/lit/ - Literature

I have been on 4chan since 05.
I have finally spent more of my life with 4chan than without.
You can never leave.

>>17904973
This is going to sound retarded, but the answer is just read faster. Actively read faster. Train your eyes to read faster. Take any book and set a timer for 15 minutes. Move your eyes along the page slightly faster than you can actually read and understand it, making use of the Z patter our eyes move it. two or three jumps then next line. When you finish this for 15 minutes, go back and read intently at a speed you can understand in your mind, but be aware that your brain will want you to stop reading actively and will revert back to it's 'comfortable' speed. This 'active' skill of reading as fast as your eyes and mind can take it will increase your reading speed. I also suggest listening to audio books at increasingly faster speeds. Right now I listen to audio books at 2.5 to 3.0 speeds, depending on the narrator. This will train your sub vocalization to speak faster. The goal isn't to get rid of the sub vocalization, but to make it go as fast as your brain and eyes can allow it. We all can listen to much more than the average speaking voice of 150 wpm. Also take breaks. Every section or chapter you have finished, pause and reflect on what you just read. This will increase memory retention.

>>17782811
Define improving. Life expectancy is dropping in first world countries. Wow, great, I can afford a TV now but can't afford a doctor. Great. Awesome.

>>17481910
I think the worst part, the thing that really gets me. Is that I've seen my groups of friends change roughly ever 4 years. Ever since Highschool, 4 years. College, 4 years. Punk scene, 4 years. Law school 4 years.

But 4chan has always been here. And I think that's really disgusting but also kind of beautiful. That the anonymous peoples that also roam these boards feeling lost and alone can come together and it has always just kinda been here for us. I don't talk to most of those friends from any of those periods anymore, but the whole time I've still posted on 4chan.

>>14989558
>older end of the spectrum of /lit/ posters at 23

>>13411407

Steve's gaze didn't move from the bubbling yellow vat. Hanging metal screens chirped with orders yet to be fulfilled. His coworkers, all teenagers, ran behind him pushing buttons and pouring large plastic bags full of frozen potato products and homogenized meats into rusted chrome machines blistering heat upon the "food" until it told the teenagers it was done. One of them wiped their face after suffering yet another grease burn on their pimple ridden face. Steve adjusted his hat. It was his fourth hat. He continued to lose them any time they became too ratty or smelly. He never figured out how to wash them properly, he thought they were probably designed that way, and tossed them in his apartment's dumpster. He knew he had to pay for another one, amounting to roughly two hours of work at his wonderful minimum wage plus a quarter, but he couldn't stand a stained, sticky, smelly hat. Fuck these hats. He pulled out the rack from the deep fryer. He had waited too long. The machine had been beeping for almost 90 seconds too long. The batch was ruined. The fries were too brown. He didn't care and dumped them in the metal tub in which a blinding but dull light kept the fries at the minimum temperature allowed to keep the fries fresh according to the handbook.

St. Mary's
One semester left of law school and then the bar.

>>11683604
"I want to escape from the world for a little bit and play some vidya"
>"No vidya is for me now you bigot it was never for you you evil disgusting incel"
"1488 gamers rise up"

>>11661826
I hate Nabokov, his statements are so pseudish and his fans LARP as him

>>11656573
Well it goes back to "DEFINE _______" if we define soul as simply consciousness then it would be fine. But really he's just making the lawyer joke everyone always makes.