/lit/ - Literature

Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles. The reflection of someone with no personality and no direction in life being decimated in a foreign place convinced me that everything was out to get me and that it was no good leaving home. Safe to say that book derailed my life and turned me into a NEET for the best part of 5 years.

>>16559870
i like the one where the depressed guy goes to supermarche and buys a frozen meal and then reveals he wants have sex with underage girls

this guy doesn't offer any good solutions, right?

>>16205940
>What's the correct pronunciation?

As I discovered while listening to a Schopenhauer audiobook, it's something like 'goata' with a bit of aspiration with the t. I'm not even joking.

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>>14692398
Yes obviously. No philosopher has grappled with nihilism since Neetch. They all read his proclamation of God's death as a license to coom, instead of a warning and a challenge. They act smug as they trot on the corpse of religion, without doing anything to overcome humans.

>Thought leaders in Silicon Valley tout the benefits of Stoicism, and NFL management, coaches, and players alike - from teams such as the Patriots and Seahawks - have embraced it because the principles make them better competitors. Stoicism is a no-nonsense philosophical system designed to produce dramatic real-world effects. Think of it as an ideal operating system for thriving in high-stress environments.

Things are worse than I thought.

He's in a better place now.