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7471817 No.7471817 [Reply] [Original]

The attached screenshot is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. I was wondering if you guys have encountered any books or writers with the same style. Please recommend.

>> No.7471821
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>>7471817
That picture...

>> No.7471825

>tfw he's probably still happier than you are and whoever wrote that just did it to feel better about himself

>> No.7471826

Utter Faggotry by DFW is pretty close

>> No.7471833

>>7471826
>Utter Faggotry by DFW is pretty close

There is no such book. I checked.

>> No.7471835

>>7471825
>tfw when you are the deformed kid and trying to feel better about yourself by telling us you are happier

>> No.7471845

>>7471817
>>7471821
Whoever wrote this is incredibly disconnected from the current generation. Children are no longer as heavily made-fun of for this kind of condition, physical abnormalities that is. Classmates would not respond well to bullies picking on him for his appearance, due to all the exposure and support for things like this or neonatal progeroid syndrome or whatever on social media and television. And we all know that once people stop laughing at the bully's words and even admonish them, the bully loses his/her conviction.

Keyboard warriors might fuck with him when he gets to high school but if trends continue there will be very little 3D abuse. And obviously there are still some school communities that, for whatever reason, will have students who prey on these weaknesses. But in my personal experience, this kind of thing is noticeably on the decline.

>> No.7471849

>>7471845
Regardless of the kid's condition, do you know of any writer that has the same style as this anon?

>> No.7471851

My interpretation of this is that the kid is getting dessert because he got laughed at extra hard that day at school. He's actually planning to kill himself after this picture and his last dessert for being both white AND deformed.

I'm unhappy, but at least I'm pretty good-looking. Even if that kid was happy at the time of the picture, life is going to hit him hard where there won't be any safe spaces or nice people around him.

>> No.7471856

>>7471849
try Reddit. They write shitty shit like this shit.

>> No.7471858

>>7471849
Social commentary in an approachable style?

Closest thing I got.

>> No.7471859

>>7471856
Where in reddit though?

>> No.7471862
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7471862

>>7471858
my image...

>> No.7471863

>>7471817
So you mean saccharine and really fucking gay? Oscar Wilde is right up your alley.

>> No.7471867

>>7471862
I showed this picture to my girlfriend a week ago, and she confirmed that what this anon said is pretty spot on.

>> No.7471868

>>7471833
check harder

>> No.7471869

>>7471859
You hopeless cuck. Anywhere. It's all garbage anyways.

Or go to a fucking bookstore and pick up something published in the last 5 months. It'll read like that garbage

>> No.7471904

>>7471869
people tend to call each other with insults that are true of themselves, so now that you called me a hopeless cuck, I can say for sure that you are the hopeless cuck.

And, how about you tell me which books are good to read rather than this shit that you call shit.

Pls respond cuck

>> No.7471906

>>7471845
i think the current attitude towards people like that kid is an improvement over what came before but it's still horrible, just in a more underhanded way

i can't think of a way of describing it but it's like when someone says to a fat person "you're beautiful on the inside AND the outside", you would never say that sort of thing to a normally attractive person, and in a way you're just taking jabs at them even if you don't realise it and earnestly meant it in a nice way

>> No.7471911

>>7471817
Pessoa

>> No.7471932

>>7471845
>Keyboard warriors might fuck with him when he gets to high school but if trends continue there will be very little 3D abuse.
>3D abuse
>Actually using the fucking term '3D abuse'

What is wrong with you

>> No.7471935

>>7471826
>DFW
Didn't this guy commit suicide?

>> No.7471947

>>7471935
DFW here. No I didn't.

>> No.7471952

>>7471947
>DFW here. No I didn't.
Please do

>> No.7471969

>>7471817
I'm disgusted with myself for not feeling real sympathy, for not viscerally knowing the presence of a human in the image on the screen, until I stopped looking at his right eye and mouth and looked into his left eye.

>> No.7471980

>>7471849
Nietzsche, once you get over the hundred+ years of colloquialization of language separating him from this specimen

>> No.7471981

>>7471867
Ya, so oppressive.

It's dishonest from our perspective but less overtly psychologically damaging. But young minds are so cucked that many are actually deluding themselves into believing what they say.

'Say it enough and it becomes true.' - Conor McGregor

>> No.7471982

>>7471817
>>7471849
Try some John Green

>> No.7471985

>>7471952
That's not very sincere.

>> No.7471995

>>7471981
What Conor McGregor says becomes true because then he actually does it

>> No.7471996

>>7471982
"The fault in our stars" isn't what I'm looking for. Thanks though.

