/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7850544]

What are you reading and drinking today, /lit/?

Pic related.

[Anonymous No.7850569]

>>7850544
A Short History of Portable Literature by Vila Matas.

Vittel mineral water.

[Anonymous No.7850596]

Tfw quitting smoking and can't drink neither alcohol nor coffee because of smoking habits, stuck with tea

[Anonymous No.7850606]

>having a double-double from Tims and reading Windelband
>might buy a bottle of fortified wine from the wine store with the clerk who thinks I'm hitting on her but I'm actually just friendly and autistic later, and read Gramsci all night

[Anonymous No.7850628]

>>7850606
wtf is a double double

[Anonymous No.7850639]

reading Joyces Portrait of the artist as a Young'un

Im nearly halfway through and some priest is going on and on about hell.

Drinking Titos

[Anonymous No.7850640]

>>7850544
how bourgeois can you get

[Anonymous No.7850641]

>>7850628
probably a dumn british thing just ignore it

[Anonymous No.7850660]

>>7850628
standard serving method of coffee at Tim Hortons in Canada: 2 cream and 2 sugar. It's unpleasantly sweet, but THs serves cheap coffee that needs disguising in order to be drinkable. And I say that as someone who drinks it all the time.

[Anonymous No.7850674]

>>7850606
what's Tim up too?

[Anonymous No.7850676]

>>7850544
nice larp

[Anonymous No.7850684]

>>7850660
>cheap coffee

its literally beans, how the fuck can coffee be more expensive

[Anonymous No.7850688]

I can't drink and read. when I start to drink I like to get fucked. so first few beers are good then after that I can't concentrate and have to turn on an action flick like face off.

[Anonymous No.7850697]

>>7850660
so this coffee chain has its own term for 2 cream 2 sugar? who the fuck do they think they are. what does one call 2 milk 2 sugars at tims. or 2 milk 1 sugar?

[Anonymous No.7850704]

[Anonymous No.7850711]

>>7850684
There are different qualities of beans, different kinds of beans. Robusta beans are cheaper and of a lower quality than Arabica beans, which have a better flavour. Is this all entirely new to you?

>>7850697
I dunno... I think it was a customer thing that became cultural and the chain adopted it. A 'regular' is single cream and sugar, but I don't think there's any other shortcut orders. I dunno man, it's cheap coffee sold affordably. Not really worth too much thought.

[Anonymous No.7850723]

drinking water currently but will probably drink some rum or scotch later (I'll also be finished with this book by then and read some comics)

[Anonymous No.7850724]

>>7850544
American soldier in Vicenza?

[Anonymous No.7850727]

kafka on the shore and the devils backbone adventure pack

[Anonymous No.7850730]

>>7850711
it appears my state has one of these tim Hortons bake shops. I shall travel and try ordering a double double coffee. do they have bear claws?

[Anonymous No.7850754]

>>7850711
yes the bean thing is new to me. Why don't they just use the better beans? Its probably because some people just prefer theirs or something

[Anonymous No.7850756]

Bourbon and Pale Fire

[Anonymous No.7850759]

club mate
agamben

[Anonymous No.7850765]

Pic related and Houellebecq's essay on Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.7850813]

/lit/ is full of drinkers

what a surprise

[Anonymous No.7850818]

>>7850754
I'm sure some people would say they like the flavour, but I'm sure it's a profit thing. The contrast here is usually with Starbucks... you can easily imagine the working/middle class divide that these two chains cater to. While Starbucks tries to market their coffee as being high quality and demonstrative of the regions from which they source the beans, Tim Hortons is just a blend of coffees sourced cheaply. It's better than gas station coffee, but it's still not great: just a basic cup of coffee that's usually fresh.

The marketing at Tim Hortons plays heavily upon a nostalgia for a wholesome Norman Rockwell sort of canadiana... farmers and families and kids playing hockey on ponds and such. It is so entrenched in the Canadian food market (bigger than mcdonalds) that it gets associated with Canadian culture and, to an extent, is exempt from criticism, lest you appear unpatriotic or, even worse, like an american!

>>7850730
Never known them to have bear claws, but there's plenty of other donuts.

[Anonymous No.7850841]

>>7850544
epicurus and laphroaig 10yo lad

[Anonymous No.7850850]

>reading
Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
Steinbeck - The Red Pony

<drinking
Water/fruit juice
Malta with dinner
Sleepytime tea at bedtime

[Anonymous No.7850855]

>>7850813
writers have always been drinkers. nothing has changed

[Anonymous No.7850857]

>reading
Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
Steinbeck - The Red Pony

>drinking
Water/fruit juice
Malta with dinner
Sleepytime tea at bedtime

[Anonymous No.7850932]

>>7850596
I just call that book Moby the Cock cause I keep it real.

[Anonymous No.7850941]

Actually trying to recover today. Tuesday, i drank 1.5 liters of seagram 7. Then I found a bottle of jack and downed that. Then I drank three bottles of sake.

So I was basically dead thursday when I started to sober up, and I spent all day laying in bed and shivering, didn't get any sleep.

