/lit/ - Literature

>25
>One time here I wrote about a time where I fucked a prostitute and no one believed me.
>The Iliad (Fitz' translation, love this guy's style)

>31
>i am terrified of ghosts
>the thousandfold thought

I hate rich people and homosexuals. If I could bring Lenin back to life, I would.

>23
>I made a whole theater laugh one day while watching a movie. Sex scene appeared and then I shouted "IIIIIT'S TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME" like that : https://youtu.be/HDbMTB7bxLI?t=25

>Currently readin Moby Dick

>>19175291
>age: 14
>current book: tik tok videos about marx

>23
>Me and some friends caused the suicide of someone when we were teenager
>The Hour of the Star

>26
>I'm a pathetic virgin loser
>Don Quixote

>30
>Ditto the pathetic virgin loser.
>Titus Groan

>23
>kind of similar to >>19175299, i made about five people laugh during an EAI concert by clapping when about three minutes in the music went silent for a few seconds
>the idiot by elif batuman

>>19175299
it's funny to imagine everybody being confused as to what you're getting at during the prolonged IIIIIIIIIT

27
Enders game
Im a virgin

>>19175334
Yeah lmao as a matter of fact, from my perspective, it was so fucking long I was sure it was gonna flop.

>>19175261
27
Running out of battery, can't type
Silence

>23
>I have megalomaniacal delusions
in-between books but I'm thinking of reading decline of the west

>>19175261
24
I sometimes memorize and sing english folk songs
A billion wicked thoughts

>>19175261
>18
>Every time I get a very bad thought (say, the thought of a loved one dying) I knock twice on whichever walls I see
>The Republic

>>19175261
>27
>I purposefully self-sabotage my numerous talents in fear of succes
>I only write

>19
>i once threw a basketball from one side of a gymnasium behind my back, hit the wall and ended up on a big ceiling fan complex, spun a bit and flew off, ended in the opposite side basketball net
>zenos conscience

>>19175518
>I purposefully self-sabotage my numerous talents in fear of succes
>I only write
kek, not bad. was that intended to be a joke? if so, you'll write the penultimate comic novel one day, no doubt in my mind

>>19175415
>knocks twice instead of 58 times
oh boy....

>21
>I get eczema on my scalp
>The Collector, Fowles

>>19175291
Lenin was a homosexual

>29
>i have hemorrhoids
>A Short History of Decay

>>19175261
>18
>ive gotten groomed on the internet
> libra don delio and im forever rereading brothers

>>19175261
>38
>You're probably smarter than me
>A Calling for Charlie Barnes

>21
>I voted twice in the last election
>Poetry of the Taliban

>46
>I am post-fun, just didn’t want the 38 yo to think he was the oldest one here (I am not the oldest either)
>Just finished Acts, halfway through Origen’s On Prayer

>>19175261
>18
>i have 3 nipples
>rereading Edgar A. Poe's stuff

>26
>I'm a deeply closeted gay man
>The Brothers Karamazov

>>19175599
>ive gotten groomed on the internet
story?

>>19175714
what kind of men are u into?

>>19175261
>18
>I once had sex with a girl mere hours after showing her 2070 Paradigm Shift
>Les particules élémentaires

>>19175726
big hairy ugly ones

>32
>three times college drop out
>The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.

>>19175261
>30
>I have met the Queen of England twice, once while on psychedelic mushrooms
>The Unconsoled

>>19175261
>21
>i know a special whistling technique i call the "badger whistling" which is less effective than normal but also makes you look like an idiot while you do it
>The Epic of Gilgamesh

>23
>I've spent the last 2 years of my life as a hermit after dropping out of school and breaking up with my long term girlfriend because the idea of someone loving me became so unbearable and suffocating that I wanted to die
>The Drama of the Gifted Child

>>19175726
I'm not into men!

>>19175948
cmon bro we dont judge here. twinks? big ugly hairy dudes? spill the beans bro

>>19175726
if he's reading russian stuff, he probably has a thing for beards

>>19175301
For real? How did you find this board? How long have you been here? I'm thinking this is just a joke, but I'm genuinely interested as to how someone so young would find themselves on this board. To any youngsters on this site, be careful on the internet, it's a series of tubes, sometimes dangerous.

>>19176161
Meh, i was 15 when i first started browsing this place 11 years ago

>>19176161
I was on here at 13 for pokemon.

>22
>My back is immensely fucked up from years of poor-posture gaming in my youth
>The Idiot

>>19175714
How do you feel about Brothers so far?

>21 (maybe 22 idk anymore)
>I've dropped out of college twice and I am severly depressed
>Harry Potter

>20
>I've almost died about 3 or 4 times
>The Republic

>>19175261
>37
>can't read
>can't read

>>19175714
Hey, Norm

>>19176862
All conservative intellectuals are repressed homosexuals.

>>19176867
seems about right, many of them do have their foundations on the greeks.

>20
>I can't figure out how to make friends so I do almost everything alone; I walk around and go to restaurants ect. with a slight smile plastered on my face so I look like less of a sad loser
>the man in the high castle

>>19175261
>24
>I and my father once did what was supposed to be a 1 day boat trip (the boat was tiny, for at most 4 people), but someone stole the extra gas when we were eating lunch, so we run out of it in the middle of nowhere almost at sundown, had to row for 1h30 until we reached some shore and walked for what ended up being 18km toward a blinking light until we reached a navy outpost at 1AM and could contact our family and tell them that we where alive.
>Petersburg, Bely.

