/lit/ - Literature

>>19840342
>>19840350
>“The sticky stuff that’s dripping from your fingers Is a human being, Ponticus.”
>So pro-life men are hypocrites if they jack off?
A sperm and egg cell each have 23 chromosomes. A healthy human being has 46, which form when the sperm fertilises the egg. A fertilised egg, zygote and foetus are demonstrably, provably human beings. A sperm cell however is just a sperm cell with the potential to fertilise an egg and create a human being.

>>19792035
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

>pick up finnegans wake
>all the memes are from literally the first two pages
you niggas didn't even read this did you

what is some /lit/ that made you cry?

>book has no end or beginning
>reader is stuck in a cycle of dreamlike confusion with glimpses of understanding, like a soul getting reincarnated into the world
>Finnegan is a bricklayer demiurge figure who splits his head after a fall, creating the world of the Wake
>the title calls us all Finnegans and tells us to wake up
Is Finnegans Wake gnostic? Did Joyce retract his affirmation of life with it?

>>16132131
OFFICIAL /lit/ DUBLINERS RANKINGS

GOD TIER
The Dead

GREAT TIER
A Little Cloud
Araby
Counterparts
A Painful Case

VERY GOOD TIER
An Encounter
After the Race
Clay
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The Sisters

GOOD TIER
Two Gallants
Eveline
The Boarding House

MEH BUT STILL BETTER THAN ALMOST ALL LITERATURE TIER
Grace
A Mother

>start to read finnegans wake as a bit
>all the memes are on the first two pages
what the fuck you niggas never actually read this shit

>tfw you realize all of the universe is a repeated retelling of a cuckolding story

>>13438748
all of literature

>>12920991
I just don't know how to come to terms with wasting away half my waking hours doing some bullshit I hate.
>>12921008
I don't think Jesus can help me to be honest

Bad. I have no idea how to go about getting stories published. I'm just blindly sending things to journals and getting rejection after rejection. Also I'm starting to think I'm just not smart enough to write the kind of thing I want to. Feels pretty bad.

The people who are actually invested in reading are busy reading.

>>11647186
no

OFFICIAL /lit/ DUBLINERS RANKINGS

GOD TIER
The Dead

GREAT TIER
A Little Cloud
Araby
Counterparts
A Painful Case

VERY GOOD TIER
An Encounter
After the Race
Clay
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The Sisters

GOOD TIER
Two Gallants
Eveline
Grace
The Boarding House
A Mother

>>11296083
stoner's sad life is pretty eye watering

I keep throwing away my writing
It just never pleases me, in the moment I feel like Shakespeare or Joyce but when I look at it the next day it makes me recoil in disgust from how poorly I feel it is or edgy it might be

OFFICIAL /lit/ DUBLINERS POWER RANKINGS

GOD TIER
1. The Dead
GREAT TIER
2. A Little Cloud
3. Araby
4. Counterparts
5. A Painful Case
VERY GOOD TIER
6. Two Gallants
7. An Encounter
8. Clay
9. Ivy Day in the Committee Room
10. The Sisters
GOOD TIER
11. After the Race
12. Eveline
13. Grace
14. The Boarding House
15. A Mother

How to come to terms with the fact that your writing is subpar and you will never be published much less make a living by writing or create anything worth remembering and will be doomed to work jobs that you loathe and that make you suicidal? I seriously don't see any way out of this cycle of work, exhaustion, inability to write or submit stories, and resulting hopelessness. Should I just resign myself to bring miserable and give up on writing? I think I can probably deaden my sadness with video games and tv but I've mostly abstained from those so I can read and write. But if there's no future in that for me I might as well just accept my fate and become a total loser. Will Jesus help, or shrooms? Help, anons.

>>10732976