/lit/ - Literature

Personally, I hate used books, I like seeing how the pristine book gets more and more fucked up as I carry it in my pocket all day, sleep with it in bed, throw it about, maybe tear a page or bend an edge by accident. Man that's satisfaction that book is "mine"

>>22775744
>It is like being a pianist with arthritis
Oh man that hurts. F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp02ubGuTIU&ab_channel=RobertPlaster

And the anon posted in his board where he was the OP and the other anons gathered round and bore witness and the thread was a brief one with lost of meaningless shitposts and thoughtposts and by the time it had reached the limit it was full of pointless trash and meme images and frogs that performed bizarre impious acts in the rain and the shine and in front of the white backgrounds and the OP said at some point his mom wasn't a slag but the other anons knew better and one even said OP he said I'm banging your mom and that was that.

>The quality difference
Europe really is just the best isn't it

>>22430479
Bless, the dream isn't dead \0/

I’m feeling very demoralized at the moment. I’ve been looking for a church to join but haven’t been able to find one that has normal, young people. I was raised Catholic, but I don’t agree with the Catholic conception of sin and dislike how narrow and dogmatic their theology can be. At first, Anglicanism really interested me - it was very similar to Catholicism but with a more open theology. However, when I went to my local Episcopalian church, it was literally all old people. And when I say literally all, I do mean literally all. I was the only person there without grey hair. I felt really awkward about this, so I tried the Episcopalian church in the next town over. Slightly better: it had a few middle aged people thrown in there, but I was still the only person in my twenties there. On top of that, the views of the church were insane. They had a pride flag outside and the priest spoke of the God of the Old Testament as being somehow distinct from the God of the New Testament and said the God of the Old Testament deserved our criticism. Like I said, I prefer a church with a more open theology, but it’s wild to have a priest openly preaching what is essentially Gnosticism. As for the pride flag: I’m not homophobic (I’m gay myself) - I just don’t think church is the appropriate place for that kind of stuff. I want to go to church to get closer to God, not discuss sexuality. I can only imagine that’s the tip of the iceberg, since the website for the Episcopal church is full of talk about race and sexual orientation. So I tried an ACNA church (which is the more conservative Anglican branch in America that broke off from the Episcopal Church), hoping they’d have younger people and be a little more sane. They did in fact have some younger people (I was no longer the only person in my twenties), but none of the young people there were nice, normal people. Almost all of them were exactly like trads on the internet: weirdos and losers likely on the higher functioning end of the autism spectrum. They also engaged in a lot of attention seeking, holier than thou behavior that was really off putting. And of course, the topic of politics came up again. They were just as crazy, only right wing instead of left wing this time. Based on what I’ve been reading on the internet, this seems to be the case with all mainline Protestant denominations. The only branches of Christianity that seem to be full of nice, normal, young people are Baptists and non-denominationalists (which are usually just baptist-lite). But I don’t want to be a Baptist or non-denominational - they’re they’re the goyslop of Christianity and they don’t resemble any form of historical Christianity.

I once had a girl that loved me with all her heart. More than I could appreciate at that time. More than I could understand. When I broke up with her, I had no idea how much it hurt her because I was too young to understand. We stayed friends, but she's changed a lot. I think I destroyed her innocence, and she became of the world. I don't really wanna see her or talk to her again. I have nobody now, I'm alone and there's a void that no one seems to even touch let alone fill. I've always been foreign to the world, but I think I've drifted further away than ever. I never talk about personal things with anyone, I always listen to my friends but I never share anything with anyone. It's a deep loneliness that I don't see any exit from. I talk to people all the time but I'm lonelier than ever. No prospect of change, every new acquiantance is a reminder of my pereptual loneliness.

>>21699270
I spent all day working on the cover art for my new webnovel instead of getting any writing done

I wish I was a better person.

>>21476866
>am very sad when I hear about his passing
>look online and see a ton of people celebrating his death
>feel even sadder
The blind hatred of the Catholic church is becoming very tiring

>I'm the only person on the entire board who voted for Snow Country
Maybe I'm the one who has bad taste

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>>20981699
>Cormac McCarthy
What makes him stand out so much?
I'm a literary noob and I read The Road which was fantastic but I just thought that was the genre, are you telling me it doesn't get any better?

>>20856501
>You'll never live in Gormenghast
>You'll never be able to save Fuchsia

>>20851556
His joints cracked in unison with the inexorable ticking of the clock as he limped across the room. He watched in abject horror as the big hand ticked nearer to that shadowy hour that gripped his mind incessantly in its dark cloak. His mind paced outwards over the black fields of death, over the war-torn villages and castles, paced to the rhythm of the bugles of the dead and damned. A howl of terror rasped out of his throat and echoed down the long empty hallways, heard only by the owls, black as midnight, perched as gargoyles on the roof of the abbey. He dropped to the floor under the majesty of the moon and lay drowning in a pool of his own midnight.

>>20762194

i typically read books that are over 500 pages. and i average 10 pages a day which means i likely have around 400 left to read in life

>buy audiobook
>listen for eight hours at work
>get impatient and pirate the epub
>finish the remaining 80% in a few hours
why does this keep happening

I'm NGMI

Guys, I stole a book from a teacher in highschool. I don't remember which teacher but I still have the book. What do I do? I stole from a poor person.

>see sexy edition of a book I already have for cheap
>try to resist the urge to buy it
Anyone else know this feel?

Drinking some lemon balm tea made from harvestes leaves from my garden, listening to some bossa nova and about to read hitlers war from irving. Quite comfy.

>>20498821
thank you

>>20492965
maybe i am, maybe i'm not

RIP to the souls we just lost in the most recent banwave. See you in three days comrades.

>>19658001
>>age
26
>>occupation
PhD student
>>last book of 2021
Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
>>first book of 2022
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
>>new years resolution
Get closer to God
>>ending credits theme song
https://youtu.be/-65_W2zObOo