/lit/ - Literature

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>he frequently thinks of scenarios where he's a famous author giving interviews
>he frequently thinks of scenarios where he's a famous public intellectual who's actually influencing the course of events of politics and of history itself
>he frequently thinks of book titles for future books that he will begin any day now
>he frequently reads classic authors and thinks that it's nothing special and he could create something much more profound if he only spent a couple hours writing each day for a few years, despite the fact that when he does put thought to paper he can only reflect to himself the meaningless platitudes of his derivative life experiences
>he frequently calls out the irrational behavior of others but has shit health, habits, and neurotic tendencies
>he hates it when people claim they're "enjoying life" and that "happiness exists" when he claims to know for certain that life is an unceasing exercise in some intangible notion of self-flagellation
>he also hates it when people complain all the time about perfectly reasonable things when he himself also hates the things people complain about and realizes that they're complaining only to reach out to another human being for whatever tiny significance they can extract from such an interaction, but he of course can see no significance in the interaction at all, despite constantly obsessing over those very things himself
>thus his only course of action is to stay quiet all the time, maintaining an exterior facade of knowledge, but ultimately being completely and utterly torn up inside and constantly obsessed with the chaotic self-inflicted flagellations of the inner mind