Voltaire drank 50 cups of coffee a day, and wrote prolifically. Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day and wrote prolifically.What is your excuse?>the publishing industry is riggedeverything has always been rigged. GET OVER IT>lit departments are all left leaningwhat are YOU going to do about it?>I have to go to my jobSo did Bukowski. So did Celine. So did Faulkner. GET OVER IT>I don't have a jobNeither did Cormac. Neither did DeLillo. GET OVER ITUntil you start drinking 50 CUPS OF COFFEE A DAY, you are not allowed to make excuses, not here, not in real life, not even to yourself in your own mindif you're not drinking 50 CUPS OF COFFEE A DAY, you are clearly not willing to DO WHAT IT TAKES50 CUPS
How about cocaine and amphetamines?
>>24726417If you can find good, clean stuff and stay out of trouble, then yes. Those would be a fine addition to 50 CUPS OF COFFEE, per day
It takes about 15 minutes to boil, steep, and cool 3 cups of coffee with a french press. For 50 cups you'd be spending over 4 hours a day just brewing coffee lol
>>24726426I feel like stimulants are probably less harmful than the amount of caffeine you would need to consume for the same effect.
>>24726413Maybe you confused it with 5 cups? This looks realistic to me
>>24726442it's true, coffee brewing can be time consuming. I'd suggest a high quality drip-machine, most of those make 12 cups in one go. You could also get an espresso machine to put right next to your writing desk. And, its never a bad idea to have some cold brew on hand>>24726444coffee is healthy. packed with antioxidants, flavanoids, et cetera. 50 cups a day is very healthy>>24726447I did not confuse it with 5 cups. Look it up. These Frenchmen fueled their prolific writing lives with 50 cups of coffee a day. Trust me. You don't want to look back five years from now, not having achieved your dreams, and wondering if you would have achieved them, if only you had drank 50 cups of coffee per day
How would you have time to write if you're in the bathroom pissing out coffee
>>24726413Have cup sizes changed? I do not know the history of coffee.
>>24726413>50 cups of coffeeToo expensive. I just buy meth off DarkMatter
quality over quantity
>>24726413I brew at least 3 to 4 pots a day
>>24726478let's say you take a 3 minute piss break once an hour. okay, so you've lost 5 percent of your time. but your focus level has doubled (conservatively) by drinking 50 cups of coffee per day, so that 55 minutes per hour becomes 110 minutes per hour. you're literally stretching the fabric of spacetime itself when you drink 50 cups of coffee a day>>24726481perhaps, but they were also brewing espresso and strong turkish coffee, so it likely balances out. Balzac straight up ate coffee grounds at times>>24726483if you brew your own coffee it shouldn't run you more than 5 dollars a day. go to premium grocery stores and find high quality, whole beans when they're on sale. regardless, its a small price to pay to bend the fabric of spacetime itself>>24726484false dichotomy. buy premium whole beans, grind them fresh yourself and brew a pot with filtered water. 12 cups of delicious premium coffee at the press of a button>>24726485THAT is what I'm TALKING about.
>>24726413I read Candide over the weekend and boy was it awful. Kill me if I ever start writing like that.
>>24726413Imagine the shits!
>>24726517you could live in the BEST of all possible worlds if you simply drank 50 cups of coffee per day. well... you didn't enjoy the book! too bad... you should write a better one, I think you CAN do it. Especially if you start drinking 50 cups of coffee per day
>>24726526That's what I like to hear. Round up the philosofags, you are ready to herd cats. We'll get the truth out of at least one of them. The search continues.
Balzac and Voltaire both had, in addition to 50 cups of coffee a day, an overpowering sense of purpose sparked by the conditions of their respective periods. I fear it is not possible in our own day.
>>24726413Sv3rige says it's toxic bean water. It does nothing but stress your adrenals which makes you feel awake.
>>24726524seriousy tho. they must have had very weak coffee back in france back in the day
>>2472641350 cups is too much for 1 day
>>24726549Yes! The search shall go on>>24726560what exactly are the conditions which would prevent you or anyone else from finding that overpowering sense of purpose? And might these conditions, if they do exist, be overcome by drinking 50 cups of coffee a day. Now is not the timefor malaise or despair or hopelessness, now is the time for focus, and action!>>24726560sv3ridge. Now there's a throwback. He is entitled to his opinion, but he is wrong. Coffee drinkers live longer and have less cognitive deterioration than non-coffee drinkers. 50 cups of coffee a day is one of the healthiest things you can do
>>24726413Based. The doomer era is over. As a people we MUST pivot to maximum effort. If you haven’t quit your job to write full time then you’re not serious. Everyone is a doomer now so it’s time you know.
>>24726413I think you're right.
>>24726566meant to reply to (you) about sv3ridge... my apologies! >>24726609my friend. let's not get caught in the weeds on that particular score. coffee is good for you... it can't be denied...>>24726614>50 cups is too much for 1 dayfor you
Perhaps coffee, hydration, meditation, decent food and a bit of exercise is all you need in order to become epic. Big if true.
>>24726566>Sv3rige saysdropped
>>24726628Exactly. Do what it TAKES, NEVER doom... for any number of dilletantes, their dreams are 2 steps away: quit the job and start drinking 50 cups of coffee per day>>24726630thank you, my friend. I raised my current cup of coffee in your honor
I drink a lot of coffee, but I don't enjoy writing and have nothing to write about anyway.
>>24726619>what exactly are the conditions which would prevent you or anyone else from finding that overpowering sense of purpose?I meant that the illustrious Gauls had their subjects (comparatively) ready made for them. No amount of coffee is going to make anticlerical polemics as interesting as they formerly were. You need to have the germ of an idea; it can certainly be amplified by stimulants, but it's got to be there first.
