/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6300283]

>going to an Italian restaurant by oneself
>sitting in a quiet corner sipping the house red wine and eating tiramisu
>reading Pound's translations
>transcribing them to your notebook with annotations
>making friendly banter with the qt waitress

How have you been living the literary lifestyle this weekend, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.6300338]

>>6300283
sounds like something a homosexual would do

[Anonymous No.6300345]

>>6300283

I feel enormous second hand embarrassment

[Anonymous No.6300346]

what a dork

[Anonymous No.6300349]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *FART*

[Anonymous No.6300367]

>spent entire weekend working on my uni assessments and watching seinfeld

is this lit or not?

[Anonymous No.6300371]

I went out with a girl on a kind of double date and got nervous at the end because the other two people were waiting right there so I didn't give her a proper good bye.

I did that instead of reading, so not great I guess. But I also want to write a faggy poem about that girl now though so who knows? Maybe it was literary in disguise?

[Anonymous No.6300401]

> havent left my house In weeks
> empty wine bottles litter the floor
> piles of books sorted only by "read" and "not yet read"
> masturbating to prose and weeping into my pillow
> staring outside at the busy street smoking a cigarette
> handgun laying by my side

I dunno, Opie. Maybe?

[Anonymous No.6300408]

>>6300283
>literary lifestyle

What is the "literary lifestyle"?

[Anonymous No.6300425]

>>6300408
it's some made up thing people who like writers more than they like books believe exists, you just end up doing cringe worthy stuff like op

[Anonymous No.6300430]

>>6300408
Pretending to read books and hanging out at Starbucks.

[Anonymous No.6300432]

>>6300430
This. I hate american cafe culture.

[Anonymous No.6300590]

>>6300432
explain

>>6300408
what's dumb is that many people here think that it is "literary" to do what old authors from bygone eras did. We wont know what the "literary life" of 2015 is until many years from now. That is, implying that the "literary lifestyle" is even a relevant thing anymore.

[Anonymous No.6300599]

literary lifestyle of 2015 is going on tumblr and posting the deathly hallows traingle and tfios images

[Anonymous No.6300623]

>>6300599
the literary lifestyle in 2015 is being a tenured professor who drops an occasional novel

[Anonymous No.6300639]

>>6300283
I finished reading two books.

I've also started teaching myself Italian out of an old book I found. It's been a pretty fun weekend.

[Anonymous No.6300641]

>>6300283

[Anonymous No.6300697]

>>6300590
i think most people think of it as an extension of the bohemian lifestyle

[Anonymous No.6300712]

>>6300371
i always write a faggy poem after going out with a girl or else i'll explode with faggy emotions because i am a delicate alpha male

[Anonymous No.6300717]

>>6300712

ishygddt

[Anonymous No.6300720]

>>6300599
>>6300623
the literary lifestyle in 2015 is shitposting on /lit/

[Anonymous No.6300735]

I skipped out on DnD with my friends to work on my novel in the university library.

[Anonymous No.6300755]

>>6300717
i'm telling you, i'm 100% pure faggot BRO

[Anonymous No.6300759]

>>6300717
it's also gotten me laid tho so that relieves of me of some shame B]

[Anonymous No.6300760]

>>6300283
Well, I certainly haven't been making public displays of my lifestyle. As someone who actually lives the literary lifestyle, I've been taking walks in the nearby foothills each morning to go bird watching; then, after getting back home and eating breakfast, I get to work. During lunch I read the paper and then it's back to work. Once I feel satisfied with the amount of work I've done, I walk (literary persons walk whenever they can) to a small Chinese restaurant and eat in my corner window spot as I finish reading the paper. Once home, I shower, read a book for a while, and then hit the sack.

[Anonymous No.6300783]

>>6300283

I'm dating an Italian who would find this funny. She would probably add some parts to your story, such as,

>getting robbed by negros on the train
>getting harassed by neofacists on the streets
>being unemployed
>sitting in the back of a mcdonalds flirting with homeless people

What I guess I'm trying to say is that your romantic view of Italy is an illusion, and there's probably someone here who romanticizes where you live for different reasons.

