/lit/ - Literature

>>3377374
1. 20, Lithuanian, currently living in the U.S.
2. Whatever is preferred, but I do enjoy the thought of handwriting a nice letter.
3. Favorite book: A Scanner Darkly. Favorite movie, Breathless. I enjoy writing and the acting.
4. Conversation partner. Just to try something new. If we can help each other help each other, then why not.
5. I don't see a feasible manner in which to gain a close friend through just letter-writing. But an interesting conversation sounds appealing.
6. please respond
7. Ok.

7.

1. England, 24 yrs old
2. email or twitter
3. book of disquiet, pedro paramo, the maimed, the metamorphosis, the old man and the sea, lanark
4. i'm looking for a writing partner
5. i hope to talk regularly with you about my work. i'd like to exchange stories/poems, work on texts together, help each other edit, and keep ourselves motivated.
6. --
7. sure why not.

contact me at writingemail@ymail.com

>>3377475
I'm 19 from the UK and I'd also like a writing partner. I'm only really into poetry though (and I'm younger too of course). Would you still be interested?

1. 20, Germany
2. Email
3. The Metamorphosis, Invitation To A Beheading, The Tartar Steppe, The Trial
4. Just an interesting conversation.
5. Anything that's interesting. Also interested in reading OC work. Not currently writing myself.
6. Nothing really.
7. Yea, sure

>>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

20

>>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

whichever. email up there.

>>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

eugene onegin, goodbye to berlin, lolita, diary of a superfluous man, oblomov.

>>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

conversation partner, someone interesting to talk with.

>>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

interesting chats

>>6.Any other additional notes.

i'm going to improve my written french so if you wanna do this in french, cool.

>>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

uh, ok.

>>3377498

i'm not too concerned with age as long as the ability is there, but i do mostly prose, so i don't really see it working.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

21. English. Currently at university studying computer science.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

Either. Email is more convenient and rapid, but handwritten letters do have a certain romantic attraction, a gentle reminder of times not so long ago.

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

Picking favourites is always difficult. If I had to choose my absolute favourites, I'd probably go for Les Miserables; The Shadow of the Wind; The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever; Dune; Foundation; and The Masque of the Red Death. I like a lot of books and stories.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

Anything. I generally see where things take me and don't plan too far ahead.

>6.Any other additional notes.

Dark chocolate is a foul creation, enjoyed only by fools. Milk in tea is an unpardonable heresy.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

Go for it.

1. 20, French-Australian, living in France.

2. Email

3. I don't really have any favorite book. I however love to read anything related to aesthetics. I am also a huge lover of Symbolist paintings, William Blake's poetry and Romantic and Impressionist piano. If these never existed, I am pretty sure that I would have killed myself a long time ago.

4. Conversation partner and someone to teach me. I'd like to know more about myself and what is consuming me. I also like to hear from other people.

5. See above.

6. I also write whenever I have panic attacks or when I feel extremely bad. My writing is bad but at least I enjoy doing it. It's just one way amongst others to find the source of pain. I mostly write in French, though.

7. Sure, go ahead.

rita-mordio@live.fr

>>3377529
Forgot to include my contact details. Email address is the.throwaway.address@gmail.com

OP here, mite as well put my info too

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

19, let's just say European for now

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email is convenient, I don't mind writing a nice letter here and there though.

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
I rather enjoyed the works of Machiavelli, Gogol, Lermontov, Baudelaire, Byron, Balzac, Zola and many others...
Favourite books are Hero of Our Time, The Prince, Moby Dick and Father Goriot.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
I'd like a conversation partner, but hopefully he or she will be okay with my slow responding as I am horribly busy with studies currently. It should pick up in a few months.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
I'd love if someone would teach me something, also maybe exchanging works and critique. (I have no pretenses about being good, I suck at writing, but sometimes have my moments. I write mostly prose)

>6.Any other additional notes.
Nah.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
It will be.

1. United Kingdom, 21 yrs old
2. email or skype
3. the trial, the castle, the crying of lot 49, the stranger, the fall
4. i'm looking for someone to discuss novels/literature related things with and/or a writing partner
5. review/critique of each others work, companionship, motivation, interesting conversation
6. ¬
7. ok

feel free to email regarding anything (i'm snowed in)
dershuxley@gmail.com

>1. 18. United Kingdom, studying English but perhaps regretting it, prefer reading the novel and talking about it with friends than the whole terminology, essay, structure farce.

>2. Email, Up there gents
>3. As an 18 year old I haven't read a great deal more than the whole entry level lit. I greatly enjoyed Crime and Punishment, Animal Farm, The Stranger, The Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lolita, Into Thin Air

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

>5. People who have an interest in discussing books, as well as writing, as I know almost no people who read personally.

>6.Any other additional notes.

>7. Yes

>>3377629
4. Opps. Actually. 4 is more or less the same as 5.

>1. 21/U.S. (Colorado)

>2. I like the e-mail. If one is truly interested this address can be obtained through my skype, "adventure.ben"

>3. My favorite writers are Joyce, Jack London, and Tolkien just to name three.

>4. Ultimately a conversation partner is fine though I'm also interested in learning about the nature of programming (something I have no knowledge of but seek to [more interested in impressions/theory than application]) and will unfailingly provide response/critique to anyone that would like some for their work.

>5. This question sounds awfully similar to the last.

>6. I'm fine merely chatting over Skype as well, though an e-mail pal would be great too.

>7. No, though I suppose by posting this it might happen regardless.

>>3377563

Did I offend you or something? You seem to have deleted your email address.

1. 22/U.S.
2. snailmail
3. Trenton Doyle Hancock, Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Nabokov, Netochka Nezvanova, MONTANA
4. MAILART - drawings, doodles, postcards, toastcards, stories, ciphers, letters, anything cryptic
5. penpal collectibles
6.
IF TERMITES OR HANDIEST CINEPHILES
PO BOX 453
ROWLETT TX 75030
7. Yes

>>3377953
Fellow Txfag! I'm about 2 hrs away from you (Waco). I'll see about digging up an envelope and writing you

1. 21, Female, US, Tx.
2. I'd probably prefer email supplemented by snail mail, however I'm up for either.
3. Books would be the Plague, Lolita, and the Heart is a Lonely Hunter...also probably Revolutionary Suicide. I don't like movies a whole lot, aside from cheesy action flicks (Robocop, the Rock, ConAir, etc). I feel as though emotions are very heavy handed when shown through the screen, so if I want 'feelings' then I'll just read a book. Baking is one of my biggest hobbies, and alongside literature and music as my greatest passions. I'll be attending college for audio technology as soon as I can afford it (next semester).
4. A Friend, mostly. I'm pretty introverted and don't speak a lot to others, so really just someone to be in contact with would be good for me. I'm a bit of a headcase but I'm working on that- if you have mental issues I guess that's a plus, so we'd both know where the other is coming from. I don't know.
5. Just want to gain some social finesse and get myself back into the habit of actually desiring contact with people I suppose
6. None
7. Yes

1. Male, 23, Ireland
2. snail-mail
3. books: The Great Gatsby, Crime and Punishment, Foucault's Pendulum
movies: I liked that one where Brad Pitt played a cowboy
music: Rachmaninoff
I'm a bit of a pleb when it comes to art but JMW Turner is a pretty cool guy I guess
4. I just want to write and receive letters to/from people. Sharing and critiquing writing and poetry is cool too.
You don't have to be 'interesting', everybody is interesting in their own way. Except me.
5. Letter writing skills? A friend ;_;
6. I'm relatively new to literature so there are still enormous gaps in my knowledge of the field, I still own more chess books than I do fiction.
7. Yes

>>3377953
>>3377964
>>3377988
/lit/ - texas

i'm in austin

>>3378108
Be honest, you own a gun, don't you.

