/lit/ - Literature

>>9175672
>Be 18yo me
>live in a shitty small town, demographics don't really fit /lit/'s so don't expect fellow countrymen to be /lit/erati in general
>get on bus
>miraculously it's not crowded, see free seats in the distance
>rush over
>manage to sit down
>2/10 comfy, this gon be a bad ride
>look forward
>see pic related
>mfw.jpg
>get phone out of pocket, take pic
>start wondering what kind of person would write that
>has to be a girl, for the rounded handwriting
>go home, post pic on /lit/
>no replies, what was I thinking?
>but, what if I could actually find her?
>ost the picture every now and then for a few months, hoping she'd browse /lit/ as well
>sometimes feel like I'm wasting my time but it seems almost fateful that I ran into what she wrote so keep posting every now and then
>a year goes by
>one day get reply from someone who claims to be her
>omgomgomgomg.jpg
>gives me skype address, we talk
>she's a qt3,14159265358979
>"wow anon, I can't believe you ran into what I wrote! Infinite Jest is like, my life"
>talk to her everyday for a weel about mostly lit related stuff, she's really into DFW, Gass, Pynchon, DeLilo, the list goes on
>learn a couple things about her: she's 17, wants to study psychology and writes in poetry and prose (recites me some of her poems on skype)
>turns out she lives 5 minutes away
>she wants to meet
>finally the time comes
>tell her to meet at a cafe halfway between our homes she asks if I could show her my personal library later
>"yeah sure why not"
>get there
>we arrive at the same time so we meet in the street
>she says "hi anon" with a smile in her face "how are y-"
>slap that bitch accross the face
>she screams and freaks out
>face is read
>cries/screams "WHAT THE FUCK ANON WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT"
>"that's for reading meme po-mo garbage"
>"pleb"
>calmly walk back home
>go back to posting on /lit/