/lit/ - Literature

wiseacre

>>2856716
>nintendocore
>"unique"

Try harder. And sage.

Personally, I tend to enjoy media of all kinds (music, film, literature, anime, you name it) more when I never discuss it with other people, or at least initiate a conversation about it. There are a lot of other interesting things to talk about. You wouldn't want to read a story where all the characters talked about was media (unless it was done in a very creative and subtle way), would you?

Create your own stories from your conversations with people, rather than judge them on something so subjectively shallow as taste in readily available media formats.

That being said, I often find that I enjoy the media I consume more when I do so in secret, not looking for the acceptance or rejection of others. I also find it much more inspiring creatively. It creates a sort of loneliness where you're interpretation of the other world created by the story is the only one you're exposed to. This monist interpretation of events is very important in writing, even when writing a narrative from multiple perspectives, each with their own interpretation.

Its sort of like how a very small music scene, or a film that very few people have seen, tend to be the most interesting. With all this readily available media that your peers have most likely never been exposed to, it is now easier to create your own private creative world of ideas, or "scene" all from the comfort of your room. It's a sort of "creative consumption" that will make whatever you produce and pastiche from what you've consumed much more interesting.

>>2761369

I probably wouldn't approach a woman reading next to a fucking dynamo or whatever that is.

>>2601032
Have fun with crippling debt, unless it's something you actually want to do.


But I get the feeling you're in it for the money, so the sarcastic admonition stands.

Archer is really the only show I've seen pull off some serious literary references. Like, Bartleby-The-Scrivner-type references. And it's a cartoon.

>>2578363
I had no idea.

>>2578368
I thought there were other shows, but this literally and definitively is "Single White Female: The Show."

I knew a chick who seemed to be in love with Faulkner; problem was she seemed to either despise or be apathetic towards everything and everyone else.

>All Quiet On The Western Front
>Cat's Cradle
>The American
>European History textbook
>3 Plays of Anton Chekov

That's it really, my school's actual library was a bit small. The township's library was just next door though. I quit stealing stuff when the security guard (we only had one) was looking into student's cars in the parking lot throughout the day for stolen books (?) Yeah, I'm still confused by that one.

>>2517428
I still haven't worked up the nerve to take books from Barnes & Nobles. I'm afraid there's going to be a sensor I miss.

You need to get laid before you become a father.


Get back on /lit/'s level

I don't think anyone (at least anyone worth listening to) is disputing that some people genuinely enjoy science -I used to be into electricity as a hobby but I've fallen out of it- but unfortunately there's a fuck-ton of people just in it for the money, and that's a frightening concept because then I imagine the next generation of, say, doctors as mostly incompetent. There's always genuinely talented people, yes, but I'm worried that, just as the internet's given us a whole hell of a lot of data but little information, the current financial crisis and the entailing career-choice anxiety might give us a whole hell of a lot of STEM majors.

>>2487791
>Hatfield-McCoy

I think a Scully-Mulder or even Steed-Peel coupling would have been more timely.

Tee-hee, /sci/ and /lit/'s going to the ball together durr

>>2489682
I kind of want a tombstone as succinct as that. I don't even want dates or a name.

I honestly don't find Sedaris amusing, but who knows, you might.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, JD Salinger, Murakami, DFW, and I think that's about it.

I've also read all of Chuck Klosterman's books.

>>1895840
i know that, im asking if you think a well made poem can be made into a good song. like, could you see T.S. Eliot's "The lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" being put well to music?

also, any critiques on my first draft?

>>1781978
good point, do you think this sums it up?

Main concern is conformity that stems from lineage based gentry. Conformity creates this strange form of morality, where appearing moral is more important than being moral, since this value system stems from social pressures and not the individual self.