/lit/ - Literature

Nope.

Perhaps I like the image in myself, but I don't speak to people or use social media and noone ever visits my house so it's certainly not what you say.

>>6291251
>If you really liked reading, you wouldn't need such barely believable excuses.
Some people are just easily distracted. I also love film, but I can't always find the time to watch one when I have other stuff going on or there is too much stimuli in my environment.

Otherwise,
>>6291268

>>6291251
Nope

I really like reading.

>>6291251
I read because I want to gain a intellectual advantage over my peers.
Being able to list off Russian authors can do wonders. I wouldn't have my job without reading books.

I actually dislike the image of the reader. Almost no one knows that I'm a reader.

>>6291251
I like reading books

in many ways I enjoy the fruits of reading more than the labor

sitting down to read can be hard

but something like simply knowing the stories of franz kafka or the knowledge of philosophy makes it all worth it

often gives me new views on things in life and i find i connect better with art in general

I don't even read. I appreciate Philosophy and Literature, though.

>>6291251
nah, man
the "image" doesn't get one anything outside of interesting pussy when between the ages of 16 and 24.
so i guess that's not bad, but i'm just old and love reading
even if one were the right age i have found that pussy can smell a fake
so, nah

I read mostly fiction and other stuff /lit/ considers garbage and since this is the only place i frequency and I don't have social media i never have a chance to cam-whore.

outside the internet, i only talk to various staff people out of necessity, and only formally. i have nowhere to project any image of mine whatsoever.

>>6291434
>i never have a chance to cam-whore
>being woman
>I read garbage
Who would guess?

>How many of you like the image more than the activity?

Honestly, I don't really see how anyone can invest that much time if they're only purpose is to keep up an image. I spend about an hour and a half every morning and evening on a train to college most days, and its probably my favorite time of the day for the simple reason that I enjoy it. I like reading.

Who are you trying to impress by being looked upon as well read or intellectual? Girls, or anyone for that matter, don't really give a fuck whether you're reading Camus or Satre. It might prove different if you're a girl as the people who spend their Saturday nights on this board could possibly share at least one interest with someone of the opposite sex.

>>6291441
this

although I also speak to fellow english and arts students from time to time hoping they'll share a passion with me but it always seems like they switch off any interest in literature the second classes end

>>6291420
I can definitely relate to this.

Something somewhat hilarious Zizek said was that he doesn't even watch a lot of the movies he discusses in their entirety. He said he fast-forwards through the boring parts. I think it was a clip of him picking out films in the criterion library or something. It makes him look like a bit of a goon, but I can relate to the idea that I prefer thinking and talking about some texts or aspects thereof more than I like the texts themselves.

>>6291448
Would that demonstrate that contemporary culture is anti-intellectual? It's not cool to be a keener.

nothing of what you wrote is accurate about me. i have zero need to project an image as a reader. only a few people at work know that i'm a writer.

>>6291251
No. Every part of my life has to do with reading. My career, my hobbies, my schooling.

I will concede that my monthly posting on social media almost always has to do with books.

Honestly i get uncomfortable when people know i read, so I just read on trains or alone p. much

>>6291251
nah

i actually like reading, but since i have bad impulse control, i read on impulse and intensively for a week, then dont read for one-two weeks

>>6291251
Nope. I don't have friends so I have no one to brag about books.

>mfw I never looked at a friend the same when i read a post where claimed she was reading 50 shades of grey and called herself a nerd

No one cares than I read.

>>6291251
>How many here only read or "read" in order to project the false image that you are a reader onto the world?

I actually worry that I 'project (that) false image' sometimes to the point where I hide my book cover or prefer using my kindle. Right now it doesn't matter much because I'm reading Labyrinths and the most I've gotten is "Isn't William Gibson a science fiction author or something?", because Borges' name is suffused into the cover art.

I need less and less to appear learned than to actually be learned. On the contrary, if I had to be honest, I'd also rather not appear as unlearned. If I have anything educational and introductory, I'd prefer people didn't see the cover. Self-conscious, I know. I'm getting over it.

>>6291408
What's your job?

>>6291441
>>6291434
>>6291448
>>6291496

You're all forgetting the most important person one can project an image to: yourselves.

>>6291528
You're absolutely right, but that wasn't what what OP was asking about. Well, I read 'the world' as 'the external world'.

>How many here only read or "read" in order to project the false image that you are a reader onto the world?

I think you're projecting, m8. Who gives a shit? Satisfy yourself. This is a good place for recs and laughs.