[Anonymous No.6300803]

>>6300783
Dude, not every Italian restaurant is in Italy. The U.S. has Olive Gardens literally everywhere

[Anonymous No.6300807]

>>6300783
damn that sounds awesome

[Anonymous No.6300844]

>>6300783
Lmao is she from Naples?

[Anonymous No.6300858]

>>6300803
I didn't even think that the OP had meant in Italy, either. Cool that he is dating an Italian and wants to brag about it, but I don't think he is the first person to realize that the grass isn't really greener.

[Anonymous No.6300980]

>>6300858
he's was flirting with the waitress, who might not have been Italian...did you even read what OP said?

[Anonymous No.6300987]

>>6300720
>tfw this might be true

[Anonymous No.6300991]

>>6300283
>making banter with a waitress
>some pleb who makes less than minimum wage and probably didn't graduate highschool
>literary lifestyle
>pound
>not shit tier
You're living the pleb life son

[Anonymous No.6301083]

>>6300980
The 'he' referred to the corrector who claimed that OP was romanticizing Italy.

[Anonymous No.6301130]

OP it sounds like you expect a Disney movie to break out any minute.

[Anonymous No.6301283]

>>6300783
I just like Italian food and Pound's translations of Calvancati. I don't think that's necessarily romanticising an entire country.

>and there's probably someone here who romanticizes where you live for different reasons.

I live in London, so very certainly.

[Anonymous No.6301438]

>>6300338
>>6300345
Tbh, what he did is pretty fine. I met my last gf that way.
>>6300283
Finished two books on the punic wars and started reading one from Brazil, O Cortico.

[Anonymous No.6301442]

>>6300283
>play darkest dungeon
>play dota
>read around 100 pages of different stuff
>grab a beer with my friend
>chatting with a qt on fb, hoping to actually meet with her sooner rather than later (we go to the same book club, she seems to at least tolerate me)
>will go to mass later and meet with a cousin.

[Anonymous No.6301443]

>>6300283
>translations

[Anonymous No.6301473]

>>6300283
>not masturbating to the greek alphabet

do you even /lit/

[Anonymous No.6301479]

>>6300283
you sound like a lonely loser.

[Anonymous No.6301491]

>>6300283

>went to prom
>fingered a girl on my friends couch

[Anonymous No.6301499]

>went to a Strindberg play by myself this Friday

All I can think of besides "reading books".

[Anonymous No.6301504]

>>6300735
Faggot

[Anonymous No.6301512]

>>6300783
I used to go read in Villa Borghese's park in the morning on warm summer days.
This country is indeed shitty but there's no need to exaggerate and self-hate more than necessary.

[Anonymous No.6301537]

>>6300783
I am Italian and this is true add one thing
>waitress makes fun of you because you're alone

[Anonymous No.6301552]

>>6300283
She was being friendly because that's your job.

In reality she went back into the kitchen saying to her waitress friends "Ugh there's some loser sitting alone at one of my tables doing homework or something and trying to hit on me, he's wearing a fedora. Will someone please trade sections with me for tonight?"

[Anonymous No.6301555]

>going nowhere by myself
>having no friends
>going nowehere at alll
>college only exception
>not talking with anyone in college
>not even saying hi to people
>even rejected a girl that asked me to go with her
>feeling alone as fuck
>feeling sad because I'm alone because of me
>feeling retarded because I'm not logically consitent
>feeling like an outsider every time I see a couple
>and every time I see a group of friends
>and every time I see anyone being slightly sucessful
>I don't even know why I'm like this

[Anonymous No.6301561]

>>6300283
Once again subconsciousness dominates your puny mind. The choice for an Italian restaurant was already made for you beforehand as your brain already knew that you'll be having spaghetti. I bet you even brought them with you.

[Anonymous No.6301652]

>>6300283
>Italian restaurant
why

[Anonymous No.6301677]

>>6301555

sorry anon, you have a severe case of being a fucking faggot

iktf

[Anonymous No.6301681]

>>6300783

>sitting in the back of a mcdonalds flirting with homeless people

hahaha... been there.