>24
>I am a hard right winger and I grow weed but I never smoke or sell it, it just stacks up in the closet. Also grow my own pipe tobacco.
>Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector and The Outlaws by Ernst von Salomon

>>19175261
>31
>I did 110% Binding of Isaac on 3ds
>Phenomenology Of Mind

>31
>I didn't own a cell phone until 2017
>The Heike Monogatari

34
I love my cat although she's thoroughly unfriendly toward everything and everyone.
A Christmas Carol
>>19175308
I agree with that image completely

>27
>I have a dead tooth because I turned down road head
>Suttree

>>19175261
>18
>I'm relatively attractive and in good shape yet my turbulent upbringing by low IQ goblin poorfag parents has ruined me before I got a chance
>Rereading catcher in the rye like I've done repeatedly for 3 years. Also reading all the pretty horses

>>19177027
>I'm relatively attractive and in good shape yet >my turbulent upbringing by low IQ goblin poorfag parents has ruined me before I got a chance
kek you should 18 alright. I bet you're a below average looking mug who thinks he would be CEO or famous artist if he was upperclass—what arrogance

>>19177033
Yup literally me

>>19177033

>>19175308

based shopey

>>19175541
Try CeraVe

>23
>can't decide whether to stay with this girl or leave her; heart says yes, brain says no.
>Erec and Enide ironically

>>19177053
that's not a fact, or fun. Kys normalfag

>>19177053
Brain is always right

>>19177033
Both of you post face and we'll see who has more potential

>>19175261
>25
>I have a motorcycle license.
>The Tain and How the Irish Saved Civilization.

>>19177082
r8

>>19177097
Originally posted in 2011.

>>19177097

>29
>I haven't been keeping up on shaving my asshole and now the hair growing back itches
>The Need for Roots

>>19177114

22
I’m openly bisexual and my heterosexual friends criticise me for my deep-seated homophobia
Clarel by Herman Melville, and The Compass Rose by Ursula K Le Guin

>>19175261
>21
>I am Orthodox
>What I am writing

>>19177135
>I’m openly bisexual and [...] my deep-seated homophobia

>>19176270
And you're still here...

>>19177174

>>19177145
Never heard of a self-loathing Jew, anon?

>>19175261
>31
>I play bass guitar and the sitar
>Got three books on the go:
>The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
>The Tennis Court Oath by John Ashbery
>Betrayal by Harold Pinter

>20
>I like sending porn to kids online
>Klossowski's 'The Baphomet'

>>19175724
when i was 9 i joined a walking dead mood board and they were super sexual and it got weird and then my dad found out. ive also been groomed irl....based

I’m 28. When I was maybe five years old my male cousin of the same age sucked my penis on multiple occasions. I thought it was weird when he asked to do it but I didn’t know it was wrong or anything so I let him. I highly doubt he remembers it because he is a complete redneck with barely functional IQ. I know that his father is aware it happened as we were caught at least once. I don’t know who else in the family knows. I always assumed he was imitating his parents after walking in on them but now I realize it’s pretty likely he was being molested by his father. Currently reading Titus Groan. It’s pretty good.

>>19175261
>20
>My whole life is centered around disgust for society and the behaviour of other people and me wanting to make the world better according to my own image. It is all I think about and all I feel but even though I know I will never achieve much it is the only thing that keeps me going.
>Phillip the bold (From a tetralogy about the dukes of Burgundy)

29
I was very depressed for many years but now I'm in a wonderful relationship (gay)
The Fugitive by Proust

>>19176651
vaccine related?

>>19175261
>50
>I'm not a virgin loser
>1177

>>19175328
>elif batuman

Nice. This book didn't resonate with me, but it was entertaining and well-written.

>>19175261
>33
>a couple of years ago i spend a month in the hospital with a very serious condition that among other things involved my dick and balls swelling to 3x times their normal size
>lolita (reread)

>30
>Still miss my first cat
>Gordon Ramsay's The Nameless War

>>19177461
>to 3x times their normal size
So 3 inches?

>21
>I have borderline so It's fucking over
>Gormenghast

>31
>Because I'm farsighted in one eye and nearsighted in the other Zenni gave me a prompt asking if my lenses choices were actually correct.
>Gods and Legionnaires

>29
>I am learning to play guitar
>Across the Olympic Mountains: the Press Expedition 1889-90

>>19175261
>22
>I once had a drug-induced manic episode and spent several days convinced I was going to influence culture on the scale of jesus or buddha.
>moby dick, /lit/ edition

>>19177053
leave her and accept your repressed homosexuality

>23
>Since I was little I've always had a pretty bad speech impediment. Probably the reason I'm on this website today.
>The Castle - Kafka

>>19175299
>>19175328
that's children's idea of comedy kys

>20
>I'm currently writing 3 books
>Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack

>>19175261
what the fuck kind of facebook post is this

>>19175261
>19
>I'm going to hell, probably
>The Divine Comedy

>>19177110
fuck you cocksucker

>>19177174
Still waiting for something to happen in my life which will turn it around to make me a productive well balanced individual and this place is just killing time in the meanwhile so dont remind me of my futility please

>>19175261
>52
>didn't want the 48yo to lose his stiffy
>Dreams of My Father

>>19175261
27
I could hammer curl 80lb dumbbells for 10x10
What The Night Knows

>>19177042
delete dis

>26
>sex addict who has alienated all his friends and past partners
>iliad

>>19175261
>32
>I had sex in a church where i later learned prostitutes went to pray yo Mary.
>I am in the proccess of writing and illustrating a thought-salad poem.

