/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13822870]

hey. /fa/ here
i've decided that i'm going to adopt the dark academic look. i haven't read a book in almost a decade and reading is pretty gay but I want my mind to fit the look i'm going for too.

what books do I read for dark academia? also if I wanted to become a history buff, what's an interesting society/people I could become obsessed with? (european and east asian only, though)

[Anonymous No.13822897]

Reading for aesthetics is laughable. However, if you want to impress random teenage girls through books, go read Burgess and Mary Shelley. If you want to impress "scholars", no reading short of a decade will. Also, the aesthetic you're going for is just glorified e-boy.

[Anonymous No.13822906]

>>13822870
For your aesthetic, read Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History.'

For your history, start with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.13823014]

Keep a copy of Infinite Jest on your desk. Anytime someone asks about it, get deuchy and mysterious and pretend it taught you everything you ever know. Replace with whatever flavor of the month comes next, will probably happen at the beginning of the next academic semester in the us.
Read Shelley and Ellis, emulate everything, and absolutely under no circumstances are you to have an air of self-awareness, that'll ruin the whole thing.
Pick up copies of Stephen King's It and The Shining. Never read them, but keep bookmarks stuck somewhere in the back third.
Grab a copy of Kafka's complete works, pour coffee on it and let it dry in the window.
Grab some Lovecraft short story collections and lay them haphazardly on your coffee table.
Boom, you're now the epitome of dark /lit/

[Anonymous No.13823191]

>>13823014
>Infinite Jest
stopped reading here

[Anonymous No.13823220]

>>13822870
Keep your forced memes on /fa/ please.

[Anonymous No.13823236]

>>13822870
I saw this same pic in a post a few days ago.

Shit bait. Try again in a month when everybody already forgot this thing exists.

[Anonymous No.13823241]

>>13822870
your mistake is thinking someone who is actually an academic would be some mopey loser in androgynous clothes.

actual philosophers recognize their obligation to the world and are too busy in that work to entertain frivolous things like cultivating a personal image. you are a midwit. you can begin to do better by reading a book.

[Anonymous No.13823318]

>>13823241
>actual philosophers recognize their obligation to the world and are too busy in that work to entertain frivolous things like cultivating a personal image
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
*breaths in*
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

oh to be 19 again

[Anonymous No.13823326]

>>13823191
>stopped reading
This is your brain on DFW. Don't let it happen to your family.

[Anonymous No.13823336]

>>13823318
i'm sorry you don't know any actual philosophers anon. it's too bad your professors are all pseuds. you should transfer to a real college.

[Anonymous No.13823338]

>>13822870
>reading is pretty gay
Does a single anon on here actually enjoy reading? I have yet to meet a single one.

[Anonymous No.13823350]

>>13823338
No, I personally prefer getting drunk and yelling swear words at children in the park if we're being completely honest.

[Anonymous No.13823499]

>>13823318
t. retarded 20 year old college kid

[Anonymous No.13823522]

>>13823499
The irony in your post is palpable.

[Anonymous No.13823566]

>>13822870
This is just over-educated alcoholic, dude. Not a good look.

[Anonymous No.13823596]

>>13823566
>over-educated
lol what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.13823622]

>>13823566
>over-educated alcoholic
I feel personally attacked, I've never owned any of the things in this picture and I drink a bottle of whiskey every night while I pour over my postmodernist tomes.

[Anonymous No.13823745]

>>13822870
>/fa/
>reading is pretty gay
kek

[Anonymous No.13823798]

I’ve had a recurring fantasy where I bully someone who dresses like this.

[Anonymous No.13823809]

>>13822870
This sort of exclusive obsession with aesthetics absolutely tickles me

I'm so glad I'm not this shallow

[Anonymous No.13823825]

>>13823809
>I'm so glad I'm not this shallow
Whatever helps you cope with your own mediocrity

[Anonymous No.13823887]

>>13822870
not gonna lie but dead poet's society is my favorite movie
oh captain my captain

[Anonymous No.13823976]

>>13823809
Thinking you're too intelligent for fashion or aesthetics is peak midwit

[Anonymous No.13824029]

Watch "good will hunting" and think whether or not it is worthwhile putting in effort to become the blond long haired dude who gets pwned at the bar by the protagonist.

What you're doing is trying to become him. You want to prostitute being for the sake of having; you want to have an image of being, whilst not truly being. Instead, what you ought to do is become something and let your ass naturally follow it.

"Free your mind and your ass will follow."

Don't be a pseudo. Don't be a walking facts-mumbler. Don't use looks to fake a personality. Let your personality effortlessly express yourself through and beyond your looks.

[Anonymous No.13824070]

>>13823014
yep.

[Anonymous No.13824095]

>>13823014
*douchey
>>13824029
*pseud
>>13824070
>benzodiazepines
cringe

[Anonymous No.13824110]

>>13824070
On a second glance, the understatedly covered title of the Nabokov is clever.

[Anonymous No.13824112]

This thread is so fucking GAY

[Anonymous No.13824113]

Buy a typewriter
Buy a record player, buy a bunch of classical records that are kinda beat up but not too bad
Buy a bunch of old things that look cool but have purpose in your life
Memorize a bunch of famous poems by 19th century people from France, New England, and the UK
Throw out all your beer and replace it with red wine and scotch
The only authors you need to know are Poe, Shelly, and Camus
Reference Rome as much as possible
Subscribe to the Criterion Channel and watch everything ever made by Jean Luc Godard, these are the only movies you are allowed to like now

[Anonymous No.13824123]

>>13822870
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.13824135]

These faggotred hipsters and lesbo arthoes make smoking and drinking coffee look bad, I am considering quitting just because of them.

[Anonymous No.13824161]

>>13824135
>coffee
More like Earl Grey

[Anonymous No.13824277]

>>13823809
based

[Anonymous No.13824295]

>>13824113
you clearly have not read enough to make this joke

[Anonymous No.13824314]

>>13822870
You could’ve posted a gif of two guys 69ing each other and it still wouldn’t have been as gay as that pic.

[Anonymous No.13824337]

>>13824295
I thought the point of this core was to LARP as tropey eccentric from a cliche student film

[Anonymous No.13824370]

This image is unbelievably gay.

[Anonymous No.13824390]

I live near Yale and I haven't seen this guy outside of movies, I want my money back

[Anonymous No.13824633]

>>13823241
careful guys, this man has a No True Scotsman and he's not afraid to use it