/lit/ - Literature

>>22772077
This man Plato's dialogue changed my life. Godspeed old man. Thank you for everything.

>>22108297
OP here. I turned it in 5 minutes late. It's over.

>reading Thucydides
>get to the Sicilian Expedition

>>21956652
I wrote the commentary on 'The Doubloon" and you're not gonna get that in some faggy penguin publishing edition

>>20945521
>become confused and start raping all the wizards and students (male and female)
perfect

CAN'T STOP THE FIIIIIIRE
CAN'T STOP THE MAD DESIRE!

>book starts all of its chapters on the right-side page
I love it when this happens, it means that each page will only ever have one chapter on both sides, instead of the occasional page having two chapters. Meaning, I can hold the book by front and end of the isolated chapter(s) that I'm reading instead of holding the covers, helping me imagine that my goal is to finish a "mini-book" that only contains my goal instead of the whole thing or my goal with extra text on the first or last page. Also I can count the physical pages I have remaining and say "I will read X number of pages" without actually meaning "I will read X number of pages but only the first side of the last page" which feels so much more satisfying to fulfill. Its wonderful.

>>20226339
Damn anon, that's truly great. Treasure what you have. All my family and quite literally 99% of my friends and acquitances are the perfect representation of the NPC memes. I still love them but at times it's hard to connect. If I were to be completely honest about what I want from life they would look at me as if they were seeing an alien. Once I told a friend from school that went on to become a lawyer in a semi prestigious firm that I would like to learn Sanskrit and he didn't even know what the word meant. Feels bad man.

>>20208408
>we have a mentally ill minority here who hates this website but spend 99% of their time here

I have never once read a book over 400 pages, let alone 500.

>>20053791
exceptionally based

based Onfimposter

>>19070000
Quads and I still can't get answers.
Has Kek forsaken us?

>esl
>filthy zoomer who just finished hs
>paste 250 words text that I wrote last night on wordcounter.net
>reading level 11-12th grade
am I going to make it?

>>18708424

>be me
>finish work on Friday evening
>sleep for an hour because of a lack of sleep on previous nights
>watch football, browse internet
>go to gym, lift heavy weights
>sleep
>wake up on Saturday morning
>go jogging
>go driving outside, drink coffee, browse internet on phone
>buy junk food on way home
>eat regular food, eat some junk food
>spend rest of afternoon and evening browsing internet, watching sports on tv, eating rest of junk food
>feel so fat by end of the day
>waste last few hours of night online
>sleep, wake up on Sunday morning
>drink coffee, browse internet
>go to gym
>eat food at home
>have gone outside driving, drinking coffee
>about to read a book in car
>will go for a walk later in evening while listening to Cum Town and other podcasts

I went for a weekend walk on late Sunday evening last week as well and it was kino.

I'm worried by how quickly this summer is going by. I kept looking forward to it but nothing has really changed. I can't remember what I was expecting.

I was researching dropshipping in bed last night and I simply can't be bothered to do anything.

I did almost nothing on Thursday and Friday in my job. I have very little to do in the upcoming week.

I remember this time last year I had just finished an incredible video game that lasted for over 100 hours. It's one of those games where you feel a huge sense of loss after completing it because you no longer have access to the world. It had a spin off / sequel released this year but I'm saving it for later.

A game I played and loved over a decade ago is getting a sequel soon and I'll also eventually buy and play that. I'm not sure when the best time will be.

I bought a physical crypto wallet. I invest my money in an app that looks like it's aimed at kids. I buy premium bonds (midwit lottery tickets). Having money hasn't made life less clownish.

I'm hoping I'll start working hard on stuff tomorrow.

It really hit home how hard my life is solely due to ugliness.

>>18583110
>Remember that thread last week about self-help books accompanied by a hot fit blonde at the gym? Remember the guy that said he could kill her in a single strike despite her muscles?
I’m the same guy.
This faggot thinks people remember him from his rape coomposts on 4chan and are impressed by them. The absolute state of /lit/, life imitates art.

>>18547827

>be me
>boring week at work
>finished work on Friday evening
>slept in bed for an hour and half
>went driving, drinking coffee; browsed internet in car for a short time
>went to gym and lifted heavy weights; stronger than I've been for over a year
>browse internet in bed after gym
>sleep at 3 am
>wake up at 10.30 am
>lie in bed until 11.05 am
>go driving, drinking coffee, browse internet on phone, read a non-fiction book
>buy junk food on way home; eat normal food and junk food
>browse internet
>lie in bed at 4 pm to rest my eyes before watching Euro 2020 because I have nothing better to do; wake up after 6 pm
>watch final parts of football match
>go for walk while listening to Cum Town and podcast with Moldbug on it
>still on walk; will go jogging after the walk and then read a book in bed

My job is so boring and unfulfilling. I really need to start doing producerbull stuff again. I did it for two weeks a few months ago but stopped. I wish I could be a really casual producerbull instead of having to force myself to do stuff.

