/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11340425]

what is your end goal in reading?

[Anonymous No.11340431]

to finish the book and start another

[Anonymous No.11340437]

>>11340431
what are you searching for

[Anonymous No.11340456]

cultiver mon jardin

[Anonymous No.11340464]

épouler de pus

[Anonymous No.11340468]

The attainment of knowledge and pleasure, and the positive influence of the content I consume on my mind

Have you ever had a lovely concerto playing along in your head without your conscious influence? Something quite like that.

[Anonymous No.11340504]

It's a way to waste my time that doesn't feel completely miserable

[Anonymous No.11340542]

>>11340504

[Anonymous No.11340547]

So I can be helpful and recommend books to people that they might find interesting.

[Anonymous No.11340551]

>>11340437
lost time ;^)

[Anonymous No.11340561]

>>11340425
Honestly to make me think about stuff differently. It really does make you smarter in general.

[Anonymous No.11340612]

>>11340425
I dont want an end goal, I want an activity I never can finish.
>>11340504
this

[Anonymous No.11340619]

I gotta do somethin with my life

[Anonymous No.11340645]

>>11340425
to finish my goodreads to read list

[Anonymous No.11340674]

>>11340425
A blind search for meaning. A vague conception of absolute truth.

[Anonymous No.11341023]

I've started to notice that when reading a great book for the first time, it's almost as if there's this great zeitgeist being revealed to me. It's like all these discrete little thoughts, phrases, feelings, and incomplete historical details are scattered throughout my brain, seemingly trivial, until some old dude with whom I would expect to have nothing in common with at all brings them together to form this immensely profound and beautiful orchestration. The result is something adversely timeless and yet deeply personal. Because of this I end up losing myself in the book and finding myself in it at the same time. I'm not explaining this very well but it's kind of like what I imagine the sublime to feel like. This feeling doesn't come along all too often, but when it does it's inspiring and addicting enough to keep me going, just because there's a possibility that I could feel it again.

[Anonymous No.11341030]

>>11340425
i have ideas i really want to express through writing but im not a good writer and besides writing reading is the only way to improve
so to become a good writer ig

[Anonymous No.11341051]

To be entertained! Reading, when done right and with the proper material, is a form of intellectual play

[Anonymous No.11341161]

I want to learn about life to fully understand it in all its breadth.

[Anonymous No.11341229]

Basically to just understand references.

[Anonymous No.11341877]

To live

>>11341229
But which references? You'll come across complicated literary references only in literature itself.

[Anonymous No.11341901]

To help others. That's why I'm a network engineer. Good literature makes you a better person, like having a good service career.

[Anonymous No.11341911]

>>11340425
Absorb enough lit to get Finnegans Wake
Absorb enough phil to get Kant, Hegel and Kierk.

[Anonymous No.11341926]

>>11340425
the last page

[Anonymous No.11341937]

>>11341911
Of Kierkegaard I've only read Fear and Trembling, but I didn't find it that difficult to "get." It was at times pretty repetitive and tiresome to read, but it was also an old translation

[Anonymous No.11341986]

>>11341901
Software Engineering major here. I've seen a few anons say your field is superior. Why is that? I genuinely don't care about the well-being of the general populace btw.

[Anonymous No.11342001]

>>11341937
What I have in mind is reading entire corpus of the important philosophers. As far as I know Kierk was writing in response to Hegel, and Fear and Trembling is easier than his other work like Sickness Unto Death.

[Anonymous No.11342061]

>>11340425

I wanted to make a video game about dragons arguing

[Anonymous No.11342445]

>>11342061

[Anonymous No.11342516]

>>11340425
purely escapism

[Anonymous No.11344069]

To write

[Anonymous No.11344082]

>>11344069
but you can't write

[Anonymous No.11344092]

>>11344082
If you say so

[Anonymous No.11344107]

>>11340468
>in your head without your conscious influence?
You need pills, my dude.

[Anonymous No.11344214]

>>11340425
trying not to commit suicide

[Anonymous No.11344719]

>>11344214
me too

[Anonymous No.11344726]

getting a gf

[Anonymous No.11345995]

Mastering philosophy.

[Anonymous No.11346031]

>>11340425
sophia

[Anonymous No.11346205]

To internalise enough themes and characters and references that I can plagiarise for my own novel yet still look entirely original.

[Anonymous No.11346223]

find one or two books that i can reread for rest of life

[Anonymous No.11346233]

>>11340425
Professionally, teaching and publishing scholarship.

Personally, pleasure.

