Wholesome /lit/ behaviors

[Anonymous No.12005552]

>stumble upon new words while reading
>always stop and look up their meaning

[Anonymous No.12005558]

I hate wholesomeness and the people who peddle it

[Anonymous No.12005561]

>>12005552
>reading a new author
>researching their lives and feeling connection--we're all human

[Anonymous No.12005563]

>>12005552
>Find great writer that you love
>Spend a few minutes a day copying their work into a commonplace book so that you can look back on your favorite sentences and sections that you love

[Anonymous No.12005564]

>>12005552

[Anonymous No.12005707]

>>12005561
>human feelings
>pence reaction image

[Anonymous No.12005719]

>>12005561
>reading a new author
Find out they're fat, religious, or a woman. Hear them out for a chapter or two anyway. Am I wholesome yet, lit?

[Anonymous No.12005726]

>order a book
>ask /lit/ what I'm in for

[Anonymous No.12005735]

>>12005561
>reading a new author
>find out that they're fat, religious, or a woman
>hear them out for a chapter or two anyway.
Am I wholesome yet, anon? I've been working on it.

[Anonymous No.12005779]

>>12005552
>Reading books you don't like so you have something to suggest to friends and family who have different tastes then you

[Anonymous No.12005844]

>having 12 different literary essays on 12 open tabs and flipping between them after each sentence, concocting a synthesis from the resulting wordslush that outshines the theses of all of them combined, is this what it means to be greater than the sum of one's parts?

[Anonymous No.12006097]

>>12005844
Absolutely based and patricianpilled

[Anonymous No.12006182]

>finish book
>look it up on the archive to see what discussions my friends on /lit/ had about it because I have nobody else to talk about books with

[Anonymous No.12006184]

>>12005735
>being religious is a bad thing
epic

[Anonymous No.12006224]

>partake of another tincture of brandy after reading a lustrous poem of the older style

[Anonymous No.12006540]

>>12005552

I approve of your insediate ways, OP. such behavior is truly calentine.

[Anonymous No.12006562]

>read books just to add to goodreads e-peen
>probably don't comprehend as much and only read novellas to pad my read list

[Anonymous No.12006566]

Finding books I read as a kid and sitting on the floor in front of a dusty box leafing through them.

[Anonymous No.12006578]

>>12006540
>insediate
>calentine

did you just made up those words? i can't find them and i need to know

[Anonymous No.12006585]

>>12006578

[Anonymous No.12006597]

>>12006578

They don't mean anything. sorry for trolling you.

> what a calentine thing to do

[Anonymous No.12006614]

>>12005552
Semen conservation and mental chastity.

[Anonymous No.12006740]

>Taking time to digest every bit of information when reading philosophical or esoteric texts; reflecting on what has been learned, preferably in a quiet location in a natural setting
>Not worrying about how fast the reading is accomplished
>Audibly laughing when appropriate; showing true appreciation for the authors absurd situations
>Attempting to empathize with all characters; appreciating the role of the antagonist
>Looking for key universal principals; taking note of the play between archetypes within the story
>Feelings of affection for characters you identify with; appreciate the minute details
>Always having a wide variety of tea in stock for day or night reading, and according to outside weather
>That first musty grimoire sniff of the day
>That bedside edition of LotR in constant rotation

[Anonymous No.12006769]

>>12006614

and the Purity of Essence of our Precious Bodily Fluids.

[Anonymous No.12007564]

>>12006740
>this wholesomeness

[Anonymous No.12007585]

>research the writer's historical background beforehand
>find parallels and inspirations from their period that defined each work

[Anonymous No.12007737]

>feeling down, burnt out failure, lonely loserish
>brew a cup of chamomile, turn all apt. lights off and go to my reading corner (a chair with a lamp beside it)
>fall back into a novel
>suddenly, everything's not quite so bad, actually, there may be something redeeming about this shitfest clownshow that is life
>go to bed with a full heart, the feeling gradually dissipates throughout the next day
>get home, chamomile, book, corner, repeat

[Anonymous No.12007744]

>>12005735
people are people

[Anonymous No.12007786]

>>12006578
lol what a mugwoppin

[Anonymous No.12007790]

>>12006578
They're perfectly cromulent words, anon.

