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[Anonymous No.13099247]

Thoughts on upholding two careers and a girlfriend? PIC HEAVILY RELATED. Reading/writing and being in business (technical writer)? Here are two thoughts from Pynchon and Goethe:

Pynchon, V.
>She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop being a fraternity boy as long as he lives. But who still feels he is missing something, and so hangs at the edges of the Whole Sick Crew. If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever have been a line, or even if there is a line at all. He will learn how to be a twinned man and will go on at the game, straddling until he splits up the crotch and in half from the prolonged tension, and then he will be destroyed. She assumed ballet fourth position, moved her breasts at a 45 degree angle to his line of sight, pointed her nose at his heart, looked up at him through her eyelashes.
>“How long have you been in New York?”

Goethe, Wilhelm Meister:
>And thus the poet is at once a teacher, a prophet, a friend of gods and men. What! thou wouldst have him descend from his height to some paltry occupation! He who is fashioned like the bird to hover round the world, to nestle on the lofty summits, to feed on buds and fruits, exchanging gayly one bough for another, he ought also to work at the plough like an ox; like a dog to train himself to the harness and draught; or perhaps, tied up in a chain, to guard a farmyard by his barking!”

>Werner, it may well be supposed, had listened with the greatest surprise. “All true,” he rejoined, “if men were but made like birds, and, though they neither spun nor weaved, could yet spend peaceful days in perpetual enjoyment; if, at the approach of winter, they could as easily betake themselves to distant regions, could retire before scarcity, and fortify themselves against frost.”

[Anonymous No.13099256]

>>13099247
How the fuck do they do it? This level of photoshop is incredible.

[Anonymous No.13099284]

>>13099247
>She assumed ballet fourth position, moved her breasts at a 45 degree angle to his line of sight
This is hilarious if you know Russian ballet, she should have started singing I'm a little tea pot.
>>13099256
It's angles and posture, probably not a lot of shopping