/lit/ - Literature

The Irish Embassy held a Dubliners discussion in English and I wanted to visit it but because I didn't know my way around I ended up missing the event and wandering two hours in the city aimlessly. The thoughts of this event still bring me to tears because it makes me feel like a failure who missed a once in a lifetime chance to discuss a Joyce work with actual Irish people.

>>11248380
Kalevala

>>11232840
Eugene Onegin

>>11232454
Dictionary of the Khazars

>>11230277
Hell's Screen by Akutagawa

Now that I think about it, it's weird to realize sometimes how different things can be.
Yesterday I went into the city with around ~10 dollars and when I spent it all on books and tea, I realized, holly molly, I just spent it all, and I'm out of money, there is nothing else for me to do here now, since everything requires money, let's go home instead.
10 dollars is nothing for an American. 10 dollars is nothing for someone in the west.
The contrast made me think, but I haven't gotten to a conclusion yet.

>it was extremely anime

>Natsume Soseki - The Gate
I'm halfway through, and it's really depressing, honestly.
>tfw Sosuke's internal monologue about taking the same tram every day without looking at your surroundings
>You are reading this monologue while you are sitting in the tram you take every day without looking at your surroundings

>Lev Tolstoy - War and Peace
I enjoy it way too much. The characters are almost overly alive, and it's the kind of book that makes me angry despite being superbly written.

This club culture is so foreign to me.
My schools never had any. There is a Spanish circle, but that is more like an extra class, than a club.
I remember wanting to join the chess club in fourth or so grade. I stood 40 minutes in front of a locked door, then went back to my class. They told me the nex day that nobody had an interest in it, so it was disbanded.
One of the bands have a room they can use after class, but that's all.
Yeah, nothing "book" related. Honestly, I just ask my teachers and librarians when I need to know, or want to know something. Never once have I discussed an interesting book that wasn't part of our curriculum.

And you yanks and brits and western pricks have anime clubs and book clubs and all the (to me) weird stuff that would be really fun to check out for a day or two, just so that I have the experience "well, I saw that too, weeaboo gathering outside of the cyberspace", but no, I have to accept the fact that all I will ever get on this front is a stray weeb girl with an "I <3 Yaoi" badge on her bag or the odd faggot learning Japanese and then saying that he buys all his manga or the three guys who are shorter than you, and are full of pimples who talk about watching the 666^2th episode of naruto. I will never learn to play chess. Nobody in my vicinity wants to play with me. So I'm absolutely abhorrent at playing it. I will never learn to play Go either.

Why is it that my best experiences have been only in the library with the librarian, and a few moments with my teachers. Why can you have clubs with people interested in the same things as you? Why is it that I still find books in the library that were never opened even though they were purchased in the seventies and eighties? Why is it that I despise anglo commercialism so much but then again I'm jealous of some of the things you have, an why wouldn't my life be complete without speaking lingua franca?
Why does it take so long for the sun to die?