I am worrying a lot about my job at the moment because it's clear that if I don't start acting more like a happy normie then I may get a bad quarterly performance review by my giganormie, pathologically basic and normie, manager. Why do normies hate everyone who isn't a loud extroverted normie?

I barely even read any more, apart from weekends. My job doesn't even take up much of my time. I spend all my weekday free time driving, drinking coffee, browsing the internet (to recapture the weekend feel from Monday to Wednesday, or enjoy it early on Thursday to Friday), or exercising. I have no passion about anything so I don't remember a lot of what I read.

Remote work has drastically improved my finances and quality of life. The privacy of /wfh/Chadding is heavenly compared to open plan offices.

>>18303948
based

>be me
>another normal week at work
>Thursday after work: go driving, drinking coffee, thought I'd read but spent a few hours on alt right and silicon valley Twitter
>Friday after work
>decide to lie in bed for a short time
>wake up 5 hours later
>eat food, browse internet, sleep for a few hours until Saturday morning (sleep is fine overall)
>go to gym; workout goes well but feel depressed at seeing the Saturday morning gymStaceys
>go driving, drink coffee, read pseudy old novel
>eat food, have some junk food
>go for a 7 mile walk while listening to Cum Town and a few midwit podcasts
>do a few chores
>slept
>woke up in late morning on Sunday
>now about to read a pseudy novel

I haven't done anything productive in my free time for over a week but I'm not worried because I know I can. I'm sure on Monday I'll start working hard on stuff.

I had a few evenings where my wasted 20s and ugliness really got to me.

I'm feeling like a loser for not living in America. I feel like the UK is a dumbed down version of the USA, like one of those late generation console games that gets released on the newer console and the old one (Singapore would be the surprisingly good GBA port). In the USA my job would pay more and have less protections. The food would pack more chemical punch. There would be 10 times as many ways to binge. I would pay less for fuel. A higher percentage of people would be ripped or morbidly obese, retarded or super geniuses. I'd be exposed to full on globalist apex Jews and their pet freaks, rather than being ruled by their provincial midwits.

>be me
>another normal week at work
>Thursday after work: go driving, drinking coffee, thought I'd read but spent a few hours on alt right and silicon valley Twitter
>Friday after work
>decide to lie in bed for a short time
>wake up 5 hours later
>eat food, browse internet, sleep for a few hours until Saturday morning (sleep is fine overall)
>go to gym; workout goes well but feel depressed at seeing the Saturday morning gymStaceys
>go driving, drink coffee, read pseudy old novel
>eat food, have some junk food
>go for a 7 mile walk while listening to Cum Town and a few midwit podcasts
>do a few chores
>now in bed, browsing internet

I haven't done anything productive in my free time for over a week but I'm not worried because I know I can. I'm sure on Monday I'll start working hard on stuff.

I had a few evenings where my wasted 20s and ugliness really got to me.

>>18215820
Well after dropping out i got very bitter and pessimistic, started CS at another college dropped out this year stopped attending classes mid 2020.
For some shitty reason i feel constantly shit, not depressed just fucking feel shit. Luckily i will not be a Neet, got a nice IT job last year, and yet still for some fucking reason i seem not to be able to do, i mean just sit and learn or read, feel tired of life man.
Bukowski is in a weird way motivating and yet still every time i listen to one of his poems or interviews i get reminded of the time he described his hot steamy turd.
Don't think you'r dumb anon >>18215835 i learned basics and shit at 13/14 but never got anything more, i'am 24 now, and still living as a stupid script kiddy. My dude i am so tired of myself, even went to a psychiatrist for it, maybe i am a shit person you know.

>had a fast food binge last night after walking 6 miles
>went home, wasted time until sleep
>went to sleep, woke up
>worked
>work was normal; all the tight deadlines I thought I kind of had all melted away and now a pressure free week awaits
>if I forget about Monday, the rest of the week is a four day week like last week
>finished work
>told myself I'd work hard from today but the weather was good so I went for my drive and coffee
>will go to gym later

So much of my money is in investments now. Covid has been incredible for me financially. Stocks, stonks, crypto, shitcoins, bonds- I now own them all. I even got a credit card, which has made wasting money on coffee feel like an achievement. I'm no richfag but in relative terms I'm incredibly better than the beginning of 2020.

My job is so boring. I try to avoid interacting with my manager. I count down the days until I can apply for another division. It was similar but not as bad before I started in this current division. The current era of my life is very sterile, although not as bad as some days at university.

I think my Zoom / instant messaging cringe calibration is out of tune. I don't really know what's cringe or not, what's assertive and what's annoying.

I forgot to mention some days ago how I had a really powerful nostalgic reaction when watching a video of vidya console opening screens (the GameCube cube forming, etc.). The Gameboy advance and PS1 screens and sounds were very powerful for me, who experienced them as a young person. The PSP and PS3 ones felt nostalgic but very sad. I was totally losing interest in vidya when I experienced those, with nothing to replace it.

I watched videos of Google, the company, in 1998 to 2001 and it looked so comfy.