/lit/ - Literature

Mu!

>>7301568
he was asking himself the genuine question,

>why do I want to keep living?

think of it like the clicke 'live every day like it's your last'. Camus was all about self created meaning in the context of the actor eventually ending.

eaf

This isn't /tv/, faggot.

he meant, "my soul is in despair"

>>7301568
hye bro, you should really consider reading this https://www.reddit.com/r/depression/comments/18mts4/should_i_kill_myself_or_have_a_cup_of_coffee/

>>7301568
Coffee is metaphor for crack cocaine. As a raging druggy he'd rather kill himself than go though withdrawal
/thread

>Sometimes I do things like getting in a taxi and saying to the driver: "Guillotine. And step on it."

he stole it from chekhov

>What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

>>7301961
Why have I never heard of him? Sounds good

>>7301971

Nigga you've never heard of Chekhov? Go back to r/books.

Is this how I was supposed to feel reading The Stranger?

if Camus told you to jump of the bridge would you do it?

because I think he's hinting for me to do it

>>7302003
pls no bully

>>7302012
I came here to drink coffee and kill myself. And I'm all outta coffee

>>7302037
kill yourself

Remainder that it's not clear whether camus actually said this or not.
As >>7301961 pointed out, the line is "Uncle Vania" by chekhov.

>>7302011
Kind of, but more like
>should I have sex or shoot an arab?

>>7302061
All I know is it felt good.

>>7302048
what the fuck is an allusion

The point of this quote (if he really said it) is to illustrate his philosophy in a blunt way--both actions, having a cup of coffee and killing yourself, are equally meaningless. They both don't matter because existence is absurd, but you can rebel against the absurd and choose to have a cup of coffee and enjoy yourself instead of destroying yourself.

>>7302095
This implies that having a cup of coffee is good, and killing yourself/destroying yourself, is bad.

You could argue that coffee is a materialistic impermanent pleasure that can only lead to dissatisfaction, and that killing yourself is good because non existence is a state of non suffering.

>>7302161
you could argue that, sure, but it's a shitty argument

>>>7302095

about to reddit the fuck out of myself but.... "nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gong to die. come watch tv?"

-le rick and morty

>>7302729
This post is so awful, if Camus read it, he would take back everything he ever wrote about suicide