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I am obsessed with the passage of time, entropy, decay, death, and the ephemerality of life. Who should I read, who shares my affinities in this regard?

>> No.17094060

>>17094039
Hardly a complete or comprehensive work, but read Quentins thoughs about time in his chapter of Sound and The Fury.

>> No.17094062

Nietzsche

>> No.17094066

Ecclesiastes is phenomenal

>> No.17094068

Me too, but my obsession is related to my personal cowardice. I know that time is passing, that I only have one chance at life, but yet all I do is waste my time away doing meaningless crap and caring about how I'm perceived by others who will also die. I wish I had the courage to actually live.

>> No.17094074

>>17094039
Try War and Peace. By the time you finish it, you'll have forgot your obsession with time.

>> No.17094079

>>17094060
Not OP but thanks for the rec.

>> No.17094088
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>>17094039
the Gilgamesh poem

>> No.17094095

>>17094039
Cioran and Buddhists

>> No.17094098

Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald

>> No.17095424

>>17094068
What you need to do is try getting rid of your pride. Not pride in the sense of "I think so highly of myself", pride in the sense of self-obsession. Try having some humility, and realize that there's a whole world of people and things. Disregard for self will help you see the world around you much more clearly.

>> No.17095699

>>17094068
You are me anon.

>> No.17095790

>>17094039
Stiegler - Technics and Time
Heidegger - Being and Time
Bergson - Free Will and Consciousness
these are difficult reads so don’t bother unless you’re into that

>> No.17095815

Aristotle's Physics

>> No.17096049

>>17094039
Schopenhauer

>> No.17096065

Buddhism.

>> No.17096239

>>17094068
Same here except I don't care about what others think I just am really slothful. Time for more vidya...

>> No.17096243

>>17094079
No problem, it's by far my favorite part of the book.

>> No.17097231

Books about the idea of days moving so fast that you start losing count?
Not because your having fun, but because you arent doing anything at all

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>> No.17097728

>>17097231
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain

>> No.17098292

>>17094039
Bhümp for interest.

>> No.17098305

>>17094039
Everyone is obsessed with that in some way or another, anon

>> No.17098339

>>17094039
Seneca's "On the Brevity of Life".

>> No.17098479

Mishima's Sea of Fertility. It's about the passage of time through the eyes of one man and the deaths of various (suspected to be reincarnated) people that cross his path.

>> No.17098833

>>17097728
This. There are also multiple passages where the protagonist extensively philosophizes about time.

>> No.17098904

>>17097231
The tartar desert

>> No.17098906

>>17097728
Came here to post this. MM is one of the most beautiful pontifications on the nature of time and the past that I have ever read. Not only thematically, but also in structure. I don't want to "spoil" what I mean but specifically the way the passage of time is represented in the lengths of the chapters and the flow of the narrative is nothing short of genius.

>> No.17098932

>>17094039
Cioran
Mishima
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

>> No.17098998

>>17094074
I didn’t know Statler and Waldorf browses /lit/.

>> No.17099763

The Tartar Steppe

Most depressing book I've ever read but it'll stick with you

>> No.17099784

Also check out Remains of the Day :)

>> No.17100428

Hōjōki

>> No.17101051

>>17094039
I also love the passage of time in novels. There's not that money unfortunately.

-Cloud Atlas: different eras connected to each other in some way
-Evolution by Stephen Baxter: 'stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars'

>> No.17101070

>>17094039
Nabokov. Ada.

>> No.17101187

>>17094039
It seems almost obligatory to mention In Search of Lost Time, which has somehow not been posted itt. The Tartar Steppe also fits.

In the more science fiction vein you have various Lovecraft stories, especially At the Mountains of Madness, and The Shadow out of Time. His predecessor Hodgson also has House on the Borderlands which deals quite explicitly with immense stretches of time and entropy, and The Night Land which explores a deep future of humanity. These have fantastical elements to them though of course.

>> No.17101285

>>17094039
Kierkegaard
Tarkovsky