Reading Cioran's A Short History of Decay because pessimistic philosophy is the only thing th T speaks to me anymore. Style is superb, and some of his aphorisms are great. Some paragraphs are long texts of "look, I'm smart", but when they hit they really hit. Central thesis seems to be something like all life is suffering and despair, but suicide or salvation end everything and negate ourselves. We are condemned to merely wallow in the disappointment of life.