>>19175261
>24
>after having casual sex a few times I realized that sex without a human conection is meaningless and not much better than masturbation, so I refuse to have sex unless it's with a person that i feel really connected to. But since I'm really autistic and tend to hate most people I'll probably won't ever have sex again lmao
>Don Quixote

wow, I rarely go to this board but you guys are a lot like me.

>23
>For years I've spent a lot of my time pacing around, daydreaming, and pondering. I do it all night sometimes.
>Blood Meridian

>>19175261
>18
>If I respect someone's order I give people free stuff with their burrito
>The Brothers Karamazov, Collected Poems of Yeats and some critical texts on Faulkner

>>19179332
>21
>I have a fraternal twin sister who I didn't know existed until I was 18
>Malone

>>19179398
Fuck, I meant to reply to OP. Forgive me, anon. I expect nothing free with my burrito.

>>19179101
nice aesthetic. I hope your writing is at least decent because I like the presentation. I'd like to learn Greek but I don't know if I ever will

>>19179398
>I have a fraternal twin sister who I didn't know existed until I was 18
damn, that's interesting. I'd like to hear the story. what's it like a few years later? have you gotten to know each other well or are you strangers, or somewhere in between?
I always fantasized about having a twin when I was a child

>>19175261
>25
>There's a non-zero chance I'm the best American poet ever.
>Hymn to the universe

>>19175532
penultimate means second to last

>>19177429
No, just over my lifetime.

>>19175261
>30
>At one time I was the fastest typist in the Americas
>The Fountainhead

>108
>I have a hunch that a significant percentage of these are made up for the purposes of battling data-mining
>implying I read

>24
>as a baby my head fell into a pot of boiling water, I would've been scarred if not for snake oil
>Alan Watt's "The Book on The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are"

>>19179855
She and I were taken in by our grandparents the moment we left the hospital, but our soon-to-be adoptive mom gave her away to other family members when she realized she didn't have enough resources to raise two kids she and our dad weren't expecting (she has told me multiple times that she regrets doing this).
My parents swore to never tell me that I was adopted, and life brought my sister to a home 800+ miles from me.
My dad died when I was 18, so my mom couldn't bear it anymore and told me about her. I was told several things you would expect in a story like mine, but the one that kills me is that my sister knew who I was, and that I was her twin, her entire life. She is remarkably patient to have, or at least more patient than I am, to have respected my parents' decision to keep me in the dark.
Eventually, we started texting each other only to find out we had nothing in common. It sounds silly to write it now, but I entertained these daydreams that she, too, would have creative aspirations that we would use to bond over like some sort of feel-good Hollywood movie, No. She's about as normal as you would expect any other young woman to be, with her own goals and outlook and interests almost opposite from mine. We've settled into a nice routine of recognizing the chasm between us, sending each other happy birthday messages once a year. I sometimes think about messaging her again just to see what she's up to, because, in some weird way, I care for her like I would a sister.
This entire situation makes me think a lot more about the nature vs. nurture argument.

>>19175261
>20
>have HFA
>W&P

>>19175261
>25
>i'm a virgin
>i don't read

>>19175415
Are you Greek by any chance?

>>19175541
How is that? I enjoyed the Magus.

>20
>I first read the Epic of Gilgamesh at age 14
>The Hobbit

>22
>I am a cat
>I am a Cat

>>19175261
>FUCK NIGGERS
>FUCK JEWS
>FUCK TRANNIES, PARTICULARLY THE MAN KNOWN HERE AS 'TRANNYFLY'

>>19175875
Now that's a fucking story, how did nobody ask you to elaborate yet

>21
>I have a sister I really wanna fuck
>genealogy of morals

>31
>once pooped my pants while driving a snowmobile in the army
>travels with herodotus

>>19175261
28
I once suffered liver failure for about 12 hours. It just stopped working, and it remains the most agonizingly painful thing I've ever experienced.
Leibniz - Monadology

>>19180286
thanks for the story. that's really sad.
>She is remarkably patient to have, or at least more patient than I am, to have respected my parents' decision to keep me in the dark.
I can't understand what point there possibly could've been to this(both the decision and her adhering to it), but I guess that doesn't matter. I'm sorry, anon.

>17
inb4 seethe
>I live in constant fear and anxiety about our collective future
>Chaos: Making a New Science

28
I am on penicillin
Caliban's War

>>19181334
b&

>>19181371
Probably better for me to get off this shit site while I still can desu ban ahead

>>19181203
How does one's liver take a 12 hour break? Is there anyway to convince my brain to act likewise?

>>19175894
>I've spent the last 2 years of my life as a hermit after dropping out of school and breaking up with my long term girlfriend because the idea of someone loving me became so unbearable and suffocating that I wanted to die
>The Drama of the Gifted Child
Holy shit, bro.

>>19175261

>25
>Convinced a 31 yo woman that im 26 when I was 23 so she would have sex with me
>An introduction to Beauvoir's ideas

>>19179951
>1018
>I have a hunch that atleast half of those 18 year old replies are not in fact 18 and they just dont want to be banned
>Fuck This Bitch In Obama’s Name: A History of Giving Her the Dick

>>19175703
succ

>>19175261
>20
>I can deepthroat my whole cock (almost 6 inches) while bending over
>Currently reading Heart of a Dog

>>19181400
I don't know. It just swelled up after I drank some long-expired beer one night. The pain was unreal, it felt like I had been working out a muscle, for hours and hours. It was the same kind of soreness and burning, but deep inside my body, and hundreds of times worse than anything else I've ever felt. I actually didn't realize what was happening at the time, as I woke up in my bathtub, covered in vomit. Someone was screaming in the house, and it wasn't until the next morning I realized that was me. They gave me morphine, so in the end it was all worth it.