[Anonymous No.6301683]

>>6301677
>sorry anon, you have a severe case of being a fucking faggot
I know

[Anonymous No.6301692]

>>6300783
>>6300858
>>6300980
>>6301473

>>6301555
>feeling retarded because I'm not logically consitent
"Consistency for its own sake is stupidity—
a favorite idiocy of small-minded
politicians, philosophers, and preachers.
A great soul simply has no attachment to consistency. You may as well worry about your shadow on the wall. Speak your mind now in no uncertain terms, and tomorrow speak tomorrow's thoughts just as forcefully, even if it contradicts everything you said today.

Ah, but won't you be sure to be misunderstood? Is it such a big deal to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood. So were Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and every authentic and wise spirit that ever took flesh." Ralph W. Emerson

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
Walt Whitman

[Anonymous No.6301697]

>>6301499
That's awesome! Which one? I'm just going to guess Miss Julie

[Anonymous No.6301698]

>>6301692
>A great soul simply has no attachment to consistency. You may as well worry about your shadow on the wall. Speak your mind now in no uncertain terms, and tomorrow speak tomorrow's thoughts just as forcefully, even if it contradicts everything you said today.
Poetic as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6301707]

>>6301697
A Dream Play, I think it's called in English.

First time I've been to a theatre, actually. I enjoyed it a lot.

[Anonymous No.6301718]

>>6300283

Last time I went to a restaurant alone

>early evening, so there's only one other table occupied and they are friends of the owner, so he's taking care of them
>make the mistake of sitting facing the kitchen
>waitress stands there most of the time looking directly at me
>don't know how to act because I feel like I'm being studied
>pretend to look at my phone
>start sweating
>get stomach cramps from eating too fast

[Anonymous No.6301722]

>>6301652
Taste, ya dingus.

[Anonymous No.6301724]

>>6300283
Well, I don't get out to restaurants or coffee shops. I'm marking a stack of my students' papers for Medieval Lit (a decent batch, fortunately), and when I'm too tired to handle any more analyses of Lanval, I read a bit of Boethius, edit my current chapter-in-progress on Poe & Lovecraft, read a few funny things from my McSweeney's collections, and go the fuck to sleep.

[Anonymous No.6301725]

>>6300717
i sincerely hope you guys dont do this

[Anonymous No.6301731]

>>6301283

No one romanticizes London, kiddo.
>shit beaches
>sharia law
>famously shit cuisine
>weak-chinned anglos everywhere
>porn flyers, chewing gum and dog shit everywhere
>TV license patrol roaming the ghettos

absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.6301732]

>>6301512
>I used to go read in Villa Borghese's park in the morning on warm summer days.
The worst of Italy can not bring this down.

[Anonymous No.6301737]

>>6301724
>Boethius
>Medieval

[Anonymous No.6301740]

>>6301731
Women do, especially Americans.

[Anonymous No.6301745]

>>6301740
There's a lot to love about London; it's shitty aspects don't change that.
Every notable city and country has their downsides.

[Anonymous No.6301753]

>>6301737
Yes? Boethius's importance to medieval literature and philosophy is absurd: he's constantly referenced to the point where I can't think of anyone (including Dante, Boccaccio, or Petrarch) who's more relevant (and Chaucer and King Alfred virtually worshiped him). During the Middle Ages in Europe, The Consolation of Philosophy was the most translated and copied secular work of the time. His influence was enormous.

[Anonymous No.6301760]

>lecture on German expressionism at local arts centre on friday
>finished infinite jest Saturday
>today browse /lit/ while cleaning my flat

[Anonymous No.6301762]

>>6301753
I know about his influence during the middle ages. I meant his work is classical.

[Anonymous No.6301766]

>>6300408
A SPOOK

[Anonymous No.6301768]

I go down to the park on the weekends to tell people about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I just wander around with my portable speaker and my KJV bible and read scripture, debate, and lay hands on people.

Pretty literary if you ask me. I've saved 329 souls this year.