>> No.7472004

>>7471932
>still living primarily in the 3D world

It can be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So, man is an individual only because of his intangible memory... and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind. The advent of computers, and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.

>> No.7472016

honestly reminds me palahnuik for better or worse but thats cuz i'm reading him right now.

>> No.7472035

>>7471845
As someone physically handicapped, you're partially right. I never got made fun of much in school and when I did I didn't care. What's much more affecting is the subtle biases and ways that people act around you in adulthood. You know that they notice, they try to make their stare subtle but it never is. They treat you differently. Never enough that you can call them out or say anything but it exists. I can't speak for the kid in the OP because my handicap isn't on my face but I can say for certain he won't have near a normal life.

>> No.7472038

>>7472035
>As someone physically handicapped
explain

>> No.7472040

>>7472035
I subtly feeling sorry for you.

>> No.7472051

>>7472038
I have a fucked up hand/arm since birth

>>7472040
thanks anon :^)

>> No.7472072

>>7471985


underrated post

off to an aa meting

>> No.7472078

>>7471817
Nietzsche

>> No.7472083
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>>7472051
I'm sorry to hear that anon.

>> No.7472100

>>7471817
honestly whoever wrote that in the screenshot is a moron. Sure the kid will get pissed off about it but if he kills himself or is that depressed about it he is no better than the people making fun of him, i.e. he is just as superficial. Anyway he will probably see a plastic surgeon when he is old enough and look just about normal.

>> No.7472364

>>7472051

Whenever I am interacting with someone with a deformity like that, I never try to be subtle when looking at it. At the same time, I don't gawk like a jackass. I just visually, wordlessly acknowledge that I see what's up but I'm not judgemental...just looking--the way I'd look at a typical person who had something interesting or different about their appearance (striking haircut or unusal sense of dress or something).
As someone with a deformity, does this make you more or less uncomfortable? I've always wondered.

>> No.7472394

ekphrasis?

>> No.7473167

>>7471817
You'll probably like the emotional manipulation devoid of any deeper life lesson that is John Williams' Stoner.

>> No.7473174

>>7472394
Not literally ekphrasis. I was looking for writing that is painfully and true, and does not take into account any social or moral standards. Just saying the truth about things, in somehow a sarcastic tone.

>> No.7473214

>>7472100
>he is just as superficial.
>implying constant negative social environments won't have severe detrimental effects on a person, especially if they're in puberty, while they're looking for and exploring their identity.
You're a fucking moron. You disgust me.

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>>7472051

>> No.7473233

>>7472004
Memory yes, but unlike our own. And thought no. From the way that I see it - we overestimated the value of computation rather than under. Searching for AI is like we're searching for and inventing god all over again. I don't think that we'll be able to invent god until we master eugenics, but that also might be a false path. Perhaps our species will live for a moment and pass away in time.

>> No.7473248

>>7473167

>devoid of any deeper life lesson

Just like life itself.

>> No.7473250

>>7472100

Yeah totally, dude, if being ostracised, laughed at and stigmatized has any negative effect on you, it means your superficial.

Bang-up job on the reasoning there buddy.

You fucking idiot.

>> No.7473323

>>7471868
I have been checking since yesterday, but still can't find it. Maybe you can share the isbn?

>> No.7473772

>>7471821
4chan trash.
>hes gunna get boolied and think f suicide everyday
Kek, is this what this asshole thinks every disabled kid does?

>> No.7473785

>>7473772
>is this what this asshole thinks every disabled kid does?

So what does every disabled kid do?

>> No.7473800
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>>7473248

>> No.7473821

>that /b/post
>look at how great I am for writing a short post about this kid I'm exploiting here
>>7471817
>an additional layer of un-self aware exploitation

>> No.7473906

>>7473821
>exploitation
its unavoidable

>> No.7473953

he's probably retarded with the mental capacity of a dog, thus no suicide

he should have been euthanized at birth though

>> No.7473958

>>7471932
>What is wrong with him
4chan

>> No.7473963

>>7473953
He is an orphan from Ukraine. His parents were probably a couple of teenagers who lost virginity to each other and the girls was impregnated, resulting in this deformed piece of human.

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>>7471932
>>7473958
hahahhaha

>> No.7474048

>>7471821
He has a chance of living a normal life through plastic surgery, right? It's only his right eye and mouth that is fucked up.

These are the moments when you realise how much the bad rep plastic surgery gets is harmful, in Korea this little kid would already be all fixed up and kawaii.

