/lit/ - Literature

Why did prometheus try to feed Zeus bones? What was he trying to accomplish?

Any book to motivate me to focus on academic studies? My brain gives in after 5 mins of opening an academic book.

>not subscribed to religious practices
>hate the country and culture I'm from
>immigrated to the west
>can't integrate with western culture either because it's so radically different than the one I grew up in
>TDLR; is not part of any religious community, national community or ethnic community.

Any books about identity crisis?

I can't even get a prostitute to fuck me. It's beyond over.

>>16954450

>>16949736
I tried posting on /r/askphilosophy and the replies were pretty shitty. The subreddit recycles the same fucking material every single day and it orients itself around boring shit like superficial discussions of Camus, Sartre and Neetche, or even worse, they do interpretive work on some canonical author through one of their autistic little logical schemas.

>>16846680
>>16846942

>>16836428
Joyce is trash.

If you feel hopeless about the state of your country, any book to cheer you up?

>penelopiad

>>16523000
cringe. worthless book

>>16443532
>Naruto analogy

Extremely cringe.
How can anyone still read Joyce after based FW poster?

>>16381076
The most overrated writer there is.

>>16122744
What this guy >>16122756 said. You should fuck some Cheerios too while you're at it, OP.

t. read 'the fault in our stars' and deeply regret it

>>16119656
cringe

>>16104829
>James Joyce
Opinion discarded.

>>16101266
>modernism/postmodernism
Based.

>be me
>learn about gnosticism
>get into it, read the texts all the time
>debate people on /lit/ and learn how to articulate myself
>start to seethe with disgust at normie life
>feels liberating
>like I'm gonna finally make it
>invited out to a bar with friend and some girls
>get bombed
>discussion gets political
>feel like they're gonna like me and I can take the limiters off
>one bitch is vegan but supports abortion
>can't stand those inflections that normies have in their voice when they're trying to talk about something serious
>start ranting about the archons
>think I actually drunkenly slurred "Zostrianos" at some point
>think I called a bitch "acathot"
>slam the table for emphasis
>notice that wave of cringe and contempt that just washes through people you just met when they know you're defective
>excuse myself
>go outside, smoke a blunt
>no longer suicidal
>go back inside
>high as a kite and can't even make eye contact with the girls
>one of them is wearing some slutty boots
>go to the bathroom
>masturbate
>leave without saying goodbye
>wake up with the pizza shits
>0 new messages
>fucking archons

>reading in my room
>mom comes in and tells me to get a job

>>16014150
>montalk

>>16005649

Ulysses