/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10617645]

So how does your girlfriend feel about your love of books?
Does she read too, or does she give you shit for it?

[Anonymous No.10617649]

>>10617645
What girlfriend?

[Anonymous No.10617656]

I've been single for two years

[Anonymous No.10617663]

>>10617645
we both work in a bookstore atm, she´s going to study english and mathematics this year.
She reads more than I do recently. She's really into me reading books.

[Anonymous No.10617672]

I lost both of my last two girlfriends when I hit them. The police came to my house the next day with the last one. Not going through that shit again.

The problem with women is that they deserve to be hit but it's illegal to hit them.

[Anonymous No.10617681]

>>10617672
Yeah but what did they think about your love for reading?

[Anonymous No.10617692]

>>10617645
I either have women or books. Cant have both at once.

And I mostly have books.

[Anonymous No.10617694]

>>10617672
Is it true? Seems like an interesting story, please detail.

[Anonymous No.10617708]

>>10617645
My wife and I are both prolific readers. She's obsessed with DFW and considers him her literary husbando. It's pretty cute.

[Anonymous No.10617709]

She's way smarter than me. Sometimes she does shit like start talking about Husserl, or whether Ivo Andric or Louis Adamic is the better Balkan writer, and giggles and hugs me because she scared me.

[Anonymous No.10617717]

>>10617709
LARP

[Anonymous No.10617719]

>>10617649
patrician answer.

>>10617656
i've been single for four years.

[Anonymous No.10617723]

>>10617692
My aversion to relationships and socializing in general is also the time they can consume of ones life. Time that could be better used.

[Anonymous No.10617726]

>>10617717
she even remembers communism

[Anonymous No.10617731]

>>10617723
I wish I had the ego to believe this to be true about myself. Grapes very sour

[Anonymous No.10617733]

I don't know yet, we've only went out 4 times.

[Anonymous No.10617738]

>>10617733
Does she know about your love of books?

[Anonymous No.10617743]

I don’t have a girlfriend yet

[Anonymous No.10617745]

>>10617743
>yet
Oh, anon...

[Anonymous No.10617746]

How does someone find a /lit/ gf, let alone a gf?

[Anonymous No.10617759]

>>10617746
Between the age
limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal 6 their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as “nymphets.” ...

[Anonymous No.10617767]

>>10617746
go to coffee shops and read, go to libraries, go to bookstores. it's not terribly difficult

[Anonymous No.10617772]

>>10617738
Yeah I've mentioned it, but I'm sure every faggot out there says they like reading (but they never have the time anymore!). I don't think she knows the extent of my love of reading.

[Anonymous No.10617776]

>>10617767
>reading for attention

[Anonymous No.10617778]

>>10617776
it's more like multitasking. do you want a girlfriend who reads or not?

[Anonymous No.10617784]

My bf simply doesn't read. He's a true brainlet and admits it. I don't care much for it because I love him, but sometimes I wish he'd give literature a shot.

[Anonymous No.10617789]

>>10617663
Jealous if true

[Anonymous No.10617815]

>>10617731
I guess the easiest way to jump to the conclusion that such things are shallow and without importance is to have at leats once your life had a period of time where you've intensely experienced human relations. Look, for exemple, at people who had a complete sexual life from adolescence. For them it wasn't even a gift, but something natural and mediocre that was supposed to happen. They are no better than you and maybe even inferior in these things that you might consider greater, and you know that. However, these little things that once experience are futile, have the power to grow dangerously in a pure mind, giving wings to the imagination of a possible life voraciously, in a way that can only be self-destructive. Just look at that Houellebecq's quote on Raphael that's daily posted here.

[Anonymous No.10617820]

>>10617815
is to have at least once in your life*

I hate to type on my phone.

[Anonymous No.10617822]

>>10617815
at least your coping is better worded than what you find in /r9k/

[Anonymous No.10617826]

>>10617815
Eww. What an ugly post. The prose is just hideous, the aspect nuance is all off, the thought all cliché. Back to my books I go.

