/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6385740]

Library adventures
>homeless people go completely silent when I go past because they're not selling drugs
>looking for Borges
>some homeless guy asks me what im looking for, tell him "books" he says "yeah books"
>music playing loudly
>someone is clicking a mouse 2 times per second
>singing along with YouTube videos
>some guy is unconscious in the basement
>the ambulance showed up
I've only been in the library for an hour

[Anonymous No.6385776]

>>6385740
Jesus fuck, where do you live?

[Anonymous No.6385783]

>>6385740
homeless guy might have been asking genuinely

[Anonymous No.6385793]

sneak into a university library, fewer reprobates there

[Anonymous No.6385798]

>>6385740
hooo boy here we go.

>havent gone to the Main Library in years
>decide to go and spend the day remembering the hours and hours I spent there as a kid
>full of homeless people
>walk around the isles and notice this black guy is following me
>walk around some more and stop at the reference section because why would he go there
>the fucker follows me and stares at me
>I ask him "can I help you"
>"no can I help you?"
>super gay voice
>drop my book and speedwalk the fuck out of there.

never again fuck public libraries.

[Anonymous No.6385818]

>>6385798
>>6385740
Are libraries the new hot spot to go if you want to get laid? No wonder I'm not getting any

[Anonymous No.6385822]

>>6385776
Southern New Hampshire. Got a pipeline of drugs from boston

[Anonymous No.6385829]

I once saw a homeless man in my local library wearing boxers -- without pants -- during the cold of winter.

I felt bad for him and just ignored him. Though I assume he was dealt with eventually.

[Anonymous No.6385830]

>>6385822
O that looks lovely,your dubs, I mean.

[Anonymous No.6385849]

>go to library in winter to get something to read by the fire
> Homeless man and an elderly gentleman dressed to the nines get into physical altercation
the place is so packed with homeless cops cant get through, looks like a food line in a refugee camp
>old dude gets blood all over his 3 piece suit, drops his Louis L'Amour
>I pick up his book and add it to my list, before shuffling through the crowd to the desk
>Doris the heroin addicted librarian is having a nap
>I just walk out with my books and bring them back if I remember them
American Libraries in the winter are hell. seriously need to fix the homeless shelters or euthanize the homeless

[Anonymous No.6385856]

>goes to library
>starts reading

Seriously what do you guys go to library for fucking plebs

[Anonymous No.6385859]

>>6385740
The last time I went to the Library there was a fire that interrupted my ordering of a book on their computers. Some girl with purple hair would not stop staring directly at me during the entire fire, shit was weird.

[Anonymous No.6385904]

>>6385856
So they can be seen reading.

[Anonymous No.6385906]

>>6385740
my library declined service because they said I still had a book from like 12 years ago. yet I went and found the damn copy and showed it to the librarian but bar code was different. I want to fuck them over. anyone got any good ideas? maybe I can steal a book but I dont know how to get it through the detectors. do I just peel off the sticker sensor?

[Anonymous No.6385923]

This is hilarious, these sound like scenes from Confederacy of Dunces or something.

I'm always at my uni library which is normal and quiet and has every lit,history, and philosophy book I could ever want.

I stopped going to the public library because I have 90$ in fines and can't check anything out, but I just got a collections letter and might pay it off and start going back since they have bolano and shit I can't find at my school

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6385931]

>>6385906
Take a shit in a book at home, Title it "Excrement" and leave it in the library with a fake barcode.

[Anonymous No.6385950]

>>6385740

Can you use books as rolling paper?

[Anonymous No.6385970]

>>6385856
>see if you want the book
before the comfy chairs got bedbugs I made more sense

[Anonymous No.6385980]

>in the toronto reference library at yonge & bloor on thursday afternoon
>checking out some stuff a faggot grad student must have checked out of robarts until the end of time
>dead silence except for the dim murmur of whispered conversations on the first floor
>suddenly WELL TELL THAT FUCKING BITCH TO DO IT HERSELF
>IF SHE DOESN'T LIKE MY WORK THAT FUCKING CUNT CAN BRING THE GODDAMN TV HERSELF
>FUCKING *****CUNT******
>GOD DAMN!
>NO! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! TELL THAT BITCH IF SHE HAS A PROBLEM..
>etc.
>4 floors of people staring down at the guy
>he doesn't give a shit

[Anonymous No.6385990]

>>6385980
>yonge & bloor

[Anonymous No.6385991]

>looking for Borges
>some homeless guy asks me what im looking for, tell him "books" he says "yeah books"

[Anonymous No.6385997]

>>6385740

[Anonymous No.6386026]

>>6385997

[Anonymous No.6386048]

>>6385990
i admittedly do not know why i included that detail

[Anonymous No.6386060]

>>6385997
Why did that last line make me laugh?

[Anonymous No.6386064]

>>6385997
the first half of this was impossibly funny

the second was fucking gay

[Anonymous No.6386090]

>>6385740
>>6385997
> all this feel

>>6385740
this isn't mine but my sister's:
> be my sister
> be going to the library pretty regularly with the brother, as mother picks you up after school, because you live in an apartment and she drives to a miles away bus stop, closest one, zoned out but still in
> one day brother not there
> alone in library waiting lurking browsing
> boy comes up, says hi
> say hi back.
> boy asks if she wants to see something interesting.
> try to refuse but have very low self-confidence, wherewithal, self-esteem, external locus of control, etc.
> be brought by boy to the back of the library
> he's keeping a collection
> of
> dead animals he mutilates and dissects
> his hands are bloody
> he rubs his face with the blood
> stand there horrified and confused
> he jumps on you kissing you, rubbing and scraping his lips against yours
> blood is on your face and clothes
> feel disgusting/ed and ashamed
> run away
> become scared of the library

[Anonymous No.6386093]

>tfw I lack the grit to become the homeless literary elite

[Anonymous No.6386128]

>>6386090
maybe she was curious, but there was definitely a sort of demure and diffident acquiescence there that she emphasized to me as she was telling this story to me.

[Anonymous No.6386147]

>>6385906

1) buy a copy of a children's book (such as Winnie the Pooh)
2) insert innapropriate material (some nasty futa cocks)
3) leave it at the library
4) watch as your local library gets cucked by the soccermom hordes in a two or three weeks

[Anonymous No.6386174]

>>6385980
I seen a couple hobos in the same library have a conservation about how one thought the other had died and he replied that he was just in rehab. Then he went on to talk about how he made a ton of good "connections" while in it

[Anonymous No.6386271]

Nothing really happens in my local library. Yea there's a few homeless people but whatever.

