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Literary confession thread:

>> No.5481131

>>5481125
Gibson is a weeabo.

>> No.5481138

I once schlicked while thinking of Zeeburg.

>> No.5481160

I skip every second line while reading. That way I finish books in half the amount of time it would normally take.

>> No.5481167

I skipped some of the sentences on Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.5481170

I think The Great Gatsby is pretty fucking overrated, but then again, I don't think that's a particularly controversial opinion on /lit/

>> No.5481173

>>5481125
i talk about philosophers that i havent read

>> No.5481194

>>5481173
That's par for the fucking course on /lit/, pal.

>> No.5481232

I sometimes don't read the entire book in one sitting and finish it over the course of a few days.

>> No.5481255

This will be my last post for a while, guys. So, here it goes:

Over the past few months, I have been experiencing depression-- at least, that's what I have been labeling it as.

One of my closest friends died in a drunk driving accident, which took me months to finally come to terms with.

That, along with my absurdly heavy course load, did not mesh well together. I began to stress out. A lot.

To escape reality I began to use 4chan. I really liked the format of this chat board; being anonymous made it easier to express my emotions.

I was never really sure what I felt over the course of these past couple months. I've never encountered death before. It really hurt me. It still hurts. I try not to think about it anymore.

But, however, coming here really helped me pull myself together, though it took a few months of shitposting to do it.

At times when I was just mad at the world, I would come here to shitpost. At other times when I felt alone and vulnerable, I would come here and poor my heart out.

I really enjoyed the poetry threads on this board. I feel in love with a girl last month who currently resides in Argentina. I would post my dismal poems about her on those threads just to cope with her absense. I don't know why I have trouble telling people about her. Probably because it's so dumb. She hasn't wrote me back yet. I'm still waiting.

I really enjoyed the discussions that I've had on here. Which reminds me, to the guy who discussed the Grapes of Wrath with me, you're a pretty cool dude and I wish you the best.

After weeks of posting on here, I slowly climbed out of my depression. It was a painful experience, but I'm glad that you guys helped me get through it.

Since this is a confession thread, I will confess somethings, since I'm just rambling. I hate the stupid hive-minded Pynchon support that you encounter on this board. I also hate the bull-shit philosophy threads. I also hate that most people here think that they are smarter than they really are. But that's what makes this board special, I guess.

This board, along with you guys, really helped me find myself. I realized that I hate what I am studying-- economics and math--and want to study literature and write.

I really had no outline for this ramble, but, I guess, I'll just continue until I feel it has sufficed.

Sometimes I would just lurk and laugh at some of the posts that I would read. There would be poorly phrased arguments with no evidence to support it, or there would be the occasional clever post, which would be worth the lurking.

I think that there is something that we all share, something that goes beyond literature; a common interest, if you will. I'm not sure what that is, but I just know that it's there.

Most of you all are pretty cool, and I never meant anything personal when I would shitpost or single you out. It all depended on how I was feeling that day. Thanks for everything, /lit/.

Your favorite trip fag,
vote third-party; zeeburg

>>5481138

>> No.5481274

>>5481255
See you tomorrow. You know you're here forever.

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5481282

>>5481255
You're a big guy.

>> No.5481287

>>5481255
Ayy lmao

>> No.5481294

>>5481255
>all these misspellings
>all these dangling prepositions
nice bait.

>> No.5481296

>>5481170
I think the Great Gatsby is underrated because they force people to read it in high-school and because it's accessible, and because it's accessible it doesn't draw attention to its form, which is prosodically, and in larger structures, extremely sophisticated. A lot of the descriptive passages refer back to one another (the drive through the waste and the drive up to gatsby's lawn, and so on.) It also manages to deal with both an extremely personal and universal theme, idealization of the beloved, while engaging with American cultural mythos, without one being compromised by a partial understanding of the other. But this is a confession thread.

My confession is that I'm extremely poorly read when it comes to the novel. I've only really read poetry.

>> No.5481306

>>5481294
how do you define bait

>> No.5481308
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5481308

>>5481255
>being depressed is a valid reason to shitpost

We're all depressed, get over it.

>> No.5481309

I was insufferable about liking Vonnegut in high school, and I genuinely believed it made me better than other people.

>> No.5481310

>>5481255
Don't leave, Zeeburg. You're an autistic shitposter but you're the funny kind of autistic. Not the sad kind of autistic like Feminister or The Cats. Your shitposting was always entertaining. You're my favorite tripfag.

>> No.5481312

>>5481255
Fuck off, attention whore.

>> No.5481314
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5481314

>>5481167
Me too

>> No.5481323

>>5481310
>>5481255
Fuck off, there's being sarcastic or ironic but pure shitposting isn't funny.

