/lit/ - Literature

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1. Yes, guitar. I've played for ten years but only recently got to a point of average skill. I can't read sheet music. >muh tabs

2. No, in the application process to get my provisional driving license as we speak, though.

3. A Level (UK). I went crazy after been given an unconditional offer to study literature in wales and just stopped bothering with my A levels all together. Dropped out in February. I've been tinkering with writing while working at a bookshop part time.

4. Currently reading Atlas Shrugged. The amount of hatred Rand gets both on here and just day to-day inspired me to give Anthem a chance, considering it was only like 120 pages. I liked it a lot, and, although i've always leaned left politically, I began to sympathise with her moral code, to the point where I memorised the quote: "I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
I'm only 30-40 pages into Atlas Shrugged, but It seems promising so far. She writes very similar to K. Dick- i'd have to do at least 30 seconds of googling to figure out if she was before or after him, though.

5. God has never really concerned me. I grew up in a family of atheists and although i went to a Church of England school (not much choice for a child growing up in a rural village), the appeal of religion has always been lost on me. I do consider myself vaguely spiritual and try and meditate at least once a day.

6. I feel like humans are almost too obsessed with their own existence and its importance. This question would require a few people at a dinner table with at least four to five units of alcohol consumed per person.

7. For me it would be the beaches in Norfolk, UK. Not necessarily the tourist hotspots like Hunstanton, Wells, Cromer (although I have fond memories of those places). I prefer the smaller, more isolated beaches. Perhaps it's just having gone there every single year growing up, but I don't know. There's something very calming about the whole landscape. Pic related is a 3 mile costal walk that takes you to a remote beach with sporadic dunes and grassland. Went there with my GF recently.

8. It feels like every day my brain redefines all my emotions and leaves me utterly confused and isolated in dealing with them and it's crushing me.

9. Yes & yes

10. Nah, I'm an inconsistent vegan but I haven't eaten meat in nearly three years now. Sometimes I regret not trying out fishing before I realised how shamelessly evil the whole animal produce related industry is.