However, one time there was this old lady with crazy fucking eyes perusing the film section. I was on the other side of the DVD racks observing her. She suddenly looks up stares me in the eyes and starts drooling uncontrollably.

Ahhh the library.

[Anonymous No.6387059]

>reading naked lunch highlighted all the heroin addicts in the library

[Anonymous No.6387077]

>>6385740
>ibrary

lol poor people.

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6387088]

>>6387077
>ibrary
You should probably make some trips to the "ibrary" yourself, champ.

[Anonymous No.6387106]

>>6387077
>ibrary
You should probably make some trips to the "ibrary" yourself, champ.

[Anonymous No.6387120]

>>6385849
Just put bouncers at the entrance and let the weather sort them out.

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6387121]

>>6387106
OC, pls do not steel

[Anonymous No.6387146]

>>6387121
Delete yourself

[Anonymous No.6387160]

>>6385822
Whereabouts? I'm in the same area.

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6387172]

>>6387146
I don't know how, philistine.

[Anonymous No.6387204]

are these threads just writing exercises or is america really this fucked up?

[Anonymous No.6387490]

>>6387160
Uh nashua. Going to penuches right now

Snapchat jimmy-topher

[Anonymous No.6387534]

>>6387204

This all sounds plausible. I live in a small city in britbongistan and the big library here has its share of sad old men and homeless. More old men.

>young lad at computer
>keeps looking around
>I sit behind him
>YouTube.com
>nurse role play .wav

At least it ain't those talks by what I assume are imams, going by the Arabic titles and beards.

[Anonymous No.6387647]

>>6387204
Nope very real. You should write real ones/use your creative writing and not tell us you're lying

[Anonymous No.6387667]

>>6387204
The homeless really do hang out in libraries here, if that's what you're asking.

[Anonymous No.6387675]

>>6386060

I also laughed too loud and then I wondered what the fuck happened that made me laugh

[Anonymous No.6387677]

Homeless are kept away from libraries by guards on my country

god bless south america

[Anonymous No.6387682]

>>6387677
That's fucked up. It's even less civilized down there than I had imagined.

[Anonymous No.6387703]

>>6387682

Fuck you you liberal trash, we are the last bastion of traditionalism, feminism is highly discouraged here, there are like two famous fags here that actually try to bring it as a topic (and they are self proclaimed communists by the way)

[Anonymous No.6387708]

>at the library
>get a book
>don't return it
It was fun.

[Anonymous No.6387711]

>>6387703
>Fuck you you liberal trash
>we are the last bastion of traditionalism
>feminism is highly discouraged here
>two famous fags

Oh my. The situation down there is even worse than I feared. I hope you guys eventually catch up the the civilized world.

[Anonymous No.6387717]

>>6387703
Are you Brazilian?

[Anonymous No.6387725]

>>6387682
>uncivilized
>providing gainful employment and keep bums from selling drugs and sexually harassing library goers

never mind the fact that libraries are mainly full of kids, or were when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.6387769]

>>6386064
it was feeld all around
>not appreciating the narrators passion of eastern philosophy and the way the homeless guy gets into it

[Anonymous No.6387770]

>>6387708
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.6387818]

>library in louisville
>leaving letters in library books
>grungy white fella with a raspy voice and a majorly lazy eye approacheth
>"hey want a tattoo" lifting his worn briefcase
>dont want to be rude
>"i dont have any money sorry"
>"hey i'll cut you a deal i cut everyone deals, got all my stuff right here" lifting briefcase again
>"no thanks"
>he asks a couple more times before leaving me alone
>feel molested
>regret not having gotten that tattoo for the rest of my life

[Anonymous No.6387829]

Why don't you people use the New York Public Library system? Sure, there's the homeless, but the libraries are mostly big enough to prevent the smell of them from taking over. Also, the NYC homeless are entirely harmless, in my experience. I love the New York Public Library system.

[Anonymous No.6387845]

>be me like ten yrs ago
>no computer
>need to do something with email
>main downtown branch
>check in, get assigned a comp
>nearby computer manned by middle-aged black dude, greying beard
>listening to headphones, giant smile on face, bobbing head vigorously
>kinda can hear song, glance at his screen
>live show
>Oh shit, that's Perry Farrell
>He's listening to Ocean Size by Jane's Addiction on YouTube
>He sees me trainspotting
>Smile and give him the thumbs up
>he smiles and bobs head even more vigorously.

okay, not that weird but he looked like he'd be into jazz or something.

[Anonymous No.6387846]

>>6387490
Ayy, I was born in Nashua. I live about an hour away now.

[Anonymous No.6387848]

>>6387818
You should had gotten one that said "oh god, what the fuck am I doing, this is a horrible idea that I'll regret forever. please someone stop me." No caps

[Anonymous No.6387855]

>>6387848
i should have gotten whatever the fuck unsanitary tattoo that guy wanted to give me. why do i have to care so much about dying, i should have gotten a homeless tattoo. maybe it could just have said "homeless tat" that'd be so coolbeans

[Anonymous No.6387862]

op, where in southern nh?
I can think of three off the top of my head you could be talking about

[Anonymous No.6387907]

>>6387703
Savage huehues

[Anonymous No.6387908]

WTF? Dind't know this about US. Here in Buenos Aires, the library is a place for reading, studing and sleeping. Homeless people have refugees or go to the Hospital. Though i know not all of South America has the same privilege.

Excuse my poor english.

[Anonymous No.6387913]

>library pretty chill
>aims toward local high school kids and uni nearby
>so lot of kids around playing chess
>some robot club holds meetings
>family movie days or something
>everyone super friendly
>or minding their business
>lot of kids dicking around playing games or youtube on the pcs
>small library so usually use catalog to order things to it for pick up
>just go in, browse new books, pick up my orders
>friendly with dude at desks even
>also neat new calisthenics gym outside
>thinking of using it after some asp thread on that stuff

Every once in a while I'll see what seems to be a homeless guy. Surprised there's not more since it's a pretty big ass city known for homeless and I'm hardly in the "good" area.

