/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13619842]

>read philosophy
>lose interest in fiction
Is this what it feels like to leave the cave?

[Pessoa No.13619847]

>>13619842
Yeah I know right?

I was reading fiction for some good few months and laid philosophy to the other side, then I picked up some books by Wittgenstein, Seneca and Schopenhauer and I got astounded by what I discovered : I learn more and gain more enjoyment from reading 3 pages of any of these philosophers than reading an entire book by Dostoyevski or Tolstoy.

[Anonymous No.13619856]

no, the next step is to become obsessed with philosophical systems of thought, then realize you just picked one you really emphasize with; and then you drop it all and return to fiction

don't forget, you're here forever

[Anonymous No.13619862]

>>13619847
so you read competing systems of thought and realized you liked it all because it made you feel smart?


...foolish....

but seriously, you should acquaint yourself with philosophical issues before you just run into it.

[Pessoa No.13619876]

>>13619862
stop projecting. I don't agree with all of those writers necessarily, but it is the entertaining of thoughts which brings true delight to the soul and mind, even if they compete against one another, niglet.

[Anonymous No.13619906]

>>13619842
The first sip of a glass of literature will find you fiction, the second one philosophy, but once you take the last sip, you meet fiction again.