/lit/ - Literature

What are some techniques for detaching myself from the material I read?

e.g I read the chapters in Don Quixote about the two friends and one of them wants to test his wifes fidelity (and in doing do so sets about his own downfall unknowingly) and I couldn't help feeling white hot anger at the NTR (cuckolding/cheating) themes. I felt much the same way with that girl in War and Peace who wanted to forsake her engagement with that guy who lies on the battlefield and admires the blueness of the sky for that scandalous brother of the wife of the fat bumbler who becomes a free mason.

I don't want to feel these feels. They linger about and leave a bad taste in my mind and I just have to put the book down and walk away.

I want to be more objective in my reading and being so emotionally evoked I don't think it good for any reader.

Any tips? Ways to distance myself?

>>4503536

>the human condition

You aren't a man until you are totally financially independent.

Are you a man?

saddest moment of literature ... uhm, dont know

I think there are a whole lot of sad moments in the time of literature.

Like when Bukowski died or fuck me I dont know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5tygCaY9a0#t=1m0s

I've found the perfect visual representation of someone trying to troll a tripfag on /lit/.

>buy lots of books
>start a lot of them
>never finish any of them

>>452167
this is you

enjoy life on your literary high horse