>>6291527
I work at an international business legal counseling firm. It is a moderately large legal firm.

I was at a job interview and one of the two guys there was Russian. For some reason Chekhov was brought up, and we spent about 20 minutes taking about Rothschild's Fiddle. Now five years later I have a Russian boss that is a bro, and I'm about to make six figures with an upcoming raise.

>>6291251
Very few people in my personal life know that I read. It's one of the main reasons I go to /lit/, to talk to people who share my interests.

I wish anyone gave a shit about what I'm reading.
Honestly if you want social capital pick another hobby like music.

I don't talk to anyone, so no one knows I read. I hate book fetishists and people who expect you to be impressed by their reading. Seriously, I went through that phase at 11. Grow the fuck up

>>6291251

I just enjoy literature. Also I have no smartphone, social media or online presence outside of being anonymous on 4chan so only my close friends know about my reading habits.

>>6291574
>like music
ahaha you are so misinformed if no one gives a shit about your taste in music either

0% of my reading has to do with projecting a social image.

Do I make a conscious decision to read for the sole reason of looking 'well read' or 'intelligent'? Not at all.
The question of how the perception of literature being the intelligent mans hobby/passion has affected me ? Honestly I have no idea.

>>6291579
>friends

you were so close to not being a normalfag

>>6291251
If I was in thet image I'd be more distracted by drinking the cocktail than anything else.

>>6291597

If having a small group of close friends makes me normal then I'm proud to be normal m8. I'm already incredibly lonely as it is, to not even have one or two friends to talk too every once in awhile would be hellish.

>>6291588
Really, 0%? I find that hard to believe, even as someone who keeps quiet about their reading habits.

You don't select your books to read based on your meta image at all? For instance, I don't brag about my reading, but I generally won't waste time reading things like World of Warcraft novels because I'd rather be well read and it's a guns vs butter scenario, even though sometimes I do want to read those World of Warcraft novels.

>>6291251

The fact that I read rarely comes up in conversation and seems pretty equivocal. Most everyday people have never heard of the authors /lit/ would disparage as "entry level" so it is sort of awkward to discuss. You're not going to have common ground with people. Fuck even at university most people don't give a shit about books. I spent some time with a girl with a degree in English and I don't think we talked about books once, I know I didn't see her read at all. What seems to have happened was that she spent all her time outside of class working or drinking herself stupid. I mean I'm sure some people do read but how does one find quiet bookish people to be friends with, they're not outgoing and neither am I. I sometimes get crazy ideas about leaving a note in /lit/core books from the library but that's just laughable. My uni has not one book club among the hundreds of associations. Then there's the strain of anti intellectualism than runs deep in north american culture. "wow that kid's talking about james joyce again what a pretentious hipster" I don't want to seem "pretentious" or have people think that I'm supercilious.

>>6291628
I don't read stuff I don't want to. I don't read genre fiction because I don't want to. I guess you could say there are subtle social projection factors that influence that desire and work on everyone all the time whether they know it or not. But what I mean is I don't expect or have any reason to expect that my reading will pay off for me socially in any way at all, I know it won't and I don't act like it will.

But then I guess it depends on how broadly you define "socially." Sometimes I've gotten in debates online that made me want to read something so I could respond better. Still that was more about me wanting to come to know the topic better than anything else.

>>6291613
>tfw no friends

I read because I wish I lived in the 1940s.

>>6291251
What "world"? Hardly anyone visits me, and I don't go to coffeeshops to read. If I buy books, I'm the only one enjoying them, at home, in bed or on a couch.

>>6291447

You don't actually have to read if your goal is solely image, anon. You just say you've read and conveniently forget all of the non-wikipediable information if challenged by someone who has read.

Most people give you the good faith "I haven't read that book and thus I can't call you out" benefit of the doubt, which is more than enough space then you need to live the literary life style without ever picking up a book.

>>6291650
Yeah, fair enough. I think most of societal influence on me is subtle. Like part of me wants to be edgy mcedgelord, so I've got stuff like cioran on my to read list even though there's probably a hundred books I'd rather read for their entertainment value .

It's like eating vegetables. I don't eat them to impress anybody. I'd rather eat a cupcake. But eating vegetables will make me the person I want to be so I do it.

>>6291251
sometimes

initially i read for escapism. then i tried to impress my qt 12th grade english teacher by reading finnegan's wake. then i sort of began getting into literature, reading /lit/ fiction and stuff

that being said, im pretty sure i actually hate reading and always have

>>6291251
>like the image more than the activity
This implies that I have friends or acquaintances that could possibly observe this image of me.

