/lit/ - Literature

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IRELAND

>>11828641
Sorry, can't hear you over the echoes of eternity

What are some books that discuss the phenomenology of daydreams? Their content, their repetitions, their effects on life, their fantastical or realistic elements, etc.? I’ve read the book of disquiet and it was great, but I’m not necessarily looking for discussions of existential or superlative daydreaming, just the sort of banal stuff you do like give answers to non-existent interview questions while alone with yourself in the shower. Many of mine involve an element of me being not respected, but envied. I wonder what this says about me, what I can do about it, and what other ways there even are to daydream/think to yourself. I find stream of consciousness inner monologues spurious: I never speak to myself as in, “yum, toast.” I invent scenarios, or replay old ones, and act out a persona (often not my own, but sometimes a fantasy of my future self) that doesn’t reflect experience.

I really didn’t intend to blog here, I would like recommendations that aren’t either the abuse of modernist/post-modernist techniques for “le ebony discussion of language” or angst/pessimistic depression a la Underground man. Something humble.

>>11119719
>The sad thing is that you think you're enlightened when you're just the victim of brainwashing.

Compelling argument

gogo.. easy on the carrots

The prose is the plot.

ass

>>10264248
Because History proved that the dead ones did not truly express the Spirit but the living ones still have the potential to be doing so

>best
Molloy

>worst
various shorter dramatic works

>overrated
Godot

>underrated
How It Is

Joyce is the cancer
Beckett is the answer

What's your favourite Beckett work and why.

>Relatable
When Beckett told a friend he wished to see everything dead, they replied: "But then who would read your work?"
To this, Beckett grew silent and it struck a chord in him.