/lit/ - Literature

The one time I almost slept with a women was because her sister told her about me writing quite good poetry. I put some into her ear, and she sat in my lap and kissed me. I didn't sleep with her because I am scared of sex, I think.

I had sex with an instructor in college. It was in her office, next to where I’d meet some of my more renowned professors for office hours and brief chats.

>>19184779
I went to a poetry reading I was performing for. After inviting a girl from tinder, she was really shocked to see my parents there.
>Is this what you do on a first date?
>Yes.
We kissed and I wrote a poem about her.

>>19184808
Poetry is the best art form and the only writing I'm passionate about but I suck at it while being great at prose (according to every teacher and colleagues, I think I suck). That's how life is I guess.

One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.

>>19184831
What makes you think you suck at it? Not good with meter?

>>19184779
I once met a Sufi nomadic ascetic. And I asked him about does he reads philosophy? He yes and starting mimicking the style of some dilettante professor's way of dealing with abstract logical problem and applied it to a matchbox he was holding in his hand after a minute he laughed hysterically, cursed philosophy and loudly chanted a Sufi slogan while placing his hand on his heart and took a puff from his hashish cigarette and went silent. I was super close to spilling my spaghetti but I forced a laughter and autistically walked away. I still don't know if he was mocking me or philosophy.

What went wrong bros?

>>19184839
Grew up being praised for shitty overly flowery writing. Shit's pretentious in a university way and not a /canon/ way. I'll just stick to making music and films, I can express ideas and aesthetics better through those mediums.

>>19184853
He was mocking the medium and writing style philosophy and especially post modern Philosophy finds itself in.

>>19184808
Everyone is scared of sex when they don't do it, anon. Just go beyond the fear.

>>19184883
That was half a decade ago, I don't think I'm gonna get another chance with my current shut-in lifestyle.

>>19184853
Incredibly based.

>>19184883
We have a natural fear because God's laws are written on men's hearts (Romans 2;14-15) The fear exists because fornication is wrong, a sensual act that obscures reason, and attaches man to a created thing. When this happens, man prefers creature to creator and condemns himself to hell for all eternity. There is no remedy short of repentance and repentance is a grace of God. Most will go to their graves and not feel any remorse for their sleeping arounds.

I've got a super gay one from like 15 years ago.
This was in Rome, when working as a conservators assistant. There was a somewhat active nightlife and I was still young enough that i could, just about, pull 20 yo dudes, but already at the age i was seriously thinking of finding a girl and settling down. Anyway, i was taken up by good looking Italian guy and after a night of passion he took pity on me, having missed my last train, and offered we spend the night at his place. Turns out he was still living with his family, particularly his single mother (i know right) who , making no mention of anything, made us breakfast and was generally surprisingly chill about her boy bringing an unknown older man home.
It turned out she was a professor at the American University where she thought, among other things, Italian literature. Well we hit it off, in the literary sense, and became fast friends.
Now dont imagine this is heading towards further romance, she was too old for me, and never made a move, but afterwords whenever i visited Rome i would also visit her, and together we'd discuss literature and get heavily drunk. She had that wonderful humanist conception of history: no rules, no philosophy. just platonic chaos. to visit a museum with her was to have a lifetime of learning suddenly dumped on you, and we ones spent 12 hours in the Uffizi arguing about the origins of early Renaissance style.
And i guess there is romance at the end of this, since, in a roundabout way, it's through her that i met my wife.

She's been dead for almost 3 years now, just before covid, and i miss her terribly. Just writing this has made me quite melancholy and made me think i should call her son , who i still sometimes talk to.

>>19184997
I thoight you were going to fuck the boy

>>19185056
I mean, I did. When i say night of passion i just don't remember where we went. It's all so long ago.
We got along well, I even took him on holiday and, we spent some times in Como when my boss let me borrow his summer house.

>>19184808
>writes poetry
>"scared" of sex
you are gay

>>19185105
Nah, I don't think so. Just dense in the head and with a bunch of complexes.
I mean, sure, could be that I'm gay. (Or bisexual in that case.) But that's not really the problem here.

>woman says my book sounds complicated
>I say uh yeah hmm
>conversation ends

>>19184997
Be honest with us anon, was he really 20?

Discussion with older academic dude who researches bio-chemistry and shit, whom also has a lit interest where I told him I want to read The Illiad
>Yeah anon the Illiad is great! Read it
>okay, what translation
>it doesn't matter, it's still the Illiad
he activated my autism trigger

>>19185098
Gay sex is the hight of literary aesthetic.

>>19185350
>yfw he saysThe Emily Wilson translation

>>19184779
Theoretically speaking, what if I don't interact with women?

>>19185188
He's gay and gays reproduce by "getting them while they're young" as it were, so he could be lying

>>19185145
Why didn't you ask her what she didn't understand about it? Or did you just not care

my gf reads lit and was memed into reading infinite jest and lot 49 because of you

>>19184997
Dude, you're gay, lmao

>>19184779
on the first week i had moved to another city for school i went to a bookshop and asked an attendant if they had any Lovecraft and the girl snickered to her friend

I'm wagie and read while waiting and riding the bus to work. I'm reading a long series of books, the books covers all look a like, so for an inattentive espectador looks like I'm reading the same book.
One day, I strike a conversation with a guy that usually catches the same bus as me. He confessed to me that a day later a woman in the same bus stop approach him and said, clearly bothered:
>What's wrong with that kid? He always reading the same book. He reads this book everyday and didn't finish yet.
I laugh and awkwardly explain to him that I'm reading a series of books that have almost identical covers.

it has been two years since i spoke to a woman who wasn't my mother

>>19185727
Self conscious abut reading big books i switched to an Ereader after a few strangers commented on my Henry James.

What if they think im too smart

>>19184779
i have a few
>was reading the Decameron in class in highschool 10th grade
>my honors english teacher, "anon why are you reading that, woah. it has so much sex"
>me, "uhhhh"
>he rants about sex in the decameron
same teacher
>"oh yeah i like sylvia plath alot." (me)
>"ive always had a crush on her anon, she is just so cute." (teacher)
>"oh,,, whats your favorite poem by her?"
>"she writes poetry?" :I
yet another one
>me buying lenin and machiavelli biographies at local book store
>pretty shit book store they have those really skinny long books from amazon for some reason
>buying my 2 books
>girl gets excited and recommends me a book
>its the glass castle
>how do you go from lenin and machiavelli to the glass castle
teacher my junior year
>anon, i liked your story for the contest. but i prefer YA so i chose the other one
>what the fuck.
honorable mentions
>my grandmother asking me if im gonna kill myself because i was reading Plath and Faulkner
>a girl i knew, who i gave all my old YA books to, annotating john green and saying she loves literature and is a total book worm. literally crushed my soul. daft.

>>19184997
What a horrible story

>>19184829
>We kissed and I wrote a poem about her.
You and your parents?

>>19184808
Extremely based retard.

>>19184779
Why do you keep posting pictures of ugly women?

