/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ for coping with being a virgin in your mid-20s?

>>12013472
>this post image

>bookstore doesn't have Iliad of the Odyssey or the Comedy or almost any classics
>country doesn't have a single reliable/decent classics publisher

>>11660121
>grandson published the memoirs

>found a comfortable spot in the local park to read undisturbed
>constant intrusive thoughts reminding me of embarrassing, self-incriminating and harmful things I've done and said in the past
>can't focus at all on reading and end up smoking ten cigarettes a day to try and cope
>don't actually want the thoughts to go away or forget what I've done
>reading Brothers Karamazov recently
>started crying because how much like Alyosha I was before I let my anger, hatred and resentment sidetrack my life

Dostoevsky is so good at writing innocent characters, it is painful to read for someone with a stained conscience.

>be STEMfags
>crossover into literature after school is over out of boredom
>Still friends with STEMfags, Chads, Stacey, etc.
>Get shut down in conversation all the time.
>complain about this in private one day
>Stem buddy says it happens because it sounds like "im bullshitting instead of relying on facts"
>Start studying the greeks and literary criticism intensely.
>Finally get published as a writer.
>They still accuse me of making shit up about my field.

When will I get respect /lit/?

>tfw there are embarrassing, unaesthetic videos of you on Youtube
>tfw there are embarrassing, unaesthetic photos of you on the internet
>tfw your Mystique has already been dispelled
>tfw you will never make it as a writer because people will just see the above and quickly summarize, correctly, that you aren't worthy of sustained interested, research and study

I truly envy those of you who have not been exposed to the world yet either in the form of publishing a piece of writing, or of being caught on camera and uploaded onto the internet forever.