/lit/ - Literature

>>6681984
why?

I don't care about you.

>>6681984
nah

>>6681984
Fiction is a means to transmit many things, your focus on the final goal makes you sound as someone who can't distinguish between reading a wiki synopsis and reading the real book though. Long fiction allows you to think like other people and consider new processes, it's also a great way to transmit culture and morality.
You should try reading a book at some point, it's good.

>>6681984
AD 30
Read it and shut the fuck up
Also, what's wrong with the wiring harness in the pic OP?

>>6681997

The main perk of fiction is that it makes you more empathetic toward other people, curious about their stories/lives, and far more prone to notice the depth beneath the superficialities of every day life.

Even if there are no other perks, why wouldn't that suffice? Empathy is among the finest of human attributes--so much so that we're totally shocked when we see it in other species.

>>6682072
>The main perk of fiction is that it makes you more empathetic toward other people, curious about their stories/lives, and far more prone to notice the depth beneath the superficialities of every day life.
fiction is by definition not what happens in other people lives

prove to me that non-fiction isn't just useless chatter

Generated Systems of thought oppose an habitual nothingness.
Where this is not occurring, there is no strife for improvement, whether it be an illusion or not.
There is nothing but raw data. A glitch in perpetual state of paralysis.
Why resist the illusion of movement in actuality,
where the illusion was all we ever had in opposition to nothing in particular?

Un chapeau

>>6681997

>>6683091
stick to what you're good at

>>6683457
???

>>6681984
prove to me that life isn't just useless "time"

>>6683529
you're still alive

>>6681984
That's your assertion. You try to prove it, then we'll have a talk.

>>6681997

>>6681984
i think cortazar says it best:

"For me, literature is a form of play. But I’ve always added that there are two forms of play: football, for example, which is basically a game, and then games that are very profound and serious. When children play, though they’re amusing themselves, they take it very seriously. It’s important. It’s just as serious for them now as love will be ten years from now. I remember when I was little and my parents used to say, “Okay, you’ve played enough, come take a bath now.” I found that completely idiotic, because, for me, the bath was a silly matter. It had no importance whatsoever, while playing with my friends was something serious. Literature is like that—it’s a game, but it’s a game one can put one’s life into. One can do everything for that game."