[Anonymous No.12007803]

>>12006578
Clandestine means sucking dick without being caught

[Anonymous No.12007805]

>>12006740
I love these feelings, thanks for listing them out

[Anonymous No.12007814]

>>12005552
>take shy qt bookworm from uni class out to coffee
>she wears an oversized wool sweater and just spends the whole time trying to hold in her spaghetti while fiddling with her hair and rambling on about Shakespeare
>eventually connect and make her more comfortable over our shared interest in Lord Byron and all the comfy nature stuff he writes about

shes so fucking cute you guys

[Anonymous No.12007818]

>>12006182
I always do this, but only because you guys have such unique perspectives on books! :)

[Anonymous No.12007829]

>>12005561
this >>12005707 why would you post a blooddrinking, deceitful, retarded ZOGpuppet politician to express this sentiment?
>>12006184
it is because god isn’t real and religion will never return so you’re just lying to yourself for almost zero mental or social benefits. if god were real it would be blatantly obvious.
>>12006578
it actually is a word in Italian but doesn’t mean anything otherwise
>>12006740
please die

[Anonymous No.12007902]

>>12007829
>Being this unwholesome in the wholesome thread
Zounds.

[Anonymous No.12007924]

>>12007829

In response to:
>>12005561
>>12005552 (OP)
>>reading a new author
>>researching their lives and feeling connection--we're all human

Irony is lost on you isn't it?

[Anonymous No.12007943]

>>12007814
This experience is secretly the only reason I'm going back to uni in january. I feel I've lived a very full life, and courted a fair share of women, but have never been able to discuss a single line of literature with any of them. This is something I need to experience for myself.

[Anonymous No.12007967]

>seeing the eyes of another lit in pure joy
>connecting with a person, fully, even if just for a moment
>helping others for no reason
>being grateful for what you have
>feeling the rain, the sun, the wind or the sea over your body
>experiencing peace, plenitude and compassion, a moment where you feel like you could save everything and everyone, the purest feeling of love for life itself

None of these are truly /lit/, but are what causes me the precious feeling of wholesomeness .

>>12006740
nice.

>>12007814
that's cute, anon. I hope everything goes well for the both of you.

[Anonymous No.12008018]

>>12005552
>read some pleasant description about nature (think the Tao Te Ching or a Robert Frost poem)
>read it at the same moment you're reading outside
>simultaneously experience the lovely aspect of the world the author is describing

nothing better

[Anonymous No.12008397]

>>12005735
the best authors have been fat

[Anonymous No.12008403]

>>12008397
oh yeah, name 25

[Anonymous No.12008548]

>>12006184
It's not a bad thing, you're just stupid.

[Anonymous No.12008557]

>>12008397
Well yeah, most people get that way at some point. If you're there before you're 50 years old though, it's going to be a little more difficult to get me to take you seriously.

[Anonymous No.12009091]

>>12006182
I have no clue why I haven't done this before.

[Anonymous No.12009599]

>>12005552
This is my habit; I find it rewarding but it's not something I do to feel "wholesome" or in pursuit of some idea of wholesomeness, however that may be defined.
It's just best practice for building understanding over one's lifetime.
I suppose one could say that building understanding over one's lifetime is a wholesome pursuit but that is not my personal idea or goal. The learning is its own end.

[Anonymous No.12009614]

>>12006566
Most wholesome ITT
I know that feel.

[Anonymous No.12009636]

>>12005552
>reading book
>come across footnote
>go to back of the book and see that an essay was referenced
>read essay
>return to footnote
>thismakessense.jpg

[Anonymous No.12009661]

>>12007829
>lying to yourself for almost zero mental or social benefits
>behaviors HAVE to be justified by some petty reward
The absolute state of lit

[Anonymous No.12009669]

>>12009599
Wholesome tbqh

[Anonymous No.12009670]

>>12005552

[Anonymous No.12009684]

>take Elementary French 1 because I need a language class for my degree
>get such horrible test anxiety that I fail the exams
>reread Blanchot (in French) to cope with the feels
Am I doing this right?

[Anonymous No.12009716]

>>12005707

[Anonymous No.12010037]

>>12007814
I don't like you. You are experiencing something I have been wanting to for years. Don't let the spaghetti fly anon.