[Anonymous No.6301769]

>>6301753
Well he is just as likely to be classified as late antiquity. It's an oversimplification for the sake of periodisation to limit him to either category.

[Anonymous No.6301773]

>>6301762
Sure, but all I said was that I was reading a bit of Boethius, not that I was teaching him in the medieval class. I find rereading him while planning Chaucer lectures is helpful.

[Anonymous No.6301898]

>>6301740
> implying Americans are people

[Anonymous No.6301947]

>>6300367
actually pretty /lit/

[Anonymous No.6301957]

>>6300283
Here's the literary lifestyle:
1. Reading.
2. Writing.
3. Talking about 2 and 3.
4. Conditionally, research.

[Anonymous No.6301971]

>>6301957
>3. Talking about 2 and 3.
Talking about writing and writing and writing and writing and writing....

[Anonymous No.6301975]

>>6301971
Ad infintium and ad neaseum

[Anonymous No.6303071]

>>6300283
Stayed at home and fapped to Mempo Giardinelli's "Luna caliente".

[Anonymous No.6303105]

>skipped class to pick up flowers for gf
>sat in a Korean cafe, reading the wsj and feeling insecure whenever the attractive girl behind the counter walked by me speaking to her mother
>kissed my lit profs ass and got him to let me turn in an essay late
P good so far
>>6301760
Anything in particular you could tell me about that piece? Its really interesting to look at, the motif of natural shapes on the right and hard lines on the left.

[Anonymous No.6303120]

>>6301555
You're probably retarded

[Anonymous No.6303194]

>>6300283
>Wrote two pages of garbage.
>Read Sherlock Holmes for an hour.
>Got shitfaced and watched season 2 of Alf until 6:30 am.
>Just woke up and it's 5 pm.

Yeah. The literary lifestyle is real fun.

[Anonymous No.6303217]

Drove my very attractive girlfriend to work on my motorbike
Went back to bed, woke up at 7pm
Read paradise lost in bed and smoked cigarettes for an hour
Went out and spent the money she gave me for food on heroin
Picked her up from work at 11
She realized I was on gear, punched a mirror, called me a dog, went to bed
Wrote her a love poem and posted it to her as facebook message
Heroin wears off, feeling hungry, sit on couch thinking about suicide
Now 5am where I live, browse 4chan in a daze, about to go to bed
Sorry I don't know how to greentext

[Anonymous No.6303218]

>>6303194
>Read Sherlock Holmes
pleb

[Anonymous No.6303219]

>>6303194

Is that really your lifestyle? That's not literary at all, that's empty.

[Anonymous No.6303220]

>>6303217
>Sorry I don't know how to greentext

[Anonymous No.6303221]

>>6300283
sat in library all day sat and sun, got no essay work done, read the bell jar, ex showed up at my door at 7.30 this morning and we talked for 10.30.
i have no idea.

[Anonymous No.6303222]

>>6300408
NEETism

[Anonymous No.6303231]

Hung out at a friend's place, talking about how we all have a "God hole" inside us, pissing off people around me, getting drunk and smoking cigarettes.

[Anonymous No.6303253]

I suggested books that I didn't finish on /lit/, browsed to find new books that I will start and drop out after reading more than half of it and spend rest of the time thinking how good would be if I had something to write about. I also slept.

[Anonymous No.6303360]

>>6303217
I dont believe any of this crap.


>She realized I was on gear, punched a mirror, called me a dog, went to bed
>Wrote her a love poem and posted it to her as facebook message

Also

>Sorry I don't know how to greentext

[Anonymous No.6303474]

>>6303360
Lol. Is your life really so dull that things like having a gf or taking drugs sounds unbelievable to you?

[Anonymous No.6303815]

>write ironic and self-deprecating reviews on Goodreads
>shitpost on /lit/
>wear graphic Tees and blazers
>smoke
>drink and hang out at hipster bars
>make fun of people for posting on 4chan and Goodreads
>hide the fact you post on 4chan and Goodreads
>smoke
>never finish a lib. arts degree
>question sexuality
>when sober and up during the day go to cafes
>drink French press coffee
>smoke
>don't actually read
>talk about that book you read in high school

That's how it's done, bros.