You ruined this board for a short while with your stupid threads and your constant derailments of discussion.

Fuck you, your character has been revealed by the very fact you chose to piss off others as a form of grief.

>> No.5481324

I have an English degree but have never read a book properly, skimming everything and more recently googling chapter summaries to fill in the blanks

I don't have the attention span for literature, but it's the only thing that brings me joy

>> No.5481333

>>5481324
what a sad existence

i'd recommend religion but you wouldn't be able to grasp one in its entirety

kill yourself

>> No.5481334

>>5481323
Zeeburg was a good poster. His simpsons threads always brought a smile to my face.

>> No.5481337

>>5481255

how pathetic

>> No.5481343
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5481343

>>5481255

Long live zeeburg

>gif related

>> No.5481351

>>5481334
"His simpsons threads always brought a smile to my face."

The point of the image is to relate to the comment so people know beforehand what your post was about.

Simpsons has no relation to fucking literature. Fuck idiots like you.

>> No.5481362

>>5481343
alpha
as
fuck

>> No.5481372

>>5481351
>no fun aloud

>> No.5481375

>>5481372
>implying shitposting is fun

>> No.5481382

>>5481375
Zeeburg's shitposting was objectively funny. All the other tripfags are just autistic and unfunny.

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5481395

>>5481382
>objective humour

caught you zeeburg you autist

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5481406

i think this is one of the best autobiographies of last years

>> No.5481407

I can't actually read.

>> No.5481430

Zeeburg will live on in our hearts.

>> No.5481474

I forget a book a day or two after I read it

>> No.5481561

>>5481255
I'm actually happy that your friend died.

>> No.5481707

yes

>> No.5481739

>>5481125
I've read 150+ books since January last year and they are all fantasy...

>> No.5483035

>>5481255
This can't be real.

>> No.5483081

>>5481125
I read books recommended by /lit/ because they make me feel smart.
>implying I do it to look smart
No, much like the underground man, I have no one to look smart for. I have no friends, and I live a lonely existence that's a tedious collection of hours as I wait to die. I don't really look smart to /lit/ because it's all anonymous. I'm so alone. I don't care anymore. It's so depressing to see that all my life has come to this. There's nothing for me to do. Nothing to hope for. Even now, I know that I'll come back to check and see that someone replied to this post, and I know it's going to be another futile moment where maybe someone says top kek or something like that. But that's all there is for me to hope for, a top kek on a website for chinese cartoon pornography.
>tfw

>> No.5483084

>>5481255
Godbless you good buddy, I hope everything works out for you in the end.

>> No.5483089

>>5481255
>I really liked the format of this chat board; being anonymous made it easier to express my emotions.
says the namefag

>> No.5483100

>>5483081
top kek

>> No.5483102

>>5483081
i feel the feels you feel

>> No.5483103

>>5483081
top kek

>> No.5483106

>>5483081
Nice blog.
>>5483102
You two could go to some gay place like /r9k/ and make a gay met-up to suck each other's cock or something. Sure there are more pathetic losers who give a fuck that would joing.

>> No.5483114

>>5483102
>>5483106
I feel like the three of us could have a really fun time having a cup of coffee

>> No.5483190

>>5483106
epic faggotry m8

>> No.5483216

>>5483190
>not wanting to suck a cute anon's cock
kek

>> No.5483230

>>5481125
I am an english grad.

But never read any hemingway or salinger in my life

>> No.5483252

>>5483081
top kek

Seriously. How do you hide text like that?

>> No.5483268

>>5481125
I read books just to be observerd by girls in the train

>> No.5483273 [DELETED] 

>>5483268
lol

>> No.5483282

I didn't like Lolita.

I didn't like Heart of Darkness.

>> No.5483287 [DELETED] 

>>5483282
never read any of those.

>> No.5483312

>>5483287
Do you mean "I haven't read any of those." or "Don't read any of those."?

You can't even sentence.

>> No.5483316
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5483316

The only thing that could even remotely be considered a classic that I've read is DADoES. I read hals of Robinson Crusoe once. The only philosphy I've read is The Ego and Its Own. I only speak two languages. I enjoy mathematics and natural sciences, and Carl Sagan is one of my favourite people ever. I enjoy YA and teen fiction. My favourite book ever is The Name of the Wind. I consider video and video games to be, not only an acceptable, but a notable medium for art.

>> No.5483325 [DELETED] 

>>5483312
the first one.

sorry, not very serious about this thread.

>> No.5483330

>>5483325
Nobody is. But you should still be coherent for your own sake at the very least.

>> No.5483342

>>5483252
FUCK YOU SPIKE DIES!