>I'm at the bookstore, buying some of Ibsen's plays
>young female cashier says that he's her favourite playwright
>"uh-huh, have a nice day", and out the door I walk

True story, not that interesting but I thought it was kind of funny.

I went to Chapters/Indigo about two months ago, to the spirituality/religion section. I walked over to the esoteric shelf fully aware of how gay I might look, and there were two young women there, about my age. One was pretty hot. I was dressed/groomed well and didn't give a shit, so like a chad I asked them what sort of topics were they interested in: "Mostly white magic and angel blah blah blah....what about you?" I smiled and told them I wouldn't pretend to know what they were talking about, I was interested in Traditionalism and Initiation, which properly understood, is man's reintegration into the primordial state, which is conscious participation in divinity and immortality. They said that was cool but didn't really know what I was talking about either. I said "Ya, I don't see many books on it here, mostly just weird satanist and demonology stuff, you guys aren't into that are you?" They weren't into it, which I was glad to hear, because they were sweet, and it seemed like they were interested in helping people or whatever (angel work/white magic?). I asked them what their parents thought about this, and one said her mom believed in it, the other said her parents didn't know. They asked me what mine thought about it, and I said they didn't know, since I moved out a while ago. We looked at the shelves a little longer then they said have a nice day and left.

They seemed more nervous than I was, which I thought was funny. I remained calm and inwardly detached from the situation, and any anxiety I may have felt was rather projected on to them, which is what happens. I realised they were more shy than I was. I probably could have talked to them more but I don't know what about, it would have been cool to make friends with people who actually believe in this, especially if one was hot.

>>19184943
The same people would have the same fear before sleeping with their wife for the first time on their wedding night.

>>19184779
My ex fell in love with me through my poetry and my sincerity. Sadly, she tried to go over my boundaries (I am not very sexual) by molesting me as I slept. I never could look at her the same. It was as if I stared at a pretty bee until I realized it was a wasp.

I had a really good professor my last two years at college. I ended up taking three of his courses. He taught me a lot about literature and I was very grateful to have a professor who cared about teaching his students how to think rather then telling them what to think. Anyway, after I graduated I wrote him a long letter telling him of my gratitude. After that we kept in touch via email.

Fast forward to Covid, and we are both locked in doors all the time. We started meeting over zoom to read epic poems together. We have been doing it for about a year and a half now. We started with The Aeneid, and after that we did Dante’s Infero. We are currently Galway through Purgatory. He has been a good friend and mentor to have.

Best part? The dude is gay and has never once tried to fuck me.

>>19186862
>Galway through Purgatory
Never heard of it, it any good?

>>19186887
Sorry, Dumbass phone finger. Halfway through Purgatorio. And yes, it is

>>19186862
nice!

I have many. all of these happened on public transportation
- coming back from school as a teenager I was reading "Portrait of the artist as a young man" next to an old man. at one point he started chatting with me and told me had attended university in the 60's, and that his lit professor had been Borges (I live in argentina) and how he'd attended his Joyce lectures
- when I was Le Starting with the Greeks I was on the bus reading Sophocles. a tall ass man clad entirely in heavy metal fashion said to me: "Oh! The Greeks? good on you". this was about 8 years ago when the /mu/ and /lit/ userbases still overlapped significantly and to this day I'm convinced he was a 4chan guy
- BY FAR my weirdest /lit/ irl moment: also on the bus this time with Heraclitus. a middle aged woman started chatting about it with me. she knew the "Works and days" inside out, it was shocking. she gave me her phone number and I was almost certain I was gonna fuck. we met the following week but she took me to a meeting of New Age/Theosophical/humanistic? ppl talking about holistic medicine and shit. wish it had been cooler, like a cult or something but it was ultimately pretty tame and boring. never saw her again
- about 5 or 6 years ago the Cirque du Soleil was in town....and I saw an entire group of the performers in the fucking subway. I guess they were on their day off doing tourist shit. in any case I was reading the Divine Comedy, in italian, and a short muscular italian looking dude in the crew kept glancing at me. not much of an interaction but he must have been curious
- the last one happened about two years ago. I was reading Virginia Woolf at the bus stop and two girls of the let's say 'arthoe' variety approached me. they were not very pretty but I am into that style. maybe I was dressing "european" because they asked me out of the blue if I was from Spain? lol. their disappointment was immense when they learned I was a random local going home. next time I'll get you, wild arthoes

>>19184997
Nice LARP. Did you just read Call Me By Your Name and want to write some fanfic?

>>19184853
Kek. Sounds like some shit out of a Gaddis novel.

>>19186207
>my grandmother asking me if im gonna kill myself because i was reading Plath and Faulkner
top kek

>>19187074
>maybe I was dressing "european"
How does one dress European

>>19184779
This chick is /film/ as fuck. You don't get Disney stars praising Sans Soleil everyday.

>>19184779
Let's see.
>Get really pissed off at Kerouac's prose one day
>In English 12
>Assigned a 5-10 minutes flash fiction warm up
>Writing a piece copying and mocking his style, very obnoxiously postmodern
>Teacher thinks it's super clever and funny
Not the first time a shitpost got massive praise from a teacher
>In philosophy 11
>Literally never followed the assignment
>I would go off on inane rambles about shit I had no idea about
>Come final
>Assigned to essay
>One of them I layed out the Epicurean question without knowing who he was
>The latter was titled "Are Traps Gay"
>Get a clean 86%

There's also the time I redpilled my ex out of promiscuity and alcoholism through Nietzsche, should have never broken up with her. It's not that I'd want a relationship with her right now, it's that current bf is a passionless depressed and functionality nihilistic faggot.

>>19186862
Based

>>19184779
Moomin makes lesbians want to fuck you. True story.

>>19184808
>writes poetry
based
>won't have sex before marriage
double based

>Problem with the alarm system, parents trying to find a cheap electrician in the phone book
>They found a dude ; he's a Polish immigrant
>Dad mentions I study philosophy as they're descending downstairs
>Polish man pauses for a sec and then says his favorite philosopher is Schopenhauer
>Later heard him defending Hitler while discussing upstairs with my relatives

>>19184779
My weeb friend like transhumanism and has defended eugenics before. I think he's read Nick Land

>>19184779
this happened today
>reading siddhartha on the subway
>two old ladies sit next to me
>one of them asks me if I am reading siddhartha
>''yes.''
>they start to talk about buddhism between themselves
>they get off a few stations later

>senior year AP english
>(teacher is smoking hot young latina)
>get a good grade on a paper but she adds a note saying I should use semicolons more
>realize I don't even understand how semicolons should be used
>fill my next paper with them wherever I think they make sense
>get another good grade
>later, she tells me she thought I was being sarcastic and teasing her by using a million semicolons, says she thought it was hilarious
>didn't have the heart to say I actually had no idea what I was doing and still don't understand semicolons
>to this day don't really know how to use them

>>19188102
You should have leveraged that to get into her semicolon, if you know what I mean.

>>19188102
i love latina

>>19188121
We all do, this is a board for intellectuals, isn't it?