[Anonymous No.6303832]

>>6300401
sounds incredibly literary

[Anonymous No.6303840]

>>6300858
the grass is always greener.
you are what causes it to fade when you get there

[Anonymous No.6303851]

>>6303815
How do you have time for all that if you didn't even finish a liberal arts degree?

[Anonymous No.6303855]

>Spend weekend denying conceptual views of myself
>Shit posted and called it reading
>Jerk off to my will to power to deny social norms to follow my ego's desire to be a huge fucking loser
>Finally able to enjoy fucking tranvesites and diversions without inward brow beating about self improvement

OP is a huge dilettante btw

[Anonymous No.6303870]

>>6303855
How does one fuck a diversion? It can't be all that Spiritedly.

[Anonymous No.6303886]

>>6303851
Why do you think the degree wasn't finished, anon?

[Anonymous No.6303897]

>>6303870
I mostly just relieve my self on them then beat my chest like a sliver back marking his territory, though occasionally I personify activities and moan their name while pounding my superiorly folded japenese flesh light

[Anonymous No.6303899]

>>6303886
They think a gap year means they restart the calendar when you're over Thailand?

[Anonymous No.6303902]

>>6301555
please, don't remind me of my worthless self

[Anonymous No.6303989]

>>6300401
are you me? except i have empty whiskey bottles and cans of cheap malt liquor

[Anonymous No.6303996]

>>6301491
and you didn't fuck her?
enjoy the friendzone

[Anonymous No.6304020]

>could have fucked my oneitis
>couldn't go through with it
>have mostly been drinking heavily and regretting my decision in the last few days

[Anonymous No.6304021]

How do I live in Oklahoma?

[Anonymous No.6304031]

>>6304020
why didn't you go through with it?

I got a chance with my oneitis after being friendzoned for 7 years and it was absolutely fantastic. We fucked for a few months afterwards. She told me she didn't want a relationship and i drank heavily and cried a lot afterwards. But it was still worth it and we still talk because i know she'll open up that pussy for me if she gets drunk enough

[Anonymous No.6304034]

>>6304031
>why didn't you go through with it?
She used to date my best friend for several years

[Anonymous No.6304038]

>>6304034
You are a good m8.

[Anonymous No.6304048]

>>6301768
underrated

[Anonymous No.6304057]

>>6303105
Ha gay

[Anonymous No.6304068]

>>6304034
>She used to date my best friend for several years
>best friend

Be a man. A man is by himself in this world.

[Anonymous No.6304087]

>>6300803
>olive gardens
>italian restaurant
How are you even able to browse /lit/ if you're this fucking pleb

[Anonymous No.6304089]

>>6304038
After she left and I had spent an hour in the shower aggressively masturbating and crying, I felt like I may have made the wrong decision, even if it made me the best friend to ever live.
>>6304068
b-but muh camaraderie

[plebcore virgin/loser No.6304100]

Hung out at the coffee shop by the lake today.

Studied for tests this week.
Read some plays and a little Vonnegut.
Wrote some pieces for standup tomorrow night.
Flirted with the mixed woman that brought my coffee to me(strong 9).

On a first name basis with the staff now, at this point I walk in, sit down, and they bring my coffee to me. Pretty sweet deal, they're all really nice people. Best place in the area.

[Anonymous No.6304114]

>>6304089

Is he still her? No? I'm sorry but that's how it is.

[Anonymous No.6304118]

Sorry for hogging the thread, but these feels are too much

Is it weird if I message her? Did I fuck it up forever? Should I talk to my friend to ease my mind?

[Anonymous No.6304121]

>>6304118
Shoot first, ask questions later.

[Anonymous No.6304128]

I've spent this weekend reading Augustine, going to Mass, fulfilling some freelance writing obligations, and plotting out my next few short stories. I haven't actually written anything in a bit; I still feel almost hungover from finishing a novel two weeks ago.

I suppose my weekend has been rather Joyceian.

