/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2975063]

Hello /lit/, what are you doing right now? What is on your mind? Use this thread to talk about whatever you want, be it /lit/ related or not.

[Anonymous No.2975071]

>tfw no gf

[Anonymous No.2975072]

>>2975071
>tfw Pygmalion

[Anonymous No.2975074]

Posting borderline nudity

[Anonymous No.2975075]

>>2975071

[Anonymous No.2975076]

Staying late at work to impress my boss. Also because I need to do some work. Cruising 4chan is not my job.

[Anonymous No.2975077]

[Anonymous No.2975078]

[Anonymous No.2975079]

Taking a break from Invisible by Paul Auster. This is like the eighth book I've read this year with incest in it. Maybe I should start doing research into what subjects the book covers before reading it...

[Anonymous No.2975081]

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[Anonymous No.2975089]

I was editing some poems but got tired of it. I wish I had been aborted.

[Anonymous No.2975091]

Only recently got back into my bookworm habits. Planning to delve a little into philosophy, but a little overwhelmed at the moment and unsure of a good introduction.

[Anonymous No.2975094]

>>2975091
its called life, get one

[Anonymous No.2975095]

>>2975088
I said borderline.

inb4 ban

[Anonymous No.2975097]

>>2975074
pleb. would not fuk

>>2975077
pleb. would not fuk

>>2975084
pleb. would not fuk

>>2975088
pleb. would not fuk

[Anonymous No.2975098]

>>2975089
>I was editing some poems but got tired of it.
Okay
>I wish I had been aborted.
boy that escalated quickly.jpeg

[Anonymous No.2975099]

>>2975095
pleb. would not fuk

[Anonymous No.2975100]

I challenge the image-dumper(s?) ITT to find a picture of a beautiful young woman reading a great book that isn't widely taught in American high schools. Hard mode: w/ full-frontal nudity.

[Anonymous No.2975101]

[Anonymous No.2975103]

>>2975098
>boy that escalated quickly.jpeg

Is this some epic new le reddit meme or something? Because I've noticed it being said quite frequently over the past week or so.

[Anonymous No.2975107]

>>2975103
you butthurt that 9.gag and reddit are the meme inventors now?

>>2975100
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2975111]

>>2975101
oh yes. and she's reading it in French too. i wish i weren't so ugglly..

[Anonymous No.2975115]

>>2975101
Not bad but Baudelaire is actually widely taught in french highschool. Next step: same exercise with a book that is not widely taught in highschool of any country.

[Anonymous No.2975117]

>walking through park
>see this
>wat do?

[Anonymous No.2975121]

>>2975117
Turn your head somewhere else, pretend that you are looking far in the horizon and walk away.

[Anonymous No.2975124]

>>2975115

[Anonymous No.2975126]

>what are you doing right now?
It should be blindingly obvious that I have abandoned all hope of doing anything productive in favour of browsing 4chan. Prior to this I was playing my piano and drinking a measure of cognac (I now realise that as I am still drinking cognac, I have invalidated my previous statement. Is drinking regarded as productive?) with the intention of using alcohol to convince myself that my frantic hammering on the piano keys was indeed music, and wouldn't make the ears bleed of anyone unfortunate enough to overhear me.

[Anonymous No.2975127]

>>2975117
>become hyper-aware of your own walking motion

[Anonymous No.2975129]

>>2975126
Record your frantic hammering on Vocaroo.

[Anonymous No.2975141]

>>2975124
Good one. Care to try with a slightly older girl ? For those of us who aren't into five years old.

[Anonymous No.2975145]

>>2975141
Old enough to read continental philosophy, old enought for me

[Anonymous No.2975149]

>>2975141
>lolita
>taught in high schools

pick one

[Anonymous No.2975155]

>>2975149
It doesn't sound so stange to me. I once heard of a guy who had to study a poem about sodomy in highschool. And to make an oral review of it for a test. French highschool can be so fun.

[Anonymous No.2975158]

is it just me or does that say beowulf?

[Anonymous No.2975162]

>>2975158
It does.

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2975170]

right now im at work drinking a Premier Nutrition protein shake; im thinking about this fucking 30 page paper i have to write about on natural law as a purely descriptive phenomenon. I went on /lit/ and saw a suncock thread and i mustered all of my energy to resist bumping it. instead i posted on some cunts kafka thread advising him to start at page 1 and I also called him a faggot. Now I'm posting here thinking of slums in albania and about how my beautiful cousin is going to come to the US to study and about how I'll erode her moral core to a point where I'll fuck the shit out of her 3-5 times a day. Im also thinking about the apartment on the beach which will be mine for the next three weeks...thats pretty much it.

