/lit/ - Literature

>tfw you will always be a G*rmoid subhuman and never an Anglo-Saxon or Ashkenazi brainchad

Bumping this thread because feel the same as OP

Where should I start with the Greeks?

>buy a new book
>don't read it

Anyone else do this? I got dozens of books lying around which I haven't even read

Guys I used to read a lot of books... I would read 50 pages a day exactly or more if I felt like it. I could breeze through something like The Stranger in a day. But now I can barely read 25 pages a day. I haven't finished a book in months. I'd read some of a book for a little while, get bored, and go to the next.

Have any of you had this problem? Is there any hope for me? Do I just suck?

also /lit/ feels thread

>Another form of prudence and self defence consists in trying to react as seldom as possible and to keep one’s self aloof from those circumstances and conditions wherein one would be condemned as it were to suspend one’s "freedom” and one’s initiative and become a mere reacting medium. As an example of this I point to the dealing with books. The scholar who in truth does little else than handle books—a philologist at a modest assessment may handle about two hundred a day—ultimately forgets entirely and completely the capacity of thinking for himself. When he does not have a book between his fingers he cannot think. When he thinks he is responding to a stimulus (a thought he has read)—finally all he does is to react. The scholar exhausts his whole strength in saying either "yes” or "no” to matter which has already been thought out or in criticizing it—he is no longer capable of thought on his own account. In him the instinct of self-defence has become weak otherwise he would defend himself against books. The scholar is a decadent. With my own eyes I have seen gifted, richly endowed and free-spirited natures already "read to ruins” at thirty and mere matches that have to be struck if they are to give out flames—or "thoughts”. Early in the morning, at the break of day, in all the fullness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book—this I call vicious!
Doesn't this all apply to sitting on 4chan? Have I destroyed myself?

>tfw /lit/ made you feel like a worthless piece of shit. your writing sucks, your poetry sucks, your ideas suck and every other small shit thing you felt confident about is gone

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How do you feel passion?