/lit/ - Literature

>>15371945
In undergrad I used to be able to drink and read or drink and work on projects, but after law school if I have even one beer I can't focus on anything anymore. Thats why I don't drink much anymore, but when I do I get absolutely shitfaced.

I don't drink liquor anymore, I always get insanely sick anytime I drink

>>15371945
This thread has nothing to do with literature. Just because you add "while reading" in the end of your retarded /soc/-tier-rate-me-and-my-personality scream for attention doesn't make it so. As to your question, no, I don't drink while I read. I do fuck your mom, her fat ugly vagina is so loose however that I need literary works to keep from falling asleep.

>>15371974
why would I care what you think about my personality on an anonymous website, retard? How you enjoy reading has everything to do with literature.

I don't drink. I'm straight edge.

>>15371945
I drink every waking hour, so yes.

>>15372024
>he doesn't drink and read in his sleep
lol pleb

>>15371993
based

>>15371945
no it makes it harder to focus

If I have anything it's usually just cheap wine for sipping. Liquor makes it impossible to concentrate.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

>>15372024
>>15372074
One of my favorite lines from a song is:
>I was sober all morning
>'til I woke up this afternoon

>>15371945
Light tipple, being besotted infringes on the experience and retention.

>>15372126
Same. Liquor is reserved for getting butt-fuck drunk.

I miss my mistress.

>>15372126
you're not getting the good stuff

Gin and elderflower liquor with a lime. Red wine. Occasionally a Bloody Mary. Sometimes an old fashioned

>>15371993
even jesus drank wine

>>15372150
Ah, Johnny Hobo

I showed ny sister his music when she was younger and blame myself for her depression now.

>>15372150
based Johnny Hobo

do you piss and shit at the same time

>>15372194
>>15372185
>>15372150
AS HE LIGHTS AN AMERICAN SPIRIT

>>15372221
HE ASKS HOW I CAN SMOKE SUCH SHIT

>>15372210
yes

>>15372253
>>15372221
I feel like it’s the same 4 anons whenever Johnny hobo is mentioned on /lit/. Good to see y’all again you degenerates.

HE SAYS THERES NOTHIN LIKE SMOKIN GPC CIGGARETTES CAUSE ANY SMOKES WILL KILL YA. BUT THESE WILL MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE IT

>>15371945
I don't. You shouldn't. At some point it impairs your ability to form new memories.

No.

>>15371945
Not for long, the reading stops pretty quickly...

>>15371945
Alcohol makes me feel sick, so no.

>>15371945
I drink absinthe while reading Baudelaire

I drink tea, coffee or wine while reading. Drinking these things just makes the atmosphere more comfy for me

>>15371945
I certainly have done before, but it's not some rule, either way. I don't understand absolutists on this.

>>15372155
>he doesn't sip a nice whisky while reading

>>15372178
>Gin and elderflower liquor with a lime
White girl shit

my drink of choice is tequila but I almost never read after I've started drinking, I usually go on yt and record myself ranting

>>15372144
I have this capacity, anon, but then going outside and looking around sometimes just stuns me. This 'capacity' is no doubt a type of illness because it's definitely held me back in life, on the other hand I rarely get depressed so I guess things balance out.

>>15371945
drinking is degenerate

>>15373114
its less degenerate than fapping

>>15371993
FromSt John Chrysostom's Homilies on the Statues 1,7:

>Paul is not ashamed, and does not blush, after the many and great signs which he had displayed even by a simple word; yet, in writing to Timothy, to bid him take refuge in the healing virtue of wine drinking. Not that to drink wine is shameful. God forbid! For such precepts belong to heretics; [...] For [Paul] does not simply say, “use a little wine;” but having said before, “drink no longer water,” he then brings forward his counsel as to the drinking of wine. And this expression “no longer” was a manifest proof, that till then he had drunk water, and on that account was become infirm.

>But since our discourse has now turned to the subject of blasphemy, I desire to ask one favor of you all, in return for this my address, and speaking with you; which is, that you will correct on my behalf the blasphemers of this city [i.e., blaspheming against God by saying that wine is evil.]. And should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them thither; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God.

Remember, you can choose not drink if you want to but if you call alcohol evil, St John calls you a blasphemer

>>15373114
>>15373159
>unironically thinking in these terms
read some zen, bros

>>15373114
>something nearly everyone has been doing for thousands of years and is deeply encoded in nearly every culture
>degenerate

>>15371945
I neither drink nor read.