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2975172]

>>2975170

>about on

[Anonymous No.2975178]

>>2975170
are you actually planning on incest or just fantasising?

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2975193]

>>2975178

no, its happening. the chances are very high as she adores me already, plus the indicators of a...freethinker were there last time we met (two years ago, when she was 17).

[Anonymous No.2975196]

>>2975158
She looks too excited to be reading heroic poetry, I bet she didn't really read the book!

[Anonymous No.2975214]

>>2975158
I'd say it says Seawolf...

[Anonymous No.2975251]

i just would like to say that my penis has very recently stopped working and i will probably cut it off so how many of you would like to have it? ill just cut into peices and send it your way

[Anonymous No.2975254]

right now im just sitting in my dorm room listening to music. black sabbath to be specific. but my mind is wondering and doesn't seem to be present. but thats nothing new for myself. i guess that means there is nothing on my mind?

[Anonymous No.2975275]

>>2975193
That's disgusting. You're a pervert.

[Anonymous No.2975279]

getting high after the drug test, sad because my "friend" has started to ignore me and act as if I really bother him, been thinking about nihilism a lot lately also I want to see that new hobbit movie

[Anonymous No.2975286]

Life without friends is worth nothing, but everyone's friend is no one's friend.

This is too deep for me, guess where I got it from.

[Anonymous No.2975289]

I'm thinking about how I'd like to escape the life I've gotten myself into right now. This thought comes around every week or so. I work four days a week, go to a community college five days a week. I'm 22 and live with my father and stepmother, both of whom are laid back but have nothing in common with me.

I don't talk to anyone, I have no friends in this area, and even the friends I do see every five months or so have become less appealing. In my free time, I read, juggle and think about writing. My obsessive drive for perfection has given me a good body, nice clothes and a fantastic amount of knowledge. It has also left me utterly alone. I'm going to class in a few minutes, after which I will return home at 11 PM, read for an hour, and go to sleep. I hold on to the hope that there's someone else out there.

[Anonymous No.2975341]

>>2975289

Correction: I feel that the second greatest block to the life I desire (second to myself) is the fact that I'm living with my parents. In itself, that fact corrupts any desire I might have to go out with people, start an ambitious project, or be creative. I'm always well-liked in any social setting, including all of my classes. I've had many people invite me out to raves, bars and the like. However, that single fact, that I'm living with my parents, completely destroys that desire. Maybe it has something to do with a symbolic lack of autonomy, maybe it has to do with perceived inferiority in what I consider to be part of the kernal of my being (the "home"), o maybe I'm just a pretentious ass who likes validating the intellectual capacities of those I would associate with regularly before doing anything otherwise with them. I actually like people, if you can believe it. I would love to talk to people, share ideas, read and write and have great adventures. I hope some day that I will.

If these posts bother you, remember that they will be gone in short order, and so will I.

[Anonymous No.2975374]

>>2975341
It doesn't bother me, this thread is made for things like this. Just get your shit together.

[Anonymous No.2975383]

>>2975089

[Anonymous No.2975392]

>>2975341
Every 20-something male thinks he has to live in his own place. 100 years ago, nobody left home until they were married. It's a modern phenomenon that people move out when still single. Kafka lived with his parents. It's social pressures that are making you disrespect yourself for it, and 100 years ago, you wouldn't have those social pressures.

[Anonymous No.2975400]

>>2975392
Not the guy. I agree with you on that one, in my case I will live with my parents for the next 4 years and I have no problem with that. Even if I wanted to move out I couldn't, but that's not the reason I stay. I have all freedom I want, it's a bit problematic when you are 30-something and still live with your parents.

[Anonymous No.2975402]

>>2975374
I suppose that's an interesting part of it. So far as anyone else is concerned, I have my shit together
I cover my own costs of living entirely. I'm in college, which is a status dearly desired by those related to me, and some who aren't. I'm sociable when anyone actually sees me, and make sure to leave no trace that I'm thinking any of this. No Facebook posts, no personal notes. I make sure that I never complain to anyone (the post below you gives you a good idea why). I'm not sure I could fault anyone for not wanting to listen to this, or for finding it absurd.

[Anonymous No.2975411]

>>2975392
but of course in the past people also got married a lot younger and they didnt go to college so they were married, in employment and living in their own place by the time they were 20. you dont even need to go back 100 years

[Anonymous No.2975417]

Mostly I'm obsessively browsing /mlp/ and building/organising folders of pony pictures.

