/lit/ - Literature

>>6315261
It's just you, and me, and that one faggot

>>6315292
i'm the guy that always uses lowercase

I'd be really surprised if it's more than 10 daily users, but most of them come once or twice a week.

>>6315296
i thought was was me

>>6315261
I mostly lurk, but I'm still here.

>>6315261
Going off of the number of posters in the egoist thread and the LCT I would peg it at around 50-75 frequent posters. I would say that the people who post in the regular threads are the people who make up the majority of posts on this board

I'm here every day

I'm here everyday, also. Mostly lurking.

>>6315338
you should join the skype group

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>>6315338
Don't do it, they're all tards who whine about there problems

>>6315346
Some people whine about their personal shit but for the large majority of the time there's quite a lot of quality discussion.

>>6315342
its mostly text or voice?

>>6315342
>you should join the skype group
we have a skype group?

>>6315261
long time lurker here

>>6315261
I'm a raging Stirnerfag and shitpost in theology threads, and otherwise generally despise apologetics on /lit/

I get the sense that there is a small, core group of obsessives - maybe 20 or so - who give the board it's memes (Stirner, Zizek, "start with the Greeks", obsessing over translations, etc.) and then a larger group of more casual contributors.

I think it depends on the topic of the thread, which group you will get. Ask for an opinion on egoism, psychoanalysis, or Joyce and you'll get the core group of obsessives, ask for recommendations on a fantasy novel and after the first few posts (where the core group of obsessives will call you a pleb) you will get a more diverse and friendly bunch of people contributing over a day or two.

I post here

>>6315366
I think it's the other way around. The people who repeat those memes just came by, assumed that was the intelligent jokes you make here, repeat it for a while and then get bored when no one appreciates their effort.

How to join skype group? This board is probably the best on 4chan.

>>6315261
According to my statistical analysis, about four hundred and twenty

>>6315372
I know

You can tell how many different posters are in a thread you know.

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>>6315352
grcjudge

>>6315429
How?

>>6293539
I mean, there's 99 posters in that thread alone

and I haven't posted in it, so there's at least 100

>>6315429
But you can't tell how many serious posters are in a thread.

>>6315440
Me enither but that thread has been up for almost a week. I sustain my position that we have 10 or 20 daily posters.

>>6315441
That's always zero, honey.

I am more curious as to where most /lit/ posters live.

>>6315481
Isolated college towns in the mid west with an insufficient number of coffee shops to pose in the windows of, reading Lacan.

+1

I'm mostly here for the dank memes and passive reading.

>>6315481
strawpoll.me in a new thread, godspeed

post link to skype group chat

>>6315494
I live in an impoverished south american town who manages to survive only for being close to a big capital and having some oil refineries.

>>6315261
I come here daily, I am not sure what I am looking for in this place anymore, merely distraction perhaps.

>>6315481
I live in a country you probably have never heard before, Nicaragua. Sorrounded by people without culture, education, respect, or any other kind of value. I have learned to accept the reality of my society and face the fact that it can't change unless all of us want to.

>>6315481
I live in Russia.

>>6315481

I'm from Canada. People over here were thrilled when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize.

>>6315438
numbers on the right side of your computer screen

>>6315526
Venezuela?

I came here half a year ago to talk about Kafka, Adorno and russian sci-fi. The place has gotten continuously shittier since then, for which I can't help but feel responsible.

>>6315621
Southeast Brazil.

>>6315346

there's really only like one or two people like that and they're offline most of the time

it's actually not a bad group in the slightest

>>6315352

text

>>6315357

yes

>>6315628
It's all your fault. It's all your fault. It's all your fault. It's all your fault. It's all your fault. It's all your fault. It's all my fault. It's all your fault. It's all your fault. It's all your fault. It's all your fault.
captcha: cocke

Come here everyday, but don't comment all the time, I'm pretty new to this board. I moved to the US from the UK three years ago and haven't spoken to anyone about anything literary, so I've been enjoying the few good comments and threads between the memes and shitposting.

