/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14738502]

>"Pessoa held a lifelong job as bookkeeper and translator of foreign correspondence in Lisbon, a city he rarely left, and lived an extremely solitary life, never marrying. Josipovici describes him as a man who dressed "with the utmost correctness; a man of few gestures in a peninsula of gesticulators; smoking up to eighty cigarettes a day"

>"Despite his apparently ascetic and asexual nature, Pessoa was recalled by friends and neighbours as a deeply lonely man, his outlook on intimacy oscillating wildly between complete rejection of love in favour of intellectual pursuits, to obsessive - and rather worrying - devotion to women who are unlikely to have been aware of his feelings towards them. One theory claims that some of Pessoa's earliest heteronyms were invented to allow him to write lengthy erotic letters - discovered several decades after his death - to various young women living in Lisbon, without the risk of these letters being associated with him."

>"As far as is known, he died a virgin; he did take up with one Ophelia Queiroz when he was 31 and she 19 — she also wrote to some of the heteronyms. After six months Pessoa broke it off, saying that he was not like other humans, followed a different Law."

>"During 1914, while living with his Aunt Anica on Lisbon's Rua Pascoal de Melo, the twenty-six-year old Pessoa revealed in a diary entry how loneliness and a lack of either material or artistic success had burdened him with immense feelings of failure and despondency. Treating his diary as a kind of maternal figure, Pessoa demands to know why he has so far failed to establish any kind of name for himself in Lisbon or formed any lasting bonds with its inhabitants. "Why do I only condone a ghost-like existence for myself. Wherever I go, I haunt. I sense the deep unease which people feel in my company - even my employer treats me with a kind of pity which is unbecoming of a man so assertive and so otherwise willing to lend no sympathetic attention to his business. Must I always perceive life as though through a glass window, fearing always that it will become obscured by the heat and revelry aside and leave me entirely alone outside on the abandoned street? Why, dear diary, do I fail to penetrate life like other writers and philosophers do with some competence? Tonight I feel abandoned once again. My spirit aches. The world outside proceeds while I yearn like a chained dog to be allowed to travel with it. Worse still is that there is no chain preventing me from living the life of a human being.""

[Anonymous No.14739965]

What should Chad incels like myself read besides ozamu dazai?

[Anonymous No.14740016]

what a fucking virgin

[Anonymous No.14740046]

>>14740016
lmaoo i know right. come on Chad, lets get some drinks while we talk girls about quantum physics.

[Anonymous No.14740123]

>>14738502
Have sex pessoa

[Anonymous No.14740239]

>>14738502
ONE OF US

[Anonymous No.14740243]

>>14738502
literally me haha

[Anonymous No.14740253]

>to obsessive - and rather worrying - devotion to women who are unlikely to have been aware of his feelings towards them

[Anonymous No.14740259]

>>14738502
Look at this fucking incel lmao!

[Anonymous No.14740260]

>My mouth feels odd from having gone so long without any kisses.

[Anonymous No.14740261]

Why are diaries always so cringe? Oh no, people need to know his name! Why doesn't he get any pussi

Fuck off, what a pathetic narcissist.

[Anonymous No.14740263]

>>14740261

[Anonymous No.14740289]

>>14738502
Why didn't he just improve himself?

[Anonymous No.14740331]

Aight let's see what we are dealing with here
>typical incel phenotype
>bananahead horseface
>pedo stache
>nerd glasses
>balding so has to wear a hat
>5'7 manlet
>shoulders narrower than a 12 year old girl
>80 cigarettes a day unathletic druggie

Ohh woe is me, why don't women want to suck my peepee.
Just fucking lol, incels when will they learn.

[Anonymous No.14740351]

>>14740331
You forgot
>among the five best writers of the 20th century
Would you make that trade?

[Anonymous No.14740357]

>>14740331
He really was ugly, but I think it was mostly his mental problems that were causing him problems.

>>14740351
The G-d giveth and the G-d taketh.
One can not have everything.

[Anonymous No.14740386]

>>14740331
>typical incel phenotype

What defines this?

[Anonymous No.14740414]

>>14738502
So...you're telling me that Portugal was a pioneer in inceldom? Hmmmmmm

[Anonymous No.14740435]

>>14740386
>What defines this?

[Anonymous No.14740442]

If Pessoa didn't, how the fuck am I supposed to get laid?

[Anonymous No.14740444]

>>14740435
>Portugal
>white

[Anonymous No.14740445]

>>14740435
This just looks like the /leftypol/ version of those JQ infocharts from /pol/

[Anonymous No.14740481]

>>14740445
it is what it is

[Anonymous No.14740494]

>>14740331
>why don't women want to suck my peepee.
Sounds like an exaggeration for me

[Anonymous No.14740512]

>>14738502
All of this I can take.
What I can't take is how people like this are never recognized during their lifetimes, or not on the same extent as they are after death. Same thing happened with Van Gogh, and probably many others.
During their lives, probably everyone they knew saw them as a heavy burden, disgusting, etc. After their fame they are remembered as great artists, but those people still reject equally reclusive yet talented artists who are alive now.

Why is our species so disgusting. One of these days the urge to kill myself is going to be too strong.

[Anonymous No.14740594]

>>14740512
Millions of people lived and will live like Pessoa, he simply wrote about it. He talks about this precisely in the book of disquiet
Read that book and also watch loving Vincent, you think like me so you will love it

[Anonymous No.14740613]

>>14740444
portugal is white pls respecc

[Anonymous No.14740628]

>"As far as is known, he died a virgin; he did take up with one Ophelia Queiroz when he was 31 and she 19 — she also wrote to some of the heteronyms. After six months Pessoa broke it off, saying that he was not like other humans, followed a different Law."

