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>>8716869
After a quick apology, she cried about not being able to know what to do about this situation. Her mission to leave was planted in her as a crucial part of her life. Family expectations. Religious expectations. Her own life-story expectation. Everything was pointing towards her not getting involved with a boy. I went home, wasn't exactly sure how she felt, what her thoughts might be and direct her to. That's the problem with smart girls. They are still subdued by their strong emotions, but are able to control and rationalize them better. The pendulum was swinging, will she completely cut me off? Will she give in to the emotional storm that I just unleashed inside of her and run into my arms?

I kept my distance. Did nothing to contact her. It was her move. I already had made mine. As my luck with women would have it, the ones that appear to me to be the greatest asset for forming a romantic relationship with always tend to flock away, for reasonable reasons, at least that's what I usually tell myself. I've gotten better at creating attraction. They can't seem to stay. This one seemed to good to be true, as someone hypnotized by the feelings of love would tell themselves. It was. She went home to her parents. After a myriad of emotional texts, her coming back, and having another one of these nights were we stare at the stars and talk our hearts out, she tells me, crudely, it will not work out between us. The time I had to reflect prepared me for such answer. I was not emotionally devastated. I understood her position. I am not one to not keep looking for love. Everything seemed like it would be fine.

Until HE came in....

this is probably some sort of literary joke and not just a blogpost but tl;dr

>>8716869
>The commonalities were uprooted from the ground of us as strangers, and begun creating that spark which begins drawing two people together.
>>The commonalities were uprooted from the ground of us as strangers

what?

buy used you mong

>>8716780
If you don't do all you're reading on pirated pdfs on your phone you're not /lit/

>>8716791
Still 4 bucks for shipping, even if the book itself is 1 cent (I imagine the international markets are roughly the same).

Frightened me deeply.

>>8716787
Is it actually frightening? I like pessimistic writing but not because I take it seriously it's just fun. Like im reading cioran right now which is not scary but poetic. Why was is frightening to you?

WHEN EVERY ONE YOU HAVE EVER LOVED IS FINALLY GONE
YOU SHALL FINALLY EXECUTE YOUR FINAL PLAN
*sound of autistic child drowning in syrup*

>>8716554
that's your fault for not working hard enough

Yeah, feels bad not having schizos making you hate yourself and forcing to read through marxist textbooks. Sure ain't fun, right?

>>8716564
Are you a parody?

>Underage browsers of /lit/
why is it always fat autistic shitposters

It's not. You are just generalizing.

>>8716582
t. fat autistic Harry Potter fan

>>8716472
infinite jest

>>8716483
Anything a little easier to start with?

Give that bitch some Murakami. Bitches love Murakami.

wtf=? Im a vegan now!!

>>8716438
I've been a vegan for 4 years. Yes, I'm morally superior to all of you.

>>8716438
Did that goblin in the back of the room just say something Stacy?

>>8716370
Try smoking some weed or drinking some coffee or both before reading. You might trick yourself into focusing if you do. Just make sure you teach yourself that it's actually mind over matter and not the weed or coffee helping you focus, otherwise you'll probably convince yourself you need either or both substances to read anything, and this is not a practical way to schedule out your reading for the rest of your life.

pee in your own butt

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I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

>>8716324
does looking at hot girls make anyone else feel really lonely?

If your novel gets accepted by a publisher and then published, it's already much better than what most of /lit/ posters will ever achieve.
There's also nothng wrong with being a hack if you consciously make a decision to be one.

>>8716328
this girl really isnt my type, but typically it just makes me wonder where tf all the hot girls are irl because i sure never see them. so many qts on the interwebs.....

>>8716324
No.

>>8716329
Yes.

>>8716212
Idiot

>>8716221
cocksucker

>>8716345
dog rapist

>>8716197

Can books really do that?

>>8716304
if i try hard enough it might

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>>8716331

I'll wait with you then, hopefully someone can point us in the right direction.

>>8716129
(you)

Why are Nietzsche defenders so pathetic?
>N-no he wasn't a nazi! He was a life-affirming philosopher. Ethics? What wuz it? Nice spook lol. Untermensches amiright

>>8716146
>Nazi
>repeatedly spoke of the worth of the jews
galvanized cognition

>>8716115

Because it's not well thought and insightful. The definition of Purple Prose is that it's unnecessarily extravagant. There are many passages in Proust which, even in translation, I'll never want to simplify. However many amateur writers think great writing should be simply turgid and difficult, and don't really know why writers like Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov can get away with it. Sometimes, it's obvious they're using a thesaurus because they use fancy sounding words whose connotation just doesn't fit the context at all.

>>8716406
Because those fags know how to do it right, you pleb

>>8716413

Yeah that's what I said you illiterate dummy
>don't really know why writers like Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov can get away with it.
>can get away with it.

>>8716075
Kys, tripfag.

>>8716075
>7 years
Kys, degenerate.

>>8716075
That's nice OP. I've been here since 2010, and all I read os genre fiction... I guess you were fighting against me, but the tide was too strong.

We swallowed all the brown bear, butterfly, infinite jest, gravity's rainbow, etc, etc, and turned it into something truly shameful.

No longer will dresden files and asoiaf be sneered at by the intellectual pseudo. Your little jibes at us no longer have any effect.

We read for pleasure, and your days of memeing someone into the dry, boring prose of your proverbial "good literature" are over.

Fuck the greeks, fuck the philosophers, and fuck you OP. Don't come back.
I bet you didn't even read a book for the year

>>8715997
bomp

Just read the thing desu. Cheapest one at 2nd hand book store.

>>8716462
I use a kindle, was just going to grab a version off bibliotik.

Are the changes not that significant then?