[Anonymous No.6387916]

>>6387845
Best Jane's addiction song ever. Well, actually it's between that and Ted, Just Admit It. God that band was awesome.

[Anonymous No.6387947]

>>6385822
They're your drugs, you want them.
Ehhh, you like it like that.
I'm from Boston.
You enjoy those drugs. Don't waste them.

[Anonymous No.6387959]

>>6387862
Nashua. I'm at penuches. Snap chat is in the thread

[Anonymous No.6387990]

>>6387908
And be charged a 1000 dollars a minute? Nope. It's free. It's has air conditioning/heating. You don't get asked to leave as long as you aren't being overly disruptive. Internet connection/access to computers. These are the only places like that and are ideal for someone with limited resources. I would even say they are meant for people with limited resources.

[Anonymous No.6387995]

There is a lady at my library whose only job is going around pushing chairs in and telling people not to eat there. It's a pretty clean and orderly place so there's not a lot for her to do I suppose. I laughed unintentionally when she came over to push a chair in half an inch and she's been giving me the stink eye ever since.

[Anonymous No.6388070]

>>6387829
Sure, I'll buy my plane ticket now.

[Anonymous No.6388091]

>>6385740
>at library reading
>work friend comes up
>oh shit anon whats up what are you doing here
>uh just you know, reading
>hah crazy
>what about you?
>just checking out some dvds

I don't know why he was surprised I would be reading in a library but he was and kept talking about it during the week

[Anonymous No.6388175]

Why would you read at a library? It just baffles me.

[Anonymous No.6388179]

>>6388175

it's for lonely people/homeless people/ people who need validation from their local social order

[Anonymous No.6388614]

>work at library a few years ago
>some guy comes up and asks me:
"Do you know where I can find the Panini Mystery?"
>"Oh, you mean the BERnini Mystery! Yes, I know that... (our country's title of Angels and Demons)
>guy gets mad at me

[Anonymous No.6388647]

>Foreign looking guy with crutches comes up to me while I'm writing an assignment
>Asks me in poor english if I would consider helping him type something, since he has poor control of his hands
>Bored with the assignment, so why not.
> He brings out a ton of old papers and documents from the municipality
>It's about repeated medical malpractice that he's endured, and he tries to get a lawyer to agree with him.
>The texts that he's dictating is all over the place grammatically.
>asks if it's okay that I correct some stuff
>No it's good this way
>Asks me to write that he'd like euthenasia
>Say to him that it's not a legal practise
>He says it is
>type some more
>Print it
>He thanks me
>Feel kind of sorry for him
>Some months later I see him in the library again, and he asks me to help him type something
>Doesn't seem to remember me at all
>It's basically the same text
>Thanks me
>next time I see him he's crutching around at another library asking for peoples help
>;_;

[Anonymous No.6388661]

>tfw your country is well-functioning enough that there's not enough homeless people to be a library nuisance.

[Anonymous No.6388664]

>>6388661

>paying for these people's housing, instead of having epic library adventures with your local homeless.

[Anonymous No.6388667]

Are libraries shit in the usa because of a lack of homesless shelters?

[Anonymous No.6388902]

>>6388661
>your country is clever enough that you exported poverty to poorer countries
Nice
>>6388667
No, it's the lack of public space. If you sit on certain benches for too long you can get arrested for loitering

[Anonymous No.6388925]

>>6385740
>>some homeless guy asks me what im looking for, tell him "books" he says "yeah books"
Bit rude from you tbh

[Anonymous No.6388940]

>>6388925
He didn't say it resigned. He said it lewdly. And he said "what are you looking for" like "you won't find it on the shelf boy"

[Anonymous No.6388950]

>>6388940
Okay?

[Anonymous No.6388967]

>>6387818
The homeless do this in my library. They quietly sit near each other and the one with the drugs injects them into the one without drugs. Presumably for a sexual favor later

[Anonymous No.6388977]

>>6387990

refugees are free here in south america

[Anonymous No.6388990]

>>6388977
So are homeless shelters but if they catch you doing drugs they'll kick you out.

[Anonymous No.6388993]

>>6388902
well I usually find some expanse of field to plop down on to read. Not exactly public or private (it's part of what used to be an old golf course, bought up for residential use, so.), but it's out there enough that no one will bother/see me.

[Anonymous No.6389060]

>>6388993
And you do this in the winter as well? Or do you go to coffee shops where people look at you like "wow reading what a ghoul"

[Anonymous No.6389074]

>>6388902
If the bitching about homeless people wasn't primarily done by americans ITT I would agree with you, but it isn't so I don't.

Learn2taxes and social security.

[Anonymous No.6389135]

>>6389074
Heyy unless you live in Russia or China your economic advice for a tiny country with an irrelevant military and economic impact on the world isn't relevant heyyyyyyyy

[Anonymous No.6389146]

>>6388990
mmm not here. They can, of course enter the public library, but they almost never do because they have better places to go to. How could you charge a homeless?

[Anonymous No.6389164]

>Go to the SciFi Section
>I'm the first person to check this out
>The CD is included.
>I have every ebook but one of my favorite Military SF series ever.
Thanks Newark, NJ

[Anonymous No.6389181]

>>6387907
Well, enjoy your civilization with drug-users abusing the library goers and causing trouble.

[Anonymous No.6389218]

>>6389181
>lives in a country with favelas
Yes we are the degenerates

[Anonymous No.6389236]

>>6389218
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.6389237]

>>6389060
well if it's the winter you also don't sit outside on benches. sure going to a library where it's warm and where the object of the space is to read, unlike my room etal., would be nice and all, but the closest one is too far.

coffee shops aren't that bad. I've read in them a couple times. it's mostly quiet, nice hot drink to keep me awake in case I happen to drift, which occurs even if I find the thing good/exciting, sometimes, and every one just keeps to themselves. I never really know anyone who goes there, anyway, so it's not like, hey, look at my intelligence, nor have I ever approached anyone in a café, knowing they know that I read (there are these things at the community college, signs, with big bold letters: READ TO SUCCEED, which sounds so infantile and elementary (i.e. something you say to those in elementary/primary school) and condescending, which seems just so pathetic), i.e. I keep to myself and to those around me that came there with me, i.e. friends who wanted to go drink a cuppa and talk and such.

it's those who want the attention we're making fun of here, and I'm not so full of myself to believe that my being in a café and reading makes me any sort of special, makes me worth anyone's time, makes me a person someone would want to approach and fornicate w/, etc.

though of course, there's a problem with saying things like that, in that ... blah blah blah

etc., and so on, etc.

