/lit/ - Literature

>unironically
Retard

>>21978895
>sub
Also I go outside and have friends but he's still literally me. You can take the tiger outta the jungle, but you can't take the jungle outta the tiger baby!

>>21978895
>sub
Nice bait.

>>21978895
this is not a good book. I don't know who memed this into popularity but it is so unfathomably bad that I'm not surprised faggot OP is a fan

>>21978895
>Nobody will ever want to read something you have written, at least in your current, bitter state.
This is where you are wrong. Making another 1 in a million thread generalising anonymous posters into single character-types expose you as an idiot to begin with, but you somehow missed the fact that the best part of Confederacy of Dunces ARE those written by Ignatius himself.

I know our words make you seethe and combust sometimes, but at the end of the day these are just meaningless bytes, 1s and 0s, dissolving in an ocean of internet-noise. OP is a beautiful demonstration of the caveman, monkey brain needing to collate all the little antagonisms and insults it suffers into a comprehensible, approachable human face that it can argue, mentally dominate, refute. Not even that actually, since this is really an ad-hominem of a completely fictional character. I'm sorry anon, but no two people here are the same. You only wasted your time by making this thread.

>>21978895
People on /lit/ don't write

>>21978895
Literally me

>>21979041
Like I said, absolutely nobody, nobody on this entire plant would want to read anything you write. You are bitter, arrogant, and pretentious. That turns regular, non-terminally online people (such as yourself)completely away from anything you have to say. The sad fact is, you are not socially adjusted properly and you lack the self-awareness of what I'm telling you.

>>21979014
you are assuming that I am a fan of this book? Why? Where did I ever mention that? I am simply making an observation, and you are proving my point perfectly

>>21979012
>Autistically policing internet-subculture terminology usage
Holy cringe

>>21978895
This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It's me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me. This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you'd see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say "Yup, that's me". I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I'm assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I've found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It's really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it's almost like we're identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?

>>21979041
It's not wrong to generalize users of a board such as this. It's completely anonymous, so why wouldn't one generalize?

>>21979041
boom

>>21979140
How does sub even apply to 4chan?

>>21979125
I'm a maths student. I barely use the internet outside of discussing my real life hobbies. I don't play videogames. I have youtube, twitter, facebook, netflix, discord, reddit, most boards on 4chan, ect. blocked on my PC, which you not only would never do, but probably don't even know how to do because you're tech-illiterate bookworm cattle who spends more time than me online while at the same time knowing less about tech, leaving you at the mercy of San Francisco faggots. I don't write anything. I'm not a creative type, but even if I did, somebody reading my shit wouldn't matter to me because I'm not a teenage girl who requires constant validation just to be able to function and do what I enjoy. There are those in my course I spend time with, and on Friday evenings I drink and play poker with my flatmates. I have other friends, mostly in far-off cities now, who I see when I can. You will either ignore this, or just claim its bullshit, which is fair because guess what: you don't KNOW me, at all, or anyone on 4chan for that matter you under-socialised midwit

as for being terminally online, somebody who thinks they 'know' and can 'describe' someone they've only ever exchanged text posts with is definitely someone who has trouble seperating the virtual from what really matters

>>21979147
what the FUCK are you talking about? What do you know about anyone here? You don't know me you freak, or any of the posters here. You're as bad as the cattle who watch youtube thinking e-celeb No. 10000000 is their friend. Your generalisations are derived from the posts that catch your eye. From users who happen to post the most, or who happen to garner the majority of attention. 'what was the longest time you spent reading a single book?' obviously only those who have something interesting to say, or intend to straight up lie, invent an interesting story, shitpost, will bother replying to the question. Everything on 4chan is an exagerration, selectively picked from the moments of it's users lives. You fell for the age old trick: the internet is NEVER an image of reality. None of this is real. This thread slips out of generalisation, becomes a desperate attempt to encapsulate all the back and forth of this board in a single, fictional character that OP can then summarily dismiss with the arrogance of a 'liberals DESTROYED' Ben Shapiro video.