>some pretenders cry that they don't read books much because the internet is so "addictive".
I definitely read less than I used to pre-internet and this really bothers me, almost to the point where I've considered disconnecting completely for a while.

I like the activity more than the image. The image is autistic if you project it, it will not help you bang chicks (unless you're murderously handsome, in which case anything you're doing looks glamorous, same with cute chicks who do shit that would look autistic for any ugly chick), it will not help you make friends (except in the way playing D&D might), parties, college and church are the ways you make friends and get chicks. I do not present myself as an intellectual publicly, nor do I daydream about how interesting of an intellectual I am.

>>6291251
I like reading and am not ashamed of it. I'm not going to read every novel I'm interested in in a closet.

I listen to music in public and I'm not ashamed of it. Why should I be ashamed of reading in public?

With all of this said, I don't really read in public or post about it on social media (text or otherwise).

I just got a girlfriend who is a lit minor and spends a lot of time reading. I managed to feign some knowledge of literature and now she thinks I am some huge /lit/ core smarty pants. I came to this board to learn lit terms so I could continue to seem smart, but being here makes me want to read, I just can't find the time. Send help I don't want to go too deep.

>>6291628
I do this too. I dont enjoy reading Joyce for hours on end but I do it because I want to feel like I'm doing something productive. I would enjoy reading garbage genre fiction more but I would just feel like I'm wasting my time.

>>6291645
I don't know how possible this is, but I would try talking to your English professor. The only decent conversations I've had in my life about /lit/ books have been with English teachers.

>>6292001
Reading is like exercise in several ways.

One, it's exercise, except for your brain.

Two, you have to make time for it. I'm sure you can give up a half hour of interneting from each day to build up the habit.

I like both.

>like reading
>like playing video games
>like writing
>too afraid to commit to one thing at a time
>freeze up because of my indecision
>resort to browsing the internet all day instead
I JUST CAN'T COMMIT, WHAT THE FUCK?

>>6291251
I hardly read in public, but i feel good about myself if i read a lot, if that means anything

i don't project anything because i don't go outside.

I will admit i don't read as much as i would like, its too easy to waste time on the internet or watching tv.

>>6292104
see
>>6291528

When I was younger, I read a lot. I needed an escape from my shitty home life, so I was constantly reading.
As I got older, I started reading less. I kind of just waste away on 4chan now.

I've found that I can't stay concentrated like I could as a kid. I'll try sitting down to read a book, but my mind will wonder off before I've finished the page, so I never get anywhere or I've completely forgotten what I read just a minute earlier.

Maybe the old folks were right. The Internet rots your brain.

me, probaly. im obsessed with image and should get off facebook, now that I think about it.

*doesnt* lol oh well i will free myself one day

>>6292069
>I'm gonna do something today
>Anything at all
>Internet from dawn till dusk

It's so slow I can hardly feel myself suffocating.

>>6291645
>Then there's the strain of anti intellectualism than runs deep in north american culture
yea where does this come from? The perception is that you're either partying hard or a complete loser. Who decided this?

I like the image and the activity about equally. If I prefer one, it is the activity.

I wont lie; reading makes me feel superior, but I do genuinely enjoy reading

Most people can read, it's not a big deal.

>>6292228
The US has deep-seated roots in terms of its aversion towards sophistry, due to the burgeoning Modernism that was opposed to founding beliefs, and was French so fuck that.

I suppose over time this mistrust has become a total mistrust of any sort of "intelligencia," however, the university climate is the exact opposite, where "radical" is synonymous with good in most places.

The fact that I've heard, with my ears, the phrase "radical veganism" more than once is terrifying.

>>6292069
Drop the vidya Drop the writing if it competes with your reading. Playing vidya is the intellectual equivalent to picking your nose and eating your boogers. Writing more than you read is the intellectual equivalent to eating your own shit.

>implying I have friends
>implying I've spoken to anyone in person in weeks
>implying anyone would know if I died till they knocked my door down for not paying rent

I just like to read man.

I do have quite a concious onus to 'improve' myself in several ways, within which knowledge of literature, music, and film is held quite important.

So yeah, I definitely have an awareness of the 'image', but at the same time, I think the style necessitates the substance, and moreover I do very much enjoy all these art forms.

Nevertheless, my desire to appear 'cultured' etc. is still somewhat of a driving force behind my pursuit of them, but not the sole driving force. I couldn't really tell you definitively which one (desire for image or desire for knowledge) takes precedence.

