/lit/ - Literature

>>20664034
Did he ever publish that? I still have that image saved.

Have you thought of anything lately that you'd like to explore in a story later?

>reading about Fermi Paradox today
>one of the explanations offered was that every ETI makes the same conclusion: to leave this universe and create another one
Unrelated to that I also imagined a scene where a private investigator meets a client that wants him to track down an abstraction, in this case hypocrisy, which has recently gone missing. The PI almost rejects the offer, but accepts it because sincerity annoys him (also the money would be nice)

books with this feel?

>>17850616
>gnosticism and hermeticism is going to be mainstream in a year
Welcome to the 1920s

>>17847406
I'm an American who grew up in a shithole rural area (didn't get any internet above dial up until 2013, that's how rural) and even I had read R&J and Hamlet in class by the 8th grade.

Is the book just a metaphor for NEETdom?

>>16709830
Already did!

>>15468656
That's actually fascinating anon. Where do you think the fear comes from?

>>15439604
western mind is shit and is victim of a parasitical subversion but none of you faggots think in a correct framework which can internalize a continuous opposing psychological force that is trying everything it can to take advantage of your simple naivety so it's like watching a bunch of blind dumb sheep throwing themselves into the slaughter house thinking they're enlightened beings.

Garbage boys.

>>14887742
>Remember the first time you climbed a tree? Felt fun, didn't it? What about the 5th time was it nearly as novel?
I want to see these fags cope themselves out of this one.

If you didn’t deflower the girl, you are nothing special to her. Girls always remember and cherish their first guy.

Love.

>>13707202
I've had a few brushes with so-called "normies" and holy shit you guys really aren't lying. Harry Potter, social justice, and drag queen gifs galore. Seems like writing is a gay or womanly thing to do nowadays.

UGA by the way. STEMfag by the way.

>what books will we be reading?
God willing, all of the good ones.

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>>13113427
You can tell the Harrisite from a normal person by how they awkwardly use his first name when referring to him.

>have been unemployed since 2015
>spend my time focusing on self-improvement and trying to understand the world / myself better
>this takes a surprising amount of time so people inevitably ask me what I'm up to
>"uhhh I-I'm writing a novel!"
>people nod and say that's cool
>have written like three pages collectively in all this time and really don't want to actually write a novle
>im finding myself telling this to the same people i met previously and im starting to worry people are going to ask to see copies

>>11974023
I don't even really like German literature. I only learned German to listen to German pop music.

>>11712075
Legitimately only solution so far

Has there ever been a specific moment in a book that has changed a major or minor outlook you've had on life ? (philosophy aside).
Because I always see people on here talking in terms of general referencing without retaining anything specific from a book that affected them, if so, wanna share ?
I'll start.
>read "do androids dream of electric sheep" at 15
>Retained that empathy was a genuine human feeling as even though the androids attempted to shatter the illusion of it being real (proving mercerism to be a fraud globally) it still continued to exist because isidore gets upset at the androids torturing a spider
>even though androids offer to pay for spider, they don't see why Isidore won't accept their money and can't understand why he's bothered
>tfw realise it's because they aren't human and can't experience empathy, making it an integral part of human nature
>tfw I start to get upset for spider to
I'll always remember that part Of The book, what about you faggots ?

>>11535583
>an education (especially high school, where there are parents) would really limit how much the kids can do saving the world, especially if you expect travel to be involved in anything more than summer or winter break
>high school is a poor choice anyway unless you wanted to do YA, and most adults wouldn't empathize with high schoolers anyway
>since high school is always changing, the only way to make it work would be to lock it into the time you went to high school so if you went through college, I'm guessing you graduated from high school sometime between 2009 and 2013, so have that as the time date
>"regular guy in high school" implies blank slate protagonist to project into, popular in YA novels, he needs a personality, a good place to start is if he's more "beta virgin guy" or "alpha Chad guy" (or even "that kid")
>other main character being a girl, presumably the same age, usually means love interest, antagonist, or sister, pick one (or any combination thereof)

Are their any books that deal with societal fear of young male sexuality?
I think it is a relevant topic because some people on the internet are literally shaking because they are afraid of autistic young internet virgins committing car rampages.

>>11366822
>ecce homo

>>11016188
The dream snake by Robert E. Howard.

I need more characters that are introduced in their story with a list of the kind of food they usually eat.

For exemple Don Quijiote, Polyphemus or Morgante.

Literature is the refuge for those unable to experience the divinity of life within themselves.

>>10372456
I read this compilation of short classic science fiction stories a while ago, and I think my favorite one out of all of them was "The Shadow and The Flash" by Jack London. Highly recommend it.