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Pakistan
Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems by Georg Trakl

>>18194020
This is what Borges said in an interview:

>In the ”Zohar” (”The Book of Splendor”), which Gershom Scholem considers the most important literary work of the kabbala, there are many speculations about life after death. Swedenborg describes in detail hells and paradises. Dante’s poem is also about hell, purgatory, paradise. Where does this tendency of man come from, to try to imagine and describe something that he cannot possibly know?

>In spite of oneself, one thinks. I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death. I feel every suicide has that doubt: Is what I am going to do worthwhile? Will I be blotted out, or will I continue to live on another world? Or as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body? It could be a nightmare. And then we would be in hell. Christians believe that one continues after death to be who he has been and that he is punished or rewarded forever, according to what he has done in this brief time that was given to him. I would prefer to continue living after death if I have to, but to forget the life I lived.

I also wrestle with suicidal thoughts. Yes there are some psychological factors that does pain me but largely I think about it due my own spiritual collapse and not finding answers for bigger question. All that I am left with is mainly contradiction. I really want to see what the fuck this whole fuss is about, this is might an optimistic naivety but I want to check if there is something or not. Like what the fuck this business of existence is about, this endless stream of theories, religions, people, things and philosophies etc. to the point of utter vanity. All of this makes me want to puke, laugh, cry and end it all.

Best pessimist literature?

Post best pessimist literature, please.