>>19187074
>his lit professor had been Borges
dude holy shit

>>19184853
Sounds cool af

>>19188102
best
audibly kekd

>>19184885
Same ... I once had an opportunity at 17 but blew it. At my brother's party and this girl was lying with me one the couch. Eventually she asks if I want to go to bed with her but I was scared and said that I was fine sleeping on the couch. Now I'm a 21 year old shut in with zero friends and will likely not experience sex in the foreseeable future. Shit hurts.

>>19188115
if you flip a semicolon upside down ; it kinda looks like a pussy and butthole
just notice that

>>19185105
You're a sad man.

>>19188102
You're a dipshit; semicolons aren't hard to use and she wanted to fuck.

>>19187284
like a bit...gay lel
it was summer so I was in short shorts and one of those flowery satin shirts that were popular at the time. also I'm jacked. idk I've seen euroids dressed like that in summer a few times

>>19188148
apparently not that rare. the guy lectured for about 20 years in the university of buenos aires. later on I learned my elementary school lit teacher had also been his student

>>19188210
okay big guy lemme see you use a semicolon then

OK here's a quote from one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, George Orwell:

"I had decided about this time that the semicolon is an unnecessary stop and that I would write my next book without one."

George Orwell, quoted in Lynne Truss's, Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

I agree with him. Semi-colons are completely unnecessary! Use short sentences like Ernest Hemingway or Charles Bukowski!

>>19184808
>>19188193

DONT. FUCK. WHORES.

>>19188258
Em-dash mogs the semicolon

>highschool freshman
>take city bus to school downtown, a lot of my friends happen to be on my route, usually banter during the ride
>one day I'm re-reading my complete Sherlock Holmes
>grown-up joins the banter, he's also a Holmes fan.
>we talk sometimes thereafter
>at the time I'm a huge X Men nerd, too.
>guy gifts me the bound copy of the Frank Miller Dark Knight + Batman Year One
>I would have never known about it since it was DC and thought it was all like the Superfriends cartoon
>the more I get to know him, I realize the reason he's trying to make friends is because he's a boring loser who can't make friends his own age

life lesson learned

>>19188258
Ach! I just realized that the word "semicolon" does not contain a hyphen! After writing a post about grammar, too! I am so ashamed of myself.

>>19184808
>>19184885
literally me

>>19188233
>apparently not that rare
oh, ok; I was operating under the knowledge that he went straight from school into being a librarian his whole life or at least until he started making enough as an author. it makes perfect sense that he would lecture and I know he did so by invitation, but was ignorant of a professorship

>>19188271
get the fuck outta here, dork

>>19184779
I used to talk to my history teacher about favorite authors and books. My teacher's favorite poet was William Blake

>>19188271
get a load of this retard

My high school class was filled with the weirdest fucking people.
>You had literal Nazis,
>popular kids barely could grasp any of it
>some ESL brazillian kid there was one of the most well read,
>me and the boys constant goofed around but somehow understood everything better than the "scholarly" rich kids,
>one of my closest friends made the teacher repeat almost every statement, smart guy who's probably never read a full book.
>Same friend was nearly crushed between desks
>He ended up writing a beatles analysis that barely had anything to do with the class (Fixed it on the second draft)
>Other friend snorted pop rocks I was handing out
>I dropped the hard r beside the based Jamaican girl in the first day and didn't get in trouble
>Constant Zizek shitposting
>one of the nazi girls kept calling Descartes "Dick-Art"
>Teacher was as chill dude but possibly a tankie in his youth, this too become a running joke
>Lock down drill occurs and I couldn't stop laughing at the Pakistani crash bandicoot happy meal commercial.
>All my essays were just well reasoned shitposts.
Good times, the teacher was shockingly unbiased for clearly being a gay socialist (literally).

>>19188363
>nazi girl
Was she hot?

>>19187461
Moomin Coomins?

>>19188375
17, but had the body of thiccccc milf. blonde but plain otherwise. i'd be dtf.

>>19188049
The best interaction. You contributed to their day with minimal effort.

>>19188415
I'll give a qrd
>be me
>16
>Sorta friends with peak tumblr cottage-core lesbian type girl
>actually cute and fashionable
>Have a mutual interest in moomin
>Hit it off with her about it, too lazy to really pursue anything after the firs convo
>Eat fast food with her, and a few of my core friends
>Says she has a crush on someone
>Basically describes me but does that "tee-hee i'm not talking about you, am i?" thing
>Too oblivious to realize that she could be refering to me
The majority of girls that were into me during hs were bi, what that says, idk.

>>19188205
yes, and?

>>19188454
Every high-school girl identifies as bi/pan. It's a phase where they explore themselves and become fascinated about every new identity they find. You just realize this and nod along.

>>19188472
yeah, but these ones were like obviously hella queer not just regular teenager girl bi

>>19188193
>Now I'm a 21 year old shut in with zero friends and will likely not experience sex in the foreseeable future. Shit hurts.

please post more high school stories, those were the best times in my life, with more than one gang of male friends to fuck around with in school or outside, and some female gangs that would hang out to drink with us or whatever. we used to go in the hot tub in our underwear, they would sometimes show their boobs while getting changed. after that it was uni, which progressively got worse to the point that at the end i was a complete outcast, now it is just ascetic NEETdom for the foreseeable future in these trying times of covid-19 novel coronavirus.

>>19188524
Make art

>>19188539
art is too bourgeois

>>19186862
yet

>>19184779
who?

>>19188299
>lecture and I know he did so by invitation, but was ignorant of a professorship
yea I wrote 'professor' loosely I am not familiar with the nuances of tenure and other academic shit. idk if he was a proper professor there
all I meant is that attending his lectures wasn't such a rare privilege

>>19188524
>junior year AP english
>(teacher is fairly attractive white milf, nothing major though)
>given an assignment to ask a family member about an experience from their childhood that we then have to write as a story
>ask my dad about one and don't put much effort into it, don't really like writing fiction
>everyone reads their story in class in a big circle
>mine is boring and lazy, everyone else's is too
>get to the black guy who never talks and seems to have no friends
>he reads his story and it is amazing
>suspenseful, superbly written, beautiful
>the whole class is entranced in silence
>he finishes and no one knows what to say other than "wow"
>he never speaks up again
>at the graduation ceremony a year later, the announcer says he isn't going to college and hopes to be a writer
I really fucking hope you made it my man you had the gift

>>19188680
well, that's good that a lot of people got to attend his lectures instead of him just wasting away in the BA library all his life. wish I could've attended

>>19188690
> le ebin black man

>>19188717
rent free

>>19188751
to the contrary, independent of whether we want it or not, niggers are forced everywhere in modern society, which is in the final stage of civilisational decline, which is no coincidence.

