/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15438425]

>“Someone or other must be to blame that I feel ill’ – this kind of conclusion is peculiar to all sick people, and in fact becomes more insistent, the more they remain in ignorance of the true reason, the physiological one, why they feel ill (this can, perhaps, be a disease of the nervus sympaticus, or lie in an excessive secretion of bile, or in a deficiency of potassium sulphate and phosphate in the blood, or in abdominal stricture interrupting the blood circulation, or in degeneration of the ovaries and such like). The sufferers, one and all, are frighteningly willing and inventive in their pretexts for painful emotions; they even enjoy being mistrustful and dwelling on wrongs and imagined slights: they rummage through the bowels of their past and present for obscure, questionable stories that will allow them to wallow in tortured suspicion, and intoxicate themselves with their own poisonous wickedness – they rip open the oldest wounds and make themselves bleed to death from scars long-since healed, they make evil-doers out of friend, wife, child and anyone else near to them. ‘I suffer: someone or other must be guilty’ – and every sick sheep thinks the same.”

this board is self-evidently a breeding ground for the kind of typhoid Nietzsche describes, as is this website, and many others online. why subject others to the poison you stir up in yourself by coming here, /lit/? there must come a point where one puts down one’s book, leaves and does not come back. indeed this would be my only entreaty in that vein, for i feel a portion of my adolescence was swallowed up in a fog of despair, a sea of resentment, casually fostered by ‘communities’ such as those found here. read Nietzsche and get out. it is the only way — you know this already.