[Anonymous No.6304148]

>>6304128
I want your life anon. Which I hate to admit considering that you obviously has your own problems etc, and I'm only fantasizing on what is unknown to me.

[Anonymous No.6304158]

>>6304114
It would still feel like betrayal, even if it might not be rational.
>>6304121
That just doesn't sit right with me, wouldn't it be better to be up front?

Not like it matters, she probably won't want me anymore.

[Anonymous No.6304169]

>never go out except for food
>stay inside all day fucking around and reading
>order clothes online to attempt to cover my insecurities to people I hate
>plot out future success while doing nothing to further advance toward my goals

I'll get there one day.

[Anonymous No.6304171]

>>6304158
>even if it might not be rational.

You have a sense of morals within your self that tell you not do it, that's actually pretty good as long you don't torture yourself too much and move on.

[Anonymous No.6304181]

>>6304169
>plot out future success while doing nothing to further advance toward my goals

Just pick something man, I know is hard but life will pass and you will soon be a 'nothing'. Just pick anything and try to be good at it.

[Anonymous No.6304205]

>>6304171
How do I move on? I feel so guilty and angry at myself for falling in love with and desiring her. I even somewhat resent my friend for having her first

[Anonymous No.6304216]

>>6304169
Looks like you're me.

I'm always saying 'tomorrow' but tomorrow never comes and I live every today bulding castles in the sky.

I'd like to be good at something.

[Anonymous No.6304230]

>>6304205

I feel that no matter what I write here is gonna make things slightly worse because you will think of her by association.

The person that you were at the time you fell for this girl is still there. You will only move on when 'you' be another 'you': different behaviors, places, people you meet, form of thinking, as those thing change you will change together and, gradually, that feel for her will disappear as well.

[Anonymous No.6304292]

3rd year of uni wrapping up
passionless and lost
don't know what to do after.
Have an inkling of interest in writing
don't know what to masters in after
being this much of a fuck up is my own fault and my parents are pissed

[Anonymous No.6304337]

>Picked up a ton of books at the local used bookstore and at the paperback exchange
>Went to Church
>Spent an hour discussing theology with some of the other church members afterwards
>played the piano for a few hours
>started Lord Jim by Conrad

how /lit/ was my weekend?

[Anonymous No.6304724]

>last day of cpr certification class of 6 people
>go to a chinese place for the lunch break
>only girl in the class is there
>sit and talk with her for a bit, attracted to her but also repulsed by how superficial she seems talking about her friends and her school and her phone and whatever
>start flirting a bit, fortune cookie tells me to commit an act of random kindness so I pay for the meal and walk out while she's scrambling through her purse and calling me back so she can pay for her shit while laughing
>laugh at her from the window n wink and then internally cringe
>go back to class, finish the written test n pass
>waiting outside the building for my ride
>I see her walk out of the lobby and turn down the street without noticing me
>for a couple seconds I feel like calling out to her to say goodbye, but decide against it without knowing why. I just watch her go
>go home and read some poetry by Rumi with the radio on
>Bell bottom blues comes on n I start thinking about the girl from the class
>strange feeling comes over me n I go to smoke on the fire escape
>I guess that's life

[Anonymous No.6304763]

>woke up drunk with all 3 drafts of my novella crumpled around my bed
>held gun to my for an hour, as is morning ritual
>knit scarf while listening to Dvorak drink tea and grappa for breakfast.
>go to the library and try to banter with Dorris the 90 year old librarian
>shitpost on /lit/
>go to college prof's house for dinnerparty
>tell him and his guests how easy it would be to poison them all
>after dinner we all go to the room of id and have a masked orgy
I wish I was making some of this up

[Anonymous No.6304795]

>>6304763
This anon is truly living the /lit/-lifestyle.

What are you reading currently?

[Anonymous No.6304797]

>>6304763
the whole point of a masked orgy is that you don't know the identity of anyone there, if you eat dinner with them all beforehand you're going to recognize some people

shit tier orgy/10, definitely not /lit/

[Anonymous No.6304806]

>>6304795
I only read notes from the underground. I've read it twenty times but I will continue reading it until it ceases to describe my life.

