic?

What are some good books on Christian ethics and prayer? If we are supposed to follow God’s example, and if he is passive to so many torturous deaths of innocent creatures which he supposedly loves despite having the power to stop it, doesn’t that mean that we should follow suit and thank him for this in our prayers? Any books on this?

In a story I'm writing, there's a 91 year old man that's in a wheelchair and has severe dementia. There's a throwaway line of dialogue about how ten years prior, he was a sharp and intelligent, fully independent man full of life and vitality. My beta reader told me to change that because she claims that by the age of 81, everyone has dementia and is physically crippled to the point of partial if not complete dependence. How should I change all of this? He's a fairly minor character in the grand scheme of things. He's important to the main character (his grandson) but doesn't get much screentime.

Anon, let me help you. When you read, you can take, basically, two approaches.

Approach 1:
Read at a desk with a a spiral-bound notebook and a pen. Take detailed notes. Make an outline of the book. Copy out the most important or memorable passages by hand. As you work through the book, occasionally recopy the entire outline, making newer drafts. Afterward you will have a roughly 20 page outline of the book with relevant passages, and you can refer back to this afterward to refresh your memory of the book.

Approach 2: Follow Emerson's advice and just read without worry about remembering or following everything. Here's the quote:

>"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

>>18204586
are you upset plebbitor? 4chan is an anime website so all boards and threads have an implicit /anime attached to it

So /lit/ is actually literature/anime and /sffg/ is actually /sffag/ (science fiction, fantasy, and anime general)

>>18194836
I don't know what those are, but yes please uwu

big boy scifi/fantasy scare me

What books will make sadness go away

>>18133080
>something without an ego, no desires of its own
This doesn't even make sense, you can't have a hyper-intelligent AI that can think in pure abstractions not unlike humans, yet say it lacks a will of its own. How can something be benevolent yet lack will?

Why don't we ever have monthly book clubs?

>>17974684
You mean trannies? There's no women here

>>17921666
>Fucking idiot, I didn't say it was a contradiction.
>It is a contradiction too you fucking idiot.

>>16897244
>hey let's give voice to every retard in the country and make their baseless opinions worth the same as the experts' judgments
>the most efficient technique

/lit/anons, can you make a living writing fiction ?

Where do you buy your books from /lit/? Amazon is my go to but I want to know if there's any other better sites that I'm not aware of.

>Too impotent to exert any power over the world, the Stoic exerts it over the one domain left to him: himself.

>>14276901
>>It's more attractive to be in a position in which you're providing value to people

huh??

>>13574494
I had sex with an anime girl in VR.

Does this count?

>>12567133
what is that?

>>12539481
Why is this so hard to read for me? I don’t know what he’s referring to half the time.

>>12539642
What does valence mean in the context of your sentence?

>>12535096
>I'm from the defunct textboards

what is that?

>>12401064
>just embrace kali yuga.


what is that?