/lit/ - Literature

I take notes on my phone because I most often read in an armchair. Pen and paper at a table is the best

There is usually a romantic aspect to surrender, the romance of a beauty lost or one that will never manifest. The part about that loss that makes it romantic is its reluctance to surface and that all involved long for it, knowing what it is and what its potential for a future growth is, without ever being able to experience it. This is a romance i have fantasized about when longing for my own losses, hoping that their disappearance can give their very nonexistence a meaning of its own, one that only makes what was lost grow sweeter with age. A sheet of sorrow covers my shoulders when i think about the reality where the loss i experience was never great on its own, and lesser still when lost. To add insult to injury i am reminded every day of my petty life that the loss i long for, and the loss of my own self, are worse than being null, they are better off gone.

>>12306038
I want to escape the responsibility of joy, i have been unable to make myself into the person I've wanted to be as a kid, i have a disease that will spell my end in a maximum of 9-10 years, and i have enough people i will leave behind. To fall in love means i have to actually go back and try to be happy, I've been trying to keep myself clear of all desires but this girl i know is trying to get close to me so i'm trying to calm myself from my emotions and stay low.
>>12306066
I will try that one thank you

I’m not a big reader but I want to get into classic and philosophical literature and be /wise/. I have the Iliad and the Odyessey, I also have The Republic, the Art of War, and The Divine Comedy. Are any of these useful and should I read them? If not, what books would you recommend?

>>10113838
Mountains of Madness
>>10114889
This. I was about to say the same.

>>10114887
By Night in Chile

>>10113369
Ovid's Metamorphosis would be the obvious one, so I'll say something else: Elogio de la Madrasta

>>10105243
Octavio Paz - Mexican Masks

>>10105233
Poems by Edgar Poe

>>10104671
Hari Potta to kenja no ishi (ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石)

>>10103646
Flatland

>>10103098
To the Lighthouse

>>10103015
the oresteia

>>10102793
Red Tower - Liggotti

>>10112373
Cuentos de la selva

>>10112419
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

>>10114603
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood

Is is better to know for sure what you will die of and an approximate time or is it better to be absolutely ignorant of it and not even witness the moment pass?

Is there peace of mind knowing you can do what you want until that moment?
Is there fear that the latter is a risk of dying at any moment?