When you fully beat a game or fully understand a book, there is no purpose or desire to going back to it. Assuming one is to become entirely financially independent but is never able to enjoy their work again the way they used to, what else is there left? Every experience or some analog has been had, what more secrets remain to life? Why continue living?
>>24721933The fuck are you talking about? Unless you memorized every word there's plenty of reason to read a book more than once.
>>24721951That's superficial. I don't need to replay MGS3 because I can't remember exactly what a texture looks like in a corner. I don't need to reread Ulysses because I forgot what the exact word on page 381, line 7, 5th word is.
>>24721933Depression
That was a good book
>>24721956this is a beautiful analogy and so true. once you beat a game its over. once you read a book its over. there is NOTHING LEFT!
>>24721933Music and poetry get better once you comprehend them. So does a good novel, or at least the most beautiful parts of it (the appreciation of which is informed by the knowledge and understanding of the work as a whole). Don't you have any favorite passages memorized?
>>24722401no once you finish your done. why read again when you read to last page? end is end, finish is finish. duhhhhh
>>24721933The plurality of possible readings is infinite. The security of a decent reading requires defence. Reading is rape.
you can't read the same book twice in the same state. your neurons change constantly, each reading 'amplifies' each previous reading.you're powering up your understanding of it with each iteration. Or you can read a book, go fishing, come back and read it with experience of fishing being a part of you at the time of second reading. Will influence you differently.
>>24722409>Reading is rape.This doesn't sound as bombastic and irreverent as you think.
You can never fully understand a book.
>>24721933You can just do it again because you enjoy it.Why are philosophy people so retarded
Dumb stupid NIGGER.The second time you read a book or play a game you are not the same person that did it the first time. You start to value other things or your intepretation of the events changes with your own experience and cultural background and the second and even the third re-read can be as enjoyable if not more.
>>24722401Damn. Do people really memorize entire paragraphs of multiple books? I can barely even remember certain quotes.
oh god shut the fuck up you pretentious little turdssweet jesus this really is the stupidest board
I've read a few of my favorite works or passages multiple times just because I love them. I don't think that's odd
>>24721933Do something else that’s new to you. Sometimes with time the feeling comes back for the old.
>>24723291What if even considering something new feels exhausting, and actually performing something new feels uncomfortable and aggravating?
>muh enjoy>muh feelsJust do heroin. All hedonists in history were ironically miserable. Besides the treadmill problem focusing on pleasure as a goal makes it empty, it isn't serving its evolutionary purpose so it's just an empty release of chemicals.When the goal is something like understanding the world and broadening your horizons the pleasure comes when your goal is reinforced which imbues the feeling with wider meaning and it becomes part of the motivation cycle.Struggling is the norm, pleasure is a reward for overcoming struggle not a state of being.
>>24721933You're the exact opposite of that guy who only listened to Lincoln Park's "In the End" tens of thousands of times. (can't be bothered to find a better screencap)I'd tell you to try no-fap, but since you'd only do it once anyways I don't want to preach to the fucking Pope.
>>24721933If you "fully understand" a book to the point there's no reason going back to it, it means it wasn't very good.
>>24722411Very wise post.
>>24723469Name 50 "very good" books by your own standard
>>24723476Just trust that I’m a well-informed and unerring judge of /lit/ posting. Have faith. Picture me cross-legged atop a crag, my long white locks lifted by the savage mountain winds, my snowy beard coiling over the rocks. Far below in the valley I see a lone poster make his way; at him I point my staff and with approving nod declare, ‘This guy, this noble soul, he gets it.’
I hecking love stepping into the same river twice
>>24721956A single page can have twenty or more beautiful moments, turns of phrases, allusions, wordplay, literary devices, etc. They're all just as beautiful the second time as they are the first. And if you missed one it can be like reading it for the first time again.
>>24723352When’s the last time you went out into the countryside into nature?
>>24721933You can never step in the same river twice.
>>24724043You can read the same book twice.