I'm not sure I'm very comfortable with the way my life has developed in the last couple of months.

[Anonymous No.2975421]

>>2975402
An interesting thing I see is that you're not making very many misanthropic type comments. You don't seem bitter, resentful, angry, or jaded, yet you then apologize for the same. Maybe there's more emotion deeper in you that you're not expressing? Do you hate people? Do you hate life? Do you hate yourself? From your posts, I see no reason you should feel bad about what you're saying. So, you don't like to get drunk till you vomit. You don't want to take LSD and go to raves. You would rather think. That's completely normal. When you get a little older, that's what everybody does. If you don't like the age group you're in, it'll change. So, what's the problem?

[Anonymous No.2975453]

I went to the doctor 2 days ago, there was that woman on the reception who always had a smile on her face. I liked that, people should smile more.

[Anonymous No.2975463]

>tfw contemplating, and wanting to go to grad school

[Anonymous No.2975473]

>>2975127
Why does this have to happen? I hate it.

[Anonymous No.2975494]

I'm supposed to write a two page paper on the word plethora. I have one paragraph describing its origins and its definition. Now what the fuck am I supposed to do? This is the stupidest assignment I've ever received.

[Anonymous No.2975824]

>>2975149
My high school teaches it, as does another that my friend attends. It might not be taught in public schools, though.

[Anonymous No.2975826]

>>2975063
Just got done memorizing La Belle Dame sans Merci by Keats.

Trying to memorize a poem per day for the month of September. It's going quite well so far, about 30 minutes for a poem of 1-2 pages.

[Anonymous No.2975839]

Contemplating my lack of real education since I'm homeschooled and freaking out about how college in the next year or so because I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.
Also I'm wondering why I'm addicted to the Internet and not reading right now even though I know I should be and I want to.

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2975843]

>>2975275

what do you mean by pervert?
is a pervert someone who forgoes the arbitrary hidebound rules of an archaic theological code, based on nothing but idiotic superstition? im a pervert for following my heart. for wanting to experience true love, as i thrust my very being inside her, dying over and over, giving up the ghost to someone who is genetically predisposed to understand me...no brother, you're wrong. for we're nothing but mammals.

[Anonymous No.2975867]

>>2975843
L'amour fait les plus grandes douceurs et les plus sensibles infortunes de la vie.

[Anonymous No.2975872]

Starting work on my novel. Getting completely shitface and am going to attempt to write as much of the beginning as possible while drunk. That is the only plan for the actual story itself

[Anonymous No.2975877]

Well, I've just finished Ender's Game.

I liked it, and I'm glad I waited.

If I had read it when I was younger, I think I would've taken too closely to Ender.

Now, I found myself more measured between the characters, and I like that.

Valentine was lovely, she really pinned it for me.

Then I was confronted with a strange compulsion to listen to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06KiM57Pvu0

I wasn't looking for it, but I found some strange closure.

[Anonymous No.2975878]

Only two weeks of high school left now, 2 weeks ago I was shitting myself about the finals, but then I actually got good results for trials, bar physics. So the shitting has lessened significantly. Just want this all to be over.

Also randomly started reading again, read Of mice and men and gatsby over yesterday and today, so feeling significantly pensive.

Thanks for the thread btw OP. it's always nice to be able to talk casually on the Internet, even if you know nobody really cares and there are people irl who do.

[Anonymous No.2975881]

>>2975826
Just out of curiosity, why?

[Anonymous No.2975888]

>>2975843

A leeeeeeeeemooooooon$$$#% what. was. that. you. tried. to. saaaaaaaayy.

[Anonymous No.2975895]

I feel like I'm beginning to see the limits of who I am as a person, and those limits represent the end of all possibilities. I can never be a person I will respect. And if I can't respect myself, who will respect me? I've seen myself through highs and lows, pushed myself very hard, but it's never added up to much. I know there are things that can make me feel better (love, recognition), but I also know that I'll get tired of those things really quickly.

My behavior used to be incredibly sociopathic, but I've cut it out and now I'm just bored of life. But if I was able to stop behaving like a sociopath without any great intervention, I must not have been a true sociopath. I've lost a lot of friends (due to moving/break ups/behaving like a sociopath) and have had a difficult time making new ones. I'm becoming obnoxiously disillusioned and bitter, but it isn't endearing.