>>19188786
read baudrillard

>>19184853
>What went wrong bros?
>In the beginning was the 'word'
>In the beginning was the pneuma

>>19188690
>he found Forrester'
lel

>>19184779
Oh here's an old one

>In British lit class
>reading excerpts from Beowulf
>prof is kind of a weird dude
>talking about the time period
>mfw this absolute sperg actually brings a fucking longsword in and starts swinging it around, saying that its what Beowulf would have used
>at that point my social life was already hopeless so I decide fuck it
>point out how the sword was closer resembling a much later Normandian type, and how he was swinging it completely wrong
>prof gets hushed up
>qt in front of me turns around and smiles at me

>>19188834
based

>freshman English in hs
>have to do a dramatic reading
>pretty introverted
>decide to do TheRaven
>had never read it or any Poe, but decide just on reputation alone
>Poe has a "cool" reputation (well, among normies, but what did I know, I was just a dumb kid. but I do like him anyway, now)
>get really into it
>really try to intone the words according to the feeling and make it dramatic as possible
>my day comes, get in front of class
>am somehow able to get in the zone despite my introversion
>since it was my "job", that I was being told to do it allowed me to do something I would normally not be able to
>nail it
>bit of a hush
>applause from classmates, sincere applause, not perfunctory applause
>girl with crush on me actually stands
>somewhat shocked, but happy

intense feels, seldomly felt again

>>19184779
https://youtu.be/5w3cYtJekpw

How long can you last?

>>19188834
nice

>>19184779
>14 years old
>reading some teen shit from Elle Casey in class
>girl from the seat in front of me slowly tips the book over so that she can look at me
>"Whatcha reading?"
>show her the cover and resume reading

>15 years old, some months after that first story
>waiting in line to get the school lunch with Tai-Pan in my hand
>girl from another class approaches me
>"Hey, what's that book about?"
>"It's basically about a British merchant in China"
>"Cool"
>I nod and she leaves with her friends
I ended up dating that second one in the following year. A shame she was mormon lmao

>20 years old
>working in a blood bank
>reading Okinawa: The History of an Island Nation (forgot the exact title) during my break
>boss approaches
>"Hey, what's that book about?"
>"About your parents' homeland, boss. It's pretty interesting"
>"Yeah, keep on being like that. You're so cerebral"
(Her parents were indeed born in Okinawa during the US occupation and she told me some pretty harrowing stories)
>smile as she leaves

>>19188887
Jesus...

>>19188887
Made it 30 seconds. I'm not staring at this bitch for 4 and a half minutes straight

>>19188887
as long as i want, but in real life, how long are you supposed to make eye contact for? i stared down a poo in loo the other day

>>19188887
Is it normal to shift focus from one eye to another? I can't hold contact with both eyes simultaneously

>>19188946
Unless it's your boss/ somebody you want to impress you don't need to make eye contact at all.
If it is your boss/ somebody you want to impress you just look at them periodically (every 45 seconds or so) and nod in agreement to everything they say.

>>19188946
>>19188959
Just look at the nose. They can't tell.

>>19188961
this, eye contact is about respect/domination

>>19184779
I exchange books with my grandfather a lot. He almost exclusively reads either nonfiction or crime fiction, but I got him to read a book I teach, The Things they Carried, because he was in Vietnam. He annotated in my annotated copy for teaching all the stuff that he related to, and I'll always cherish that.

I just gave him copies of John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse and got him into Elmore Leonard too

Back in school I wrote a long monologue in the accent of a deep southerner, which I was familiar with because of my grandparents. The content was pretty inane but I captured the accent quite well. Got top marks; the teacher was probably just glad to read something unusual among the usual shit

>>19189297
Nice, understanding dialects and speech habits is the key to writing good dialog.

>>19187752
бaceд

>>19184779
I was having drinks with this girl and i mentioned that i was reading a lot these days.
she asked me what i was currently reading so i explained her the plot of Justine.
i don't think she really liked me after that.

>>19184779
Got to talking with a girl about book at a party. We were both high af, I was additionally drunk and she was on a microdose of LSD. She asked if she could show me her bookshelf upstairs as an excuse to leave the waning party. (I was later told the book discussion was not why I was brought up). She made me tea and I looked at her bookshelf. We got to talking about Anna Karenina, which we both had read. Then we have sex. I was so high and in so much shock that I was fucking this insanely e t h e r e a l b i s e x u a l fairy girl that I shivered uncontrollably the whole time.

This was in June. Gonna see her on Saturday :D

the girl at the bookstore told me i had good taste because i was buying berserk.
she talked to me about anime while i was checking out

>>19189512
>sax

>>19189512
She hot?

>>19188363
you have to be 18+ to post here

>>19189680
This is a Philosphy class I took years ago

>>19189512
To the streets

Happened in one of the practicals in college.
qt from different class asked what I was reading. Told (some normie ass book). Asked if she can borrow it, gave. Fast forward practical ended I asked for the book, she wanted me to lend it to her. Declined.

I didn't finish the book.

i have an ongoing, and quite a literary, friendship with an 40 woman i dated while in uni.
Not that romantic since i was just a looser who couldn't get laid and she just young dick, but we are actually still friends. She knows more about European lit then my professors did in uni..But she had a kid my age which was creepy. yr8kd

This was a few years ago after I had just moved to Paris. My visa required me to take a french language class (spouse of french woman). About the second week of class I was waiting for the metro to return home. Two women from the class were also waiting at the same station, a beautiful young mulatto Brazilian and a middle aged Russian woman. I later discovered she was 34. I was 30 myself. The Russian woman was skinny with black hair and dark eyes. Her hair was always a bit disheveled. She always dressed a bit masculine, loose fitting cotton trousers and loose button-up shirt, but they were never baggy clothes. She had a very thick Russian accent and was a bit shy because of it. She certainly wasn’t traditionally beautiful but I found her charming. While waiting for the metro, the young Brazilian says she was reading «Notes From the Underground» and that sparks a small discussion and then a wider discussion on Dostoevsky. The Brazilian didn’t have much else to say as she had only read the one book so thankfully she got off at the next metro stop. The Russian and I had about a 45 minute ride during which I had one of the most delightful discussions of my life. As it turns out she was a PhD candidate at a German university and had to spend a year for research in Paris. She had worked as an attorney at a top law firm Moscow before pursuing a PhD. She was certainly the most intelligent woman I had ever met. After the metro ride we exchange numbers and arrange to get a drink together in Paris to talk more in the future. After a more few weeks I am regularly face fucking this woman after class. At the end of the year she returns to Germany to finish the PhD and then back to Moscow. If there hadn’t been an age gap and for the fact that I was already married, I may have gone with her. Anyways that was five years ago and we haven’t seen each other since she left Paris. She is still single and I have two kids. It breaks my heart a bit that she hasn’t found someone. She always wanted a family.

>>19189962
Good for you, anon.

>>19186379
On a separate occasion, anon, when my parents weren’t there:

>>19189962
>After a more few weeks I am regularly face fucking this woman after class. At the end of the year she returns to Germany to finish the PhD and then back to Moscow. If there hadn’t been an age gap and for the fact that I was already married, I may have gone with her. Anyways that was five years ago and we haven’t seen each other since she left Paris. She is still single and I have two kids.

no surprise as to why she is still single

>>19189867
how old are you you motherfucker? did you do it?

