/lit/ - Literature

>>22338252
>24-year-old author

>meant to cast vote for barney
>fill out ballet
>submit
>realize it was actually don turnip

the bible

why is this board becoming so rude lately?

>>10726718
Please, not today.

>>10618998
>loved C&S
>cant understand a single fucking thing in D&R because of all the references to philosophers i havent read yet
when the FUCK is my copy of ethics coming in the mail

Guys,

I'm in deep shit right now. Like really deep. Where to fucking start. So the girl of my dreams got into some trouble (not yet my girlfriend at this point in the story). I don't want to get into it too much but it had something to do with an old boyfriend of hers robbing her and making her quit her job or something. She would never tell me what actually happened and she would get really defensive if I tried to pry it out of her, even if I just barely hinted at it. But anyway, we were both in college at the time (we still are, this was only last year) and she was in danger of having to drop out because of her money problems. Being sickly in love, I offered to help pay for her tuition until she could get back on her feet. She refused and told me that it was way too much to offer someone who's only your friend. But not long after offering her help, she seemed to take on a total 180 of the way she acted towards me. She started giving me hugs when we were leaving after class, and turning around in lecture just to smile at me. She asked me out by the end of the week. Literally nothing in life will ever best that feeling I had in that moment. Needless to say, now that she was my girlfriend I demanded she take the money as I would not let her life fall apart while she was under my wing and in my protection.

>continued

I want to make a thread here on /lit/ defining what psychopathy actually is, but everyone will ignore it like usual. Or worse, the janitors will delete it and ban me for three days.

>the scene in the Odyssey in which Ulysses is recognized by his dog

>>9474909
Owww.....same.....

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

Apart from money, health, and time, there are very few non trivial concept.