/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4599257]

Anyone have any stories of using literature/philosophy to get some?

I just used Plato's analogy of the cave and forms to get my qt hot. Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.4599270]

>meet theatre actress
>talk about playwrights
>instant rapport
>eventually gf

[Anonymous No.4599281]

I have recited all the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Theodosius to impress two girls. I fucked one and dated the other. I'm not sure if it helped but I guess it didn't hurt.

[Anonymous No.4599294]

>>4599281
I'm sure in context it was fine, but I can imagine that might come of as a little autistic.

[Anonymous No.4599307]

>>4599294
*off

My bad

[Anonymous No.4599318]

>>4599257
Most chicks I know don't care for philosophy nor literature. They just want their spiritual food with facebook, Jersey Shore or whatever the newest reality show is and being drunk, so it doesn't really work that well.

[Anonymous No.4599327]

>for whatever reason it comes up in conversation that I read lit as a hobby
>haha anon you're so weird

[Anonymous No.4599332]

>>4599257
how

[Anonymous No.4599335]

>>4599327
How is reading lit as a hobby weird? Is it the idea that you should only ever do academic stuff in a classroom or some shit like that?

[Anonymous No.4599337]

>>4599332
Step one
talk to girls faggot

[Anonymous No.4599340]

>>4599335
plebs can't get the idea of reading being fun and stimulating

to be fair am I STEM

[Anonymous No.4599342]

>>4599332
How what?

[Anonymous No.4599349]

>>4599257
maybe she wanted you to shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.4599354]

>>4599349
Someone bitter?

[Anonymous No.4599368]

>>4599354
Just your moms tastebuds after I jacked in her mouth.

[Anonymous No.4599389]

I recited a few of A. E. Housman's poems to a girl who had quite too much to drink and received from her oral sex for my efforts. It was a good day.

[Anonymous No.4599390]

>>4599368
Underage b&

[Anonymous No.4599388]

Used Aesop's Fable of the horse (isn't it a donkey actually?) and the dog who came upon a parchment about grasses, oats and all the things horses/donkeys love. The dog asks if there is anything about meat and bones in there to which the horse/donkey replies in the negative. The dog says it's a useless thing and to throw it away.
Because she offered me a Malteser's Teaser bar that had been in her handbag for a while.
Should have used the fable of the wolf giving telling the horse that he could have the field of oats, because they were worthless to him.
This was after we fucked.

[Anonymous No.4599395]

>>4599388
>mfw she says she's intrigued by m,e and there's something about me
>tfw it's autism

[Anonymous No.4599415]

>>4599389
>A. E. Housman's poems
>search this guys poetry
>first two poems I read were about wanting another man

[Anonymous No.4599430]

>>4599257
I did once recite the first stanza of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. It did get me laid.
But now I look back I know that I would have gotten laid with her whether or not I recited a fucking poem.

[Anonymous No.4599446]

>read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
>learn about priming
>read Cracked article that goes into priming and how simply eating candy when you introduce yourself to someone creates a positive association in their mind because sweet/nice/good/sociable/caring are all in the same neuro linguistic cluster in your brain
>be last week
>walking to the bus stop at 11:30 pm
>stop at 7/11 to break a five for the bus
>cute girl in front of me buying cigarettes
>buy a pack of m&m's
>get out of the store. She's walking ahead of me in the same direction but slower.
>uh oh. Could be awkward.
>open the m&m's, throw a few into my mouth and say hi
>we have a thirty minute conversation sharing the cigarettes she bought
>she offers me a ride to the bus stop a couple miles away
>in the car, "you seem like a nice guy"
>think to myself "of course I do. I just hijacked your brain."
>smokes another with me when at the stop
>she hugs me and gives me her number and drives off
She's actually very pretty and talented and smart. I can't call her because I know our relationship is founded on me manipulating her. Ever since this event my faith in love is gone. Gonna go live innawoods. ;_;

[Anonymous No.4599456]

Made a girl laugh after telling her about Samuel Johnson's tourettes and how he was known for doing some weird things.

For example; he once went to the top of a high hill with his friend Langton. Suddenly saying "I haven't had a good roll for a long time," emptied his pockets, laid himself parallel to the edge of the hill, and went down, turning over and over until he was at the bottom. She thought that was pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.4599462]

>>4599281
I hope you did not include unlawful dynasty of Gordians in it.

[Anonymous No.4599463]

I made my gf cry by reciting "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven". She was drunk at the time though.

[Anonymous No.4599467]

>>4599446
Jesus christ just call her.

All relationships are based on manipulations and everyone can see from you that you want to cuddle with that qt.

[Anonymous No.4599469]

>>4599446
Go for it, man. If she's cool she'll probably find it amusing that you met through an experiment with psychology (although I wouldn't tell her straight away). And if she's not cool about it, then screw her. Not worth your time.