I guess in a way image and knowledge are just two different ways of how cultural currency functions, perhaps even two sides of the same coin. Image is cultural currency operating externally (showing off to your friends), while 'knowledge' (your own intellectual satisfaction) is internal. So in that regard the two can't really be extrapolated, and will always have some kind of connection - although it's very possible for one to dominate the other. As such, of course it's possible to have someone's desire for image dominate the desire for knowledge to the extent of becoming vapid, but personally I think my actual interest in literature itself would disqualify me from that (or at least in some meaningful regard).

So yeah, I like reading. But being smart is nice too. If pushed I'd admit I hold intellect and learning to be essential to a fulfilled existence, but that might be besides the point.

>>6292069
Flip a coin. Roll a die.

Honestly, I've committed to film after, frankly, way too long mulling over it.

Better to at least try and succeed at something than become too indecisive to even try.

I like the image
I also like to read, but enjoy doing so on my own time with no deadlines
so I picked up a literature major. Makes sense right?
but really, it does
I don't have to actually read anything. I glance over sparknotes when I get too lazy and don't finish the assigned readings on time, which is often. I am quiet in class and only speak up during awkward silences when no one answers the professor. Which puts me on the good side of the professor, as after reading sparknotes and listening to a bit of discussion I can usually think up something that goes beyond what everyone else is saying and make it seem like I spent a lot of time thinking about what I've been assigned to read. I am what is wrong with the current generation of students but since I will graduate with honors and maintain my image of the smart cool reading guy within my tumblr-tier friend group I don't even give a fuck. And I feel really shitty for admitting this but it is true.

>>6292435
Nigga I can talk for the whole class without having read a page. My frequency of actual meaningfulness is inconsistent, but no one else even talks at all (even if they have read the book - I mean what the fuck come on son). I enjoy talking but I enjoy stopping the awkwardness even more.

>like the image more than the activity?
Pretty much, my entire life is a lie.

>>6292419
god you sound like such a raging fucking faggot holy shit

>>6291251
I used to like the image, over the activity, but since gambling on becoming a professional author and temporarily embracing NEEThood to that end, I have had to reject all concerns about image / self-esteem. And but so now I'm reading purely for pleasure / for helping my writing.

>>6292156

I had this problem recently. What I did was pick books that have an easy time grasping my attention, then slowly progressed to more /lit/ tier works.

>>6292473
I would have enjoyed his post, except something about that past being paired with that gif makes me rage.

>>6291251
I don't really care about image since I'm becoming more and more bitter toward my close relationships. I like to read because I feel it exposes me to a lot of new ideas and thoughts that aren't commonly uncovered in my general perusing. Not many of my acquaintances really even respect the image of a reader so I generally keep it under wraps because it doesn't interest them.

If I was gonna pretend to enjoy something, I'd choose something cooler than reading.

>>6291251
>How many here only read or "read" in order to project the false image that you are a reader onto the world?

Haven't listed a single book I've read on facebook, I've posted 1 picture of a massive stack I'd bought over a year ago, mostly for a couple of my reading mates. I don't have twitter/instagram and all that shit, so most people who ''know'' what I read are either on /lit/, or /lit/ related goodreads friends.

Other than that, I hardly have any friends, so who am I supposed to show off to?

Then again, I do almost everything without telling people, because I always feel like a knob telling people what I do, I feel it's forced. When old friends/family and all that ask me what I usually do I say reading, but that's because I'm usually reading, and I won't explain anything further out of myself, I just shove it under the banner of ''studying''.

Let me ask you, though, how can you only read for the image? reading takes a bloody long time if you don't really like a book.

>>6291420
>in many ways I enjoy the fruits of reading more than the labor
Man, I always think: if I could just have all the knowledge of the book by looking at it (non-fiction, that is) I'd be able to get real shit done. Sadly, we're not there yet.

>>6291251
People who only read to seem cool make me want to fucking murder them. I read for fun, I read for knowledge, I read to become a better man. I don't read for people on facebook to call me 'cool' for slogging through the latest shit cache that everyone else reads only because others are reading it as well, not because they have any clue how literary merit is measured. Sometimes I take a look around at those people and get fucking angry, but then I just start to pity them; after which I feel the pity leave my body and return as a will for action - one day I will put a bullet through the head of someone that I can tell only reads to look 'cool'.

>>6292570
>they have any clue how literary merit is measured.