So then I had to go to physical therapy this morning on no sleep at all. Now I'm here, saying that I'm not going to drink anymore, but I'm guessing I'm a good thirty seconds away from scrounging up a bottle.

[Anonymous No.7850963]

>>7850704
I'm reading Heart of Darkness now, what do you think of victory?

[Anonymous No.7850970]

>>7850818
where do you go to get bear claws?

[Anonymous No.7850972]

Ensam by August Strindberg, H2O

[Anonymous No.7850981]

>>7850765
Is there an English translation of that? Alternatively, is the French piss-easy?

[Anonymous No.7851032]

>>7850970
I'd not heard of them before you mentioned it and I googled. I guess the Dutchie or apple fritter would be closest, but thats just a guess.

[Anonymous No.7851068]

>>7851032
>no bear claws

pray for Canada
you should suggest to Tom that he should make some bearclaws

[Anonymous No.7851075]

>>7851068
tim Horton isn't a real person you stupid American

[Anonymous No.7851081]

>>7850660
its aboot time you explained

[Anonymous No.7851088]

Infinite Jest and Jim Beam

[Anonymous No.7851129]

>>7850544
very lit lifestyle

[Anonymous No.7851159]

>>7850981
I wouldn't know, reading it in Dutch desu.

[Anonymous No.7851319]

>>7851075
He was, you dipshit. A pro hockey player who opened a shop after retirement. then it grew. ??? profit.

[Anonymous No.7851326]

>>7851319
well ill be fucked. we should start naming restaurants after famous people. like a burger place called kanye wests something

[Anonymous No.7851330]

>>7851319
>tricked

[Anonymous No.7851399]

Drinking dubliners and reading a guiness

[Anonymous No.7851449]

>>7851399
>not reading white wine

learn2joyce

[Anonymous No.7851473]

>>7851449
The book isn't about James, its about Dublin

[Anonymous No.7851475]

[Anonymous No.7851481]

i'm drinking red wine, and as a result i'm not going to be reading anything, because i can't concentrate on reading properly when i'm drunk
this is my 4chan shitposting time

[Anonymous No.7851615]

Done reading for the night at this point.

[Anonymous No.7851630]

>>7851475
ayy

[Anonymous No.7851751]

>>7851475
That cover looks like a Mills & Boon...

[Anonymous No.7852002]

>>7850855

>humans have always been drinkers, nothing has changed

FTFY

[Anonymous No.7852031]

>>7850813
>>7851481
I posted this before, but the alcohol really helps me to clear my mind and focus better on the text. I'm also a high-functioning alcoholic.

[Anonymous No.7852042]

>>7851475
lmfao that godamn cover holy shit

[Anonymous No.7852044]

>>7852031
finished this book a month ago.

i think a joint would be better.

[Anonymous No.7852058]

>>7852042
Found it at a used book store >shrug

[Anonymous No.7852059]

>>7852031
>>7851615
>>7851475
>>7850765
>>7850639
>>7850544

No wonder you faggots don't have any friends.

You don't even drink regular fucking alcohol.

[Anonymous No.7852063]

>>7852058
nah, i'm not insulting the book.

i'm just saying the cover is funny

[Anonymous No.7852065]

>>7852044
I've never liked pot. I've been trying to keep a steady buzz going while reading this. Yesterday I sat down with a 4-pack of Old Rasputin and made it through ~250 pages in one sitting. Hoping to get the same results today.

[Anonymous No.7852078]

>>7852059
if I drink generic american beer#4 like you I will have friends?

[Anonymous No.7852087]

I finished up smirnoff green apple malt when I bought it for a girl I liked, does that make me gay?

[Anonymous No.7852113]

>>7852078

Yeah, probably.

[Anonymous No.7852132]

>>7851615
My Phila brah.

[Anonymous No.7852246]

>>7852059
Is regular alcohol budweiser and popov?

[Anonymous No.7852390]

Drinking Dr. Pepper and some Dunkin Donuts coffee + rice milk. Trying to work up the mental energy to read a few more pages of The Tunnel. Not working out so well.

[Anonymous No.7852393]

>>7850639
>Tito's
Ayy. The reason I quit drinking when I turned 21. Had a murderous hangover for days.

[Anonymous No.7852400]

>>7852390
fuckin only 652 pages

you could finish that in 4 nights easily

[Anonymous No.7852411]

>>7852400
Yeah. I'm enjoying it so far (p. 78). I'm a bit afraid I'll come out looking like Gass by the end of it though.

[Anonymous No.7852438]

Black Kraken Rum and reading Moby Dick lads

[Anonymous No.7852445]

Clamato and Vodka + reading The Guermantes Way

Im on my second read through but taking it slow.

[Anonymous No.7852452]

>>7851088
>not drinking Wild Turkey in order to be just like J. O. I.

[Anonymous No.7852469]

reading brothers karmazov
drinking lean

[Anonymous No.7852470]

Leafing thru jazz lit: Wideman, Cortazar, Mackey.
Drinking Heinekens.