[Anonymous No.10617831]

I have been single for 20 years

[Anonymous No.10617843]

>>10617831
how old are you?
inb4 20

[Anonymous No.10617847]

My girlfriend reads as much as me, though I study literature, while she studies psychology. We are together, only because we liked each other's taste in books so much. Feels good, would not want a gf with whom I couldn't talk about books.

[Anonymous No.10617866]

What even is a 'girlfriend? I do not understand the concept or how it works. What demarcation line must you cross in order for a girl to become your 'girlfriend'. Also why did no one explain to me as an adolescent how you are supposed to acquire one, they all assumed that you already knew how and everyone else just copied what they saw on movies and tv which all felt very fake and inauthentic to me.

It's all just so confusing to me, it doesnt come intuitively at all. I feel as if this world has played a trick on me.

[Anonymous No.10617895]

>>10617866
>I feel as if this world has played a trick on me.
No, it was your single mother

[Anonymous No.10617902]

>>10617895
I have both a mother and a father. Is your father supposed to teach you how to acquire a 'girlfriend'? I'm pretty sure none of my peers had this happen to them, they just somehow immediately accepted this new concept of a 'girlfriend' which was established at around middle-school age and then naturally fell into attaining one.

[Anonymous No.10617913]

>>10617902
Just stop

[Anonymous No.10617924]

>>10617913
No I will not stop, I cannot be contained, just as society pulled a trick on me I will pull an even grander trick on it. Like a slight-of-hand magician, they won't even realize what has happened.

[Anonymous No.10617929]

>>10617913
well he isn't necessarily incorrect.

[Anonymous No.10617950]

>>10617645
My gf read a couple of books every year, mostly YA but also some classics. She say that she like me being well read but I think that sometimes my reading annoy her. She, and our mutual friends, sometimes tease me for being pretentious, but I'm hardened from spending years on /lit/ so it doesn't really bother me.

[Anonymous No.10617966]

>>10617902
Yes your father is supposed to teach you. But not by sitting you down and giving you lessons.

[Anonymous No.10617975]

She likes the fact. She doesn't read and to be honest shes not the brightest bulb but she's cute and likes to cook so I just count my blessings anyway

[Anonymous No.10617984]

>>10617966
Then how? By writing you a letter then?

[Anonymous No.10618035]

>>10617984
By observing how he acts towards your mother.
By encouraging you to do things.
By answering questions you ask him.

[Anonymous No.10618355]

My gf likes John Greene
Is this a red flag?

[Anonymous No.10618415]

>tfw /lit/
>tfw /fit/ gf
I couldn't possibly be happier

[Anonymous No.10618422]

>>10618415
>not getting /fitlit/ for your /fit/ gf
You don't deserve her

[Anonymous No.10618456]

>>10618422
I do go to the gym with her yet I don't desire to become a mountain of muscle, all I want is to stop running out of breath when we're in bed. I'm using it as an opportunity to try audiobooks

[Anonymous No.10618461]

My last girlfriend was a fucking bitch, and she stole some of my books. Thankfully, I still have my gold-leafed copy of the Illiad/Odyssey. She has Moby Dick, some HG Wells and The Idiot. I hope she reads them.

She also has my glasses and a monopoly board

[Anonymous No.10618524]

>>10618461
>and a monopoly board
You should thank her. But why would she want your glasses?

[Anonymous No.10618530]

>>10617692
>can't have both at once
Nigga you for real? I'm the laziest man alive and i still manage to work at the day time, write at the evening and spend the nights with my girl. Are you reading 10 hours a day?

[Anonymous No.10618544]

>>10617826
Post work

[Anonymous No.10618551]

she's read more than me, which isn't saying much. we want to read a book together but we have never found one that entices both of us in 'that' way, so we settled for the communist manifesto because it seems like oddly aesthetical thing to read as a couple. i really wonder how that'll go because she's not into politics at all and i renounced my interest in communist activism already.

