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13163741 No.13163741 [Reply] [Original]

Tell me about a time you were lit in public

>> No.13163933

>>13163741
based

>> No.13164054

>>13163741
how can a man be this based?

>> No.13164165

>>13163741
I've once read reading Haruki Murakami in school at the age of 13. Kids laughed at me.

>> No.13164190

>>13163741
>read House of Leaves on field trip
>Everybody gets assmad about it
>I get assmad about it

Now I read at home

>> No.13164226

>>13163741
I unironically got beat up for 'reading' in fourth grade
>it was fucking harry potter

>> No.13164256

I was reading Pet Sematary in fifth grade and my English teacher told me I would be better off reading that book in five years

>> No.13164347

I used it live in Cambridge UK. I was reading lovecraft on a park bench when a guy in nazi uniform sat next to me and started talking about aeroplanes and generally speaking in an embarrassing melodramatic way. I left after a minute or so and he shouted after me in fake German. I later heard he was arrested for mowing a swastika into his front lawn (lol) and was a notorious weirdo, quite sad really since he was clearly unwell.

>> No.13164353

>>13164347
>was arrested for mowing a swastika into his front lawn
home of the brit, land of the bong

>> No.13164362

>>13163741
I was once beaten up by classmates in an argument about who was the greatest English poet. My mates were pretending that rhymester Tennyson deserved that title, I angered them by refusing to stop defending Byron.

Wa a tough moment but I'm glad I held to my taste.

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>mandatory Military Service
>my Unit has 42 Guys, only 3 (including me) have HS diploma
>4months in, Waiting around in a bumfuck field
>Reading some greek Classic
>pocketbook Company (pic related is style for every book) is very cheap and famously used in schools and by litfags
>drill instructor comes over and tries one last time to build some kind of rapport
>"oh for the HS diploma, eh? yeah these can be boring.."
>"no sir, I'm reading it for fun"
>he turns away with a disgusted grunt and I wind up getting even more weekend shifts

>> No.13164436

I remember reading the anti-christ by Nietzsche in 6th form and my politics teacher mocking me for reading trashy horror novels in front of a lot of other students. I thought it was odd that a politics teacher didn't recognise the book. It really upset me at the time for some reason

>> No.13164441

>>13164165
>reading murakami at 13
bit old for that don't you think?

>> No.13164469

>>13164347
Audibly laughed.

>> No.13164691

>>13163741
I once read a book called The Turner Diaries and then was accused of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City. When the federal prosecutors hauled me in for questioning, I told them that the novel was, "trite, amateurish, and derivative," so they let me go.

>> No.13166171

>>13164362
it was a mean thing of them to do, wasn't it?

>> No.13166201

>>13164226
I hope you learned your lesson nerd.

>>13163741
If I saw someone reading in public I would smack the book out of their hand and punch them in the nutsack

>> No.13166227

>>13164226
I got bullied for reading Warriors in middle school. One of the kids took my book and hid it somewhere. Never found it. I just wanted to find out what was going to happen next to the cat tribes

>> No.13166229

>>13163741
Once I was on a first date and the girl "went to the bathroom" and never came back because I wouldn't stop talking about Walden and how I want to live in a cabin.

>> No.13166245

>>13166229
If she doesn't love Walden, you're better off anyways

>> No.13166257

>>13163741
I once got into a drunken argument with this guy cause he claimed that Moby Dick was awful. All I remember is that I was too drunk to say anything very coherent and the other guy said that Moby Dick (as well as all classic literature) is racist and thought Ishmael was the captain of the pequod.

>> No.13166820

>>13164362
based

>> No.13167008

>>13164362
Were Irish secondary schools really once like this? Everybody in that scene seems so educated and smart.

>> No.13167013

once had a date at a public library.
we got into conversation cross referencing adorno, debord, mcluhan and neil postman

>> No.13167044

>>13163741
Me and a good friend of mine had a discussion concerning Pain, and the metaphysics of it, and if it should be overcome or evaded.
He vehemently held onto the position that pain, should be evaded.
The argument spiraled and we both started beating eachother.
I think i won the argument concerning he did not try to evade pain, and instead caused it :)

>> No.13167146

Hmm, why do some people get so angry at other people reading?

I also don't read so much in public anymore because it always feels like im doing something wrong, when swiping on your smarphone would be the normal way to spend time alone.

>> No.13167162

>>13166229
based. you sound like a cool guy anon

>> No.13167219

I read Uncle Toms Cabin in 6th grade for a book report because I thought the Warrant song was super cool, and was upset when my teacher said "are you sure you dont want to pick something shorter?"

>> No.13167323

When my high school young and ugly female litterature teacher borrowed some Michel Houellebecq poetries to the virgin I was.

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13167415

My boss was making fun of Indian people and how they say "the needful" all the time, and I said "oh hey, I'm reading King Lear and that phrase just came up"

They then proceeded to make fun of that for about 3 minutes for some reason

>> No.13167493

I was quite ill one day, and in my high school english class we were discussing the end of As I Lay Dying. Specifically the scene where they get to the city and it describes their arrival as "an ejaculation" of somesort. I tried to hold back my teenage laughter, but I was too sick. I laughed for a moment or two and was asked to leave the classroom. :\

>> No.13167647

>>13167146
I read on my smartphone and make sure no one is behind me so people think I'm scrolling through Instagram.

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>>13163741
I was waiting at the endoscopy clinic this morning to drive my dad home and was reading plato's five dialogues when some old dude said he was glad I was reading unlike some of these younger kids. Fucking boomers need to leave me alone if you haven't read Plato

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13167760

Was working construction one summer in the deep south. On breaks in/outside our slave hut I would read Paradise Lost. One coworker asked me about what I was reading and why > He proceeded to chide me for having an interest non canonical religious texts. Said all the answers I need were in the Bible.

>> No.13167797

>>13167008
Joyce attended and wrote about Clongowes, a presigious private school. I very much doubt students were so educated everywhere in Ireland.

>> No.13167825

>>13167760
That's protestants in the deep south for you. They think they know all the answers.

>> No.13167839

>>13164395
underrated

>> No.13167847

was reading this horrible pop-math book Music of the Primes on a field trip bus in HS and someone next to me looked and said Anon is reading about maths! and everyone behind me started bothering me about it and laughing. i finished it

>> No.13167853

>>13164362
U think you’re clever or something

>> No.13167875

>>13164362
same but with Pope

>> No.13168679

Bump

>> No.13169253

How do you become a murder suspect by reading a book in your car? I don't get it

>> No.13169278

had to buy Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch because a girl in a bookshop handed it to me and told me to read it; three years later and that bloated John Green tier tome is still clogging up my shelf

>> No.13169320

>>13166227
shit dude that sucks. especially since you had the ONLY EXISTING COPY of that book.

>> No.13169345

>>13169253
Maybe he skipped school around the same time the murder happened

>> No.13169351

>>13169253
retard

>> No.13169366

>>13163741
/lit/ is public

>> No.13169369

>>13163741
finished less than zero on vacation and chucked it into the trash when i was done. at least i finished it

>> No.13169393

>>13169253
He was gone for three hours with no one knowing where he was, probably at the same time a murder was committed, and no alibi to prove his innocence.

>> No.13169408

>>13169393
>>13169345
I took it that during those three hours a murder occured in the same forest and people saw his car standing there

>> No.13169414

>>13167847
Holy fuck I read that exact book in high school too while sitting alone during lunch. No one ever made fun of me for it though.

>> No.13169472

>>13163741
When I worked in a department store where banter was almost nonstop, I fell into a conversation with a customer who had also read the Harper Dictionary Of Contemporary Usage from cover to cover at least 3 times, and we had a little chat about the loss in precision to modifiers, the tendency of close ones to be lumped into exact synonyms, and the importance of connotation to irony.