Oh.
Wow.

>>6292473
>I like reading
>you're a fucking faggot

ok

I stand by what I feel about intellect etc., but you and most people on here will likely react to it in the same way as to fedora-tier posts, which I can't really help

>>6291251
Eh, I dunno. The content of the books I read is certainly the biggest part of it, but I'd be lying if I denied that image was certainly important to me.

>>6292069
Fucking this, but multiplied, because I'm interested in even more things than this, like reading manga, watching anime etc
Someone help me out

>>6292570
worst post 2015

>>6292570
>literary merit is measured
kkkkk

>>6291528
whats ewrong with that

I'm just super poor and I enjoy reading more than television, which is vapid and banal to me most of the time.

>>6291251
I think a lot of endeavours start out with liking the image, especially in adolescence, and reading is no different than anything else.

I used to read a lot for fun as a child for the sheer joy of it. Then in my early teens I was more into playing vidya and cluelessly chasing girls and when I got to my mid teens I thought it would be cool to start reading again, but real literature this time and take up this edgy quipping well read guy thing which really seemed to suit me. Of course there was also a real thirst for knowledge and insight, but the idea of being someone who thirsts for knowledge and insight also seemed pretty cool to me.

You can only emulate something for so long before you become it, so here I am, edgily quipping my life away reading 2deep4most books every day.

There's nothing wrong with being a bit of a stereotype, by the way. It makes people feel like things are safe and predictable and that all is well with the world.

>>6291251
if i could exchange literacy for getting laid on a regular basis, i would.

if i could exchange being sentient for getting laid on a regular basis, i would.

p depressed

>>6291251

I don't think that people like the image of someone that reads Philosophy, old history and old classics

People give a shit and i always laugh when someone tries to upload a photo because we all know the reality behind "casually" taking a photo.

On the rare occasions that I get the chance to chat about lit IRL it's almost always with nerdy guys like myself whom I have no interest in impressing.

>>6292570

>I read to become a better man.

>>6291528

excellent

>>6292570
>People who only read to seem cool make me want to fucking murder them. I read for fun
What if seeming cool is fun to me?

I read because I want to be well-read. I don't really do it because I partically enjoy it. But I also don't particually enjoy anything to be honest. Not studying, watching movies, playing games. The only expections are talking, taking a stroll or lying in the sun doing nothing from time to time.

>>6291251
does anyone else derive immense pleasure from mispronouncing Vonnegut as "Vonnergit" and listening to english major tumblrina co-eds correct you?

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>>6292260
thanks to your comment i just realized OP is projecting n shit

>>6291251
>wake up and write for 3 hours for my $20
>go to work
>tfw manual labor and iPod loaded with audiobooks
>get home and read to unwind
I've never posted a picture of the book that I'm reading

>>6291525
>Labyrinths
I just picked this up. Holy. Shit.

>>6291574
>feel comfortable leaving books around
>most people won't care
>a few people will respect it

>>6293364
lol yes

i love vonnegut but his fans are worse than kerouac fans sometimes

>>6291251
>There are people on this planet RIGHT NOW who identify with this comic. Somebody felt this way and had to put it out there.
Fucking normies.

>>6292281
Interesting perspective, anon. I'm a writer, and honestly I've been more worried about not writing consistently than reading, only to realize further on down the road that when my reading dips, my writing quality does as well. I'm in the middle of a pop lit book insisted upon me and which is interrupting my current reading (I hate when people insist on lending you shit to read, but I had to relent with this one).

Isn't it just as important to dedicate as much time writing?

I read because I like it, and I only read things I want to. But I like that that fact could maybe make people think I'm smart or cultured or whatever. But I don't ever talk about books with people so it's basically me hoping someone will notice somehow

>>6291528
*sniff* I shink that today, in our most progreshshivhe of shoshieytiesh - forgive me, free shoshieytiesh - we, how would you put it, exhpearieanche, the Other by vhertue of whaht it ish we ourshelves forget.

The shelf.

I actually enjoy the activity. Always have. I never talk to my friends about books because they don't read and that's what they do. I never understood why you would want to brag about it. I try to keep it to myself because I am self-conscious about coming off as pretentious.

Similarly to your idea, OP, I'd like to have already read a lot of books while actually reading them feels like a chore now and then.
Why you do stuff is less important than what you do, at least that's what I tell myself.

>>6291251
I bought Infinite Jest to fit in with you guys.

>>6291398
This. I admire the art of literature and craft of writing a good story, even more so now that I've started writing regularly.

