/lit/ - Literature

>>16295930
Loneliness needs a companion, my robot girlfriend on my smartphone wasn't enough

>>12702066
I need to know for personal sociological research: How big is your dick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluous_man

Does this describe you?

I'm reading a book about suicides. It starts with real stories of people who committed suicide.

I want to share some of my favorite suicides because I know some of you are almost as fucked up in the head as I am.


>#1
About ten years back, probably in 1992, I read a news of suicide by a women, that jerked me squarely. A middle class Thakur family lived in Gwalior, a big city of Madhya Pradesh, consisting of parents, their two sons, Sohan Singh and Pratap Singh, and one daughter namely Suman elder than her two brothers. What happened to this family, was really an unprecedented event. The parents died because of some incurable diseases who left Suman and her brothers helpless and in gloomy situation, and they were really joggled after their parents' untimely passing away

However, Suman (unmarried) gathered self-confidence and determination to support her brothers who were, then, the college going students of their graduation classes. How to financially support them, was a difficult task before Suman. Anyhow, she kept them in the college hostel, and then, asked them to devote their studies so that they could become big officers. She told her brothers that she would do some work i1l' Agra (Uttar Pradesh) to earn money and send it to them regularly by money-orders. On this pretext, Suman reached Agra where, to one's surprise, she joined a group of prostitutes. Whatever she earned, she used to send it to them. After a few years, they became graduates, and luckily, both the brothers were selected, one as an LA.S. and second as an LP.S., and got their postings in Madhya Pradesh. Afterwards, they got married; children were born to them; and asked to live in government bungalows, with all luxuries of life; but they worried about Suman.

Eventually, Suman happily came to know all about her brothers; but by that time, she had grown old with white hair and wrinkled face. Suman met her brothers one by one with great hopes. She told how she supported them and that disgraceful story, infuriated her brothers who not only hated her; but they and their ultra-modern wives, also forced her to get out of their bungabws and worried her not to come and meet them again. In fact, Suman was happy and wished to live with her brothers for the rest of life. But she faced condemnation, hate rebuke virtually excommunication by her brothers, which smashed Suman's whole of psyche. Again, she reached Agra and the rainy season's jumped from the Yamuna bridge into fast running water course to get herself drowned one with nature.

don't laugh

>>7919493
http://www.vernandsisters.com/chicken-soup.html

>>7557968
She's a teenager, it'd be naive to expect some deep literary analysis or some shit like that.
This girl probably read more than most people here at her age.

You kiddos need to grow up.

Need depressing books. Definitely not depressed, just like them.

Finished Book of Disquiet today and am looking for more like it, it was fucking amazing. Patrician tier prose

I want to fall in love

>Suicide
e.g: Suicide by Louve
>Books written to encourage suicide e.g: Hegesias' lost Death by Starvation
>Books about extreme depression and isolation

know this feel so hard. the first few months with my gf, i was overcome with lust and absorbed in the moment. now i think about schopenhauer as soon as i start striping ropes of cum across her back.

do you want to get married?

what good books/writers present a real authentic heartbreak story without being too heavy handed with bullshit YA prose??

>does it even exist

>>6766936
Yes, read Thus Spoke

>>6765571

Plato's Symposium (reread)
>tfw you'll never experience the truest form of love, or at all

I've been reading some of Plato's dialogues (Apology, Euthyphro, Crito, Euthydemus, Phaedo, Symposium, Critias and currently reading Gorgias, planning on reading more after this) and I'm enjoying it, but what, philosophically speaking, is so important about what I'm reading? Is it what Socrates (Plato) says about what virtue means? What Rhetoric exactly entails, according to him? What justice is? His thoughts on the soul? Or are some of these concepts irrelevant, and is it incorrect to take specific idea's away from it, because I should just look at the way he thinks in a philosophical way?

post the most ignorant view that you used to hold firmly, and the book(s) that changed your mind

Give me your favorite poets.

What sort of poems do they write?

> be college grad with high paying stem job
> carefree, luxury lifestyle
> have hot gf that reads and studied literature
> start reading books for the image to impress her
> actually get interested in it
> suddenly life_unfulfilling.jpg
> realize gf only understands the greeks superficially
> think about schopenhauer while nutting on her back
> nothing is experienced anymore only watched and cataloged in real time
> must overcome and do something profound
> criticize and torment self for aggrandizing self
> don't know what to do, so do nothing
> shit post on burmese cartoon website
> gf says come to bed with me
> tfw

>>6496210
You can introspect afterwards, deliberately and without distraction. There's nothing wrong with introspection, it's just that a lot of people who get too caught up in it turn it into a continuous habit that's ultimately detrimental to both enjoyment of life and the quality of their introspection.