Moments in literature that hurt you every time

>when the romans killed Socrates

>when the Jews kill Jesus
Im just kidding fuck the dirty goyim

All of Stoner. It was far too relatable.

>when Alexander the Greek forces Neapolitan Bonaparte to sign the Declaration of Magna Carta after St Augustine invents the Calculus and dies of Mercury poisoning

> when George kills Lenny

When Farrington beats his son for failing to keep the fire going and disappointing him....

This one. Cried.

>tfw Duffy goes back to where he and Mrs. Sinico used to talk

When the Jews killed Socrates

>when the Jews release alcibiades instead of socrates

>people are posting unironically and not just funposting
Shameful desu

>no large penises in Moby Dick

por que no los dos

when Kitty says yes

>when Perseus interrupts Andromeda's steamy tentacle bondage session and completely misreads the situation

>When Bruno unknowingly sneaks into his own death by going into the concentration camp to be with Shmuel and is sent to the gas chamber.

>when the brothers finally karamazov

Esti's suicide in Satantango. Never experienced anything more sad.

>When Nestor Ficciones can't find his way out of the Labyrinth.

>when aristotle sacrificed his only son alexander

>when Ivan Denesovich said it was a good day

>When he raped his sister, Phoebe

>when Stephen Daedalus stabs Odysseus right before Penelope comes down the stairs

>when Holden accidentally breaks Phoebe's record

Fuck this meme

>when Holden accidentally breaks Phoebe's record
Woah! How does autocorrect turn hymen into record?

>when the greeks mention Homer’s comedy or the epic cycle
I wanna fucking read them

Santiago comes in with just the bones of the biggest goddamn fish anyone has ever seen and he has failed and succeeded marvelously and all at once and the boy is of course there waiting and it can end.

That always makes me tear up.

Oddly the ending of A Farewell to Arms, while I guess sadder, doesn't do as much for me

>when the noble savage hangs himself

>when Bastion's spirit mother goddess turns back into a tree or whatever happened in the penultimate chapter

>when inger kills the baby

>when the men of Athens sentence Jesus Christ to death

That wasn't sad, fuck Inger anyway

>when Leslie's father thanks Jess for being a good friend

>when Abraham Lincoln orders the negros the sing beneath his cross
tears in my eyes desu

>“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”

>When Job finally meets God but God doesn't give him a job

>when they burn all the books in Fahrenheit 451

how’s high school treating you, champ?

>when Eve ate an apple

when augustus is betrayed by his main man

>when Vronsky leaves to fight in the Montenegrin war knowing he will perish

also the end of Sailor Who Fell from Grace makes me fucking angry when I think of it.

This one also hit me hard

Kek. Sounds like a postmodern novella.

REEEEEEEEE

kek

>that moment in No Longer Human where they have the contest to see who is the tallest person on earth and they determine that Oba is in fact the tallest human on earth, that there is in actuality no longer human on the face of creation

Most people who say this are pseuds who wish it was relatable.

>phoneposting
you reap what you sow

Damn, I'm reading this book right now. I knew there were gonna be some feels when he finally met up with Kenton

>when the horse kills nietzsche
>and not the equine kind

>When the horse goes mad after seeing Nietzsche getting beaten to death by his sexy sister