>>19184779

Was buying a copy of Chandler the Big Sleep at B&N this week and the old guy checking me out said it was one of his favorites. Wasn't busy so we talk and he used to have an antiquarian bookstore.
Nice comfy 10 min convo about Marlow and Chandler.

>>19190013
If she didn’t live in Moscow she probably would have found somebody.

>>19190097
Definitely what I was referring to.

>>19190119
So you think her having sex with me is a reason why she is still single? You’re a clown.

>>19190000
nice quads fella

>>19190054
girl?

>>19190147
She being a turboslut is probably the reason

>>19190147
Career woman, above 30(can't have/not willing to have children), slut

Once women age out they can't find someone because male sexuality is geared towards fertility. The best she can do is getting some faggot to cheat on his wife with a mannish whore.

>>19190147
Home wreckers don't usually make good wives.

>>19190201
you're just mad cuz he throatfucked her and you never even touched boobs

>>19189962
>After a more few weeks I am regularly face fucking this woman after class.
Someone has assimilated well into French culture.
>>19184779
No

>>19185360
he seems alright but i don't think so. it's gross and decadent. has no depth like it does with women.

>>19185350
just hope he means reading any translation is better than reading none

>>19189962
This is the nature of marriage. The occasional cheating, with one main partner remaining through it all. Your wife probably did something similar to you a few years ago.

>>19188479
so is every other woman. it means nothing as to her actual sexuality. identities and subcultures are assumed regardless of sexuality.

I got really close with my mom's friend after we bonded over our love of Modernist lit. I used to attend classical concerts with her (we saw Yundi Li, Evgeni Kissin, and a handful of other relatively big acts together), play the piano for her, and sleep over if we had had too much to drink. I was about 19 at the time, and I was seeing a girl who studied a few provinces over. She was in her early fifties. On numerous occasions, I fantasized about walking into her room at night and trying my luck, but I could never work up the guts. I think she was waiting for me to try something. Still regret it to this day, but now I use my status as an author to regularly fuck randoms through dating apps. I think I'd trade all that to go back in time and fuck her.

>>19190516
Was she one of those women for whom the scythe of menopause did not reap? If so you should've pounded that pussy so hard that she started ovulating as if she were fresh out of puberty, you moron

>>19190563
She was post-menopausal, I believe. Either way, there was no way she was giving birth at her age.

>>19189006
Focusing on an eyebrow is usually even better

>>19185105
>writes poetry
>"scared" of sex
>you are gay

>>19188193
>21
Still plenty of time. I was a shut-in for most of my 20s and still managed to lose my virginity at 31.

>>19184779
My ex gave me a bookmark cause she knew I liked to read. It was a bookmark from Mexico when she went on a family trip there. Still use the bookmark, half for the bittersweet memory, the other half because I have this stupid fantasy where I meet her by chance on a bus stop, or train station or an airport and she finds it endearing that I still use it and we start talking again.

>>19184779
One of my fondest memories of my early teenage years were the meandering walks I took along the beach with my grandfather. He had a phenomenal memory for poetry. The sea inspired him to recite poems of the ocean. He was old and walked slowly, but we weren't in any hurry on these walks, and he was never in any particular hurry in his recital of poetry, either. One walk between watching seagulls and stepping on seashells to crunch them, he recited for me The Inchcape Rock. Over the course of a half-dozen others, he recited for me The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He would pause to say hello to the people we passed who were walking the other direction, or stop and speak to a fisherman or someone out walking their dog.

>>19188263
I didn't.

>>19184853
kino

>>19184779
People think attracting woman by reading in public is a meme but I've had first hand experience to refute this. The only time a woman has randomly spoken to me in public was when I was reading 1984 on a train to campus. After stepping off and trying to beat everyone to the turnstiles this woman my age literally runs after me calling out just to ask why I was reading 1984. She seemed fun and we talked all the way to campus. As soon as we were on campus she completely forgot about me but whatever. Now I always read in public with the cover clearly visible.

>tell a woman I only read male authors
>she laughs condescendingly at my fragile masculine ego
>I-I just didn't get to the women yet hehe

>>19188834
Why can't I have an autistic class? This sounds fucking epic.

>>19187974
Cringe weeb

>>19184853
He was rightfully mocking the philosophy made after the greeks and romans. He was based.

>>19191221
Philosophy was always the same

>>19184997
Is this an AU Thomas Mann, who never left America, trying to propose his pitch for Holywood?

>>19186862
>has never once tried to fuck me.
Because you are meeting via zoom by the moment...
Nah, sounds cool to have someone to share genuine literary interests and do cool shit like reciting the epics together, also people can get lonely sometimes.

>>19187074
The Works and the Days was by Horace. Other than that sounds like you had very cool lit moments. I guess Argentina really is a very /lit/ country.

>>19190850
>he thinks that a single anecdote refutes anything
You might want to pick up a book on logic next.

>>19186801
I used to have a lot of experiences like that. In a lot of cases, the girls are actually super creeped out that some random dude is talking to them. I'm guessing that was the case here.

>>19191221
Nah Sufi ascetics are oral tradition poetry, music and dance bros. They don't really care about dry philosophy.

>>19184997
I dunno what these fags are on about, I liked your story

>>19184779
>we're supposed to read some faggot textbook in class
>I'm sitting in the back reading a parody of something
>trying to contain laughing my ass off (poorly)
>one group of girls turn around asking "you having a good time with the reading material?" (I'm roughly translating from what was said)
>look at them super serious, dramatic pause, then go "No."
>continue to read and laugh
Good times.

>>19188717
seriously, the last thing we need is another magical negro story

>>19184779
>talk to grill about books
>"yeah I like both fiction and non-fiction, but right now I'm reading a book about a Polish company that served all over the world in WW2, it's actually pretty interesting because a bear w-"
>woman: haha, you boys and your obsession with ww2
>long story fucking short later at night I'm at her place and we're gonna get dirty
>her bookshelf has 50 Shades and fucking Harry Potter
>me being autismo and unable to let things go I viciously berate her for being mentally fucking 12 and having the audacity to comment on anything I or anyone else reads
We did not fuck.
I regret nothing.

>>19191256
nah man Homer wrote Works and Days

>>19184779
Cum god arises.

>>19191783
mind sharing what you were reading ? actually curious

>>19191873
I think it was Hippocrates

>>19191915
Pretty sure it was "Bored of the Rings".
I read a lot of shit like that when I was 16.

>>19190850
So a happy memory for you is being used by a woman for entertainment and dropped like a rock the minute she finds something more exciting. Not the first story I've read like this here. You people are fucking pathetic.

>>19192032
actually it was merely translated by Hippocrates from a Mesopotamian original

>>19185504
>Theoretically

>>19190857
>my fragile masculine ego
why did you post-modernist retards fall for cultural marxism hook line and sinker lol. You fags glorify being a spineless cuck don't you. you fucking fags jack off to it lol. when will you learn that all of your bdsm fetishes or whatever are rooted in your lack of self-esteem. i say this not to insult you, but to free you from your chains. go free, you sad sack of shit.

