/lit/ - Literature

Ah, vanity of flesh

>"If the waves began to reflect, they would suppose that they were advancing, that they had a goal, that they were making progress, that they were working for the Sea’s good, and they would not fail to elaborate a philosophy as stupid as their zeal."

>"To be present at one’s diminution, to contemplate the reasonable edition of the hallucinated creature one has been!"

>"Anything but discouraging, the notion that no one will remember the accident we have been, that not the slightest trace will remain of a self, that collector of torments no torturer has ever dared dream of."

-Cioran, Drawn and Quartered

how the fuck do i not fall asleep

>lurk on lit for too long, want to start reading
>ask dad for book recs
>dune
>libgen.is
>start reading
>fall asleep

this has happened like four times now. what the fuck do i do

>>17099176
I have heard that there was an old tripfag og deep&edgy in 2012 I think. He was a full blown scholar even in his early twenties. A post-kantian philosopher specifically.
Schizojak was an accomplished philosopher but he left.
We had our own Sebald aka Londonfrog but sadly he left too.

Any published writer/philosopher would be a retard to make himself public in this shithole. Tao Lin and Megan are/were confirmed /lit/ posters.

>>17084338
I am a Pakistani
>Eastern Blockphile
>Afghanphile
>Indiaphile

>>16971655
YOOOOOO

>>16846206
Keep PMO'ing retard, see where you'll be in 20 years time.

>>16783817
arguments don'y prove shit
so please fuck off

>>16783855
only redditors are concerned with such questions. the rest have common sense and intuition.

>>16718651
Fuck you

I don't leave my house, my family is white trash and I have no future in terms of education or career. All I care about is studying languages, reading and writing. As pathetic as it may sound, these are the only reasons I've yet to pull a Kurt Cobain. What keeps your Serotonin flowing?