Here's another fun fact, they gave me an ultrasound to see if they could find anything physically wrong with my organs. That's how they realized it was all swollen, but they also discovered I have a second gallbladder. I've thought about selling it a few times, but I have no idea how to go about that without getting the rest of my organs removed by some unscrupulous Russian mobster.

>>19175875
this is gonna be an interesting greentext if you bother to explain

>>19175288
>>i am terrified of ghosts
Redpill me on ghosts, anon.

>>19175308
You know that wojak meme where the low IQ retard and the high IQ chad have the same opinion while the midwit in the middle is, well, a midwit? I feel something similar about that pic. Sheltered retards think life is live laugh love and that it's a gift. Blackpilled depressed pessimists think it's all fucking terrible and awful and oh so bad (but notice how they never kill themselves? It's all show). Then there's the truly lived and living individual who has seen true suffering and knows how to appreciate life in its every little ray of light, because if life manages to be beautiful sometimes (reason why 99% of pessimists don't kill themselves, except that hardcore 1% which I do respect) despite all the suffering down the road, then Life truly is a gift without equal.
In short, if you complain about your everyday life and can't cheer up by looking at a bee doing sweet work on a flower, the most suffering you've had is getting rejected in high school by a roastie. Grow up schlop.

>>19182986
Literally Pixar's Soul.

>>19177488
u can do it ;--;

>>19178741
I'm in no place to lecture anyone on this but boy, you gotta start doing stuff dude.

>>19177178

>>19175261
>25
>I hate my life and I hate my job, and I the only thing I like in life is reading and writing, but I hate my life too much to do either most of the time.
>Clarel

>21
>my entourage has been mentionning more and more that I may be/become an alcoholic and this idea has troubling me even though I don't share their sentiment
>Divine comedy
It's honestly not that great. I was expecting better from Dante.

>>19175261
32
I have friends in parliament/congress in two countries.
Currently reading both "Veg in One Bed" by Huw Richards, and "The 'Genius'" by Theodore Dreiser.

>>19183309
One of the most self unaware pathetic posts I’ve seen.

>>19183309
Yeah, it's not an entertaining or captivating read. I read it as a teenager, only knowing how famous it was, and it might have been my least favorite week of my life. . .
The cultural importance makes it a must-read for one's own betterment, of course. A literary framework for western literature is incomplete without it.

What brought you to it, initially?

>>19181153
What became your inevitable nickname after that?

>>19180991
Psshh

You know it doesn't count unless you read it in its original language.

Embarassing attempt at a flex.

>>19179909
Yes, but ultimate can also be read to mean the one to end all others. So... The one to end all others...except the one to end ALL others...

I don't know, he's making some point — I can feel it, deep in my plums.

>>19179270
Nothing wrong with masturbation, no?

>>19183374
>What brought you to it, initially?
I saw it as a continuation of the ancient epics (which I loved). I was mistaken. I am beginning to agree with Nabe when he said that Dante was a frustrated cuck.
>>19183363
Why?

>>19176942
Why do you want friends?

I don't mean that sarcastically, I am asking genuinely: What is your goal for having friends? The answer might help you navigate areas of life where building the kind of friendships you want is easier.

>>19175703
>I had three but wanted more.
>Quoth the raven nevermore.

>>19183396
>Implying I didn't

>>19183426
He is pretty much in full REEEEEE mode throughout, yeah.

>>19183436

>>19175261
>19
>Can't enunciate properly for shit
>Demian from Hesse

>>19183426
>Why?
Because you’re retarded

20
i only reveal my true smile to people i hate
new testament

>>19183489
Thank you for your considerate and helpful input.

>>19175703
I too have 3 nipples, found out it's quite common

>>19183562
It’s better than anything you posted

>>19175261
>19
>I am utterly disgusted by casual sex, I started masturbating at 9 years old, soon after pornography started taking over my life. I've had sex with many woman I met a clubs and parties, a lot of men and transexuals as well, none of these encounters filled my soul one bit. I wish with my heart I was still a virgin
>The Count of Montecristo

>>19175261
>23
>I use a gateway EV700 crt monitor as my third monitor and its peak comfy and kino.
>Reading two books atm. Roadside picnic which i am finishing up & I just start Fruits of Eden.

>>19179270
damn, I feel the same way. said it all in last post

>>19183656
(you)

>>19183772
>25
>the first time I had sex I was really anxious and had this huge fart building up so I couldn’t get hard. At some point I pretended I needed to pee but the toilets were right next to my bedroom, so I went and go like *PROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO* and then I hear her laughing cause she obviously heard it all. This was also the only time I had sex.
>Her Smoke rose up forever, James Tiptree

>>19183169
Like what? People make it when their brain is projecting reality outside of it. I went with girls, i went with having a job, im simply too dysfunctional to do anything and keep at it. My favorite pastime is imagining how i rule a country with a theological regime and how i decide the life and death of all who oppose me and taking pleasure in thinking ahead of their executions. That and going for strolls in the city. So i find solance in just waiting for it or anything to happen.