>> No.7474050

>>7471817
I'm not sure if we're done yet.
I've pushed her away, to the margins, using a bullying technique of guilting her into sleeping with me. I take the decrease in our coupling to being a problem of us rather than me. I neglect her and push her until she finally breaks and, sobbing, says she needs some time alone.

the physical pain of a seven year loss is tremendous, and each waking moment only brings to light the new loss of another small component of my life that, taking for granted, I willed it's demise.

I love you, Amanda. I'm so sorry I'm such a baby.

>> No.7474058

>>7474050
That was so shitty, anon.

>> No.7474077

>>7474050
kek

>> No.7474215

>>7474050
>I'm so sorry I'm such a baby.

Then stop fucking whining to us.

Terrible writing anon.

>> No.7474233

>>7471817
Ehh.

After that thread last night that tracked down the 10 year old cring pic and the guy turned out to be a musician fucking a black girl and collecting ceiling fans I have a renewed sense of optimism.

I truly think anyone can find happiness.

This guy will be okay.

>> No.7474241

>>7474233
Kek no it won't.

That kid later killed himself. That's why the pic is so feelsy.

>> No.7474247

>>7474241
So hes okay now

>> No.7474256

>>7474241
I guess.

Probably cause he took life at face value.

>> No.7474418

>>7471862
>>7471867
>>7471981

So what exactly is wrong with her thinking "hope I look cute like this"?

Isn't that like, basic human nature?

What's a lot more interesting, if you ask me, is how much effort that guy put into writing all that shit, when for her it was probably something fairly trivial.

Lots of irony in the air.

>> No.7474430

>>7471862

No one else thinks she just thought the guy was weird for wearing a microphone in the gym?

>> No.7474442

>>7474418
there's nothing wrong with looking cute, it's how she creates this ideology that the point of the picture was the normal guy when in reality she's just making fun of him as an excuse to show herself off because she really only cares about #1 at the expense of everyone else

>> No.7474456

>>7474418
also "isn't that like basic human nature" is a prime example of an appeal to nature

>> No.7474457

>>7472100
Wow, there he is. The dumbest person to have ever posted on /lit/!

>> No.7474463

>>7471817
That is the perfect example of reddit-tier writing. Glib sentimentality, repetitive, sprinkled with unneeded profanity.
If you are looking for reddit books, try The Martian or Ready Player One

>> No.7474465

>>7474418
"What's a lot more interesting, if you ask me, is how much effort that guy put into writing all that shit, when for her it was probably something fairly trivial."

Do you read books? Because that's what you do in books. He was describing a trait/type of behavior.

>> No.7474487

>>7474442
Oh so the claim is that first she thinks "damn I want to post a pic of myself" and then finds an excuse? I don't find that very likely.

>>7474456
It was a simple rhetorical phrase. Basic human nature. Something we all do. Something trivial. Etc.

>>7474465
I don't think this changes what I said.
Are you implying it's good writing or something? I doubt the author even made the conscious effort of making it high quality in any regard other than the quality of being misogynist circle-jerk material. I mean, it's /fit/.

>> No.7474499

>>7474487
What? You don't find it likely that the entire point of her picture was herself? Look at the composition of the picture, for Christ sake, look at her pointless face taking up all of the space in a picture that was supposedly about that guy's pose .. why is her face even in the picture? What is unlikely about that obvious display of ideology? yes and that phrase is an appeal to nature

>> No.7474512

>>7474463
Thanks for pointing that out. I am curious, what kind of books do you like?

>> No.7474521

>>7474499
>why is her face even in the picture
Because she likes to show herself. Problem?

>> No.7474529

>>7474233
>10 year old cring pic
What 10 year old pic?

>> No.7474536

>>7474430
big important bsnsman

>> No.7474537

>>7474233
>fucking a black girl
He was raping a child? Why did nobody report him?

>> No.7474543

>>7474537
Because the girl was black.

>> No.7474557

>>7474256
Now I'm feeling down.

>> No.7474648

>>7471817
Sometimes I wonder if our ancestors banished the malformed out of kindness rather than the presumed disgust we look down on them for.
A leper would be happier among those who share his affliction than those who fear and despise him.

>> No.7474667

>>7473821
This. We don't know anything about this kid. Maybe he's retarded and doesn't even get what happens around him, maybe he isn't but still acts as a dick and is mean to everyone, maybe he's bullied but report his anger on his peers and unfairly, overly blames his parents/friends/brothers. We're compelled to believe what the guy who made the picture told us since the picture itself is meaningless. It's just like those pictures with awesome descriptions, you know, like a guy playing at a fair with written “this guy spent more than $300 to get this plush for a boy with cancer”. I think those creators just search fame in any way and make up stories to exploit random pictures. It has been reposted on 4chan for so many years I don't think anyone could retrieve the true, genuine story.