:^)

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>>6315752
Literally all me

Who are your favourite regulars?
Mine's the American Muslim guy who posts in every Islam-related thread, his presence irritates the Christfags which I find very amusing

Probably not many, I don't consider myself a litizen really. I would come here more often if it was /books/ maybe, but it does seem to be Literature with a capital L. And philosophy and writing for the most part.

A far cry from the NYT best sellers and WHSmith airport reads I pick up, which don't get very many threads. It's all a bit too highbrow for me.

>>6315762
gasfag is always worth a few keks

>>6315481
Argentina here

>>6315481
France and I know I'm not alone

>>6315767
yeah I'd say 90% of the litizens here are more well-read than I am. I'm more of an /int/, /fit/, and the occasional /ck/, /k/, and then /lit/

>>6315767
You could just stop being a dumb faggot.

>>6315603
We sent some of our people back in the 70's to educate your communist camps, but an influx of left wing 20 somethings with vague experience of living in a dictatorship didn't help much I guess.

>>6315643
If no one will hear my awfully manly voice I want to join. What's the name or adress or whatever?

>>6315762
I miss zeeburg and the hate. The guy who wrote a million pages of horrible YA about space racing is a cool guy and his spirit always puts me in a good mood.

>this is me

>>6315828

I also post regularly, such as now

Everyone knows me.

>>6315261
Me, you, Tao Lin, Kolsti Nguyen, and not Bill Murray make five.

I sometimes post. But it's usually a lot for like a couple weeks, then I leave for a year or more.

I'm pretty famous around here.

>>6315762
I miss Iranman.

>>6315814
But then who would you deride?

>>6315481
Malibu, California
plebs

>>6315991
malibu and the shitty agricultural states in the USA are the plebbiest place to live

>>6315808
Started on /b/, migrated to /pol/ then recently here. Rarely post. Perhaps more after I've finished reading the Greeks?

>>6315997
I won't contest this. I'm getting out after uni.

Gas-kun reporting in...

University of Alabama here

Welcome to "culture". Every human being, after prolonged exposure to other humans, becomes a copy of them. Each and every one of us can serve as a sand-in for any other in any given situation. We're all replaceable.

>>6316037
Except for Chris. Chris is a fuckhole

>>6316037
What about me? (I'm Tao lin btw, check out my books)

I post once in a blue moon.

Shitty small town near the Canadian border in northwest corner of Washington here.

>>6315481

San Diego, CA, USA

>>6317460

Dude I'm in Bellingham.

>>Inc new lurker hier.

I lurk daily, and post on occasion.

Live in a small rural town in south GA.

Lurking since inception, post if I have relevant knowledge. Start the odd thread here and there.

Apart from me and that guy who posts the "10 pages a day" copypasta, I feel like there are no dedicated shit posters.

Also on /sci/ I used this one word in multiple shit posts and this one guy can still recognise me around 1 year later (if I make topics that are vaguely similar to what I used to do)

Also on /lit/ I made a troll topic, then two people argued in it. One of them accused another of being a sad fuck who had made another shitter off-topic /lit/ thread... that other OP was me as well!

MEXICO
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>>6315481
Im German, and there are a few others.
Also i am a Zizek disciple atm and regularly post in the anti fedora/dawkins threads

>>6315855
I miss ... Feminister. But at the time i used to hate her/him. Maybe i dont miss she/he. Maybe i miss those times.

I am an Ausfag. I lurk for, probably, 20 minutes or so every day. Still not really sure what I get from it at this point. I post something maybe a couple times a week.

>>6315261
I am many, what do you wish to know ?

>>6315296
there are 3 of us. we the lowercase bandits. who /lowercase/ here

>>6315795
do the messi meme. i demand it. otherwise leave or do not state argentina

lit is full of americacuks

New Jersey suburbs here

>>6315481
Amherst, Massachusetts

>>6315481
Netherlands pleb-race coming through.

