/lit/ - Literature

>>10554968
you should dance a razor blade around your mouth with your tongue anon

>reading a book
>suddenly realize what a character meant by that

>>10554968
I do this all the time actually

>>10554971
If my post angers you, you are simply angry at yourself

>>10554985
>ib ur anwy itz cuz u had urselb

>>10554968
i mostly just imagine myself getting in fap beefs to be honest

>>10554999
tfw *rap

>>10554999
What? Like 8 mile?

>>10554999
ohhhh nooooo
also check’d

I usually just imagine myself working hard on nothing at all, answering mostly stupid questions, and being comically bitter about everything.

>>10554968

We need you, anon. You are the messianic reader of books.

>>10554968

I am more of a "imagining I am a French intellectual smoking an drinking on TV while launching sick bants at my academic peers sharing the smoke" type.

Also I am balding and soon I will look like a nice Foucault dopple.

>realize something profound
>nobody cares
>I'm alone and should face my every day problems

>>10555047
This is patrician, but i'd rather imagine doing this in a posh cafe in an Algerian sandstorm, discussing fictional characters like real people

>>10555070
No feels here please

>>10554968
>DUDE TWEED LMAO

pathetic desu

>>10555798
Shut the fuck up. How are profs supposef to dress?

>>10554968
>reading book
>recognize an important theme or profound idea within the text
>imagine myself as a political dissident in a court room, blooding spraying from my recently slit neck, lecturing about my brilliant discovery to starry-eyed bailiffs and lawyers

I cant be the only one?

>>10554968
>listening to music
>imagine myself performing it in front of my high school class because ten years after graduating I'm still desperate for their approval

I cant be the only one?

Yeah, I even bought a Tweed jacket with leather elbow pads.

A combination of these two
>>10554968
>>10555835

>>10555835
Slightly similar fantasy, I think about going back to my high school to record a live album like Elvis Costello's Live at Hollywood High, just because it had a really good auditorium.

>>10554968

>reading book
>have lots of interesting thoughts while reading the book
>forget them all by the end of the reading session
>forget what book I read the week after finishing it

>>10555835
>eventually reach a level to play in an amateur band
>it's not like the adolescent daydreams

>>10555823
Name 1 book

>>10555854
too accurate :^(

>>10555861
fucking hell dude

>>10554968

Yeah but instead I imagine is as a state college, a nice one but nothing fancy. I have 1 published novel, well received but again nothing lavish and it's relatively obscure. My best friend also works there and he lectures in the medicine department.

We often meet for lunch and a beer at the campus bar. My students enjoy saying hello.

In lectures I am fun but slightly cynical. One day my youngest daughter (of 7 children) commits suicide after a long battle with drug addiction. My class watches me deteriorate as I struggle to pretend everything is normal only weeks later.

>>10554968
>starry-eyed undergrads
Lmao that will never happen

>>10556049
>fun but slightly cynical
There is no way to be cynical - even lightly sarcastic - and still be "fun"

>>10554968
That is painfully autistic.

>>10554991
Yes, you're right in saying that Apu would agree

>>10555094
Oh yeah I'm always debating books with the guys in posh sandstorm cafes after a day of laying tar.

>>10556081
b...but I'm one anon...

at least for classes I like, which includes /lit/ classes

>>10556212
You dont read much, do you?

>>10556049

kek I love day dreaming this sort of shit

>>10556323
Is this bad, though? Im not a teacher's pet or anything but i fangirl in secret in my political theory and legal philosophy classes

>>10554999
same. a shame I'm a pasty white guy. beyond eyedea or aesop I don't think someone like me would get very far before being shanked

>>10557664
nothing wrong with it. it seems we're both self aware enough to not be pricks about it. I just talk to my professor after class instead of flexing my braindick in front of people who don't care.