I can't tell what's more pathetic ITT, the fags who think they missed out on some primo pussy, or the fags who actually did the deed. both groups of you homos talk about it like some beautiful moment from your favorite novel. No different from how normies talk about their lives like it's The Hangover part 7.

you faggots have never lived a fucking day in your lives lmao.

>>19184779
I met a cute girl on the university bus, she's an RA in my building. Didn't start well because the first time I spoke to her I startled her. Anyway we talk a few times and I made some pumpkin bread over the weekend so I asked her if she wanted to come over and try some, so we added each other on snapchat. I invite her over and she's at a soccer game so she says she'll come tomorrow. I decide to reel it back and see if she'll message first to gauge her interest. She didn't respond, whatever. I get on the bus this morning first, and when she gets on she waves at me and goes and sits in the back of the bus rather than behind me. I'm taking this as a hint that she's not interested in me, but at the same time, next time I see her I think I'll just be upfront and ask her if she's single because I'm tired of beating around the bush. I've already played the rejection in my head so it won't hurt to just ask, and it'll at least give me closure.

either way it's game over.

>>19192172
>you faggots have never lived a fucking day in your lives lmao.
That's precisely the proble, why do you act like this is some kind of huge revelation? Go stand in the corner with the other smart kids.

>>19192189
I used to be like you bro. You already know the answer, she wants nothing to do with you and you creep her out. If you continue to pursue, you are risking your reputation on campus. she will tell other people you're a creep. just respectfully back away and do your own thing. You should be happy doing your own thing, whether or not you get the girl. girls hate desperation, and unfortunately they can smell your desperation from a mile away.

>>19192191
who said it was a revelation, dipshit? just thought you pussies should be reminded once in a while how pathetic you are. fuck off.

>>19192189
I love that book, too, dumbass.

>>19188193
>>19184808
My first sexual experience was at 26. I got really drunk with my bible study group leader. We were talking about relationship stuff- I was trying (and failing) to woo this foreign exchange chick, and she was having issues with her LDR. Next thing I know it's 3 AM and she's crawled onto my lap and has her tongue in my mouth. My roommate stormed out to get some water, trying to be as inconspicuous as he could, but I made the mistake and led her into my bedroom. I couldn't get hard, otherwise I would have fucked her, maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the awful smell of dingleberries, but I fingered her and then we fell asleep. Long story short we don't talk to each other anymore and that was the push she needed to move to Alaska and marry her LDR boyfriend. Hurts because she was one of my closest friends after moving to a new town for grad school, but I needed to move on to girls who are actually single. Maybe I should have told her to break up with him and stay with me when she came back and apologized the day after. But it's no point on worrying about the past now. It's been two years.

>>19192255
>go to bible study
>get drunk and act sexually promiscuous
what kind of heretical ass church do you faggots go to

>>19191357
You clearly haven't ever picked one up.

>17
>junior english class
>reading sound and the fury
>entire class is sleep-deprived and mentally destroyed
>finished quentin the night before
>discussing it
>everyone’s clearly out of it
>teacher starts prodding us a bit
>”well of course quentin is attracted to his sister”
>we pretty much all get that
>”and he’s clearly impotent, like him dropping the gun”
>a bit more confused now
>”and the knife is obviously a penis•
>everyone jerks awake
>just looking at the teacher in awe
>half the class is making a visible expression like “oh shit...it was?”
>class basically descends into anarchy for the day as the teacher just explains that everything is a penis
great moment.

>>19192290
She had graduated and was visiting for the weekend, I hadn't seen her in like 3 months, but the crux of the problem is probably the fact that her LDR took her virginity that March, and then immediately after she had to go months without seeing him. She got her first taste of sex and she turned into a coomer. She had prior told me that summer about going to the bars with her roommates (during a summer internship) and how she'd have random guys talk to her and have to be bailed out by her roommates reminding her that she has a bf. Kinda surprised her marriage has lasted two years.

Sorry, let me post something /lit/ related now.

Last year I was in a book club with some classmates. We read Dune because my coworker is a massive Dunefag and he's giga excited for the movie. What was really interesting though was the fact that none of these other guys had grown up in religious homes; they were all raised atheist. Now, if you've read Dune, there's a Biblical reference in nearly every chapter. So it was fun giving them insight into that. But at the same time, it got me wondering how many references to the Siddhartha or Quran we're missing out on because none of us have read them. While I did enjoy the book, I haven't gotten back to finishing Dune Messiah.

>>19191867
If it didn't happen in your head, then based.

>>19188242
She might have wanted to fuck you; she probably did not.

>>19192360
What if I told you it was some 35-something art bitch I met on tinder, are you more or less inclined to believe it now? (don't answer, it doesn't really matter)
She was hot enough for me to be interested in fucking, and I do like creative people.
She actually did call me a boy (being mid 20 whatever at the time), like she was some late 40's cougar or some shit that was indeed mature and have-seen-a-thing-or-two-ish.
Goddamn she pissed me off.

>>19192491
I hooked up with a mid 40s woman for a while who was very /lit/, I was in my mid 20s at the time. I still miss her. Mostly we just talked. She knew I was a retarded autistic inexperienced man so she handled all the nice things like lighting candles and setting the mood. I just showed up and was my autistic self. Wonderful woman.

I went to a poetry reading for one of the lecturer's new poetry books. She was quite good looking and her poems were very sexual, she said cunt and fuck a lot. I bought a copy and got her to sign it and as she did I said, I like the way you say cunt. I think I was trying to hit on her, as if this was a very suave and roguish thing to say and she would be very grateful to me for acknowledging her sexuality. She lifted an eyebrow and put a copypaste signature in the book. It took me ten years to even look at her book again because I was so embarrassed. I read it the other day. It's a bit shit except when she's being slutty.

>>19192511
>I like the way you say cunt

>>19190502
Thank God I am a Muslim.

>>19192346
>all that drinking and degeneracy
you fucking faggots don't know shit about Jesus lol.

>>19184779
I wouldn't be surprised if she browsed here.

>>19192503
How big is your benis. It must be HUGE.

>>19192346
>>19192872
more proof that Pr*testants and other US sects aren't Christian, congrats on getting assimilated by the savages faggots

>>19192928
>>19192872
To be fair I'm pretty disgusted with the number of churches in this liberal city having pride flags outside. Even the "lutheran center" on campus has the pride flag with the tranny and PoC triangle shit outside. I have an unnatural desire to go ask them if they've read "On The Jews and Their Lies"

>>19184808
Have I read your writing on Twitter?

>>19192976
Go ahead. They wouldn't give you a straight answer, of course, perhaps because they aren't literate or poised enough to be able to give you one in the first place, but what with the amorphous amalgamation of anti-racism, feminism, communism, LGBT soup letter and pro-Palestine beliefs, antisemitism wouldn't be that far out of the reach of troon platoons. There's a reason many modern commie leaders (think Corbyn) have been accused of being too much against the Jews.

