/lit/ - Literature

>lattimore

is literature to precise to accurately convey the internal life of humans?

>go to bookstore
>grab Umberto Eco's latest book, "Number Zero"
>go to cashier
>she is a 8/10 qt 3.14
>cashier says that she loves Umberto Eco but haven't read his novels, just "Name of the Rose" and "Baudolino".
>says that she is really excited about reading this book I'm buying but probably won't read it because she is so busy right now. Nevertheless tells me to have a good time reading it
>I respond: "y-you too"
>realize what I just said and try some damage control: "I mean 'you too' when you actually end up reading it, you know?"
> notice its only making things worse, I have a lisp and she probably didn't understand what I'm saying.
>spaghetti.jpg
>walk quickly out of the store.
>realize I forgot my book (even though I already paid for it)
> it was expensive and I have to go back and get it.
>too nervous to confront qt
>call my mom and ask her to go get it for me.
>she drives there and does what she is asked to
>when she hands me the book she says that the girl asked her to apologize to me because she didn't know I would be offended by the little chat
> wut.png
> now i'm never going back to that bookstore

What have you done to me 4chan?