[Anonymous No.10618607]

My wife scrolls facebook for 6+ hours a day and once asked me if Japan is in Europe.

I don't think she can read

[Anonymous No.10618609]

>>10617645
not lit
>>>>/trash/

[Anonymous No.10618649]

>>10617645
She dosen't read often, but she helps and support me in my book habita, so I cant complain.
She is a angel in my life.

[Anonymous No.10618656]

>>10618609
found the fat virgin

[Anonymous No.10618659]

>>10617719
try 8

[Anonymous No.10618687]

>>10618659
try 22

[Anonymous No.10618710]

>>10618656
its not /lit/ its fucking gay socializing shit

[Anonymous No.10618713]

>>10618710
And a weeb to boot

[Anonymous No.10619043]

>>10617645

[Anonymous No.10619572]

gf is in an english phd program, i'm a fuckin pleb

[Anonymous No.10619578]

My gf (male) likes to sit on my lap while I read to her

[Anonymous No.10619604]

>He's had a girlfriend before
>He still browses 4chan
Boggles the mind

[Anonymous No.10619737]

>>10617672
Sad, but true. The worst is when you try to walk away (to diffuse the tension) and she follows you around. If you yell, she yells louder. If you ignore her, she yells louder. If you try to non-violently constrain her, she screams. This scenario is the final test of stoicism in praxis.

[Anonymous No.10619807]

>>10617767
>coffee shops
nasty hos
>libraries
old mothers of 3
>bookstores
cat ladies

looking for serious answers pls

[Anonymous No.10620251]

I don't know yet, my tulpa isn't finished

[Anonymous No.10620690]

I feel like I'm too immature to ever be in a relationship. Will this feeling ever stop? Is reading making me more alienated from the role which I'm supposed to play in a relationship?

[Anonymous No.10620716]

>girlfriend
o i am laffin

[Anonymous No.10620780]

>>10618524
probably just reading glasses

[Anonymous No.10620800]

>>10617950
lol at people calling you pretentious for reading. Maybe they're just myopic morons.

[Anonymous No.10620805]

>>10618035
I'm so glad my dad wasn't around growing up. I love being alone.

[Anonymous No.10620808]

>>10618456
>audiobooks
just focus on the exercising or you might injure yourself

[Anonymous No.10620872]

>>10617645
I get her books and she is too busy to read. She is working hard on her math degree and research internship so I don’t judge. Also it’s not her native language so it’s slower for her, but she’s more than bright enough for the concepts. She’s clearly intelligent because she’s very fluent in English in less than 2 years, but I still have to help her on vocabulary and some grammar at times.

[Anonymous No.10620895]

She doesn't like that I ignore her text messages when I'm reading. I'm usually reading or doing something when I'm not with her so it's pretty often.

[Anonymous No.10620906]

>>10617645
She doesn't care either way. I usually read between classes. She's an avid reader but I don't know what she reads, I know her favorite book is The Princess Bride and she's a big Jane Austen fan so I guess that's pretty typical for a girl.

[Anonymous No.10620966]

>>10619807
I mean, not everyone frequenting those places is going to be the cream of the crop. But for the times when you do see a qt there she's more likely to be /lit/ (or at the very least supportive of your /lit/ness)

[Anonymous No.10621027]

>>10617924
Tell me of this trick of yours!

[Anonymous No.10621069]

>>10617645
She loved the way I am. Called me her little intellectual like she had me all mapped out in her mind before she met me - I fit the mold; I validated her pretensions.
Sweetest memory of a journey to France when I read to her 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'. We did not finish the novel on our way home, but later in bed I would read to her all cuddled up.

[Anonymous No.10621075]

>>10617645
I've been single for 3 years. Is there even hope at this point? I've spent most of that time alone and isolated from the world, lost in my inner world.