>> No.13169877

>>13167691
>reading plato when people are taking stuff up the ass in the next room

>> No.13169983

i almost wrote a paper on totalitarianism in the tundra for postmodern literature.

>> No.13170369

>>13164362
They were right.

>> No.13170386

>>13167219
Did he also say with less use of the word nogger?

>> No.13170387

>>13164226
You must have gone to a predominately black or mexican school.

>> No.13170576
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13170576

>>13164395
A lot of people passed books around in my division, but we were all navy nukes so the environment was different I'm sure.
pic related should be required reading for anyone deployed.

>> No.13170606

>>13163741
My friend's kids repeatedly called me a nerd because I was reading some generic fantasy shit at a wedding

>> No.13170620

>>13170606
Even he knows only faggots read fantasy, he’s probably reading Hegel already

>> No.13170649

>>13164226
>harry potter
deserved it

>> No.13170661

>>13164441
Underrated comment

>> No.13170670

>>13164226
we were just trying to deter you from shit books

>> No.13170934

>>13166245
Or she knew that Thoreau was a pseud and a poser

>> No.13171778

gifted my ap lit teacher a copy of how to read and why and was given detention

>> No.13171812

During law school graduation practice (where they tell you where to go and what line to be in) I brought a book because I wanted to finish it (like 40 pages left) and I knew there would be lots of waiting. I know most of the 300 people I was graduating with and have spent the last 3 years with them. I was tired of the "oh boy you read for the bar? DID YOU PARTY HARD?" questions and shallow conversations. So I brought a book. I got:
>Anon, you tryin' to make us look bad?
>Of course Anon is reading a fuckin' book
>Oh shit Anon, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
>Anon what are you reading!
>Anon I don't know how you make the time for books!

>> No.13171866

>>13171812
weird flex but okay

>> No.13171885

>>13171812
your classmates sound pretty affable. lawyers are based

>> No.13171930

>>13167044
Junger is so fucking based

>> No.13171960

>>13171812
To be fair, you sound like a real cocksucker Anon.

>> No.13172018

I used to work in a boring candy shop that had huge bay windows. At the time I was reading infinite jest regularly during every shift. One day a girl saw me reading it and walked in just to ask for my number. Been a DFW ever since.

>> No.13172033

>>13170576
unironically based. a shame most people deployed are retards

>> No.13172045

was reading a derrida book in a cafe when a nice young woman asked me how i liked it. she was reading the sixth extinction by elizabeth kolbert. we talked about our book choices and i discovered that she was a science writer, focus on parasitology and climate change. great conversation, then she gave me her number. the end.

>> No.13172053

>>13170387
correct, everyone here is American

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13172057

Where else can one be reading something deep, look up from the page to contemplate and see some magnificent booty walk by?

I should be so lucky to have that at home

>> No.13172059

>>13172045
Why didn't you call her?

>> No.13172062

>>13167760
>>13167825

not just protestant cucks in the south, muslims cucks in the middle east will flat out tell you that you're wasting your time reading something that isn't the quran. hell, they'll argue that what you're reading is found in the quran

>> No.13172085

>>13172059

i did, but i was on vacation and left the next day. we talk but won't be able to meet up until september when i'm back in that city for a conference

>> No.13172103

>>13164395
ayy, I'm planning to do a year of FWD by the Gebirgsjäger. Am I going to get made fun of for reading during free time?

>> No.13172105

>>13164362
And no mention of Shelley, I assume? How anyone could defend the sillyheaded old-soul Tennyson, or great faggot Byron, having read Shelley, is beyond my understanding.

>> No.13172133

>>13164190
>>13164226
>>13164256
>>13164395
>>13164436
>>13166227
>>13167146
>>13167415
>>13167847
Why is anti-intellectualism so popular with normies? Like, why to so many people get ass-blasted when someone else enjoys anything artistic? What is the fucking point?

>> No.13172136

>>13172133
They know not what they do

>> No.13172148

>>13163741
I read Wittgenstein when I was 15 and my teacher said to me "Doing some light reading?"

>> No.13172174

>>13166229
kek

>> No.13172186

>>13166229
I've definitely unintentionally weirded girls out by talking about my desire to move to the woods or run away from society
I mean I'm always joking (mostly) but with the wrong girl I guess it gives off crazy vibes

>> No.13172190

>>13164226
Did it help you self-insert as Harry?

>> No.13172195

>>13172062
Slightly more well-read will say Al-Ghazali "proved it." Not well-read enough to have actually read even the incoherence.

>> No.13172214

>>13164347
>clearly unwell
Sounds like he was actually doing too well for others to handle.

>> No.13172224

>>13172186
chicks go for legit psycho crazy vibes, you just want to avoid the very specific autistic crazy sort of vibe.

>> No.13172235

>>13170661
Go back to your shithole, faggot. No need to "upbote" here, and they are not "comments" you fucking idiot, they are POSTS.

>> No.13172237

>>13172224
girls like divine madness, but they don't like it when it's not posed in a sexual frame.

>> No.13172244

>>13172133
Crab mentality.

>> No.13172270

I would always tell my friends how great The Catcher in the Rye was, and how it’s the greatest work of the 20th Century.

>> No.13172284

I said some autistic stuff in freshmen HS English I thought was smart about how people are inherently selfish or whatever as part of a getting to know your fellow students type of exercise and the teacher told me to read Ayn Rand

>> No.13172292

>>13169983
More like: "i did not write a paper on totalitarianism in the tundra for postmodern literature."

>> No.13172331

was reading Only Revolutions in public. got stared at like I was insane as I repeatedly flipped the book over. nobody confronted me, but I'm never doing that again

>> No.13172351

>>13166229
a powerful thot filter.

>> No.13172356

>>13167797
Focking Clongowes, shower of focking wankers. Prestigious my orse! Castleknock, now that is a focking school.

>> No.13172504

>>13172292
I didn't want to all my sources for context to be "my ass" and "random screen cap," and any secondary sources about chan culture I found were either completely wrong or didn't portain to /lit/

>> No.13172686

Me and my 2 HS buddies would write poems, /lit/ criticism of eachother's works, plays, draw, create pseudonyms, even had small /lit/ groups with other people who wanted to mess around creatively, was pure unleashed ADHD overloaded with irony because wtf do kids know about emotions? It was all for the lulz. We did it during classes that were either boring or where the teacher had 0 authority = chaos.

So I had just finished the 3rd part of my cycle of hexametricwhatever epic poem of the "The Knights with Illuminated Swords Crusade" or smth like that. We always wrote in our native tongue. This was during an English language class.

So, in the middle of the lesson comes our German language teacher into the classroom with an announcement: smth about re-scheduling our exam and asking us when do we want it. The whole thing was a mess, every date was just shit because we had other exams as well. Some preferred x, some y, some z.

So, during the whole class fighting about dates and shouting at eachother I stood up, yelled at asking them to shut up, even the teachers, because I must announce something: I have a solution. I told them I'd read them a poem about it. So I pulled out my manuscript about the fucking bright Knights with Illuminated Swords crusade in Jerusalem and read the whole thing, totally unrelated to the topic at hand. Took me almost 10 minutes. It was quiet the whole time, I have no fucking idea what went through their minds. Then I sat down and carried on editing or writing it further or just abandoning for the next creative impuls as kids do. Kek'd hard with my friends afterwards.

>> No.13172695

>>13172686
This is the level of edgy cringe that I love. Me and my friends were a lot like that in HS as well.

