/lit/ - Literature

i read but i'm not smart

I’ve lost all enjoyment in partaking within the written works of others, for the most part. It’s as if the this sort of illusion for the author being some mythical figure which could bring to life these magical concepts vanished upon entering the adult workforce. As much as the effort is there, this nagging sense that I’m engaging with some fancied text makes me wonder whether or not I should be reading in the first place. Maybe it’s a lack of respect for separating those boundaries of existence tandeming between polarities. Something just sucked the desire out of my soul to suspend this neurotic disbelief.

>>17722190
Reading doesn’t make you intelligent. I write but only because I‘m mute an orator

>>17722284
as

>>17722233
genius

>>17722190
Never said I'm smart, brother

>>17722190
Why should I read when /lit/ summarizes every book for me? I know the entirety of Finnegans Wake, Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest just from browsing /lit/

I can basically work at academy right now in an English department at any major university.

>>17722233
Solid post, beautiful digits

>>17722190
extreme anxiety and adhd

>>17722190
I read 181 books a year, and a total of 8 hours a day. I have read Infinite Jest, the Brothers Karamazov and In Search of Lost Time one after the other. I have gone through a period in my life in which I consumed hundreds of political theory, philosophy, economy and history book, turning myself into an irrefutable master of political and philosophical argumentation since I know everything about everything at this point, independent of ideology. I have read all the important novels from my country and other people's, the western canon is something I have mastered entirely out of entertainment in-between reading the most dense and informative works of non-fiction. How have I achieved all of this?

I'm unemployed.

>>17723404
>I'm unemployed
kek

>>17722190
Oh, I have no time to read. I'm far too busy shitposting on a Uzbekistani textile-manufacturing forum.

>>17723404

im writing my diary desu