>26
>ran my first marathon this autumn
>Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

>>19175261
>19
>I have a weird habit of pacing while I think when I am alone
>Actually a drama but T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral

>>19183446
I fed some ducks this afternoon. It was comfy.

>>19175261
>> 25
>> Compulsive liar that has literally no friends, femanon that is completely forgettable and if noticed is hated
>> Burroughs Naked Lunch

>>19183434
Thank you anon

>>19182067
>Someone was screaming in the house, and it wasn't until the next morning I realized that was me.

Pretty kino ngl

>>19181467
Yeah, I've got some problems I'm working out.

>>19175291
>If I could bring Lenin back to life, I would.
Based. I miss that lil nigga like you wouldn't believe.

>>19175415
>only knocks twice
loved ones ngmi

>>19175541
>I get eczema on my scalp
Same. I use selsun shampoo once a week which helps

>>19175615
I can't imagine giving enough of a shit about current year politics to vote let alone vote twice

>>19175541
Try probiotics like kim chi or kombucha. Stop eating industrial oil like basedbean or canola, corn syrups, and alcohol. Your eczema will go away.

> 23
> unemployed because art degree, left my gf because of future uncertainty
> introduction to reasoning

>>19175291
Lenin was rich

>>19175276
Retell this story here

>27
>Go a 20-stitch scar in a pillow fight
>juggling 3 books. Mostly Hidden Valley Road, with a little bit of For Whom The Bell Tolls, and Crime and Punishment got put on the back burner until I finish HVR

>>19182986
>Blackpilled depressed pessimists think it's all fucking terrible and awful and oh so bad (but notice how they never kill themselves? It's all show).
You have a very narrow, and quite frankly retarded view of this.
>le if life bad, why don't you sudoku poser
If you think for even a moment about this, it might occur to you that people have a variety of spiritual and metaphysical beliefs that make a pessimistic perspective extend beyond a human lifetime and material concerns - for the simplest example, there's really no reason to believe death is the end, or the end to suffering, or that suicide is in any sense a good idea, unless your beliefs don't extend beyond vulgar materialism.

>>19185346
If life is so terrible that you can't endure it and live every day in anguish then you might as well end it, what lies beyond is as bad as life in the worst of cases. If you believe death isn't the end and there's an afterlife, then there's a good chance that you believe in some form of karmic weight and heaven-like salvation, so you shouldn't spend your days crying around and killing yourself thus committing a crime against God's given gift, instead you should be celebrating life and beauty if you believe that the physical world is a pathway to the good afterlife; instead if you have gnostic tendecies then you should be trying to either tear down the carousel of mirrors created by the snake-lion, or live in ascetism in a state betwixt life and death. It would be a form of "positive pessimism", living in the corrupted physical realm as a superior being who is so close to afterlife enlightenment that he has no time to care about the minor unfortunate happenings of the world.
Whiny pessism has no place in a proper man's life. You either love to live, live in pained endurance towards a higher sphere, or live in given love towards a higher sphere. Plaintive laments are proper of needy children and dogs, not men. What defines a grown man is his experience with hardship and pain, which give him a new perspective on what he has, on the freedoms he is granted by the stars, on the beauty he can seed through the world: as you understand the balance of death-rebirth, as you pour your love towards the horrid watersnakes beneath your boat, the working bees with their fat little asses covered in pollen will be enough to raise your spirit in the lowest of moments.

>>19175261
>28
>During some social interactions, I pretend I'm really naive to make people think I didn't understand what they talking about
>Time of Contempt (The Witcher Saga)

>>19175261
>21
>I don't know anymore if i'm smoking weed or if weed is smoking me, i'm a closet stoner and i constantly think only about getting high, i think i might need help bros but life is unberable being sober. i enjoy being high as fuck in situations where i'm not suposed to
>Kandinsky - Spiritual in Art

>>19184086
hey someone else is also reading burroughs nice

>>19177050
>>19184735
Thanks for the advice guys but I'm pretty sure its all genetic, I have pretty bad asthma as well and I eat healthy and stuff but it just comes and goes based on my allergies. I have medication that gets rid of it after a couple of applications so its not a huge deal, its just an inconvenience and a bit awkward if someone runs their hand through my hair while my allergies are flaring.

>>19184717
>selsun shampoo
based I didn't know about this ty anon

>>19180725
I'm enjoying a lot at the moment is not as trippy or confusing as The Magus which I'm not sure makes it better but its definitely as creepy and unsettling. If you enjoyed Although I haven't finished yet I think if you liked The Magus you will like The Collector as well.

>>19181063
>>19182758
Didn't realise this thread was still here so here you go

>go to Scotland to visit family
>they live out on a fairly prominent island
>the house and land they live on is shared by the isles largest and oldest distillery
>so not to doxx my family I won't name said distillery
>get there and hang around for a few days
>cousin is really into Buddhism/psychedelics
>I don't really drink so hanging out in the pub is dull for me
>he suggests that he, and I do some Golden Teachers and go for a hike near a nature park while our his sister "minds us"
>do the hike, enjoy the majesty of the sea, making noises at seals and having a great time
>on the way back we notice a lot of people gathered at the distillery
>this distillery is kind of out of the way so for this many people to be here it must be some massive event
>distillery aligned with some charity org in Tibet to raise some funds for schools etc and was presented with some plaque, and at the same time is their 100th anniversary
>trying to make our way back to the house but the crowd is so large that we are blocked from getting to the other side to the gate
>as we see an opening and shift our way through this hand reaches out and blocks my way
>this guy shakes his head and tells me to stay put
>sober cousin says "that's my house right there we just want to get back"
>guy is nonplussed and tells us to wait
>hear clapping further down
>turn my head and see this little old woman getting flowers and speaking to people
>she reaches me
>hear my cousin say under her breath "oh my god"
>I'm looking at this lady and I say "I recognize you"
>to which she smiles and notices my accent is far from British and asks where I'm from
>tell her Canada
>she tells me she loves Canada and whether I'm here on a trip
>sputter and say "I'm tripping alright!"
>she smiles and walks away
>I just think what a nice old lady
>finally crowd disperses and we get back to the house and sprawl on the floor laughing that we just met the Queen