>> No.13172713

>>13164362
I'm disappointed none of you fags could recognize the objective superiority of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

>> No.13172851

>>13172695
that state of mind tasted like freedom tho :)

>> No.13172901

>>13172686
this is autistic but in the good way, so chaotically creative social norms are just something to be bent to the urges of the working mind in their pursuit of perfection

love it anon

>> No.13172945

>>13163741
That's pretty damn funny even though it must have been stressful at the time.

The most /lit/ thing I've ever done in public would probably be that I worked on some stories on a computer in school that I would ultimately self-publish or in other cases attempt traditional publication with. This was recent, while in my late 20s. Not in high school.

Also, in the same school, I've spoken about my self-published books to people and one instance comes to mind that was pretty funny. I was talking about a part in Firearm Valhalla (dedicated it to /k/) where the protagonist ends up reunited with his wife whom he thought was dead. She's heavily pregnant though it's unclear whether it's his or the antagonist's. They had a very small child, a wee baby, at the time when he thought she'd died. I recall the fate of the baby itself being unclear. Anyways, in this reunion, they are seemingly unarmed and at the mercy of Boss, whom is the antagonist.

So I'm telling a friend of mine at school about how the big Texan fellow, the 'bad guy', is insulted somehow by one of the 'good guys' before him meanwhile there's a couple armed guards nearby to help Boss. One of the guards motions to ram the butt of their firearm against the kneeling person's head, but Boss stops them. Says something like "this lovely family reunion isn't quite complete yet, is it?" The wife is emotional struck instantly in spite of her fiery temper, muttering "please, no" or something like that. The Texan takes a soft cloth bag out from his desk, which is what they're kneeling in front of, and empties it onto the surface. A pathetic little skull, the skull of a small child, clacks down into view.

At the mention of this my friend's eyes widen, and another friend towards the front of the class, dutifully working on his science stuff, stops and looks back. "You wrote that?"

"Yeah, pretty intense stuff, eh?"

"I was writing my chemistry bullshit down and then I was like '... skull... what, skull?'"

"You mean you wrote it down on your work?" I was beginning to laugh at that point.

"Well I've already erased it but yeah, I wrote that down!" I laughed out loud by that point. The teacher wasn't in that day, his father has been having severe health issues, sometimes getting better and other times getting worse. We were the only 3 in class as I recall. On the last day I was there, I gave that initial friend one of my paperback books for free. He seems very appreciative and told me that he's begun reading it, looking forward to his feedback.

>> No.13172948

>>13164226
Better than being ironically beat up. That hurts you on the inside.

>> No.13172963

>>13172085
why did you say the end then?

>> No.13172971

>>13172103
Yes

>> No.13173006

>>13172686
based, this is the only good use for literature anyway

>> No.13173804

>>13172045
Idiot, should've called her

>> No.13173820

>>13173804
who says he didn't? are you perhaps projecting your own failures were you to be in such a situation?

>> No.13173909

>>13163741
One summer in college I was failing a Calculus III class and 3/4 of the way through decided to skip class every day to park my car in a random parking lot and read Infinite Jest. I did this instead of just staying home because I was living with my parents and mom would freak. It was a 3 hour class so I would often get worried that I would be approached by a police officer/business owner for loitering or whatever and would move my car to a different parking lot every hour.

>> No.13173947

>>13173909

Yeah I did this too. Found out there was no way I could salvage my grade in an intro set theory class (bona fide retard, yes) and so I went to a park and read whenever I was supposed to be in that class. Can't remember what I read, though; might've been Werther, which would've been apt around that time.

>> No.13173981

>>13170934
Kys

>> No.13174440

>>13169877
Hearty kek

>> No.13174445

>>13173820
I took the 'the end' as that's where their relationship ended

>> No.13174509

>>13172945
cringe

>> No.13174572

>>13172686
You're probably the only /lit/ person here

One year in highschool, for the last month, I was the only person in my class because everyone else either graduated or ditched everyday. That whole month consisted of me just reading lit with teachers occasionally poking in to look for my teacher only to find just some scrawny white kid reading in a completely empty room.

>> No.13174600

>>13169366
das it mane

>> No.13174635

>>13163741
I was discussing dostoevskij with this other kid in highschool . (Basically we were the only two people that borrowed books from the school library).
We argued which of is novels was the best.
I claimed it was The Idiot, he insisted on Crime and Punishment.
The argument was getting pretty heated, and when I thought I got the upper hand, the janitor showed up and got us agreeing that Brothers Karamazov is actually the best.
She was one good ol' lady.

>> No.13174705

>>13163741
i eat exclusively at the library hot dog stand
>mfw they run out of pickled relish

>> No.13174720

>>13164691
smiled

>> No.13174741

>>13172105
>misses the reference entirely
>larp

>> No.13174747

>>13172133
because 90% of this board is middle class. they be conditioned n shit.!

>> No.13174807

>>13163741
people wanted to talk about it

but you held up a hand telling them it was not their business

so they made their own version of me

I'll never forget that.

In that spirit, in honor of the man who touched my own life with his own unique personality, I hope to reflect back on this year and the year that made me come forward to say that I never said a bad word in regards to you, to all the men who worked for me to protect both the girls and myself from harm, to our family, friends and our team.

So now that 2017 is now upon us, let's share on Twitter, Facebook and email all who you know who've been through the same. It's just that time again. We're ready to heal.

Hair: Naughty Girl's Vicky Jankowiak

Gore: Cocksucker Girl

J.O.H.: Cuckold

Troy: I Got Love

Nasty Black: You Gave Me Love

Hair: Cocksucker Girl's Dasha Dixon

Gore: Big Sexy Cock

>> No.13175696

>>13163741
Some qt asked me the time and I said "How should I know, I'm not your Ocarina of time"

>> No.13176043

>>13172133
Because if people see someone engaging with something considered "intellectual" they will by nature compare it to their own means of entertainment (netflix, tv, sports, video games most commonly) and will feel ashamed. Rather then "improving" oneself by changing their leisure habits to something more productive they use sheer numbers and social conditioning to sequester the "intellectual" altogether or attempt to marginalize them until they abandon their intellectual pursuits and conform to the low-brow norm.

Same thing happens when one member of a fat group of friends tries to lose weight and the others do everything in their power to reel them back in to avoid feeling guilty about their life choices. Same thing happens when a black man coming from a rough neighborhood decides to take school seriously instead of being a gangbanger.

>> No.13176099

>>13163741
sexually harassed a woman for reading kurt vonnegut and then accidentally wiped my ass with one of my copies of ulysses.

>> No.13176128

>>13164436
he knew.

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>>13164395
Shit like this always get me why is it so hard for some people to accept you like different things than them? Why do they act like you're mentally ill for it? I notice it's almost either boomers or just complete fucking retards that do it god I fucking hate boomers so much

>> No.13176165

After my friends started bullying me I started sitting alone in school and reading lots and psycho it was alright actually people at that school were nice to me for some reason even though I was a bit of an autist

>> No.13176193

I didn't have sex

>> No.13176283

>>13172235
just like pottery
found the newfag

>> No.13176299

>>13163741
The summer after high school, I unironically spent every day reading IJ at my friend's house while a bunch of kids from our school partied around me. I miss being a young pseud.

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>>13163741
Was reading some obscure French horror author and my teacher asked me what it was.

Said “you wouldn’t know”
“Lol try me”

Cue to me showing her the title, “Oh I don’t know that.”

I wasn’t even being pretentious the book was super obscure.

>> No.13176361

>>13172686
This didn’t happen faggot.

>> No.13176379

>>13172945
Based autistic Amazon poster

>> No.13176527

>>13163741
During the course of my gf's birthday, I commented on her father's bookshelf and he and I started going back and forth on Gibbon's Decline and Fall. My gf got really annoyed and dug her finger nails into my arm until I stopped.

