/lit/ - Literature

>>8185100
>18 months

>>6853329
>dfw no intelligent, nihilistic gf with a wicked sense of humor

>tfw you realize you can't be sincere

>>6460034
>dfw you forget to post the image

>pg.71
Am I supposed to understand the basic setting of the novel by this point? I've been reading and looking up what the acronyms stood for (going with the flow essentially) but the whole o.n.a.n. superstate thing/subsidized time didn't make sense to me up until I read up about the book's setting and basic background in a wiki. I didn't even know it was set in a dystopian world until teleputers were mentioned. And the whole quebecois separatism situation (in regards to quebec being separated from o.n.a.n.) didn't make much sense to me up until I read tid bits from the wiki, even though quebecois characters were being mentioned multiple times.

It took me about an hour to get though like 8 pages because I was constantly looking up words and reading footnotes. Not much else is giving me trouble, and I'm actually enjoying the experience and will try my best to finish reading the book, but I feel as if I'm not truly grasping some of what I'm reading (even after looking up definitions, reading footnotes, etc.).

Am I an imbecile?

>mfw I no longer find dfw threads funny but don't want to delete my collection of dfw pics

>>6057043
>The Faggot anon was in terrible and
unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility
of sharing or articulating this pain was itself
a component of the pain and a contributing
factor in its essential horror.

>Despairing, then, of describing the emotional
pain itself, the faggot anon hoped at least
to be able to express something of its context its shape and texture, as it were by shitposting in dank threads.

>mfw posting a dfw pic in a chinese cartoon forum at 4:35 am