[Anonymous No.6389264]

>>6387908
way I hear it you burn all the homeless to death down there

[Anonymous No.6389271]

>>6389237
I'm a little handsome so people will very quietly try to get my attention in cafes

[Anonymous No.6389275]

>>6387769
I'm certain it was made up

[Anonymous No.6389279]

>>6389275
And yes, I realize probably almost everything here is made up, but they shouldn't feel made up.

[Anonymous No.6389284]

>>6387725
I agree that there shouldn't be homeless people staying in the libraries for shelter, but that should be because there are other places for them and they don't have to, not because they're kept out by guards.

[Anonymous No.6389296]

>>6389135
We would also need a strong military if we armed everyone with machine guns while spending dimes on their education.

[Anonymous No.6389302]

>>6389296
Sounds like youre just jealous of our ability to kill anyone anywhere without trial or even accusation

[Anonymous No.6389306]

>>6389135
Heyyy If you live in a country that is dictating the global geopolitical and economic order, but still can't manage to have a functioning welfare system, regardless of using twice the percentage of your BNP on Public spendings, than what said tiny country does, your economic advice might be relevant but it's fucking shitty heyyyyyyyy

[Anonymous No.6389335]

>>6389306
Imagine legislating a country with cultural regions varying from the English countryside to Paris to the Khyber mountains. Since you've never traveled America (inb4 muh New York city) you don't really get it. Our continent is huge, and most people want to be left alone. I imagine you live in Lichtenstein or something, so you might have some trouble imagining a superpower ruling that intense variety. For the most part, people want to be left alone. The homeless have their own community, and hate intrusion. They've staked out their claim on the USA, and even with a massive social support system, they would still lurk around train tracks huffing jenkem and hooting at passersby

[Anonymous No.6389340]

>told i'm being kicked out of house for the day because i don't show emotion
>ok
>go to library
>read the oresteia
>write porn in my journal
>very peaceful experience
You guys should try living in suburban areas.

[Anonymous No.6389346]

>>6389302
yes, i also wish i could feel afraid of getting shot by the police or a crazy redneck at a supermarket, it gets very boring going to the mall and only being able to peacefully go into shops and buy what you want to

[Anonymous No.6389348]

>>6389340
>>told i'm being kicked out of house for the day because i don't show emotion

lel

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6389357]

>>6389340
>write porn in my journal

[Anonymous No.6389359]

>move to new city
>no internet week one, decide I'll just go use library wifi while I look for work
>lived in small waspy city most of life, then university town
>park and go inside with my laptop
>ask how I get on wifi, they ask if I want a library card
>sure why not?
>ask for two firms of ID and proof of residence
>what? Sorry, maybe next time, I don't just carry that on me everywhere
>walk to stairs to find somewhere quiet
>floor 2, mostly computers
>buying watching WWE in a tank top
>so much MySpace (this was summer '13)
>nope
>floor 3 looks good, find a corner near an outlet
>plug in, get to work
>coffee hits, gotta piss
>enter bathroom
>hit by a smell love craft would describe lesser other gods with, 180 out the door
>scared of floor two denizens, grab my things and head to floor 4
>piss, fairly safe
>see te janitor, debate telling him but decide it's better he doesn't know until he has to
>resume work
> blinds open and close automatically on large window wall for temp control open
>look out into courtyard
>leagues of homeless
>drug transactions, fistfights, dry humping
>it's a micro country, with its own currency and laws
>I'm fascinated
>watch and record notes until dusk
>girlfriend texts, ask if I made progress
>there's always tomorrow
>I am Darwin

[Anonymous No.6389364]

>>6389348
My dad also punched me for that reason. I just don't feel anger very strongly and he had issues with anger so we never really understood one another.

>>6389357
I didn't want to start reading anything else since I didn't even have a card. I wrote some fantasy shit with goblins in the cooking section. Nice afternoon - no hobos or anything. I'd go back there more often but now I live about 30 minutes away from a "nice" library.

[Anonymous No.6389367]

>>6389346
>mfw euros accurately describe America

👺

[Anonymous No.6389372]

>>6389359
Share your notes?

[Anonymous No.6389380]

>>6389367
American Tv Programs is what we are being fed in Europe right now, and they work in the same way those Nature programs did when I was a kid, or going to the zoo.

[Anonymous No.6389384]

>>6388977
>Refugees are free here
Slavery!

[Anonymous No.6389388]

>>6389367
>europeans think rednecks are the ones americans have to worry about being killed by

[Anonymous No.6389389]

>yuros derailing the thread pretending like the homeless problem isn't fucking ridiculous in britain and france
unless you're all swede cucks i don't know why you're choosing this battleground

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6389392]

>>6389380
>using the "different programming across borders" excuse
>in 2015
Are you literally 60 years old? No one's being fed anything anymore. You watch whatever you want, when you want.

[Anonymous No.6389396]

>>6389389
>generalizing against an entire continent
>cites two countries in a union as representative of the entire continent
let the patriotism go, murrifriend.

[Anonymous No.6389399]

>>6389372
Like any society, they form classes despite their apparent classlessness in our world. For males you would think it was size that dictated by the violence but drugs and/or wealth was the factor, with most brutes playing muscle for parties who operated in the shadows(of a birch tree) females, though 80 percent obese, kept a similar basic society role, clinging to a strong make and largely keeping quiet unless with other females. Female violence was the most brutal, and when both were obese, the most hilarious.
Guns and weapons were not found, I believe this do to high police presence, which acted as a large natural predator to these populous. Due to the smell of drugs when I approached for a closer look, I would assume there is a tacit agreement of sorts, a level of crime being overlooked.

