/lit/ - Literature

Nope, not since I realised that I want to have read more books than I actually want to read. Now I'm at peace with my ignorance.

I realized this a while ago and stopped reading

Who gives a fuck? You sure won't when you're dead.

>go to university library
>actually feel mortality

>>6236746

> look at the movable shelves
> realize that if I could just instantly have the knowledge of just one shelf's worth of material crammed into my head, a shelf of my choosing, I would be more well read and more learned than almost anyone even 50 years my senior
> look down at my book
> 50 pages in the last hour
> look at the shelf
> mfw

>>6236773
>50 pages in the last hour
oh god this

and I have to stop and take notes all the time otherwise I'll just forget everything and waste my time

Reading a bunch of stuff won't make you smarter or wiser it will just imprint someone elses life onto you and give you a false sense of accomplishment.
If you really want your life to have worth, even jsut on an individual and personal level, you need to experience life yourself and write your own story in who you are as a person.
The realization that you won't be able to dedicate your existence to becoming the culmination of a slew of random people should fill you with hope for who you might one day become, not sadness.

>>6236716
>you WERE born
Bad enough.

>tfw gonna be in the Western Canon and Loominati and live forever
>tfw can read every book on Earth

>>6236836
You can't though. There will always be more books.

>>6236805
>Ideology: the tripfag

>>6236885
>hollow insults: the anon

>>6236893
>>6236805

I MEAN GUYS JUST FIND SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND DO IT, TRAVEL A LOT MEET NEW PLACES AND NEW PEOPLE WHY ARE YOU INSIDE READING THIS ISN'T WHAT LIFE IS ABOOOUT

ANON DROP THIS ADORNO WE'RE GOING TO THE BEACH TAKE PICTURES WITH OUR ARMS WIDE OPEN NEXT TO THE SEA COME WITH US

>>6236901
>MEET NEW PLACES
yes

>>6236910
>>6236901
jesus christ how butthurt can one man be

>>6236919
WE'RE BACKPACKING ACROSS THIS PLACE AND GETTING MAD WHEN THE PLACES WE STOP BY DON'T HAVE WIFI ANON, YOU SHOULD COME

>>6236716
>vanity ITT
>learning to learn rather than learning for the experience of learning.
come on, guys.
the end result is cool but absorbing info like a computer or an autistic savant is loveless.
It seems like it would be better to desire a longer time to absorb information than the ability to suck up info quickly.

>>6237128
I would rather be immortal with a mind that won't degrade than mortal but able to read dozens of books in an hour.

>>6236716
>>You WILL die without having read all the books you've wanted to read
You mean there's enough interesting material to keep my mind learning and growing and entertained for a lifetime?

Cool, I live in an era where I have access to the sort of material that not even kings would have only a couple generations ago. With the Internet, we have access to more information about the world then the former secretaries of state in the 19th century.

I don't see it as a bad thing that I'll never consume it all, I see it as a good thing that there is so much that I can consume and consume as much of what I want as I want and it won't run out.

>>6236716

>You can NEVER again experience reading that one book for the first time again

>>6237492
Sometimes the second time through is even better

>the goal of reading is reading
you /lit/ ae bunch of retards worst than underaged /b/

>>6237317
>we have access to more information about the world then the former secretaries of state in the 19th century.
Set your sites on basic grammar first.

>>6237527

>worst

Lol

>>6237585

#BTFO

>>6237608
ad rem, not ad personam

>>6236716
As an Epicurean, I'm fine with this.

>>6236716
Big deal. I will die without being happy anyway.
Reading books won't change shit.

>>6237585
And you set your sights on common expressions.

>>6237636
the joke
---------
your head

>>6237585
>Set your sites on basic grammar first.
Oh, yeah, I sure am embarrassed about making a grammatical error in a post I wrote with my glasses of and while I was eating lunch. However will I live with the shame of not being precise enough for a random stranger to understand my post. I may just have to resort to seppuku

>>6237709
>with my glasses of

are you saying you look at the keyboard while you type? or is it that not seeing clearly somehow makes you confuse homonyms?

>>6236716
>You WILL die without having written THAT book you've wanted to write

>>6237784

>You WILL die without having perfected every sentence within THAT manuscript you've written

Perfectionism is a curse

I'm 30 now, started reading hardcore when I was 15. Nowadays, I start so many books and drop them after 30 or 40 pages it's ridiculous. I can't find exciting books anymore, they are a rare occurrence.

>>6237784
>>6237797

Or you could pour yourself into it instead of shit posting on /lit/ if you're worried, just a thought

>>6237797
>Perfectionism is a delusion
Fixed for ya, chap

>>6236716
Reading is a lifelong endeavour, not some videogame that you try to get 100% completion then stop.

>Faust, despite his immense knowledge, is all too aware that he knows next to nothing about the great secrets of the universe. Even by turning to magic, he has been unable to shed significant light. His despair has been so profound that he has contemplated suicide.

>Wagner, Faust's loyal assistant, is also a disciple of knowledge and believes that if he could know an encyclopedia inside out, he would be the wisest of men. (Wagner represents the scientific rationalist, dazzled by "facts".) Faust knows that all of the information in all of the books in the world still wouldn't draw back the veils concealing the universe's innermost workings. Modern science, despite its great power and many successes, still hasn't come anywhere near providing answers to any of the great philosophical and religious mysteries.

In mystery variants of Hellenismos, the afterlife has a limitless library.

>>6237502
If it's a good book, the second time is almost always better.

That's why you plan it all out.

This is like a woman complaining that she'll never be beautiful, or like a poor man complaining he'll never be rich.
Knowledge is vain, just like beauty and riches. Wanting to have a beautifully adorned mind is no less vain and shallow than wanting to have perfect skin or luxurious clothing.
Knowledge is not wisdom; in fact, knowledge is often contrary to wisdom, hence the phenomenon of the clever fool or pedant.
Wisdom is what Confucius talks about when he says that when he meets the truth in the morning, he would be perfectly content to die that day.

>>6237709
You should have just made fun of the fact that he made a grammatical error in a post complaining about grammatical errors.
The irony of it.