/lit/ - Literature

I need to stop reading good books. How am I supposed to concentrate when every other paragraph I’m struck with an ecstasy that occupies my imagination for two hours afterwards, and launches me into pacing back and forth outside and moaning at the stars overhead. Now that I’m looking into linguistics EVERY word is of importance and a single word is enough to occupy my attention for too long. I think I’m morally justified in my overanalysis, as has been my condition for as long as I know, preferring to leave an assignment turned in blank rather than turned in unfinished or not perfect. How am I supposed to finish the Bible when it takes me 2 hours a chapter? I’m trying to tackle the infornographic question, to see if I can convince myself that all this data is useless, but since I’m firmly convinced in the spirituality of our higher faculties of reason and abstracting intellectual notions from reality, notions which do accurately but not perfectly represent truth, I am becoming more convinced that my information gathering is not infornography but actually a meaningful step towards cementing myself into reality and being. But what if it isn’t and I’m just mechanically accepting information like some STEMgrad without actually understanding anything. Whatever I still have a long way to go in order to distinguish between truthful, intellectually rigorous abstracting and infornographic datagasms