/lit/ - Literature

How good is this? Is it really the "Great American Novel"?

>>13594896
>What's the point of accumulating knowledge by reading philosophy books if you're a cumbrain at the end of the day?
To stop being a cumbrain. It might give you some advice on how to stop and get your life together. Look, I'm not shitting on fiction, I'm just saying that it has a purpose much different from philosophy. It's an art, nothing less, nothing more. It might even exalt some people's lives, but it's only as useful as one can appreciate it, and that's fine. We don't need to make this a debate about philosophy x fiction, just to state this fact : that the point of literature is not to grow wiser but to aesthetic appreciation, and you'd be mistaken if you were looking for anything else. I'm not saying fiction is useless, there are some great things worth reading but that will always depend on the artistic sensibility of the person in question, while philosophy is something more general.

>>13594874
but you anons might even say
>but we learn about history and this or that from fiction too!
but that's beside the point. Just in the same way that art historians can discover and make us learn about facts and historical facts, how people lived and the thoughts of the Era from art of the past, so we can with literature, but that's not the point of any of these arts, which is simply aesthetic appreciation. Not saying that any literature which doesn't have this particular thing in mind shouldn't be read, but that it's a huge mistake to begin reading fiction thinking it useful to gather knowledge. That's the job of philosophy and the sciences, while fiction is supposed to be aesthetic appreciation. To equate reading fiction with the accumulation of knowledge would be a big mistake. Literature is first and foremost an art and then whatever else.

Now I realize that literature isn't supposed to be something to discover or accumulate knowledge. One isn't supposed to get into literature so that he can learn things (except for language). Literature is supposed to be like a pure art, nothing more nothing less, simply an aesthetic and artistic production and nothing more or less than that. If you're reading fiction books with gathering knoweledge in mind, you're setting off on the wrong foot. Literature is an art like any other just like painting and sculpture and should be treated as such, albeit it is a little more informative but that's beside the point entirely.

>>13594545
Anything made by Seneca. On the shortness of life he talks about this.

Read Seneca and Epcitetus now.

You should read stoic Philosophy to better your life everyday instead of literature.

Prove me wrong. You can't.

Life is difficult, Ok? It's not like there's a guide on lif-

>tfw you'll never read the missing letters of Seneca

I've actually started reading books and I actually get information from them unlike browsing this hellhole. Stop it.

I promise I'll leave this place for good soon.

How do I quit /lit/ and actually read books instead of shitposting on this godforsaken place?

There is no philosopher that is able to immediately put you at ease whenever you read hi-

>>13586681
I did take 90mg. I first took 60mg at day to have a good time, and at night I said, fuck it, I'm gonna take 30 more. I jerked off for more than 6 hours.

>take amphetamines to study, 90mg Vyvanse
>all I do is jerk off, can't stop listening to music, and thinking about porn
>I really want to either study or read, one or the other
>say this is the last song I'll listen to and then I'll do something
>never is
What do?

Is there anyway I can unplug the internet forever from my PC so that I won't get distracted and the only thing I'll do will be reading and studying?

How do I literally block all distractions and all porn so I can focus solely on my books and writing on the PC?

I want to leave this site forever and the only thing that I want to have on my PC is google docs or Microsoft Word and not all of this BULLSHIT. I want to stop coming here, stop having distractions, stop watching YouTube, STOP WATCHING PORN, and not have any distractions whatsoever; I just want a PC and fucking Google Docs and my books and NOTHING ELSE. FUCK ALL THESE DISTRACTIONS, 4CHAN AND ESPECIALLY FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU!!!!!

How the fuck do I get a way to write in google docs without any distractions, without any internet bothering me, and without all this bullshit? I want only to be with my books and nothing else. I am tired of these internet distractions.

Can you describe the platonic love you had for that cutie porn actress that did all your weirdest fetishes but turned out to be schizophrenic and then homeless?
I feel really bad for her desu

>>13580324
What are you talking about? just go to the store and buy it lmao. Nobody cares.

>tfw walking around college campus with the book in my hand showing the cover proudly

>>13580419
You posted the wrong pic, OP.

>>13580341
>What was it?
This and a lot other things.
https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5d33e9454b4b0

>>13580311
Yesterday I just saw some really fucked up shit online and I just wanted to forget it, so I took 20mg Zolpidem and mixed with diazepam to get an amnesiac effect and it mostly worked. Thank God.