/lit/ - Literature

Fantasy proper. It’s what comes after Solarpunk.

When technology advances, it gets radically smaller, and smaller, and smaller, etc, to the point where it eventually becomes invisible and indistinguishable from magic, or nature.

Imagine highly, highly sophisticated quantum infrastructure that looks indistinguishable from trees, rivers, hills, mountains, wildlife, the atmosphere, etc. Nature itself.

Now imagine being born blind to it all. Fantasy.

Confederacy of Dunces
(But the mc has an autistic long distance Jew “girlfriend”)

>>23404822
There are no chad normalfags in life. We are all overwhelmedby this earthly experience, trying to get through. There is no need to mirror that in literature, literature is where chads and heroes can be imagined to be mimicked by us flawed mortals

Yah that’s how I felt reading A Rebours. Frogshit is hard to pronounce sometimes.

>subvocalizing every single word
LOL!

This, I dropped Moby Dick when queeequeek was introduced.

>book has character called guy (really)
>read all about guy's adventures
>movie adaptation comes out
>everyone calls the character Qi
da fuck, he wasn't even chinese

>>23404718
anyone?

>>23404785
If he did he was likely Jewish.

>>23404718
Free will is a Christian concept

what is the problem

>>23404718
Bhagavad Gita Ch3 Vr27

pseduo babble that only retards will treat as a gospel

He kept raping his sister, Phoebe.

>>23404654
He holed up in a small house in a small town, having sex with 4/10 Vassar College grad groupies and watching The Andy Griffith Show

>>23404654
he time traveled to become judge holden and continue raping

>>23404654
>loser
He was rich, he already made it. He doesn't have to self-improooov

>>23404751
Kek image

I mosey on in to the book vending cuboid which appears rather busy today; the incessant bleating in what should be a privatized library is nothing short of maddening. Someone must’ve left the stables open on accident.

I am here seeking a tome which might momentarily pierce my robust intellect as I’ve found most cerebral pursuits throughout this endeavor we call life rather mundane, and my neurology is yearning for sustenance as the thirsty wanderer craves an oasis. Unfortunately, however, my already jaded senses are abruptly assaulted by a high occurrence frequency (occurrences per square second) of trivial genre fiction. The wasted ink would’ve found better use in children’s spin art. Frustrated, I approach the man behind the counter who I’ve deduced is some sort of customer support representative.

Excuse me, do you have anything for someone with a tested 130 vci?

A what?

A 130 vci.

What’s that?

Ohhh boy. This one might take a while *looks around, chuckles*.
A 130 verbal IQ, as measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. A score of 130 on the verbal comprehension index puts me in the 98th percentile for all living human beings, or homo erecti, as I like to say.

Sorry sir, I don’t understand what you're asking exactly.

*Chuckles some more* No problem, it’s not your fault after all. It’s just that I’ve perused the inventory of your little shop here and the materials presented look rather… cursory. I’m looking for something that might prove challenging to my rather formidable cognitive apparatus, and I’ve experienced the utmost disappointment in this effort. For instance, the marked absence of Richard Dawkins is truly chilling.

Oh. Ummmm… Well if you’re looking for something challenging we do have a philosophy section.

Ah yes, philosophy. I was made to read Plato in university. His Republic was simply adorable. But no, I’m looking for something more scientifically inclined, or couched in logic and reason if you will. Something by Sam Harris, perhaps?

Sorry sir, we don’t have any titles by that author.

Alas, just because one deals in books does not necessarily mean one deals in knowledge I suppose.

Sorry about that. Is there something else I can help you with?

No no, you’ve tried your best. Thanks anyway.

Now isn’t that funny, he wants to know if he can help me. Surely I can’t be the first one to notice the extent to which comedy so often finds its roots in the absurd. He mustn’t have meant any harm by this remark and yet our interaction has left me with little more than an unsavory aftertaste. Curse this communication gap that so often rears its ugly head.

Although the excursion into the rubbish-ridden reading retailer proved wholly unfulfilling, even the feeblest of minds realize there’s no utility in pouting over pasteurized product. Hopefully the messenger bag vendor has better things in store.

If genre fiction is so wrong, what should I write about? Two people drinking tea?

>>23404688
Why are you letting other people tell you what to write?

>>23400554
for a professional editor? $1200 a book. but if you can't afford it, reply to this and I can cut you a break

>>23404688
Don't let the lit-fic seethers get to you. Not one of them has posted any of their own writing. And the one that did (K.K. Wing, "The Beautiful Kingdom") wasn't a seether. Write whatever you feel like.

>>23404592
Just watched some fucked up anime man, I haven't myself but there's plenty there. Plus the usual movies across the world. Best video game I've ever played that's extremely transgressive is Pathologic 1 but I haven't played the sequel yet
I'm a big fan of bataille, but why the interest in finding these works? I'm not against transgression but watching/reading/playing something just because it's taboo is really boring to me.

>>23404592

>>23404738
why no king in yellow?

>>23404583
pretty good

>>23404583
are those Lincoln Park lyrics or sum?

>>23404583
Not super refined BUT, the emotions bleed through. Good little piece

offtopic. take your depressive whining to >>>/adv/

>>23404544
>Not interested in leftyslop since they're pretty cringe too.
Anon, I...

>>23404684
>Is there a cure for this noticing?
Zyklon B. But not for you.

I would recommend The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler and The Complete Works of Aristotle by Aristotle. Spengler will be antiseptic for the majority of the /pol/ contamination while also being salient, and then Aristotle will provide a restoration to a more classical vision of politics that guided the ancient polis and medieval kingdom alike.

>>23404684
No. Even broken clocks are right twice per day. /pol/ is right about some things. They’re just not right about any one thing in a universal sense or right in a universal sense.

>>23404712
They have pretty significant influence on government and institutional policy, so the threat is pretty serious. The question is less about whether this exists and whether it’s a threat and is rather more about what to do. The 20th century German response was misguided. It’s important to understand such forces are able to act and gain influence because of an improper politic and not a weak immune system. Both classical philosophy and scientific thought can come up with answers but it’s the displacement of classical philosophy with scientific thinking is what leads one to treating people as if they were bacteria and not people. The solutions that science offers us we find instinctively repulsive because they are. It’s best to seek the solutions elsewhere, namely in the works of classical and premodern western philosophy in general rather than in some occult theories or scientific speculations.

>>23404629
This is cope. Intelligence is the speed at which you can process information.

>>23404737
>This is cope
This is cope

>>23404737
No, an unintelligent computer can do that better than you or I can.

>>23404638
>tfw have started brothers karamazov 3 times and given up 3 times.
help me /lit/

>>23404737
No. Processing speed is only a small component of intelligence. You are dumb.

ok, but why male models?

>>23404452
>Doesn't understand basic philosophical history