/lit/ - Literature

>>8299580
FUUUUUUUU

>currently trying to read 7 books
>have backlog of 30+ books

How the fuck do you deal with this? Why do days only have 24 hours.

>ep-a-tome

>job interview
>interviewer asks what I like to do in my free time
>"Oh, you know, I like to read a lot and I'm kind of a movie buff."
>"Oh really anon? Like what?"
>mind goes totally blank
>can't think of any hip pomo shit to namedrop
>"M-Mark Twain"
>"And what about movies?"
>mind goes blank again
>"The Shining"
>mfw
The Shining is pretty great don't get me wrong, but I would have totally blown that bitch away if I had said something even mildly obscure like The Seventh Seal

>>6995464

"Thus to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die -- yet not as though there were hope of life. No the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is gone. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the hopelessness of not being able to die."