BIGGUS DIKKUS

I come back every so often, usually to post a question. Threads of the "Has Richard Dawkins officially proved that atheism is wrong and retarded forever? Discuss" variety make me want to pull my hair out, so I usually don't stay.

>samefagging a whole thread

>>6315481
Netherlands
>kanker

>>6315434
Req sent

>>6315481
Aus

>>6315481
Mozambique (Peace Corps)

>>6315261
nsa pls

It's just you, me, Icycalm, that one Schopenhauer fanboy, Neil Gaiman, and that one hysterical Marxist... And a few of those are just me running schticks.

>>6315481
Canada on Vancouver Island.

>>6315481
Bulgaria, probably the only one

>>6315481
NZ

>>6315481
Singapore. And yes my founding PM just died

>>6318519
Is there any good bulgarian literature? Curious, as I know fuck all about that country.

>>6318544
Of course, tons of it. One of the most obvious suggestions would be Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Yoke

>>6318544
>>6318554
Also a personal favorite - "Moтopни пecни" / "Motor Verses" by Vaptsarov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Vaptsarov

All day, erri day lurker (this is my first post) from Italy here

I live almost exactly where the Berglunds in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom live, and I attend the same university as Patty.

>>6315481
maybe it's because it's morning but i thought more people would be in the uk with me

>>6318330
you don't use end periods as well? shit is so cash, reads casual and so detached

>>6315481
Stuttgart and Düsseldorf,Germany
also
St. Petersburg, Russia

>>6318572
>lurking on /lit/

I thought this place was for shitposting

>>6315481
Mississippi, USA.

I do, probably every other day I'll have a post or two on average.

Pacific NW, American.

>>6318656
No shit, I live in Piter as well. What are you doing here?

>>6315481
Great White North!

>>6315261
Honestly, feels like there's probably a few dozen people on /lit/.

Though that being said, I often feel like there is only like a few hundred people on /v/ and yet apparently that board has tens of thousands of unique views a hour.

>>6315481
Montevideo, Uruguay

pic: Babilonia Libros, and old library in Montevideo

>>6315481
Montevideo, Uruguay

pic: Babilonia Libros, an old library in Montevideo

I'm here when I'm trying to not get work done.

>>6315261
>How many people post on this board?
I occasionally come over here from /p/ when I need a break. I don't know this place feels from an insider's perspective, but to somebody from /p/ this place is a breath of fresh air. When things are either (a) too slow over there, or (b) too contentious, I'll come over here and find a couple of threads which interest me and dive in.

>>6315481
Toronto, Canada

>>6315481
Saint Louis, Mo

>>6318859
wow such direct sunlight on books

not that i care, but others might

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>>6318330
i'm the fourth one that gets called a tumblr girl/gay/beta all the time

>>6318970
I'm one of the guys that tells you to go back to Tumblr.

>>6315481

Newcastle, England.

Ottawa Ontario, I KNOW there are two Ottawains on here

>>6318880

Does every board have a Lainposter?

You and me and the Devil makes three

>>6318988
I know I'm not the only one but I'm probably the most frequent. At times where avatarfagging is necessary or useful, she's my default.


>let's all love lain

>>6318619

lowercase lyfestyle ya'll

>>6319017

I just know there is a Lainposter on /tv/ and when /cyg/ was a thing on /vg/ there too.

>>6318566
motor verses just sounds awesome

>>6315481
A ghetto of Oxbridge rejects in Fife (in other words, an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom)

>>6318519
There's two of us.
>>6318544
Yes, but most of is poetry, which is not translated. A personal favorite of mine is Dimitar Talev's tetralogy.

>>6318619

ikr
++ liberal use of line breaks etc

>>6315603

I recall you making a thread a few months ago. I see you've reached an epiphany!

