/lit/ - Literature

>>11577341

> glances of eye contact when apart.
>I feel she's hiding something behind her act.
>she is extremely blunt and straightforward, ...it leaves little room for her to talk about herself and keep a conversation going.

She's nervous around you because she senses that you're interested in her and she doesn't want you courting her.

The blunt manner of speaking is an unconscious strategy for curtailing conversation. The glancing is because she notices you looking and wants to stop you from looking because it makes her uncomfortable.

You're mistaking a true worldliness for crude humor. Joyce, Pynchon, Gass, Rabelais, Montaigne, etc, are all people who have surpassed your petit-bourgeoisie propriety in their search for understanding and their spiritual embrace or penetration of life. That "fuck you full of farts" letter gets joked about here, but that's a level of love most people on /lit/ can't even comprehend, the kind that will persist into the horrors of old age because it already finds the erotic in the disgusting and pedestrian. You have to actually confront the disgusting, horrific facts of the world if you want to be great, and they do, often with humor and panache. It's not just majestic, Miltonic evil that makes for great literature. You're a fucking pleb, truly, no meme, for real.

>>11415641

He derives his worldview entirely from principles, and his principle is deference to authority. He's not scientific, he's somebody who makes appeals to Science, the institution, as explained by popularizers.

He's literally the same as a Victorian spinster making appeals to the general opinion of her fellow parishioners and the declarations of the priest about what's 'right.' She might say things like, "well a lot of people might go for these silk stockings but really they're just a lot of sin." She uses statements like this to isolate her from the dynamism of the world because it scares her. She will live in a room in her father's house, perfectly proper, until she dies.

>>11232027
What impression do you have of portrait so far? What part are you at? Were you raised Catholic?

>21
>King Queen Knave
>Madame Bovary
>The Volga Rises in Europe