one of the most surreal moments of my life

>27
>speak japanese
>ボラード病

>>19186451
>>27
>>speak japanese
>>ボラード病

>>19175291
>Wants to bring back a rich homosexual

What he mean by this?

>25
>someone just died 50 or so feet away from me (work in a skilled nursing facility)
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Ulysses, Jerusalem (Alan Moore), Pocket Full of Lies (Star Trek Novel)

>>19183707
You’re 19, how many people have you slept with?
I feel you though..

>>19186624
he was probably the one taking it up the ass lmao

>>19186396
Holy shit, I hope this is not a LARP.. amazing story

>>19186649
Yo, don’t knock it, till you try it

>>19186396
so you've told the queen of England directly to her face, "I'm tripping alright". that's.. pretty good

>>19186396
...so what was the other time?

>>19186693
You have my word
>>19186762
I was about 4 years old and came to my city for some horse festival thing, my mum is a big royalist and we went early and were standing behind some velvet rope barriers and few hours later the Queen was driven up and got out walked along the pathway, stopped to chat with my mum and me

>>19186713
im not some fucking degenerate

>26
>I've been killed twice
>John Quincy Adams - American Visionary

>27
>borderline , after i quit smoking and lost the weight and became /fit/ i lost all my friends or rather they moved on and left me alone and now i'm struggling to find personality and/or joy
>i'm very depressed i keep jumping between this books :
bleeding edge
savage detectives
brothers
can't keep it together enough to follow through with any book atm

>>19175261
>25
>I'm about to finish a PhD in Chemistry in a year or two
>some stuff by Rosa Luxembourg

>>19175261
23
I'm addicted to cumming on communion bread. I started doing it when I was still an altar server, just for fun, but it has since turned into something I've lost control over. These days I can't climax without one. I'm not even kidding.
crime and punishment

>17
>Learning to play the lyre, bought a crappy one off of amazon last year but I will probably end up buying a better one as this one only has 7 strings
>The Complete Apocrypha

>>19186945
Yooooooo!! How were the shrooms bud?

>>19187158
>17

Another underage poster outed and b& good work op

>>19187185
That better not be you, Cast. Doing them this Saturday, though. Had to delay it cause work has been brutal, but things are better now

>>19186986
>I'm not even kidding.
i still believe you are. if not, turn yourself into the police or a psych ward. You are on a path of self-destruction

>27
>Once got a blowjowb from my friend's (then) girlfriend while he and other friends were asleep in the same room
>Growth of the Soil

>>19175261
>mid twenties
>once made a vietnamese booby trap filled with shit because i saw it in a documentary and someone stepped in it kek
>american psycho

>>19177179
>it's a jew
>it has an alphabet soup or race mixing fag child
is it not popular enough at the synagogue water cooler? kekekek

>>19179101
what the fuckkk

>>19177135
>The Compass Rose by Ursula K Le Guin

great book

>24
>I have premarital sex but still try to convince myself Im a Catholic
>Commerce and Colonization in the Ancient Near East

>>19186396
thank you for sharing that, anon. your story brings light to this world

>>19175261
>21, 22 early next week
>I'm trying to get into cooking more
>Japan 1941

why do you faggots reply to these data mining threads? are you that desperate to establish an identity and have it be acknowledged by others that you're willing to post your personal information?

>>19177016
lets hear it

>>19189105
>he doesn't just lie posts 5 different personalities ITT
lmao

>>19175261

>31
>got filtered by academia (world class uni) and returned to a shitty third world country
>Sexual personae

>>19175261
>23
>saving for my first house in north east texas because renting is stupid if you dont have to
>last arc of worm

>>19176650


>>19175261
>turning 22
>i graduated college and im incredibly depressed. i just got a second job at a collective bookstore and i'm looking forward to it more than my serious job
>emile zola (i hate it)

>>19186624
More than 20, but much less than 30
>>19186649
No, I've always been a top, I don't even get turned on by masculine men, only twinks and teenagers. That said, after fingering my prostate a couple times I can "understand" why faggots are so promiscuous and unwilling to get off the dick ride.

>>19189370
I too am looking to buy a house in the next year even though I don't make very much money. Luckily I have a bunch of money that I inherited that I can use for a down payment. It would be pretty gay if I had to rent out a room to comfortably afford mortgage, but if I keep renting I'll have to keep living with roommates anyway.

>22
>I'm not tall enough to get in this ride
>Dead Souls

>>19175261
>19
>I saw Bill Clinton at a Greek Restaurant once and thought to myself whether or not I could get away with drop kicking him
>The Monk

34
I got V& for shitposting on telegram
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

>>19175261
>24
>I dumped someone in this thread
>Moby Dick

I know other boards like /v/ are full of underageb&s but are there any 13-18 year olds on /lit/? surely not right? reveal yourselves, i promise I won't report you

>>19186062
my buddy was like you for years. he stopped cold turkey and is still depressed and in a bit of a rut, but he has told me he is having a much better time sober. I also smoked on and off for years and I prefer being sober desu.