>>6319047
Disgusting. This is a literature board. Save that for MySpace or wherever you came from.

>>6315762

OYTIE for sure.

>>6315481
Atlanta, GA, USA

>>6316000

literally cancer

>>6319074
>rarely post
>literally cancer

Yeah, the guy who doesn't do anything and is quietly trying to catch up on his reading is cancerous, while the guy who uses words like "literally" and "cancer" outside of /b/ is making /lit/ a better place.

Fuck off back to where you came from.

>>6315481
rural michigan

my town doesn't even have a coffee shop to sit down at so i have to drive to the neighboring town

>>6319100
>thousands of people frequent /lit/
There are over 200 copies sold of Tundra, I know that much

>>6318931
my friend!
Hey neighbour

Since we got everyone here - how about a share thread hijack?

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>>6318988
Reminder that lainchan a shit.

I don't post often because my delicate ego can't handle having my beliefs and opinions deconstructed and utterly obliterated before my very eyes. But I lurk.

I do not post much and when I do, I do not read the replies since I am too scared of them, be them positive or negative. I prefer to close the tab, reopen it later and scroll to the back jumping over my posts.

>>6319222
Don't worry, I do the same. Unfortunately, you won't read this reply and I won't read yours even if you posted one.

>people are literally afraid of 4chan

I always knew they existed but god damn that is sad

>>6319100
damn me too, what county or town or whatever?

>saying literally
Can /lit/ stop using this shit all the time? I'm sick of looking at it

>>6319250
/lit/erally

I'm French and I know my English is horrendous and full of gallicisms, that's why, most of the time, I don't even bother to post, from fear of being ridiculed, even though posting regularly could improve my written English. I guess it all boils down to my low self-esteem.

>>6319269

Take a year off from using commas and you will advance your English studies tout suite.

>>6319269
I sometimes write long pots, try to re read them to fix them and give up halfway through.

>>6319290
pooping isn't writing

>>6319340
I seriously doubt you can write better in a second language if you haven't started writing in both almost simultaneously. Borges was translating Dickens before turning 10.
Now, some of us can't even make a clear post without thinking it through. Any improvement is an improvement and every tautology is a tautology.

>>6319290

Move over longcat, we have a new meme.

>>6315261
I'm the guy who constantly posts/critiques/argues with deconstructive/semantic jargon, usually followed by little or no responses, and those that do reply rarely understand my argument anyway.

>tfw I wish I could talk to someone who is aware of being inside the text but everyone on /lit/ dismisses deconstruction as obscurantist bullshit and doesn't give it the opportunity it deserves

>>6319414
Can you give me an explanation of deconstruction?

>>6319414
I'm probably not as smart as you but, most of the time deconstruction feels rather flat and we would like to see some 'construction' from you, so to speak. Maybe an idea of your own and not just a autopsy of others.

>>6318979
I'm Newcastle as well who knew there were two of us

>>6319676

I am from Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Ireland

>>6319157
I've never even heard of this and I AM that lain shitposter all over /lit/ /v/ and /g/. To what is this even referencing?

>>6319676

There may even be more.

Maybe we should go for a black coffee and a smoke sometime?

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>>6318880
Is one of yout he narrameme dude? How's that project going?

>>6319744

>/soc/

>>6319708
Well that's rude. There are many false Newcastles. One called under-Lyme that prostitutes trick you with.

>>6319752
>prostitutes trick you with
Please explain.

>>6319749

>>/soc/

Jesus Christ, do you not understand humour?

My captcha was coffee pictures, what a coincedence.

>>6319755
A friend of mine ordered a prostitute in the wrong Newcastle. He got his hands on one eventually, but caught herpes, so the prostitutes won in the end anyway.

>>6319421
Probably not within the space of a 4chan post without making incredibly gross generalisations. If you want to make sense of it, it's probably best to start with Saussurean structuralism, which provides the foundation just so deconstructive philosophers can shit all over it and identify why it is completely ineffective at rendering Truth capital T.

