/lit/ - Literature

I think I made it, /lit/. At last I made it.

After years of fidgeting and oscillating, now I am inclined to believe I finally realised the Schopenhauerian dreamscape of an ascetic, frugal livelihood.

As of currently, I have not been out of my house in five days. I step outside once a day, religiously, to buy beer at the Chinese shop, with which I drink myself up (that occurs in the night, where I spent most of my conscious hours). I step outside once a week for grocery shopping. Besides that, I do nothing. I have thrown out my television, retired my computer, given up on most on my furniture, most of my memories, my collection of movies, my books, my girlfriend, my family. I eat very little. I spend entire days contemplating the ceiling, or the voluptuous refinements of the wooden floor.

As I said, I do nothing. I communicate barely. I think I truly found inner satisfaction. Which is the same as destroying the mechanism of satisfaction, for the mere designation is useless and ultimately problematic. I am at peace. A calm so chilling I had never experienced before. I meditate on the cold floor. Let down all the pressures given by information and bounds, I wish nothing; I judge nothing; I compare to night. I have no raisin d'etre. I am not. I am no longer afraid of dying, I stay still and quiet as time dissolves. Some might say I am destroying myself; if that's so, I will not regret nothing. I don't recall feeling this good ever across my past, not even in childhood.

>>4237868

More like

>schopenhauer talks bullshit because he hurts muh feelings! fuck da patriarchy!

What philosophies does /lit/ subscribe to?

>>4159599

I read two books yesterday. I don't do this regularly I just had a lot of time with nothing else to do.

>>4070401

>Last Three
'Twenty Love Poems And A Song Of Despair', Pablo Neruda; 10/10.
'Fear and Trembling', Soren Kierkegaard; 10/10
'More Pricks Than Kicks', Samuel Beckett; 1010
(yeah last triad was pretty great)

>Current
'Essays and Aphorisms', Arthur Schopenhauer; 9/10.
'The Man In The High Castle', Philip K. Dick;
'Waiting For Godot', Samuel Beckett; 10/10.

>Next Three
'Nausea', Jean-Paul Sartre
'The Sickness Unto Death', Soren Kierkegaard
'The Aeneid', Virgil

>>4036970

What's the most pessimistic book ever written?

>>4032095
pic related

"The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. Time and that perishability of all things existing in time that time itself brings about is simply the form under which the will to live, which as thing in itself is imperishable, reveals to itself the vanity of its striving. Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value."

Hey /lit/, for my senior class yearbook, I need a quote. I want to get the most depressing quote possible and I'd like for it to be a schopenhauer quote. I was thinking of using "Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

I've read so much in the past two months that I've put incredibly painful eye strain on myself.
I can't continue reading, so I was wondering what audiobooks /lit/ would recommend while I recover.
I was using Kindle playback, but it's far too robotic in tone, and often mispronounces certain words.

tl;dr recommend audiobooks (torrents are appreciated)

>>3785891
Schopenhauer argues against suicide, try again

>>3640493
I see what you mean, but I think the things you mentioned are already a fall (not sure if it is entirely in a Heideggereian sense though) from the initial love that excludes them for that moment.

God I love continental philosophy.

>>3577392
Forgot a pic

>hoping someone would contribute with pictures.