>>21978895
>sub
kek this has to be bait. Like a parody OP of a redditer discovering 4chan for the first time. Back to r/TrueLit you brave little soldier

>>21978895
Is it true that in the end he still gets a hot girl that is genuinely in love with him?

>>21979313
No. She is a parody of greenwhich-village-dwelling, rich-daddy 'I can save the world' type radical feminist who is sexually liberated and thinks sex is the answer to all problems in a sort of feminist way, and therefore naturally gets taken advantage of.

>>21979290
Damn you owned those niggers like Jefferson Davis

>>21979290
Such hostility... You are just another 4chan-user NPC, young, angry, virgin western male. You are lashing out with edginess and anger because that's what you think garners respect. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise

>>21979306
>My internet board is le heckin COOLER than yours!!!!
Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds? Get offline freak

>>21979351
post a picture of yourself with timestamp, and if you don't look weak and pathetic I will apologise profusely

>>21979356
>>My internet board is le heckin COOLER than yours!!!!
Yes. Yes it is. It's not ridiculous, it's true. If you make a point of using reddit you are a humongous faggot who I want to avoid interacting with at all costs.

>>21979290
There are so many logical fallacies in this statement, it is literally impossible to address them all. People like this are best left ignored and censored, there is no use interacting. Just block and move on

>>21979363
I don't use Reddit or 4chan. They are both a waste of time and you pretending like 4chan is better than Reddit is just laughable and shows a complete lack of self-awareness

>>21979377
It is better than reddit. It's not laughable because its true. Value statements about two very different internet forums are not signs of 'a lack of self-awareness' and I have yet, in all my years, yet to see a good justification for why I can't do that.

I could believe you don't use reddit but you used 'sub' in the OP, which only a mouth-breathing redditor would ever do. You also clearly use 4chan because here you are posting.
I have made no logical manoeuvres, I simply state what is apparent. Observations

>>21979377
you use discord though definitely. Only a discord tranny who doesn't use 4chan and reddit would EVER bother to spend time thinking about these arbritrary internet forums, let alone post on them to show your disdain. I can see it now: '4chan are just edgy teens. haven't used that site in years since I had my first surgery' in the chat of your dingy, stinking server, then a flow of anime pfps agreeing with you. Maybe one of them even drops the word 'chud' unironically

But go on. keep pretending like you don't care about anything online, just know that the people in your discord calls aren't real friends

Either you're Ignatius Reilly or you're John Kennedy Toole, and I'm not sure which is the worst.

>>21979377
>I don't use... 4chan.
>a complete lack of self-awareness
Too true

>>21979125
Im sorry OP, the angry guy kind of got you there. Youre getting a little ticked off too, no? You made an interesting point in your OP, but now youre kind of falling in to the same type of garbage behaviour you criticized. Something happened bud? Would be better to discuss rather than attack no?

>>21978895
Ignatius is based though, that’s all that counts.

>>21978895
>Educated, well-read

>>21979401
not OP….
I think 4chan has more potential for interesting, open discussion, but that the potential is wasted and so Reddit, though I haven’t used it in a long time, is better. How do you feel about that?

>>21979140
>policing
bait

>>21979290
Dont care didnt read. That girl is pretty cute, hope she's happy no matter who she's with

>>21979625
don't care didn't read

>>21978895
Nietzsche gave a good description of /lit/ posters in The Gay Science (section 359):
>Here is an ill-constituted man, who does not have enough spirit to rejoice, but just enough culture to know it; bored, weary, filled with self-contempt; unfortunately cheated by some inherited fortune out of the last consolation, the ‘blessings of labour’, the self-forgetfulness in the ‘daily toil’; a man who is thoroughly ashamed of his existence – perhaps he harbours a few small vices – but who cannot help indulging his taste for books he has no business reading or more intellectual companionship than he is able to assimilate, making himself vain and irritable in the process: such a thoroughly poisoned man – because for such ill-constituted men, spirit becomes poison, culture becomes poison, possessions become poison, solitude becomes poison – ultimately finds himself in a habitual condition of vengefulness, determined to avenge himself on everything...

>>21979612
I feel that you probably like watching 'friends' and reading stephen king. That's fine if you don't mind everything being tame, mundane, but I myself will take, as you yourself say, the interesting, even if it comes with a lot shitposting.