>> No.5483356

>>5483252
bracket-spoiler-bracket

bracket-slash-spoiler-bracket

>> No.5483372

>>5483356
>>5483252
https://www.4chan.org/faq
ctrl+f - write: spoiler

redditit

>> No.5483386

>>5483372
But that is exactly what >>5483356 is saying to do.

>> No.5483410

>>5483316
I have no idea how I managed to get half to hals...

>> No.5483476

>>5483081
story of my life, anonbro
top kek for you

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5483568

I spent the first six months of this year writting a novella about a terraformed Mars and the downfall of a colony there.
>Realized its cleché as fuck
>Love it anyway

>> No.5483572

>>5483568
Publish it and claim your Nebula

>> No.5483578

>>5483568
Is it any good? Care to post excerpts?

>> No.5483591

im reading eckhart tolle

and then im going to read james joyce

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5483601

>>5483572
I'm taking this as support. Thanks anon.

>> No.5483602

I care about memes more than literature, philosophy, religion, or history.
I only care about memeauthors and memebooks

>> No.5483605

>>5483568
kim stanley robinson, you?

>> No.5483609

I don't read anything written by male authors.

>> No.5483614
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5483614

>>5483578
My partner is reading it at the moment. In a nutshell there's teenage rebels, remimants of a lost society (made up of "space shamans" so to speak) and an old-god thingy in the center of the planet. About fifteen story arcs, takes place over two days and ended up being just shy of two hundred hand-written pages. It sounds silly but has its moments.

>> No.5483615 [DELETED] 

>>5483609
so you only read stupid shit?

>> No.5483622

On my bookshelf devoted to classics, there is an Iliad.
I've never read it until the last page, because I used to start from scratch many times; thus, I know it only until XII chapter, and then it is all anthology.
So it happened with Tolkien: I can read it only until p. 32; then I feel "sleepy" and cannot go over. With other words, I know by heart p. 32 of The Lord of the Rings.

>> No.5483624

>>5483615
Nope.

>> No.5483641

i don't like reading that much. actually. i like music a lot more and watching films is occasionally nice. i only read because of the cultural capital and cultural importance and legacy of literature. but fiction i don't find enlightening or that enjoyable

>> No.5483643

>>5483615
Its misogyny combated by misandry

>> No.5483656

>>5483643
two wrongs don't make good

>> No.5483666

>>5483081
ayy

>> No.5483672

>>5483656
Cis white male apologist detected. Come on what is it gunna take for u to realize they inherently deserve obliteration?

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5484071

My name is thomas
My name is thomas

>> No.5484108

>>5481125
Maybe more of a philosophical confession but:

I don't think "I'm being rational, you're being emotional" is a good argument, even if it's true. Humans are emotional creatures and there's no particular reason why a logically rigorous argument should hold more water than an impassioned one except in some very specific cases.

>> No.5484119

>>5483672
obliteration is the way of man, not woman

>> No.5484122

I feel like I can only write when I'm drunk or high

>> No.5484129

>>5483081
top kek friend, top kek

>> No.5484315

>>5481125
I'm a virgin.

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>>5481255

>> No.5484369

>>5481255
Cool man, happy for you.
But kitty is our favourite tripfag.

>> No.5486463

I read a book.

>> No.5486473

>>5483081
I bet all these replies are going to give you another futile moment of happiness.

>> No.5486495

>>5481255

>Over the past few months, I have been experiencing depression-- at least, that's what I have been labeling it as.

Well aren't you deep.

>> No.5487857

I never read The God Delusion.

>> No.5487862

>>5481125
I am having difficulties with reading more than 10-20 pages without completely losing my attention and abandoning the book.
In fact, that is exactly why I am currently on this image board.

>> No.5488364

I only read half of the first book of Dune. Hated it.

>> No.5489146

I read Flowers in The Attic last year and I genuinely enjoyed it.

I'm sorry, /lit/,

>> No.5489198

I never completed The Secret, there I said it! Come at me fags.

>> No.5489237

>>5481125
Most of /lit/ recommendations bore the fuck out of me. Hemingway is only worth it because of short stories. Nabokov often sounds like an edgy teen. Flaubert seems pretty overlooked here. GoT is much better than LotR.

Oh and fuck Finnegans Wake.

>>5481406
It was surprisingly decent indeed.

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5489245

>>5489237
>GoT is much better than LotR

>> No.5489248

>>5481255
you should be dead not your friend

>> No.5489268

>>5487857
⇒Never read the god whatever
That's how it feels not being american, I don't lose sleep over not being an edgy anti religious person.
It's usually said that post modernism is just the tail of modernism since it still depends on it to define itself.

