/lit/ - Literature

T.S. Eliot.

'The Waste Land' was the first poem to really speak to my soul.

The modernist project awakened me to the riches of Western culture, that lie neglected like rubble in the desert of modern life.

I fell in love with culture. I changed my degree to English Lit to immerse myself in it. Spent four years reading as many of the greats as I could. Gained a particular fondness for stuffy Victorian novels.

After graduating, I felt a bit at a loss. Managed to get a nice gig doing technical writing for a software company, but I feel unfulfilled spiritually. I write and play music a bit, but I don't have confidence in my own creations. I'm at a weird period now of sorting through my doubts, and trying to identify some goal to work towards.

Part of me wants to go back into academia, but another part of me thinks that's just a dead end.