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6965114 No.6965114 [Reply] [Original]

>reading poetry
>slowly getting sucked in
>starting to understand
>asshole bursts your bubble

EVERY
TIME
Every time I read in public, or even in my living room, either a fucking random guy or one of my housemates HAS to fucking disturb me. What the fuck is wrong with people ? Why the fuck do they think it's okay to speak to someone who is reading ?

>> No.6965117
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6965117

>>6965114
You're probably on the spectrum.

Whatchya reading?

>> No.6965119

>>6965114
Read in bed? Gosh, it's not hard.

>> No.6965123

>>6965117
Count of Monte Cristo

>>6965119
Not very comfy + hot as fuck here

>> No.6965125

>>6965123
>Count of Monte Cristo
But you said you were reading poetry

>> No.6965134

>>6965125
Oh yeah I was when I was disturbed. But right now as I'm typing I'm reading this.
Poetry was Prose notebooks of Valery. Hard shit barely understandable.

>> No.6965183

>>6965134
>Poetry was Prose
anon i think you might have a case of the stupid

>> No.6965184

>>6965183
Never heard of prose poetry ?before ?

http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Poesie-Gallimard/Poesie-perdue

>> No.6965188
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6965188

>>6965134
Valery's neat. Speak any french?

>> No.6965191

>>6965188
I'm a native

>> No.6965197

>>6965134
>''Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.''

what a man

>> No.6965206

>>6965134
You know it's a symptom of Asperger's to take things literally

>> No.6965226

>>6965206
And it is obvious that being fond of poetry is a sign of someone that has a very literal take on the world, friendo.

>> No.6965234

>>6965114
Bathroom is only safe room I swear to go. The only other solution is to just get your own place man, or find some secret spot in town that no one frequents.

>> No.6965250

>>6965234
I used to find myself most comfortable reading on the porcelain throne, but then someone informed me that spending excessive amounts of time with your ass spread open on the toilet can lead to hemorrhoids and now I'm terrified to spend more than ten minutes on the toilet. It's a joke amongst academics that hemorrhoids are rife in academia because of this. I don't know if it's true or not but better safe than sorry, yeah?

>> No.6965253

>>6965250
I don't know about this. However, I sometimes take absurdly long baths complete with food and drinks using a convenient shelf-like thingy that I put through the tub for it to hold my meal and my book. I sometimes stay a whole afternoon because that's how I roll.

>> No.6965278

>>6965250
I got an injury to my sciatic nerve in my leg, so now I just take a pillow in the bathroom and sit meditation style. But I have no idea about that, and now you got me scared....

>> No.6965290

>>6965250
>>6965278
fraid so

Hemorrhoids are very common. They result from increased pressure on the anus. This can occur during pregnancy, childbirth, and due to constipation. The pressure causes the normal anal cushions to swell. This tissue can bleed, often during bowel movements.

Hemorrhoids may be caused by:

Straining during bowel movements
Constipation
Sitting for long periods of time, especially on the toilet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000292.htm

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6965324

>>6965197
>That which has worth only to us, has no worth at all. Such is the iron law of literature.

WHAT A MAN

>> No.6965347

>>6965324
What did he mean?

>> No.6965356

>>6965347

Even if you think you've written the best thing you could, if people can't relate to what you're saying it's letrashman.jpeg

>> No.6965362

>>6965356
Ah, I see, the "us" usage threw me. That's rather wise.

>> No.6965369

>>6965362

Sorry, I translated it from french as best I could, I couldn't find an english translation. He uses "nous" in the original french, so he's addressing writers as a group that includes himself.

>> No.6965388

>>6965324
I really admire Valery. He is not my favorite french poet (Aragon holds this title) but how can you not hugely respect the man ? He was such a hard-working writer that dreamt of surpassing Rimbaud and eventually did. He was a technical, engineering poet and not a fleeting hack like Eluard for example. He worked hard on his texts, reworking them again and again like Poe who he admired.

>Thousands of souvenirs of having felt the solitude and having wished with rage the end of either bad times or thinking altogether. Maybe shall he leave only an inform pile of insight fragments, broken pains against the world, years lived in a single minute, incompete and frozen constructions, immense labors caught in a blink and dead. But all these ruins have a certain rose.

It's like he was already talking to us.