>>19186849
Sorry to hear that, anon.
When you say she molested you, do you mean she tried to force a bj?

>>19184779
i had a friend, i was really close to her, loved her even. we dont talk anymore. she bought me girl with all the gifts. its not bad or anything and i never had a mate buy me a book before. i bought her dark matter which she liked, and then call of the wild but she couldnt deal with it lol as soon as the dogs fought for the first time she stopped because she was an animal lover. shes a vet nurse now. in another life i know for a fact we are married with kids, but not this time. i hope shes happy

>>19193018
Nah. I was _somewhat_ popular on /lit/ half a decade ago but I got all my writing deleted from the archives recently.

>>19187074
I enjoyed these

>>19188210
Fucking this. Anon, I think your semicolon usage caused a deluge in her panties.

>>19192255
what's a dingleberry? was it from your drink or something?

>>19188887
10 seconds in and I burst out laughing.

>>19189276
That's a wonderful /lit/ moment, Anon.
Do you use his annotations in your classes?
Your post made me think of my late Grandad.
God bless you, Anon.

>>19188887
have had one experience like this it felt so fucking good, the girl was real pretty, I just assumed that's how she interacted with everyone though

>>19191867
Dangerously Based, if true.

>>19192342
Lmao

>>19193409
Lumps of shit that get stuck to arse hairs or lint from underwear forming a shape that resembles a berry of sorts.

>>19193579
wtf, did that girl have this? that is disgusting

>>19193579
Sorry ma man, I'm the Anon who answered the dingleberry question >>19193579
Not the anon who talked about it on his story.

>>19188887
Immediately broke into gut-busting laughter when the music kicked in. What does it mean lads?

>>19193189
How did that happen? And why would you want that? Who is looking at 5 year old archives of /lit/?

>>19184829
Inviting someone to a first date with your parents is really weird. Maybe,it's kosher if you're an Indian or something but not forfeited Westerners.

>>19193811
I wrote to the archive admins and asked them to delete my poetry, because I didn't like that they could show up on google. I started sending some of my poetry to contests, and a lot of contests don't take "published works".

>>19193815
forfeited?

>>19193861
He's obviously a phoneposter, he just meant "for
Westerners" but his phone used auto correct.

>>19193864
Thought there was some archaic use of the word I didn't understand, esl. Learned many words on /lit/ this way.

>girl from one of my /lit/ classes starts bugging the shit out of me on social media
>play it cool and be chill and shit
>ask her out on a date
>oh shit out fuck
>get nervous all the sudden, anxiety ridden
>we don't go out for a couple weeks, texting regularly
>go out on a date, have sex whatever, its good
>spent the next week in constant anxiety as she hemmed and hawed about the relationship
>won't even let me end it
>she "breaks up" over text
yeah so that's my /lit/ experience she was a bitch what do you want

>>19193869
Cringe

>>19187413
>Nietzsche
>It's not that I'd want a relationship with her right now, it's that current bf is a passionless depressed and functionality nihilistic faggot.
Ressentiment. damn bro reading who you're preaching

A woman was reading Pessoa in the restaurant I work at and I tried talking about him to her, but it was just fucking awkward. I tried to end the convo as soon as I could tell she wasn't really receptive to it.

>>19194156
Are you ugly?

>>19194168
No, but I was also wearing a mask so I don't think it would make much of a difference. I think I just came off as flexing since I was talking about his works other than The Book of Disquiet and she was unfamiliar with Pessoa's heteronyms, so she really didn't have much to contribute to whatever dumb shit I was saying. She also wasn't really attractive either. I just got excited seeing someone reading something other than whatever lame airport thrillers usually come through.

>>19194156
>>19194209
Sorry friend. That woman was very insecure and thought you were trying to hit on her.

>>19193869
Your entire interaction with this woman (as described by you) was through texts, and then one time you had (drunk) sex. Enjoy the rape charge you will be served with in the coming year.

>>19193869
When girls only interact through text, don't even bother. Unless you contributed to the text focused interaction, then just stop being a pussy

>>19184779
I talked about Schopenhauer during prom, no wonder I why was dateless.

>>19194460
Based

damn you guys are nerds lmao

>>19184779
Every time I read something by Ligotti in public people stop me to converse. Both by Women and Men, I do not understand it but a lot of people straight up stop me wherever I am and let it be known that they also read Ligotti and want to talk to me.

>>19190281
Imagine samefagging yourself after getting called out for fucking a trash hoe who fucks married men lmao
Y
Praying for you're poor fucking wife tho

>>19185780
Lmao loser
For me it's close to 6
Not counting my therapist or psychiatrist

>>19194209
Ah so you were ugly

>>19188193
I was in a similar situation but ended up losing my virginity at 24 and have blossomed into a nearly normal person since then. You can do it anon.

>>19191867
Based

>>19195073
>Hyllics
Based

>>19185640
Normies laughing at normies, nothing out of the ordinary

>>19194460
I read Schopenhauer instead of going to prom

>Girl mentions book she is reading.
>I tell her I hate the book.
>I haven't actually read it.
>Just feel the need to be oppositional when interacting with women.
>She asks what kind of books I like.
>Recommend her another book I also haven't read.

>>19196634
this is very /lit/

>>19191867
you could have berated her after you fugged noob

>>19188690
I think you are lying.

>be me
>I have a female friend to which we speak sometimes about stuff
>she knows I'm into lit, always reading something so she asks me what am I reading
>I told her Moby Dick
>I start to say somethings about the book. She is into biology, so she's actually a bit interested in some of the facts that Ismael says about whales, like their names and somethings about their heads and tails.
>I remember that there is a part that he speaks about the two common groups of cachalots: one only made up of young male whales, and the other one -known as 'schools'- made up of one male whale -known as 'teacher'- and the rest of only female whales.
>we laugh at the names
>she says "obviously that shit was wrote by an old male"
>she barely reads btw, her bookshelf is mostly divulgation science books with images, and a poem book I gave her once

The last /lit/ conversation I have had was like 10 years ago with my exgf. I didn't like her taste in books.
Nobody else I have talked to since reads at all, or it was like "Have you read this book?" "No".

>recently divorced solid 7 coworker invites me to get drinks after work (it's friday)
>I agree, thinking it's some regular gathering of coworkers I just never get invited to
>show up, it's just her
>talking about random shit, at one point she says I look like Timothy Chalamet
>completely missing the point, I start talking about Chalamet's filmography and the upcoming Dune film
>"ah it's like Star Wars right?"
>"Well ackshuallly....."
>I go off on a 20 minute uninterrupted schizo monologue about jihad and race consciousness
>after I wind down, utter silence for what seemed like an eternity, after which she says she has to go home because of her kid
>later I see pictures of her on Facebook at a party from that night

>>19197453
What a terrible mangled shit of a post, sorry I am becoming retarded. I can't write a coherent sentence anymore.

