/lit/ - Literature

why don't you live an ascetic life? Have you not realized that the pursuit of knowledge is the only noble path in life?

>>12126755
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

>>12086291
Based Norm has been reading the Russians and has been sincerely trying to find faith for years now. It's good to see him go full traditionalist and reactionary.

satan be gone

>>11988727
>not being continent volcel abstinent teetotal frugal ascetic

What are some good works on asceticism?

Also, do you have any ascetic practices to aid your literary life?

>tfw abstaining from sex, masturbation, pornography, meat, dairy, sugar, oil, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and other drugs and not associating with lewd and degenerate people and even averting my eyes when coming across them
>tfw going to bed early and rising early
>tfw taking long walks daily at dawn
>tfw only consuming pre-20th century media (with the exception of /lit/ for a moment here or there)
>tfw spending hours a day in quiet solitude

Purest I've ever been lads. Chaste anon was right.