/lit/ - Literature

>>11856414
I get that in a negative way. More like being one with the universe but the whole universe is suffering. I call it Oceanic Michelstädter feel.

>>8298269
I was reading it when I was sleep-deprived, I think the effect was stronger because of that. You will et to know lots of interesting heroes like picrelated.

>>8151662
But I don't wanna. Anyway, which reference system should I use to determine whether he is right ? And what reference system should I use to determine truth at all ?

>>7008549

This guy did.
He argued that suicide is a viable option, but not ideal. Ideally man will find a way to live in the present moment as if it were his last and be beyond fear and not subject to the "god of pleasure" either.

He didn't know how to do that practically, so he shot himself in the head right after finishing his Phd thesis.

ITT: The wishful thinking of DNA Puppets

>>6370095
I'm getting some weird Michelstädter vibes from you

Some old dude with a brain tumor goes crazy on medication and starts digging a tunnel in the woods. He finds more and more fossilized cambrian sea-life and gets visions of being watched by a gigantic stone angel standing in a primordial sea. In his dreams, the angel shows signs of organic decay, oozing into the ocean, which, as becomes clear, is still sterile. While he digs deeper and deeper into the earth, he enters the earlier ediacaran fossils and later, as he nears the horizon of fossils, the angel decomposes slowly while still watching. It's a little bit like Lovecraft meeting Mishima.

>>4985765

Not really badass but the most philosophical suicide since Socrates.

>>4854571
>>Why do they get to feel things i can't

Different brain wiring.

>Post what spurs suicidal despair for you

Working 9-5

Picrelated would have written a lot of bleak shit had he lived longer. But he offed himself on his mother's birthday, shortly after finishing his dissertation. He was a theist who thought God wanted to sudoku but could not cuz of being eternal. However, god came up with the idea to create our bleak reality and our minds are facets of his mind. And if WE sudoku, real godly non-existence begins. Theicide as the meaning of the universe.

He should have done what Michelstädter did: kill yourself BEFORE writing any books. Michelstädter would have written some seriously bleak shit if he had lived.

No, I discussed Zapffe some time ago.
Plus picrelated as well, Michelstädter was even more hilarious than Mishima, shame the only thing he wrote before sudoku was his dissertation.

>The best argument against suicide:
You first have to write your Phd. thesis. Picrelated.

We need more of them in Africa and Southeast Asia.

>>3657775

>>3539615
>Colin struggles to provide flowers for Chloé to no avail and his grief at her death is so strong his pet mouse commits suicide to escape the gloom.

Anyone read this book yet? Or able to find it online? Holy crap it's hard to find-.


"Persuasion and Rhetoric" by Carlo Michelstaedter
>pic is Calro

>From his father Alberto, the head of an insurance office and president of the Gabinetto di Lettura goriziano, he received a push towards literary study; from his mother Emma Luzzatto, a great love for family and country. He was a scrappy and introverted boy, but by the end of high school (completed in Gorizia), he developed into a brilliant, athletic, intelligent youth. He enrolled in the department of mathematics in Vienna, but soon moved to Florence, a city he savored for its arts and language. There he formed friendships with other students, and in the end enrolled in the department of letters of the local Istituto di Studi Superiori (1905). He majored in Greek and Latin, and selected for his laurea thesis a philosophical study of persuasion and rhetoric in ancient philosophy. In 1909 he returned to Gorizia and set himself to work on the thesis.

>By about the fall of 1910, he completed his work, finishing the appendices by 17 October. He was surely very tired, and that day he had a fight with his mother, who complained he hadn't wished her a happy birthday. Left alone, Carlo took a loaded pistol he had in the house and killed himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Michelstaedter