>> No.13176616

>>13169369
>finishing books that you don't like and aren't of particular literary merit
why would you do that to yourself? how satisfying was it to throw the book away?

>> No.13176639

>>13163741
not really public but some poor sap had to experience my autism
>10th grade standardized english test
>write one of the essays as an epic poem in iambic tetrameter

>> No.13177476

>>13164226
Well, did you learn? I'm 31 and I still beat up 4th graders who read Harry Potter

>> No.13177506

>>13172057
She needs insemination...

>> No.13177630

>>13176043
crabs in a basket.

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>fourth grade
>lunch time
>reading goosebumps
>girl from my class sits near me
>calls me a nerd
what the heck, sierra

>> No.13177680

>>13166227
based bully. warriors books are the lowest possible tier, he did you a favor.

>> No.13177686

>>13171778
Legend

>> No.13177703

>>13172018
I'm beginning to think IJ is a /lit/ chick magnet, I had a similar experience

Any anons know why? Because I don't.

>> No.13177859

>>13177673
based goosebumps reader. classic or choose your own adventure?

>> No.13177873

>>13172057
Source on this Jizz-Jenie?

>> No.13177926

>>13177859
classic

>> No.13177956

>>13172057
Sauce nao

>> No.13177963

>>13164226
The chad Tolkien fanboy vs the virgin HP reader

>> No.13178109

I got addicted to pain medication, became 125 lbs at 6'0 and was caught lying down reading The Picture of Dorian Gray at work. I got an effay gf out of it.

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>>13172948
underrated comment

>> No.13178463

>>13176128
Maybe. I don't understand why an educator would be such a dick about something like that

>> No.13178478
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13178478

Spent a solid hour talking about Mishima, Dazai, and the rest of the lads while out with a chick I met through Bumble. To my surprise, she was familiar with every author I brought up.

She later downed a bottle of whiskey and tried to commit suicide in front of me.

I'll never forget the night I got out-/lit/-ed.

>> No.13178483

>>13164226
Guess they really did stretch your legs, huh.

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>>13163741
>last year of high school
>already knew I was going to be studying philosophy
>after school you're forced to sit for two hours in a room with other students in the library (if your parents signed you up)
>meant for you to study or do homework directly after school so you don't procrastinate
>I started reading entry level philosophy stuff because it interested me
>teacher told me to put it away, "no books other than school books allowed", do your homework
>tfw

>> No.13178523

>>13176527
>dug her finger nails into my arm until I stopped
that's not adult behavior. I hope it was when you were a teenager.

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>Be 11 or something
>Dad gives me Clan of the Cave Bear to read
>Mostly read at night before bed
>Leave book on bedside table
>Parent's friends come over for lunch
>We're sitting around table, eating and talking
>Mom's friend goes to bathroom
>Comes back holding my book
>Anon, are you reading this?
>Yeah, for a few weeks now. I like it
>Anon, this is a pretty grown up book! I'm impressed.
>Dad says he gave it to me because I read so much
>I can tell he's proud of me
>Adults talk about children reading big books
>Mom's friend keeps saying how impressed she is and how mature I must be
>Has her arm around my shoulders for the rest of lunch
>mfw

>> No.13178613 [DELETED] 

>>13178604
Yeah we don't really like OLDER, older women, man. You might like that. But that's because you are a loser.

For instance, that's the reason I was so hung up on BF's age. I'm interested in this blonde, 30 yr old. Or maybe a black girl in her mid 30s. They are both interested in me. But if you go too far you get desperate, not impressive.

:3

>> No.13178652

>>13164362
Based Stephen Dedalus poster

>> No.13178656

>>13170606
why were you reading at a wedding?

>> No.13178796

I recited some of Moby-Dick to my gf while we were naked together in bed. I probably sounded super autistic but she said she liked the sound of my voice and thought the prose was great.

>> No.13178836

>>13172133
>normies
uh-oh

>> No.13178841

>>13176349
Name of the author ?

>> No.13178850

>>13174635
baste if true
>>13178478
was she qt

>> No.13178857

when i was a wee lad in 1st grade we had these things called AR (accelerated reading) tests which were basically multiple choice book reports you did on the computer. there was a program that had a few hundred tests on books young kids might read and we got class credit for scoring well on them. i did a lot of them and ended up just doing as many tests as i could, even for books i hadn't read. the questions were so simplistic it was very easy to game the system so i ended up acing most of them.

also when i was in 6th grade the class was studying some YA book i had already read so the teacher let me fuck off in the corner and write whatever shitty novel i was working on at the time as long as i did all the classwork. i was kind of a precocious little bastard

>> No.13178910

>>13172133
because you're a nerd!

>> No.13178935

>>13164395
>Mandatory military service
I thought Germany doesn't have that anymore, when did this happen?

>> No.13178951

>>13176379
That seems, perhaps unfortunately, to be an accurate statement. I sometimes wonder if I'm a literal autist, could just be OCD-like elements of my character. I found it amusing though, how that initial friend had his eyes widen when I mentioned the baby's skull and then the other friend's reaction was very funny. We all had a laugh as I recall.

>> No.13178988

>>13178490
This calls for Tom edit.

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>>13178604
>Clan of the Cave Bear
You were reading smut, anon. Smut for older women!

>> No.13179207

>>13178841
Did some research and it’s Sheridan Le Fanu’sn”In a Glass Darkly”

>> No.13179218

>>13178997
No, you are thinking of "Bear," by Marian Engel. This is "Clan of the Cave Bear," by Jean Auel.

>> No.13179281

>>13178857
ah shit, accelerated reading brings back memories. just curious, how old are you? I'm 24 and i think i was somewhere in the early days of the program

>> No.13179297

>>13172057
SAUCE ME
SAUCE ME
SAUCE ME

>> No.13179298

>>13167875
You unironically deserved to be beaten up and I hope you have become b+rp as a consequence and seen the error of your old ways.

>> No.13179447

>>13164226
>be fourth grade
>be reading instead of listening to the teacher
>high-and-mighty good girl of the class tells me to pay attention and attempts to wrestle novel from me
>hit her in the face with said book, got left alone after that

>> No.13179651

>>13179218
Oh no, anon. I know what I meant. The further that series of books went, the more smut-focused it became.

>> No.13179670

>>13172133
It's envy, they feel inferior because they've tried and failed to enjoy literature.

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13179737

>In high school
>Teacher is a basic-bitch "anti-authority" person who made us read Orwell but doesn't hold any of the ethics or convictions
>Sandy Hook happens
>Teacher immediately shows true colors, goes on pro-gun-control tangents for weeks
>Teaches us that 1984 was somehow pro-gun-control, because of some bs about how the NRA is "Subverting democracy and therefore against liberty"
>Thoroughly fed-up at this point, and drawing upon my reading of Hoppe, I ask him how he can defend democracy at the cost of losing liberty, and prioritize democracy over freedom
>He says something along the lines of "democracy and freedom are the same thing, so more democracy is more freedom"
>mfw

>> No.13179751

>>13178796
This kind of thing only comes off as autistic when put in a 4chan post, IRL its Chad-tier romancing

>> No.13179757

>>13178857
AR and associated shit killed reading for me for a long time. I moved to a new school that had it and they put me in the default retard level and I was not allowed to check out books above my level. So I was forced to either read a ton of schlock to move up so I just gave up for a while. I never thought to just game it because I was so frustrated it even existed in the first place. Stupidest system I've ever seen.

>> No.13179815

>>13173981
t. ignoramus

>> No.13179824

>>13179737
actualy cringe

>> No.13179951

>>13169278
>Clogging up my shelf
There are still wordsmiths on /lit/.

