[PartiallyTyped]

The problem is onism, which often transforms into existential angst, or an obsession. It's something that I have been struggling with a lot lately. There are just so many things that I will never get to experience, and books are one of them. I need to absorb as much knowledge as possible, to experience as many different patterns of thought as possible. Acquiring knowledge for its own sake.

> onism - n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people's passwords, each representing one more thing you'll never get to see before you die-and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here. dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com

[hartator]

Wouldn’t onism push you to read even slower? To not miss out on any subtlelity or deeper meanings?

[PartiallyTyped]

Good point, I hadn't thought of it as i tend to be rather pragmatic and don't have enough experience with text analysis to be able to grasp subtleties.

I mostly read scientific, mathematical and pop sci works.