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Anonymous Fri Jun 26 19:22:30 2015 No.6742648 [Reply] [Original]

I thought about opening the thread with >tfw no literary gf, but I thought better

Do you guys have any literary friends? I don't. I need to know though if it is all its cracked up to be. I like to imagine a life where I have friends (girls or otherwise) who will read out loud with me in parks or just when we hang out. I'd like to have a group of friends, or just one, who will help me dissect a piece of writing as far as we can do, until it becomes absurd. These are all romantic dreams brought on by the fact I feel especially emotionally raw right now, sort of how I (and I assume others) are first thing in the morning.

My friends now, great as they are, are kind of boring in this respect. I gave one a copy of Gravity's Rainbow, I caught him reading mine and he seemed super interested, and he gave it back after, as he put it, "I tried to read the first chapter and I just don't have the attention span". He still talks about the first chapter quite a bit though. Another friend of mine, of more than ten years, used to be philosophically inclined but after school he didn't care anymore.

My girlfriend is the same way. We met through reading the same book but now she has no interest in it anymore. I asked her to read Donald Barthleme's story "The Balloon" and she said "That was cute, but kind of pointless". She isn't stupid either, if I can get her to actually listen to me about something she can understand it (at least as far as I do) in just a few minutes. I have (over the course of many years) read her bits and pieces of philosophy or history and she can argue one side or the other and even recall most of the historical stuff I tell her. She has no issue grasping difficult concepts or anything like that, just no interest in these things. I should add here, she is artistically inclined, loves drawing and art. She just no longer seeks any of this out and sometimes I can tell she just doesn't care when I bring it up anymore.

I just want someone to share this interest with. I have dreams about this at least once a week. Maybe that makes me sad or pathetic in some way but I thought someone here might understand.

picrelated: I showed my girlfriend an article and some of Mark Bradford's work, she loved that, which was nice

tl;dr none of my friends are inclined towards anything but working/eating/sleeping and it makes me sad

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