/lit/ - Literature

“This dick is quite kafkaesque”
—some ho

>>15986933
from a woman? i dont think ive ever received any complaint from a woman

>>15987019
compliment*
eeehhhh I take that back, some girl said that I was clever one time after I made a pun about sitting my dick in her vagina

>>15987019
>complaint
Liar. That's all they do.

>>15986933
“Eh. I’ve seen worse”
-some ho

>>15986933
"You're the most moral person I've ever met in my life"
I still don't know why he said it.

>>15986933
>You should be a writer anon!
By someone who never read the few things I dared writing. This is where a lot of coffee and cigarettes will get you.

>>15986933
I was called a renaissance man when in bed with a girl. she was joking but it still turned me on

>>15986933
the only thing the only girl i’ve ever loved liked about me was my overly formal manner of speech

>>15987034
Tell us about it.

>>15987147
well first off I meant "putting", not "sitting"
we both worked at a burger joint and she asked
>are we short [on staff]?
>i dont know, are we?
>i dont know, it just feels like we're short
>well, do you see any empty places that need to be filled?
and then I grinned and winked at her
and to date that is the smoothest thing ive ever done

>you would be very handsome without the acne
worst part is that its true lol

>>15986933
Someone once said they were "mirrin" the number of complex works i read this year.
It made me feel good.

>>15987204
How old are you? There are safe ways to remedy that issue you know

>>15986933
my English prof asked me what I thought of her literary writing

>>15986933
''Your face remind me of greek deities.''
highschool girls

Recite my poems for my french lit class.
Girls: ''Aaaaaaww''
The prettiest of them: ''I think im in love''

>tfw i was super shy turbo virgin nonetheless

>>15986933
In my Sophomore year of college my English professor pointed directly at me and said “YOU! YOU are a good writer!”. Over the entire course of my academic career he and my 8th grade world geography teacher were the the only two of my instructors who made an impact on me

>>15986933
>You're... not recommended
Based off what I see on bookreads, I could only assume this was a good thing.

My ex worked at a restaurant, and when I was reading at the bar while she finished her shift, the bartender apparently told her I looked "like Edmond Dantes." I'm assuming he meant one of the movie adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo rather than the book, but I dunno which one.

>>15986933
Invariably women who compliment me also want me to smile more, women are desperate for validation that they're a pretty sight. Compliments from sober men are the only ones worth receiving.

>>15986933
I was called a Renaissance Man by the Canadian Border Police when they searched me and found Tolstoy, the Tao Te Ching, Cigars, Cigarettes, Whiskey, steroid PCT and then searched my phone and found out I had used opium, tramadol, acid and weed on my vacation, as well as fucking whores.

>>15987476
Today a guy stopped me to tell me I had amazing hair and I couldn't tell if he was gay and hanging out with a friend or if the fat chick with him was his girlfriend
>>15987511
Sounds like a hell of a vacation, what the fuck

>>15987511
Seems more like a decadence man t.b.h, but good on the cop who acknowledging/mocking you instead of being moralizing.

>>15987526
Thailand/Cambodia with my best bro when I was 20 and he was 19

>>15986933
My French teacher told me she never had a student who wrote like I did after I handed her a short story that I had written as an assignment. She was close to retirement age too (I'm French so French teacher for me is like English teacher for an American).
My philosophy teacher in last year of highschool said I was the first student she really wanted to recommend for the General Contest (a yearly national highchool level academic context, supposedly it's for elite student, in practice it boils down to whether your teacher thinks you"re worthy).
My Spanish teacher told me my writing was very natural and a scene I had written for her class felt very believable.

>>15987568
>il n'a pas étudié au lycée Henri IV ou Louis Le Grand
J'espère que tu as fais une prépa au moins anon.

>>15986933
In real life, nothing. On here, I once posted an original page and like three anons praised it

Not a compliment really, but one day in University my english teacher asked, via email, for permission to use one of my papers as a writing sample in future classes. I got a mark in the mid 80s on the assignment, so I assumed she was going to use it as an example of what NOT to do. I didn't even reply to the email for this reason and she never brought it up in person. Later she recommended via a note on one of my assignments that I major in creative writing, and I realized she probably liked my assignment

>>15987590
Bien sûr, j'ai été à Condorcet. J'étais d'ailleurs sur liste d'attente pour Henry IV, mais j'ai préféré Condorcet car c'est davantage street crédible.

>>15987568
Ah, I forgot that time my French teacher (another one, from the year after) used one of my dissertation as an example to all his classes.

Guess I'm one of those who peaked in highschool, although not for the usual reasons.

>>15987610
Prépa lettre ou scientifique ? Tu fais quoi de beau maintenant ?

>>15986933
You have nice hands
That's it

>>15986933
>That's a big book, anon.

"Wisdom herself watches over you." From an 80 year old woman in a library.

>>15986933
I swear to God a girl once told me I reminded her of the king of all cosmos from katamari

>>15986933
>You read so fast
>You're so smart
That was in Hs and It's only because I had nerd glasses

>You make me feel illiterate.

>>15986933
someone told me i "look like a writer" which i liked even though in 2020 it actually means i look like an ugly queer

>>15987180
did you fuck?

>you smell better than I thought you would

A woman said I looked like Jesus

>>15987437
He meant this one

>>15988988
What the fuck is this? Did the nips make a fucking teenage demon Count of Monte Cristo adaptation?

