Is there anything in literature that rivals the final chapter? The closest I've found is the lead-up chapter to The Grand Inquisitor and the chapter itself.
Is it a contest?
>>25166045op reads books while thinking about other bookspic related it's op
>Anna KareninaPart 7, Chapters 27-31>Demons"Conclusion">The Brothers Karamazov"Rebellion", "The Grand Inquisitor", “It’s Always Worth While Speaking to a Clever Man”, "The Third and Last Interview with Smerdyakov", "The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare", “It Was He Who Said That”>Les Misérables "The Grandeurs of Despair", "The Rue De L'Homme Armé", "Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn">Moby-Dick"Loomings", "The Sermon", "The Ship", "The Quarter-Deck", "Moby-Dick", "The Whiteness of the Whale", "Brit", "The Symphony", "The Chase" First, Second and Third Day
Tyrion's trial by combat.
>>25166039An anon here put it best: It's as if the spirit of dostoevsky possessed Dickens and compelled him to write the greatest novel of his career.
>>25166189All better, agreed, and I don’t really like Hugo or Dostoevsky
I don't care about ranking, but the most memorable chapters/segments I've ever read in literature are:>IliadPriam meeting Achilles>AeneidTroy burning, Dido's suicide>FaustWalpurgisnacht, Helen, Classical Walpurgisnacht, land reclamation>Moby-DickThe Sermon, Sunset, Midnight, Forecastle, The Tail, Whiteness of the Whale, the Chase. Probably more, too many great scenes to count>PierrePierre's reaction to Isabel's letter, Plotinus Plinlimmon, Pierre writing a novel>Confidence-ManThe student, indian killing, the metamorphosis, the ending>Madame BovaryEmma's death>Anna KareninaAnna's death>TBKGrand Inquisitor, Ivan's talk with the devil>Berlin AlexanderplatzIn which the hammer, the hammer falls on Franz Biberkopf>PortraitOpening, Part 3>UlyssesProteus, Scylla and Charybdis, Sirens, Oxen, Circe, Ithaca. Penelope is memorable, but I didn't like it>TSATSQuentin section>Doctor FaustusApocalypsis cum figuris, Faustus oratorio, the confession>V.Nosejob, Herero massacre, Confessions of Fausto Majistral>Gravity's RainbowEvensong, Katje+Gottfried+Blicero, Kirghiz Light, Major Marvy sucks NIGGERS, limericks, 00000 launch>100 Years of SolitudeThe ending
>>25166189I think The Quarter-Deck might be my favorite chapter in all of literature
the most dangerous thread
>>25166246Fuck, I can't believe I forgot about The Candles>I own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so? Nor was it wrung from me; nor do I now drop these links. Thou canst blind; but I can then grope. Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes. Take the homage of these poor eyes, and shutter-hands. I would not take it. The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. Oh, oh! Yet blindfold, yet will I talk to thee. Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee! The javelins cease; open eyes; see, or not? There burn the flames! Oh, thou magnanimous! now I do glory in my genealogy. But thou art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know not. Oh, cruel! what hast thou done with her? There lies my puzzle; but thine is greater. Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun. I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent. There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical. Through thee, thy flaming self, my scorched eyes do dimly see it. Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief. Here again with haughty agony, I read my sire. Leap! leap up, and lick the sky! I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!
The creation scene in Paradise Lost.
>>25166266Satan’s extrication from hell also.
Proust looking at his mom on the Venetian dock in Volume 7
>>25166350Also when the book turns into an ontology doctrine on time, and man’s place in it
