/lit/ - Literature

What is a book you don't understand?

Is Woodwrow Wilson the most /lit/ president?
>academic
>fought wwi
>vaguely resembles lovecraft
>Ben Shapiro hates him

>>22621910
Only the first two, answering too many questions is too much for my autistic brains
Also I like to imagine how would I answer those questions, and by that I mean my body language, the stare fixated on the floor, a bit hunched on my seat and sometimes answering in very schizophrenic ways while the interviewer starts to get uncomfortable

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This is the one that's gonna make the difference

>>19328001
>age
25
>life goal
Be my generation's Nabokov and make insane amounts of money out of writing and other things
>major/job
?
>favorite lit characters
Screwtape, Benny Profane, Stencil, Pele Divina (Savage Detectives), AJ (Naked Lunch), the protagonist (At Swim-Two-Birds), Sharik (Heart of a Dog), Judge Holden, Alyosha, Yossarian, Adrian Leverkuhn, Captain Ahab
>top 3 fav books
Moby Dick, Gravity's Rainbow, Doctor Faustus

>>19328331
Against Nature is tremendously based, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, they are merely disgusting ideologues who can't love art for the AESTHETICS

>>19328172
+Magic Mountain, based Thomas Mann reader

Set in Manaus, Brazilian north, in the state where the largest portion of the Amazon jungle is. A man fallen in hard times accepts an odd job offering: serve as human bait to an experiment to discover if the mythical Caboclo D'água, a creature from Brazilian folklore in the form of a three feet tall fish people, really exists. Lowered into the local rivers inside a wooden cage, our protagonist is bitten by many piranhas until he quits and demands payment, but his bosses can only pay half of what they promised.

From then on he pursues a worker's union of independent contractors, among which most members are prostitutes, porn stars and gunslingers who kill for local criminals and politicians. He explains his situation and they set up a huge protest, which attracts the attention of environmentalist groups who join them. Thus, many shenanigans ensue, from environmentalists arguing that the fishing of "undocumented mythical species" should be a crime, the mayor, seeking popularity, forbidding the fishing of mermaids and Caboclos D'água and making Human-Bait an official job description with rights to contracts, minimum wage, benefits and a severance package. Many people worldwide lining up to be hired as human bait, tied to a rope and thrown in the ocean to fish for whales and sharks, drowsed in blood to serve as jaguar bait, and covered in honey at riversides to hunt for bears. Problems caused by rampant picketing, strikes, money printing and price controlling by the government would be worked into the story as well, as it exposes the retarded governmental actions taken to solve problems caused by gross incompetence, in an ouroboros of private and public sector retardation.

5AM - Wake up after a fulfilling night of 8 hours of sleep while spooning my beautiful wife. I slowly wake her up with gentle caresses, guiding her body to the conclusion that we must drift from unconsciousness towards being wide awake. By the time she is awake, I give her a back massage and proceed to get up, leaving her to get out of bed a bit more slowly than I do.
05:20 - At this moment I start brushing my teeth, take a piss, but do not take a shower yet.
05:25 - I indulge in a satisfying and delicious breakfast in the company of my wife. I drag this on for as long as possible, checking the occasional e-mail here, and the piece of news on the TV there in the meantime. There is no need to rush.
05:45 - After eating breakfast I move on to exercising. My exercise routine is rigorous, extremely specific and proper of a professional bodybuilder (despite the fact that I am no such thing, but I do indeed take a healthy controlled dose of steroids to pump my physique). I will not get in details of this particular routine but it takes a long time, around two hours a day of exercise, and I like to get these two hours out of the day first thing in the day.
07:45 - At this moment I am finished working out and am exhausted, feeling the liberating rush of endorphins and the characteristic runner's high that courses through me. I can feel all tensions and pent up physical dissatisfactions leave my body as I have fulfilled the desire to exert that energy through tons of exercise first thing in the morning. I move to take a relaxing shower that refreshes me as my body normalizes from the exhaustion and the flow of endorphis and serotonin.
08:00 - A bit of time I dedicate to doing almost nothing. I relax from all the exercise and the long meal I just had, just kicking back and watching some TV. On some occcasions, sex with my wife will ensure, but not necessarily always. Sometimes I take this hour to read. Over the course of the hour I will slowly get my things and get dressed and get in the car to go to work, where I arrive at nine.
09:00 - Around this time I arrive at work, which is the usual for me and all of the other employees of the company (I prefer to not divulge many details, but it is an alcohol industries company of which I constitute a very important part of the leadership). I greet all my coworkers as I pass by them. We take the morning to deal with a variety of meetings, and we have the following hours until noon divided into many blocks, all representative of different meetings.

Be honest, guys, what's more likely to keep you turned on to a girl, her taste in literature being quality, or her onlyfans being quality? Hmmmm?

>>17936302
>So you're anti-science
First of all, you didn't check my heavenly dubs, so you are officially the worst faggot on /lit/, even more disgusting than the Spaniard capslock pedo fag.
And second, yes, this is /lit/, ffs, what the fuck did you expect?

>>17837785
>Edited by Chad
Plátōn haters BTFO.

>>17794088
I want to pursue a career in both politics and literature, writing groundbreaking and era defining political theory and changing my country from the shithole that it is into a booming economic power to lead the world by example of economic freedom and low taxation, and I'm willing to bribe, murder and spend my own money just to say that I was the historical character responsible for saving my shit nation from itself.

I also can't stop thinking of eating pussy for some reason. I think a lot about grabbing myself a lightly olive skinned black haired brunette, laying her on her back, folding her legs towards her body as she hugs them and exposes her pretty glistening, inviting pussy so I can mercilessly eat it, as she squeals in high pitched involuntary yells of pleasure and helplessness and I devour her juices salaciously.

>>17699603
I love Debussy, and Bach as well, but you'll want to start your session with the former, it's how they always say, always finish on the Bach, never finish on Debussy.