/lit/ - Literature

>freshman year philosophy of arts class
>filled to the brim with pseuds
>this one motherfucker
>dresses extravagantly
>loud, flamboyant, has a lisp
>always interrupting with irrelevant shit
>goes on a long ramble about "the literary agent hypothesis" in lecture
>always makes shitty Dr. Who comparisons
>one day the class goes to a local "modern art" exhibition
>experimental piece with tipped over road cones and a security camera
>lecturer asks us what we think
>guy pipes in "it reminded me of 1988"
>1988
>later that year he tries to do the marina abramovic thing where he stands in public and invites people to beat him up, draw on him, etc.
>the public is just fucking confused and do nothing
>begins cutting himself in public
>campus security shuts it down

pic related, GY!BE played on our campus that year. ran into this guy again and called him a pseud to his face while drunk.

>>7827435
honestly, yes.

I was a friendless loser who couldn't speak with people. When I first heard of "beeing myself" I thought I should shave my head because hair have always been a problem to me hygiene-wise, and also I had no social capital to lose. So I did shave my head. What happened was that the next day the Paris shooting (at the Bataclan) occured and everyone at the university thought I had shaved my head to sympathize with the victims-an idea which repulsed me.
That day everyone was hushed at the university. People came up to me and talked to me in the corridors, my classmates and phd teacher guys. I made most of my friends that day. I still keep in touch with my first semester teachers because they thought I shaved my head because of a bombing.

tl;dr thanks Daech and also short hair is great