>>3377988

>>3377964
and
>>3378108

were both me, sorry! I'm jealous though

>>3378116
Piers Morgan detected

1. 19, U.S., MD, Math and Computer Science major
2. Email for convenience. Maybe some occasional snail-mail for the pleasure of writing, receiving, and reading handwritten letters.
3. I like to read all kinds of stuff (or at least I like to think so). Lately, I've really been into Flannery O'Connor and Franz Kafka. I also like history, philosophy, mathematics, history, and music (though my knowledge in all these areas is not very impressive). As far as music goes, I don't listen as often as I used to in high school. I do like a lot of stuff though. Lately, I've really been into Beethoven and Richard Fariña. I also saw a performance of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte last semester and fell in love with opera as a result.
4/5. A conversational partner for nice conversations, I guess. Anything else would just be gravy.
6. Nope.
7. I'd rather not have my information saved, but I have a feeling there's not much I can do about it.

>>3378174
I assure you that your data will not be featured in the wiki catalog if you deny me the privilege of putting it there.

1. 19, US

2. I like both. I would definitely love to send post cards, but I would prefer if we emailed a bit beforehand.

3. Currently, my favorite novel is a tossup between Lolita, As I Lay Dying, A Visit From the Goon Squad, The Stranger, The Virgin Suicides... sorry I can't really pick. Honestly, I love anything that reads like a swift kick in the stomach.

I'll say it now, I like Duchamp and read way too many Japanese comic books. But in terms of more high brow art my aesthetics tend towards Richard Diebenkorn.

I'm really obsessed with longform journalism, so if you're fine with me occasionally sending you articles in an excited fashion, we'll be good.

4. I guess I'm just looking for someone to talk books with. I might talk also about history sometimes though.

5. I want to discuss books, shoot the breeze. I also want to read more foreign lit so I might ask you for suggestions.

6. Sometimes I can be a flaky bitch. I apologize beforehand.

>>7. Yes, but minus my email please.

>>3378196
Cool, thanks. Yeah, I'd rather it weren't featured in there.

>>3378197
*preemptively apologize

>>3377550
OP Subtly bumping and updating his info with the fact that I enjoy theater a lot and love reading good plays, with my favorite playwright being Moliere.

>>3378197
>mfw this gif everytime

1. Irish
2. email
3. Catch 22/Borstal Boy/Breakfast of Champions
4. want to learn something
5. anything
6. love prose and poetry, more the latter
7. fine by me

>>3377529
>>3377542
I'm sending you one now. Hoping that email's legit.

>1.a/s/l
21, American(Irish,Jewish, German, Czech), currently at college in Pittsburgh studying CS and Philosophy
>2. Eml/Ml
Email because international postage is expensive and I'm interested in doing this internationally
>3. Top art
Umm, really hard, mostly because I haven't been reading as much as I used to, hard to come up with a list since I generally feel that right now most of my appreciation is formative. I guess most of Palahniuk's stuff, Dune, Hitchhiker's guide, the Great Gatsby. Movies: The Sting, Shutter Island. Games: Cave Story, Company of Heroes, Mount and Blade, Dustforce
>4. seeking
>5. seeking
I want to find somebody to talk to that I don't know and seems both similar to me but different.
>6. additional notes
I like girls. I smoke a lot before I write. I think piracy laws are slavery
>7. catalog
By asking this question you've made me suspicious, but I don't see what you could do with this exactly.

If you're interested in corresponding then please reply to this post and we'll figure out the throwaway email stuff, etc.

>>3378279
add on Brave New World. Also add on that I like coffee.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

Twenty, Scottish, male.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

Ye olde snailmail.

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

My favourite writers are Byron, Pope, Fitzgerald, Richard Yates, Robert Browning, Delmore Schwartz and Stendhal.

I also love Woody Allen, Fellini, Joseph Losey, Antonioni, Rossini, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Tim & Eric, and Beck.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

Both, really. You don't get to know someone without learning something.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

I like the idea of being intimately informed about someone I'd mistake for a stranger if they passed by me on a busy street.

>6.Any other additional notes.

My handwriting's pretty good and I'll include pictures of beautiful places I've been in my envelopes.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

Sure.

>>3377374

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

-20/American/Florida

>2. Would you like to do email or snailmail?

-Email is fine with me for now.

>3. Your favorite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

-Books: A Song of Ice and Fire series, Rebecca, In Cold Blood, Red Dragon, Survivor, The Fountainhead, and Into The Wild.

-Movies: The Deer Hunter, Downfall, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, Last of The Mohicans, Rear Window, There Will Be Blood, and American Beauty.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

-I seek a conversation partner, really, but I'm open to anything.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

-All I suppose.

>6. Any other additional notes.

-Nope.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

-Sure why not.


Contact info: writersblockade@live.com

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

22, US

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

Either.

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

I love Pynchon and many of his ilk. (Barth, ) Other than that, Woodhouse, Joyce, Melville, Shakesy, and a bunch of other individual books. I like movies and art to some degree, but I'm not really good at identifying any specific works that I like.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

Conversational partner, I guess.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

Sure.

>6.Any other additional notes.

Not really.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

Nay.

>>3377988
>female
Prepare your anus. You will get swamped with frustrated-male mail

>>3377374
1. 19, Australian.
2. Email.
4. Both.
5. Knowledge and interesting chats.

The last pen-pal thread was great accept none of the seven people I contacted have responded since.

>>3378590
Sperg syndrome

1. 22, Dutch.
2. E-mail.
3. I don't really have a favourite book, it changes and if I would say any one was my favourite I'd be lying. Pic related is my favourite painting.
4. A conversation partner.
5. Good conversations. And I'd like to know a person in every country so if I ever end up there I could contact them and have a place to sleep. That's not required though.
6. The name in my e-mail address is not my actual name.
7. Knock yourself out.

>>3378590
They probably all thought you were too boring to continue with.

Most of you have extremely generic taste. Was kind of hoping for people more interesting than those on /soc/...

>>3378174

Doctor Noir?

>>3378614
Says the person who doesn't post their own tastes.

Also, part of the point of this thread is to find people who share similar interests. In other words, people are trying to represent their tastes in a way that is both honest and likely to be relatable.

>>3377374
What is the wiki adress for the pen-pal?

I might be interested in this.

>>3378566
Nope, haven't gotten a single one! I like to believe that /lit/'s a bit better than that

>>3378657
We didn't because if we would have e-mailed so quickly we'd have appeared as frustrated perma-virgins. If we wait about a day and send a very casual e-mail we'll appear normal.

>>3378678
>implying I won't just wait for her to come back here and spot my charming post after being weirded out by you fags

>>3378657
I was tempted but your mental state actually deterred me. What kind of illness do you have, if you mind me asking?

>>3378712
I tried to be honest as I know that's a sticking point for people. BPD and depression- I've pretty much overcome the other stuff

>>3378735
>tfw you know you're mentally ill but don't want to leave the house and go see a doctor and get diagnosed

>>3378566
>>3378657
It's this whole thing:
>3. Books would be the Plague, Lolita, and the Heart is a Lonely Hunter...also probably Revolutionary Suicide. I don't like movies a whole lot, aside from cheesy action flicks (Robocop, the Rock, ConAir, etc).

>>3378754
>tfw you actually tried to get therapy, but the only program that you can afford has a 4 year waiting list
It's worth trying to get help for though, I promise you

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
20/dutch/male

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
either Email or add me on skype (marijn.havelaar)

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
i don't read a lot, but i am currently reading Home by Tonni Morrison. best book so far, Flowers in the attic.
i love music, who doesn't? i recently started playing piano and a whole new world is opening to me.
movies mostly war, horror, and comedy

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
what i seek? uhm knowledge, someone to talk to, i don't really care, everybody has a story and i want to hear them

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
story's, information/knowledge

>6.Any other additional notes
i am a born listener, i may not be able to give you the best advice but i will hang onto your every word. as i said everybody has a story, you too.

35. USA. female.

email or snailmail. I would like to have a pen-and-paper penpal eventually though :)

I'm fascinated by passionate people... it doesn't usually matter what the passion is. I love watching people and figuring out what makes them do what they do. For myself, I love poetry and am working toward an MFA in the same. I'd really like to find other poets and writers within 10 years of my age in either direction, or even older. I find, as a rule, that folks under a certain age haven't really lived enough life to know who they are yet. I don't mean that as an insult, only as a way of explaining the age preference. I've lived my own whirlwind of finding out who I am and am ready to move on from that kind of pain, if that makes sense.