[Anonymous No.10621407]

>>10617767
anon these meaningless words hurt me

[Anonymous No.10621411]

Not literature

[Anonymous No.10621414]

>>10617902
>Tfw

the tism is a heavy burden anon

[Anonymous No.10621421]

>>10620690
eugh.. iktf

[Anonymous No.10621489]

>>10617645
She reads some so I can’t complain too much. Likes To Kill a Mockingbird and One Hundred Years of Solitude. She’s premed so not a lot of free time to read.

[Anonymous No.10621861]

>>10617645
My girlfriend doesn't like my reading because I read books by "old white men", but we lesbians can't be too picky.

[Anonymous No.10621880]

I once broke up on the spot with a gf after she raged in public for reading instead of cuddling with her. Someone whiteknighted for her in the thread saying I was an asshole.

[Anonymous No.10621884]

>>10617767
Yes but wouldnt it be rude to go up to them and interrupt their reading?

[Anonymous No.10621926]

>>10621861
kill you are self

[Anonymous No.10621930]

>>10621926
Nah.

[Anonymous No.10621933]

>Girl I had a slight fling with a few months ago reconnected with me last week
>She's recently gotten really into reading
>We've talked about books every day. And talking more than we ever did before
>Gone out twice to book stores. Gone to her house and read
>Last time we got to talking about past relationships and our current status on relationships
>Says her last circumstance was with a guy she was friends with then they had sex and it was weird after
>She says she hasn't cared about guys or having any relationship in months
>h-heh yeah me too
Goddamint, I have no chance. I don't get it, she just randomly talks to me again after months, am I just the only person she knows who reads books or something?
I just wanna cuddle with her while we read

[Anonymous No.10621945]

I read more than my (now ex) bf, and honestly I think it was a blow to his ego that started a whole bunch of issues that snowballed and lead to our breakup.

[Anonymous No.10622016]

She reads books about buddhism and self help. She’s a qtpi though, very supportive and pretends to be into the stuff i’m into for my sake, so it doesn’t bother me much. Trying to get her to read more challenging stuff and she’s coming around a bit

[Anonymous No.10622033]

>>10621933
Just ask her out on a date.

[Anonymous No.10622038]

>>10622033
This.
She's just playing hard to get most likely.

[Anonymous No.10622040]

>>10621945
small penis detected

[Anonymous No.10622045]

>>10622040
He was average. Just didn't like me noticing him lying about reading books.

[Anonymous No.10622047]

>>10622045
i will write a story while listening to fela kuti

[Anonymous No.10622055]

>>10617831
Same

[Anonymous No.10622070]

Damn boy here you go, look into the mirror now and observe your face with meticulous eyes and palaver in your heart. you know where it's going now but and you know this and knew this there is no way back now even if you lie to your friends. You are going down the laddders of life going down deeply and sinking down the ocean till you reach the bottom and when you reach the bottom and you can breath underwaterish air oxygen into your lungs so that you do not die right there then and now but rather live on and go on with your journey of which there is no return and you knew it and you walk down the ocean line with many of the fishes accoampnying you with their goldenbred silky eyes and their o-mouths ringing you to readjust your purpose but you walk and walk walking deeper down the ocean line. Walking the line and singing the son of rararara rararara. walking the ocean line till no more sky is there mr. gentleman walking it with 2 feet firmly on the groun despite of no gravity inside the water. And why is it that you are doing this asks you a homeless man sitting on the street and having written on a pape mache that he needs some money to survive the colderness of the winter then you lock him in the eyes with your eyes and glimmers of hostility but you say Yes. You say YES to everything in live you say. "I say YES to everything in live. that is why my good friend" handing him 2 dollari for food while saying so and smiling genuinely bigly and wide open smiles on your face and in your eyes and you ears. "I'm walking the straight and narrow path" exclaiming to him but you don't know what it means. "The straight and narrow path? Do you have a conscience?" he asks you eating the 2 dollari which makes you really think. You mean that tiny nagging voice, he asks him and you say: Yes my friend. The tiny nagging voice which nobody is listening to anymore. All the people do is palaver, palaver, palaver but they go get em, they always go get em and the rat pulls the cats tail while cat sleeps but cat go get em, they always be go get em when palaver is done says the homeless man. And you laugh from the depths of your stomach into the clear blue sky just there above you like a raven, like a ra-ven: Ra Ra Ra. and walk on for you walk the straight and narrow path. Hell it's time to say good bye to this rotten city which you will leave now foreverial. Rarara. Good bye my friends you say when you reach the home of your friends and they say: You were a troublemaker but we are missing you even now that you stand before us! they say and tears are being shed. "Time to say goodbye" you whisper, time to say goodbye to you my rotten city, you ugly stinking swamp. too much palaver in this city, you think. "I will be going" you say and exchange hugs like a firm tree with those who showed kindness to your heart and said:"Yes." to your existance. Waka waka though, you think and get into the train 1 hour later. Rarara. Hello new life, you write into the toilet stall and read the

