/lit/ - Literature

ITT

What should read before reading moby dick.

>>8271265
300+
Gave away about as many during a promotion.

how do i get into reading?
>inb4 start with the greeks
i want to start reading more often because i feel like it's the most productive thing i can do while still being lazy at home. i really do enjoy reading (although i haven't read very many books), but the problem is, every time i have some free time to sit down and read, i find myself going online/watching tv/listening to music/doing some other brain-dead task instead.

are there any good ways to help motivate myself to read more often? what did you do to help foster your hobby /lit/?

pic unrelated

>>8252523
>thinking that memes on 4chan will make me unhappy
pic related, its you

>>7866714

B. No frills workstation.

A. Is a hipster
C. Is a hipster who spends time at Starbucks to be "seen writing a book" but won't finish one.

>inb4 kekzozzlewewlad

Alright /lit/izens

Recommend books that will finally convince me to kill myself please.

can a lot of people ITT relate to this?

>>7826541

>>7428910
H. lives in potentiality. the Dasein is literally the potential that we can imagine and we should express these potentiality.

this is ridiculous, since h. takes seriously any fantasy our mind produce.

How would one write a book of philosophy?
In this day and age how would one go about just writing their thoughts?
Imagine a book of erratic thoughts. Would it be better to keep them erratic or to structure it in a way?

>>7258642
yes
writing is for normies who dwell in cities where they can fulfill their hedonistic life and thus stumble little odd scenes to narrate.

rise above the urban mediocrity and its incestual entertainment. face what is inside of you, no matter how frightening, until you defeat it in understanding that it is bogus.
>>>/sci/7602306

>>7238020
none

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>>7187918
Imagine a life where you have never been great at anything, never felt the urge to be great at anything, never felt that magnetic admiration to someone who was great at something, wanted to imitate and ultimately defeat him. Just nothing. Literally all you do in life is exist. Occupy space. pass the time. You're a chick.

You're bored,tweeting about your fucking hair and not even feeling any kind of happiness from it, just soothing your constant need to be bitter and cunty and petty toward other women. Every single thing you've done in the past year was mundane, shallow, and boring. You spent the last six hours reading kinda-interesting Reddit stories about people who made interesting Halloween hats for their kids or some stupid bullshit that you think is interesting and you may say is interesting but you're not really sure if it's really interesting. You're just fucking sitting there, gestating, fermenting, with a moist hole between your legs that guarantees you'll at least never have to get up and move around and work to support yourself.

And then you see men, over in some corner, having fun. You've never seen this before. What are they even doing? Instead of their consciousnesses merely sitting in their thick skull and revolving around itself, they are imbuing their conscious energy and intentionality into external objects, crafts, goals, projects. All the bitterness and cuntiness you feel nonstop seems to be absent, as they congratulate each other for being victorious, and happily learn from someone who defeated them. These creatures are truly content to be alive. They have found purpose in a purposeless universe.

And your gaze turns back on itself, on your self, and you realise you've never had that. You can never have it. You're just a stupid cunt.

So you get up, you walk over there, and you fucking ruin everything. Just ruin the whole fucking thing. The five seconds of attention you get will be worth destroying it. Because you're a woman.

>never know what to say
>feign interest in the other person by asking them a bunch of questions about their life

i'll say "that's cool" after everything they say too

Get off the internet for a while

Stop caring so much about what people think

>>6806691

>>6651365