/lit/ - Literature

>>17884385
They're good for focus and concentration; heightened cognitive function; mood stabilization; all at a cost though. I would recommend chewing nicotine gum instead. Similar benefits with less risks. If you're going to smoke, make sure the rest of your health is on point. Good diet, intensive exercise four to five times a week. The purer the tobacco, the better too. I started smoking to read longer and more intensely on the recommendation of a close friend who was mogging me literarily. It helped a lot.

Here is the big con that people rarely mention: COST. It's an expensive habit. I'd avoid it just for that. But if you have money to blow, then whatever.

>>17798398
OUI BIEN SUR, C'EST UNE REALITE ABSOLUE, LES EAUX SE REVIENDRONT SUR LA TERRE QUAND L'HOMME A PERDU LA PAROLE; ON DOIT ABSOLUMENT ARRETER DE PARLER COMME LES NEGRES POUR NOUS SAUVER DE TELLE TRAGEDIE

>>17776393
It's really just Southern Europe, France, England and Germany. North Europe hasn't given us much. Neither has Eastern. Asia (both near and far) have given us more than Eastern/Northern Europe. The Mediterranean has been the most consistently productive in literature since Antiquity.

>>17738040
Incorrect. Those who lack the talent for poetry write prose; they should be barred from commenting on masterful poets such as Pound, the exceptions are few and far between (viz., those few prose writers who were actually poets in disguise such as Joyce). If the world were smart, the books of the likes such as Nabokov and Orwell would never have been published; being blind is innocuous, but being blind and wordy is a great sin.

Re-reading is the key to literature. Those who think that because they've read something once that they've read it once and for all are truly the epitome of pseudhood. The light of a text grows brighter only through re-reading. This is true especially for poetic works, in which meaning is hyper-charged throughout and cannot be easily deciphered by the intellect immediately, but rather caressingly and with yearning.

>>17666181
Poetry and/or music (they are the same and mutual transpositions).

>>17485434
Exercise often and intensely, and eat right. You're probably low T.