[Anonymous No.12010054]

>>12006740
>reading esoteric texts

[Anonymous No.12010060]

>reading an author whose work is semi-politicized
>do a little research on the historical context for the work and the goings-on of the author's era

[Anonymous No.12010340]

>>12009684
Oui

[Anonymous No.12010346]

>>12009684
Non

[Anonymous No.12010350]

>>12009684
Comci-comca

[Anonymous No.12010425]

>>12009684
Peut-être.

[Anonymous No.12010791]

once yet right with feeling

[Anonymous No.12010880]

>reading book from several hundred years ago
>author lays out faults and virtues of humanity that are true to this day

[Anonymous No.12010903]

>>12005558
>I hate wholesomeness and the people who peddle it
That's wholesomeness for me

[Anonymous No.12010934]

>>12007829
It is blatantly obvious, you absolute beggar of questions

[Anonymous No.12010969]

>>12007814
>never got to talk to a qt about a book

FUUUUUCK

i don’t even want sex just a girl to be happy to see me FUUUCK MY LIFE

[Anonymous No.12010981]

>>12007924
Im sorry there are so many witless newfags here i forgot the nature of this place. A thousand apologies anon
>>12007902
pedo
>>12009661
All behavior is motivated by mechanics and incentives
>>12010934
It is not blatantly obvious because no physicist has ever isolated God substance or indirect evidence of God processes. So, its an artifact of language and introspection.

[Anonymous No.12011240]

>>12010981
Very unwholesome tbqh

[Anonymous No.12011293]

>>12007814
>tfw havent been able to talk to a grill about fiction in 2 years
>tfw havent read a book together with a qt in 3 years, then got together at her dorm room to discuss it and then culminate in a sweaty make-out sesh
>tfw havent trawled through barnes and noble with qt in 3 years
kill me.

[Anonymous No.12011320]

>>12008557
>it's normal to get fat just because you're not a child

the absolute state of amerimutts

[Anonymous No.12011462]

>>12005558
not very wholesome :/

[Anonymous No.12011502]

>>12010981
>no physicist has ever isolated God substance

What is the Higgs Boson, Alex?

[Anonymous No.12011524]

>>12005552
>wholesome
get that stupid npc chit chat out of here

[Anonymous No.12011569]

>>12011502
It's a boson (an elementary particle that doesn't follow the Pauli exclusion principle) that is the quantum of Higgs field, which is the field responsible for the existence of mass. What does any of this have to do with god?

[Anonymous No.12011642]

>>12005563
when I do this, I just feel autistic, not wholesome.

[Anonymous No.12012092]

>>12011502
popsci mouthbreather

[Anonymous No.12012164]

>when ordering books from abebooks I add "very good" to the end for like new quality
>plato complete works very good

[Anonymous No.12012278]

>>12005552
>wholesome
I feel like a retard when I have to do this. I recognize probably about 95% of the words I come across in the texts I read and online ("recognize" as in I know "of" that word and can probably spell it) but find I can define only 70%. I don't know how the fuck my brain managed to retain only half of so many things over the years.

[Anonymous No.12012289]

>>12005558
You are a sad little man, anon. I hope your life gets better.

[Anonymous No.12012292]

>>12012289
>why hurt you

dumb passive agressive roastie poster

[Anonymous No.12012430]

>>12005552
>tfw read everything in iBooks so I can just long press a word and find out what it means instantly

[Anonymous No.12013210]

>>12006740
>fitter, happier, more productive

[Anonymous No.12013364]

>>12010981
Physicality does not presuppose obviousness. When you start taking things for granted, the obvious is just obvious and nothing more, but you'll be fine. We'll all be :)

[Anonymous No.12013378]

>>12012278
I do the same thing. I think it's because most words I know by connotation. Deduce and prescription were recent ones for me

[Anonymous No.12013400]

>>12013210
Edgy 90s bands are not wholesome

[Anonymous No.12013418]

>>12005558
would you rather be essentially inccomplete?

[Anonymous No.12014963]

>>12005558
fpbp
life, like literature, is suffering

[Anonymous No.12015198]

>>12010981
>It is not blatantly obvious because no physicist has ever isolated God substance or indirect evidence of God processes.
Non sequitor desu

[Anonymous No.12015225]

>>12005558
Who hurt you :(

[Anonymous No.12015257]

>>12010981
Why do you assume that anon was referring to God's existence being obvious, rather than another part of your post? Such as the question that you ended with a period?

[Anonymous No.12015281]

>>12015257
Oh, meant to say "the question you asked?" Followed by "Rather than the sentence you ended with a period?"

