Sleep deprivation...
Lack of sleep and proper nutrition make things so much worse.
I am so damn tired right now that I can't sleep. I haven't gotten a full night's sleep for days and days, and when I'm awake, I do such meaningless things. To get off my whine box and climb up onto my soap box so that I may distract myself enough to eventually fall asleep, I give you my opinion on literature!
Behold:
I do enjoy reading philisophically pointless books. I refuse to be a literary snob. While it is all fine and good for authors to use characters to illustrate their morals and themes and ideas, I find it almost pretentious. If you have something to say, what you think, then say it. Organize it into an essay, or a psychological study or something. Just making up people and forcing them to support your vision of the TRUTH is just dumb. I dislike it intensely.
I enjoy romance novels. The good ones. Those are the ones that are probable, or even just possible... but believable. The best part is that they are stories for the story's sake. They aren't an analogy, they're not some fuzzy illusion drawn over the eyes of the people while a subliminal message is pumped through your brain. They are honest.
I like that I can read faster than life progresses. That is why books like this are entertaining. It is a chance to experience a different life, a different interaction. I don't need to read to get philosophies, I have it working out every day in my own life. That's all I want. I thumb my nose at you then, literature! Read Nora Roberts, forget those pretentious short stories, and go to sleep with a smile on your face and dreams of new people and exciting interactions.
People are what life is about.
I am so damn tired right now that I can't sleep. I haven't gotten a full night's sleep for days and days, and when I'm awake, I do such meaningless things. To get off my whine box and climb up onto my soap box so that I may distract myself enough to eventually fall asleep, I give you my opinion on literature!
Behold:
I do enjoy reading philisophically pointless books. I refuse to be a literary snob. While it is all fine and good for authors to use characters to illustrate their morals and themes and ideas, I find it almost pretentious. If you have something to say, what you think, then say it. Organize it into an essay, or a psychological study or something. Just making up people and forcing them to support your vision of the TRUTH is just dumb. I dislike it intensely.
I enjoy romance novels. The good ones. Those are the ones that are probable, or even just possible... but believable. The best part is that they are stories for the story's sake. They aren't an analogy, they're not some fuzzy illusion drawn over the eyes of the people while a subliminal message is pumped through your brain. They are honest.
I like that I can read faster than life progresses. That is why books like this are entertaining. It is a chance to experience a different life, a different interaction. I don't need to read to get philosophies, I have it working out every day in my own life. That's all I want. I thumb my nose at you then, literature! Read Nora Roberts, forget those pretentious short stories, and go to sleep with a smile on your face and dreams of new people and exciting interactions.
People are what life is about.
posted by Elysia @ 22:16
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