>> No.13179957

I usually wore my hair up in fancy styles and dressed eloquently in high school, but I realized one day my teachers looked at me funny because I was also reading Lolita. I stopped bringing it to school to read after that.
I dress very much like a masculine lesbian now.

>> No.13180002

I was afraid to read the word "killed" out loud in my kindergarten reading placement test because I thought it was a bad word so I pretended I couldn't read it and got put down a level.

>> No.13180037

When I was a wagie, I argued with a customer who was trying to find a DVD copy of Frankenstein to keep her son from having to read it for high school.

>> No.13180327

>>13180037
What kind of retarded american woman goes out of her way to prevent her child from getting educated?

>> No.13180614

>>13180327
I'm not a woman, nor the person you replied to, but I fully intend to at least attempt home-schooling for my future kids. I don't want them getting indoctrinated by toxic leftism and promotions of feminism when we're still dealing with the ramifications of the 2nd wave without actually working towards fixing them.

>> No.13180623

>>13180614
>being homeschooled by a 4channeleler

>> No.13180720

>>13178935
i think it was abolished like 5years ago. in austria it still is mandatory, although you can do civic duty instead. while i was doing mine i was relocated after a few weeks because my supervisor did not like the fact that i spent most of the downtime (80% of the time there) reading.

>> No.13180814

>>13178935
it used to be mandatory until approx 10 years ago

>> No.13180840

>>13169472
>exact synonyms
don't exist, fight me

>> No.13180851

>>13180614
>future kids
>you will ever reproduce

>> No.13180878

>>13172057
Come on, man...
DON'T BE GREEDY
Give us the SAUCE

>> No.13181101

>>13172148
Did you tell him not to let the book's weight deceive him as to its contents' weightiness?

>> No.13181117

I once discussed Joyce at a pub with a triple doctorate Oxford prof

>> No.13181176

>>13172133
They don't know why. 99% of them are unthinkingly copying the behavior of psychos.

>> No.13181385

>>13172133
It's also unpopular on the internet. Try saying "I read to become more of an intellectual." on /lit/

>> No.13181413

>>13163741
so this one time i was out with my bros at a bar in southie and my boy is mackin on this girl right. he was strikin out and this ponytail fag comes up and starts reciting textbooks and shit. my bro is stunned and doesn't know what to say. i step up. expose his pseud book-quoting pickup game for the sham that it is. soft cunt never knew what hit him. i embarrassed the fuck out of this nerd in front of some girls and go back to havin beers.

later the girl comes up to me and gives me her numbah. might call her.

>> No.13181433

>>13163741
i skipped school once to go to some park to read and smoke cause i was a tryhard.
some girl approached me and we ended up spending the morning together, then she had to get back home in the afternoon.
she asked for my e-mail and said she'd like to meet me again.
she never wrote.

>> No.13181440

Some Middle Eastern lady approached me when I was reading Murakami to talk about how her family was all dying in wars or something

>> No.13181474

>>13172057
I would love some Thicc sauce on my wiener, sir

>> No.13181494

>>13181433
It is the males that must pursue the females, not the other way around. If she has to make all the moves, her self-worth will decline and the foundations of your relationship would be less ideal in her mind. You should have asked for her email, and took the initiative by emailing. I think things would have gone differently then. Women are the selective component of reproduction, outside of rape incidents. That doesn't mean that they select the person and pursue them, but must select which man they ultimately give in to when being pursued.

The man she will allow to take her out for a meal, the man she'll allow her time to, and if she likes him enough and his advances are done properly, then she will allow her legs to be opened by him (or simply open them herself for them). Women tend to be hypergamist as well and so looks aren't nearly as important with women as with men, though then men are essentially hardwired to have as many sexual partners as possible so many men will readily go for an ugly chick, especially if he's low on the socioeconomic hierarchy and so the low-quality women are the only ones he have any chance with.

I'm not saying that women must be held aloft and some kind of idol, like some pathetic white knight, but this is simply how I view the psychology of human courtship. The man is the hunter, the woman the prey, and the women want to feel like a prey worth hunting. If they see a very successful man actively pursuing them, they love it, but of course if men they actively don't want are making passes then they get insulted because it makes them feel cheap. To be advanced upon by a poorly dressed, somewhat dirty-looking and likely broke fellow, it's like standing up on stage before an auction expecting the first bid to be in the thousands at least but it ends up being only $20 with very small and incremental increases from there.

The psychological differences between the two genders are fascinating.

>> No.13181530

>>13181494
based and redpilled and too reasonable for /lit/ normies to handle

>> No.13181567

>>13181494
that all doesn't seem worth it for some roasty to be honest

>> No.13181587

>>13172133

Because america. In Europe if you do intellectual things it most probably means you're from a rich background. People get bullied for being ugly or not good at sports or weird, but if you read and are averagely sociable people won't make fun of you for liking artistic stuff.

>> No.13181594

>>13172686

Post the poem

>> No.13181605

>>13164362

based stephenposter

>> No.13181628

>>13181494
Based armchair psychology straight out of some inc*l forum.

>> No.13181644

>>13181587
>>13164395

>> No.13181691

>>13181644
>Haha then what do you have to say about this counter-example I have here?
Shit anon, thanks for exposing his generalization. Here I was actually thinking of Europe as a haven of intellectuality.

>> No.13181698

>>13181587
Wow, you live in a haven of intellectuality.
:)

>> No.13181744

>>13181644
>the army
bruh

>> No.13182131

>>13172057
What a cutie!

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>>13167760
>"Oh yeah? do you even have a signed first edition?"

>> No.13182511

>>13181530
Thanks for the compliments.

>>13181567
I've had enough sexual hedonism in my life, frankly. Flings that are fun in the moment but ultimately don't provide any long-term fulfillment. Or even those relationships that were relatively long-term but merely skin-deep with 'no strings attached' as they say. No, I hope that the next woman is the last, ultimately going to marriage and kids if I don't get too many warning signs over the coarse of the relationship. It's a strange way of viewing the topic, but I think it's a better aim than 'fuck virtually any woman that opens her legs for me' which was essentially my mindset prior to getting into Christianity and giving actual consideration to its tenets.

>>13181628
I have interests in psychology and philosophy but I wouldn't all myself a psychologist or philosopher. What I did was simply share my theorization (if that's a word) on the nature of... well, how to put it. I guess, in a way, the typical gender stances and views in successful romantic interaction. At least, how I perceive them. I'm open to discussing specific elements of my perception if something might be wrong. The concepts, differences, and truths, in masculinity vs femininity on a psychological basis is pretty fascinating.

>> No.13182906

>>13172057
*sniff**sniff**sniff*

>> No.13183284

>>13172057
Seriously give me a name

>> No.13183341

>>13164226
>he hadn't finished Harry Potter by 4th grade

>> No.13183344

>>13183341
>harry potter was finished by the time he was in 4th grade

>> No.13183354

>>13181494
Look at the boomer living in the past.

>> No.13183635

I would read my paperback copy of Moby Dick in my algebra 2 class 10th grade of high school. The teacher would always get on to me for reading while she was teaching even though she let the niggers and white trash run rampant and talk and joke and yell in class. I got pissed at her and would refer to her as names of whores from books that I had read to her face.