I'm not sure I feel so great about saving my info on a wiki... I don't have enough experience with my fellow anons to really know how they treat that kind of info being out there like that. I'd have to think about it.

My email is included. We'll find out how smart that decision is later, ha.

>>3378800
i forgot 7
sure

>>3377374
I give up. This is a postfail day :( Sorry.

>>3378735
I know a girl who's bipolar and shes a fucking nut. She's hot though, so every guy still tries to jump her but all her bfs never last more than three weeks.

>>3378822
BPD and bipolar are pretty different. BPD is more of a constantly fluctuating mood, and bipolar can be a mood that's constant for days, weeks, or even months. I won't deny that I can be completely off the rails insane at times though

>>3378822
i've been there. she wasn't officially diagnosed but there is something wrong with her

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
20, Female, from Scotland originally but living in Cardiff. Studying Philosophy and Ancient History

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Good old letter would be lovely

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
I read a lot, just to make myself feel better, and to tell my mum I don't spend ALL my time on the internet...Absolutely love Pratchett's Discworld series, Neil Gaiman, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, partial to a bit of Hardy, LOVE John Green, Peter V Brett, Douglas Adams... I'll read anything.
I'm a bit of a geek: I'm a Whoivian, BIG TIME. Love a bit of 'Sherlock' and 'Supernatural' too.
I draw a lot. Mostly cartoons. My little obsession is animation and concept art for films and t.v. series. Dream job= work at Disney as an animator or something...

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
I've always wanted a friend from afar. Spread my wings e.t.c.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
Good old times.

>6.Any other additional notes.
I WILL quote 'The Mighty Boosh' at you....

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
I do indeed....

>>3378754
>>3378771
>tfw getting free money for life because depressed

>>3378877
that is such a fucking joke, man. if that's what you think, you're an idiot. it doesn't work like that at all. if it did there'd be a lot less mental illness on the street.

>>3378866
How do you like studying philosophy? I plan to apply to college with that as my major

>>3378884
I don't think you understand. It's what I actually do.

>>3378884
It's this year's incarnation of "delete system32", ignore it.

>>3378877
getting free money for life would make me happy ;_;

>>3378900
Make it happen

>>3377374

1. 20, American, sedentary for the next 5 months, just discovered a hidden cache of stamps.

2. Snailmail.

3. Hunger, Knut Hamsun. The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski. On Solitude, Montaigne. Most travel/adventure novels, as long as they aren't written by pretentious fucks (like Ted Connover.)

4. To learn about my self, and to discover similarities between strangers.

5. Possible future beer drinking acquaintance if I ever pass through your town. But mostly just friendship. I like the idea of being close to people so far away.

6.

7. Sure.

>>3377505
>diary of a superfluous man
Forgot this existed, thanks. Don't let the gnostic shit talking get you down!

>>3378937
Hello trainkid. How did the exploration of the midtown woods go?

>>3378943
Also 5 months what the hell man

>>3378943

Ended in a crock pot full of bull shit. I was stopped by a police officer en route (you've got to cross a highway to get to the good woods) and he first asked me what the fuck I was doing (there's really no excuse to be where I was, so I told him I was going to go explore some woods) and he told me that land was owned by the airport and TSA agents would find me on their patrol (?!), and that it's a federal offense to trespass on TSA property.
So I've been waiting for the right night to go camp out and then have the whole day to explore.

>>3378945
What? Are you disappointed I'm going to be in one place for 5 months?

>>3378957
Nope, just suprised. Glad to have you among us.

>>3378980
Eh, I'm going overseas and plan on staying for around 2 years. It's not like over here where even if you're on the west coast (my close family lives on the east coast) you can hop the right trains and be home for Christmas in 4 days. So I'm just hanging out with my mom and brother, selling plasma for beer money, reading, writing, and trying to stay put. I've already come close to leaving for the Keys, and it's going to get increasingly difficult with the rising temperature. But hey, at least I won't feel guilty next Christmas.
And thanks.
So who wants to exchange some letters?

To probaby the only female here, the bpd one, how attractive are you? I guarantee the question of your appearance is going to show up in your dealings with /lit/s desperadoes so you might as well get it out in the open now.

As a personal policy i never go after girls on the interweb. it just smacks of sad

>>3379003
>As a personal policy i never go after girls on the interweb. it just smacks of sad
jokes on you I got me some prime rib through keyboard warriorship

>>3379003

I want no part of this discussion (because I think asking a girl on the internet how hot she is, and then saying how sad it is to flirt with women on the internet in the next sentence is pretty silly) but there's nothing wrong with meeting people via the internet. Hell, OKcupid is the shit if you leave your profile vague enough! And at least it's not like the old days, where you'd have some affair with a women via scented letters and never ever see her till you visited.

1. 19, 'merican
2. E-mail. I'm paranoid of internet stalking.
3. I adore Pynchon, Kafka, Gabo. Generally most post-modern, magical realism, and existentialist lit. I'm also big on music and to an extend vidja gaming.
4. Conversation partner. People tend to be a lot more open over the internet in my experience and I think it's enjoyable to learn about someone that way.
5. Mostly just conversation. Possibly an internet buddy. Maybe share writing projects, but not needed.
6. I don't plan on giving away any personal information such as my real name, and I'll likely use some kind of alias. I'm a female, if that bothers you, and I don't want to deal with either misogynists or anything of that sort.
7. huh?

AsFateWouldHave@gmail.com

>>3378937

Forgot to post an email...
I'm not posting the mailing address here.
ben.thompson.blt@gmail.com

>>3379046
You actually made OKcupid work? Pls elaborate

>>3379031
How? Certainly not through 4chan

>>3379046
I'm not flirting with her and I don't have the vaguest intention of emailing her. I don't really mean dating sites, i have nothing against those, but, for example the gross fawning and sugary complements you find on the youtube videos of hot girls always sickens me. And to me, the kinds of emails that this girl here is likely to get are just an extension of that.

>>3379069
I met my current boyfriend through 4chan and we've been together for a year and a half, have visited each other, and are moving in together hopefully before the end of this year.
It's certainly possible

>>3379066
OKcupid is the bomb diggity.

First of all, pictures. That's the first thing people notice. People look through your pictures before they read your bull shit profile. I never, ever take photos of my self. Can't do it without feeling like an ass, and looking like one too. So the trick is to get people to take candid photos of you. Preferably when you're laughing at a joke, or smiling or something. Bonus points if you're at a party and there's people in the background (don't be holding a beer, that's just trashy. BUT if people in the background are holding beer, it shows off your ability to moderate your actions. Even if its a complete lie) Even more bonus points if you're wearing the exact same thing in all your photos, and they were all taken at obviously different times. That will make you stick out, and at the least they may be wondering why the fuck you like that shirt so much.

Now, onto the profile bit. Make everything vague. EVERYTHING. Internet strangers can't judge you if they don't really know anything about you. But don't put down shit like "I like physical sports", that's dumb. Put things down like "I had an interesting childhood" or, "I like interesting things." That sounds a little silly, but you know what I mean. This is also the key to never being caught in a eLie. They can't prove you didn't go to Harvard if you never mention when you went, or what you majored in!

Messaging girls. Since only rarely will they message you, you've got to take the initiative. Never introduce yourself, until much later in the conversation (oh, shit! I thought I already introduced my self) when she asks. Gotta keep em guessing.

>>3379074
Yep, I was gonna say, I dated my ex for 2 years and we met through /b/ of all places

>>3379082
Almost forgot! Unless you're in NYC, where there is an extremely large amount of attractive females on OKcupid, set your "parameters" to anywhere. Even if you will never ever ever go to Oklahoma City because it is a complete shit hole, still. Put down "everywhere". The only people you will meet in your home town are fucking nuts, and will draw a picture of you from memory and email it to you a week later. That's why my profile says I'm still in Memphis. That girl thinks I'm working out on a oil rig in North Dakota where I don't get phone service.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
19/USA Originally from Seattle, now in a midwestern university, studying for an Earth Sciences degree.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
E-mail, it's way easier for me.