[Anonymous No.12015302]

>>12007814

This makes me miss my coworker I was talking literature with. I should've tried something, she was great.

[Anonymous No.12015554]

>>12007737
I know that feel

[Anonymous No.12016280]

>>12005735
comfy, patrician AND wholesome

[Anonymous No.12016336]

>>12005558
It's ok anon, life is rough - just let out some of your anger here if it makes you feel better friend.

[Proud Social Justice Warrior !BgjMIiqmkk No.12016403]

>>12005552
Is this really so wholesome? The author wants you to read his book. If there's something he specifically wants you to understand he will have footnotes. You should work with the author and try to grasp the word in its context then contonue reading.

[Anonymous No.12017047]

>>12007814
>>she wears an oversized wool sweater and just spends the whole time trying to hold in her spaghetti while fiddling with her hair and rambling on about Shakespeare
This never happened. What could she have possibly said impromptu about Shakespeare? I'm eager for an example.

[Anonymous No.12017167]

I started going early to bed, sleep for eight hours and wake up at 5am to do yoga and meditate. Then, when I'm all peaceful and calm and the birds are singing at the start of a new day, I sit under the trees and read Plato. Leisurely, taking notes and going over everything I learn. All bad thoughts are swept away by this pure enjoyment, and I go about my day feeling wholesome and comfy, waiting for the next morning when I can hopefully wake up again to the world and have fun reading and learning new things.

[Anonymous No.12017676]

>>12017167
When I try this I just wake up and instantly remember who I am and it ruins my entire day.

[Anonymous No.12017703]

>>12005552
Very copacetic of you.

[Anonymous No.12017725]

>>12005552
>look them up in a physical dictionary

ftfy

[Anonymous No.12017772]

>>12016403
>You should work with the author and try to grasp the word in its context then contonue reading.
This is something you learn to do in school because its a useful skill, but there's no reason not to actually look up a word when you the ability and time to do so. You're making up a dichotomy that doesn't exist outside of school exams.

[Anonymous No.12017776]

>>12016403
>If there's something he specifically wants you to understand he will have footnotes.
Or maybe he'd choose a particular word and assume that the reader will know what it means, or at least take a moment to learn.

[Anonymous No.12018121]

>>12006740
based af
I only ever accomplish some of those feels for a single book, never all at the same time

[Anonymous No.12018138]

>>12013400
>t. Oasis
Everyone who doesn’t listen to radiohead is an NPC

[Anonymous No.12018395]

>>12007737
>TFW you are a rat in a cage
>but at least there's running water

[Anonymous No.12018399]

>>12017047
>t. has never talked to normalfags who are into literature
Shakespeare is basically the universal way of saying "Why yes I too am a serious book reader." without actually saying it.
Everyone's read at least one piece of Shakespeare, if not more.

[Anonymous No.12018423]

>>12005558
it must be a pleasant life you live.

[Anonymous No.12018498]

>>12018138
That’s the most /mu/-drone opinion imaginable

[Anonymous No.12018527]

>>12018138
>hurr I like the sound of grinding tin-foil and grown men crying

[Anonymous No.12019014]

>>12007967
The most joy I get is when I imagine the whole world burning, usually at the feet of demon-like looking pure platinum made AI war-machines - that constantly reshape what's left from the ashes a rational-mechanistic society.

When I was young and had no such concepts it was just me manipulating fire, burning everything down - even becoming fire - then going back to normal... really wholesome experience.

[Anonymous No.12019026]

>>12018399
Everyone reads Shakespeare, 99.9% of people have nothing to say about it beyond "the one play I read is my favorite!". Not an example.

[Anonymous No.12019034]

>>12005558
i appreciate genuine wholesomeness but whatever these idiot reddit chuckle fucks are doing, it isn't.

[a_poor_sinner !!eiHxl4pZe1i No.12019058]

>>12017047
Could've been anything, ya silly git. One of my favs is Friar Laurence: Be plain, my son, and homely in thy drift. Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

She could have picked up on a word like drift, and its contemporary usage, then (as anon said) just ramble and gush absent-mindedly. It's not about actual criticism, just an attempt at building a rapport.

[Anonymous No.12019082]

>>12019026
This is why I instantly disregard anyone who says Macbeth or Romeo & Juliet are their favorite, given they're both mandatory reading here in high school.