/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ has changed. it's full of hyperactive meretricious pleasure-seekers with attention spans so short they can't even become self-aware of their decadence.

we've been really disappointing lately, sry anon you're probably right in detaching yourself from us

>>6268239

it is called summer around here

>>6268258
>>6268249
>>6268278

Maybe if I stick around, spark some decent discussion, make a couple good quality threads actually about literature, maybe it'll get better.

I don't want to leave you /lit/...

4chan has the kind of volume and density that I want from an online community but I'm really starting to hate the posters. There's only so much negativity and wilful contrarianism I can handle.

>>6268249

>decadence

>>>/pol/

your kind is the worst of them

>>6268858
Do it anon.

I quit /lit/ back in January and I think it's been mostly positive. I've logged on a couple times over the past 3 days though since I'm on spring break and I think I'm getting pulled back in...

>>6268239
>>6268249
>>6268258
>>6268858
>>6268908


see this thread
>>6270513

>>6268925

I spent about a month on /lit/ getting a list of about 500 books to read before the summer (going strong at around 700 pages a day now) but now I don't really need /lit/ anymore. It's an acceptable place to start but a horrible place to end up

>>6270750

>700 pages a day

I miss being NEET and doing this casually

I quit for almost a year when I got super depressed and subsequently got a gf

you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

>>6270758

I'm in university, so being a NEET is allowed. Especially because I'm being forced to graduate when I'm 20 -- I'd love to stay til I'm 21 and get a double major Computer Science and English Literature, but I have a feeling that unless I can cough up the final 15k needed for that final semester (it would be my sixth one in my college career -- I'm halfway through my second semester, I skipped all of freshman/sophomore year because I tested out of half the required credits with exemption exams/AP scores) so I have a chance to read and write for now until I'm forced into the workforce at the age of 21.

My goal is to produce something in those next two or so years. As soon as I apply for a security clearance or a software design job, I've decided that I've given up on life. I have to spend my free time working to escape that fate

>>6268249
>not liking decadence
>on a literature board

i bet you don't even aesthete.

>>6270750

>700 pages a day

Jesus H Christ, I'm basically neet and I consider it a good day to hit 60. How the fuck do you even remember what you've read at that volume?

>>6270830

>I'm in university, so being a NEET is allowed.

you don't know what NEET means, do you?

>>6270929

60 pages is an hour's worth, dude
two if you're slow

>>6270940

60-90 minutes, depending on the book and how I'm feeling that day, yes.
Are you saying I should be able to read more?

>>6270830
why not do a masters

im going for my phd afterwards and then going for a professorship.

>tfw you don't even like reading much anymore
what the hell am i supposed to like now? i've always liked music and composing i guess

how do you guys feel about lyrics in music? should the lyricist be well read?

>>6270947

I pull off 3-5 hours a day without trying

I work 40 hours a week

>>6270830
>I'm in university, so being a NEET is allowed

now, this is a twist

>>6270929

> How the fuck do you even remember what you've read at that volume?

I read at about 100 pages an hour. As soon as I finish my Computer Science projects I beeline over to the seventh floor of the library (where all of the post-18th century literature is sorted) or the 6th floor (shakespeare, most of the non-contemporary poetry, etc.) and stay there and pace around reading a few books cover to cover until about 1am and then go back to the dorm. I'm consistently reading about 3 books a day right now, though today all I got through was Sound and the Fury as a reread. I'm able to remember everything I read. Caffeine from the vending machines and starbucks on the first floor helps with that a bit

>>6268239
Don't worry.

You can never leave.

It is YOU who has changed.

/lit/ is more or less the same, really, not worse or better than any other time. The themes change, the anons change even, but the overall tone of it is the same. Same kinds of jokes, same level of understanding, etc.

I come here like once a week just to check, post some shit here and there and be done with it. There is a limit to staying here, anon. Get the fuck out and don't look back, you won't be missing.

I seriously beleive there is some hivemind going that keeps things the same. Maybe 20 anons were discussing "free will vs determinism" four years ago and none of these anons will be here for the next free will vs determinism thread, but you'll read the thread as if it was the same. When people get past the /lit/ level discussions, they either go away or, like me, come to post on whatever glimpse of a fresh subject or perhaps to contribute on a little something you know well, etc.

I've said this many times to other anons before.

>>6270830
>I'm in university, so being a NEET is allowed.
fuck off tryhard normie

>>6270951
Of course. Poetry is really just songs without music, so a good lyricist should be a good reader and a good writer

>>6270830
If you're in university you're not a NEET, nimrod.

I'm out fellas, enjoy your lives

>>6271049
any examples of some song writers who are well read and good lyricists?

apparently lou reed and jim morrison were both pretty literate, but it doesn't seem to always show in their lyrics (in some songs sure, but I've heard really bad lyrics from both)

>>6271049
>Poetry is really just songs without music

lol

>>6272659
he probably should have said it the other way

>songs are just poetry with music

>>6268239
Give it a couple days. You can't talk shit in the real world like you can here. You even occasionally bump into someone who reads here.

We love you, nigger. Don't leave.

Have you not read GR and IJ yet? Maybe that's the disconnect.

>>6268908
the problem is 4chan is the hard stuff.

you are drinking scotch straight if you come here every day and spend a good chunk of time here.

not even "hurr durr intense seekrit club", im being genuine when i say that the types of insights you get from this place are not enough on their own to form an opinion.

if you come back after a week there is always something new. but if you hang around every day nothing changes and everyone is always retarded.

>>6268908
>There's only so much negativity and wilful contrarianism I can handle.
I've been here for 8 years or so and feel this way now. I feel like I've outgrown 4chan. I get that "lel jews", "applel sux", and butthurt about Christians are pretty much the humor here, but I feel like it's just more frustrating to me than funny anymore. I feel like what makes it so bad is that everyone takes it too seriously too, now you have people who go around acting like they seriously believe Jews control the world or something. When the jokes get taken too far, it's just obnoxious and annoying.

On top of that, the sort of hyper-aggressive shitposting and arguing that goes on here is incredibly tiring. I just want to relax and talk to people now, not turn everything into some kind of insulting pseudo-debate.

>>6273803
why is this freaking me out so much?

>>6273803

>throws one thing that is not like the others in with a bunch of obviously retarded shit.
>hurr its just a joke right guys im mature so i know its a joke why dont you?

I wonder who could be behind this post. . .

>>6273708
There is a good thread almost every day.

>>6273708
I agree with this. All things in moderation.

>>6273831
I'm not sure if it's good enough to worth wading through shit every day for extended periods of time. If you want to read something good every single day, get a subscription to the Paris or London review or just read one of their archived articles.

>>6273814
Cute girls can do that to you.

>>6273803
Glad I'm not the only one