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Have you ever fully revealed your /lit/ power level in public?

What happened as a result?

>> No.18362164

>>18362160
They understood nothing i said

>> No.18362190
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>> No.18362196

>>18362160
Telling people you read great books is almost always a positive, unless you offer it up first.

>> No.18362336

>>18362190
neo-/lit/ would call this post reddit

>> No.18362343

>>18362336
What do you think all the replies are in the screenshot?

>> No.18362359

>>18362160
Sort of.
People respect you a lot if you actually know what you're talking about. Just reading books in three or four foreign language is enough to make people consider you smart. It gives a sort of strange aura. I've always had it in the classrooms I've been in.
It's also very important to know what you don't know, as well as to know why exactly it is that you do not know it.

>> No.18362361

>>18362343
mostly laffs, it appears

>>/lit/thread/S7370598#p7370618

>> No.18362373

>>18362361
Nope I don't even have to click your link to know you're wrong sorry better luck next time bucko

>> No.18362376

>>18362359
i know zero philosophy cuz its boring as shit lol

>> No.18362381

I was reading Mishima in a city park and a gay guy hit on me. That's about it.

>> No.18362383

>>18362381
kinda hot desu

>> No.18362386

>>18362376

Ngmi

>> No.18362390

One thing I've noticed is that what makes people REALLY impressed is if you can relate multiple works to each other. This is a thing that has always been a skill of mine, synthesizing various works and figuring out the things they do or don't have in common. It's a fun trick to pull out at parties because it proves the breadth of your reading.

>> No.18362393

>>18362381
I wish that would happen to me.

>> No.18362408

>>18362390
>a fun trick to pull out at parties
im happy 4 u man but that sounds gay as hell

>> No.18362416

>>18362383
>kinda hot desu
I like women but it was still flattering as he was a good looking, in shape guy. I politely declined.

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talked to some guests at a clerical home, the priest said
>stop discussing ancient epics, i feel like a village pastor haha

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>>18362381
holy based

>> No.18362437

>>18362416
>anon could've been having his tender cheeks pounded six ways from sunday by a /lit/ gigafag right now
>chose wammin instead
damn son

>> No.18362665

>>18362160
Anytime I'm on a date and the girl brings up politics (this happens way too often), I can't help but sneak remarks in. A few times, I've let loose completely and given chicks the "Hitler was actually kinda based, but he was also part Jewish, so not fully based" routine because I wanted to get rid of them or fuck with them a bit. One of my current girlfriends actually made it through that speech and stayed, so I trust her with all my work.

>> No.18362672

>>18362665
It's sometimes said that women take on the politics of men they really like, and when this turns women into reactionaries it's a sight to behold. You've never encountered a right-winger quite like a female right-winger, they'll go legit Gestapo on you.

>> No.18362703

>>18362672
I've only met one girl who was thoroughly cool in that regard. The real tragedy of it was that I didn't find her physically attractive at all.

>> No.18363584

>>18362190
I would absolutely buy the hardcover of this novella.

>> No.18363610

>>18362361
>>18362373
Lol, absolutely BTFO

>> No.18363614

>>18362376
Yeah, as >>18362386 said.
Ngmi

>> No.18363645

>>18363614
>ngmi
what anime is this?

>> No.18363978

>>18362160
I've read finnegans wake a few times to my girlfriend and we had a lot of fun. I don't know if that counts.

>> No.18364049

>>18362160
I once had a professor tell me my essays were 'longer than she would normally accept' on my final. I was really taken aback. Who the fuck tells their students their essays are too long? Normally they want you to write as much as possible.

>> No.18364265

>>18362160
I have a weekly family call and lately I've been boring them talking about the Dionysiaca and late antiquity in general. It's nice.

>> No.18364276

>>18362164
Being able to bring down a high education into successful rhetoric and communication (to normal people) is part of being /lit/.

>> No.18364297

>>18362160
I like saying "Have you even read Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals?? in Valorant or fortnite games when someone tries to shit talk and it just leads to everyone being confused and calling me an autistic retard but I enjoy it.

>> No.18365564

>not lecturing everyone you meet on Process and Reality
ngmi

>> No.18365603

>>18362160
one of the reasons me and my girlfriend broke up was because i became red with rage whenever she would blankly refuse to ever read Tolstoy

>> No.18366843

>>18362160
i made some normies seethe and had fun

>> No.18366848

>>18362160
a friend of mine is absolutely convinced that writers cant portray visuals correctly. we always argue about this and im pretty sure it's because he doesnt read at all except for comics. it gets pretty heated and we always raise our voices at each other.

>> No.18366855

>>18362160
I talk about the last book I read with my hairdresser as she's cutting my hair. She thinks I'm interesting and enjoys hear me babbling about literature.

>> No.18366857

>>18362359
lol reading doesnt give you a strange aura you tryhard. you sound like you wear black turtlenecks while hanging out at coffe shops.

>> No.18366860

>>18362160
Me and my Nan regularly talk about books.

>> No.18366865

>>18362390
>a fun trick to pull at parties

well thats a fucking lie.

>> No.18366906

>>18366855
>I talk about the last book I read with my hairdresser as she's cutting my hair. She thinks I'm interesting and enjoys hear me babbling about literature.
That's what I call a lit/ fag. Bravo!

