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15000113 No.15000113 [Reply] [Original]

Do you like literature? Or do you like the idea of liking literature, being the sort of person who likes literature?

I spent my whole life thinking I was the former, but perusing computer science because it seemed a more reliable way to make a living. After two yearsof going for a compsci degree, I broke down and switched into english. A year later, and I'm starting to feel like I've deluded myself, that I'm really the latter, and "liking literature" was always a shield I threw up to disassociate myself from other stemtards - something I should have know, given how little I read at the time. I barely read anything I was assigned. God knows what the hell I ought to do now.

>> No.15000250

>>15000113
I don't even get the point of readibg literature anymore. All I enjoy is Nabokov any way and there barely any books that even resemble his style and so I don't see the point in literature. Fuck my life.

>> No.15000256

>>15000113
i read to form the most complete understanding of culture/humanity possible so that I can shitpost and drop roasts on frens more effectively

>> No.15000298

I did STEM (phys chem) and hated it, got depressed. Midway through started reading voraciously and imagined all the things I missed while not going into humanities. The real and the imagined are intermingled now. Literature is a consolation prize of a dream that I never had the chance to give up on.

>> No.15000415

Are you sure you don’t like literature or is it that you don’t like specific literature. Honestly, a college degree program can take the interest out of just about anything and shitty professors manage to take the interest out of just about anything but there’s plenty of literature related fields which are not English.

>> No.15000582

>>15000013
What a whore. I wish it were legal to murder e-girls.

>> No.15000583

>>15000113
I like the idea of reading and definitely wish I was someone who enjoyed reading, but I too addicted to doing literally anything else. Reading sounds nice until I'm literally about to do it then it just sounds so boring.

>> No.15000612

Both.

>> No.15000614

Isn't maximalizing just reducing minimalism with a larger label?

>> No.15000621

>>14999673
MahaPrajnaParamita-Sastra by Nagarjuna

>> No.15000622

>>15000581
She appears to have long toes

>> No.15000624

I like nonfiction more. Philosophy, rhetoric theory, collections of speeches. When i read fiction i tend to gravitate towards the low-brow stuff (genre fiction- like horror and sci-fi)

>> No.15000640

Well-wrought sentences and ideas give me pleasure, and sometimes a great book flushes me with emotion (though that's fairly rare). That's about all I'll commit to.

>> No.15000958

>>15000113
I enjoyed your post from a storytelling perspective. Anyway i totally relate, I read only like 5-10 books a year, and I say I like literature like the wanker I am. Though I don't think I would survive an english degree (coming from a engineering student)

>> No.15000959

>>15000934
Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck and Suck

>> No.15000977

I do like literature, but I keep it (like most of my hobbies and opinions) hidden. Most of what I do is driven by pure ego. Lately I've been learning guitar and teaching myself magic tricks just so I can be the center of attention and maybe make some money/get laid out of it. Someday I'd like to be a great man, until then I will try to be a man who tries hard.