Another time when I had just started reading Gravity’s Rainbow in 11th grade I was in Advanced English 3 and the teacher read fairly decent books with a lot of YA trash mixed in too. She asked us one day if anyone in the class read for fun and I and maybe 3 others raised our hands, she asked what I was reading right now and I told her it was Gravity’s Rainbow, she grimaced and asked me if I really enjoyed that book, and me (maybe 100 pages in) heavily agreed and said it was my favorite book I’d read so far. Needless to say me and her were the only ones who’d even heard of it, but for the rest of the semester she treated me as if I had a disease

>> No.13183655

>>13167691
>>13169877
Sounds like a normal time to read Plato

>> No.13183833

>>13172057
>>13177873
>>13177956
>>13179297
>>13180878
>>13181474
>>13183284
https://www.instagram.com/dajinism/?hl=en

>> No.13183843

>>13169877
It's like being back at the lyceum

>> No.13183860

>>13183344
No the last two books came out years after I finished the first 5 but the point is you should've finished with those in 2nd grade like an early reader master race.

>> No.13183864

>>13167415
Actually it's a good roast.

>> No.13183929

When I had a pathetic Internet girlfriend and didn't have the Internet to support Skype calls, we would use some site that Vocaroo killed whose name I forgot to "write" each other monologues. For reasons I have also forgotten, I remember reading Lovecraft's "Nyarlahotep" and Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" to her. Why did I do that?

>> No.13183961

>>13183929
>“Because,” said the hunger artist, lifting his head a little and, with his lips pursed as if for a kiss, speaking right into the supervisor’s ear so that he wouldn’t miss anything, “because I couldn’t find a pusy that tasted good to me. If had found that, believe me, I would not have made a spectacle of myself and would have eaten to my heart’s content, like you and everyone else.”

>> No.13184082

>>13183961
I vocarooed part of The Hollow Men to someone on /r9k/ years ago and got called various forms of autistic by ten different anons.

>> No.13184251

>>13163741
We had to read some bullshit book about black oppression or something in AP Lit senior year of high school. During our class reading time I would put my copy lf LOTR inside in the book and read that instead.
>never got caught

>> No.13184274

>>13166229
>>13172186

I've also had similar experiences when I say I would like to live in the countryside by myself. My guess is that women get socialized way earlier than man and most of them are socialized against their will anyway, i.e. there's a lot of social pressure for women to be in a network of relations, while the same is not true for men (if you are not very competitive, you are allowed to drift out as long as you don't bother others). I think they feel interacting with someone who aspires to loneliness would cut them out. It's not necessarily their fault, I see it mostly as the result of the interactions they have in early childhood

>> No.13184285

>>13181494

>the man is the hunter, the woman the prey

Have you ever spoken with a girl born after the 90s?

>> No.13184338

>>13181494
>t. Incel

>> No.13184359

>>13183354
Not yet 30; I'm a Millennial.

>>13184285
Meaning a girl born since 2000, meaning 19 or younger? Maybe one or two. Whatever the case I do not believe that women generally want to actively pursue a man and if they end up resorting to that, it will ultimately make them feel 'lesser'. Women generally perceive a sense of self-value when being pursued by a high-status man. There's also the stats that show if a woman in a relationship with a man begins bringing home more money than he is, the likelihood of a break-up becomes much higher. She will begin to see him as less that what she is capable of obtaining in a partner. If she herself is making more money than him, then she should be able to find someone who makes even MORE money. Hypergamy in action. It doesn't seem to be a guarantee, like the concept of "get woke, go broke", but it seems as though it may be a powerful trend.

If a female does seek out men and actively pursues them, I'm inclined to believe she has low morals and puts little to no value in her sexual worth. She will bounce from male to male or string along several at the same time, ultimately degrading her market value in terms of relationships, and I'm pretty sure statistics show that someone who has had many partners is less likely to remain loyal in a long-term relationship. This doesn't exactly bode well for me since I've been with over a dozen women, even ranging in age from 15 when I myself was a teenager up to one in her 40s when I was just over half her age. Races include White, Native, and one with some supposed Jewish ancestry. Also made out with a couple Koreans and a Black woman from Haiti but didn't end up going all the way with them. Anyhow, a woman who runs about engaging in regular hedonistic sex will end up the same as a man who does likewise. I believe they are doomed to one day realize they had made terrible mistakes in life, wasted a lot of time, and will ultimately feel regretful. I am glad I've come to this realization while still in my 20s.

>> No.13184386

>>13184285
>in case you haven't noticed, the last 6 million years of evolution have been overturned in the last 20 years :)

>> No.13184394

>>13181494
>It is the males that must pursue the females, not the other way around
I mean let’s be honest I should be showing you it not only is, but has to be, a combination of both parties.

:3

>> No.13184401

>>13184359
I had even just thought about how the genders typically prepare themselves for courtship. With the man, sure he wants to dress nice, make sure his hair is half-decent (or maybe it's so short that it pretty much takes care of itself), teeth brushed for good breath, and what not... but much of it is psyching himself out. Trying to mentally prepare himself to be outgoing, to be assertive but not overbearing, at least if someone is relatively unfamiliar and perceives themselves as unskilled with women or at least lacking confidence in the matter to some degree, that seems to be an element of preparation. "Alright, you're gonna do this. Don't be some weak chump, some mopey and useless sack of shit. Be a man! Talk to her, and don't act like some doofus!" Hell, not too long ago there was this borderline Gen-Z girl I had my eye on, some strange fore had been pushing me towards her even though on a variety of levels I felt she was out of my league. A gym bunny, cute as a button, in unbelievably good shape, athlete-level, and even though I speak to people VERY easily because I have a lot of confidence, she filled me with unease and a sense of utter insufficiency. My theory is that it was love and/or God, but I digress, in spite of my typical confidence and my fairly extensive experience with women, it took a lot of fortitude just for me to approach her.

Then, for women... outfit, lip stick, hair, eye shadow, blush, mascara, perfume, and so on. They dress themselves up like a pretty little target, a target that can be seen from a distance and becomes more tantilizing the closer you get. Preparations for a woman seem to be by far primarily physical rather than mental. She isn't the one who is supposed to approach him, she must try to attract her mate to approach her. She isn't the one who's supposed to ask him out, and I also believe that the lion's share of the responsibility in keeping the conversation afloat is left in the man's responsibility. It is our duty to face the unknown and potential failure, to stick our neck out and risk embarrassment and/or humiliation. In the end, she is the one who decides our success. Well, unless it ends in rape in which her consent is unnecessary but that is only for weak men who cannot control their own urges and likely cannot earn a woman's consent due to their own social inability and/or their low socioeconomic status. Not always of course, after all, Harvey Weinstein was extremely high on the socioeconomic hierarchy but then I imagine the women generally gave their consent even if they didn't REALLY want him, because they wanted to get ahead in their career and offering their body was the easiest way to do that, so they did it. At least, I rather hope they ultimately gave into his forceful advances rather than being outright and brutally forced upon without any degree of consent whatsoever.

>> No.13184404

>>13184401
You worry far too much about this stuff.

Stop, it doesn’t do you any good. :3

Focus on you. Just stop worrying about this stuff.

>> No.13184414

>>13184394
Okay but it’s not just women

>> No.13184417

>>13184414
Well duh :3

>> No.13184421

>>13184394
I believe the bulk of successful relationships have had the male pursuing the female. Making the approach, putting effort into making the conversations engaging, figuring out her likes/dislikes, what she wants in life, calling her rather than leaving her to call him, asking if she'd like to head out for a meal at a nice restaurant, ideally also picking her up in his own vehicle. The woman might do her own nice little things, picking something up for his birthday, complimenting him and/or praising him on things, laughing at his jokes even if they didn't come off QUITE as smoothly as it could have but still was relatively humourous... but these things don't require as much assertiveness in my estimation. Not as much risk. In fact it seems more lie support; "what you're doing is working, I am liking how you are interacting with me and I want to interact more." Even a little encouragement from a woman in the process of being courted can go a long way, a very long way. Even if there's no sex at the end of the night if it goes well enough, he'll be on cloud 9 and feeling spectacular. Perhaps second-guessing himself on some things, like thinking a joke was a total dud when it actually wasn't all that bad, or a comment he made that he subconsciously fears insulted her, or what have you. Still, if there's clear signs from her that at l least SOMETHING is going right, and she indeed means a lot to him, then he'll feel like Superman.