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Favorite book: I'm a pretty big fan of this Huey Long biography I'm reading at the moment. But favorite fiction book, Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness, otherwise I like cats, writing, and ice cream. (Chocolate being my favorite flavor. Strawberry is an acceptable second.)

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Both, if possible. I'd like to have someone I can bounce ideas off of and converse with. I'm not always the clearest writer, so having a second pair of eyes really does help.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
All three if possible, but I'll take friends first, then chats, then knowledge.

>6.Any other additional notes.
My favorite writers are Lovecraft, R. E. Howard, I think Epicurus is a great philosopher and I'm fascinated by history.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Sure, why the hell not?

>>3379099
>Originally from Seattle
Are people still talking about coffee and drinking Nirvana?

>>3379101
More about coffee, less about Nirvana. Depends on who you ask.

>>3379095
>>3379082
Solid info. thank you

Meet your fellow /lit/erati.

1. 26, female, American
2. Email: Library.Hooligan@gmail.com
3. Catch-22, V., Slaughterhouse-5, Lolita, A Farewell to Arms. Movies: Action and Comedies
4. Conversation would be nice
5. Friends and Interesting chats
6. --
7. Okay, I guess

No idea there were so many women on /lit/. Perhaps we're more tolerable than other boards after all.

>>3379147
You have to yell out "trainkid!" during sex if you met over OKcupid. It's all I ask.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

21, male, Scotland.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Hit the email address up

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

Lolita, Dubliners, Lot 49, Howl

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

Intelligent discussion more than anything.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

See above

>6.Any other additional notes.

I write a fair amount, I'd love to share and talk about writing in general.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

Sure

1. 24, America, male
2. Snailmail would be fun, but I don't want to post my address here. Shoot me an email and we can talk about it.
3. The Bell Jar, Waiting for Godot, Thelma, the paintings of Rene Magritte, the films of Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano. I also have a soft spot for postmodern philosophy, folks like Baudrillard and Deleuze. I also quite like a fairly wide variety of music, particularly classical piano and contemporary classical. John Cage is one of my heroes. That's enough, I guess.
4. I'd like someone who's not afraid to just ramble stream of consciousness style in a letter, and doesn't mind getting a reply in a similar fashion.
5. Just to get to know someone, have an interesting correspondence.
6. ---
7. Sure.

A few days ago, I posted my email in another thread for a specific poster to contact me, but I haven't received anything. I can only assume that he changed his mind or somehow got my email wrong.

I'm the bisexual guy who considers himself gay.

anonymous_cock@yahoo.com

>>3379273
lol'd

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
18/m/Michigan
>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email
>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, 1984, Brave New World, Pulp fiction, Star Wars and chess.
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Interesting conversations, and as someone else said "to learn more about myself.
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
Anything really. Anything I walk away with will be better than how I started.
>6.Any other additional notes.
No thanks
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Um, okay.

Why is everyone so damned lazy?
What's wrong with sitting down and writing a letter, and then waiting in anticipation for a response?

>>3378108
Another Austin guy here. Do you go to UT?

>>3379046
>Name

Dude, I haven't seen you suggest people think about trains in a while.

>>3379363
I don't know. Want to write to me?

>>3379385
Why would I, when you do it for me?
I use the name because apparently I'm still recognized around here. That, and autofill.

>>3379400
I only did that once and then you told me to stop so I did :(

>>3379394
Sure. Send me your mailing address, and at least some hint as to what you're into.
ben.thompson.blt@gmail.com

>>3379413
Nevermind my mom just grounded me from the computer lol

>>3377374
19 US Engineering and Physics student

Email for convenience maybe some snail mail after a few emails

Favorite Books: The Great Gatsby, Metamorphosis, Ender's Game, A Brave New World, All Quiet on the Western Front and a ton of others, I tend to be pretty eclectic when it comes to books

Favorite Movies: Donnie Darko, LOTR

I also spend a lot of time listening to music, when I'm doing homework, when I'm reading, the time in between.I like drinking large amounts of coffee when there is no need and then staying up into the wee hours of the night

I am looking for someone to talk to about books, I have wanted to join a book club or something like it at least and there are none around me, so really just someone to chat with about books to read or books we have read would be cool with me.

7. No thanks

Email is in the field

>>3379447
You people are strange.

I wonder why you can't return "forever" stamps.

1. 23 year old Male, north-bay California.

2. E-Mail first, then snailmail, I'm all out of paper / stamps anyway.

3. I enjoy most quality books / movies / music, though as far as my tastes: Sci-Fi / Cerebral / Abstract stuff & classic lit suit my fancy. I love Phillip K. Dick, Asimov, Tolstoy, Vonnegut, Dostoevsky, Gibson, Kundera, Burroughs and sometimes find myself with historical or political non-fiction.

4. I haven't been reading as much as I used to, would love to read common-interest books or shoot the shit about life.

5. All of the above!

>6. I'm quite the laid-back and accepting kind of guy, just paying the bills and trying to get something out of life; whatever that is.

7. Sure

sonderthrough@gmail.com

1. 23, Male, Canadian.
2. Snail Mail. Maybe Email.
3. Books: Dune. Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karamazov. Lolita. Those are some of the ones that have stuck with me.
4. A pen-pal. Possibly an internet friend if you prefer email.
5. All of the above. I would also just be excited to receive a letter in the mail. Or to build an online friendship.
6. Skype in email field.
7. No.

>>3379174
Yes, there are. Yes, it is. Although if you want the real estrogen fest, there's always /cm/.

I'm more surprised by how international this board is.

>>3380398
/cm/?

>>3380403
the cute male animu board.

>>3380252
hey lets hang out

>>3380407
I think most of the rest of the boards are male dominated though. /ic/ has a mix.

>>3380425
>>>/cgl/
>>>/soc/
>>>/fa/
>>>/co/

Mostly just /cgl/ though. Even /soc/'s female population is probably really low at this point.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

20, F, Indian transplanted to America. Studying literature.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

up to you

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

My favored books fluctuate with my emotions. Right now its Catcher in the Rye. Movies never satiate me.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

>6.Any other additional notes.


A conversationalist. Someone who will not only recommend new books, but will share their insights so I can delve deeper into the texts and add to what they have found.

After taking a semester course on just Frankenstein, and then another course on it, I learned that the first time you read a book you're just skimming the surface. The more you consider it, the more it unlocks. I'd like to work slowly like this on books with someone.

I'm also reading a lot of Indian literature in a bit of a self-quest I'd love to have someone join me.

Don't contact me if you like to share your writing, I'm a bit of a snob about that and my criticism wouldn't be constructive.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

ok

1. 19, American, located in San Antonio, TX. Dropped out.

2. Email: ineedthesleeps@gmail.com. Interested in snailmail as well. Sharing my physical address on 4chan seems risky so email first. I make no promises concerning the quality and legibility of my handwriting.

3. Books: My favorite book is Mason & Dixon, maybe. I will read anything and most likely love it.

Music: I play a few instruments. I'm out of practice on all of them.

4. Conversation partner

5. I want to gain whatever I can from this experience.

6. I write badly and I'm self-conscious.

7. Yes.

>>3380424
Aight!

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

20, Australian

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

Either, doesn't bother me.

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

General Interests: Economics ( Especially Austrian ), Politics, Computer Science ( OS / Embedded Systems Development ), Literature, Surfing, Doofing.

Favorite Books: The Road to Serfdom, The Republic, Stoner, Free to Choose and generally anything by Orwell.

Favorite Movies: Take Shelter, The Sea Inside Me, 8 - The Mormon proposition, A Beautiful Mind, Submarine, The Big Lebowski

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

Somebody who can sustain an interesting conversation. The majority of my mates don't go to university so it's hard to talk to them about anything academic related.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

Interesting conversations and overseas friends, I guess.

>6.Any other additional notes.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

Sure.

