I'm getting married in a few hours. Post some books that'll tell me that I'm making the right decision.
Spinoza's Ethics
Kierkegaard in general
Being serious, I swear
>>8536927
You didn't unfortunately. No memes. People are awful and you will hate each other.
>>8536943
We got along for the last six years. I'd like to believe that the next sixty years will be fine, too.
Anyone else pronounce an extra /h/ at the beginning of words that start with /wh/? Like
hWhite hWhale, for example. Or hWhiskey.
what
>>8536871
Only when pronouncing Bob Ross' patented "Liquid Hwhite".
>>8536871
I also do it for one.
Is this the most /lit/ screenplay of all time?
>>8536795
It's just an inferior Inherent Vice rip off.
>>8536795
>when your thread doesn't get any replies first time around so you remake it exactly the same
hmm
>>8536795
Close... the answer is actually barton fink.
/lit/ doesn't like comedy, or accessibility.
who had the most raw intellect of the 3?
>>8536779
Hegel. He was also the least coherent of the three though.
>>8536790
this
/lit/ considers all western buddhists to be shit
I think he was a good man, but I don't agree with pantheism or buddhism so I don't agree with him.
>>8536756
/lit/ in general considers all buddhists to be shit east or west lets be real
>>8536751
He's a meme, nice to listen to but God forbid you meet someone who takes him seriously
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the "Hallelujah Chorus".[16]
>>8536647
>you will never be lead to your eternal sleep by DH Lawrence.
>>8536647
For future purposes
To poet Amy Lowell in 1914: “Why do you deny the bitterness in your nature, when you write poetry? Why do you take a pose? It causes you always to shirk your issues, and find a banal resolution at the end.” To Katherine Mansfield in 1920: “I loathe you. You revolt me stewing in your consumption,” to which he amends this barb: “The Italians were quite right to have nothing to do with you.” To critic John Middleton Murry in 1924: “Your articles in the Adelphi always annoy me. Why care so much about your own fishiness or fleshiness? Why make it so important? Can’t you focus yourself outside yourself? Not forever focused on yourself, ad nauseam?” To Aldous Huxley in 1928: “I have read Point Counter Point with a heart sinking through my boot soles. … It becomes of a phantasmal boredom and produces ultimately inertia, inertia, inertia and final atrophy of the feelings.”
This is to philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1915: “You simply don’t speak the truth, you simply are not sincere. The article you send me is a plausible lie, and I hate it. If it says some true things, that is not the point. The fact is that you, in the Essay, are all the time a lie.” It gets worse from there:
"I would rather have the German soldiers with their rapine and cruelty, than you with your words of goodness. It is the falsity I can’t bear. I wouldn’t care if you were six times a murderer, so long as you said to yourself, “I am this.” The enemy of all mankind, you are, full of the lust of enmity. It is not the hatred of falsehood which inspires you. It is the hatred of people, of flesh and blood. It is a perverted, mental blood-lust. Why don’t you own it."
He ends the note to Russell: “Let us become strangers again. I think it is better.”
Is there a better description of a character's death thanPort succumbing to Typhoid Feverin The Sheltering Sky?
Bonus points if it's psychological/describes consciousness fading into oblivion.
>>8536595
You should check out my diary
>>8536595
the climax of "V. in Love"
>>8536595
you still spoiled it outside the spoiler tag you know.
so i'm starting to write a screenplay, and only have a vague idea of how to go about that , i'm currently reading ''screenwriting for dummies'' but i'm looking for some tips from some more experienced writers,
thanks
>>8536575
Why do you want to write a screenplay, what do you have to express?
>>8536582
i just have a good story idea
>>8536586
Why do you believe its good?
post the first few pages of books /lit has never read and we will discuss/rate/critique them. this is miss macintosh my darling.
>>8536546
>>8536594
it's 1200 something pages. I'm sure you will find bits you like.
>Just as the victim of the morphine habit, the drunkard, the smoker, is no longer a normal man, so the man who has known several women for his pleasure is no longer normal? He is abnormal forever. He is a voluptuary. Just as the drunkard and the victim of the morphine habit may be recognized by their face and manner, so we may recognize a voluptuary. He may repress himself and struggle, but nevermore will he enjoy simple, pure, and fraternal relations toward woman. By his way of glancing at a young woman one may at once recognize a voluptuary; and I became a voluptuary, and I have remained one.
What did he mean by this?
pussy
He feels guilty because he wants to fuck
>>8536514
When you give yourself to hedonism you ruin simple, more pure, pleasures.
It's just like how people become heroin addicts because nothing else feels as good as heroin.
prove to me that Finnagan's Wake wasn't James Joyce's magum opus
>pro-tip: you cant'
it's shit
>>8536449
OP BTFO
How will he ever recover?
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/vast-riddles.html
Best poetry about the human condition?
I find The Tyger by Blake incredibly fascinating because of its exploration on the beauty-horror dichotomy.
that poem was about god, not people
>>8536405
wtf is the human condition anyway? Isn't all poetry about the human condition?
>>8536405
how can you like it?? it's so stupid, his horror at the tyger comes off as so contrived, so hysterical, such an artifice, he so wants you to believe his depth of terror but you can sense the meaninglessness behind the words. They mean nothing to him, he is posturing, that's the best I can make of it...
> A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
that is horror, you can feel yeats trembling, not at his words, but at the scope of what he is proposing and the way in which he is doing it
What do you all think about 'On The Road'?
Is there any positive/negative correlation between the Beats of that generation and anything going on modern times?
Is Kerouac trying to write like the Jazz artists he so dearly treasures, or is he just sputtering out thought without cohesiveness?
I'd love your opinions, /lit/.
>>8536314
I loved it when I was a kid. Pretty transformative for the right 15-17 year olds. I still have a fondness for Kerouac as I've gotten older, but it stems from that original energy of my youth. Not sure how I would take his work if I just discovered him now.
Kerouac managed to relate his experiences very clearly and faithfully. He doesn't run anything through an interpetive lens and as a result he doesn't emerge with a voice of his own and instead just gets upstaged by his more charismatic friends. It's well done ad a record of what he did and how he felt, and nothing more. If you like it it's cause you related to the successful conveyance of hanging out with friends and going places, if you don't like it then it's cause you expected a novel or some kind of artistic sentiment. It's not art of course, I have no idea what the fuck jazz he was listening to that sounds like arhythmic sentences that always stop too abruptly and never really vary in length or consistency. But still, I can't really dislike it for any reason, it's not bad.
>>8536314
LETTING THE DAYS GO BY
LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWWN
what was the first book that made you cry
mine was white fang
Flowers for Algernon
>>8536285
im sorry i didn't mean that. i love you anon, you're not really a faggot
>>8536280
The Waves
Woolf's work in general just makes me tear up
Is there a book that compiles real stories of suicides?
there's that one website that /r9k/ always links
something like 'faces of suicide' just look up 'suicide' in the r9k archive
Charlie Victor Romeo is a play that is a collection of black box recordings reenacted. I mean what do you want, the build up to the decision of personal choice, or the moment of death realized internally by the individual?
>>8536372
>Charlie Victor Romeo is a play that is a collection of black box recordings reenacted.
Thank you. I will check it out, but I think these are accidents, not people killing themselves.
>I mean what do you want, the build up to the decision of personal choice, or the moment of death realized internally by the individual?Both things are fine.
But to give you an example, the book A Philosophy of Suicide starts with a collection of people who committed suicide and their reasons.