/lit/ - Literature

>>20334377
Oh and that's just the bibliographies/lists I currently have saved, if you account for another "layer" of expansion from there it's obviously exponential. Not to mention all the languages I'm supposedly going to learn someday which each have their own sub-canon and scholarship to read.

Holy shit. I've cracked the code. Here are my thoughts on 'social situations' and sociability. For context -- I'm awkward, but not terrible and a complete autist, I can hold down a corporate job and all.

Imagine if you never had the sense of touch. Other people would talk about how a table was "hard" and, over time, you would learn how to work out whether an object was "hard" or not: straight edges, flat surfaces, certain materials.

Sometimes you would get it wrong - perhaps not by what you said, but odd things you did as a result of misinterpreting an object as hard or soft incorrectly - and people would look at you strangely. They wouldn't say anything, because they kind of wouldn't understand the problem. They'd just think you odd for treating a soft object as hard, or the other way round.

Other people have a sense of "touch" with each other, a "felt sense" about situations and other people that is as direct as touching a table. They don't need to think, they just know what other people are feeling and what the 'state' is of a conversation or a group. All visual and auditory cues are automatically interpreted and turned into this "overall knowing" felt in their bodies (usually in the central, gut area, but it's very subtle, a bit like this).

When people make small talk, the information isn't in what is said, it's in the feeling and exploration of this sense; they are sensing each other out, and exploring each other non-verbally: exchanging. That's how people bond, make friends, build relationships - that is what it means to know a person.

The words are just data, and mostly don't matter to people.

How did it take me 24 years to figure this out. Am I autistic??

>tfw managed to get a gf but don't have a single friend and haven't had one since school

>tfw got a kindle instead of a kobo

Milan Kundera is 92
John Barth is 91
Alice Munro is 90
Robert Coover is 89
Cormac McCarthy is 88
Mario Vargas Llosa is 85
Thomas Pynchon is 84
Don DeLillo is 84
Joyce Carol Oates is 83
J. M. Coetzee is 81
Antonio Lobo Antunes is 79
Salman Rushdie is 74

>>17865366
now wait a minute, i wasn’t also supposed to roll dubs...
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>250 word essay on racism in To Kill A Mockingbird >due in ten months