/lit/ - Literature

>Tfw you stand in awe of the great beauty and madness of the world.

Where are your rape threats? /lit/?

Who is your role model in terms of writing?

What are some classics that deal with loneliness?

Say this gravestone sorrow-laden: 'Death has taken to
his keeping,
in the first flower of her springtide, little Theodote.'
But the little one makes answer to her father: 'Cease from
weeping.
Theodotus, unhappy all men must often be.'

---Philitas of Samos

May! Be thou never grac'd with birds that sing,
nor flora's pride!
In thee all flower and roses spring.
Mine only died.

---William Browne

>meet cute girl at college
>become infatuated with her
>ask her out
>she says no, gently
>expresses desire for sex
>week later, she gets drunk, has lustful sex with me
>come inside her
>says she's on birth control but gets worried whether I pulled out
>tell her I did
>she gets embarrassed, we stop hanging out
>confront her over it
>says nothing can come of us and doesn't want to hang out anymore

This isn't like The Red and The Black at all

What do you identify with?

How does one deal with the realization he's mediocre?