/lit/ - Literature

>>17418270
>"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, abs delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call REALITY, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a "point d'appui", below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set up a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances have gathered from time to time."
I love this so much
>"Be it life or death, we crave only reality."
It shouldn't be surprising then that people are unhappy nowadays, as we live and breathe a highly artificial society