/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17552205]

>reading something late at night
>come to an epiphany
>realize what it's all about
>realize how I can apply this insight into my own life
>go to sleep
>wake up
>forgot what my epiphany was.

[Anonymous No.17552211]

>>17552205
The same thing happens to me, but its not necessarily forgeting the epiphany, but losing the impact the epiphany initially had and discarding it because of that

[Anonymous No.17552234]

>>17552205
wisdom of the eternal cumbrain

[Anonymous No.17552238]

>>17552205
should have written it down retard

[Anonymous No.17552244]

>>17552238
then >>17552211 happens.

[Anonymous No.17552248]

>>17552205
>lying in bed at night
>have a profound thought, cant even fall asleep
>oh my god I'm such a genius how didn't I think about it like this earlier
>write tl dr of it in my phone's notepad
>wake up, check what I wrote
>this is just a simple thought, how could I saw something in it
>delete

[Anonymous No.17552254]

>>17552248
bruh

[Anonymous No.17552285]

>>17552205
and this is what happens when you don't take notes

[Anonymous No.17552300]

>>17552205
Haha retard, I have like 400 separate notepad files saved to my epiphany folder.
>>17552211
>>17552244
Then it wasn't much of an epiphany.

[Anonymous No.17552301]

>>17552205
For a longest time I've been thinking that I should get some paper and pencil, and write down some of my thoughts that come up late at night, or at any other time.

[Anonymous No.17552303]

>>17552300
post some of them faggot

[Anonymous No.17552306]

>>17552300
Post a screen of inside your epiphany folder

[Anonymous No.17552309]

this happens all the time when im stoned. I'll have some kind of awesome idea for a story but I'll be too high to enact it so I'll be like "I'll write it when I'm sober" and then I forget it.

[Anonymous No.17552319]

>>17552306
this but unironically, Im actually curious lol

[Anonymous No.17552322]

>>17552309
>GET THIS AND THEN HE SAYS...S N E E D
Basneed

[Anonymous No.17552323]

>>17552205
This is the end of a book I used to love; it's extremely apt:

Distressed at finding how easy it was to forget [the meaning of life], Bob and Shug spent some time discussing how they could preserve it for posterity. Eventually, I took pity on them and suggested they write it down.

[...]

I have kept the piece of paper - it sits now in the drawer of my own sideboard in my Breton home - and I look at occasionally just to remind myself what the meaning of life really is. This is what Bob had written. Guard it well for it is the meaning of life:

When you stand on the table you can touch the ceiling.

[Anonymous No.17552328]

>>17552301
cutemousepilled

[Anonymous No.17552339]

>>17552303
Sure. I just opened one at random. "Boobies are just bags of fat."

[Anonymous No.17552346]

>have idea for a book
>write it down before I go to sleep
>wake up next day
>look at note
>someone commits suicide and then wakes up the next day and everything is changed
Was it a reincarnation story? Are they in hell? Is this already a story somewhere and I just forgot where it was from? Why did I think I would remember what the hell I was thinking when I wrote it with just one sentence?

[Anonymous No.17552347]

>>17552205
"There's a funny smell in the room."

[Anonymous No.17552383]

>watching a program about translation
>think of a question to ask my friend who does some translation work
>write it down
>meet friend
>look at note
>says "Translation - went in the basement"
>have no idea what the fuck this means

[Anonymous No.17552391]

>>17552303
Why would I post them retard, they are my epiphanies for my use only. I am gonna write a book then you can buy it with your neetbux.
>>17552306
>>17552319
It's not 400 files, but you get my point. I am not posting a screenshot of the inside because my naming conventions are schizo tier, but to give you a taste I've written notes on:
>my conception of a based literary canon
>the nature of truth, selfhood, nihilism; how to use these ideas practically
>political strategy
>the malleability of ideas
>demoralisation
>morality and moral authority
>the concept of equality
>fascism
>democracy, totalitarianism and law
So on and so forth. I even have some stuff on prose and poetry. It can be a bit funny sometimes too, when I open an older file and see a brainlet tier take on certain things.

[Anonymous No.17552411]

>>17552391
Sounds like typical pseudry. I look forward to you shilling your self published crap on here in future, if you even get round to it.

[Anonymous No.17552430]

>>17552411
>(You)