[Anonymous No.6389408]

>>6389396
one of those two countries are where most of the yuroposters here are from

[Anonymous No.6389413]

>>6389396
>cites two of the most powerful and populous countries in a continental Union
did we burst your bubble don't worry the cognitive dissonance only hurts for a little

[Anonymous No.6389417]

>>6389399
>writing a top down description of the social structure and not specific instances of combat
You'd make a terrible anthropologist
Also, why are so many homeless women obese

[Anonymous No.6389425]

>>6389413
>continental union
>not all countries on the continent are part of the union
Lel,

[Anonymous No.6389426]

>>6389392
>No one's being fed anything anymore
hehehehe

[Anonymous No.6389427]

>>6386060
>>6387675
Same, wtf bros

[Anonymous No.6389429]

>>6389408
>he actually believes this
Sources pls

[Anonymous No.6389438]

>>6389372
>>6389399
Most is from memory, lost my notes in a robbery unfortunately.(note book I assume was not their target) I will one day do a day in the life story of a library dweller

[Anonymous No.6389441]

>>6389413
Every country in Europe hates eachother, been living in Wales for the past months and came from Portugal. I have so many bad things to say about the British it's unbelievable.

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6389446]

>>6389426

[Anonymous No.6389451]

>>6389417
They're sadly lost. Many were very one sided, the muscle was always well fed and often their opponents were malnourished and easy prey. The even fights always started with a few big punches, and if neither went down, moved to more of a grappling match in the grass, both seemingly understanding that if the violence was too open it would attract the law

[Anonymous No.6389461]

>>6389335
I get it though. But no I've never been to USA, but being a part of the European Union certainly presents parts of the obstacles with legislating for diverse cultures.

Never the less. Culture isn't fixed. The social democratic reformations of northern Europe was a big change in how things happen here.
And since you yourself points to the differences in culture, then what about Canada? They seem to have some parts of the welfare state pretty much going for them, and they don't even speak the same language all of them (I know you don't either, anymore). So it's not set in stone that the "american people" would rather be left alone. It's just as much a product of the politics that have been governing your country.
On top of that, yes, we don't go about trying to intrude on how homeless people try to live their life. Rather, the social structure of the society prevents our society from producing ever more Homeless or "misfits" that can't seem to find their place in the "mainstream society".

Anyway.

[Anonymous No.6389473]

>can't focus at home
>start going to library for studying and research
>people loudly taking to reach other, gossiping irrelevant shit
>middle eastern chick begins playing music incredibly loud in her earphones
>every fucking one staring at her
>she had this angry smug face on that you know she would start some shit of you told her to keep it down
>really starting to lose it
>40 year old clicking like a mad man playing fucking Farmville
>hippie looking douche watching Planet Nimburu conspiracy theory YouTube videos
>need to print something
>only computer with a printer is next to a computer for the disabled
>a computer reserved for the disabled
>walmart mobile she-beast stinking like acidic piss on Facebook using it.
>go back home, contemplate existence

I wish I was exaggerating.

[Anonymous No.6389482]

>>6389389
It's like noone knows flags. I derailed it, while posting a picture of the flags of scandinavia. In other words three social democratic countries.

No, we don't have your problems. And we don't have the working poor of Germany. But shit is that changing fast because neolib policies.

[Anonymous No.6389488]

>>6389461
>europe
>diverse
Heh

Nice shared thousand year history and culture you've got over there.

Canada has a good face, but gets more fucked up the further north you travel. Their population is lower, and the cultural landscape is less diverse than America.

[Anonymous No.6389489]

>>6389446
We've never been fed as much as we are right now. Those of us who live above it might have some difficulties seeing though.

[Anonymous No.6389505]

>>6389473
You say "computer reserved for the disabled" like it's a bad thing. Did it not have some alternative means of control for people without arms or something?

[Anonymous No.6389514]

>>6389488
>Nice shared thousand year history and culture you've got over there.

Dude what? I know it's called "The New World", but it's not like people were planted there coming from nothing.

[Anonymous No.6389517]

>>6388647
this is really intriguing.
i love people with fixed ideas in their head. no logic, reasoning, or denial will stop them from their goals.

[Anonymous No.6389528]

This was a couple of years ago.

>sweat for over a year on a shitty novella
>eventually say enough is enough
>put all contactable details in first few pages (email)
>get twenty copies printed with a nice plain cover
>make an ISBN
>drop at local library
>wait for any contact
>wait for any contact

[Foucault !!8WvUZxvX53M No.6389535]

>walk around in library
>woman sleeping on one of the benches, homeless
>There's a real terrible gash on the side of her leg (Flesh around it was bright red, it looks like it was open for a while, probably infected)
>talk to librarian about it
>ambulance comes in
>She doesn't have insurance or money so they're not sure what they can do with her

This was a few years back, but still. Shit.

[Anonymous No.6389537]

>>6389514
In Europe, there's a good chance that a persons family has lived in that area for 200 years. There's a very low chance of that happening in America. Your neighbors ancestors probably didn't come from the same area as your family. Our grandparents were told different stories from our neighbors grandparents.

[Anonymous No.6389541]

>>6389535
asshole

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6389545]

>>6389535
>They can't pay me for my medical expertise so let's just leave them to their shit
The fact that this has ever been an acceptable response is just mind boggling.

[Anonymous No.6389558]

>live in glorious europe
>go to library, pic related, designed by award winning architect
>no homeless people, the state pays for their lodgings using our tax money
>only cultivated older people and kids
>there is a public reading by a revered children's author to a group of kids
>some retirees are sitting in a another corner discussing stuff
>the newspaper room is full of people keeping up to date with politics
>i loan a few books, a couple of PC games and a DVD
>I drive home on the public transport I can use for free with my student ID

Life is good when your society hasn't been poisoned by Ayn Rand

[Anonymous No.6389559]

>>6389545
i think if they were under immediate life threatening danger they are required to do the work no matter what

so in theory if you have a cough you want to get looked at, you could just take a gun and shoot yourself in the stomach.

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6389566]

>>6389559
>the stomach
Seems a bit drastic.

[Anonymous No.6389574]

>>6389558
And what is the population of your country?

[Anonymous No.6389575]

>>6389574
That library is in Germany, 80 million

[Anonymous No.6389591]

>>6389566
>thats the joke

[Anonymous No.6389603]

>>6389575
>>lets make poverty our primary export!
Go to Spain or Greece and tell me how wonderful living under your iron heel is

[OSiRiS !OSiRiS3dfk No.6389611]

>>6389591
I don't think shooting yourself in the stomach would be worth the few laughs it got.

