/lit/ - Literature

Apparently Steinbeck used tarot decks to help him craft stories. Does anybody here use divination techniques to help with creative work?

What is power?

Intellectualism is bane to health. What you need is fire. Do you have fire? I know many of you will disapprove and say that I am a fool. Tell me then, I dare you, when was the last time you ever truly felt alive, felt like you were all human, all experiencing and all living, rather than tired of life, tired of existing; your eyes tired too, too much strain and that ever lasting tiredness of body. Where is it then? Where is your spark? There is no nobility in rotting away. Pulp trash about Conan is more noble in itself than James Joyce, because there is lots of thought, but no fire, only tired man.

What is a good life?