Should literature be fun?
it should be. I'm still trying to get into it myself but I'm never in the mood to read a god damn book. Maybe my library sucks? Who knows. Maybe I'm too addicted to doing nothing and watching streams all day.
>>24849323Depends on how you define fun. Should it engage you? Yes. Should it always thrill you? No.
>we glimpse pleasure as we do movements of consciousness: fleetingly, in the creation and destruction of forms.>if pleasure couldn’t be faked we wouldn’t have an entertainment industry.>the idea that pleasure is static and knowable and can be doled out in fixed proportions is why we have the sad and mangled little tribe known as videogame players - people driven nuts by a boredom and unhappiness they can’t even articulate, since by rights it shouldn’t even exist.>art as sentimental education; art as an education in pleasure, this thing we don’t quite recognize or know what to do with.