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Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:34:13 2016 No.8860493 [Reply] [Original]

>want to add themes of love and romance to my novel
>realise I have never been in a relationship in my life and don't even have the slightest understanding of the concept of love

oh god, I don't know what it's like to kiss someone

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:35:10 2016 No.8860495 So sad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:36:24 2016 No.8860500 File: 78 KB, 832x584, trashler.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > themes of love and romance

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:38:14 2016 No.8860501 >>8860493 Melville never killed a whale, use your fucking imagination

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:41:24 2016 No.8860510 >>8860501 Killing whales is a mechanical process without any nuance tho.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:41:47 2016 No.8860511 >>8860501 he was a merchant seaman though

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:42:27 2016 No.8860513 >>8860501 I doubt many people ever have killed a whale, if I start writing something like "bags of sand" then people are gonna know something's up

Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:43:07 2016 No.8860514

>>8860493
Honestly, you probably have the gist of love. Looking back on some of my own writings and artwork containing the theme of love from before I was even in a relationship, I am a little bit surprised at how relatably I wrote on something of which I was supposed to be ignorant.

I think it's a sort of universally understood thing, at least on a basic level.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:43:40 2016 No.8860515 File: 293 KB, 768x941, 1481828045950.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8860493

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:43:48 2016 No.8860516 >>8860510 So is sex, whats your point?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:47:09 2016 No.8860520 I skip any books that have romance or love as themes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 03:51:28 2016 No.8860526 >>8860514 "Experience" is by far the biggest writing spook

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 04:56:43 2016 No.8860633 >>8860516 There are elements to love and romance that are not sex

Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:03:35 2016 No.8860644
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just go on okcupid or whatever and start talking to girls. If you're an ugly boring loser work on yourself. Seriously dude I was a kissless virgin at age 21 and now I'm neither at 22.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:07:34 2016 No.8860648 >>8860644 >okcupid Kanker, even Tinder is better

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:08:33 2016 No.8860649 >>8860648 oh dude look at me im such a fucking sicka epic intellectual cynic. All of internet dating is just full of dumb stupid whores right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:08:56 2016 No.8860650 >>8860520 Not enough PEW PEW PEW and explosions and magic and elf titties for you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:11:46 2016 No.8860653 >>8860649 >All of internet dating is just full of dumb stupid whores right? No dumb stupid prudes in my experience

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:12:52 2016 No.8860654 >>8860653 yeah well, that's life. There's nothing exceptional about these sites. Either you adapt to it, or you die (or you bitch about it on 4chan, but that's the same thing).

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:14:41 2016 No.8860655 File: 44 KB, 397x387, Houellebecq.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8860654 I choose death

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:16:04 2016 No.8860658 File: 15 KB, 480x312, 1911.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8860655 okay here's a gun or do you still have the will to live

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:17:03 2016 No.8860659 >>8860658 Like you said, bitching on 4chan is the same thing

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:28:28 2016 No.8860666 >>8860513 Fucking kek'd

Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:35:40 2016 No.8860678
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>want to add themes of love and romance to my life
>women only date me out of some kind of weird half-repulsed fascination with my autism, where they actually secretly hate me and just spend 6-24 months wrestling with these confusing feelings until ultimately dumping me in bewilderment and frustration, and immediately marrying the most basic guy they can find

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:38:25 2016 No.8860684 >>8860650 I can't relate to that normalfag shit tbqh femme.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:46:00 2016 No.8860696 >>8860520 same desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:49:14 2016 No.8860699 >>8860515 wut?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 05:55:32 2016 No.8860709 >>8860678 find yourself a girl who is equally autistic you will find true love one day. i believe in you, anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 09:48:46 2016 No.8861173 >>8860699 salty milk and coins all you need to know to describe romance

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 10:50:59 2016 No.8861343 >>8861173 But why?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 10:52:02 2016 No.8861349 >>8860493 Read romance. Serious advice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 10:52:38 2016 No.8861352 >>8861343 It's supposedly what pussy tastes like. I don't think it tastes like that but i have heard that people do

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 10:58:38 2016 No.8861378 >>8861352 >I don't think it tastes like that Found the virgin

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 11:06:27 2016 No.8861413 lmao just copy houllebecq's method and watch porn sex and romance is literally porn in the 21st century anyways

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 11:33:10 2016 No.8861466 >>8861413 Houllebecq doesn't watch porn, he's exhausted even the vayeuristic pleasure of sex. Its all just the discovery channel to him at this point. Seeing humans have sex is no different than watching Giraffes mating or plankton coagulating

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 11:52:34 2016 No.8861512 >>8860515 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 11:57:54 2016 No.8861523 >>8861378 It tastes like nothing desu. But maybe that's because she was 16 and cared for hygiene.