>>6293916
Who else reads his books in his voice? His intro to Lacan especially because he's talking about films and his usual shit.

Homely old lady at my new job asks me what I like to read when I bring a book into the lunchroom (It was "The Jazz Writing of Eric Vaughn.") I say "oh, you know. Classics, Nabokov, Hemingway."

I felt so fucking hipster. I was helpless to form it in any better a phrase.

>>6294162
Me too. Got intimidated by the size. Dowloaded the audiobook. They explain in the most condescending way possible you won't appreciate the book fully without the end notes and they're not included in the audiobook. Now i have to choose between reading it like a real human/listening to it and referring to the end notes in the book.

>>6291251
I really like reading, but have had trouble with it since I was a kid. For some reason I always get overwhelmed by large books, and have trouble committing to a book unless I'm really enjoying it. I'm told by my psychiatrist that this is very common for other people with Major Depressive Disorder like me. For some reason when I'm not feeling great and my mental health is bad, the thought of even just picking up a book makes me nervous. However when I'm happy I love to read and can easily devour an 800 page book in about a week.

Other people have referred to me as "a little off" sometimes, and I agree with them. I come to /lit/ mainly to find new books to read when I'm feeling okay, and not in one of my dips.

>>6291413
You can still be superficial to fool yourself. it doesn't have to be for other people

>>6292069
I am on the same train.

I like going to the gym, playing video games, reding, watching films, fucking girls . Yet some days I find myself wasting away hours and hours on this god damn website

>>6292423
And yet here you are on the literature board.

>>6291251
I read because I want to obtain knowledge, there is many things that you can learn in a good book. Right now I am dealing with some novels, I want to get into philosophy works some day.

I know that there is some people that read for entertainment, but that is just not my thing, if I wanted mere entertainment then I would do something else.

>>6291525
>I actually worry that I 'project (that) false image' sometimes to the point where I hide my book cover or prefer using my kindle.
I also do that. I actually remember years ago telling one guy who inquired to what I was reading that it was Twilight while it really was Anna Karenina. I'm a middle child, don't need anyone's approval.

>>6294420
>I'm a middle child, don't need anyone's approval.
Yet you're willing to lie and manipulate to seem mediocre, uninteresting and low profile. Typical middle child.

I'm always amazed by this opinion. I've read since I was 6, the idea that my reading should have to do with anyone else but me is completely alien.

>>6292228
From the same people that think you either read Joyce, DFW, and Pychon or you're a loser. Academia is just as superficial as any modern Facebook jockey.

>>6293364
Try Von Nugget, that always gets them going.

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>>6292583
Wow, you`re all massive faggots.
>>6292583
You especially.

Personally, I love the idea of being well read, not for the "social image" (why would you even put effort into that shit) but because I want to be well read. I wish I read a lot of philosophy, but Im lazy and I try to read as little as possible to understand the main points.

>>6294775
lel 7/10
you almost had me there for a second.

I am kind of the opposite of a pseudo-intellectual. I really want to understand complex philosophical systems and scientific concepts but I'm just not smart enough.

>>6291251
>you wouldn't need such barely believable excuses.
How exactly is it barely believable?

>>6294862
pleb

>>6291408
Imagine Bukowski's feelings upon being dissed by his blue-collar fellow postal workers beginning to discover he was becoming a semi-famous poet... He often said, poetically, "I can't do anything because I don't know anything."
Like ME and YOU, he was deathly afraid of losing his crappy postal job daily!

Read Bukowski -- still holds up even tho' written in 1960s-1970s and later.

I drink whatever liquor or alcohol I feel like and enjoy whatever I'm reading which is currently storm front, I know what I likes.

>inb4 some pretenders cry that they don't read books much because the internet is so "addictive

No this is pretty much true for me. I don't really enjoy 4chan or watching shitty videos but it gives constant and new stimulation, it has unlimited entertainment and it is always ready to play. When I'm away from my computer I read 1 or 2 books a week.

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>>6292619
stop being a fucking weeb

you're welcome

>>6291251
VIDEO GAAAAAAAAAMES

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I didn't want to believe all the influx of newfags was ruining /lit/, but god damn, you don't know this pasta?

>>6291504
tfw i-i'm not alone in this

>>6294862
It's okay anon, I think that's true of most people.

>>6291251
damn bitch. If you don't want to read, then fine, don't read. But at least drink the cocktail.

>>6291251
I read a book a day.

But sometimes I cheat.