>>21979760
> Don't care didn't read
Yet you micked what I just said exactly so you cared to read it. Fucking moron

>>21979774
I prefer Sex and the City actually

this is the angriest, pettiest, most pseudo-intellectual crap I think Ive ever read on this site. Congrats, you sperglords

>>21979776
don't care didn't read

>>21979774
I thought it was obvious that I meant ‘what do you think of my statement’, not ‘what you think about me’. On the off-chance you’re not just trolling, and I really hope you are, you should know you sound like the biggest idiot in here. I ven more so than OP

>>21979803
Read past the first sentence before replying to a post.

Pic rel is better.

>>21979797
If this is the most of those things you'll be in for new heights if you stick around.

>>21979014
Kek actual Ignatius

Let me guess... you aren't the average /lit/ user then?

>>21979356
Are you really trying to defend yourself right now? Lol

Bumping this gem

UpHWABAG

>>21980190
>I started reading Confederacy of Dunces, recognized it was a bad book and I was memed into reading it, and put it down
>You started reading it, recognized it was a bad book, but persisted because you were told it was a good book for smart goys and you have a pathological need to see yourself as smart. Now you can pretend to like it and talk down to anyone who doesn't, bravo.
Which one of us is Ignatius again?

>>21978895
I love this fat fuck though.

>>21980577
You kek

>>21979763
I suppose I'm an ill-constituted man.

C9bson win

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>>21978895
>Educated, well-read,
I would disagree with this. "Well-read", perhaps, in the sense that he has scanned his eyes over very many words on paper. But I would still not describe the average /lit/ user as particularly "educated".

HWABAG

>>21978895
I think I’m gonna join the navy

>>21978895
But they will read it?

Cool.

>>21979290
First semi-intelligent post on /lit/ in one year.

>>21979763
damn that's me.

>>21978895
>bro just go experience
All the experiences are denied to me
>no one will ever want to read
I like reading the anonymous here>

>>21979290
You seem upset

>>21978895
I have a co-worker who reminds me of him. His mom also used to work with us and he would chew her out constantly.

>>21983896
>All the experiences are denied to me
and (You) just let the nonspecific operator of that passive verb just do that to you? you'll never be able to challenege anything in your writings with that attitude

>>21978895
You forgot: Jewish women want his dick.

>>21984471
Well I'm not a writer so thats ok. I just like spending time with my friends on /lit/

>>21978895
This guy looks like a man who puts food on the table. He works at a factory, he might have even become a shift supervisor or foreman. Everyone knows him, and he knows everyone. He's always at the pub for a few, and though he'll grumble about having to get out of bed on so cold a day, you'll still find him out in the snow singing carols come Christmas.

>>21979290
>words words words
K how much u bench?

>>21984566
Unironically based image

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>>21979290
>math
>not a creative field

ohboy

>>21978895
>Educated, well read
Doubtful

>and overly paranoid of people/misanthropic
Misanthropic, yes, overly paranoid? I'd say no, the real people with most here is that they believe they're a part of an anonymous collective that strives above petty normie morality and herd mentality, that they're a part of a collective riddled with great people that seek the highest peaks of their respective valleys, etc., but the sooner you realize you're better off interacting with the real, tactile world that you inhabit, the faster you'll realize how all you're doing here is wasting time wishing the former was the case, rather than the latter. Nothing useful, hopeful and worthwhile shall be born here, the source itself is poisoned and its users so intoxicated by it that they no longer realize the hazardous effects it has on them.

>>21978895
>my penis is hard for a fucking roastie, I better buy another rosary and Chesterton book to drive the feelings away

>>21978895
>sub

>>21978895
Literally how do you even do that? "Experiences" just seem to happen to some people and not to others. Something like just being born into a boring family in a boring town can totally screw you over in terms of being interesting. No one ever discusses this as a thing, because it's a given that everyone just can be interesting, and has access to interesting things happening around them, when that's clearly not always true.