[Anonymous No.6304820]

>>6304806
So you are the Underground Man? My god, I'm so sorry for you. Carry on anon, may you find the light one day.

[Anonymous No.6304829]

>wake up at midday
>shitpost on /lit/ for an hour or so before getting some junk food
>realized i havent pissed yet and go and do that
>shitpost on /lit/ for another hour
>finally decide to do some reading
>read for about an hour
>suddenly realize i havent been on /lit/ for a while
>put down the book and shitpost on /lit/

i fucking hate my life

[Anonymous No.6304834]

>>6304797
we're blindfolded during dinner

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6304837]

>>6304797
I'm sure he also wishes her weren't making some of it up

[Anonymous No.6304860]

>>6300283
>finished oblomov on monday
>start with the man who laughs
>jog, read, write, eat healthy till friday
>friday comes, I meet with my friends
> we get some alcohol and weed but decide to go buy cocaine from the drag queens that hang out in the park near my place
>get shit faced discuss with a couple of friends about the glass bead game final stories
>8 o clock in the morning, everyone still at my place, neighbors are pissy
>neighbor knocks my door and kindly asks me to shut up
>friends leave
>spend the next day doing nothing feeling miserable
>shit post this on lit

[Anonymous No.6304876]

>>6304829
>realized i havent pissed yet and go and do that
In a bottle, right?

[Anonymous No.6304881]

>>6304876
no, in my mouth

[Anonymous No.6304889]

>>6304837
>implying I'm not luminty

[Anonymous No.6304901]

>>6304881
I guess that's fine, too.

[Anonymous No.6304908]

>Friday night was a big black dead zone of nothingness
>Saturday afternoon go to Chinatown and read some Artaud down by the lake
>spent Saturday night with aspie kid from billionaire family at party I was misled about an hour away--was not as fun as the billionaire family kid thing would have you think
>read some Schmitt and Leibniz today, got a wool sweater at goodwill, discussed political theory with a friend

Will someone please free me from this nightmare life? It's worse than what it sounds like.

I'd trade in 90% of the reading time for real friends and a qt.

[Anonymous No.6304996]

>>6304834
hahahahah...hah

[Anonymous No.6305155]

>Wake up on Friday
>Eat three tabs of LSD
>Think about/read Wittgenstein
>Forget how to pee
>Fractal nausea

>Wake up on Saturday
>Supervise friend on LSD
>Skip lots of rocks
>Feed her plants

>Wake up on Sunday
>Brood

I'm a STEM major

[Anonymous No.6305170]

>>6300367
> watched seasons 3 and 4 of game of thrones
> shitposted on 4chan
> read Absalom, Absalom!

[Anonymous No.6305290]

>wake up at two pm
>purchase malt liquor and orange juice
>drink brass monkey
>smoke five cigarettes
>read The Savage Detectives
>take a couple xanaxes
>go look at dogs with girlfriend
>shoot up heroin with girlfriend
>cuddle in bed till eight pm
>wake up
>eat rice and chicken
>pop a couple more xanaxes
>drink some whiskey
>smoke another five cigarettes
>read more of The Savage Detectives
>shoot up again
>shitpost on /lit/ before bed

Am I living the literary lifestyle yet?
>

[Anonymous No.6305296]

I went to the local commons and wrote for an hour

[Anonymous No.6305340]

>>6305290

>has a girlfriend

sorry, nope

[Anonymous No.6305354]

I make a living teaching self-publishing authors how to suck less at writing/selling their books.

I am living the ultimate literary lifestyle.

[Anonymous No.6305373]

>>6303815
I managed to get one of my goodreads "reviews" on the accolades section of a book
it was more of as a joke tho

[Anonymous No.6305433]

>dinner with a larger group of friends in the city (cute girls included)
>worked in a book store all weekend in a cultural dystopian suburb
>saw inherent vice on saturday

was ok, need to shift my frame of mind into writing again

[Anonymous No.6305468]

made notes for a short story went to two plays saw a philharmonic orchestra drank four bottles of wine with two dancers and a fine artist while writing five poems and a short prose piece spent the rest of the day reading went to sleep woke up spent the day reading again then got wasted on beer with a professional lyricist.

