/lit/ - Literature

>>19886045
Americans/anglos always get weird when I call polacks "polacks", which is what we call them in my language and what they call themselves. Apparently it's derogatory in english.

>>19164272
Medicine, probably as a GP (not an american or brit) is the only career I can see myself tolerating in the long run. Nothing else seems satisfying. I'll be late to the party, but I WILL be non-union equivalent Chekhov. That or I'll just be a loser, at least in my own eyes.

>>18932772
>>18932953
Anon I think you're fucking Molloy

>>18712286
I need to find a partner.

>>14903774
Fantastic book. Castorp's musings on time, how boredom and monotony stretch the hour into infinity, but at the same turn the year, the decade, into nothing really did a number on me.

What if I hire an escort to greet me when I get home from work? What could go wrong?

>>12632311
I was partially right, lolita and count of monte cristo, both fiction and of little value, and half the video is about some jap book, but the other half is him giving his brainlet takes on kirkeegard. Cannot understand the abstract of taking a leap of faith and brushes it off with a fedora tip which is low even for him. He simply can not bring himself to adopt the ideas of a Scandinavian, even for a second and has to dismiss it as for superficial reasons as he was programmed to do. Good job jews, hes a perfect examply of a European man, who like the character in a clockwork orange, a movie I assume he likes because he had a poster of it in the background many times; undergone "therapy" to ensure he never gases 6 billion again.

Pathetic.

>>12437322
2012 or 2013, I think.

I wish I could cry.

>>12333582
My original post was sincere, anon.

>people hating on Moomin
What could make a man commit such evil? To be so hateful?

i dont "get" poetry

ok, i get homer and milton and dante and shakespeare

but most "poetry" seems to me like mostly gibberish with a few pretty phrases that evoke things. i guess there are themes in word choice but overall it seems like gibberish to me. song lyrics too, anywhere outside of the mainstream the lyrics seem like they just wrote whatever came to them. is that poetry? how can anyone have the same experience of a poetry, seems like pure chance. we widely accept that poetry has no fixed meaning but what part is fixed? i think i'm too autismal.

>start writing
>make a typo
>scream and throw shit at the wall
Anyone else know this feel?

>>8794231
>good point

>>8789999
A poem by Mira Gonzalez was assigned reading for one of my seminars a couple of weeks ago. I thought her audience consisted of vice journalists and Lena Dunham, and suddenly I find out that there people who teach the public who take this shit seriously

I thought it was just a meme, but people actually consider this poetry. I wish I'd listened, /lit/

>>8559383
Who else /feelsresentmentthattheyneverrecievedtheclassicaleducationthatallgreatwritersofhistoryrecieved/?

Fucking modernity man

>go to uni library
>enter silent room with theoretical book I really need finish
>door has a big fucking pictographic sign on it that has a laptop crossed out in red so even the illiterate can understand
>some dudes in laptop sit inside but they are trying not to make any typing sounds while doing multiple choice training with touchpad so whatever
>two girls come in, see guys using laptops so they plop down theirs
>girl starts typing full force in a completely silent room without a single care in the world
>literally only sound in the entire room
>somehow_this_is_appropriate.jpg
>continues for 5 minutes
>exchange looks with other guys in room but nobody does anything
>sit nearest, stand up
>tell her in the most friendliest manner possible that "usually laptops are not allowed in here cause they make so much noise, so could you please stop typing"
>looks around, sees nobody except her is typing
>agrees
>get back to my seat
>5 minutes later
>she starts bouncing her legs back and forth like a toddler
>chair creaks in a totally silent room continously
>fuck it just going to ignore it
>1 hour passes
>smoke break
>come back
>she is still bouncing her leg

>tfw don't know how to write protagonists that aren't sensitive artists

>have to give a one minute speech about my favourite book tomorrow
>still haven't chosen something with the right amount of erudition without seeming too pretentious

>>7481360

>tfw read this book 3 times and still have no idea what he's talking about in the first part

>write a story
>try to make en effort to make it structured and thematically meaningful
>it ends up being cold and didactic
>try to loosen up and just "let your creativity" go on the page
>it ends up being messy and incoherent

>try to only consume art that's fun and popular
>get called a pleb
>try to have more standards and consume art that's intellectually engaging
>get called a snob

there's no way to win, is there?

>>7371151

just to have a legacy of any kind would be a good thing for me

>>7369214

>"I don't understand it, but I feel it."

>have to write an essay
>don't even believe in your own thesis
>write about it anyway because it's the only idea you have
>get a good mark on it
>tfw guilt over being dishonest in your achievements