/lit/ - Literature

>tfw my friend and I read poetry over the phone to each other while her husband slept

I read Yeats and she read Longfellow

Books for this feel? Also poetry general

> In the room the women come and go
> Talking of Michelangelo.

I betrayed my reading schedule

Calling all /lit/erary niggas ,

on behalf of rest of all us autists , I request you to compile a list , that will somehow cure our autism. Books provide different perspectives and even a couple of beautifully written lines can make a person reflect on his actions and improve as a human. Let us start this year by turning a new page and acting less like a sperg

Anyone here published? How did you do it?

You’re so cute /lit/

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>>12178674
>tfw no matter how much i read i will always have vertical orbital dystopia
i will always be an ugly manlet

What are some books on what it means to be a man

Just found out my classics professor died two days ago. She was one of my favorite teachers this semester press F, she's with the gods now.

How does one improve and fight one's physical and intellectual laziness, apathy, if oneis too łączy for it? It's rigged game, that flaw of character.

Is this it?

>French teacher unironically told me I was a lot like Meursault
>rest of the class agreed

Books to help me be less afraid of people? Of their disapproval, rejection, or punishments?

>>11872042
That shirt makes a mockery of Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians. Its absolutely disgusting. Chapter 5's detailing of proper family life is one of the most beautiful chapters in the Bible.
Who would wear such a thing?
>reverse image search
>A police department in Oklahoma released body camera footage Monday of former State Senator Ralph Shortey caught in a hotel room with an underage boy, making the video public days after he pleaded guilty to child prostitution and pornography charges.

>>11781222
>I keep my own feelings out if everything, in order to be able to feel

I am fourty thousand dollars in debt and the government is going to take my car

>tfw fell in love with another female YouTube book reviewer again

Serious question:

Is it even possible to write fiction relevant to the contemporary period without engaging fully with it?

For example, I don't use any social media, and own an old phone without internet. How am I supposed to properly articulate life in the modern world if I am so detached from it? It's really bugging me, and I feel like my passivity and dislike of such platforms has meant I am pretty much irrelevant in what I have to say.

Please don't ban me for this thread, or just treat it like a writing exercise disguised as a plea for help.

I don't know what it is /lit/. I can tell myself that I am intelligent, observant, logical and so on, but I find myself among the incels, among the barrel scrapers, in a small minority which shrinks every month that passes. I just got home from yet another Saturday spent travelling / walking around my city by myself, smoking cigarettes and staring into space. It's really the highlight of my week, and has been for some time. Why am I incapable of shaking myself out of it and just becoming a human being?

Every time I consider my frankly pathetic existence I hear this assertive voice tell me "It's all your own doing", or "You've had your chances" or "Other people suffer, you're no different" and I feel too ashamed then to tell anyone how lonely and sad I am. I turn 27 soon, and if I had known at 24 that three years later I'd still be spending the summer the way I did then (working all week, being alone in the evenings, drifing aimlessly on the weekends) I'd have been overwhelmed with despair at the future. But here I am, just interiorizing everything and still locked up inside myself with no real understanding now (now that I had much then) of how to "step out into the real world".

On one of the subway trains I caught today (I ran to get on, and the carriage was pretty full) I stood right next to a girl who resembled a girl I briefly became acquainted with in 2015. If it's alright I'll keep posting, at least until I'm banned or the thread dies.

Why is my writing shit?

This thread will probably earn me ban but I need to let this out.

>be me
>spent several hours walking / traveling around the city alone this evening
>on the subway back to home around 8pm
>six drunken people get on
>two guys and four girls
>the girls sit down around me
>one sits on my left, another on my right
>two guys stay standing
>one of them says "I feel sorry for..."
>obviously mean me since the girl on my right starts talking past me to her friend
>I sit looking down rubbing my fingers back and forth to calm my nerves
>the two guys sit down
>they all keep joking etc about being drunk so early
>sit tense as hell for about ten minutes
>the drunk girl on my left is quieter than the others
>they tease her and take her photo and I lean back so I'm not in it
>start approaching my stop
>get up to leave
>girl on my left says "Bye, I love you!"
>stand away from them and frown and tense up even more
>train is about to stop
>she says "You're cute! You're cute!"
>get up and frown harder and powerwalk away

This has literally been my reaction all my life. I'm a virgin and never had a girlfriend. I always react to any attention either with feigned indifference or barely concealed hostility.

In 2015 I developed a crush on the prettiest girl I've ever met. She was literally the girl I would have wanted most to appear in my life, and she showed interest in me for a while. I was just too fucked up to do anything but pretend I didn't notice, and dwelled on my faults / deficiences to justify my cowardice and passivity.

On /sp/ last week I posted about my life in a thread and someone said I obviously had deep-rooted anxiety issues and that it has held me back my entire life and that I needed help. I didn't even post very much about myself, but he sensed that from just one post. Added to this I have for about a year or so been dwelling every day on nasty things I've posted online about people back when I was 23 or so, and I now feel unworthy of happiness knowing I may have hurt someone by my autistic and angry outburts online.

What the fuck would you do in my situation?

inb4 kys, because I'm already pushing myself towards this every day

>>11665162
I won't let them touch Moby Dick, old man
you can rest now, I won't let you down ever again

How's that book coming along?

Has any author successfully written about the past?
All the good novels seem to take place in the author's time or right around it.