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5489279

>>5489237
>GoT is much better than LotR.

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5489285

>>5481255
Learn to edit your shit.

Also, as a "girl" from argentina, tell me more about this. Which poems?

>> No.5489322

I plan on becoming a high school English teacher because I'm a failed writer

>> No.5489333

>>5489285
con 15 pesos me hago alto gusio, post feet
>tfw stole ideas from a philosophy book for an essay and get the best grade score

>> No.5489396

>>5483081
top kek mane

>> No.5489411

>>5489333
I rarely spend more than that to make a meal.
My feet are huge, I feel like Peggy Hill.

You can always steal ideas if you are more well read that the professor, but you're wasting the time to learn. What's the point? Showing off to people who will forget you as soon as that class ends?

>> No.5489421

>>5483081
top kek for you my friend

>> No.5489422

>>5483081
Being with people is quite easy if you calm down and try to talk at a normal pace about things they care about. I was talking with the dude fixing my ceiling about Aquinas just yesterday since he wanted to study for priest as a child.
The duty of the knowledgable is to share what they know with the people who hasn't noticed they'd like to know shit.
Or something

>> No.5489423

>>5481314
I laughed

>> No.5489453

>>5489422
bless this post

>> No.5489491

>>5489411
i did that as i last resort, i mean im lazy as fuck, surprisingly when i read it, it was well constructued til the closing part was a bit dull
post feet anyway please

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5489499

>>5489422

Bless this post. You're a good man, anon.

>> No.5489514

>>5489422
why would i wanna talk about THEIR interests? the fuck would i care about his peso-ambitions?

>> No.5489548

my favourite author is murakami

>>5483081
having friends is shit m8, they always want you to go places you don't really want to go to, and talk about things you don't care about.

you can't talk to them about the things you like since they're all disgusting plebs anyway.

>> No.5489719

>>5489514
Because a true intelecual knows how to apply his knowledge to day to day things. Someone interested in really cementing what he reads should at the very least know how to relate what he has learned to topics that affect other people.
But you don't have to express it, you can ignore all the same. The first poster said he had problems connecting with people.

>> No.5490774

Thanks for all the kind words, /lit/.

This is surely my last post. I plan on keeping a diary from now on. In fact, I came to the library to write tonight, but I forgot my journal, hence I am shittposting on 4chin. I'd advise doing the same. It will help you become a better writer.

I wish for the best to all of you.


>>5489285
It was too long to edit.

I'll write about another girl whom I am currently interested in:

Elizabeth, do I even have a chance with you?
I know you're older than me.
You must know that, too.
Will you be completely deterred from me when you find out?
I hope not.

I think you're absolutely gorgeous.
You're simply a lady.
You have a gorgeous smile.
I like your hair; it looks lovely.

I think you're a very interesting person.
I'd love to invest my time into to you.
I love that we play soccer together-- although, it's once a week
I love that your favorite author is Marquez.
I also like your taste in music.
I've been listening to your favorite three bands all day long.

Hopefully I won't keep over thinking things like when you hugged me before you left last night.
Maybe that was you just being friendly, or maybe you'd like this to go somewhere, too.
But, who knows.

I'm glad that you came over last night and hung out.
I look forward to attending your party next week!
I hope that fate will be kind to me; I'd like to have dated you.

>>5481561
pls no bully

>> No.5492328

>>5483081
top kek on you bra

>> No.5493768

>>5488364
Why did you hate it? I literally think Dune is the best book ever written

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5494073

One time I was so mad at my room mate, I masturbated into his copy of "Gravity's Rainbow".

>mfw he never noticed the cum stain

>> No.5494080

I only read the first book in fantasy series larger than a trilogy to save myself disappointment.

>> No.5494089

>>5481255
I know your feel, 4chan has pulled me out of a few ruts, as well
good luck and godspeed, friend ;_;7

>> No.5494091

I only read half the animorph books.

>> No.5494092

>>5483081
ayy lmao

>> No.5494098

>>5483081
You want to make a suicide pact?

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i smoke weed everyday becuz when im high im less likely to think about offing myself

>> No.5494177

I think Ulysses is the great achievement in literature

>> No.5494181

>>5494091
you piece of shit how are you supposed to know if Tobias ends up with Rachel

>> No.5494238

I fucking hate literature.

>> No.5494239

>>5494073
i cum like a fucking firehose
it would be dripping out the sides like putting too much mayonnaise in a sandwhich

>> No.5494294

>>5493768
It was well written, the plot is good too, but it's tiresome. I don't know why I couldn't bring myself to care for the characters.

>> No.5494307

>>5494239
Top Kirk