/lit/ - Literature

Does anybody here work as a librarian?

Is 27 too old to study to work as one?

Is it a dying career?

I've fucked up my life big time by taking some dead-end job after college and staying there for four years while trying to write for publication. I've failed to achieve the latter, now I feel I've fucked my life since I'm about as useful to society as I was aged 21.

“There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn’t they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it’s the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it’s worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There’s a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.”

Well /lit/, is being alive a good thing?

Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti gets compared to Lovecraft all the time. I personally don't see the similarity, but I haven't actually read Lovecraft; all I know of his writings are what I've heard from others, as horror doesn't interest me too much.

Anyone know where I can get this surreal nigga's books? I haven't found a book store that carries them and so many of them are so expensive because of fucking Durtro being 2cool and publishing them in ridiculously low quantities.