/lit/ - Literature

>tfw you're so intelligent you end up writing a 1200 page autistic rant about how just being a WASP (pref. calvinist) is literally the only way to truly experience bliss then you end up killing yourself after you realize people thought you were being ironic

>>9312214
>read infinite jest without the footnotes

I read the threads and shitpost in them, for example:

>tfw 5'8
>tfw 6'2 gf
>tfw lanklets will never know this feel

>Basically green texting is sub vocalization

>>8973353
>hon hon oui monsieur Steeply, they are all free to die from...Infinite Jest

the absolute mad man!

>stalked women
>threw shit at women
>pushed a woman out of his car while driving
>slept with his students
>assaulted a student during a class
>refused to write women as anything other than annoying and/or vapid

he truly is /ourguy/

>>8876521
>when someone says a book is hard and you read it and it's actually a pretty casual read

Pretending you read > actually reading

Actually reading:
>boring
>waste of time
>lots of words
>nerd glasses because you read with bad lighting too much
>pretentious
>"anon, do you want to come to the party.. oh, i see you are reading again. maybe next time :)"
>start playing video games out of frustration
>handing in your book reports too late because you overthink it and write up a whole bunch of garbage in a pathetic attempt to appear intellectual while everyone else just wrote a page or two
>social outcast
>loser
>you forget everything you read anyways
>"you spend all your time reading anon, recommend me a book!" "u-uhm Lolita b-by Nobako-" "isn't that about a pedophile, anon? are you a pedophile?" "n-n-n-o, i-i...."
>virginity
>no sleep because books are too long

Pretending you read:
>"oh anon you are so smart!"
>lots pretty books on the shelf
>smart
>educated
>rensaisance man
>life of the party
>popular
>"you are a well read and greatly educated man, can you recommend me a book so that i may ascend to become even the ever palest shadow of your greatness?" "you are a great friend of mine mark, we have known each other since our early childhood where we spent much time on the sports field. i know your father was and might very well still be an alcoholic, so i believe the portrayal of alcoholism in Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry will deeply connect with you on a very personal and intimate level. it has great prose."
>success
>fast cars, the knowledge how to operate them and the understanding that self help books are for weak minded pussies
>well dressed

guys. going on an internet date. never met someone from an app before. what books should i say i like? she just graduated. who's cool these days with young people? is dfw + a lil bumperino still a panty dropper?

New Sincerity

No memes? Infinite Jest by David Wallace.

something profound

>>8475760
>when you put the dishes in the dishwasher instead of leaving them around and mommy rewards you with a book

>>8156863
It means you write one-handed, if you catch my drift

>>8106045
got you famotron. 72 here. i cant write long posts because I forget to breathe.

>"uh uh" yeah cant really talk right now orin ive got like 10 in a row im a faraid this is i'll mess up somehow this is a statement about how like so but im messed up a bit you know like using competition (((addiction)))) to cover up trauma

David Frogster Wallace

David Wallace did it better, tbqh

>>7953079
>The few people who have new things to say are generally saying it through mathematical equations or in scientific articles with specialized terms. If one wants to see fresh new information, things that were never dreamed and stated in the world before, then it is on this kind of places that one has to look.

>>7934018

tell us your 9 favorite books. this will be interesting

He's famous in his field without selling enough products to profit.

Propped up by government backers.

Developed a following on the internet for being a meme-man.

It's got to be DFW

Never very popular.

Propped up by academia.

Following on web as a meme-man.

Sounds about right.

>>7869182
No.