/lit/ - Literature

One of my friends once told me a story about in islamic(?) prophet trying to find a being lower than himself and then he cant find any such creature or person even though they seem to be lower than himself at first glance.
Does anyone know what story this is or what the origin is since I cant find it anywhere.

>pour cup of jo
>turn on metronome
>crack open the Odyssey

Just got back from a cabin retreat to work on my fantasy story. Dopamine detox is no joke, I was in the zone for two weeks.

Is having to set up a specific reading schedule to make sure I spend some time with a book everyday a sign that I might not actually enjoy it? Does it come naturally to you?

Comfy General
>What do you like to read when it's comfy
>Different books for different kinds of cosiness, I.E Winter vs Autumn?
>Do you have a comfy reading nook?
>What do you drink when comfy?
>How do you make your reading experience more comfy?

Did you read your fancy edition of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
Asking for a friend who feels an unstoppable, irrational urge to purchase a copy (of six volumes)

I'm going on my 3rd date with a girl on Saturday. I like her a lot and she's the best person I've met since my ex cheated on me
I overthink and get stressed about us when we're not together but when I'm actually with her everything feels very natural and nice. I think I'm just a sperg overthinking things
I hope the best for all you anons

>>20038401
I had my first first date since my ex cheated on me
Went great, we both talked and laughed a lot. She said she wants to hang out again - we just need to figure out a place to do so
I haven't had butterflies in my stomach in a while
We're gon make it bros

>>19613474
These are some of the most encouraging thoughts I've read in a long time; I need that.
Tell me, anon, how many hours a day did you work on your PhD? What's your reading routine like? Your lifestyle sounds like something I would like to emulate.

>>19371790
Meeting my (previously ex) gf tonight. She plans on moving back to my area beginning of next year, hope it works out
>>19378136
felt the same way about apu posting

IF--Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Of being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Of being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there it nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

>>19304665

I hate seeing whores and mutt law, I want to see comfy frog.

I read the first four before my mom and grandma made me sell them at a yard sale because they are satanic.

What's your seasonal reading list looking like?
I ordered
>pan by hamsun
>the collected stories of washington irving
>faust by goethe
>theory of colors by goethe
post what you'll be reading by the fire this autumn season

>>19106527
Napoleon was one of the greatest minds and an ever fascinating story of ambition and its limits. Hegel said he embodied the Zeitgeist... Also, I think, so much of his personal documents remain to study vs. other historical figures.

Get in here and post something comfy to read this Autumn.

>write a chapter you think is finally good after countless revisions
>look at it a few months later
>it's shit
>rewrite
>look at it a few months later
>it's shit
>rewrite
>look at it a few months later
>it's shit
I now realize why very few people have published any good work under the age of 30.

because after I started caring about my own looks I realised that I'm good looking and I don't have to spend time on reading PUA shit to get pussy

if it takes any effort for you to get pussy in the first place, you already lost

>>18737936
>“You talk one way,” objects our adversary, “and live another.” You most spiteful of creatures, you who always show the bitterest hatred to the best of men, this reproach was flung at Plato, at Epicurus, at Zeno: for all these declared how they ought to live, not how they did live. I speak of virtue, not of myself, and when I blame vices, I blame my own first of all: when I have the power, I shall live as I ought to do: spite, however deeply steeped in venom, shall not keep me back from what is best: that poison itself with which you bespatter others, with which you choke yourselves, shall not hinder me from continuing to praise that life which I do not, indeed, lead, but which I know I ought to lead, from loving virtue and from following after her, albeit a long way behind her and with halting gait.

Post excerpt

>>18502643
I think I want a new e-reader for my upcoming birthday. I've been using a Kindle Paperwhite for a couple years now and while it's still nice to have a backlight (and easy to get free books on), I'm getting tired of the screen size and sometimes impercise touch screen. Primarily looking at a Kobo but I have no clue which would be best to go with.

Might get one with a warm light feature, that seems like it'd be very nice to have for reading at bedtime.
Do other e-readers have a dictionary feature to highlight words and get definitions? That may be a dealbreaker for me if any don't

>>18479985
True, it was pretty obvious that Smerdy had done it as soon as we found out Dmitri had hit Grigori and not Fyodor.
Man, Brothers K is a great book. Too bad OP has no taste.

>a month in the country by carr
beautiful story about ww1 veteran who restores a medieval mural in a chapel on the english countryside
both about him coming to terms with the war and being enchanted with the mystical atmosphere of the village
>a river runs through it by maclean
true story about a poet, the author, who returns from college to reconnect with his family through flyfishing
three parts family drama, nature writing, and pure mastery of the english language
>lost horizon by hilton
adventure novel responsible for the fictitious mountain temple "shangri-la"
airline passengers are kidnapped and forced to take refuge in a tibetan mountain temple, to find a hidden piece of civilization in the esoteric orient
>a canticle for leibowitz by miller
science fiction piece about the history of a post-apocalyptic monastery as they try to preserve, reintroduce, and safeguard mankind's forgotten knowledge
>rip van winkle by irving
it's short and a classic, just read it