That's more-or-less my view on the matter, but no, I don't think that pursuit must come from both parties, at least not in equal measure. Much more effort from the man, and much more risk.

>> No.13184424

>>13184404
You perceive all this is worry? You're mistaken, I'm merely providing my thoughts on the matter.

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>>13172057

>> No.13184436

>>13184421
I think you worry far too much about it to be honest man.

Haven’t you seen this woman on here come on to me? She doesn’t even know what I look like.

But it’s the simple fact of the matter also: if a woman doesn’t show any interest in me at all, or make any visible effort to be interested in me, I drop it. Simple as that.

I must have done that like one thousand times man. Dropped women because they aren’t making the effort. Trust me, you get laid a lot less, but life isn’t about getting laid.

Enjoy your day :3

>> No.13184442

>>13163741
There was this incel-looking guy in one of my Bio classes that would always read his bible before the lectures.

One day I got fed up with it and went up to him, started asking him if he realized that there is literally no evidence for jesus and that even the cuks in higher criticism who think he might have existed unanimously agree that he was just a rabbi who never once claimed to be god incarnate and all that stuff was added later.

the guy looked at me like a deer caught in headlights. literally had no idea when I asked him what year most of the new testament had been written. I explained there were centuries in between the supposed death of jesus and the canonical scriptures. plus all of the fuckery that guys like Bede pulled to try and get the calendar to coincide with events in the gospels.

it was the only time I ever flaunted sources like that because I think that's generally a pretty obnoxious thing to do, but I just can't stand christcuck attention whores

>> No.13184484
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>be high school me
>total mess; no goals, no work ethic, no accountability
>used to get made fun of for always doing homework in homeroom, during lunch, or in the five minutes before class started
>basically how Peterson would describe an AgEnT of ChAoS!!11
>naturally good at writing & language arts
>take AP Lit as a junior; we're assigned a massive essay assignment (critical analysis of a respected work written from 1814-1900 or something)
>blithely spend two weeks either dallying on other classwork or doing nothing
>morning of the due date rolls around -- I only just remember it
>fuckfuckfuck
>choose a book in a few seconds: A Tale of Two Cities, since I've read it a few times and know it well
>quickly pull up EBSCO, libgen, other online databases
>feverishly write, edit, and re-write an 8-page exegesis in the 45 minutes before class starts; submit seconds before the deadline passes
...INTERLUDE...
>a few days go by; show up to last class meeting of the week
>professor gets my attention; asks me to come read my essay in front of the class (yes, the whole thing, which was wild uncomfortable)
>has printed copies of it which he distributes to everyone, which inspires both awe and hatred from the grades-obsessed Honors kids in the room
>says he's submitting it to the AP board as an example of "superior student writing"
>later win some kind of award from them for my work, including a small amount of scholarship money
>finish the impromptu reading/encomium and sit down
>guy i sit next to jokingly says: "wrote all that in homeroom too, eh?"
>mfw

>> No.13184544

>>13163741
When i was 18 i had a huge chest surgery and stayed in the hospital for 16 days. I spent the days reading all day long. I read some mostly unkown book by the german author Köppen and a nice old nurse asked me how i liked it. She said he used to be one of her favourit authors but his last novels sucked.
Days later i started reading brothers karamaow and the chief doctor saw that book on my bed when he visited.
The just looked at the book, asked if it was mine. I replied that is was and that i just started reading. He simply looked very seriously at the book and said „keep attention, that is very powerful literature“

>> No.13184734

>>13172103
Don't go dude, I've been there, I still have 1 year until I'm off to university, the German military is the worst thing ever, don't even consider it, I promise, unless you don't have money and literally hate your life, you shouldn't do it. If you need some money, I guess it's okay, but I wouldn't set a foot in there again desu.

>> No.13184832

>>13184734
Can you be more specific about what's so shitty?

>> No.13185037

I read in public all the time; no one gives a fuck.

>> No.13185128

>>13164362
THE MOO MOOS

>> No.13185172

>>13174635
Good. Crime and Punishment is shite desu.

>> No.13185207

>>13181413
How do you like them apples?

>> No.13185225

>>13184442
Cringe and bluepilled

>> No.13185267

>>13181587
Not sure in what part of Europe you've been, but pretty much anybody here reads in public without a problem. Not just people with "a rich background".

>> No.13185309

>>13183833
Holy shit, THANK YOU!

>> No.13185327

>>13184442
You did a good thing, anon. You have my permission to bed a woman.

>> No.13185342

>>13184484
So are you a good-time essayist now or was that just a fluke?

>> No.13185348

>>13185342
>god-tier

>> No.13185360

>>13164347
>lit meets pol

>> No.13185384

>>13172686
autistic and redpilled.

>> No.13185413

>>13167760

He is ABSOLUTELY right. Literal reading is not only non-contradictory with Hermetic reading or Socratic reading but VITAL to it.

>> No.13185423

>>13185342
Well, I do a lot of academic writing in my chosen field (biochemistry). Since finishing my undergraduate study, I've managed to get my shit together and figure out a life trajectory.

You might infer from the greentext that I take some sick pride in knowing that I wrote an award-winning essay with almost zero effort. But I never have. If anything, I'm ashamed that I didn't temper my early talent with hard work and dedication. Had the board known how irresponsible a student I was, I don't think they'd have chosen my submission over all of the other contenders. I certainly wouldn't have.

>> No.13185429

>>13184484
Literally me in high school, wrote a 3 page poem 20 minutes before it was due semi-copying metaphors from an obscure iggy pop song that just happened to be on shuffle at the time. English teacher submitted it to some magazine and got me published as a 9th grader. Haven't been published since. Feelsbadman

>> No.13185499

>>13185429
Amazing. It's strange how a harsh time constraint can sometimes put you in a flow state of creativity.

I took an equally slack approach during my first two years of (writing intensive) college courses. It worked well until I ended up in a smaller class with a savvy professor, who basically refused to grade me higher than a "C" until I could "submit work becoming of my abilities." It was exhausting, but he pushed me to a level of effort I hadn't seen from myself in years. He's probably the only reason anything I write nowadays is worth a shit -- I'm very grateful to him.

>> No.13185515

>>13185429
Which metaphors?

>> No.13185537

>>13185515
keys/doors, guys/gals

basically how some girls are total sluts with busted locks that open with any key, but you can't blame a nice girl if some don juan comes and fucks them silly cause they have a skeleton key. It was less hamfisted than I'm making it sound now. It was basically a thinly veiled critique on adolescent sexuality mostly chastising post-modern frivolity in urban America from an non-religious objective perspective. Wasn't anything groundbreaking but I can see how some faggy editor at a literalwho magazine would like it

>> No.13185612

>>13172235
Way overrated comment

>> No.13185693 [DELETED] 

>>13180623
4channeler? You also seem to think 4chan is the alt-right foprum or something i think you need to go back pal.

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>>13185693

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>>13185698
yeah dudde whatever point stands what fucking retard u think i care

>> No.13185716

>>13185705
u think i

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>>13185730
>>13185716
>>13185705
>>13185698
>>13185693
everysingle one of these posts was mad by me

>> No.13185755

>>13184429
Looks like it was taken in a fun house mirror

>> No.13186009

>>13184401
100% on point. You nailed it.