[Anonymous No.6389620]

>>6389603
It Ain't good that's for sure. Greece is leaving the EU in the next years. Germany could have backed down (or pay what was due for killing thousands during WWII) but they would rather have the problems that will come from their leaving the EU than a government they can't control.

[Anonymous No.6389673]

>>6385906
>not returning book for 12 years
>wanting to take vengeance on a library
kill yourself pleb

[Anonymous No.6389705]

>>6389135
Who needs relevance when you're happy and rich?

[Anonymous No.6389721]

>>6385740
Yeah man, some libraries cater to fuck faces. My college's library was open to the public and allowed anyone in.

I'd regularly see homeless people come in to use the bathroom, or if security was lazy that day sit around doing nothing.

A few weeks ago some crazy fuck stabbed a student and she was hospitalized. Now you have to show ID to get in.

Its like a different world now. I'm so glad my College stopped being an open house for the homeless.

[Anonymous No.6390655]

>check a Sylvia Plath book out of the library
>pic related
I still have it

[Anonymous No.6390780]

>>6389441
You can always leave. Stop whining or go.

>>6389488
You are clueless on history and indeed anthropology if you believe the British, French, Germans, Italians and even the Irish are related to such an extent that they can not be considered diverse but simply 'Europeans'. Simply because we're on the same continent and have interacted with each other throughout history does not make us culturally identical - far from it. Preposterous thing to say. Far too many Europhiles and clueless Americans.

[Anonymous No.6390817]

>there are people on /lit/ that believe USA is anywhere near as culturally diverse as Europe

[Anonymous No.6390823]

>>6390655
only homos like that nutter

[Anonymous No.6390839]

>>6385740
>senior year of high school has me at the local community college
>spend most of my time between classes in the library
>library is actually very decent with nice selection of books, comics (which is rare), and plays (also rare)
>Pick out 2 books, 2 comics, and a play to check out since I have trouble focusing on one thing at a time (if you want to know the them I think they were East of Eaden, Flowers for Algernon, Black Hole, Asterios Polyp, and the Cherry Orchard)
>bring it to the library check out counter
>blonde hair, pale skinned, skinny, and admittedly cute girl reading Infinite Jest running check out
>looks at my pile and says "wow you must read a lot"
>I reply with "yeah I do"
>She does what I think was some flirting and slips something into East of Eaden
>It's her number
>mfw I'm a gay

[Anonymous No.6390865]

>Go to Berkeley for undergrad
>Main Stacks is the cavernous main library
>A lot of nooks and crannies where you can go to be alone and not be distracted
>Go to the bottom floor in the corner where people can't really see. It's a great place to read and has a lot of oversized atlases that have interesting maps and pictures.
>Just reading
>Hear some footsteps, see a couple of people shuffle into one of the atlas rows
>Think nothing of it, go back to reading
>Hear slurping
>After trying to ignore it, eventually try to find the person and tell them to stop
>Go to atlas row
>See someone performing fellatio on a dude
>Person performing fellatio is an asian girl
>She's wearing a bald cap
>She's wearing spectacles
>She's wearing a beige turtleneck
>She's wearing no pants

I ran away pretty quickly after that. I could never go back to that spot in the library. I knew Berkeley had a fetish for Foucault, but I didn't think it went that far.

[Anonymous No.6390908]

>move to new town
>go to library
>just browsing new fiction releases because bored
>pluck out a book at seemingly random
>turn over--picture of my fucking mother on the back
>under a different name
>shocked because she never wrote anything and had no interest in literature
>even more shocked because she had committed suicide 15 years ago
>read through it, some story about a woman who is kidnapped by a foreigner who speaks no english and she falls in love with him, forging her death so her former family has closure
>finish it in one night, about 350 pages, shaking as I close the book around 2 in the morning
>get drunk and write an email to the publisher in an attempt to get in contact with the author
>black out, don't finish the email
>wake up next day and it all feels like a dream
>decide not to email the publisher after all, feel sick about it
>present day, 5 years later
>married my fiance, have a 2 year old daughter and she's pregnant but we don't know the sex yet
>mother has released two more books and I've read them both multiple times
>she's become my favorite author
>planning my own forged suicide

[Anonymous No.6390941]

>>6390908
I guess being a degenerate runs in the family

[Anonymous No.6390949]

>>6389146
do public libraries charge you to get in? what?

[Anonymous No.6390960]

>>6390908
>things that never happened.txt

[Anonymous No.6390976]

>>6386060
>>6387675
>>6389427
>the literature board doesn't realize they are schadenfreude

[Anonymous No.6390981]

>>6390941
>using 'degenerate' unironically

[Anonymous No.6390990]

>>6390976
I wasn't laughing because he killed himself, mong.
First guy btw.
Maybe it was the abrupt matter of factness of the statement. Out of the blue as it would be in real life.
Amusement at life's inevitability.

[Anonymous No.6391156]

>>6390839
>tfw no smart* qt library assistant giving me #

* reading large books doesn't necessarily make one smart, let alone that book being IJ, but it does indicate, if they do finish, and do understand, moreover, it, that they are willing to put effort into somewhat intellectual pursuits, which is endearing, and I'm more attracted to people who are like me, okay.

also
>tfw no qt gf I can talk to about books

for that matter
>tfw no person to talk to on the regular about books

>tfw only one literary friend

>tfw we haven't talked about books together in months

>tfw our 'book club' dissolved

[Anonymous No.6391174]

>>6385923
Fuck im envious of your uni library
I only have kids books, business and anatomy books at my campus because all they teach is education, some health sciences and a few business courses

[Foucault !!8WvUZxvX53M No.6391175]

>>6390865

My fantasy

[Anonymous No.6391316]

>>6391156
We ended up talking a bit about books and she figured out my sexuality but our relationship never went past counter girl and patron
I do sometimes feel bad that I didn't at least attempt to be her friend

Also side note: I hate my current uni's library
It's literally just filled with people studying so you can never find somewhere comfy to sit plus it has an incredibly impersonal feel to it that makes me avoid it unless I'm checking shit out
Also there are always Greeks there since they have to spend an hour a week at the library studying

[Anonymous No.6391377]

>>6389545
Only paramedics arent payed directly through the patient
theyre payed by hours
It would have been a dilemma for them because without ambulance cover, the trip to the hospital would have cost the woman a lot of money, let alone whats actually done at the hospital. By not taking her, you're fucking her by not treating an infection. By taking her, youre fucking her because of the massive bills shes going to get that she cant pay a cent of
Regardless, where im from, we dont care about their insurance when deciding to transport them to hospital or not. Must be different where anon is from.

