/lit/ - Literature

>reading portrait in bed, enjoying it a lot
>stephen has just seen a prostitute, that's cool
>decide to read a bit more that night
>mfw that scene starts

>next chapter is the first chapter I will be reading authentic text
>mfw the vocabulary list is twice as long as every other chapter and filled with verbs
Feels bad man

All in English

My life has been dominated by the manga Otoyomegatari since it turned me into an orientalist

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I've been reading this on and off for the past 2 years
I am only up to the chapter on the subjunctive mood...

I found a bone in my garden
I've been watching those videos where people transform their gardens, removing the grass and replacing them with raised garden beds and so I decided to give it a go
This morning I had some time to start digging and so with much effort I started removing the grass
I'm sure there are better ways of doing this but I was lazy and had some energy to release before work
I dug for about 10 minutes before a dull thud came from the ground and I saw a whitish piece of plastic or so I thought, buried in the ground
Getting my small spade from the shed I started digging around it, hoping it wasn't very large, and yet I quickly realised that it wasn't small but rather long and with the most unnerving shape
I thought to myself whether this would cause trouble for me, obviously the bone had nothing to do with me beyond it being found within my garden and yet if it truly was what I thought it was
My chest tightened as I imagined the possibilities, would I call the police? I had no idea if it even was from a human or whether I was just digging up some old dog
How embarrassing would it be if it were nothing but a kangaroo or dog
The previous owners were old and hadn't mentioned any dogs that had been buried and yet despite not knowing anything about cadavers I could have sworn that this bone was not that old for it still had what looked like flesh clinging to it
I thought about whether I should just cover the partially uncovered bone with the dug up dirt but quickly realised that doing so might make me look even guiltier
I didn't find a bone in the garden btw I just thought about what would I do if I found a bone in the garden

>Gal-adriel
>she's a woman

Honestly it wasn't until I discovered /lit/ in 2013 that I imagined that literature could be cool
At the time the alt-right was blossoming online and I had begun identifying myself with it and so Harold Bloom's ideas about the Western Canon and the School of Resentment were immediately appealing to me
They made it seem like reading classic literature was an act of rebellion against modern culture, you had modernist and post-modernist authors whose novels appeared like tall mountains that intimidated me in their height and breadth yet intrigued me at the same time, the challenge of conquering one of these peaks appealed to me greatly
4 years after I began reading literature I started transitioning and so maybe my perspective is a bit strange but I seriously believe that all it takes is male role models who present literature as being something rebellious, intellectual demanding and cool and you will have lots of boys and men who at least make an effort to read it
I think Jordan Peterson is probably the best hope we have although I'm not sure if he recommends authors like Dostoyevsky in his self help books?

Has anyone here managed to seduce/court a girl from the bookstore?

Damn they really needed Jesus. Such degeneracy is proof enough that Christ is the savior.