[Anonymous No.6305554]

took about 30 vicodins over the weekend and wrote for like over 8 hrs each day with minimal sleep.
suck my literary dick bitches.

[Anonymous No.6305560]

>>6304908
you sound like a tryhard faggot.

[Anonymous No.6305566]

>>6304724
0/lit
post on your livejournal next time

[Anonymous No.6305569]

>>6303474
You know why I quoted those lines ass hole

You know

[Anonymous No.6305570]

>>6304292
>muh aimlessness
sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken. grow up

[Anonymous No.6305597]

>>6305554
>taking a bunch of vicodin
>literary

[Anonymous No.6305605]

>>6305554
>needing to take drugs to get work done
what a pleb

[Anonymous No.6305648]

>>6300283
if by literary lifestyle you mean alone and depressed and contemplating suicide then yes.

[Anonymous No.6305708]

>>6303815
this guy knows his shit.

[Anonymous No.6305729]

>>6304205
You, sir, are a huge faggot.
Lemme explain.
in his 1992 opus, Mister R. McFadyen analyzed the new forms of relation developed between females and males in the postmodern era. As hard to ear as can be his statements, they now are the reference guide for all alpha males (read: men actually having sex with the women they want) when it comes to behaviour in presence of the opposite sex.
One point particulary can retain your special attention. How to consider a girl you want to have intercourse with. Let me quote a fragment of wisdom directly from the text, and enjoy his poesy :
"Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks" - Riley "Dr. Dre" MacFadyen

[Anonymous No.6305737]

>>6305605
>>6305597

jokes on you, i got work done despite being on drugs, suckas

[Anonymous No.6305740]

>>6301555
u r and faget. Going Nowhere By Myself would be a great title for an album though

[Anonymous No.6305880]

>>6305570
hey man
I'm trying to
any advice would be appreicated

[Anonymous No.6306041]

>>6300401
B..Bernard?

[Anonymous No.6306823]

>>6305880
basically dude, no one can solve this for you

you have to spend a lot of time thinking about yourself and your goals, you will probably either lose your mind or do something good for yourself, it may take a while but stick to it

[Anonymous No.6307161]

> wake up on the floor of my closet, where i sleep
> grab the jug i used for pissing
> feels_kind_of_full.mentalprocess
> piss anyway
> overflows
> sigh, turn the other way and try to sleep some more
> raging boner out of nowhere
> masturbate, cum onto hairy stomach
> fall asleep
> wake up and yell at the light coming from the curtains
> eat some popcorn crumbs off the ground
> go back to sleep

[Anonymous No.6307210]

>>6307161
> eat some popcorn crumbs off the ground
Not being forced to eat the raw popcorn kernels because your bourgeois philistine pig landlady (fuck you mom! I'm a writer now I'm not going back to dental school or temple ever again!) turned off the electricity to try to force you out of the room you haven't paid rent for since last summer.

[Anonymous No.6307220]

>>6307161

[Anonymous No.6308386]

>>6307161

yikes

[Anonymous No.6308601]

>>6305560
I do try hard. I'm trying to develop some pieces of commentary on a few philosophical and political strains strong enough to boost my grad school prospects considering I spent my undergrad putting in just enough to get a decent GPA, but not enough to be exceptional.

And I literally have no one to impress with (or very many friends for that matter). The only outside intellectual communication I have is that I keep up an e-mail correspondence with a friend that moved away and talk to the other anxious young men grown old that day-in and day-out drag themselves back to the same cafe.

[Anonymous No.6309852]

>>6301731
ameritard detected
why all of you are so retarded?

[Roy Rochford No.6310649]

>>6300283

That feel when you actually did this while living abroad when your friends were out of town for a week. (Replace Pound with "The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler)

[Anonymous No.6310666]

>>6300283
>How have you been living the literary lifestyle this weekend, /lit/?

I read a book.

[Anonymous No.6311007]

>>6300283
I read for usually 5 hours total while working in the factory. Does that count?