What are some good novels about time and the fact that a human life contains a small amount of it?

What are some good novels about time and the fact that a human life contains a small amount of it?

Man fuck charts about life milestones man fuck

The Leopard by Lampidusa touches on this

>I will spend as much time wageslaving away as i have in education
How the fuck did people in the past even livr.

The tartar steppe by dino buzzati

Farms

They weren't wageslaves

>mfw reading this

>halfway through the college age and am not enrolled
when does this feeling of uselessness leave, at least im not a neet anymore

If this was a chart for the average person from the dawn of agriculture to the industrial revolution it would read "Farmworker: 8yo - death"

>What are some good novels about time and the fact that a human life contains a small amount of it?
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

You realize that isn't true right?

"Free time" only exists due to capitalism and the industrial revolution. Before this people lived on the land and worked non-stop just to survive.

In Search of Lost Time

>he thinks that we don't reincarnate as someone else after death
>he thinks that all humans don't experience the totality of consciousness at some point
>he thinks by the pronoun "I" I am referring to myself as the mean container that houses a particular set of memories and proclivities

meat container*

ignorant slave moralist logic of freedom being no fault of one's own

only during the growing season if you're referring to medieval Europe. There were months in winter were people did some menial chores and then just slept and fucked for most of the 14 hour nights.

Book 1 of Michel de Montaigne’s essays has a few chapters that deal with the topic

This is a very depressing image.

need to update mine, I am quite a few weeks behind
Bump for interesting topic, Biblical wisdom books obviously cover it, not sure what commentaries to suggest on those if anyone wants to tell us.

Your scope is pathetic

Such a long time m8. And to think I've only been sane for about three years at 22 after 19 straight years of autism. I have at least 1500% of what I've lived so far to look forward to.
>feels good man.

Before capitalism sex wasn't pleasurable and the pains of childbirth were tenfold.

One if the best books I had to read in college was about the lives if medieval English peasants. Those fuckers were a promiscuous and murderous lot. Shit was hilarious.
>you will never be a theif pushing over shitty mud walls of houses and murdering the inhabitants before accidentally falling into the 6ft deep trenches on the side of the road and drowning in 3ft high water

I don't see what the problem with this image is. If you weren't born from the wealth to be able to spend your time freely, then suck it up and make the most of what you've got.

geology textbook

>there was never a class of wealthy people until now
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>what is aristocracy

Before the industrial revolution, only a dozen people in a single fucking country had enough wealth to have free time. The ironic thing is socialists don't see that capitalism has been the most significant equalizing force in history.

>a couple thousand people are relevant when speaking in broad terms

>Before the industrial revolution, only a dozen people in a single fucking country had enough wealth to have free time.
Sounds a little extreme. Not all civilizations possessed the same politics and circumstances, either.

No it hasn’t and you’re lying so hard its scary

user, the feeling will leave once you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior. I know Veeky Forums evangelism is frowned upon, but really, I mean it user. Christ wants to have a deep connection with you. He wants to give you hope and purpose.

user what you have written here is just ridiculous nonsense.

Literal ancient peoples were building giant ornate structures with little to no practical purpose and you think they "worked non-stop just to survive"?

Do you think those slaves got free time away from building those structures?

Probably at least a little but what's your point?
People who are just worried about survival don't have time to capture slaves in the first place.

A "couple thousand people" is not no one at all like the original poster implied.

>Average guy my age was married by now in 1960
How did they do it?

Like 50% of the people I went to high school with were married by 22. Some by 20. It still happens.

What the fuck
Where are you from? Small town America?

Northern NJ

By not being constantly distracted and actually socializing in the real world, and organically finding a mate that shares his interests.

Jesus Christ
I've never even had a girlfriend

Don't worry, neither have I, yet I grew up surrounded by people who did. I never really cared though.

I just find it crazy how people not only feel like they've met someone they want to spend "the rest of their lives" with, but they're also financially comfortable enough to do it by 22. That's honestly mind blowing for me.

A lot of idiots ITT

yes and no. free time existed before the agricultural revolution, when people lived in hunter-gatherer societies they only worked about 15 hours per week, the rest was free time. however after the agricultural revolution free time was basically dead and you had to spend your entire day on (((efficiency))) and (((progress))). then when industrial revolution hit and capitalism advanced, free time became a concept again.