>>6319427
>Maybe an idea of your own and not just a autopsy of others.
the irony is that an important point which arrises from deconstruction is that even the most original idea is still an inherent 'autopsy' of other ideas, so to speak. It's useful for identifying instances of injustice or oppression, and it definitely provides you with textual evidence for refuting a point, but its very difficult to say something 'new' via deconstructive practises without going far afield in various studies (psychoanalysis, queer/post-colonial/gender theory etc.)

>>6319788

>Ordered a prostitute from Newcastle-Under-Lyme

Haha, what a story mark.

>>6318572
nice, were you from? I'm from turin

>>6319110
Yo! I'm reppin the Annex!

Curious about this myself

http://strawpoll.me/3969762

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>>6319968
Oi ya wogs, I'm here too. Venice bastard reporting in.

>>6318619

i use lowercase when i shitpost on stirner threads

>>6315481

Chile reporting in

the nice thing about anonymity is that i'm not held to a reputation of comparative ignorance and immaturity, but sometimes i wonder if cultivating connections who deal with me as a more constant figure would be better for me. it'd put pressure on me to make the most of my youth and freedom by getting caught up on philosophy and culture, since right now i have an untouched collection of plato's writing in my room but all i want to do is draw and play video games x_x

but maybe i wouldn't even be sharp enough for the skype group in the end

>>6321170

without the anonymity we would be another group with herd mentality going for the most father figure of the group or the one with the most charisma. it would suck

>>6315261
lurker here

>>6315481
Northern Arizona, USA, standing by.

>>6319157
Did get banned from an obscure image board shatter your ego so much you had to make this shitheap in ms paint?

>>6321182
>4chan has no heard mentality
>>>>>>>>>>>

>>6315481
Long Island, NY

>>6321277
w-wait, you too?

>>6320007
Junction/bloorwest village!

>>6315434
Me too.

>>6316000
Commence with the Chinese

>>6321323
beautiful Canadian lit dreamgirl?

>>6321733
sorry anon, Canadian boy who recently found /lit/

>>6319002
Honestly I hardly ever post.

>>6321747
Ah sheesh

>>6321763
apologies again anon we can still be freinds
be it only confined to this board

>>6315481
Vancouver, BC, Canada

>120 unique posters

Weird, it doesn't feel like there's that many people here. There must be a handful of homogenous groups.

>>6319788
>the prostitutes won in the end anyway.

>>6318932
Go Blues

>>6318519
He бe нe cи caмo ти, тъпaк тaкъв.

I post a few times a day and I lurk all of the time. I try to start discussion on lesser talked about subjects but it's so hard when you get bumped down to the bottom from all of the bait threads and people posting in argument threads. You don't realize how slow the board is until you step outside of the active front page threads

>>6315481
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>>6315481
Kansas, USA

>>6322252
I have a friend in Sydney, we don't talk often anymore. But I'll be damned if nearly every girl on his Facebook friends list isn't gorgeous and slutty. I'd like to visit some day.

>>6318330
another lowercase fag reporting.
the shift key just feels akward when im trying to respond quickly. also have a disdain for apostrophes in typing.

>>6319243
being afraid of /b/, /pol/, and /r9k/ is understandable. le edgy hackerz and all.

>>6322297
Sydney is nice to live but boring to visit for more than a few days.

>>6322660
Sydney? More like McSydney, USA. They need to get their own identity and stop copying America.

>>6315261
I just lurk here bro
this is an automated bot message

>>6315481
Gainesville, FL, UF student.

>>6315481
Southern Oregon coast, US of A.

>>6315481
serbia

>>6321751
>lucifer morningstar
Huh.

>>6315481
York County, ME, USA.

>>6315481
Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA

>>6322171

Nice, me too! I'm in Oakridge/Marpole.

>>6315481
no swedes? I thought we were fairly common on 4chan.