>> No.7474675

>>7474648
Many pagan practices had a certain utilitarian simplicity.

Its only the 3 jewish religions that fetishize suffering.

>> No.7474683

>>7474667
> don't think anyone could retrieve the true, genuine story.

Here you go
https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/138if1/the_last_few_words_always_get_me_xpost_from_r4chan/c71zxrs

>> No.7474712

>>7474683
All I read is “I know him. His name is random, here is how his life is now”. How do you know it's the truth? There isn't a single, solid proof. It's no more reliable than the member who posted “tfw when you are the deformed kid and trying to feel better about yourself by telling us you are happier”.

>> No.7474724

>>7474430

That's the end of the lat pulldown bar that's behind him.

>> No.7474764

>>7471863
>saccharine

A most fitting use of this word.

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>> No.7474855

>>7474521
She likes to show herself under the guise of not showing herself.

She needs to feel superior to girls who would take a shameless selfie to show off a cute pout. Her deepest desire to be 'not like the other girls xoxo' exists in conflict with her need to show herself in a way that is 'exactly like the other girls'. So she must resort to setting up an elaborate scenario in which she tries to make it seem like a random guy posing at the gym, there is seemingly nothing wrong or strange about his pose by the way, is her focus in order to fish for compliments. She wants nothing more than to have people drop a 'btw cute face tho', 'looking FIERCE bay', 'pose? how bout dat pout bb', 'THOT', 'i wud bury my dick so far...'. This clash between a sincere belief in one's own individuality with the reality of one's own ready-madeness makes for a ugly little combo.

>> No.7474867

>>7474825
Anon, please where do I find more of these?

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7474888

>>7474867
no idea, I wish I had more like that. that one's just a repost but I try to cap posts I see like that. i'll share a few here I found on wizardchan. truly the lowest of the low

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>>7474888

>> No.7474902

>>7474867
Spend a few years lurking.

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>>7474901

>> No.7474928

>>7474902
Life is too short anon. I am willing to hire someone to hunt and gather these masterpieces for me.

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>> No.7474951

>>7471862
Is she aware how much her post's been picked apart on here?

>> No.7474953

>>7474855

You're assuming a crap ton of stuff.

I do not believe that this women put that much thought into that action.

It's something trivial, turned into misogynist circle-jerking by an audience that is looking out for a chance to bash women in every moment.

>> No.7474980

>>7471817
you mean basement dwellers who try to sound like they have experienced life when in reality they are just projecting their own insecurities onto anyone else they can find?
it's kinda sad how deluded people on 4chan are.

>> No.7475002

>>7474980
>it's kinda sad how deluded people on 4chan are

Anon, we accept you as our lord and savior please guide us the right path, and help us get rid of our harsh judgmental thoughts that are prevalent in the evil realm of 4chan.

>> No.7475118

>>7474951
Let's start a movement to get her on an interview to ask her about her true intentions when taking this picture. Maybe we will learn something.

>> No.7475293

>>7474953
I think we could have just ignored the photo the moment we saw it, but then, this wouldn't be 4chan

>> No.7475506

>>7474953
We don't always know why we do the things we do. Thank you for a whole lot of nothing.

>> No.7475530

>>7471817
What's so good about this? It's baseless projection of the worst kind.

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7475542

>>7471817

I really feel bad for the girl. She's completely healthy and has to live with/care for this abomination. Any chance she had a normal, happy life ended the moment that abortion was brought home from the hospital.

Fucking why

>> No.7475547

>>7475542
I feel bad that this is abstractly what I thought.

>> No.7475666

>>7473785
U got me, fuuuuu

>> No.7476780

>>7475002
it's less claiming i know everything and more how if you think you can find anything beyond shitposting and a feigned/warped understanding of the world on 4chan you're a moron.

>> No.7476788

>>7475542
we need to learn from the greeks that its ok to kill retards, forcing abominations to live and us to care for them is the worst sadism of christianity

>> No.7476809

>>7474648
ive never thought about this before - interesting anon

>> No.7476811

>>7471868
I laughed at this, you're funny anon.

>> No.7476836

>>7471981
"If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth." - Joseph Goebbels

>> No.7476840

>>7476788
Abominations provide jobs

>> No.7476841

>>7473977
>liking both
>not choosing one

>> No.7476867

>>7476840
But would they really want to work with abominations if they had other options?