>>19185973
>During some social interactions, I pretend I'm really naive to make people think I didn't understand what they talking about

but why

>>19175261
>age
30
>fun fact about yourself
I went to middle school and high school with forest anon
>current book
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

>>19189781
Did butters take the breakup well?

>>19175261
>25
>the first time I had sex was on the side of the road in the back of my truck
>the stranger

>>19175261
>18
>trying to cope with my own solitude since I'm by myself in a city due to university
>The Gospel

>>19190264
>I had sex
Was it with a stranger?

>>19189787
I remember browsing this board when I was 16 because I got really into Kafka from highschool and 4chan was trending for awhile back then. I read the stranger, old man and the sea, and blood meridian because of lit but I read a ton of terry pratchett and that's what got me into reading initially.

>20
>read above
>Moravagine and a book about nutrition

>>19182933
they're real

>>19177042

Fucking nigger that's exactly my behaviour

>>19175261
>23
>I have never drunk alcohol or coffee, taken recreational drugs, or had sex
>Dracula

>30
>I haven't read literature in ages
>Heretics of Dune

Wow I didn't realize how much I missed stories. This series doesn't seem to be as well written as I'd been led to believe, but I do enjoy it. There's a lot of cool shit going on.

I need to take in more lit. I want to sample a wide range of writing styles.

>>19189787
I've been on /lit/ since 14. I am 18 years old now and I still am of the opinion that I am lucky for discovering this site and this board.

>>19190734
Get out before you still can. Until it fucking grows on you. Leave while you still can and never look back

>>19189457
better a mortgage than rent. Also yes neither do i but im looking through the USDA path. Basically housing at the outer ring of the metroplex, out of the surburbs. There are incentives though like "0 down", mortgage assistance, couple others. I'd rather not rent out a room either but I feel like it's pretty standard

>28
>I've got a girthy dick
>dune

>>19191019
No.

>>19191258
Young fool, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into

>>19191267
What could possibly go wrong? I have good grades, a car and a cute girlfriend. I think this site had overwhelmingly positive effects on my life, if there's anything negative, it made me egotistical.

>29
>I can forcibly wake myself up from sleep and can tell time without a watch accurately to as off as twenty minutes, rarely both
>A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

>>19191300
>Only good things have happened
>No bad things are truly bound to happen
>Especially not the potential beyond my possible understanding
You should heed Anon's advice. Not many of us browse this website of our own volition, and fewer has longstanding benefit been given to our mental state for doing so.

>>19175261
27
Whatever is causing my rectal bleeding and my constipation is probably going to be what will cause my intestines to burst and lead to my untimely demise
the bible since I might not survive for long

>18
>I can do a one leg squat
>Ruling the Later Roman Empire

>>19191335
Are you reading it for peace of mind, or from a sense of due diligence? Has only your recent suffering moved you to this than your lifelong celebrations? With an immortal soul that is loved, cramming in Bible study now of all times won't save you any more or less, especially if the basis is potentially trying to remedy something before things turn worse. Read the Bible because your faith gives you the warmth of love and company. Celebrate reading it than resorting to it. But don't feel like you are obligated to make a decision beyond your norm, if for some reason this development is compulsion. A good child is praised not for following rules for fear of punishment but for respecting the love placed onto them for them being there. It'll all be alright and work out. Don't fret.

>>19175261
>18
>there’s nothing special in my life unfortunately
>12 Rules for Life — I had to read it, it’s nothing special honestly, but I get why it helped some people around the world.

>>19191335
What's your diet like?

>23
>taking another ceramics class
>Egyptian Book of the Dead
>>19178741
nothing will happen to you, you will happen to it

>>19190514
How you did not drop it after/during children is beyond me, even when I was 16 I found the later books cringe

> 19
> A book of heretics
> When I was 13-16 I would argue with 2-3 neoliberal teachers so much about politics and shit that they actively tried to get me to transfer to a different class cause they were so sick of me arguing with them every lesson.

>18
>i am gay
>crime & punishment

>>19175261
>36
>died once already
>red book

>>19191300

I used to say the exact same thing as you when i was 17

If you build this place into your biological rhythm as a habit whenever you will want to fall back onto something whenever things go wrong you will use 4chan as a distraction. Much like a drug, when a bad thing will prolong itself you will keep seeking a distraction to ignore the solving of your problem. It sounds like you're the king of the world right now and im glad for your success, but just as there is a probability that things will keep going smooth there is just as an equal opportunity for things to crash violently without you contributing to it. And at the end of the day that's exactly what life is. The last thing you want as a distraction is this place whenever something like that will happen.