>>15988755
no

>>15987003
fucking kek

>>15989593
He's from Fate/Grand Order

>>15989613
fucking finally

>>15989593

>huh, so you're not gay

>>15986933
That I'm able to defy common wisdom.

>>15986933
>I always freeze up when I’m in front of you.. I guess it could be partly bc everything I could say, you already have an argument against but that’s not your fault.. you’re just so smart lol.
the concluding lines of being dumped

>>15986933
"Will you give the class a brief rundown on Nietzsche?"

>>15986933
I was told by a professor that he had a hole in his heart the shape of one of my characters

Be 23 yr old me buying a copy of piers ploughman in 2nd hand bookshop.

Silver fox behind counter looks me up and down and says "hmm a well read man"

What I now know as flirting takes place - decline offer for 'tea upstairs' (no one else is around) and walk off.

Realize years later what was about to happen .

>>15986933
My favorite professor, who was also chair of my uni's classics department, told me I had a beautiful mind after I compared a part of Alan Tate's "The Father's" to Keat's "Ode to Melancholy," which was super kind because I think I misquoted Keat's when making my comparison.

>>15986933
>"This guy has the correct opinion that will be standard once this goes on torrents and incels can finally afford to watch it for free."
Not purely /lit/ but oh well. Maybe
>"This entire spiel is very reassuring, in the sense that I feel like I'm reading my own thoughts, better articulated."
Counts too but I don't even recall what it was about.

>>15986933
A girl in middle school told me I smell like a turtle once and I didn't really know how to decode that. She just kept asking me what I thought of it and then I got off the bus. Another time a creative writing instructor, old as all hell called me a lion, and although ironic it made sense given how I paced like an autist when we were told to write (and I had the hair). People also seem to think I like origami, or that's just the type who likes giving me things.

>>15989600
Oh no, what a surprise!

I wrote a bunch of the standard /lit/ copypastas, like the one that compares JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin, and the one where Cormac McCarthy goes to the party and gets made fun of for writing genre fiction, and that pastiche of Stephan King where it turns out the guy's a vampire in a theme park full of robots at the end. I've done bigger things on other boards but it's nice to know some of the towering intellects on this board saw fit to copypasta my humble posts.

>>15987282
the first comment reminds me of the time some girl said i had the same face as Michelangelo's David statue during a lecture in my high school art history class

>>15987282
this is more sisterly if not condescending bro. no wonder.

Highschool.
Complimented by some teachers for my writing even though I was otherwise a delinquent (not to mention a criminal). I thought nothing of it because compliments typically make me uncomfortable, I memoryhole them. More so because I know my writing is and was not good (merely better than my peers).

An older girl once came up to me and said I had pretty eyes. Though not lit, it's notable because I felt good and safe in feeling so. Genuinely one of the wholesome moments in my life.

>>15986933
Ppl think I'm a specialist no matter what I talk about. If I had any chance of entry at all I'd be ashamed but I don't so I'm not therefore I pretend I have a doctorate and nobody can address me as anything but. c:

my ex girlfriends would call me smart and when I broke up with the last one she said something like "you're not a typical persona" in a complimentary tone. On the other hand, it is not very hard to be smart and "atypical" around women.

>Your mother will never admit it [we don't get along, at all] but she's extremely proud of how well read you are.
Had me on the brink of tears.

>>15991139
Did you tell her women are ppl oriented and men are object oriented? It's like easy passage between their legs. It's like you justified feminism and their whorishness

>>15987204
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>>15991165
I would mention this study sometimes, but they would just get weirdly offended. I don't really see how it can justify feminism, because I think it implies for them the notion that men are more "serious" than women as in "women cant be autistically interested in something, because they do things to socially signal and men do things just for themselves" which doesnt sound very feminist.

>>15986933
I can think of generic compliments that people have given me “you look like a musician/like you’re from the 70s/like james dean/you’re an old soul” I get frequently but nothing really springs to mind for special compliments.

Did have a short 90 year old Asian man wearing a fedora come up to me today though and say I was handsome & tall.
Although he had to repeat himself multiple times for me to realize he wasn’t calling me Anton.

>>15991202
Really? It's worked for me. Maybe you're explaining it wrong because women usually pride themselves on being more social than males

I was 5 years old and in kindergarten. I was walking down the hallway opposite a pair of older girls maybe 11 or 12, one dirty blonde and the other a brunette. They were looking at me and before they passed the blonde said "He's so cute." I've received a good number of compliments ever since then about various things but none truthfully impressionable. This was the only particularly memorable one because of the spontaneity and innocence. It wasn't prompted by something I did well or out of some social desire to comment on my hair or jokes. Maybe I'm just cynical or don't care much for compliments, but that makes it feel like the only genuine compliment I've ever received.

>>15991672
Well it's probably going to suck ass when I inform you you can't read.

>all these sex-havers itt
Can you please fuck off?

>>15986933
once a dude told me that i am kinda handsome, but retarded

>>15986933
a few years back, something like "you're the kind of guy people write poems about"
but I think its just some tumblr quote, not surprising since it was half of her personality

>>15991702
I used to tell girls in theatrical pose that they're so broke (like broken). It always works lol

>>15991686
This was 16 years ago. Sometimes I think about those girls and wonder what their lives are like now.

"You are a gentleman and a scholar"

>>15991760
Write a book about it then come back and you might be on topic

Not a compliment, but a girl once once told me that she'd "Like it if I was her Darcey"
But I soon realized she had a bulge - I am of the concerned