/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20289797]

Books for sensitive souls? I don't want to think, I want to feel.

[Anonymous No.20289810]

>>20289797
life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy to those who feel
are you sure you're choosing correctly?

[Anonymous No.20289814]

>>20289797
Moomins?

[Anonymous No.20289842]

>>20289810
I don't know if that's accurate

[Anonymous No.20290106]

everything Kafka wrote

[Anonymous No.20290381]

>>20290106
What's his best stuff? I have a book of his short stories

[Anonymous No.20290387]

>>20289797
The Coldfire Trilogy.
Damien Killhammer Vryce will make you feel zeal, lust, jealousy, and pain all at once.

[Anonymous No.20290391]

>>20290381
The Metamorphosis and The Judgement
His aphorisms are also great reads.

[Anonymous No.20290395]

>>20289797
A sensitive soul doesn't distinguish between thought and feeling. They are inseparable and bound up together. Every thought implicated with oceans of feeling. Every feeling a forest of thoughts.

[Anonymous No.20290419]

>>20289797
Bunyan - A Pilgrim's Progress
Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Melville - Cock A Doodle Doo
McCarthy - The Crossing
Steinbeck - The Red Pony

And maybe this excerpt from Milton
>Adam's first moments in the Garden from Paradise Loft
As new waked from soundest sleep,
Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid,
In balmy sweat; which with his beams the sun
Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.
Straight toward Heaven my wondering eyes I turned,
And gazed a while the ample sky; till, raised
By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung,
As thitherward endeavouring, and upright
Stood on my feet: about me round I saw
Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains,
And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these,
Creatures that lived and moved, and walked, or flew;
Birds on the branches warbling; all things smiled;
With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Myself I then perused, and limb by limb
Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran
With supple joints, as lively vigour led:
But who I was, or where, or from what cause,
Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake;
My tongue obeyed, and readily could name
Whate'er I saw. Thou Sun, said I, fair light,
And thou enlightened Earth, so fresh and gay,
Ye Hills, and Dales, ye Rivers, Woods, and Plains,
And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell,
Tell, if ye saw, how I came thus, how here?--
Not of myself;--by some great Maker then,
In goodness and in power pre-eminent:
Tell me, how may I know him, how adore,
From whom I have that thus I move and live,
And feel that I am happier than I know.

[Anonymous No.20292293]

>>20290387
Never heard of that. Appreciate it
>>20290391
Thanks
>>20290395
You know what I mean
>>20290419
Thank you man

[Anonymous No.20292303]

>>20289797
C.S. Lewis. All of it.
Start with Out of the Silent Planet.
It was like learning to smell again.

[Anonymous No.20292507]

>>20289842
He's right

[Anonymous No.20292516]

>>20290395
>A sensitive soul doesn't distinguish between thought and feeling.
*blocks your path*

[Anonymous No.20292560]

>>20292516
Alexander’s Space Time and Deity
“Contemplation” and “Enjoyment” lead to the inevitable conclusion that they are opposites attempting to occupy the same space, and that while focusing on one, you are momentarily incapable of the other — which alternates at breakneck speed
To understand emotion is to realize it is the paint in search of a canvas (object), but to contemplate the paint itself is to deprive it of a canvas — there is no painting without both, but neither can occupy the same instant in your body.

[Anonymous No.20292665]

>>20289842
Think harder

[Anonymous No.20292675]

Thomas Hardy

[Anonymous No.20292684]

>>20292507
It's a cope for people who can't let go of thought and open themselves up to the pure experience of life. In the Divine Comedy, Virgil can't go up into heaven because he represents rationality and reason (thinkingness).
>>20290395
This guy is sort of right (I don't think thought is necessary), but he missed the point of the thread in that I just wanted a specific style of book

[Anonymous No.20292694]

>>20289797
Anything by Pessoa

[Anonymous No.20292705]

>>20292684
If you aren't suffering then you aren't as sensitive as you'd like to believe

[Anonymous No.20293236]

>>20292705
That isn't what sensitivity means

[beerspit No.20293304]

1. Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet
2. Marcel Schwob's The Book of Monelle

[N E M O . !!GgBWHLRiayD No.20293419]

>>20289797


You cannout build a world of protected love without thinking.

