/lit/ - Literature

>>18156869
Cioran lived in a modest apartment and ate lunch at the uni cafeteria. Nothing lavish about his lifestyle.

"Hegel? Uh anon, I don't know about that. How about a drink? No? Alright, maybe next time. Here, I'd like you to borrow a few of my Colette novels, no rush, just let me know what you thought of them. Alright then, by anon, catch you soon for that drink!"

>>13638530
based NEET

Stop.

>>10256828
Cioran was a NEET philosopher who praised non-action.

>"At any rate I can say that I've read a lot in my life, precisely because I was a man without an occupation. What the French call an idler, someone who doesn't work. But in return I read. So I consider that I've done my duty all the same. But I read also in order not to think, to escape. To not be me. And too, I've always tried to find the defects in others, the flaws."'
- E.M. Cioran

>JW Did you write much through all those sleepless nights?
>EMC Yes, but not so much. You know, I've written very little, I never assumed it as a profession. I'm not a writer. I write these little books, that's nothing at all, it's not an oeuvre. I haven't done anything in my life. I only practiced a trade for a year, I was a high-school teacher in Rumania. But since then, I've never practiced a trade. I've lived just like that, like a sort of student and such. And that I consider the greatest suc- cess of my life. My life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
>JW And that's difficult.
>EMC It's extremely difficult, but I consider that an immense success. I'm proud of it. I always found one scheme or another, I had grants, things like that.

>"To awaken the modern world, one must praise laziness. The lazy man has an infinitely keener perception of metaphysical reality than the active one."
– E. M. Cioran

>>8559231
On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran

I'd love to go full bohème. Still need to work on some of the more practical details, though.

Cioran was a NEET philosopher who praised non-action.

>"At any rate I can say that I've read a lot in my life, precisely because I was a man without an occupation. What the French call an idler, someone who doesn't work. But in return I read. So I consider that I've done my duty all the same. But I read also in order not to think, to escape. To not be me. And too, I've always tried to find the defects in others, the flaws."'
- E.M. Cioran

>JW Did you write much through all those sleepless nights?
>EMC Yes, but not so much. You know, I've written very little, I never assumed it as a profession. I'm not a writer. I write these little books, that's nothing at all, it's not an oeuvre. I haven't done anything in my life. I only practiced a trade for a year, I was a high-school teacher in Rumania. But since then, I've never practiced a trade. I've lived just like that, like a sort of student and such. And that I consider the greatest suc- cess of my life. My life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
>JW And that's difficult.
>EMC It's extremely difficult, but I consider that an immense success. I'm proud of it. I always found one scheme or another, I had grants, things like that.

>"To awaken the modern world, one must praise laziness. The lazy man has an infinitely keener perception of metaphysical reality than the active one."
– E. M. Cioran

>>8400309
He attempted to, or pretended to, but he failed, and he knew it.

And as a Nietzsche enthusiast you start knowing it in your heart as well, and then you throw out your Nietzsche books and go on from there and stumble upon lads like the Diogenes of the Latin Quarter for example who have really accepted the results of the death of God and the demise of truth and values and no longer attempt to philosophise systematically but just throw some loosely organised statements into the void without pretending to do more than that, because they realise that's all you can do.

Would be cool to have a thread were interesting lit related video stuff would be posted, so here it is, I guess.

- Parts of Finnegans Wake into a movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cibQA_LNe9s

- Swedish Karl Ove Knausgård documentary (no english subs, hope somebody would transcribe some)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTyBz_MwRJA

-Must see DeLillo's documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTePKA1wgc

-Bolaño hanging around with someone who explains him the marketing drills in the literary industry, 4 years before the release of The Savage Detectives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_6SaswhLm4

-DFW related must see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY&feature=youtu.be

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NEET
to live a life of bohemian leisure as a comfy bottom feeder of society while reading good books

garretcore for life

>>7950121
Bohemian resignation.

Be welfare NEET, drink boxed wine from Lidl and read smelly books.

Post nasty cunts that help you deal with life.

Cioran was a NEET philosopher who praised non-action.

"At any rate I can say that I've read a lot in my life, precisely because I was a man without an occupation. What the French call an idler, someone who doesn't work. But in return I read. So I consider that I've done my duty all the same. But I read also in order not to think, to escape. To not be me. And too, I've always tried to find the defects in others, the flaws."'
- E.M. Cioran

>JW Did you write much through all those sleepless nights?
>EMC Yes, but not so much. You know, I've written very little, I never assumed it as a profession. I'm not a writer. I write these little books, that's nothing at all, it's not an oeuvre. I haven't done anything in my life. I only practiced a trade for a year, I was a high-school teacher in Rumania. But since then, I've never practiced a trade. I've lived just like that, like a sort of student and such. And that I consider the greatest suc- cess of my life. My life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
>JW And that's difficult.
>EMC It's extremely difficult, but I consider that an immense success. I'm proud of it. I always found one scheme or another, I had grants, things like that.