[Anonymous No.4599470]

>>4599456
I used to do that shit all the time until I broke my arm on a rock

[Anonymous No.4599472]

>>4599446
dat placebo effect

she probably would have liked you even more if you hadn't been chewing and had chocolate all over your teeth when you said hello

[Anonymous No.4599478]

>>4599257

>be a philosophy major
>be at a party
>arrogant asshole talking to a few girls, STEM guy.
>starts talking about Plato, knew shit to nothing
>tell him Plato never said that and quote the excerpt he's referring to in Ancient Greek verbatim.
>What follows is a semantic deconstruction of his arguments in a Socratic fashion
>He gets pissed and leaves
>Start talking to one of the girls
>get laid
>good times

[Anonymous No.4599484]

>>4599446
le euphoric enlightened doctor of manipulation face xD

[Anonymous No.4599491]

>>4599446
>takes life philosophy from "story first, facts later"-Gladwell and Cracked of all places
>ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.4599514]

>>4599257
>get two GFs at open mics by initially impressing them with poetry, chatting with them after
>got one girl to visit and fuck because of sonnets
>used the argument in The Flea as the basis of an argument that it was O.K to send me nudes with a girl, got nudes.

Anti-laid:
>live in los angeles, can't resist destroying The Secret hot yogs girl arguments

[Anonymous No.4599517]

>>4599463

To be fair that poem is so beautiful, she probably would've cried sober if you recited it well enough.

[Anonymous No.4599521]

>>4599446
"of course I do. I just hijacked your brain."

Holy fuck, dude!

[Anonymous No.4599527]

>>4599472
>dat placebo effect
this entire thread is placebo effect

[Anonymous No.4599528]

>>4599478
>get laid
You mean Pluto sodomizing you?

[Anonymous No.4599536]

>>4599462
I did, and Pupienus and Balbinus, AND the other Three/Four Emperors. You mad?

Generally avoided usurpers though.

>>4599294
It's hard to characterize. They were both liberal arts chicks I was trying to bang who were impressed by my GPA. I tried to work it in subtly and reluctantly, at least!

[Anonymous No.4599545]

>mfw I only read to destroy people in the rap battles I have in my head

[le trole face ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk No.4599546]

>>4599536
>I tried to work it in subtly and reluctantly, at least!

Why is it a trait for men who like to read/be academic to pretend to not be prideful? If you feel proud that you can list that from memory, then let your pride shine through. I think it's not a good thing to fake your emotions

[Anonymous No.4599548]

>>4599536
>I was trying to bang who were impressed by my GPA.
top kek m8

[Anonymous No.4599553]

>>4599446

>eating m&m's
>brain hijacking

better hope terrorists don't use your strategy

[Anonymous No.4599555]

>>4599546
because people start thinking you're a "pretentious" guy trying to flaunt his intelligence or whatever

[Anonymous No.4599569]

>>4599257
i started talking to my current gf by recommending her to watch Sans Soleil by Chris Marker.
also i lent her my copy of Descartes' Meditations
protip to all /lit/ anons : flaunting your (superficial) culture to people who aren't really that into it will just make you look like a douche, make sur the other person has a prior interest

[Anonymous No.4599576]

>>4599546
Women have to be baited, and lied to, and fondled gently.

[Anonymous No.4599587]

>>4599553
That's gonna be the plot for a short story I'll write later on.

[Anonymous No.4599593]

>tfw started reading because of a qt 3.14 patrician grill
I still kinda hope something happens between us. But I'm glad I started reading books again.

[Anonymous No.4599683]

>>4599327
stop hanging out with fags

[Anonymous No.4599869]

>>4599478
you arent that good at philosophy if you spent that night indulging in carnal pleasure instead of observing the idea of good

[Anonymous No.4599873]

>>4599446
Lies are the foundation of reality

[Anonymous No.4599879]

>>4599446
tell her you cant date her because you gave her candy when you met her
tell her so that you hear how stupid you sound

[Anonymous No.4599912]

>>4599456
>I haven't had a good roll for a long time

[Anonymous No.4599929]

>>4599546
Because it's the equivalent of some fuck who goes to the gym everyday showing up without his shirt on.

[Anonymous No.4600003]

>>4599257
>I just used Plato's analogy of the cave and forms to get my qt hot

wow :) cool guy :) awsum, knolege is power
gettin pussy brah awsum :):) so cool

[Anonymous No.4600029]

>>4599553
>>4599446

[Anonymous No.4600382]

I fell in love with my bf when he explained me in layman terms Hegelian dialectics and the self awareness of the geist.

[Anonymous No.4600412]

>>4600382
tell me about it, I didn't know the geist was self aware

[Anonymous No.4600423]

>>4600029
>that file name
painful