[Anonymous No.6391545]

>>6391377
death <<<<< bills

[Anonymous No.6391577]

>meet up with old female friend
>talk about books
>tell her about book of the new sun
>we meet up again so I can lend it to her
>end up having sex
You heard it folks, the book of the new sun will get you laid

[Anonymous No.6391597]

>don't use tax money for homeless shelters
>homeless go to libraries
>the only ones bothered are nerds who are too poor to buy all the books they want
>less competition for upper classes
it's like an absolute win win scenario, things really worked out in the end

[Anonymous No.6391600]

>>6391577
And a library would had prevented that. I say we burn them all just in case.

[Anonymous No.6391620]

>>6385849
Hey man. I'm 26, I was homeless on and off for two years. I used to go in the library with my laptop and drink liquor, and read. Yes I would get drunk and read. I would also write, I enjoy doing these things. Yes that is a real picture of me. and oh fuck you man.

I've stayed in homeless shelters before. I've slept in a park bench, in between some bushes and the ymca building. No one every could tell i was homeless though. I blended in great.

[Anonymous No.6391671]

>>6391597 Hey, I'm kind of a nerd I used to be homeless


>>6391620

[Anonymous No.6391675]

>>6391620
I would absolutely fuck you and I'm a man, no homo. God you've got such gorgeous teeth.

[Anonymous No.6391697]

>>6385822
Alan Parrish?

[Anonymous No.6391723]

>>6388902
>getting arrested for sitting on a Bench too long

christ I can spend hours sitting on a Bench watching traffic go by

[Anonymous No.6391824]

>>6389388
>liberals in denial
Yep

[Anonymous No.6391862]

>>6391824
>Passive-aggressive posturing by a conservative on an anonymous internet forum

Just boring at this point.

[Anonymous No.6392118]

>>6390817
If you learn about America through methods aside from television you'd agree

[Anonymous No.6392247]

They're not homeless people you tards, they are respected cynic philosophers.

[Anonymous No.6392649]

>>6390655
>#sylviaplath
do you not realize how superficial you look?

[Anonymous No.6392796]

>>6389340
>>told i'm being kicked out of house for the day because i don't show emotion
kek. Seems bizzare but I literally know this bizarre feel

[Anonymous No.6393126]

>>6390941
Why? Suicide is a part of life that completes the cycle in art.

[Anonymous No.6393194]

>>6385740
Do all public library's have the same furniture guy?

[Anonymous No.6393211]

>>6387647
>go to library to get some books
>they don't have col49 or IV because someone else lend them
>get the the corrections and V and go home
>nothing out of the ordinary happens
>no homeless people in sight

[Anonymous No.6393214]

>>6393211
Be more active in your awareness

[Anonymous No.6393316]

once went to the library for a pop-history book - accidentally picked up the abridged version for children and found a rusty razor blade around the second hundred page...

[Anonymous No.6393365]

I'm thinking about going to a public library just to study.
I don't need the books because I've already bought them, but I can't study at home for persona reasons. Will they kick me out if I go there with my own books and notebooks?

[Anonymous No.6393401]

>>6393214
I don't live in a 3rd world country, sorry.

[Anonymous No.6393420]

>visit H. P. Lovecraft's grave
>get hopelessly lost in the cemetery
>it's getting dark out
>none of the watchmen will help me even though I'm obviously lost
It was pretty spooky

[Anonymous No.6393421]

>>6390817
Visit any large US city, especially New York.

[Anonymous No.6393428]

>>6389558
I envy you.

[Anonymous No.6393431]

>>6393420
>>For all that, he was never hopelessly lost. One cannot, on a clear day, become hopelessly lost in a cemetery. By its very nature, it will be bounded by walls or railings, and even if one trudges around for hours as Bjorn did, always there is the reassurance that sooner or later one will stumble upon the cemetery limits, at which point one need merely follow the walls or railings until one reaches the gates.

[Anonymous No.6393440]

>>6389340
>told i'm being kicked out of house for the day because i don't show emotion

Are you Asian?

[Anonymous No.6393442]

>Go to the library
>just a couple of old people and fellow burnouts.
>sit down and read in the group study room, alone.
>Two days passes
>OkCupid message:
"Hey man, saw someone walking around the library and reminded me of you. I'm the receptionist there. Do you come to the library often."
Fuck this boring, yellow, cringeworthy town.

[Anonymous No.6393449]

>>6393126
Careful with that edge, Eugene.

[Anonymous No.6393470]

>>6393449
My name is Alasdair.

[Anonymous No.6393478]

>>6393470
I was making a subtle reference to a prog rock staple.

[Anonymous No.6393480]

>>6393442
>not hitting on the librarian
What is wrong with you

Have you ever had a literary romance
They're awesome

[Anonymous No.6393487]

>>6393480
I got some stalker vibes from him. Like, "hey, I thought I saw you irl, and I remembered your face from staring so long at you on this website that I just wanted to tell you that I think I love you."

[Anonymous No.6393501]

>>6389340
>told i'm being kicked out of house for the day because i don't show emotion
That's what people tell me, but they didn't kick me out yet

[Anonymous No.6393806]

>>6385997
shit

[Anonymous No.6393826]

>>6393487
>All this insane reading into things
Not everyone has a shitty memory.
I can remember some people I saw once when I was 9.

[Anonymous No.6393900]

>>6393826
>saw
>in person
>physically
>who you met
See the difference

[Anonymous No.6394009]

>>6388614
lol

[Anonymous No.6394089]

>>6393900
No. Because that post said "i thought I saw you in real life"
What? You think people are that different in pictures?
Maybe that person saw a girl in real life, thought she looked cute and then saw her on a dating site later on.
Did you consider that? No of course not. It has to be a psychotic stalker who secretly wants to wear your skin as a meat suit.

[Anonymous No.6394217]

>>6391620
why were you so lazy you coudn't get a job?
why did you impose on other people your foul smell?

