/lit/ - Literature

>>9121598
ain't nobody got time for that

post /lit/ feels that are too old school to ever experience

>tfw no 16 year old wife that dies in childbirth

>>8870193
this is good advice
>mfw the only story i've made money on was about non-reciprocated love, and i'll never experience the reel deel ever

"Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?"

What did he mean by this?

>tfw thrillers are the only kind of books I enjoy reading

How do I get interested in other genres?

>you will never play the glass bead game

i believe in 'libertarian' values because it lets me pretend i am a rebel and pick up dumb leftist chicks while i work a capitalist drone desk job and contribute to the exploitation of the poor

>take psilocybin to have fun
>end up writing out 30 pages of a depressive word document on how i am a paralyzed manchild with an immense desire to do something but too much fear to actually do anything

>last year of college
>thought being a cook would be nice, yet trying out the job itself was a torture with older cooks and chefs coming out as under educated manual labor alcoholics whom don't value the taste of their made food and it just became mechanic to them. they're actually eating tv dinners just because they don't even want to think about going into the kitchen and making something for themselves after ~14 hours of work
>working in a No 1 restaurant on tripadvisor in my country.
>Upcoming 9 months will have to be learning about the profession in which I'm not even going to work.
>Need to stay at work due to the fact that 5 months of my school year will have to be spent working in a kitchen as study practice. So you're either: 5 months working in a cafeteria for free or working at your workplace and getting money (yet the amount of work is significantly bigger)
>Want to read up, get the grades and study philosophy at an uni
>Have to spend time studying/working in a field I hate just because I don't want to drop out without finishing it


>tfw one of my dream jobs was ruined by reality.

>>6242145
>implying that's not the future you were promised