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Where do I go from here?

>> No.17053725

The eternal void

>> No.17053853

Should I read anything before reading this?

>> No.17054055

>>17053715
My guess would be the rather long history of decay (though historiographically dubious): Spengler's Decline of the West.

>> No.17054357

>>17053853
You don't have to.

>> No.17054620
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>>17053715

Do all these in order and then don't bother killing yourself or do, it doesn't make any difference because it's far too late to avert catastrophe and nature anyway.

>> No.17054658

>>17054620
Anon..
Loss Decay Insufficiency Indifference ...
has never been more cozy than your pic rel

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>>17054658

What makes it even better is that I actually live alone in the middle of the city in a shitty apartment with a shitty old radiator.

>> No.17054878

All of Cioran is a poor man’s Ecclesiastes

>> No.17055511

>>17054878
Yet, he's a rich man's Nietzsche

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>>17053715
Mystics.

>> No.17056143

What is it about? I have read Cioran before but it was a different book.

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>>17054694
Similar situation but have a dog and spot heat with electric fake flame boxes because gas is too expensive; my few radiators therefore remain gelid winter long.
Well! I just read in a book that gift giving's 'the language of the soul' so I'll rec a few things that a reader of Cioran might like as 'tis the Season, etc.
Thomas Carlyle's essay on Cagliostro
Thomas De Quincy's essay The English Mail Coach
Oscar Wilde's essay The Decay of Lying (don't sniff, it's quite good)
Isaiah Berlin's book The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Julian Barne's novel Flaubert's Parrot
This is what comes to mind at any rate,
pic rel is the other book I'm reading at the moment.
(Of your stack I've read three inclusive of Decay btw)
Cheers

>> No.17056764

>>17054878
Far too long relative to that good book's brevity. A poor man's scholia would work, I guess, but for a poor man like Falstaff who doubles as a fancypants.

>> No.17057687

>>17053725
Books like little oases in the vast dark deserts of time
Got this from reading Carlyle's essay on James Boswell earlier this evening

>> No.17059039

>>17056143
Artful, impressionistic, brooding prose about how bad things are ftmp

>> No.17059827

Honestly once you read one book like this there’s no reason to read any other. It’s just the same shit said in different ways. Best to just spend your time reading good fiction.

>> No.17060348

Bataille