I keep saying to myself i'll quit 4chan and stop smoking. But it's a habit that has grown on me which i now cannot shut off because mental procrastination is the greatest drug for the abstract thinking man. It also doesnt help that with age you keep growing resistant to new things and prefer routine, which also builds up in time. Don't repeat my and other people's mistakes. Dont get sucked into the pointless oblivion of this place, tempting as it may look. Create your own 4chan, manifest it outside your brain, dont pickle your will on this place

>>19175261
>25
>I accidentally killed a man once and was never caught
>Mythology

>>19191439
>nothing will happen to you, you will happen to it

Funny you say that. Earlier today i played chicken with anon in a /pol/ thread claiming he was a millionaire so i dared him to send me 100$ worth of bitcoin to prove it and the madlad actually did it. Later as the thread progressed turned out he had an IT firm and was looking for a remote freelancer for one of his projects. We swapped e-mails and was in a video call with him shortly after. I start tomorrow lol

>26
>Once a demon manifested in front of me for a minute and then disappeared into thin air. My relative was also there and saw it too. It looked like the creature at the top of this picture, except its head was far wider (about 2 feet wide)
>Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian

>>19180286
>entertained these daydreams that she, too, would have creative aspirations
>with her own goals and outlook and interests almost opposite from mine.

tfw your secret twin is not a diabolical doppleganger whose opposite plans will forever foil yours if you do not train harder and smarter

>29
>my hobby is carving small wood figurines and symbols I have over 1k dollars in carving knives
>living theurgy - jeffrey s kupperman

31
I am a licensed skydiver.
Barren Metal

>>19192056
>>Once a demon manifested in front of me for a minute and then disappeared into thin air. My relative was also there and saw it too. It looked like the creature at the top of this picture, except its head was far wider (about 2 feet wide)
what the fuck. story?

>>19175261
>26
>I've read more books in English than in my L1.
>Lörd öf thë Rïngs

24
I bought an FPGA recently
Energy and Civilization by Smil

>>19192169
Was with my cousin in our grandmother’s room when this massive demonic head came through window. She ran away screaming, but for some reason it didn’t frighten me at the time and I studied its face while it ogled me in turn. It disappeared after that. We told our family about it but no one believed us. And one other thing - not only did it come though a closed window, but also through the mosquito mesh that was nailed in place. The next morning I inspected the mesh (expecting that it would be torn), and it was intact

>>19192247
>through the window*

>>19175261
38
currently writing roast jokes for several politicians and they are (shocker) horrible to work for

The Morning Star

>18
>I like classical music
>Revolt Against the Modern World

>>19175291
>hates homos and wants to resurrect the man who made homosexuality legal in russia
based retard

>>19175261
>21
>At a party at the end of elementary school, I ran away from a girl who wanted to dance with me. Since then I avoid talking with females.
>"Power Play" by Tim Higgins

>>19183967
You gotta be honest with yourself: do you really find solace in being this way in your life? If yes then you made it, but the tone of your writing suggests that's not the case. See a therapist dude. Don't take that in a condescending way, but even two visits can help big time if you haven't done that already.

See a therapist, start putting checkmarks on Maslow's hierarchy of needs and at some point you'll start projecting your reality onto the world. THEN your life will start to turn around with a constant input of energy from you.

>>19190350
I wish I was you

>>19193335
If it's anything to you, sating desire only truly intensifies a wider desire contrary to logic. Having the experience I have, I can't go back to a sexless or vanilla lifestyle and am unable to enjoy them nor find content in what now is an impossible to sate myriad desires. Getting what you want only worsens wants.

>>19175261
>25
>I have schizophrenia
>Blood Meridian

>>19177042
How does one stop doing this? I just sit and daydream endlessly and it has ruined my life.

>>19175886
I like you bro

>>19175261
>20
>I very likely have several mental illnesses and personality disorders but I refuse to see a psychologist and both believe and am skeptical about the existence of said disorders
>notes from underground

>>19178726
Kiss my ass, Gn*stic

>>19193835
First, you find a good-sized tree, thick branches. Second, you purchase rope, about 10 feet, durable cordage...
Nah, nix that. Go to your local kitchen/shelter and do some volunteer work. After a few hours working with the addled and down-trodden, try to build rapport. Ask about their lives and try to understand how fortunate you are.

>>19175261
>28
>9mil net worth
>Decline of the West

>>19187495
I’m not a Jew, I was using self-loathing Jews as an example

>>19177042
Fuck my life. Seriously fuck off, this is so unfair. How do I fix this.

>>19193926
How?

>>19181467
Lol
Read Dabrowski instead

>>19175261
>23
>I hate Ann Radcliffe
>The Mysteries of Udolpho

>>19175261
>21
>my name shares initials with the acronym for a mild medical condition that I have
>Wise Blood

>>19175261
>18
>I've been having an existential crisis, I think it may be a blessing however
>I ordered Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (some /v/fag recommended it due to my existential crisis), Nietzsche's Will To Power, and Revolt Against The Modern World (I'm not right wing currently, I'm just attracted to controversial ideas), Will probably read Meditations to begin with, then Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, then we'll see what next.

>>19191538
God Emperor of Dune is the best one.

>28
>I dont know what to do with my life, cant find a purpose to keep going
>The stand

>>19194239
>>I dont know what to do with my life, cant find a purpose to keep going
Isn't that everyone? I can barely even imagine life with purpose in this day and age

>>19194152
Read Myth Of Sisyphus too!

Or you could skip all the reading start meditating and get enlightened. It won’t stop all the suffering but it’ll make it a lot less. In the meantime it’ll give you meaning and practical tools to do what you want. Best way to gain discipline.

If that sounds interesting read The Mind Illuminated and Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.

>>19192404
Lenin didn't. The abolition of Russia and her old laws was a consequence of the revolution ushering in a new state wherin the codification of new ones was a gradual process. By that logic you could say Lenin was an ancap. Homosexuality was seen as bourgeois decadence. There is not one favorable opinion of them in his entire 40+ volumes of works.

>>19194281
Alright, thank you Anon.

>2X
>I'm writing a short diary/memories about my life when I was in a totally different college city and uni. Spoiler: it's a failure after another
>Travel in Italy, Goethe