[Anonymous No.20293700]

>>20289797
Sallie Nichols - Jung and Tarot
Manly P Hall - Secret Wisdom of All Ages

[Anonymous No.20293901]

>>20293236
maybe he's cold sensitive. anon put a jacket on it's still a bit cold out.

[Anonymous No.20293907]

>>20289797
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.20293924]

>>20289797
also try Doom.
by DOOM I mean the first game, the revolutionary one, as after that it went to shit (thank you, Sandy Petersen!)
you can play it using gzdoom
also, the expansions to the original DOOM are okay, namely Thy Flesh Consumed (from The Ultimate Doom) and SIGIL... Doom and these two episodes are the Testament, Doom 2 and the rest are pure shit, especially since Romero has gone full Ukraine

[Anonymous No.20293930]

>>20293924
only good post in this thread

[Anonymous No.20293942]

>>20293901
That is wittarded.

[Anonymous No.20293994]

>>20292694
>>20293304
The book becomes rather dull and pretentious after his boss's eulogy. Does it pick up down the road? I like how it started.

[Anonymous No.20294010]

>>20290419
damn that's very good. I thought Paradise Lost was hard to read, is the bulk of it harder than this?

[Anonymous No.20294017]

>>20293994
It has superb passages intertwined with boring slog. You could read Keeper of Sheep if you want something more consistent.

[Anonymous No.20294046]

>>20294017
Oh, so it's like that. I haven't read Pessoa until now so I didn't really knew what to expect. It really does have some amazing passages and cool phrases like "to offer dignity to boredom" but the contrast between funny, profound and boring makes it hard to read for extended periods of time.

[Anonymous No.20294217]

>>20289797
Proust, of course

[Anonymous No.20294325]

>>20289842
It's not. Emotions are thoughts as
>>20290395
said

[Anonymous No.20294832]

>>20294010
I feel like it is harder in some places... during the council of the fallen angels there is a lot of chatter about how to get back at God and it can sometimes be ambiguous which demon is speaking, whereas in other areas it will read almost perfectly clear but Milton will throw in one word with such an antique usage that it at once inverts your entire comprehension of what you thought you were reading, but that doesn't happen so often. And mostly it's just syntax or grammar that might confuse people. The first time I read it I did have to transpose many words in a more "conventional" order on first approach to feel it out, but even that I got used to relatively quickly.

Here is a portion of Adam after having eaten the fruit and learned of evil, and of his guilt. I wi say in these short few lines Milton does everything I just mentioned, but that doesn't mean it's "hard" to read perse, as much as it just throws you off a bit before you actually subsume it to your understanding and model of the language, and then just carry on.
>Adam after learning of evil and guilt
How shall I behold the face
Henceforth of God or angel, erst with joy
And rapture so oft beheld? Those heavenly shapes
Will dazzle now this earthly with their blaze
Insufferably bright. O might I here
In solitude live savage, in some glade
Obscured, where highest woods, impenetrable
To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad
And brown as evening; cover me, ye pines;
Ye cedars, with innumerable boughs
Hide me, where I may never see them more.

[Anonymous No.20295012]

>>20294832
Damn that's good. I realize it's Milton and all, but I've never gotten around to reading him. Thanks for these passages and recs. You've been the best contributor to this thread.

[Anonymous No.20295032]

>>20289797
Tolkien and Tove Jansson for fiction

Nietzsche for non-fiction (Yes, seriously)

[Anonymous No.20295063]

>>20289797
rainer maria rilke was pretty damn sensitive, maybe even the sensitivest.

[Anonymous No.20295230]

>>20290381
Don't listen to the other anon, the metamorphosis is far from his best as far as short stories go
Read the burrow and the one about the hunger artist first, then just read all of them in your book

[Anonymous No.20295650]

>>20289810
Life is a tragedy to those who mistake it a comedy, and a comedy to those who mistake it a tragedy.

[Anonymous No.20296260]

>>20295650
based