[Anonymous No.11346333]

Why does there have to be one?

[Anonymous No.11346557]

To overcome the period

[Anonymous No.11346611]

To have an archive of books that I can allow my children to read and one day pass down to them.

You know,, maybe toss them some easy tier books when they are younger and than slam them in the face with Ulysses when they reach college age.
But regardless I just want to have a library of books that my toddler stares at in innocent awe hopefully inspiring him to a life of lit

[Anonymous No.11346630]

>>11342516
Only honest answer desu.

[Anonymous No.11346631]

>>11346630

[Anonymous No.11346960]

>>11340425
to understand /lit/ memes

[Anonymous No.11348271]

to finally believe something

[Anonymous No.11348346]

>>11340425
To write a 1,000 page book and blow my brains out

[Anonymous No.11348352]

>>11341911
Kierk's not even that hard IMO

[Anonymous No.11349048]

>>11341023
I just finished chapter 42 of Moby Dick and the entire novel now has this greater spiritual essence behind the concept of this whale. Im experiencing a sea of thoughts where i can only comprehend into words if i contemplate long enough. Reading does advocate the sublime

[Anonymous No.11349122]

>>11340425
Develop or improve my critical thinking skills. Well, that was my goal when i got into reading but now i'm just doing it to pass time

[Anonymous No.11349129]

I just use reading as an escape from my lower middle class hell thinking I'm superior to everyone who is indulged in all sorts of degeneracy imaginable. Really the only thing keeping me sane.

[Anonymous No.11349319]

>>11340425
I speak more concisely after an hour's reading. I think more clearly, and I think more expansively. Reading lit makes my brain feel good at this point it's just hygiene

[Anonymous No.11349434]

>>11346333
well you pick up a book for a reason

[Anonymous No.11349451]

to find a book that reminds me of when i was an underageb& on /b/ in 2008

[Anonymous No.11349498]

>>11349434
But that's individual for each book, isn't it? No "superior end goal" involved.
For me at least.

[Anonymous No.11349613]

>>11340425
To maintain my self imposed delusion that reading the canon is a kind of occupation and not just a distraction from the fact that I need to leave my room, get a job, and lose my virginity.

[Anonymous No.11349622]

>>11340425

There's something interesting in learning about other people's thoughts, feelings and qualms. You get that in spades when reading, in addition to catharsis and wisdom. It's likely why I read less the more I socialise, or move towards non-fiction.

So, no end-goal in mind. Rather sustained movement.

[Anonymous No.11349644]

Uncovering the secrets of the universe. I mean, I feel to some extent I have uncovered most of them. Now it's just a matter of learning how it articulate myself.

[Anonymous No.11349668]

>>11341023
You articulated that feeling really well anon, props. I think that's spot on. For me it's exactly the realisation that we are all essentially human. That I can read something written in Ancient Greece and find expressions of emotions I have felt but never been able to articulate myself.

weird little note but I was reminded of a moment on Norm Macdonald Live when he talks about how weird it is that you'll watch a sitcom from the 1950s and everything seems so different to today, but you read a book from the 1890s and its incredibly relatable - and that's because the 1950s sitcom is a projection of an ideal (unrealistic) society and it feels different because nobody ever really lived that way even in the 1950s, whereas someone like Dostoevsky is baring his soul, the contents of which is universal

[Anonymous No.11350635]

>>11349668
>>11341023
Any particular recs for sublime books written in a 'minimal' style anons?

[Anonymous No.11350652]

>>11344214
Opposite for me

[Anonymous No.11351169]

the final page.

[Anonymous No.11351591]

>>11340425
To fill up my head. Literally. What reading does, the way it occupies a mind and the way former reading survives in echoes and allusions, keeps my mind 'fit' in a way that I find agreeable. There's more, of course..

[Anonymous No.11351773]

>>11340425
Get more powerful by absorbing other people's thought

[Anonymous No.11351788]

>>11346630
>he doesn't read for ultimate enlightenment

[Anonymous No.11352335]

>>11340612
>the journey is the reward
means and ends meet
*this

[Anonymous No.11352796]

>>11340542
aaWwwOoOOOoooOOOOoo

[Anonymous No.11352838]

Gnosis

[Anonymous No.11353143]

>>11340425
to become a pretentious motherfucker. So far is going well.

[Anonymous No.11353155]

>>11340425
to ignore life

[Anonymous No.11353342]

>>11340425
to learn

[Anonymous No.11353366]

to appreciate (document? experience?) as much diversity in the arts as possible