/lit/ - Literature

>>9782070
Life would be a lot easier if I were a narcissist, I can tell you that for sure. And these posts aren't about me as much as they are about the idea that there's not much of a taxonomy of knowledge. While that might not bother you, it probably does bother a lot of people here who are bothered by the fact the way we typically divide knowledge into categories doesn't make any sense. I wouldn't write about the taxonomy in five posts if I could write about it in one, desu, but I don't know how to do it while remaining clear and comprehensive.

>>9782115
I promise you, I've made my choice to read, and I will read. I love reading, and I love trying to figure things out. I really don't see a purpose in life except doing all of those things right now, so that's what I've set my mind on doing. I've already started reading yesterday, beginning with both the novel 1984 and from an old philosophical essay anthology that I liked in the past, and I won't stop until they're finished cover to cover. From there on, I'll probably just finish the /lit/ starter kit and go through a few textbooks.

From a personal standpoint, I think I'm set to go by kicking the can down the road for a while. But the whole taxonomy thing still bothers me as a philosophical problem.

Because he had Aspergers Syndrome, the only way to have a chance at examining the world without the influence of pure ideology. A king among spergs, if you will. His kind satisfies a crucial niche among the intellectual progress of humanity.

>In his tramping days, he did domestic work for a time. His extreme politeness was recalled by a member of the family he worked for; she declared that the family referred to him as "Laurel" after the film comedian. With his gangling figure and awkwardness, Orwell's friends often saw him as a figure of fun. Geoffrey Gorer commented "He was awfully likely to knock things off tables, trip over things. I mean, he was a gangling, physically badly co-ordinated young man. I think his feeling [was] that even the inanimate world was against him ..." When he shared a flat with Heppenstall and Sayer, he was treated in a patronising manner by the younger men. At the BBC, in the 1940s, "everybody would pull his leg," and Spender described him as having real entertainment value "like, as I say, watching a Charlie Chaplin movie." A friend of Eileen's reminisced about her tolerance and humour, often at Orwell's expense. Psychiatrist Michael Fitzgerald has speculated that Orwell's social and physical awkwardness, limited interests and monotone voice were the result of Asperger syndrome.