/lit/ - Literature

>tfw i could be the best writer in human history but my thoughts are too complex to adequately transcribe

>>14058649
>tfw you will never have a japanese neo-nazi schoolgirl gf

>>14004152
>tfw the library doesn't stamp books anymore and all those cool "Date Due" memos that tell a book's history are ripped out and the spine has a dumb barcode on it instead

>>13635038
how do i get a gf like this

and they all become their mothers OP. their journey is to marry a man like their father.

>tfw you dream about her

>I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

-DFW, Infinite Jest

>I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

bros...

>Karabekian'sdrink was aBeefeater'sdry martiniwith a twist of lemon peel, so Bonnie said to him, "Breakfast of Champions."
>"That's what you said when you brought me my first martini," said Karabekian.
>"I say that every time I give anybody a martini," said Bonnie.
>Doesn't that get tiresome?" said Karabekian. "Or maybe that's why people found cities in Godforsaken places like this -- so that they can make the same jokes over and over again, until the Bright Angel of Death stops their mouths with ashes."
>"I just try to cheer people up," said Bonnie. "If that's a crime, I never heard about it till now. I'll stop saying it from now on. I beg your pardon. I did not mean to give offense." '

Any books I can use to overcome my odd laziness? My situation is 100% my fault but I've not met anyone with the same situation and I don't know what's causing it. When I'm at work, I'm motivated and feel like I can conquer the world, and try to tell myself that I'm gonna go home, read, and practice the foreign languages I'm learning. However, as soon as I get home, the motivation is sapped out of me, it isn't fatigue, because I feel this way even on days off. Are there any book characters or author memoirs that sound similar to that? Thanks fags.

how do i become big brained enough to enjoy poetry? i honestly just dont "get" it

>>11893404
this is me last year. hope for the best anon, it doesn't get better but at least coping gets easier.

>In the Acts of Peter, a book belonging to those so-called "apocryphal" collections which were particularly esteemed and meditated upon in Gnostic and Manichaean circles, we read a narrative that provides an exemplary illustration of theophanic vision. Before a gathering of people the apostle Peter refers to the scene of the Transfiguration that he had witnessed on Mount Tabor. And essentially all he can say is this: Talem eum vidi qualem capere potui ("I saw him in such a form as I was able to take in"). Now in this gathering there are, several widows, afflicted at once with physical blindness and incredulity of heart. The apostle speaks to them in a tone of urgency: "Perceive in your mind that which ye see not with your eyes." The assemblage begins to pray, and thereupon the hall is filled with a resplendent light; it does not resemble the light of day, but is an ineffable, invisible light such as no man can describe. And this radiant "invisible light" shines into the eyes of these women, who alone are standing in the midst of the prostrate assemblage. Afterward, when they are asked what they have seen, some have seen an old man, others a youth, still others a little child who lightly touched their eyes and made them open. Each one has seen in a different form, appropriate to the capacity of her being; each one may say: Talem eum vidi qualem capere potui.

>>11742958
>it's ok to be a pedo as long as you are an intellectual
Damn, I wish I would figure this out earlier

>A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself

at last i truly see... philosophy truly is deep... so enlightening... whoa...

>tfw thoughts too complex to adequately transcribe
>will never be a published scholar even though i'm smarter than most philosophers

how do i become intelligent like you guys? do i just have to read a lot or are you born this way?

>>11112463
>Read
I want a mother to sing it to me like she would to her child

>always thought /lit/ is just a pretentious board full of gay losers
>actually visit /lit/
>everyone is unironically really smart and gifted
>i cant even begin to comprehend the level of intellectual discourse that occurs here
>the /lit/ IQ meme wasnt just a meme