What You Should Do When You're Writing a Book

Great literature doesn't present you with a whitewashed view of humanity or of existence. To be alive is to be in troublea ethically and existentially. I've been reading this book recently. It's called better never to have been. And it was written by a philosopher in south africa, in capetown,. That's his last name. He basically argues that because life is so full of suffering, even good lives are very much full of suffering...it would also be better not to exist for exactly the same reason....