Really nice book, I should re-read it
>Tfw 23 and never had a Gf while people used to marry at this age
I don't get it how people can get the love of their lives at this age, tho... Maybe if you're a simpleton is much easier

Could you post a template please?

>I don't get it how people can get the love of their lives at this age
That's because you're a spoiled western manchild.

>I don't get it how people can get the love of their lives at this age
Experience diminishes our ability to love, not increases it, you nitwit.

False, peasants had a shitload of free time. (Something like 1/3 to 1/2 of the year.)

I'm 20 years out of college, married and with a good wife and career, and I'm still fighting with the feeling of uselessness and meaninglessness. Which makes me tempted to listen to desu senpai, but we'll see.

Closer to 1/3rd to 1/4th. You had winter off, basically. In late winter/early spring you were preparing and plowing your fields. In spring you were planting, and then from spring through summer you were pulling weeds everyday, because they would want to grow where ever you planted your crops (ask anyone who has experience gardening about weeds, and they will tell you they're annoying; spread them over acres when you have no weed killer or anything and it becomes a ton of work). Then in early-mid fall you would harvest, and then spend the next month or so processing your harvest (thrashing and/or milling your wheat, pressing your grapes, preserving your fruit, etc).

So you would have maybe a week or two of fall and most of your winter off (aside from normal chores/dealing with neighbors/the statestate/etc).

>le wrong generation fags
Such the fuck up, idiots. The quality of life the average person in America has now far exceeds that of even a high ranking aristocratic 400 years ago.

you can:
>get in a magic box and travel vast distances in short amount of times
>get top medical attention, whereas back then you could get a paper cut and die of an easily treatable infection
>contact people around the world in a fraction of a second
>access to vast amounts of knowledge
the list goes on

>blight wipes out all your crops
>you die that winter
They had a hard life

If only you knew who he really was.

But muh feeling that my failures in life are caused by "degenerates" around me.

Be happy with your magic boxes!
So what if society has degenerated to the brink of meaninglessness?

Dude what book

There was never any "meaning" to begin with, members of homo sapiens eat, shit, fuck and die.

>Thinking you're too young to find or deserve love is entitlement

Behold the last man!

Retards have always been retards.

This. Found my wife in high school and 9 years later with a few scrapes and bruises, we are still saying I love you after every other sentence.

You have to find someone you see yourself in. If you are a freak then for the love of god know you are only going to attract a freak.

You realize that isn't an argument right?

The first line of your autobiography.

kek

I never talked about entitlement

Hahaha

>You have to find someone you see yourself in
For my sake I hope that's not true

Have fun with your LARP, just leave the fedora and trench coat at home.

>spoiled
Explain the key difference

We have discovered shitposting, they say, and blink.

The Ties the Bound by Barbara Hanawalt. Another one of the funniest deaths were the shopkeeper who kept a pet bear in his basement but it broke free from the shitty mud wall and walked up stairs to maul the daughter before the inn keeper could escape and gather a crowd to kill it.

Unfortunately, if you want the kind of marriage where you can live off the land with your partner of choice till you're 70 you gotta find someone who mirrors your actions. From there it's just a matter of improving each other. Once you forgive them for being horrible because once again they are mirroring your actions then you start to see yourself in a whole new light. Then you can really build that future.

but idk i just shitpost.

>Worked non-stop

Have you ever, ever been around a farm mentally or physically? It's not "non-stop work" at all

I get stressed out by the concept of time constantly.

>new day
>hey I could participate in this hobby, or this, or this activity, or this project
>feels like I don't have nearly enough time to get to all of them

>passing of time
>keep thinking of past events and can't believe it's been so long already

>you gotta find someone who mirrors your actions
What a nightmare
I'll take the crushing loneliness thanks

>wake up
>prepare for work
>return home nine hours later
>read a bit
>go to sleep

>do it all again

You say that but she literally just surprised me with an actual puppy. I just don't know what to say at the levels of absurdity this post now seems to me. Good luck man.

I'm saying my actions are bad

You'll know what to say when she leaves you and the dog, that cursed dog, serves as a living reminder.
> Good luck man.

I want you to know I genuinely love your soul.

>tfw found autistic girl who's exactly like me but apparently I hate myself too much to love me.

Seneca - On the Shortness of Life

*used to hate

You don’t have to. Find someone who completes you.

Nice platitude