/lit/ - Literature

As regards being in love.

The happiest moments in my life occurred (as I now realise) when, as a 19 year-old, I wandered the cold, winter streets of a certain city.

My then girlfriend and I both worked in the same fast-food restaurant. I was waiting for her to finish work, so that we could go somwhere public, alone, and listen to cheap music and drink cheap alcohol and mouth cheap platitudes.

She had a boyfriend (not me).

Eventually she left him but it was never so good as those lonely few hours.

I strolled the few streets of that city that orbited our workplace and waited for her to finish and get changed and make me wait then to meet me fifteen minutes late in the appointed place.

It was freezing cold, the tightest night of a cold winter. I was warm because I was well-wrapped and looking forward to her as I wandered.

She wore a perfume that had an unashamedly animal component; I could taste in on her neck. It was all I could do, not to devour her.

So that is my experience of being in love: wandering at night in winter, in the cold and the dark, deliriously happy.

I'm going to bed right now.

>>2914743
It exists with the certainty of your inquiry.

If you have a mind capable of wondering whether love exists then you have a mind capable of experiencing the sensation of being in love.

Please differantiate between being in love, being in lust and the animal urge to have sex (all of which are perfectly natural and not to be rejected, regardless of sex).

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>>2914741
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>>2914677

Also, try to not be affected. Try to be thoughtful and be unafraid to be quiet.

Not to sound sexist, but you can effectively treat (most) (young) women as though they were desperate for a masculine presence in their lives.

Bed now. Maybe back later.

Goodnight.

>>2914718
She found a home in the woods.

She'll be back.

>>2914698
I enjoy its honesty and integrity.

>>2914689
It's really all down to my PA.

I'm not even sure what redit is.

A rival to 4chan.org, I presume?

It's not even a Q&A. I just wanted to do something a little unusual and to stay connected. To be honest, I really love the idea that most of you disbelieve I am who I say I am and those of you who (do/ pretend to) believe I am who I say I am probably actually don't, I find strangely sweet and affecting.

I really only wanted to say I am no different from any of you- and just to go for a slow burn rather than a paragraph-by-paragraph explosion.

>>2914680
Sorry, I'm not really a fan of either anime or manga.

As a kid, I loved comic books and kids' books.

But I'm sure I'd have appreciated those Japanese-inspired works if I'd been of your generation.

>>2914679
That's difficult.

I think they are probably correct. It's for other to judge how it stands up.

As I say, you have only one life and that pleb trash (if it is so adjudged to be) has financed the most luxurious lifestyle I could have hoped for.

>>2914674
From my PA, who usually does nothing more useful than gofering.

But I've come to value this place for its honesty and lack of pretension.

I'm afraid I generally only post when drunk. For some reason, this seems to happen almost exclusivelt when I'm outside the US; most often in London, the city I love most (aside from NY and LA). The Brits are really a class act.

>>2914672
It's more a reflection of reality. Sometimes the flow demands it, other times it's just time to cash-in a character's chips.

That sounds hideous and cold but I'll admit there's a two-way visceral process going on: as the audience enjoys living vicariously through the character, so the author must occasionally twist the gentle reader's guts to remind him [her] who's really in charge. It's a two-way street; it wouldn't feel as good for me if it didn't hurt for them.

Gosh, check my sadist privilege.

>>2914666
Yes, particularly the sense in which it's one of the few genuine magnum opii; he himself admits the Dark Tower world is thhe nexus of his imagination, and I love finding references to it in his other works & wallowing in the suspended disbelief of its reality.

19, Stephen; Redrum.

I think future generations will venerate him as a Dickens and we should feel honoured to have experienced him at first-hand.

>>2914663
Yes, encouragement, maybe. Boredom or solipsism too.

I remember how it was to be (as I think most of you are) young and hopeless and poor.

I remember how my teachers used to try to impart to me their adult advice.

I remember how I rejected it, then I remembered how I remembered it in my mid-twenties and wished I'd taken it at face-value.

And I felt the same urge that my teachers probably felt- the urge to tell you that you weren't the first person to fall in love or suffer loneliness, that your sense of loss and isolation is no more significant or profound or real than that of every generation that went before you, that one day you will try to impart these lessons to your children and that they will disbelieve you as you disbelieve me because some lessons you can only learn from your own mistakes.

>>2914641
It's from Dallas.

>>2914641
I think I did.

I'm sorry, It's later here.

>>2914632
I can't answer that question honestly for reasons that will become apparent.

>>2914620
Well.

I was so invested in the fates of the characters that, whilst I was happy for them all to achieve a satisfactory outcome, I felt it (the ending) was rather a sop to focus-grouping and lowest-common-denominator marketing. Also, I disliked the implication of an afterlife to make up for the onlylife.

It felt a rather disenguous landing place for an otherwise rather beautiful arc; I felt a little pain and grit would have sustained it better.

>>2914616
An old joke (my PA's idea of one).

From a soap opera in the used-to-be.

>>2914595
Like I said before, writing isn't difficult. So please don't treat someone who does it as a superpowered ET. It's in all of you, if you want it.

The most common mistake I see in young writers is a tendency to haste, to affected maturity. Don't try to shoe-horn thesaurus words; it's natural flow and truth that carries an audience.

So it shouldn't be so unbelievable that I'm here- you are all here too, and I am no better. Just older, maybe.

>>2914590
Not all of them.

Authors don't have much power in LA. Or rather, they do but generally don't take advantage of it.

Now imagine you are writing the character that defines the trajectory of a starlet's career.

Now imagine how the starlet might seek to influence that arc.

I've never availed myself of such opportunities but I'm sure you can imagine.

>>2914579
That wouldn't be sensible.

But I'd be happy to insert a couplet, if it fits.

Writing isn't as hard as you think, once you realise it's 99% observing and extrapolating.

>>2914577
No continuum was implied. They are only names.

I never liked the Seinfeld naming method.

Though it's a quality show, you should catch it if you can.

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>>2914568
I mean yes, it's probably exactly what I mean.

My own view (I'm an atheist) is that every form of life has an equal "right" to exist. It's no more moral for a a man to wipe out an ants' nest than for an alien to wipe out a humans' nest.

I feel that empathy is one of humanity's highest qualities and that it flows from a shared understanding of the inevitability of loss and pain.

>>2914558
You probably shouldn't.