/lit/ - Literature

After I read the entire western canon will I be well-read?

How do you cope with the fact that all life, emotions and even knowledge, is inevitably pointless and that the only thing that keeps us going is the emotions and drugs that our brain feeds us to go on regardless?

Is there a way to know that and live on without feeling like you're letting yourself down intellectually for almost ignoring that fact?

Asking here because at least one decent author must have wrote about it (recommendations would be good).