/lit/ - Literature

>Be me, sophomore year of college
>Meet girl at Starbucks, hit it off.
>I go to engineering school for a Bio major, She's Bio too, but...
>She goes to UPENN
>All my aspirations of ever being patrician stir within me a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve.
>I play it cool, we date for a while
>First date was actually a picnic on a roof, re wine and SPAGHETTI I made. I shit you not.
>Turns out we're both into BDSM, fun on that note.
>Eventually, winter break is seen to be kinda around the corner. I have this horrific habit of getting bored with whatever girl i'm with then looking around.
>No matter how perfect. I cannot tell you how true that has proven to be.
>Know I'm going to break up with her "So I don't cheat on her."
>Study hang at her library.
>Her library. Ivy Library.
>I actually get a little stiff. She loans me a copy of The Sound and the Fury
>I am retroactively wondering if this book makes people sperglords
>Determine that I'm going to break up with her as soon as I finish it, do the day before winter break.
>I invite her to my place to say goodbye before I head to the train, soothe her into the idea of taking a break.
>We fuck viciously.
>I call her a week later, after her finals and before a party to end it gently. Haven;t seen her since.

I'm pretty sure the literary feels aren't mine, but hers. I think that she thinks that I broke up with her because of that book. Tbh, I'm not sure what did it.

Guise.

>>6200172

There's levels greater. You don't expect bacteria to donate to charity. The levels of expected beneficence increases with the transcendence of the thing.