[Anonymous No.10622074]

>>10617672

Kys you literal subhuman. You don't *need* to hit anyone unless you're a psychopath with 0 social skills

[Anonymous No.10622090]

oh the people laughs hehee they laghs at the midget in the middle of delia plaza standing there with miserability in his eyes and the tears welling down the litle midget the little midget thinking: Time to say good bye to this city of the rotten hearts, you say the midget says to himself with miserability in is heart but it has been planted there by te people of the city splurging their seed of miserablity in his heart every day he who stans on delia plaza just as a midget and nothing more even without a name for midgets don't need names all they need is their height of their body and when they get cast in the movies the movie description says: ugly little midget bastard creature to be played by midget please apply for casting at this email: [email adress] and this is all you will get and your humor oh no no no shenshema my friend your humor is humor of midgets and the laughter is always even just a tiny little bit aimed at your very existance for your midget existance is a joke, my friend. And you have heard it so many times in your little midget ear exclaiming: Your very existanc is a joke to me, me who i am tal, very tal reaching upwards into the skies and talking with the low flying sparrows when the rain is coming then walking fastly on my tree trunk legs into the house which i have built with my very strong arms right then and there and being protected from the rains being sent to us by the gods, the gods who sed rain and they sed thunder, they send amore y muerto but you my little midget you will always stand in the centre of delia plaza and your heart will be rotten for the rottenness of your existance as a joke, my friend. They say to the midget who stans in delia plaza and is ready to say goodbye right then and there and walk into the deep forests and so he does. Oh so he does then and there, and says: Good bye men and woman. Saysin goodbye to them and he waders off on his miget legs, not like real person but with slow and akward steps and shufling and hufing for it is hard to be a midget that waks til he has left the city and laughter was raise in the hearts of the ppl who saw him waking but that does no longer matter, says the midget. rarara. No more palaver, says the midget who is now in the forest and wak alongside the birds who do not know what a midget is. The birds sing Ra Ra Ra Ra. And the little midget looks into their eyes testing ther sincerity and fulnes of hearts. "Trouble sleeps in this forest" says the forest to the midget. And the midget melts into a puddle right there and then, going "ah". Yes, say the midget to the fores. and gets up. Do you know who i am, asks the midget. "No, i do not know" says the bird and goes Ra Ra Ra Ra. Ah, says the midget and melts down to the ground and then gets up wiping the sweat of it's brows. Now there are dears watching and foxes too as the midget talks to the bird. "And do you know why the clouds laugh?" asks the midget. "The clouds laugh because they know time. Palaver." says the bird

[Anonymous No.10622094]

>>10622074
somebody clearly hasn't read russian literature

[Anonymous No.10622103]

>>10617645
She encourages it and loves and supports my passion. But, as much as I am fine with spending half an hour watching her look through clothes, I don't want her to be bored when I browse bookshops so generally shop alone. I don't like to bother or bore people in that respect and she gets annoyed at that.

Shes not a massive reader. Which is a shame because shes a monstrous speed reader too.