Anonymous Mon Dec 19 12:02:15 2016 No.8861536

>>8860699
>>8861343

The answer is ALWAYS lurk moar

>>8861173
>>8861352
Don't give away answers like that, tell him to lurk moar.

OP, love is a religious experience. You might've never had one, but it's something you can work with. Read the Bible, the Confessions of S:t Augustine, hagiographies, etc. Pick up stuff from other religions, too, I'll bet you anything you'd learn something from Bhakti varieties of Hinduism. You could probably get some Hare Krishna literature for free if you live in a major city.

I'll also tell you what love is not: Love is not an obsession with getting the attention of someone in order to cure a lack of a self, or self-respect.

Love is a unity with another human being that makes both of you greater than you ever were before. It means finding an ally against existence itself. I can only compare it to finding God.

t. 25-year-old guy who recently experienced his first love without teenage desperation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 12:05:09 2016 No.8861547 File: 1.08 MB, 1920x816, Binary_Sunset.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8860510 It's an aesthetic experience (Dewey), stupid fuck. Read "Shooting an Elephant" by Orwell and you will see.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 12:07:37 2016 No.8861551 >>8860678 literal autism?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 12:18:59 2016 No.8861581 File: 20 KB, 305x481, images (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >had tons of different relationships >still don't know what love is I'll never know

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 12:24:07 2016 No.8861596 >>8860493 DUDE LOVE IS JUST CHEMIICALS IN YOUR BRAIN LMAO >>8860516 Typical guy who never had sex (or had bad experiences when he tried) and extrapolates from the disgusting, mechanical sex he sees in porn films.

Anonymous Mon Dec 19 12:25:55 2016 No.8861605
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>>8860493
>Mfw I was so consumed with tackling the /lit/ canon that I comepletely neglected the life canon

Fuck man, if I wasn't gonna go to prom I should have a least hung out with some similarly anti social friends. Spent the night just shooting the shit and watching the stars while we all listened to old post punk CDs... I just stayed home and played tf2 until mom yelled at me to go to bed already

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 16:26:26 2016 No.8862323 >>8861547 That is not how it was presented

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 19 18:07:24 2016 No.8862636 Romantic love is degenerate, tbhq. Don't even bother writing about that pleb shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 04:21:45 2016 No.8864274 >>8860493 Fall in love. It's awful. Like a socially accepted and romanticized neurosis.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 04:25:07 2016 No.8864280 >>8860699 >>8861343 >>8861352 newfags smdh

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:14:10 2016 No.8864332 File: 2.71 MB, 4256x2848, cemetary___3_by_mjranum_stock.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8861596 Take your spooks where they belong

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:14:53 2016 No.8864333 >>8860650 No, its just that I am an unabashed sexually frustrated loser who doesn't want to get triggered :^) . In fact I felt betrayed when I read Hunger.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:16:00 2016 No.8864336 >>8864333 Save your salty coins up and buy a milky prostitute who will love you for one glorious night.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:17:09 2016 No.8864338 >>8860658 Having the will to live is no more an affirmation of life as a good than having the will to inhect heroin is an affirmation of oopiate abuse as a good. I live in spite of my better judgement

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:18:04 2016 No.8864340 >>8864338 What the fuck did you just say?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:19:21 2016 No.8864342 >>8864336 no because I'm also a self righteous antinatalist prick

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:20:39 2016 No.8864345 >>8864340 I just said that I'm addicted to life

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:22:44 2016 No.8864346 >>8860520 you should read our lady of the flowers. i masturbated to it even though its gay as fuck that's what it was meant for

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 20 05:43:34 2016 No.8864367 >>8861536 >I'll also tell you what love is not: Love is not an obsession with getting the attention of someone It kinda is in Swann's Way tho

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