[Anonymous No.2975899]

>>2975421

My only answer to the emotion question is "I don't know". That, in part, is why I lost contact with the people I used to know. I can't tell them how I'm doing; I don't know. There are very few things I can actually talk to anyone about. I will say that I daydream a lot and, when the daydream is set to music, it's always violent. It depends on the song, but it's always me killing/fighting someone or some group of people. Other daydreams tend to be about explaining certain subjects to people, having a pleasant conversation, and the idea of a well-structured day completely devoid of anxiety (not to say that my days aren't already well-structured in a sense).

On the note of anxiety, I notice that some days it's far worse than others. It can be a fear that there isn't enough time left in the day to accomplish something meaningful, such as reading a book (which will cause me to look at the clock over and over, losing more time), it could be about time slipping away from me (the feeling that I'm dying too fast and accomplishing nothing), or it could be about seemingly nothing at all.

[Anonymous No.2975901]

I start college on saturday. I am absolutely ecstatic about living somewhere else, meeting new people, and putting some space between myself and the people who live near me.

[Anonymous No.2975903]

>>2975895
Sorry that I cannot offer you real advice, but you should stop doing what you are doing.

[Anonymous No.2975904]

I've grown bored with rationality and skepticism. Time to explore a new area of my consciousness through the occult and eastern mysticism.

[Anonymous No.2975906]

>>2975895
What exactly does 'behaving like a sociopath' entail?

[Anonymous No.2975911]

>>2975906
Pathological lying, emotional abuse, impulsive behavior.

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2975912]

>>2975899

listen here, man, you must just let it go. disregard everything...life is but a dream. your problems all stem from placing undue importance upon an illusion. trust me brother, there is nothing out there but waste and madness. get out of the country, try the curry, spin the wheel...roam motherfucker...you will be found.

[Anonymous No.2975917]

>>2975912

no advice from a psychopath please

[Anonymous No.2975919]

>>2975911
But everyone does that, right?

[Anonymous No.2975932]

>>2975919
It turns out that most people don't do that. At least to the extent of making up entire histories just to manipulate people into feeling a certain way about you (usually inferior).

I mean, yeah, it's common to lie to a girl so she'll want to fuck you, I suppose. But lying to that girl about something happening to you in your past in order to justify some awful behavior or thing you said to her? Things like that just became way too common for me at one point.

[Anonymous No.2975937]

>>2975895
Now is the time to turn inward. There is still much to discover in your head. Being cut off from the rest of the world is a gift, but it's rarely taken as one. The sooner you learn to drop the past the sooner you can push the boundaries of your own thought.

[Anonymous No.2975945]

>>2975843

This type of justification has always amused me.

I can never understand who the show is for, the motivation always gets a bit foggy for me.

Culturally, moral precedence frowns upon incest. So, you'd assume that someone who engages in incest wouldn't put stock in the taboo of it.

But if that were true, where does the motivation to defend oneself against a moral code they do NOT subscribe to come from?

It seems infinitely more plausible that the motivation would come from a need to justifying the action for your OWN closure, as opposed to a genuine defense against the morals of a third party.

[satan !!ZzgMI/yuFmG No.2975953]

>>2975945

>But if that were true, where does the motivation to defend oneself against a moral code they do NOT subscribe to come from?

inclination towards promulgation...

dont shoot the messenger, im trying to help, etc

[Anonymous No.2975963]

>>2975912

I wish I could help you understand how juvenile you sound.

This persona you've put on fits about as well as a zoot-suit.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=that%20guy

I don't know if you're familiar with this colloquialism, but you're absolutely embodying it right now.

Please, just write like yourself. You'll thank me later. Sincerely.

[Standard Toaster !TOASTXbkRg No.2975985]

I'm killing time until the weekend when I can do nothing until the weekday when I can kill time until the weekend when my friends are visiting from Gainesville until the weekday when I can kill time until I go visit my friends in Gainesville until the weekday when I can kill time until my friends are visiting from Gainesville until the weekday when I can kill time until a concert I'm waiting for and then go to Halloween Horror Nights with my friends who are visiting from Gainesville and then I can go to the other concert that I'm waiting for.

[Anonymous No.2976129]

Well I'm torn right now. I'm in the final days of year 12 (Australian here), and I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to miss it. I'm watching Amélie right now, was reading Tolstoy's Family Happiness. I'm tired.

[Anonymous No.2976131]

>>2975945
dude, its not immoral to fuck your cousin.

its a bit more... inconvenient t fuck your sister

and of course bringing another person with any biological deficiency into this world as a resot of either is probably immoral.