1) 18/m/UK
2) Either, whatever you guys want
3) I don't like favourites, but I really enjoyed Dirt by David Vann, Wuthering Heights and Geek Love. Musicwise I like shoegaze and indierock. Custard cream&shortbread masterrace here. I love me some Fransisek Kupka and my favourite film is probably Antichrist.
4) Just a friend.
5)Friendship and knowledge
6)
7) Sure.

>tfw everybody is waiting for someone to contact them first

>>3380622
Contacted and got contacted.

Come at me bro.

>>3380656
You first

>>3377498
Hey! Despite being more prose-ish, I'd love to!

This is me btw >>3380582

Has anyone here not been contacted yet? Are you having traumatic flashbacks to those days where you'd be picked last for kick ball?
If so, dont worry about it - I'll be your (email) pen pal.

1. 18 (turning 19 in a few weeks, wishing me happy birthday could be one of the first milestones in our friendship, eh? Eh?) Australian, Sydney, male but I er... can whatever you like.
2. Email
3. I'm a bit of a pleb, my favourite authors are Stephen King, Zadie Smith, John Scalzi but I've been getting into DFW and easing myself into the /lit/ cannon. I like modernist art, rock 'n' roll, icecream, donuts and I can't dance.
4. A conversation partner, preferably a lonely rich billionaire eccentric who will leave me their estate
5. Definitely friendship! Also great conversation and just the novelty of connecting to someone purely virtually, cyberpunk as fuck.
6. Shoot...can't think of anything.
7. Muh privacy

8. Rereading this, Jesus I'm trying way too hard but I'm not clingy and weird, honest.

>All these Texans

Why is gun toting, bible loving America so /lit/?

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

29, English, grad student researching C16/17 cultural history. life long poorfag. I also work on a market stall selling shitty jewellry.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

Email. I reserve the tedium of snailmail for romancing.

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits...

Books, novels and plays: Kafka, The Trial; Nabokov, Lolita; Pynchon, Lot 49; Essays/shorts by Perec; stories by Borges; Conrad, Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness; Dostoevsky, C&P, Karamazov; Shaks, Hamlet, Titus Adronicus, Othello; Marlow, Doctor Faustus.

Favourites I don't mention in the pretentious company of literary hoo-has: Stehen King, IT, The Stand; Lovecraft, Mountains of Madness, Shadow out of Time, CoC. Moore, Watchmen; Gaimen, The Sandman.

Films: Touch of Evil, Welles' adatation of The Trial, Chinatown, Martin (1976), Evil Dead II (u mad?), Videodrome, The Fly, Blue Velvet, They Live, Donnie Darko, Primer, Cabin in the Woods.

Games: Minecraft, Red Dead Redemption, League of Legends.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

Interesting exchanges.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

see 4. Also, I wish /lit/ existed 10 years ago. It seems like it brings together people from my minority.

>6.Any other additional notes.


>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

yuh ok.

forqum8@hotmail.com

1) 20, Germany
2) Snailmail
3) Rilke, Benn, essays. I'm interested in psychology and a mental case myself (hearing voices, barely leaving the house). I really like folk-rock, indie-rock, singing and alcohol.
4) I'm looking for someone who's insane too or at least likes to whine and can deal with some whining. No r9k users, though.
5) Memorabilia, a way to waste my time, I'd also like to learn something new.
6) -
7) Meh

>1. Twenty-two, living the US, and yes, American. My faith is a loose mix of Theravada Buddhism, Taoism, and Jainism.
>2. Email, but I do prefer hand-written letters. My handwriting isn't that bad, I swear.

>3. I've been huge on Krasznahorkai lately. My favorite novel is probably Hopscotch, by Julio Cortazar. My favorite film is In The Mood For Love. I enjoy illustration, am not currently writing, and practice meditation daily. I'm an amateur astronomer and go stargazing whenever I can find the time(weather permitting, naturally). I am also in the process of attaining my pilot license, as flying is my current goal. These are all major facets of my life, and interests, yeah.
>4. Both, if possible.
>5. Ideally, all of the above.
>6. Nope.
>7. Well, yes of course.

20, Male.
halcyon.ab@gmail.com
Pic Related. Books, n/a. Art, Alphonse Mucha.
I am not particular.
Tell me I'm pretty.
No.
I'd like to see you try, short-stuff.

>>3380989
I'm from Oregon.

Does that balance it out?

>>3381059
I didn't know The Importance of Being Earnest had a film version.

>>3381068

At least two. The most recent adaptation features Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon.

>>3381074
>Colin Firth

Well daaaamn. I'm going to leave now to see that.

>>3381074

That one is not very good.

The one from the 50s is definitely worth a watch, though.

http://www.putlocker.com/file/D78CD48BEA8A7962

>>3378866
>>3378287

Would love to send you a letter. Right know holidays- a lot of freetime
contact me: randleramp@yahoo.de

1. 19, student, germany
2. snailmail
3.Peadar O Guilean, Sergej Lukianenko, King, Dikitry Ghlukovski, George Orwell, Terry Pretchet
4. Conversationpartner, get answers about the life
5. Interesting discussions/chatts
6. /
7. welp, ok

>>3381019
look at this
>>3381134

1-24/US
2-email: readsycamore@gmail.com
3-I enjoy Enlightenment and Romantic American Literature, as well as English Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist works. I like Woody Allen. I know a tad-bit about impressionist and American/English Romantic art. I'm versed in Baroque, Classical and Romantic music.
4-a conversation partner, or someone to help keep my writing tight and to call me out on errors (logical or grammatical). I'd like to “swap work”, but I'm very shy.
5-I'd like someone to share the experience of learning with, also to communicate with someone with similar interests (literature/art).
6-I'm not looking for any-sort-of 4chan general discussion! I like to keep my use of the board to a minimum, and I let as few people know about it as possible.

I'm probably not going to check back at this thread, so just email me with a little about yourself and we can be brothers!

1. 19 next November, Iceland, lived in Denmark from 1999 to 2005.

2. I always though e-mail was snailmail because @ is a snail. But definately postcards, just so much more romantic.

3. Recently read 1984 and that has become my favourite book. I enjoy A Song of Ice and Fire and Hunger Games. I'm going to read The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, The Old Man and the Sea soon. Really just starting to choose books, always just read what was handed to me.
Favourite movie is Synecdoche, New York and my favourite director is Woodie Allen.

4&5. Looking for interesting chats about things I'm reading and what I write, and of course what the other is reading and writing.

6. Start with e-mail and then start sending cards.

7. Sure.

1. 36, single, female. I'm a Transcarbonist feminist[1].
2. Err, Email. Duh.
3. I read post-modern transgressional feminist literature.
4. Just sum1 else wh o hates the patriarchy.
5. Su1 to rage with. They alsu have to be a littl bit randum.
6. Yeah. Fuck the patriarchy.
7. No

>[1]Transcarbonist feminist.
Fuck you, patriarch scum, I won't conform to your categories. I can be a rock if I want to be, so stop trying oppress me with male privilege.

>>3381801
>I can be a rock
In dis town, “rock” is a word for troll. A bad word for troll used by stupid humans.

>>3379089
>through /b/
Ew.

>>3379095
>in NYC
>Don't have OKC
Am I doing it wrong? I'm 24, always assumed OKC was for an older crowd.

>>3379003
She's not the only female here, and does it matter if she's hot? We're not trying to engineer physically attractive children.

>>3382202
Are you hot?

>>3382222

i'm hot

Is there no one else from the southeast states?

>>3381134
german

I'm a hot man

Does that count for anything?

No? Aww.......

>>3380989
Because we're trapped in a cultural hellhole with no option but to reach out through the interwebs

>>3381748
>thought @ was a snail
I don't know why but that made my day, thanks anon.

>>3382618
I am. Why?

>>3382618
I sort of am too (college).

Are we all waiting for someone to contact us or have some people already gotten replies?

I am waiting.

I contacted two people, but they haven't replied

>>3383674
I'm writing one physical letter but am still waiting on an email, if it will come

Sure why not.
1. 21, Argentinian living in Argentina, male.
2. Both are fine to me, but contact me via e-mail first if you want my address.
3. I don't really read a lot, I just started doing it a few months ago. My favorite movie is Jingle All the Way. I like krautrock, but open to everything. I also like to visit my grandma.
4. Conversations are good, both can learn from each other.
5. The possibilities are endless, a friend, perhaps? Who knows.
6. My english is not very good.
7. I agree.

