/lit/ - Literature

>pontificating

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This is a good thread anons, thank you for perfectly describing my job hunting experience at the moment. Online applications are an alienating hell and I feel worse and worse about myself every day.

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Please go back

>have to have

How do I write like Donna Tartt?

books about disillusion?

>"There are people who truly suffer because they weren’t able, in real life, to live with Mr Pickwick or to shake Mr Wardle’s hand. I’m one of those people. I’ve wept genuine tears over that novel, for not having lived in that time and with those people, real people. The disasters of novels are always beautiful, because the blood in them isn’t real blood and those who die in them don’t rot, nor is rottenness rotten in novels. When Mr Pickwick is ridiculous he’s not ridiculous, for it all happens in a novel. Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it. It seems that civilizations exist only to produce art and literature; words are what speak for them and remain. How do we know that these extra-human figures aren’t truly real? It tortures my mind to think this might be the case…"

book for this feel?

Yes but then I get sad because I probably won't ever bump into them again so I can't let them know what i thought of it.

Writers of /lit/, I ask you:

What do you do when you hit that slump and don't feel like writing? What methods do you use to motivate yourself again?

Norwegian man cleans up dead papa.

>>11630303
> be young male w bipolar disorder
> male psychiatrist leaves for new job
> get put with a 25y.o female psych
> have to talk about my libido with a 25y.o qt grill
> she laughs
> go back to college
> I'm the target for girls to say "hey will you go out with so-and-so" "HAHAHA HE SAID YES"

life is cruel

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Oh.