What do I read if I am sick of people, culture, events, feelings, narratives, thoughts, knowledge, creations, and information and need a break from all that?
>>24941265Nintendo Power
>>24941265Read about plants and mountains and shit. See on Growth and Form by D'arcy Thompson.
>>24941277Sounds like a lot of information or knowledge and that's tiresome
>>24941391Then watch paint dry i guess. Or read about animals. Thats what I do.
>>24941265The Planiverse by A.K. Dewdney
>>24941408Nice, never heard of this
You are ready for Irish lit
>>24941265It helps to have some sort of hinterland, a mental retrreat that's comfy but austere and abstract.I read books of chess or bridge problems. Find something like that perhaps.
>>24941265Read the "no trespassers sign" and then claim you didn't.
>>24942113Trespassers W. is Piglet's grandfather :3
>>24941265Touch grass. 2 weeks.
>>24941265Maurice Blanchot
>>24942156Good suggestion. Francis Ponge is a similar one in this regard.
>>24942162indeed. anon, have you seen Pollet's Dieu sait quoi?>>24941265i think robbe-grillet fits the bill as well
Book of Disquiet
>>24942162Hell yeah for Francis Ponge. I read his book on soap earlier this year. Was quite a trip.
>>24941265Ask Tectone for a manga recommendation
>>24941265Candide
>>24942382>ollet's Dieu sait quoiI haven't, would you recommend it?
>>24941265looking back over the past five years i don't think i've ever once met a person, participated in a culture, attended an event, experienced a feeling, heard a narrative, contemplated a thought, acquired knowledge, wrought creations, or processed information. not truly. for the most part it's just been scrolling, commute, and work. i long to one day encounter something as fantastical as a feeling or a creation.
>>24942740Sorry
Sartre - Nausea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24941265you dont read. you need to go hiking in nature alone. go hike up a mountain or something
>>24941265White Noise by Don Delillo
>>24941265The Anatomy of Melancholy and The Book of Disquiet.
>>24942903>The Anatomy of MelancholyHave you read it?I've started it and dropped it twice. I know I should just commit.
>>24942917NTA, but i don't think it's a book you should be trying to read start to finish. it's the kind of book you glimpse on your shelf one Saturday morning and think 'ah, Burton, my buddy,' and then you pick out an interesting chapter you haven't read before and slowly enjoy it as you sip your coffee.
>>24941265Iʾm a keeper of sheep.The sheep are my thoughtsAnd each thought a sensation.I think with my eyes and my earsAnd with my hands and feetAnd with my nose and mouth.To think a flower is to see and smell it,And to eat a fruit is to know its meaning.That is why on a hot dayWhen I enjoy it so much I feel sad,And I lie down in the grassAnd close my warm eyes,Then I feel my whole body lying down in reality,I know the truth, and Iʾm happy.
>>24942917I have but I read it rather slowly over ~2 months. It lends itself well to being read that way. I don't think I agree with the random section methodology that many advocate for.
>>24941265the pathetic aura radiating from osamu dazai's no longer human will make you want to come back to humanity as soon as you finish reading it
>>24942112Great poem
>>24941265Try listening to Bach Beethoven or Mozart that’s worth your time and it’s been helpful for me when I feel like this (not sure about the creations part)
