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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.17152837

>>17152801
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Foundation Trilogy

>> No.17152849
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Tao Te Ching

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Say his name

>> No.17152892

>>17152861
Eh, Mill Joe Ran.

>> No.17153020

Persona 3 is horribly written, but has meaningful themes. (P4 and P5 were like this as well although not as good). Catherine fees like the only time Katsura Hashino had enough creative control to make something truly well rounded. Hopefully Project Re Fabtasy is similar. I’m intrigued by the trailer of the knight eating a sandwhich

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>>17153020
>Persona 3 is horribly written, but has meaningful themes.
Well, yeah. Nobody plays weebshit for the shakespearean writing. It at least has soul, atmosphere, and an intent to say something.

>> No.17153059

>>17152801
I don't want to die and I don't know why.

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>>17152861

>> No.17153069

>>17153051
Agreed. It just gets a bit tiring because the scripts for these games are fairly long, and I find it tedious to read through. Still adore persona 3 tho

>> No.17153093

>>17152801
Read Carlo Rovelli on time.

>> No.17153103

>>17153093
Dude seems like an arch-midwit writing pop-sci. Thanks but no thanks.

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>>17152801
Read Zen Buddhism, WG Sebald, Fleur Jaeggy
Watch films by Chris Marker, Andrei Tarkovsky, Yasujiro Ozu

>> No.17153132

>>17153103
He does write pop-sci, but you only dislike that because of a pavlovian association you've formed from seeing insults on boards like this, just like you think regurgitating "midwit" separates you from the kind of person who is insulted.

But if you actually had an interest in time, you would already be familiar with Rovelli and could have argued against him more substantially.

>> No.17153594

>>17152861
Is that Eraserhead

>> No.17153598

>>17152801
Ligotti if you want to stay miserable

New Testament if you want salvation

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It’s not a long read and his prose is quite beautiful

>> No.17153608

Epicurus.

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>>17152801
Bataille