/lit/ - Literature

>>2661757

why is this bad? i'm in academia (graduate): MAYBE 7 hours a week of class-time, rest of the time is mine to do whatever. Oh, and not only do i have summers off, but my institution pays me just to go to another country to learn their language.

even better? IT DOESN'T EVER CHANGE. whereas many retired people long to accomplish some kinda hobby--like teaching 2 classes a week on the side--i literally get to structure my life as planned retirement from my early 20's. as long as you are quasi-intelligent and publish a couple articles, you're fucking golden. it's the easiest job in the world, and the better you are at simply shitting out articles, the more you get payed and the greater your influence; on top of that, if you're really cunning and structure your work around interesting topics, then you've now crafted a profession that enables you to do nothing more than read, think about, and write about perennial human problems.

have fun working until your 60, only to have acquired just enough "hard-won" savings to live a frugal retirement with a worn-out body and cigarette dipped in regret.

go build a fucking bridge you enlightenment trainwreck.

ok, so a note on method first: i have some pretty serious untreated ADD, but have found that i can cope by reading 20 pages at a time per book and then cycling a series of ~10 books; thus, my movement through any given book is slow, though the connections between books become, i've found, more distinct and the time in between better suited to some reflection. anyway: just finished austin's "how to do things with words," working on:

1. rethinking facticity; raffoul and nelson
2. the open work; eco
3. time and narrative (1st volume; plan on moving through other two respectively); riceour
4. signs; merleu-ponty
5. speech acts; searle
6. interpretation of cultures; geertz
7. to the lighthouse; woolf
8. ulysses; joyce
9. selected poems; coleridge
10. the waste books; lichtenberg
11. machiavelli in hell; de grazia
12. machiavelli in the making; lefort