>> No.18366925

>>18366855
Initially read this as you reading the book to your hairdresser while she was cutting your hair

>> No.18366934

>>18362160
It was fun. My family on my father's side thinks my nose is always in a book, but really I had unmanaged depression.

Now that my depression is managed, I really like to share stories. I gave a book I enjoyed to my grandma. One hundred years of solitude.

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>>18362390
Lmao, I can see it now. There you stand, anon, dressed in a dapper sports jacket, slacks, belt, aviators, a wrinkled navy blue button down, all tied together by your well-worn docksiders which matched the brown leather of your (father's) wristwatch. You look dashing, a picturesque yuppie if there ever was on. The patio is bathed in the orange glow of a lovely early summer evening, and your attire is perfectly suited to the weather. Speckled about the most-social-space of this New England condo are a litany of all colors of your collegiate peers. The slender Nigerian physics major, the adorably smirking literature TA, a bombastic Puerto rican from the business school, and even the timid campus ministry girl whose blonde as can be. What a crowd, women galore such that you hardly recall the sympathetic sideglance which preceded your cousin's invite. Following the first 40 minutes of meandering, you're ears snap to attention in response to your subconscious immediately honing in on the faintest "Goethe," uttered from across the lawn. A master of subtlety, your brisk jaunt masqueraded the sprinting of your mind. "I couldn't help but overhear you mention a remarkable author just now," you exclaim, with no small hint of condescension, to an unrecognizable (yet nontheless intoxicating) brunette who was surrounded by a small gaggle of, no doubt, faceless philistines. She turned to you, a pair of lovely breasts protruding from a polyesterne tank top that barely revealed the most delicious hint of a midriff. The angelic ignoramus sang "yes, I am taking Lit101, and my professor said that Goe......". You raise your immaculately slender finger to hush her, to which the north Iberian nymph complied with wife-like obedience. "Aha a wonderous man, that Goethe, he having an estimated IQ of 225, i do feel i can relate to the state he must have felt, far surpassing his contemporaries. I contemplated the utterly evocating Sorrows of Young Werther on my drive here. How a Kierkegaardean tale it was! So reminding me of ol' Soren's timeless wisdom of how one shall regret hanging oneself or even not doing so, a wicked analogy oft repeated by so many great minds, Doestesvky to...." your excitement had long appeared on your face, as you looked about your captive audience, yet what horror. Met not be grins, nor blank stares, your guesstimated your pupils to be presenting you with disgust! "Anon..." chimed the brown-headed Helen. "My professor said Goethe was a pedophile! Why would you ever read something by someone so vile?!" You had no response for her, this Penelope turned Clytemnestra. Jaw agape, you exited the stage, and puttered off into the orange fingers of dusk on your moped, the sweat of your brow and the red of your counteneance not abating for the entirety of your drive.

>> No.18367084

>>18362390
>>18367051
Sorry for the typos anon, im phone posting, but I hope you enjoy my satire nontheless.

>> No.18367121

>>18366865
no, depends on the party and the books you are relating, anon is right

>> No.18367149

>>18367051
lmao, thanks.

>> No.18367167

>>18362160
every once in a while I drop a fancy word into a sentence during a meeting to flex.

When I meet someone IRL that tells me that they are an English major I'll often ask if they have read lolita because I know it's almost a sure thing that they have and they get really uncomfortable with the fact that I've read it for some reason.

>> No.18367190

>>18362160
I run a book club with another friend and our of the 10 of us, me and two others are actually smart and well read, two of the others are absolute pseuds and the rest are in between.

Every now and then me and the other two well read members don't hold back and everyone else gets bored as they don't really have any idea about what we are talking about.

I can imagine most scenarios are the same as this.

>> No.18367217

>>18366857
Maybe not where you live.
I live in the third world, and here it does. Also, it's too hot to wear turtlenecks, or indeed black shirts, here.

>> No.18367474

>>18367051
kek

>> No.18368173

>>18362160
Most of my /lit/ power being science and obscure stuff I read years ago, I had interrupted a conversation during a party to answer a very specific question that was randomly thrown in here. A lucky answer I only had because I coincidentally researched about the same thing the week before. My mistake was probably dropping some authors' names to make my statement easier to confirm, or just opening my mouth to educate people who didn't really care. Everyone just stopped talking and instantly registered me as a pseud. I remember someone following up with my answer and asking what "exponentially" meant before laughing to my face when I explained.

>> No.18368203

>>18362390

Relating multiple works? Amazing......

>> No.18368234

It makes you more attractive to women, especially if you don't advertise it and it's something that just comes out in overheard conversation or by chance. I mean, you have to otherwise have something appealing about you too, it's not all that attractive by itself.

Men get weird about it, either dismissive/defensive or extra deferential ('this guy's smart as hell!'). So I tend not to bring it up unless it makes sense.

>> No.18368707

>>18364276
This. I basically am a therapists to all my friends, because I am hyper self-aware and have the ability to communicate my ideas to normal people.
Everyone that I've revealed my power level to have huge respect for me and have impacted my friends positively.
Just don't be a stuck up asshole and you'll be liked.

>> No.18368887

>>18367051
kek

>> No.18368900

>>18362381
>that's about it

You fucking faggot

>> No.18369097

>>18367051
kek'd :)

>> No.18369175

>>18367084
Hilarious nonetheless. You got me sneedling at the pedophile line.