>>24482408 (OP)I only read stuff before the 1970s, although the date has been inching closer near the 2000s. There is no deliberate attempt to read older works, but simply the desire to escape modern thought in its entirety. When I read something from the 19th century, or early 20th, I am able to peer from its precipice and see the future they imagined, not as it actually occurred, but as what it could have been.
Of late, I have been reading non-fiction; memoirs and essays mostly, I'm not interested in explicit learning. My emotions are dampened and I fear one day I'll feel nothing from consuming art of any medium.