I can't believe only people in their late teens to mid-twenties wanted to do this. I thought /lit/ was a little more open minded, regardless of age.

>>3383779
maybe because everyone else already knows the signs of failure.

Got my first response today. Waiting on my second person to reply now.

Ok, I was nervous about replying to other people's because I wasn't sure if I'm what they're looking for, so here is mine and if nobody replies, I'll contact someone else.

>Age, nationality, etc.
22, male, Yugoslavian, living in US, college senior studying mechanical engineering, do not own khakis.

>Email or snailmail
Email (in the email field)

>Books, art, movies, etc.
There's a lot of books I really love, and I don't think I could choose a favorite. All of them influenced me in some way or another. Here's a list of what I have read in the past few months, and what I plan on reading in the future.

Previously: Slaughterhouse-Five, A Farewell to Arms, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Steppenwolf, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Odyssey, Hamlet, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Currently and future: Ulysses (now), plan on some Steinbeck, then Faulkner, The Third Motherfucking Policeman, after that something post-modern.

Film & art: I don't really know much about it, but lately I've been watching old German expressionist films and trying to understand them.

>Seeking
I guess I'm looking for a person/group of people with whom I can discuss 'serious' literature from an artistic point of view. I realize how pompous this must sound, and trust me that I mean it in the most humble way possible. It's like for the past few years I have been scratching at this creative part of me, trying to get in. I don't claim to know anything really, but I'm making an honest effort at observing and critiquing art.
So, I'm interested in sharing and discussing short stories, ideas, etc. I don't know much about poetry though.

>Additional notes
I'm learning German because I want to find work somewhere in Europe after I graduate. I also lift stuff up and put it down. I'm also lonely and I'm probably compensating by distracting myself with all this stuff, but it's ok because I really like it.

>7
Does the pope shit in the woods?

Wow, someone emailed me.

1. 19, American, Live on west coast
2. Email
3. My favorite book remains a "Wrinkle in Time". I was only 11 when I read it and it was the first book that open my eyes to something else, it's nostalgic to me much like the nostalgia of a first love. Favorite movie is "Garden State". Im Traveling to Europe in a few months for half a year.
4. Just something to pass the time and have some intelligent conversation.
5. I want to gain someones else's views and opinions on this that I care about.
6. I'm finding my life a little lonely now that I'm out of school and I'm having a little trouble dealing with that.
7. Sure

Email is Ilikecubs2@yahoo.com Cheers!

>>3378866
just wanted to say that you're the perfect woman and I hope you have a really nice day.

>>3378866
The...Mighty....
Squashybananafoot@hotmail.com, and bring your finger sheathes.

>>3384470
btw i'm a girl

Is anybody here gay?
Or is it safe to send letters to males?

>>3383933
>Yugoslavian
You are worst kind of expat. Sincerely Ex-Yugoslavian.

People should post pictures of themselves.

>>3385255
Because only beautiful people are allowed to have pen-pals?

>>3385267
No, because it's nice to have a face to go with the prose. Knowing what someone looks like makes conversation more human.

>>3385294
Email them and ask them for a picture?

>>3385255

Yeah, and also write a little about your day on here, to sort of break the ice and whatnot. I think we should make these threads weekly or daily, and have like little updates and whatnot and so that we can network people and whatnot for our interests and whatnot.

Y'know?

Because that sounds like a good idea totally a great avenue for this board to tread.

I'll start:

Hi! My name is me (teehee) and I had an amazing day today. Not that I did anything special, but I just like to enjoy the specialties of every specific moment I encounter, even if I can't specify them. I like making sandwiches, I find that to be a very esoteric and cleansing practice, and I know that this thought is shared.

I love to daydream and fantasize I'll be on the bus and sitting and minding my own business and listening to Animals as Leaders and I'll imagine super-secret agent Harrison Ford gets on the bus and stops and all dramatic-like stares at me and says "So it's you again, firebird." in a really cool carpenters voice (like JC but without the glasses) and attempts to play fisticuffs with me. But because for the past seventeen months I have been going under experimental enhancement guided by my alter-ego unknown to me I'm able to not only match his moves but win the fight! aND Then the hot girl on the bus (there's only ever one I think any more than that and the bus combusts or turns into a limousine) looks at me in a hot sexually altruistic manner and says "Oh my God! JC! A bomb!"
"A bomb!" I ejaculate
The bus goes boom in a fiery plume of doom.
But I'm not JC. I'm the original resurrection.

sagesagesagesagesagesage@yahoo.com

So I see there are some women here, I think the women and the cuter men should have sex with me because I'm cool enough to not say I want to have sex with them.

>>3385329
>Because that sounds like a good idea totally a great avenue for this board to tread.
Sounds like a better idea than listening to you
>>>/b/

>>3385355

>tfw nobody wants to correspond with you because they think your email is fake and you are a troll
>ithygdtah
>3102
>pls respond

>>3378887
Personally, i prefer the Ancient History, but I think that may be because I've chosen the wrong modules. Stick to contemporary ethical theory if you can. Avoid epistemology and descartes if you can...

>>3385528

That depends, and it also depends on your professors. Epistemology and Descartes is unavoidable and literally integral to modern philosophy. Ethical theory is a relatively small portion compared to the analytic movement which is still very popular. Also Descartes is great, should be required reading. A hilarious trainwreck and awesome failure of a work.

Contemporary ethics is shit btw. Literally half of it is on abortion or euthanization. Most of it is just a rehash of utilitarianism or kantian imperatives.

>>3384528
check your emails, Neville Bamshoot!

>>3377374
Eh, I guess I'll give it a go.

>1
19, Denmark.
>2
I would prefer email - snailmail would be possible tho'
>3
(I'm not reading at anything remotely close to god-tier, yet) -> Most of Murakami's novels, For Whom The Bell Tolls and Kierkegaard's works would be the ones I hold dearest to my heart. I also read A Song of Ice and Fire when I just need to unwind. Other interests include history(mainly 20th century European history), arts and my favorite dance move is the oft misunderstood 'Robot'.
>4
A conversation partner, someone to talk to, someone to share knowledge with or someone who'd care to enlighten me.
>5
Interesting conversations, mostly. And some knowledge would hopefully follow.
>6
I'm fairly new on /lit/ (About 3 months), and I speak Danish, Norwegian and English, and I can read Swedish. I'm very open to new ideas and I constantly try to expand my knowledge base.
(Fucking hell, it sounds like a dating profile)
>7
Sure, I guess.

>>3377529
I almost wrote. But then you disgraced dark chocolate. You infidel.

ITT some hope before a descent into insecurity and madness.

>>3381748
I'd like to write to you, but I cannot seem to set up my outlook, so I can't send an email based on your attached email.
You can write to mine tho'.
I'm the guy from Denmark who recently posted.

>>3380868
As I recently wrote to someone else, cannot write from my Outlook. You may very well write to me tho'.
> I fear being picked last

>>3377536
I sent you a mail.

>>3378866
This sounds incredibly interesting. I myself might be considered a bit of a geek. I wouldn't mind if you wrote to me.

>>3386423
>>3386428
>>3386458
>>3386462
>>3386468
Wow how many times are you going to post?

>>3386485
I joined the thread pretty late, and I was just browsing through it in a rush.
But I do believe I'm done for now.

>>3377629
A fellow young'n here, I've been reading around but I haven't read nearly as much as I would like. I'll give you a disposable address (10minutemail .com) because I don't feel like posting the one I use on lit. Message me and I'll give you my real email.

b1831338@rmqkr.net

>>3386423
If you are interested, I'm using this temporary email. Drop me a line and I'll give you the address I actually use. b1831338@rmqkr.net

>>3386517
I sent one.

