/lit/ - Literature

>>9982724

...and then they cut all contact. Even though they occupied the same building. Could practically see one another's ghost thru the windows. Sometimes asleep, sometimes walking. Nightly silhouette.

A friendship perhaps dissolved in time, not space.

To hell with everything, he'd often write to her. She never replied. She was a woman after all. A suffering sea under the pull of the moon. And he, just a mere drunk.

>I miss you, Daria. I just...

...and then they cut all contact. Even though they occupied the same building. Could practically see one another's ghost thru the windows. Sometimes asleep, sometimes walking. Nightly silhouette.

A friendship perhaps dissolved in time, not space.

To hell with everything, he'd often write to her. She never replied. She was a woman after all. A suffering sea under the pull of the moon. And he, just a mere drunk.

>I miss you, Daria. I just...

Do you know what painting Saramago describes in the beginning? is it real or imagined one?
Thanks

>>7936061

I don't to be honest. What I've surmised seems to go slightly against what the general narrative seems to be (and what I've been told to think about women). At the same time I acknowledge that my opinions might be biased and flawed which is why I was hoping for some literary person to have thought and written about it.

>>7936071
Option A: PUA: seems in some sense debasement to me. It seems strange to me that one must come up with such contrived and elaborate schemes in order to gain closeness to women. Something that most people do effortlessly and naturally.

Option B seems much better but increasing social spread is tough for someone to whom literally every pop cultural trope of introversion and social seclusion applies.

>read ovid's art of love.
thanks for the suggestion. I will.

>>7910790

>if I wasn't a hedonist

right now, hedonism isn't very pragmatic for my condition. I wrote that my preferences might change once i get rich. I think i would have a hedonist phase once I get rich because then hedonism would be a marvelously sustainable strategy for a while. After a while, the happiness treadmill would kick in and my primary source of dissatisfaction would shift from monetary reasons to interpersonal ones. At that point I would return to stoicism.

How is hedonism working out for you btw? Can you afford to live a hedonist lifestyle? Do you see yourself eventually deriving less and less of gratification or satisfaction from it? Because I too had a phase in which I decided to fuck everything and played videogames and read books and ate like a glutton. But I realized it wasn't viable strategy if I had to optimize my life's utility as I was ignoring the ill effects it would have on my future. these ill effects would not happen if i was rich. but other sources of dissatisfaction would still eventually kick in. no?

how is your lifestyle? what do you do?

>>7766349
>>7766332

I won't kill anyone anons. Life is ugly and terrible and full of sadness and loneliness but I wouldn't dream of deliberately depriving beauty and happiness from other people.

Just because I have failed does not mean that I must inflict pain on others. I watch them succeed in awe and feel happy for how they do. I get angry and jealous too but they are human like me and I can only hope to feel happy for them and wish them the best in life.

I will attempt to be a better person on my own but never consciously will resort to malice.