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12232335 No.12232335 [Reply] [Original]

>spends all his time reading books, in hopes of becoming a great writer
>forgets to actually live his life

You know, you can’t substitute real world experiences with things you read about only in books, right?

>> No.12232355

Hey, I don't even read any shit and I'm still not living my life, your argument is fake

>> No.12232421

>>12232335
>in hopes of becoming a great writer

Actually I don't do this because I'm not retarded

>> No.12232430

>>12232335
cringe

>> No.12232451

>>12232335
>literature can only come from life
>who are Borges, Vila-Matas, Bolaño, etc.
All you read is Knausgard and Hemingway?

>> No.12232518

>>12232335
Of course you can. It's what half of the great writers have done.

>> No.12234146

>>12232451
>he doesn’t read only realism

>> No.12234310

>>12232451
The kind of stuff Knausgard and Hemingway wrote is much more embodied with feeling than the kind of stuff written by Borges and Bolaños.
I'd rather read stories written by people who actually had a life than by people who never did anything but to masturbate to others' works.
This also applies when comparing a philosopher like Plato against a shut-in like Montaigne.

>> No.12234313

>becoming a great writer
>in 2018+1


WEW

>> No.12234338

Am I delusional for thinking that hacking away at poetry in the spare room of my family's den is still a hopeful situation for becoming a great poet?

>> No.12234424

What do you mean 'actually live life?' Like you want me to kill my landlord with an axe?

Also if you knew you would never be read or published, would you still bother?

>> No.12234425

>>12234313
>implying it’s not possible

No great writers are published anymore. Corporations don’t allow for great works to meet the light of day, ever.

>> No.12234519

>>12234425
How so?

>> No.12234570

>>12234425
Supply and demand. The masses want mass culture, who'd have thunk. Don't blame capitalism, blame the progressives who made hierarchy a dirty word.

>> No.12234637

>>12232335
I wish /lit/ actually had this problem.

>> No.12234662
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12234662

>implying life is worth living

>> No.12234864

>>12234662
what an edgy outlook, but I'm sure you were going for that

>> No.12236318

>This autism

>> No.12237663

>>12236318
>implying he’s wrong

>> No.12237697

Borges spent his life reading books or talking about books, had no life experience, got his first job at 40, his first girlfriend at 60 and is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

>> No.12237723

>>12234146
>>12234310
I don't see the point of it. Where's the merit in that? "Muh feelings." Who cares. And I wouldn't be sure about Bolaño. There's definitely emotions in there.

>> No.12237736

idk...

cormac mccarthy (great writer) said "books are made out of other books,"

but john barth (also a great writer) said books should lead you back into life and then back to the books again, because otherwise "it's just books about books"

so idk op...

>> No.12237766

>>12237736
Barth had no idea what he was talking about.

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12237848

>>12232335
>actually live his life
What a fucking spook. You speak as if there is a literal way of living life.
Terms like that are what the status quo of people tell you to make let you know you are living in a way they dont enjoy/like. Its slave morality.

>> No.12238652

>>12232335
You can and it's much better, you don't have to suffer a lifetime, you only have to suffer a booktime :P

>> No.12239259

>>12234662

what a powerful image. wow.

if you watch the video "the BIG enchilada" on youtube you will figure out that the "me" are the globalists stopping us from harvesting the honey of our human creativity, and that with the way modernity and technology have stolen hour ours from us, our milking hours are all day every day. we are fed the food that is for us, designed to make us bee sad. we can fly out of the window but right now we are in chains

>> No.12240104

I hate fags

>> No.12240126

>>12234570
>implying mass culture isn't produced because it's cheaper

>> No.12240148

There is no way to not live life. Even the dead are still alive.

>> No.12240162

>>12232335
living your life, and studying to become a great writer are actually both just memes if you think about it.

>> No.12240175

>>12240162
"Life" is the biggest meme there is. There's no such thing.

>> No.12240238

>>12240175
if you ask me, life is about the only thing that is not a meme.
We are memes in its context.

>> No.12240249

>>12237766
barth is based. "the key to the treasure is the treasure"

>> No.12240283

>>12232451
bolano had an incredibly interesting life, far more interesting than knaussy g.

both great authors tho