>> No.13186697

>>13172062
Happens in U.K too. Went through a faggy lefty phase and was borrowing the communist manifesto and Lenin etc from the high school library and the librarian once said to me
>if you're looking for a book with answers here's one and points at shelf with bible on it.

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>>13163741
Imagine trying to explain that scenario to the knuckle-draggers at the police department.
>You actually want me to believe you was sittin' there for three whole hours, all by yourself, just reading a... a... a durn BOOK??

>> No.13186754

>>13186720
department interrogators are the scum of the earth

>> No.13186809

I had to be rescued via lifeboat after getting stranded on a small tidal island where I'd been sat reading a book of Kipling short stories and hadnt noticed the tide coming in.

I would have been 16 or 17 and they were mildly surprised it was because I'd been reading rather than drinking. Apparently they have to get people off there about twice a week but it's usually because someone has gone out to get smashed.

>> No.13187198

>>13164395
Based and Reclampilled

>> No.13187420

>>13186809
dude what

can't you swim?

>> No.13187433

>Be final year of higschool
>We had to read 18 books for our literature list
>Oral exams after winter break and it's the week before winter break
>Teacher decides to ask every single person individually how many books they still had to read
>No one had read all 18 yet.
>Some had as many as 5 still to read
>I doubt any of those people actually read 5 books over winter break
>If you don't understand literature you're probably better off reading summaries and analysis and try to bullshit your way throug the exam
>Teacher reaches me
>How many books do you still have to read anon?
>I point at my book
>This is number 34
>Everyone laughs
>I feel like a chad
>Fuck you bitch nibbas, I'm gonna get a 10
>got a 7.5

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>>13181494
b-but i want a big tiddy mommy gf!

>> No.13188051

I was riding the PATH train from World Trade Center and reading so I missed the last stop and wound up going to the train yard.
They just assumed I fell asleep and let me catch the next train back to Newark.

>> No.13188138

>>13186809
Should've been reading Robinson Crusoe

>> No.13188154

>>13164362
>a Byronfag
I'd beat you right now If you were here.

>> No.13188162

>>13186809
Captain Courageous over here

>> No.13188345

>>13179751
This. I once recited all of Stig Dagerman's Our Need for Solace Cannot be Sated (it's fairly short) and the first half of Adamov's preface to Rilke's Book of Poverty and Death to my gf, and she was gently running her fingers on mine the whole time. We were in.view of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, like 100 meters away from it. We were also both eatng kebab. A rather weird circumstance.

>> No.13188356

>>13181117
Who the fucks does even bother to do three doctorates, and how did he not become a full-blown terrorist after enduring all that ?

>> No.13188408

>>13184421
I've seen and experienced examples of both. You underestimate how often girls are willing to chase a man that's making little effort. That's even the source of the common "neglectful/emotionally available chad" meme.

>> No.13188450

>>13188154
I've already beaten your mum with my dick faggoy. And your sister too.

>> No.13188472

>>13188408
Couldn't agree more. Any time a man is able to entice the sort of "goddamn, who is /that/" reaction from a woman in the same way that an attractive woman can (sometimes) do so with a man, the entire dynamic can flip. The more labile women in scenarios like this will straight up say "that's my guy," pursue him to the exclusion of all others, and basically never let go.

>> No.13188488

>>13163741
I broke the fourth wall & addressed the audience

>> No.13188617

>>13178478
She sounds fun

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>>13167691
I can hear flies buzzing when I expand your image

>> No.13188944

>>13181494
Okay but I always text first. Surely I should try waiting for once to see if she's actually interested?

>> No.13188958

I broke up with my girlfriend of 5 years last week over what started as an argument over Stoner. She thought it was "the most insufferable book" she had ever read, and eventually that argument developed into me just getting so mad at her for being a brainlet working class degenerate that i couldn't handle her anymore. Literally couldn't even make spaghetti bolognese, had to use Dolmio sauce. Didn't even know how to cook rice. Fuck you

>> No.13189012

>>13166201
If I saw you in public I would read a book in front of you

>> No.13189016

>>13164226
How does it feel to know every classmate you had knew how much of a pleb you are?

>> No.13189041

>>13167044
That's hilarious

>> No.13189061

>>13166229

Some say she's still in the bathroom to this day

>> No.13189071

>>13173006
laughter is divinity, anon :)

>> No.13189083

>>13171812
you deserved that tbf

>> No.13189119

>>13172713
feel like everyone is the real master, Blake

>> No.13189173

Similarly to the image in the OP, I was briefly a suspect in a pipe-bombing and the primary piece of exculpatory evidence was an affidavit from the town librarian. I skipped 4th hour study hall to go to the municipal to read American Psycho, a book no bookstore would sell and the high school library wouldn't carry. I had to read it there as she wasn't permitted to loan it to anyone under 18.

>> No.13189206

>>13178523
No, she we were in college at the time. All I can say is that I would strongly advise against falling in love with someone who has Schizophrenia.

>> No.13189226

Brought a copy of Ray Dalio's Principles to try and self improve on a drill weekend for guard and now I am the battery intellectual. Now I lose my "reading privileges" instead of doing pushups for punishments because they know it hurts worse.

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>>13181494
>tfw your feminist gf says she likes that you're bigger than her because it make she feel safe

No amount of theory can erase the realities of men and women. Feels good desu

>> No.13189273

>>13188958
based and middleclasspilled

why did she find it insufferable?

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>>13188958
>t.

>> No.13189331

>>13164190
Why would they be mad? I just finished House of Leaves on a plane and I was kind of embarrassed spinning the book around to read it

>> No.13189899

>>13172133
An opportunity to assert doninance.

>> No.13190200

>>13179447
Based

>> No.13190332

>>13186720
Kek

>> No.13190514

>>13188958
you sound like a catch

>> No.13190612

>>13187920
Some submissive men would like to essentially adopt the woman's position in a relationship. They would prefer to be pursued than to do the pursuing, to defer to the woman rather than the woman correctly deferring to her bigger and stronger man, though in the case of men desiring a motherly-like woman I think it's not quite as simple as 'swapping the gender role' as it were. There could be something repressive or a fetish; it could be an Oedipal complex of sorts, or repeated failures with women leaves the desire for the one successful relationship with a woman that they've had; the mother. Or perhaps perversely the man had an actual sexual relationship with their mother and so it may be the only real reference they have in terms of female partnership so they seek someone who will be like their mother.

Anyhow, I was simply articulating how I view typical relations to come about and how the genders must go about building those relations. Men must hunt, women will be the prey, but the women decide which hunter they allow themselves to be fully hunted by unless it is an instance of rape. There's exceptions of course, there's outliers in everything, but I think my assessment was pretty darn accurate.

>>13188408
>>13188472
I'm not saying that women CAN'T pursue men, but that generally it's the man who pursues the women and the women who decide which pursuer she accepts.

>>13188944
Taking initiative doesn't mean acting compulsively. There are many similarities that most women share, but every woman is different. Some may prefer immediate pursuit, others may think that being too insistent and quick can come off as desperation and desperation is accepted poorly by almost all women.

>>13189262
I enjoy being not just a man, but a masculine one at that, but I would NEVER so much as fuck a feminist much less enter a relationship with one. I'm better than that. The only way I could conceptually accept a feminist as my woman would be some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario where no other options are present. Smack her around a bit until she abandons the feminist BS, or if she's ardently persistent, physically gag her somehow and perhaps even tie her up to utilize her as a breeding sow and don't allow her words to infect the offspring. Once menopause is reached and breast-feeding is done, dispose of her. Feminism is absolute cancer and it's hard to imagine a worse existence than having a feminist as my wife and mother of my children. That is positively horrifying.