/lit/ - Literature

>>21054917
>I had to go to YT to find it
but you did find it

>>17672182
But if you haven't read his book, how do you know what he preaches?

Already read:
>The Cheese and the Worms by Carlos Ginzburg
>Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
>Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
Plan to read/started but didn't finish:
>I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki
>What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
>Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890s by Philippe Jullian

>>17354841
>harsh truths
There is no truth in itself regarding created existence as no creation is self-perpetuating.
>free will
Your actions are only yours if you take them to be a result of your circumstances, pure free will is just the fatalism of chaos.
>meaning in life
Created by your circumstances, there is no self outside of context.
>art or not art
Whatever one takes art to be is transformed into art. Art is more a process of distinction for the purposes of creating symbolic frameworks than a thing in itself.
>goal of humanity
To gain knowledge and survive.
>fate
Causality is a thing.
>how to live a good life
Look past grandeur and see the creative nature of destruction.

A pity, Mr. Bond. I was beginning to feel a real... connection.