>1.Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
20, Lithuanian, still living here.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
I would like to exchange handwritten letters

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Favorite book : Divine Comedy ; Favorite movie : I think I don't have one, but I do preffer old comedy ; Also I like to bake pie and I like my book collection.
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
I'm searching for someone from a different country, to tell me or teach about their culture, plus improving my English skills

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
Everything that is possible

>6.Any other additional notes.
If you like anime, Guns N' Roses, body modifications, candles, went through something - I want you. Plus if you had or have dermatitis - I would realy like you to share your story with me cause right now I'm going through hell
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Sure.

E-mail me via metyne@hotmail.com

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
19, male, United States.
>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email
>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Franz Kafka, Andre Gide, Victor Hugo, Umberto Eco, Samuel Beckett, Mo Yan, anime, musical theater and American folk/blues music.
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
A friend to get along with or to have casual sex with
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
Someone to relate to, or to help them out and have them help me out.
>6.Any other additional notes.
No fatties
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Uh what? No

Feel free to send me an introductory hello message, yalls.

>>3378287
>>>
e-mail, in need

>>3377374

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
23, european

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email, it's ezabel@hotmail.no

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Prose: mrs. dalloway, ulysses, sound and the fury, swann's way, buddenbrooks
Everything else you could ask me in that e-mail

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Conversation partner.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
I'd love to discuss writing, maybe at some point exchange our work? I really enjoy critiquing other's texts.

>6.Any other additional notes.
The sorrows of young Werther annoys me to death.

>>3377374
I might be way too late for this, but here goes:

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
18, U.S., Washignton State, becoming addicted to painkillers
>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
email or tumblr
>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
My favorite three albums are The Glow Pt. 2 by The Microphones, Voodoo by D'Angelo, and Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins. Frequent /mu/ and /lit/ and /fa/ mostly. Movies: I loved The Master. Literature: in 2013 I have read Lolita, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, The Virgin Suicides, and am in the middle of Trainspotting (all pleb as fuck I know). Luminism is my favorite style of art. Frederic Edwin Church is a god
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Tell me about your experience with literature, and some quiet things you notice, small scenes that strike you in your day to day life
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
I dunno
>6.Any other additional notes.
I have a tumblr: http://reindeer-coloured-funk.tumblr.com/ and I'm generally pretty open minded. Life is a strange thing.
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
totally. Do whatever with it.

adamgelatt@gmail.com

this was a good thread, bump

>>3388510
Shhh you're supposed to hide it like a germinating seed.

>>3377374
1. 20, Male, Texas

2. Preferably mail because I've never really had a real pen pal before, but I'm working on getting a P.O. Box so none of you stalk me. Till then email will work

3.Portrait of the Artist, This Side of Paradise, and The Sound and the Fury. (reading a book called Waverly by Sir Walter Scott right now. It's pretty good.) I'm looking to branch out a bit more and get into poetry so we can talk about that too.

4. Some one to talk to, maybe share some work or give some critique, someone to talk about book recommendations. Honestly anything you want to talk about I'll talk about too.

5. Friends, Knowledge, and interesting chats

6. I'm a pretty nice guy.

7. Sure.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
18, Born in Australia to Latino parents of Spanish, Portuguese and Indigenous origin; I'm in a relationship and seem to be unable to stop flirting with other women.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
email; rolanddulwich@gmail.com

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Tibetan Book of The Dead by Padmasambhava, The Quiet American by Graham Greene and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. As for movies Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (by Tarantino...), Curse Of The Golden Flower, Hero and House Of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) and Blood In Blood Out (Taylor Hackford). Biscuits Tim Tams. Condiment anything with Chillies.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Any of the suggested really.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
Experience, friends, knowledge and intellectual conversations

>6.Any other additional notes.
Not really, no.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Sure

>>3388937
>Tarantino

Yeah boy!

But, while I admire The Corrections, Franzen is a douche.

>>3388997
Agreed, massive dick. The Corrections was the only book of his I liked.

>>3389016
Yep, I made the mistake of choosing him as a research project when I was young and stupid.

Nothing like reading his "Perchance to Dream" essay to make me hate everything. Plus the fact that he wants me to die because he wants to go birding is kind of depressing.

>>3389041
My friend wrote a paper on Perchance to Dream. He said of it "Nightmarish; If Twilight didn't make me hate literature, this did."

Pic unrelated.

>>3389057
I'm not surprised.

And it's a pity since I like Munroe and I want to read Gaddis.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
19. I live in Arizona, but only because it's where I was born.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email is preferred, but I might get into snail mail if we connect.
>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
My favorite book is probably Heart of Darkness, since it's why I started reading classic fiction. My favorite movie is Tree of Life, and I wish to one day marry Jessica Chastain despite the age difference.
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
I want someone I connect with, to open me up to new things, and hopefully to teach me something. Someone I can actually connect with is rare in everyday situations.
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
An emotional connection. Interesting and lengthy conversation about art and our lives, if the events taking place in them are worthy of talking about.
>6.Any other additional notes.
I just broke up with my girlfriend, because she was hanging out with her ex girlfriend behind my back.
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Eh, okay.

Also, since I'm coming at the end of the thread, I will hope some of you will not skip over me.

>1. 22, Canadian

>2. Email is fine, Post would be phenomenal

>3. My favorite would be Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist,' if only for sentimental sake. I'm currently trying to burn through a list of classics as reccomended by a English prof I had, as well as some of the /lit/ sticky. I've read fantasy and sci-fi when I was younger, and forgot more than I care to remember. I love the 1920's-1950's, full of steam engines, typewriters and old fashioned guns.

>4. I'm looking for other like-minded people that enjoy books as well as writing.

>5. A collegue to compare recent books read with, as well as each other's current projects. Friends come after the fact.

>6.I won't pretend to be a great author, or even a good one; I've read enough to recognize I'm walking with giants. I'd just like to say my bit, and hopefully come up with things people will enjoy.

>7. Yes, that should be fine.
My contact is smiceta@bell.net

20, Dutch

Just email contact.

I read anything horror or fantasy. Currently reading The Magician King by Lev Grossman.

Looking for open minder people, just to have discussions with.

I like to gain more insight on opinions.

No notes needed.

Fine, save me.

Email: diap125@yahoo.com

>>3389057
oh my god that picture made me laugh harder than ever before

This gets pretty boring after a while.

>>3388659
y u no leave e-mail D:

>>3389982
y u no check the email field

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.

24, m, Australian

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail

email please

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.

Only recently have begun reading adult material on a more regular basis. I want to read a book that makes me feel uncomfortable and feel disgusted by the ideas presented therein.

I enjoy listening to music, any music.


>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?

A conversation partner. Someone to talk to openly and honestly about everything and anything. I want to lend an ear to your problems and have you hear mine.

I want someone to show me new stories and share with me new ideas. I'm not the brightest man in the world but I am curious about many things.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?

All of the above.

>6.Any other additional notes.

I have a daughter whom I adore.
I am lonely.
We are all flawed, but I'll still love you.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?

Yes

>>3389982
Check the e-mail field!

>>3388937


>>3390184 Here
email sent

>>3381748
This is me. I'd love to play chess with someone using post.

who here has a skype, by the by?

>>3391310
I do.

I'm >>3389686

Alrighty then.

1. 23, Canadian, Male
2. Anything
3. McCarthy, Faulkner, Conrad, Hemingway, Milton, Defoe
4. Sharing creative writing. Critique, feedback. Learning.
5. Learning.
6. No additional notes
7. No

>>3389123
>>3377448
>>3377475
>>3377499
>>3377563
>>3380494

grcJudGe on skype
or pompom_treez@hotmail.com

I'm >>3391807

>>3390076
I'm new to this kind of stuff so I have no idea where I should look

>>3391842
See that blue "Anonymous" above his post? It's a link.

