/lit/ - Literature

I'm so fucking sick of working.

Is drinking yourself to death /lit/?

Why do so many people think Nabokov's writing is great prose? He reads and sounds like an autistic hot housed child who misuses a thesaurus and dictionary.

>>14033043
gonna need a footnote lol on that one, anon.

and it's probably because they do a lot of walking/running. that's how they stay skinny.

>>14033015
nice to see you chad, take care!

Post yfw you realize Mr. Sadler will never be your dad

>>13630152

I'm posting while intoxicated lol

>>13379294

>like to read
>don't like to write

Writing's hard, and I'm bad at it at a basic level. No matter how much I study plot construction, or rules-of-thumb like, "don't use adverbs" or "use active voice over passive," I still can't make a compelling story or interesting character to save my life.

im drunk, ask me something you like to known

That was actually just the set-up:

Technology is a counterfeit mastery of contingency: overcoming heat, cold, hunger, thirst, etc. can be a matter of willpower and not just the Kardashev Scale (look at Wim Hof). Technology expedites what can otherwise be accomplished inwardly with tremendous strength: externalized homeostatic regulators: Shestov was right about everything, the most horrible thing in life is contentment: contentment is demiurge dipping sauce.

Spirituality begins with the soul's conscious habitation of the body. Think of picking your nose, how a substance produced to keep dust and foreign particles out of your system becomes a source of autistic enjoyment for the self, this is what Freud calls the “mazing” or metaphysical dimension of consciousness, or rather, the power of subjectivity to /make metaphysical/: in picking my nose, or jerking off or whatever, I don't testify to the power of the body over the spirit, but rather, the power of spirit to use and consume the body: its stimulation of its habitat to produce a desired stimulus, and its subservience to that stimulus: some souls are not as tall as their bodies, they squat like pygmies behind their skin: on a sunbeam this intuition flew to me, and I understood what the mystics meant by “Truly, God, you are in me, and not me”:

Mysticism is spiritual terraforming: to will the “colors” of the world – the eternal objects, the Hindu manas – and not the pure, undifferentiated light, is to be pledged to them: but the white light is death, extinction, torn between the already existent colors, and the infinite white of the Pleroma, you must be your own principle: being Nietzche's value creator, or Michelstaedter's persuasi, means being your own color, and not painting yourself with another's ink: the impossibility of imagining a new color is the impossibility of imagining yourself absolutely free and undetermined in everyday life: get to it, champ.

I got 26
Can't talk to new people unless it's for customers at work (since it is my job, it's mandatory)
Can't make friend (how?)
Everything makes me anxious
Books are friends

>>12848820

Hey lads

I'm quitting drinking, smoking weed, and to a lesser extent coke and MDMA cold turkey. I have no friends or family where I live I'm feeling like total shit.

Can anyone recommend any good or comfy books (preferably also actually worth reading) to help get me through this? I've mostly been reading quite pessimistic stuff like A Short History of Decay and Maldoror, which has not been helping my mood at all.

Thanks for any help you can give guys

>>12253755

>>11813788
Christ I wish I could love video games this much again

>>11707172
>went there to shed years
>left there in lead chains

>>11547253
self destructive behavior

>>11244379
I've been hammered every day for nearly a decade and I'm still sharper and more perceptive than anyone I know, /lit/ included.

>>11221225
>mfw my post got no (You)s

>>11167834
>ad hominem
>greek
The absolute state of consumers of anti-intellectual drugs.

>>11151649
man, how much alcohol do you have on the brain right now?
you know if you have enough in your system, it starts to literally dissolve heart and brain tissue? think you're too far gone, buster.

>>10977949
Wrote in one of these threads a while back about asking out the girl I like. I just did it and don't know how to feel. I asked if she'd "like to get coffee or something sometime in the holidays", and she replied "sorry can't this week I'm so busy, [meeting up with friends, revision, work, etc.] but we could meet up next [school] holidays or something?" and didn't reply anything else. I don't know how to feel. Is this good, or just a soft let-down? Help me /lit/ I don't know how to feel.

>MFW Ilyusheka's funeral and Alyosha's beautiful speech.

Are there any books that would appeal to the mind of someone whose life goal is to live alone in a cozy cabin, play video games, listen to and compose music, read books, lift weights, drink alcohol and smoke weed until they die?

>tfw emma watson will never rate your book