[Anonymous No.7852479]

>>7852438
Comfy. As. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.7852495]

>>7852445
i like you

[Anonymous No.7852498]

>>7852470
Dunno if you are reading that but El Perseguidor by Cortázar is amazing.

[Anonymous No.7852506]

>>7852498
Not the guy you're responding to, but El perseguidor is up there with Carpentier's Concerto barroco as one of the best narrative treatments of a jazz artist I've ever read.

Pic related is my copy of Las armas secretas.

[Anonymous No.7852711]

>>7852031
>>7852065
my nigga I'm going old rasputin tonight too

[Anonymous No.7854691]

>>7852498
>>7852506
These look great. Too bad I can't read spaniard.

[Anonymous No.7854716]

Pint of G&T
This thread makes me feel cozy

[Anonymous No.7854735]

Holy shit the reddit influx is real

[Anonymous No.7854756]

Forums

[Anonymous No.7854769]

What's DFW's best short story/essay collection? Going to purchase the consensus result immediately.

[Anonymous No.7854782]

coffee

"Fluid Dynamics and Transport of Droplets and Sprays"

[Anonymous No.7855293]

>>7850596
>mfw you're me

[Anonymous No.7856161]

kraken rum and plath's ariel

[Anonymous No.7856191]

>>7854769
Oblivion I say.

[Anonymous No.7856194]

Boxed wine and Ulysses

[Anonymous No.7856221]

I do fancy the same type of intellectual activity with a little touch of style if you know what I mean

[Anonymous No.7856239]

reading Sartre
drinking spicy chai tea
feeling depressed

[Anonymous No.7856272]

>>7856221
Recchia isn't even in bardolino region. If you had stuck with their valpolicella ripasso from Negrar where they're actually based then I would maintain a modicum of respect for you.

Secondly you're probably the same kinda nerd who would wear Cuck Taylors with a three piece suit and leather gloves.

So edgy.

[Anonymous No.7856287]

Coffee

Young Hearts Crying

[Anonymous No.7857010]

Coors light Bukowski notes of a dirty old man

[Anonymous No.7857140]

Hilary Putnam,
Realism with a Human Face

I am drinking Schweppes Ginger Ale, why does it matter?

[Anonymous No.7857143]

Gonna start on my re-read of Kafka's The Trial today. I generally drink mineral water during the day.

[Anonymous No.7857147]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

drinking water

[Anonymous No.7857314]

Generally I read for about three to four hours every evening/night and for around two in the day. As an actual alcoholic I have a pretty ritualised pattern of drinking - wine or a nice bottled beer with supper, a six pack of beer starting at 9-10pm, then from 1am onwards I get through a few measures of a spirit of some sort, generally whisky or gin. At the moment I'm finishing off a collection of Etgar Keret's short stories, but tonight I'm starting Celine's Journey to the End of the Night. I read quickly so depending on how fast I am, I may get to start Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown at around 3 or 4 tomorrow morning. Certain drinks suit certain reading material - one can be as drunk as anything and read something like Murakami or Keret, I think, but books with different prose styles or discussing a higher level of ideas require a degree of sobriety. The one constant would be poetry - no matter how drunk or how high, I don't have trouble reading and understanding any poetry, regardless of style. Anyone else get this with poetry?

[Anonymous No.7857325]

>>7851088
infinite jest and coffee here

[Anonymous No.7857331]

>>7850606
Man, your Canadian is showing.

I sure hope mine isn't

[Anonymous No.7858373]

Hunnid years of solitude and whiskey

[Anonymous No.7859754]

>>7854716

Nice bitch nails fag.

[Anonymous No.7859966]

[Anonymous No.7860094]

>>7852059
Granted I live in Texas, but every bar and restaurant here serves Titos. A lot of places even use it as their well vodka since it's pretty decent and inexpensive. Maybe regional, but definitely not hipster.

[Anonymous No.7860106]

>>7850544
>being a degenerate

[Anonymous No.7861525]

>>7850544
green tea and macbeth

[Anonymous No.7861611]

afternoons are for whiskey

[Anonymous No.7861620]

ITT: fedoras

[Anonymous No.7861649]

>>7861620
How am I a fedora?

[Anonymous No.7861656]

what the fuck? how do you guys read while drinking anything other than tea or water

[Anonymous No.7861668]

[Anonymous No.7861679]

>>7861656
don't be a pussy

[Anonymous No.7861894]

>>7861668
>that stiffy
same to be honest

[Anonymous No.7862263]

>>7851088
>>7857325
You are a cute couple of fucking meme'd faggots.

[Anonymous No.7862270]

>>7858373
I love you. How about a beer next?

[Anonymous No.7862308]

J. Lohr cabernet sauvignon and Master & Margarita (Burgin and O'Connor translation)

>>7851449
White wine is for women and pedantic homosexuals

[Anonymous No.7862316]

>>7852031
>Two-Hearted Ale
My nigga. You from Michigan?

[Anonymous No.7862346]

>>7862308
>White wine is for women and pedantic homosexuals
And James Joyce.

[Anonymous No.7862659]

>>7862346
>implying

[Anonymous No.7864153]

>>7862659
It was his drink of choice.