[Anonymous No.6394513]

>>6394217
> why were you so lazy you coudn't get a job?
I had a job as a Night Guard of industrial warehouses. I wasn't homeless due to lack of money, but because it was interesting way of life for a while.

> why did you impose on other people your foul smell?
I went to swimming hall to take shower and wash myself three to five times a week, m8.

[Foucault !!8WvUZxvX53M No.6394549]

>>6394217

>why were you so lazy you coudn't get a job?

Sounds like you've never been in a bad place m8. I hope you never do end up there.

[Anonymous No.6394568]

>>6394513
>it was interesting way of life for a while.
ah, I gotcha. you're mentally ill like most of the homeless

[Anonymous No.6394596]

>>6394568
>I went slumming don't you know it was splendid good fun old chap to see the way the other half lives and what all. I say I am frightfully grateful daddy let me collect wages from his factory I shudder to imagine what a dreadful predicament life would have been like without them. I might have had to abort the whole game and pack it in. All in all it wasn't two bad I just went home whenever it got too rough and now I get to act superior to people on the internet. I would heartily recommend you give it a whirl old sport.

[Anonymous No.6394693]

>>6385950

the bible is the best mate

[Anonymous No.6394705]

>>6385997

it feels really really weird to have other people post your oc

[Anonymous No.6394712]

>>6394596
>leeching resources from people who need it
Garbage

[Anonymous No.6394745]

>>6389558
>designed by award winning architect
>looks like plastic toy

[Anonymous No.6394751]

The old homeless dudes in the library I go to are pretty cool. I like to imagine they're sages meeting up in the temple of wisdom to counsel amongst themselves through silent signs on grave matters that keep whatever order's left of the world.

[Anonymous No.6394915]

Anyone know if I can go to the library with my own books and read them there?

[Anonymous No.6394931]

>>6394751

O to still find mystery in things

[Anonymous No.6394951]

>>6394931
This might be what they believe

[Anonymous No.6395010]

>>6385997
Yea, that never happened.

[Anonymous No.6395079]

>>6392796
They just don't get our stoic asses, man.

>>6393440
I wish I had that excuse. I'm white.

>>6393501
I can't tell you how to stop it from eating you from the inside but it will begin to. If you truly know my feel you'll not be particularly bothered by the self-destruction, though. Good luck going forward.

[Anonymous No.6395198]

>>6395010
Yea, you totally know, just like everyone else

[Anonymous No.6395638]

>walk into the library
>someone is using the one computer to play some bullshit by the Allman Brothers Band at maximum volume
>bunch of black people huddled in the sofa doing nigger bullshit
>old whites walk by and glower at them
>some guy gets arrested for rolling coal on a police car
>nigger has a chimpout and breaks a water fountain
>librarian looks at me like I am an alien when I ask her any simple query

Gotta love Northern Alabama.

[Anonymous No.6395806]

>>6395638
> nigger has a chimpout
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[Anonymous No.6395822]

>>6395806
> getting buttrustled by the word nigger>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tumblr

[Anonymous No.6395846]

>>6389620
>Tsipras apologist just fucking die

[Anonymous No.6395862]

>>6393826
There'sa guy who posts creepy messages about girls he sees at the Graham library at UofT on Craigslist. It's really fucking weird.

[Anonymous No.6395914]

>>6394712
Get a grip, money is all about that.

[Anonymous No.6395919]

>>6395822

Nazis suck cock

[Anonymous No.6397345]

>>6395914
>pretend to be poor
>get free stuff from the soup kitchen
Pip pip

[Anonymous No.6397397]

>>6393365
Just give up now and get a two hundred dollar a week job if you're so dumb as to have to ask this question.

[Anonymous No.6397407]

>>6394596
I love David Niven.

[Anonymous No.6397413]

>>6395638
The Allman Brothers Band is great.

[Anonymous No.6397555]

>>6389346
Why wouldn't you arm yourself? Stupid person you deserve to be afraid.

[Anonymous No.6397576]

what happens if you're reading something in a library and someone else wants to check out that same book?

[Anonymous No.6399723]

>>6397413
I don't disagree with you, but a library with only one computer is really not the place to sing along to Ramblin' Man at max volume.

[Anonymous No.6399750]

>>6397576
You fight to the death. in a specially constructed arena made of four bookshelves, you can use any book on those four shelves as a weapon, and so can your opponent.

[Anonymous No.6400006]

>>6399750
why wub woo, /wit/.

[Anonymous No.6400044]

>>6385740
Yeah this is all too familiar. I used to work as a page for a regional library branch near my house and I've done volunteer page work for another library. There's a lot of bullshit going on in there. It's not always as bad as you've described, but it's a whole lot of "can you direct me to Hemingway?" and homeless people.

[Anonymous No.6400217]

I once walked in on a homeless guy jerking off in a bathroom stall at midnight.

[Anonymous No.6400250]

>>6397576
You tell him that because of the Hegelian master/slave dialectic it will be better for you to have the book, otherwise if he take posession of the book he will not be capable of recognizing the fact that you recognize his reading of the book, because he is aware that you have not read the book and everything he could say about it could and will be interpreted as his own invention

[Anonymous No.6400254]

>>order a book through inter library loan
>>flirt with librarian
>>she emails me from her personal email telling me the book is in
>her phone number is in the email
>she's married but wears her ring on her right hand
Oh God help

[Anonymous No.6400268]

>>6397576
You tell him that because of the Hegelian master/slave dialectic it will be better for him to let you have the book. Otherwise if he take posession of the book he will not be capable of recognizing the fact that you recognize his reading of the book, because he is aware that you have not read the book and everything he could say about it could and will be interpreted as his own invention and furthermore, the praise of a non-reader of a reader has no value, thus no recognition, follows that proceeding in his doing will dissolve his being since such desire is the very essence of human existence.

[Anonymous No.6400279]

>>6400254
That actually happened to a friend of mine. He asked her out for coffee and she then claimed she wasn't flirting with him.

[Anonymous No.6400286]

>>6390655
Did you tribute it?

[Anonymous No.6400314]

>>6399750
>tfw 2 years since your last library duel

[Anonymous No.6401004]

>>6385740
This wouldn't happen to be the SF public library main branch we're talking about would it?

[Anonymous No.6401021]

Some guy at my library got arrested like two weeks ago for publicly masturbating.