/lit/ - Literature

Moby Dick
Heart of Darkness
In Search of Lost Time
Lolita
The Third Policeman
Doctor Faustus
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Brothers Karamazov
The Screwtape Letters
Grande Sertão: Veredas

Try audiobooks. It's so relaxing having someone read to you instead of having to strain your eye muscles like a pleb.

For me it's Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. A lazy fucking piece of shit that makes everyone else do everything for him.

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”
– Samuel Johnson

I want to write a book, have zero patience for this drudgery, and I'm thinking of getting a ghost writer. What you think?

>>11438727
The only feasible identity an Australian can have is a "Briton under the Southern Cross." That was what carried us through the first 150 years. Wasn't until the country got terminal AIDs in the late 60s that we triumphantly destroyed our heritage, the only thing we had to inherit and have spent ever since muddling through without it. We've basically given up now and are ready to surrender to Asia. The political and social elite have already capitulated. They think they're going to retain their status but they'll have another thing coming in a generation or so. The only thing this place has going for it is it is big enough you don't have to be in proximity to the worst of it. My ancestors were on the first fleet, settlers of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, on the first boat ashore at Gallipoli, fought at Pozieres, Hamel and the Hindenburg Line. They were at Darwin, the fall of Singapore and Kokoda. But it literally means nothing now and so next year when I go overseas for work I can't really find a reason to go back. Let the chinks have it and all the bourgeois faggots stew in it too.

>>8744352
Continue... mmm yes

>>7201161
yes and this stems from the dissociation of the philosophy from the rationalism of what the proponents of the movement called the enlightenment, because the philosophy was a tool for theology and the proponents of the movement called the enlightenment believed that they no longer need God as an hypothesis, they were better than the clerics so they rebutted the philosophy as meta-physics, that is to say, meta-theoretical-physics, which means a field disconnected from empiricism since the rationalist-humanist-liberal from then on strongly has faith in his faith of being an empiricist, whereas he is not since he is only empiricist for the cachet of empiricism, from his faith in the stance that, as long as his little deliriums connect more or less to experience sooner or later, he is right and an empiricist...

>>7009421

Those swept up by the flood of sensuality,
who do not fully understand sense pleasures,
are plunged headlong into saṃsāra, into time,
destination, and existence upon existence.

But those who have fully understood sense pleasures
live without fear from any quarter.
Having attained the destruction of the taints,
while in the world, they have gone beyond.

Why is Having a Good Time not an adequate reason to live?

Why is everyone so concerned with finding "meaning" in life?