/lit/ - Literature

>>17881221
I feel that more and more strongly. I'm attached to this place. I've been briefing 4chan most days for the last 11 years.

Eleven. Fucking. Years.

I could have invested all that time into learning a language or an instrument or something instead. Still, I don't completely regret it - /lit/ is a good place to learn the ropes of the subject. But it's really easy, once you know something substantial, to spot the pseuds. It's really easy to tell who doesn't have the life experience, whose worldviews aren't yet fully formed. I catch sight of myself sometimes, like when a screen turns black briefly in a video game and you glimpse yourself, and I become acutely aware that I may just be a 26 year old man engaging in debates with 16 year old trolls who still go to fucking High school.

Maybe I should just leave forever. But then where would I go to discuss literature? In every 100 threads there are a smattering of decent discussions. I'm not even a loser or a NEET, I have a fiancé, a good job, my own place, my own car. Graduate degree. I can't stop coming here, but over the last year - since I recovered from a chronic, debilitating illness, actually - I find so much of what's said vapid, immature, dilettante ish, and vividly see some pretentious know-it-all 16-18 year old typing smarmily away somewhere in the world, their opinion of themselves inflated because they've read some advanced books - read them, and failed to understand them.

Reminds me of this incredible scene from good will hunting:

https://youtu.be/oRG2jlQWCsY

Bernanos

> Inb4 English speaking

Diary of a country priest is the most sublime piece of Catholic fiction I have read since Dante.

Toss up between diary of a country priest and Steppenwolf