>>19184779
my fwb was telling be about a book she was reading. It was about an older guy interested in an underage girl. All I said was "sounds like Lolita" and she freaked out. She told me that she would fuck me if we weren't already fucking. I don't even read

>>19185640
yeah that bitch probably reads harry potter and Malcolm gladwell

>>19185515
This. Gays do all the public outrage things usually associated with older men dating underage girls:

> these feelings are true love.
> This is just who you are.
> You have to be true to yourself.
> I felt the same way at your age.
> Everybody goes through this.

Had a friend who was on the fence, then spent a week with an older gay guy and is totally lost.

>>19186207
> trying to show off /lit/ in high school.

Yeah, I think you are in the wrong here.

>>19186862
he will. This is just like girls who think they can have "guy friends".

>>19193811
>Who is looking at 5 year old archives of /lit/?
me
>>19193837
Smart. Wish you the best, anon.
Never post your serious shit online. NEVER.

>>19187461
you know, I believe you because Butterfly posts moomins.

>>19191867
>not fucking 12 year olds
unusual choice round these parts

>>19197458
did something similar when i was at a museum with a girl and went on a tangent about the history of crucifixions after seeing a random painting of the passion

>Be 14 or 15, can't remember
>At a party
>Random older guy comes up to me
>"Read any good books recently"?
>I say no, ask him the same question
>"Crime and Punishment. So you wanna fuck or not"?
I apologised to him for not being gay and he just rolled his eyes and walked away. I think that was the first time I ever heard of Fyodor Dostoevsky too

>>19192976
>I have an unnatural desire to go ask them if they've read "On The Jews and Their Lies"
fucking DO IT lmao

>>19197459
it's a pretty normal, readable post, don't be so violently insecure

>>19197458
You dodged a bullet bro

>>19197852
Based

I’ve read Lolita and Love In The Time Of Cholera in coffee shops and have had random girls approach me. Got a few numbers and Snapchat’s that way.

>>19190702
Based

>>19193815
I didn’t invite my parents there knowingly, they just came and I didn’t say no.

>>19196307
Probably should have, Prom sucked as dumped my date a week earlier, and only one of the boys even showed up.

>>19195153
not him just thought you were a faggot and probably non-white

>>19186207
>>how do you go from lenin and machiavelli to the glass castle
That person is up to no good.

I was reading Ian Smith's Bitter Harvest on the train and a white haired Saffer bloke caught my eye and said "good read that one is, but a shame isn't it?" as I got up and walked to the train doors. Thinking back maybe he was a white zimbo but I can't distinguish the accents.

Few weeks later after about half way through some zimbo black dude saw what I was reading was and started going on a rant about Mugabe. All these characters met in a semi-rural UK town so it was rather surreal.

Not much to this story, but I was reading Catch 22 in the airport waiting for my flight when a woman approached me and started talking about how it was her favorite book. I was concerned she was going to spoil it for me because I had just started reading it and gave a bland answer about enjoying it so far. She kinda just stared at me waiting for me to say something and after a bit got up and walked away. Guess he just really liked the book and wanted to share her love of the novel with me or maybe I came off like an idiot with my bland answer, but I was barely 100 pages into the book.

>>19199790
So after you said whatever about enjoying it she stared at you for 20 seconds and then walked away?

>>19199843
Yes.

>>19189006
>>19188959
I saw on reddit that shifting focus from different eyes every 15 seconds, I think, causes your eyes to sparkle. However, a few people can see through this and are annoyed at the appearance of it.

>>19199899
sounds like something that you will spend effort focusing on and then lose track of what the person is saying. you've got to keep it simple.

>>19189512
Today is Saturday. How did it go, anon?

>>19189512
Somewhere Obama poured one out for you or is full of seething jealousy.

>>19199931
>>19199948
She swallowed him up in her vagina dentata.

>>19196307
I read Gatsby during homecoming. I couldn't put it down, not even for bodily functions. It was amazing to be so captivated.

>>19200032
Really? I can't imagine being infatuated with that book. I found it so boring. It's crazy how different taste can be.

>>19184853
Based

>>19186207
Your teacher was right about the decameron

>>19200045
I think it's the prose that really did it for me. A book about rich people with rich people problems was transformed, for me, into a story with incredible depth.

>>19197812
She could never compete with a real 12 year old

>>19191867
.... based

>Start seeing this girl thats studying literature
>She has a poetry assignment
>In a moment of spontaneous rapture I lend her like $400 worth of poetry books
>Realise later I leant her Maldoror
>Freak out a bit and ask for it back
>"Because of the shark rape, right?"

>>19188102
>>later, she tells me she thought I was being sarcastic and teasing her by using a million semicolons
Fucking kek

>Mention some freelance writing work I'm doing during bullshit "performance review" meeting I have with my supervisor every month
>She gets excited/interested even after I tell her it's mostly stupid bullshit like writing travel articles for places I've never been
>Says she didn't know I was so artsy
>Asks if I write anything else
>Tell her I sometimes work on a novel I've been writing for the last couple years
>She asks about the plot
>Tell her I would be embarrassed to say what it is and mention that I'd like to be like Kafka and just write for myself and never publish anything
>She gives up after a couple more attempts
>Tells me she's impressed with my work ethic and creativity
I think if I made some shit up about writing a novel with a female protagonist I would have been able to cooooooom inside her

>>19184779
We started talking about Shopenhauer, theni recommended him Erich Fromm. Then I fell in love, took his virginity and my god i can't be happier i didn't know reading people can have dicks that big

>>19197458
>"Well ackshuallly....."
>I go off on a 20 minute uninterrupted schizo monologue about jihad and race consciousness
>>19197842
>did something similar when i was at a museum with a girl and went on a tangent about the history of crucifixions after seeing a random painting of the passion

Kek I can definitely see how this would kill the mood a girl, but at the same time, this is the type of shit that I would like my friends to tell me. A shame that it doesn’t fly in the dating world.

>>19198945
You must be attractive

>>19197842
You made me curious, how can I research that topic? Any book recs?

>>19198945
>>19201825
I'm so ugly, I would be arrested if I read Lolita in public.

If I wanted to advertise that I was reading Nabokov, then it would be with something like this.

>>19184779
>In library for some assignment
>No teacher of librarian in sight
>Bored outta our minds
>Absolutely babe with perfect ass wants to talk philosophy, goes out of her way to complement me
>Nervous fuck so I don't follow up to either
>Half ass some schizobabble monologue about the artstyle in The Little Prince
Autism is one hell of a drug

>>19188049
Women suck at buddhism

>>19199772
Bitter harvest is a quite large book to drag around in public, anon

>>19201873
Two of the biggest womanizers I know are ugly as fuck. They were hideous and they would pull girls way out of their league. They were just outgoing and confident

>>19202547
You misunderstand. Being ugly isn't a crime. Being ugly while reading Lolita is a crime.

>>19201973
"If it were not for women being admitted into our order, my teachings would have lasted 1000 years; now they will not last 500" - Buddha