/lit/ - Literature

>>22087003
I made a schizo image for your schizo thread

What I want is to feel connected to the world, its remotest reaches and its winding collective history.

I think some people can get this through their practical life -- to be plugged into the global flows of capital and to cunningly manipulate some portion of those flows must be exhilarating.

But for me that connection is intensest in art. I can get swamped in the physical world for weeks, and then get reminded, through attentive reading when the conditions are just right, of the dismal narrowness of those past few frantic weeks compared with the mysterious compelling 'beyond' that art hints at, hitting me like an unexpected nightbreeze through an open window. Not a metaphysical beyond but the beyond of the world itself.

Otherwise everything feels like a screen, like an email inbox, and a few numbers temporarily increasing. And it's those thousand empty weeks of screens that will really be the deathbed horror.

>>22087040
Based. You should write some shit

>>22087003
I will look like this I will say this.

Fiction preempts philosophy in all instances

I live in the third world, when I leave my house I had to watch my steps in order not to step on dog poop or black magic offerings, yeah, i'd rather read fiction in my room.

you will never matter to anyone outside of your little circle of uninteresting people, maybe not even to them. you might get to a point where your LARP will be strong, but you will never be satisfied, and you will be stressed by the same shit everyone else is. and of course, you will die.
(dont take things too seriously)

>>22087003
Autists never understand nuance or middle ground. You can read fiction along with nonfiction. You can even live life at the same time. It isn’t an all or nothing thing

>>22087088
No, i will be different from the billions that preceded me. I am definitely the main character

>>22087003
As opposed to what? Philosophy? Essays? Learning Math? Bodybuilding? This argument is stupid.

Most people who choose to read fiction do so because they consider it fulfilling. Those who don't consider it fulfilling won't spend their lifetimes reading it, expect for posers like, presumably, yourself.

>>22087109
except*

>>22087109
i cant help being a poser, have some sympathy here. im just hollow

>>22087003
I'm a hospice nurse and at least once a day a patient will say their biggest regret is not reading more philosophy books. Thanks OP, good thread.

>>22087198
tits or gtfo, gaylord focker

>>22087217
sorry I don't have time, I'm trying to read Heidegger to my patients before they die

>>22087003
You won't be glad you did anything when you're dying

fiction lets you experience countless lifetimes of infinite possibilities, all within a single life. who wouldn't be glad for that?

>>22087602
>im a game not because i have no life but because i have many

>>22087100
I (along with many others) are currently gangstalking this anon, waiting for him to finish his book.

Yeah I hope to end up like this
I'm worried because I find the temptation to read non-fiction to be quite strong and so I have wasted a lot of time reading it
I'd like to be quoting lines of Shakespeare and Blake on my deathbed, that is a life worth living not to read philosophy or history or God forbid, self help

>>22087003
Let me ask you this, OP, when I finish all of my obligations for the day, let’s say around 9 or 10, sit down at my desk or in a chair or lay on my bed, reach over and crack open a good book, and engage my mind for fifteen minutes or thirty minutes or an hour with stories (likely classic ones) that have entertained the fancies of the human race for centuries, tell me—what else would you have me do? It’s 9-10, my friends have their own lives to attend to, most businesses are closed except for bars and clubs and restaurants, my job is finished, I don’t go to the gym at this hour… what else should I do? Should I go on my phone and scroll through a never ending stream of garbage? Read the news? Beat off? Watch a movie? Write? Draw? Sit and stare? Sure, there might be some other equally productive or engaging or worthwhile pursuits at this time, but what time am I honestly wasting?

>>22087003
Yes actually.
I do hope I dont die regretting not writing my book(s). But I can't butcher my ideas, with subpar writing. That's actually the premise for 1 of my 2 books I want to write. (Someone trying to write a book but everything he writes just disappoints him)

I hope that will be me, I want to understand more about the human condition and other perspectives beyond what my own life experience has imparted to me.

>>22087608
this but unironically

>>22087003
Even if the characters and story isn't something that happened in reality, you can still learn from it and grow as a person upon having absorbed it.

>>22088302
Autists don’t understand this

>>22087003
>I'm preserving my strength to pretend dementia and knife a cop.

About 99% of us will never amount to anything. It's not disheartening if you're mature enough. We will not become great creators. No one here will change the course of destiny. What we can do is make the best of our lives. Be cultured. Socialise with like-minded people. Try to create art putting in your best efforts. It's ok. Reading fiction is better than most activities.

>>22087040
>When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace. Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them, I nourish myself on that food that alone is mine and for which I was born; where I am unashamed to converse with them and to question them about the motives for their actions, and they, out of their human kindness, answer me. And for four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death. I absorb myself into them completely.

>>22087003
I'm going to be literally him.
Fiction is a great and fulfilling aesthetic experience.