1. 27 year old male, United States of America
2. Email and snail mail, doesn't matter
3. Favorite books: Under The Dome, The Stand, Everything's Eventual, The Stranger, The Bell Jar, The Hobbit.
Favorite Movies: Lost in Translation, Gattica, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Fountain, Drive.
Favorite Music: Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi, Metallica, Pantera, August Burns Red, A Day To Remember, Sublime.
4. I seek someone who I can have an intelligent conversation with.
5. I wish to gain a few friends and some knowledge as well.
6. Nope
7. Sure

1. 27 year old male, United States of America
2. Email and snail mail, doesn't matter
3. Favorite books: Under The Dome, The Stand, Everything's Eventual, The Stranger, The Bell Jar, The Hobbit.
Favorite Movies: Lost in Translation, Gattica, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Fountain, Drive.
Favorite Music: Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi, Metallica, Pantera, August Burns Red, A Day To Remember, Sublime.
4. I seek someone who I can have an intelligent conversation with.
5. I wish to gain a few friends and some knowledge as well.
6. Nope
7. Sure

>>3391983
>1. 27 year old male, United States of America
Stopped reading there.

>>3392027
Not even that guy, but fuck you.

>>3392033
27 year old male from the United States of America detected.

>>3392035
27 year old male from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

>>3392027
A pleb from /b/ detected. Go back there and play kiddo. Intelligent conversation is for grown ups.

>>3392052
>United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I'm sure there's a larger name that includes something about the sovereign territories.

>>3392056
>kiddo
Okay, grandpa.

27 isn't that old. Everything above where you are seems like the end of the line, but once you reach it you realize the continuity of life

I sort of wonder how many more emails I would have gotten if I had put down that I was female.

1. 19, American
2. I love a hand-written letter, but e-mail works just as well
3. Favorite book: The Mighty Angel - Jerzy Pilch, favorite movie: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, favorite genre of music: Vocal Jazz, 20th century classical, p4kcore
4. I don't really know what I'm looking for. A long distance mentor, someone who feels just as lost in their current place in life as I do, anything.
5. Friends I guess
6. I've played violin and viola for the greater majority of my life. I dabble with the mandolin every once in a while.
7. Sure.

224928a@gmail.com

>>3392137
I mentioned I was female and only one person emailed me. I've emailed 7 people and only three have responded.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
25/USA
>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email would be best to start, at least.
>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
I like "Journey to The End of The Night" and other French novels. Houellebecq is the greatest living writer. I also enjoy '70s punk rock.
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
I want someone I can tell stories to. If you have some good ones to tell me, that's good, too.
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
Interesting chats, I guess.
>6.Any other additional notes.
I am a professional journalist.
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Sure, this is a throwaway email, so I don't check it often unless I'm expecting something.

>>3392137
u grill too?

>>3377374
1) 17, Mexican, living in the US
2) Snailmail for sure, classy
3) Favorite books: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Eyeless in Gaza, I read many subjects (history, politics, philosophy, religion, etc and read some in Spanish) Also into movies such as Donnie Darko, and can't really think of anything else at the moment.
4) Whatever, I'm bored so I decided to post on one of these.
5) same as 4, I'm mostly interested in conversation, I find that it is the most conducive to thought.
6) Learning French and Arabic at a slow pace, extremely left wing in politics, interested in things outside of the Occident, I'm mystic when it comes to religion, and I'm thinking of converting to Islam
7) What does that even mean?

>>3379455
? what do u mean by email is in the field

>>3392388
you must be really annoying.

>>3380538
wat's your email?

>>3380538
contact me
anonkatobooks@hushmail.com

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
21 American and superbly white.
>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email please.
>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
I can't dance but I like James Joyce, Infinite Jest, Kurt Vonnegut, the Trial, Milan Kundera, Catch 22, and Hemingway.
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Y-you too.
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
All of that yes.
>6.Any other additional notes.
I have a Q&A here for extra knowings: http://landonrode.tumblr.com/Inquiry
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?'
I agree [x].

>>3390184

Did you reply to everybody in this thread?

1. 24, male, Uruguay.

2. Email.

3. I don't have favourites, although something tells me that one day I may, so I'm just going to name the last two I read:
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
And the two I'm currently reading:
- Cuentos of Felisberto Hernández
- The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't eat biscuits.
Some days I love everybody (or at least the people around me), I usually love animals and I hold dear to anyone who has good intentions ("what is good?").

4. I'm looking for someone who is willing to write me and express their emotions, thoughts and concerns in a fearless way, but without getting into personal details. I'm pretty sure anyone who contacts me will be able to teach me something, so that's included in the package.

5. Knowledge, interesting exchange of thoughts and a productive way of spending time.

6. I'd like if I could get some email in spanish, so, spanish-speakers, I really encourage you to write me if you feel like it!
Anyway, fellows who speak in english, I'm waiting for your email too!

7. Yes.

minombre@lavabit.com

>>3392688

I replied to many people. But not everyone.

>>3392140
>>3392421

>>3390184 Here.
emails sent

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
19
>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email
>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Books: The Trial, Blood Meridian, The Ticket That Exploded, King Lear
Movies: David Lynch's work, The Holy Mountain, Rushmore
I also really like music in nearly all forms.
>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Conversational partner
>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
All of the above
>6.Any other additional notes
I rather not talk about politics
>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
Sure

>>3393168
Forgot to add that I am from California.

>1. Your age, nationality and whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
I'm 21, male, and from the United States.

>2. Would you like to do Email or snailmail
Email for now. notkoof 'at' gmail

>3. Your favourite books, art, movies, biscuits, dance moves and everything else you love, adore or hold dear.
Pretty cliche, but I like stuff that resembles Slaughterhouse Five or Kafka on the Shore... I'd really like to be exposed to more less modern less western literature written by men. I like a lot of nonfiction. Music: I like ambient repetitive things and hipster stuff sometimes. I just saw Barton Fink a few weeks ago, it was pretty good. I wish I were better at choosing favorites.

>4. What do you seek? A conversation partner? Someone to teach you something?
Just someone to word vomit back and forth with. I'm going through a lot of change in my life all of the sudden and I'm sort of worried I don't have any connections that will be with me when I've arrived. Talking about art or anything not related to my stupid personal life would be great/better too.

>5. What do you want to gain from this experience? Friends? Knowledge? Interesting chats?
A friend would be nice, eventually.

>6.Any other additional notes.
To be honest, instant messaging would be preferable, but I should give the email thing a shot. Oh, don't be libertarian or the local internet angry guy who is right about everything. I'm so tired of you.

>7. Do you agree for your information to be saved and cataloged for a future glossary on the /lit/ wiki?
No.

>>3377374
1. 22 from the UK. I study in Scotland at the moment.
2. E-mail to begin. Maybe letters later. Come to think of it I really can't remember the last time I sent one.
3. At the moment I've been reading H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. Classic sci-fi really. I'm a huge fan of Nikolai Gogol. I juggle and sometimes play the banjo.
4. I'd like someone to chat to, find out about. Would prefer a conversation not limited to just books. Anyone who likes to party... Whatever really.
5. I'd like to hear some stories. Everyone's interesting.
6.
7. No... Where is the /lit/ wiki anyway?

Would love to hear from you.

I have no idea what I'd speak to any of you about. A "writing partner" might be nice but I don't trust any of you.

>>3378754
Maybe if I sit here long enough they'll recognize it and help me.

>>3378754
€njoy missing out on free money

Bump

For now just posting, will skim through the thread another time eventually.

>1
20, From Germany, Slavic Origins.
About the pick up school again.

>2
snailmail. It's more personal, there is more work, thus 'heart' included.
Also you'll more likely keep the letters around, for the memories.

>3
I've just recently started forcing myself into reading again, so I didn't explore that much, yet. I've read a lot Fantasy and sci-fi, though.

But the general direction would be Philosophy, Psychology, Society, Buddhistic.

Other:
- electro / techno music ( e.g. Psy Trance, Drum 'n' Bass, Deep House)
- ugh idk. maybe my fucked up sleep pattern, thus posting at 5 am in 'hopes' for a PenPal.

>4
Conversations in general are appreciated, altough I love to learn from other people.
.. Yeah, to be honest somekind of mentor would be awesome.

>5
Exactly that.
Also I hope to enrich my and hopefully someone else's worldview.

>6
Age, gender, country do not matter.
penpal_mail@web.de

>7
Do your worst

bump because this thread deserves it.