[Anonymous No.10622138]

>>10617645
>tfw no gf
books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.10622171]

>>10617645
I've had three months of that companionship in my 26 years. In the letter that came with my Christmas gift the same year she told me how much she enjoyed the autumn we had together. Whenever we were apart during that time I failed to picture a future for us, and that failure expressed itself as a wish to gently reject her and stop wasting her time. In the end she was the one who did it, the sex and intimacy was too high a price to pay for alleviating my conscience. I want her back, but I know it's just my loneliness speaking, there's still no future for us.

If I ever get a gf I like to think she'd be similar to me, that we'd read together and tease eachother for our pretensions.

[Anonymous No.10622262]

>>10617672
> being this socially incompetent

Glad to see you voluntarily agreed to never reproduce.

[Anonymous No.10622266]

>>10617767
> distracting people while they read

That's what we call a "dick move."

[Anonymous No.10622273]

>>10618710
> talking about girlfriends
> is gay

Found the "no kiss zone"

[Anonymous No.10622277]

>>10619043
What the fuck is Chuck Tingle really a doctor or what

Also never buy ebooks from humble bundle.

[Anonymous No.10622282]

>>10620906
> likes Austen and William Goldman
> typical

Nah dude, she sounds kinda cool. All the best to you both

[Anonymous No.10622287]

>>10622074
t. soyboy numale cuck

[Anonymous No.10622291]

>>10622262

[Anonymous No.10622292]

>>10621933
That's nothing dude, buckle up.

> college, around 2009
> meet a girl who's fun, reads a lot, helps me out of my shell quite a bit
> we hang out a lot, first girl I've ever done this with so not sure what the protocols are or whatever, that socially retarded that I can't see that she likes me
> she messages me online once and says "I really like you, anon" shortly followed afterwards with "Haha I'm kidding I joke about that with everyone t b h haha"
> pin drops and I think she likes me
> next week she's parading around how she just discovered she's a lesbian
> "o-oh ok..."
> week afterwards she gets a boyfriend

Not quite put myself out there ever since. Probably read more to compensate for lack of success with women (women have flirted with me plenty of times but I rarely have the confidence to ask them out and they're not so fond of making the first move either, so I tend to bond with a woman who clearly likes me in that way but it never goes beyond a 2 month friendship). I've found a feeling of comfort with the more I read though and I'm more comfortable with myself living quietly alone.

[Anonymous No.10622296]

>>10622262

[Anonymous No.10622399]

>>10617843
20

[Anonymous No.10622543]

>>10617645
ur implying a lot of things there bucko

[Anonymous No.10622548]

>>10621933
Admitting you're interested in finding a partner won't damage your relationship to her and if she someday change her mind she'll know you're an alternative.

[Anonymous No.10622561]

>>10622548
lol nah dude doomed himself. she reconnected with him while single and talked about things she knew he liked as opposed to herself practically begging to be asked out romantically and our robofriends processors shut down, hope has abandoned him

[Anonymous No.10622568]

>>10617708
NEW SINCERITIED

[Anonymous No.10622572]

>>10622282
Thanks brudi

[Anonymous No.10623320]

>>10621880
Why not do both at the same time, anon?

[Anonymous No.10623360]

>decide with gf to go to beach to have a picnic then read in the sun
>she has something to say every 5 minutes

[Anonymous No.10623369]

>>10623360
that's why I read and study alone.

[Anonymous No.10623383]

>>10617645
Who drew this?

[Anonymous No.10624166]

>>10617645
BUT I HAVE NO GF
STOOOOP KILLING ME THEEEERE

[Anonymous No.10624174]

My girlfriend always gives me shit cause she says I fill my head with a lot of random facts and research when I should be 100% dedicating my studies to my specific major

But fuck that I want to learn as much as I can about everything

[Anonymous No.10624795]

>>10624174
> bad boyim needs to spend less time learning about the world and needs to spend more time on his major
> goooood boyyyyy yes make loads of money for me in your STEM degree you hate
> yes boyim you can cum in me today I swear it's safe

[Anonymous No.10624811]

>>10624795
this is gross, anon