Bigger chad than all of this board

[Anonymous No.14740647]

>>14739965
Hamsun. His work stretches from inceldom to chadditude to volceldom to depravity.

[Anonymous No.14740657]

>>14740331
Was this written by a high school girl?

[Anonymous No.14740675]

>>14740657
>Was this written by a high school girl?

[Anonymous No.14740776]

>>14740435
>unavoidable physical traits
Thank Christ none of those match.

>Fringe totalitarian views
Thank God I'm a Paleo-Con then

>incapable of compartmentalization
...Isn't that a good thing compared to ignoring inconsistencies?
Or is it genuinely a case of being incapable?

>Violent
Eh, I assume it means when instigating it.

>Easily propagandized
I assume during adult years, kids are ridiculously easy to instill with bullshit.

All that said, doesn't this apply to a lot of those Antifa types?
Or is this designed for a horseshoe theory sort of thing?

[Anonymous No.14740787]

>>14740776
It's designed to keep threads alive and also to derail them

[Anonymous No.14740870]

>>14740787
Oh I know that, but surely there's someone who genuinely believes the nonsense purported within it.

[Anonymous No.14741005]

>>14740435
>balding, pale, skinny wrists and fingers but tall with masculine face and huge shoulders
Can't have it all

[Anonymous No.14741013]

>>14741005
Love is the only thing you need my bro

[Anonymous No.14741028]

>>14738502
What a disgusting failed normie. This guy would be waving LGBT flags and posting soifaces on twitter if he lived today. Everything for precious attention.

[Anonymous No.14741040]

>>14741028
You're talking shit m8, fuck off

[Anonymous No.14741049]

>chugs 80 cigs a day, probably smells like rotting flesh
>DUDE HOW COME PEOPLE DONT LIKE MY COMPANY

[Anonymous No.14741066]

>>14741049
I mean just think about it, lets say he gets 8 hours of sleep so thats 16 hours awake which is 960 minutes divided by 80 ciggies comes out to one cig every 12 minutes.
That nigge be chain smoking cigs one after another and he complain why peeps dont like eem.

[Anonymous No.14741087]

>>14741013
I love you bro

[Anonymous No.14741126]

>>14741087
And I love you bro

[Anonymous No.14741275]

>>14740331
Girls don't care about the physical aspect but the status. If he were alive today, he would have fucked some literature major's girls

[Anonymous No.14741387]

>>14741066
that's just how things were in the past

[Anonymous No.14741412]

this doesn't make me feel any better

yes Pessoa died a virgin
yes Newton died a virgin
yes Kant died a virgin

I'm not Pessoa, I'm not Newton, I'm not Kant, I'm nobody. Their did something with their celibacy.

[Anonymous No.14741702]

>>14741412
There is still time anon. Here, have a breadcrumb.

[Anonymous No.14742009]

>>14740435
I bet if you were to look it up most of those guys are not virgins and have been in some form of relationship.
Every single time I go anywhere I see at least someone that looks like this and has a girlfriend.
Something does not add up here. Were they right all along that it's all about personality?

[Anonymous No.14742037]

>>14738502
At least he's a lot of good poets, more than can be said of us who can't even manage to be one good poet

[Anonymous No.14742104]

>>14741412
These were geniuses among geniuses. Why deny your desires?

[Anonymous No.14742387]

>>14742104
>Why deny your desires?
get the fuck out normalnigger

[Anonymous No.14742429]

>>14742104
>Why deny your desires?
Nigger have you ever edged? It makes the release 10 times better.

[Anonymous No.14742536]

>>14740647
second this
read Hunger and Segen der Erde (dont know the original title)

[Anonymous No.14742674]

>>14738502
This man would have done well to challenge God.
You will find the answers you seek, whether it is from the lips of the highest, or from the barrel of a gun.

Rest well Pessoa.

[Anonymous No.14742717]

>>14740253
hehe, just imagine

[Anonymous No.14743110]

>>14738502
>Must I always perceive life as though through a glass window

My life feels like this because of constant unending depersonalization disorder, I wonder if he had it too

[Anonymous No.14743236]

>>14743110
He literally invented poets, there's a significant chance he did

[Anonymous No.14743344]

>>14743110
What separates having episodic problems with it from having it classified as a disorder?

[Anonymous No.14743867]

That's literally me. Maybe i'm too smart for a companion. My body aches, my heart yearns, my loins rumble. i am alone.

[Anonymous No.14743877]

ive never known what love is. is it a feeling? a state of mind? a nightmare? if so i take my glasses off for ive seen enough, felt enough and i too.. am truely alone

[Anonymous No.14743881]

>>14743867
>>14743877
holy fucking cringe

[Anonymous No.14743886]

>>14743881
You must have never felt love. I envy you.

[Anonymous No.14743885]

>>14743881
the only cringe i see is those who still believe.

[Anonymous No.14743890]

>>14743877
at nights, i put my head under the covers. to cry. even tho i love, even god doesnt love me back...

[Anonymous No.14743894]

Until the September 11th attacks, the tragedy in Jonestown on November 18th, 1978 represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event. It is unfathomable now, as it was then, that more than 900 Americans – members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple – died after drinking poison at the urging of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, in a secluded South American jungle settlement.

[Anonymous No.14743908]

[Anonymous No.14744141]

Post some paragraphs of Book of Disquiet. I would but mine isn't in english.

[Anonymous No.14744160]

>>14743344
I didn't even know people had it in episodes for me it's always been there for years, it never gets better or goes away

But I guess it's like any mental illness such as depression which can come and go for some people and for others be a constant thing

[Anonymous No.14744560]

>>14740253
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