/lit/ - Literature

>>8391888
*fart noises*

I'm a girl and within seconds of meeting a guy my age I can tell whether or not he has read Infinite Jest and whether, consequently, he is someone I want to spend my time with. I meet a guy, he's quiet, reserved, he stutters and stumbles over basic sentences. He doesn't smile, he laughs politely and rarely, he wears clothes that are either too tight or too baggy and which look as if they were picked from a thrifstore clothesrack by his mother back in 2008. When I ask a question his answers come in "yes" and "no"s, when I begin talking about a subject he has expressed (mild) interest in he simply agrees with what I say and smiles the way a small child does when praised by his aunts at Christmas. In short this guy is not a reader. Instead of venturing out in the world, instead of asserting his will and demanding that the world yield to whatever demands he may have, instead of turns inward, his will is inverted, he would prefer to plummet than ascend. Rather than reach overcome his anxieties and mental peculiarities through empathy and conversation, he allows them to entirely dominate his perspective and disposition, to make themselves so much at home in his distorted psychology that the disorders and peculiarities and paranoid distortions themselves eventually become the essential substance of his character. I'd buy him a book ticket myself if I thought he had the courage to use it.

>>8332959
>unless you're one of those people that blows through a bunch of short stories in one sitting

i am

>mfw reading the nose-job scene in V.

>it's another "pretend to complain about a common word that yet sounds like somehow a retard could conceivably think it normal to take offence with" thread

>write 80 words of story
>write 160 words of notes I will have to take into account when I rewrite it later

halo

i do 2 question

1. like you memes?

2. read in fine it je'st?

thank

duhhhhh

>>8159478
>reading

>tfw someone's going to take the bait

duhhh

is this the most epic booktuber of all time?

https://youtu.be/dEVX42Pg1xw

>>8087633
>le human condition meme

ask the most well read man on /lit anything

>>8074985

>prof teaches brave new world as hyper-capitalism

>>7916237
>the point
>literature
lmao, fuck off you pleb with your points and shit lmao

>>7883815

Just to confirm, this new disgusting format is an april fool's joke, correct?

Just finished the second draft of my story, boys.

>>7845670
hehehehehe le master troll!! XD

>>7816812
I kek'd out loud