/lit/ - Literature

I long for the end times i wish to see an endless storm engulf the skies and sweep away every structure made by man, sadly i doubt it's going to be anything as dramatic. Total human death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOqVs-K1eEo&ab_channel=MisfitsCentral

How am I supposed to stop the knowledge of my past failures from haunting me daily

>>17074969
I would trade any poet from that era for this single poem without a second thought.

Souls that Crane the Neck by Al-Ma'arri

Souls that crane the towards the Judgement Day, yet have, a crooked man erect in foolish vice
You refuse to any good, but you still prepare for a day(that brings forgiveness)
Don't be duped by the simple of a friend, his inmost thoughts are all of hatred and fraud
And people, whether young, old, grow grey in error or else grow up in it
Universally you fancy your debased, mortal life, but it never grants what you want
Since the time your soul became lusty as a camel, you have jaunted and strolled in error
And while the sleep of mortal life might be long, yet there is a wakening for those who slumber
Craving the harlot equals languor and sorrow, the odd tryst does not satisfy him who aches with hot passion
Though Saturn's blackness might be your palm's dye, and dimly lit Alcor a stud in your ear
Yet no supreme light or abiding wealth will save you, from the unsure fortunes of the night
Nor vigour ward off the dust's embrace, though the darkness be a well atop you
I find the nightfall full winged(than the crow), but even it's pursuing black raven will die
So what bothers Aquila such that it won't fly there, and clinging Scorpio that it won't crawl
Does the day show an onlooker the Sun after it's dawned, when dawn is cloaked in mist?
No well-wrought words could refute the death of Socrates, nor could the healer's art shield Hippocrates from it
If you see me brought low at death's brink, leave me be for all who hope will perish
Nor shoo the bird from me, nor let your hand moisten this mouth bone dry.

>>16719273
I have read his translated work in English. His poetry is difficult to understand. And my English is also weak.
Can you suggest me some way to get into his work? Any translation that you prefer?

>>16719284
Michelstaedter
Albert Caraco
David Benatar
Eugene Thacker

Books that promote individual action/violence rather than being an idle consumer while whining on social media and waiting for the enemy to fall on his own sword?

>>15463055
Be honest about yourself and the world TO yourself, none else deserves truth. They're all content with lies and have no interest in truth so don't bother them with it. Even if you tell them the truth with good intentions they'll just assume the worst and you'll be blamed for bothering them.

Lie to all of them, but not to yourself.

Compared to most people my life has been extremely eventful. I was born to an absolutely destitute but extremely well educated family, my grandparents were bourgeois refugees of Stalinism and my father had a gambling/drinking problem that had ruined the family immediately prior to my birth despite both my parents having phds. So when I say poor I mean a family of six on 30k a year in the 90s, in Boston. Then I became a millionaire by 21 after selling a small soap company I had started at 16, I lost the entire fortune on drinking and gambling, traits I didn’t know I possessed. I’ve been raped, beaten, had a heart attack, a heroin overdose, and was homeless for about six months, I also got into a top 5 uni and dropped out during all this. I’m 28 now and unemployed, suffice to say I’ve been through a lot. My question is why is all my poetry trite and sentimental? Is life experience just a meme? Am I doomed to mediocrity even in spite of all my experience?

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>>13934040
>flunked outta HS
>got GED
>went to uni for 3 years
>flunk outta uni
>big debt
>mooch off parents
>kicked outta parents house
>get min. wage slave labor job slinging burgers for 2 years
>live in shared housing with degenerates and low life bums
>wages garnished
>fired for indolence and plaintive attitude
>homeless for few weeks
>parents take me back outta pity
>live alone in tiny attic
>no job, no friends, no nothing
>hikki for the foreseeable future
At least I completely and thoroughly failed at life in my 20s so I wont go into my 30s with false hope.

5/15
feels a little pathetic but it's better than nothing, i guess. currently reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. Hunter is extremely based and the book is entertaining and so far but it's a bit long

>mfw I want to quit the net and never use it again
>mfw I want to be able to check up what people think about me quitting the net and never using it again

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>>12792180
I've literally made the exact same post as OP hundreds of times over the last decade on pretty much every single board and yet my soul is eternally tethered to this flee ridden hellscape. How the fuck do I leave the chanz for good bros? Help me find salvation. Save me.

Arthur Machen
Algernon Blackwood
M. R. James
Ramsey Campbell
Robert Aickman

How did the "weird" emerge as a distinct concept in Western literature and thought more generally? The grotesque, the eldritch, the malevolently and particularistically divine (as opposed to the Platonic God), any things like that.