>>24726641absolutely. hydration, meditation, good food and exercise are all great. this is your foundation. then, you blow the roof off the joint by drinking 50 cups of coffee per day. that's how you mainline the ether
drinking lots of coffee ruined my life when I still had a job. I had anxiety so bad that I had irregular heartbeats and uneven breathing. Don't drink too much coffee Anon..
>>24726655but do you drink 50 cups of coffee a day? come on man!>>24726661I agree with you. In fact, anticlerical polemics have possibly never been LESS interesting than they are now. We've certainly passed that phase. So what phase are we in now? You probably have some ideas about that. I bet you could get those ideas dialed in and properly elucidated when you start drinking 50 cups of coffee per day
>>24726671that isn't good. sorry that happened my friend. perhaps 50 cups of coffee a day isn't for you.
>>24726413>50 cups a day.I call bullshit on that. even if one assumes a cup of coffee is 1 teaspoon + 100ml of water, that still adds up to 5 liters per day at the bare minimum. (and 12.5 liters if one cup is 250ml).PS for ameritards: 5L = 1.32 gallons12.5L = 3.3 gallons
>>24726413>out of tiny tea cups>>24726671>anxiety so bad that I had irregular heartbeats and uneven breathingCaffeine abuse gives you the jitters because it's stripping B1, which your nerves need. It's like giving yourself ADHD and Diabeetus. Be supplementing or eating to compensate if you absolutely must be hammering the black oil. And use only dark roasts (less caffeine). Taking yerba mate first in the morning can help (contains caffeine antagonists).
if 50 cups is standard how many cups is dangerous
>>24726695IIRC Balzac‘s number has a lot to do with an estimation derived from his chewing on the grounds
>>24726704>It's like giving yourself ADHDat last I truly see
>>24726469Their coffee was considerably weaker than modern cups, you'd be looking at around 20 cups if you want to stay inline with the French java goats.
>>24726704I drink mate because my father passed it down to me and that shit is ridiculous. Stomach pain and the most intense jitters I've ever gotten from caffeine every time. If I eat with it I can minimize the effects a bit. It tastes great and looks cool and is a fun little ritual and very stimulating. But just demonic.
>>24726413Benjamin Franklin actually thanked Coffee, and Tea, for the Enlightenment for their stimulating effects, increase in focus and literary/intellectual benefit. And for knocking comsumption of the depressant, intoxicating, mibd-destroying and poisonous alcohol.
>>24726704how about tea?
>>24726442Then percolate your coffee. It comes out stronger anyway.So what is a "cup of coffee"? Google says 6-8 ounces, and 1-2 tbsp of grounds per 6 oz. of water. My pot is ~48 oz., and I think I use 4-5 tbsp for the whole pot, then brew it for 15 minutes. I drink just over one of those per day. Plus I add some chocolate-covered coffee beans as needed. I don't think that comes out to 50 cups, but I drink more coffee than anyone I know. But how do I tell how much I'm having, measured by "one cup of coffee"?
>>24726732
coffee was very expensive in his day. by the 10th cup it was mostly water.
My daily caffeine intake is pushing 500mg + Adderall and I've written 70+ pages to a non-fiction political philosophy book. It might not be done for easily another 100 pages, and I have zero literary agent contacts or connections.
>>24726980>>24726413kill yourself. people who need drugs to function and compete in society should be sterilized.
>>24726996Go cope yourself via a rope around your neck you neurotic loser square.
>>24726996mormon hands typed this post
>>24726980keep going, dammit. finish it! >and I have zero literary agent contacts or connections.cross that bridge when you get to it. it might feel stressul or hopeless to labor in obscurity, but that can also be a gift if you allow it to be... you are banging on your craft, sharpening your voice and your ideas in the unfettered space-time of isolation. GO ON. GO ALL THE WAY
>>24727003>>24727004you hate me because I spoke the truth. /lit/ is not your safe space echo chamber.
how many cups of coffee have y'all drank in a dayi have dranken like 8, I sweated very profusely and felt light headed.
>>24726413I remember reading that picrel ate one tablet of Benzedrine for every page he wrote of Critique of Dialectical Reason. Always wondered if that was true.
>>24727021Didn't he invoke Aztec metaphysics in that book?
how would i get to sleep at night?how would i deal with the shits?how would i handle the inevitable withdraws when i can't support this outrageous amount of coffee while on vacation or something?
>>24727019zero.
>>24727023No idea. Never read it. I did once pretend to read a copy of Being and Nothingness to impress a girl in high school, which was especially retarded because the book was in French (it had an English cover, I didn't notice when I bought it) and I don't speak French. That's not Dialectical Reason though.
I drink a couple pots a day, and a pint of whiskey and 6 to 12 beers. How am i doing?
>>24727010you spoke zero truth, you just seethed all over your keyboard like an autistic retard
>>24727039fortunately, you're a faggot who won't propagate his genes.
>>24727025yeah when you're smoking crack you don't need any coffee fair enough
>>24727052The only thing I'm high on is life.
>>24726671/thread op is a fucking retards
>>24727044I have a white son.
>>24726413I believe Alexander Pope also loved coffee.
>>24726560You could argue Voltaire is a man of his time and would probably be a groyper in the modern day.
>>24727033I have a kindle copy of that book but the introduction (written by a woman) who had to just self insert her own personal gripes about pronouns in the text put me off from reading. Never understood why women have to make everything about themselves at all times.
>>24727220breeding your "son" isn't going to propagate the genes
>>24726628WE GAAN GAAN NING
>>24726413>What is your excuse?I don't want to create, I just like to read and learn.
>>24726508>but they were also brewing espressoWasn't a thing until the late 19th century also not stronger just more concentrated.
>>24726417Jules Verne drank coca infused wine