>>21986002
You know what I meant. I'm not a creative type as in I don't splash paint on canvas and pretend im avante garde

>>21987695
It's partially true. You can be totally unlucky, but overwhelming majority of people can have 'experiences.' The biggest cock-block for expecriencing life is mental ilness, mostly anxiety and low self-esteem. My live was fucked in a major way by living on a country side and spending 3h back and forth to get to school, meaning that while other people just woke up walked everywhere they wanted, I had to journey. As a result I was secluded, which compounded by acute mental issues made me spent 95% of my time at home between ages 14-22.

But. You can still get experiences even in that state. You just need to seek them out. Even bad experiences are experiences, and happen less likely than you would think. You can always leave your house. When you meet new people, do your best to spend time with them, never refuse an invitation. If I could meet my younger self, I would slap him for everytime he refused an invitation. Nothing changed my life more than spending time with people.

Most people just 'get' to be interesting by living a life around other people, but some like us need to work for it and seek out anything on our own. It sucks, but the alternative is the Abyss.

>>21978895
>/lit/
>educated
>well-read

>>21989536
I'm almost past my philosophy bachelor degree and I would hardly call myself well-read, dunno what these guys are smoking

>>21987695
Much of it is presentation, quite frankly. Obviously running across colourful characters helps, but a lot "colourful characters" I've later met have proven something of a disappointment because it turned out they were mythologized by the people around them. Myself I've been part of "legendary adventures" that honestly were just a regular night out, people were just in an unusually good mood and something funny happened along the way so they looked back on it with fondness and maybe stretched the truth a little. Right presentation also means that you can turn your square family in a boring town the squarest family in the most boring town in the world which makes it interesting. That said, getting out there and getting some perspective means it'll be easier to see what makes your family and town so ordinary, or on the contrary, what happened there that was actually somewhat unusual on a second thought.

>>21979125
>Like I said, absolutely nobody, nobody on this entire plant would want to read anything you write.
I would.
your argument is false now

>>21980686
he is lol

>>21987695
Knausgaard can write a fascinating essay about something as banal as taking a shit in a house with his kids present, and how even the sanctity of this solitude is violated by the transcendent responsibility that comes from being a parent, all on account of him being able to exactly pinpoint his children's whereabouts while shitting, due to hearing their footsteps.
Consciousness as such is the most endlessly fascinating thing there is, and plenty of good stuff as been written about and by boring people.

>>21989518
>The biggest cock-block for expecriencing life is mental ilness, mostly anxiety and low self-esteem.
Yeah, that's me. My brain is broken. Literally spent about a year stuck inside at one point, because I was just convinced I would come home and my house would be on fire, or my cat would be dead. Couldn't get those ideas out of my head, so I was effectively imprisoned for a year.
>Just go and start a bar-fight or something, man!
I actually can't. I'm insane. The anxiety would turn me into a blubbering mess.

>>21978895
Funny, I'm like the opposite, makes sense why so many people on this forum are crabs
>grade 9 dropout
>tons of life experience
>socially fluid extrovert can make friends anywhere
/lit/ losers definitely need to put down the computer, pick up the alcohol bottle, and go live life as best they can in the demon world of 2023.
>it is only going to get worse, might as well enjoy the now as much as you can

>>21990761
>Larp as a subhuman normalfag, to get roast beef, sub par roastie pussy
>Somehow think your superior to anyone else
>???

Kill yourself

>>21990761
I've been drunk before, hoping it would trigger some mad streak of impulsiveness. No, the most that happens is I tell my dad I hate him, and send him into a depressive spiral. Nothing ever gets any better.
I'm a boring person, surrounded by boring people. I don't even have anyone to direct my anger at, because none of them deserve it, and I immediately turn myself into the bad guy whenever I lash out at someone.

>>21990771
Still better than being a shut-in loser in some basement somewhere with zero pussy, zero life experience, and a hobby of crabbing people with life experience who write

>>21990776
You sound like an incredibly boring person.

>>21990781
Yeah, I know. What am I supposed to do about it?

>>21990761
And now you're a homeless bum. Seek help, Jason.

>>21979227
because we're on the literature subchan?

>>21991223
Hey Alex, should I post some photos of Nadia in her panties?

>>21979290
Put me in the screencap

>>21991244
Sounds good.