[Anonymous No.2976157]

I wish there were some books about the Korean DMZ. Dealing with it's history and all that and not some guide book.

Fuck.

[Anonymous No.2976160]

>>2976157
Also. What is your favorite reading position?

I find "half-lying" in bed to be somewhat uncomfortable due to my windowpane digging into my head.

[Anonymous No.2976434]

>>2975129
>Record your frantic hammering on Vocaroo.
Hey. Sorry, I didn't see you post that. Here's me playing my piano:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0etauSUnd69

If you can play; i'm just playing a straight 4/4 using Am/F/C/G with my left hand, just 1,3,5,3 of their scales, and fucking about with their corresponding scales with my right. Forgive me, I'm just a beginner, and the audio is crackly because I have my laptop sat on the piano.

Yes, I know playing trance on a piano is a sin.

[Anonymous No.2976438]

That documentary is a piece of shit OP.

[Anonymous No.2977320]

>>2976434
I don't play any instrument myself I was just curious, it's doesn't sound that bad. Maybe a experienced player wold find some flaws, I can't find any.

[Anonymous No.2977327]

I just got back from a run. It's the first time I've done something to look after my body since my life went to shit two years ago, and I'm hoping I can finally become a human being again.

[Anonymous No.2977335]

>>2975095
>topless
>nude
>murika

[Anonymous No.2977358]

>tfw I've given up everything but the sole ambition to enjoy myself lazily

[Anonymous No.2977400]

>>2975904
Mysticism? It's just bullshit, nigga bitch
Go for surrealism

[Anonymous No.2977428]

>>2977358
that was too tiring for me. Constantly having to search for thing to entertain me or being inundated with stuff because it's all so accessible
I've given up everything except giving my life over to some other person or corporation. unfortunately no one wants me while I'm overqualified with a lack of experience for most jobs.

[Anonymous No.2977451]

>What are you doing right now?
Sitting in class, discussing people's papers.

>What is on your mind?
I'm contemplating my term paper, regarding the origins and legal applications (if any) of disgust.

[Anonymous No.2977454]

>>2977428
>that was too tiring for me. Constantly having to search for thing to entertain me or being inundated with stuff because it's all so accessible

That sounds like why I think technology and the Internet creates a difficult position for society at the moment. Everything is available at an instant and it creates a sense of apathy. I feel like in order to achieve happiness I need to limit my intake of things but in doing so I have to take the highs with the lows rather than constant middleness.

[Anonymous No.2977469]

>>2976131

You've misunderstood me.

Morality is a cultural phenomenon, so I was speaking from that perspective.

I have no personal objection to it whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.2977523]

>>2977400
>Mysticism? It's just bullshit, nigga bitch

3deep5u pleb lel

But yeah, it's kind of faggy to limit yourself to "eastern mysticism".

[Anonymous No.2977524]

im just finishing up my browsing, im going to play some guitar and maybe read, then listen to some music before bed.
way too much, lots and lots and lots and lots of small things.

i do hope the cute girl is in the coffee shop tomorrow morning. i wonder if i should take my current book (iq84) to work tomorrow. i do wish i wasnt in the middle of a depressive funk this week so i could get back to writing music. i wonder if i have any potential. oh boy, its almost friday. i have so many goddamn books ive bought and havnt read that i want to read. i could really do with a new bookshelf.

there you go,some superficial stuff. i dont really want to talk, i just want to listen right now.

[Anonymous No.2977534]

>>2977523
yeah you don't have to be in equador and taking an apprenticeship with a shaman.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16596099/Magic-Mushroom-Growers-Guide-ByTheMcKennaBrothersPDF
spirituality is within the personal universe. the only eastern book I read was the tibetan book of the dead.

[Anonymous No.2977537]

ITT: epsychiatrists

[Anonymous No.2977631]

writing music

[Anonymous No.2977667]

i'm thinking: damn it why do i always over-eat at night; fuck it i'm just gonna eat nothing until i'm absolutely starving again.

i'm obsessed with food, and that's the pathetic reality.

[Anonymous No.2977701]

>>2976434
If that's a jingle for a commercial you're writing, it's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.2978409]

>>2975071
>tfw gf is preg and doesn't want to abort it. Count yourself lucky

[Anonymous No.2978443]

I'm drinking green tea and hating myself over being a useless, ignorant, and stupid piece of shit.
I'll never be the person I want to be.
I make other people hate me so I can feel like my self loathing is justified.
I'm also eating chocolate chip cookies.
sage for self absorbed whining