/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19920475]

>read book
>imagine myself trying to help the characters with their problems

[Anonymous No.19920498]

>>19920475
>and that's why women don't want to be around you
>stop trying to fix my problems and validate my victimhood

[Anonymous No.19920510]

>>19920498
Has this woman hurt you, anon?

[Anonymous No.19920565]

>>19920498
Hey buddy, I'm talking about books not gals!

[Anonymous No.19920576]

>>19920498
Women like it when you playfully mock their suffering and tell them to calm down, then change the subject

[Anonymous No.19920596]

>If you asked Gately what he was feeling right this second he'd have no idea. He's got a hand up shading his eyes and closes on the Montego as things further clarify. One of the guys now you can see has Lenz's disguise's mustache in two fingers and keeps holding it up and brandishing it at Lenz. The other guy issues stilted but colorful threats in a Canadian accent, so it emerges on Gately it's Nucks, the trio Lenz has managed to somehow enrage is Nucks. Gately cops a black surge of Remember-Whenning, the babbling little football-head Québecer he'd killed by gagging a man with a bad cold. This line of thinking is intolerable. Joelle's overhead shout to for Christ's sake somebody call Pat mixes in and out of the Help lady's cries. It occurs to Gately that the Help lady has cried Wolf for so many years that real shouts for real help are all going to be ignored. The residents all look to Gately as he crosses the street directly into the Montego's wash of light. Hester Thrale screams out Look out there's a Item. The plaid-hat Nuck pans stiffly to sight at Gately, his elbow up around his ear. It occurs to Gately if you fire with an Item right up to your sighting-eye like that won't you get a face full of cordite. There's a break in the circular action around the throbbing car as Lenz shouts Don with great gusto just as the Help lady shouts for Help. The Nuck with the Item has backed up several steps to keep the residents in his peripheral vision while he sights square on Gately as the massive Nuck holding the mustache across the car tells Gately if he was him he'd return to whence he came, him, to avoid the trouble. Gately nods and beams. Nucks really do pronounce the with a z. Both the car and Lenz are between Gately and the large Nucks, Lenz's back to Gately. Gately stands quietly, wishing he felt different about potential trouble, less almost jolly. Late in Gately's Substance and burglary careers, when he'd felt so low about himself, he'd had sick little fantasies of saving somebody from harm, some innocent party, and getting killed in the process and getting eulogized at great length in bold-faced Globe print.

[Anonymous No.19920602]

>>19920596
It is so dumb but so enjoyably readable

[Anonymous No.19920614]

>>19920602
How is it dumb? It is such a poignant moment, thematically speaking, the scene is the turning point for both Gately and the narrator. And it applies to OP.

[Anonymous No.19920623]

>>19920614
Alright nevermind I am dumb and projecting my dumbness on it

[Anonymous No.19920630]

>>19920498
Disgusting. Who on earth is attracted to this rubbish when instead you could be procuring fit, literate twinks?

[Anonymous No.19920635]

>>19920623
No, you are dumb because you just roll over at the tiniest pressure, you never learn anything that way. Speak your mind and exploit anonymity, laugh at your own stupidity, learn, and maybe even give others a chance to laugh at their own stupidity and learn.

[Anonymous No.19920638]

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[Anonymous No.19920665]

>>19920596
Yo this nigga got a big ass head!