/lit/ - Literature

>>10809754
all we have is the illusion of choice; all our choices are already destined by what came before.

Ahhh anyone ever not visit /lit/ threads for weeks at a time and feel refreshed at the thought that while you plumb the depths and explore the heights of the loftiest and most profound human artistic endeavors you dumb homos are "still" here incessantly yammering with your useless memes and garbage mediocre tastes and ideas? Feels pretty good, man.

>>10623818
>I usually fill my memory-places with the images of beautiful women, which excite my memory . . . and believe me: when I use beautiful women as memory images, I find it much easier to arrange and repeat the notions which I have entrusted to those places. You now have a most useful secret of artificial memory, a secret which I have (through modesty) long remained silent about: if you wish to remember quickly, dispose the images of the most beautiful virgins into memory places; the memory is marvellously excited by images of women . . . This precept is useless to those who dislike women and they will find it very difficult to gather the fruits of this art.
t. peter of ravenna

>>7953973
Well I mean, not exactly.

The ancients that behaved in such a manner (in fact ways we applaud today) were famously and widely considered degenerate even in their own day (pic related). A few tremendously degenerate aristocrats does not excuse the general rot that has set in in the entire population in contemporary times.

Hell, half of the prophetic literature in the Bible is about how God will destroy the degenerate city dwellers.

Eugène Delacroix - some people just want to watch it burn

>>4005968
Delacroix > Monet, Manet