/lit/ - Literature

Jay Gatsby

I think it's frustrating, being clinically depressed myself, to see the attention lavished on the "demons" that dead writers faced, especially w/r/t the ones who suffered depression or other neuroses.

Why is it that modern society laughs and reviles the depressed commons, reducing our own suffering to relative bullshit, and then turns around and praises those who were so lucky as to be published? As if it brings some vindication to their shade that people empathized with their problems. It's all so fucking absurd and I don't see the point of pursuing my dream if this feeling is going to chase me the rest of my life. I don't want to throw in the towel, but it's like I've rationalized my gerbil wheel every time it comes spinning around beneath my feet. The older and smarter I get, the worse this feeling. No one tells you that rock bottom is not just one place and time in your life, that you'll find it again and again.

It's images like that that really have my staying power here. Though I may never truly leave.

What's to be said of this board in five decades? Even if it's extinct, do you think this place will have had a formative effect on us as old men?

>>6818889
would have been interesting to have the read The Great Gatsby through Gatsby's eyes, but that would ruin the whole point of Gatsby i know. still curious though