>>15371974
Holy fuck you sound unbearable

>>15371993
based

drinking liquor and reading, in other words poisoning ones blood and letting it carry poison to the brain to kill brain cells, while at the same time engaging in intellectual exercise seems counterproductive

>>15371945

This sounds kinda gay but I actually like to switch up my spirits depending on who I'm reading and where they come from. So for example I'll take Irish whiskey with Joyce, dark rum with Melville, London dry gin with Shakespeare etc.

As I said I know it sounds kinda gay but it helps me get in the mood sometimes desu.

>>15372152
>>15372126
>>15372109
>>15373114
>>15373844

How are you all so light-weight? There is surely no way in hell that drinking, for taste, one standard of anything could make you inebriated in the slightest.

How can you think this? Is it bc this board is overpopulated with Yankees, and you all can't drink til your 21? Sad !

>>15373896
no one standard serving will not impact my abilities in a noticeable way. but alcohol is a neurodepressant and will temporarily degrade CNS function including cognitive abilities.

in any case, i don't prefer to. no judgment against anyone who does, and i definitely do plenty of drinking, but not when i'm reading.

I like to sip on a tequila or a gin and tonic. A small buzz can make certain reading experiences nicer. Not if it's really complex though

>>15371974
>>15373114

fuck off desu

>>15371974
I don't give a fuck about the integrity of this board, jump off a bridge.

>>15373896
I am not, I used to be borderline alcoholic and I know the damage that alcohol does to human body well.

>drinking, for taste
are you serious? I have not come across a single alcoholic beverage that tasted good, some are worse than others but nothing beats fresh orange juice, tea with honey and lemon or even a can of coke

does anyone else drink Death's Door gin?

>>15371945
whisky and soda in the afternoon
whisky, straight or on the rocks, in the evening

>>15373969
To add to this: I started drinking Whisky and soda, after noticing that Bertie Wooster and Lord Emsworth often drank that drink in the afternoon.

>>15373969
>>15373987

New drinking game: drink along with Bertram Wooster

If I'm going to drink and read, I will only drink wine or something sweet like ginjinha. And usually I'll only read poetry, not prose. There is something nice about sweet alcohol, poetry, and perhaps a smoke. But combining alcohol and literature has to be done correctly. I couldn't imagine the absolute baseness it would require to drink hard liquor and read prose. Or even worse, beer. That sounds gross and vulgar. Delicate things should be coupled with delicate things; don't cast your pearls to swine.

>>15374058
what is this some Portuguese thing?

>>15374058
Straight liquour can be delicate, anon. And certain prose is not too delicate to go with say, whisky.

>>15373896
When I sit down to read a book, my goal is to read the book. I don't have to use it as a proxy for to evoke some other activity.

>>15371993
based and boringpilled

>>15374069
Yeah, it's a Portuguese liquor made from cherries. Perhaps my favorite liquor in the world. I don't understand why it's not more widespread. I would say the same thing about Asturian cider. These refreshments should be shipped worldwide. They're fantastic.
>>15374071
If you have a fat cigar you can probably stay afloat enough to get some comfy reading done, I'll give you that. I find tobacco usually offsets some of the mental torpor caused by hard liquors.

>>15371945
aberlour abunadh for me

>>15374440
nice. thinking of getting a bottle of this once my current scotch bottle is finished.

>>15371945
I enjoy very special cognac

>>15371974
I love you and I'm sorry there isn't a place like this for smart people.
If were near each other and you loved me as well, I would proudly have sex with you.

>>15374479
Based! Cool eyes, anon!

>>15371955

Same, never understood the whole "law school will turn you into an alcoholic" meme. I guess most of the K-law school crowd didn't party much during their undergrad

>>15374683
They need liquor to fall asleep due to all the addy they take.

I'm drinking liquor right now

>>15374473
its so good, it spoils you

warning that it will ruin all other scotch and whisky after you try it

aberlour abunadh alba is mediocre though

>>15373965
That looks really good. Do you mix it, or drink it straight?

>>15371945
No but I do math of all sorts while drinking. I think it helps me see problems from a different perspective, and it seems that I make less analytical mistakes while drunk. I can't read while drinking though simply because you end I just reading passively and getting nothing from the book, or the wrong things from the book.

>>15374805
because I end up just reading passively*
don't know how I fucked that up so bad

>>15374805
youre not the first person i hear this works for

>>15374832
Not sure what it is, maybe a sort of state between being able to focus on the problem at hand while also being in a more 'diffused' mode of thinking? I've never been very weak to alcohol though, it's easy for me to hide being drunk and my mind works relatively normal compared to being sober, like I'm able to switch in and out of being 'drunk' at will. Also, while I like math regardless, it does make it a lot more enjoyable I think.

>>15371945
IT MAKES ME WANNA CUM AN ANN AND SLEEP

>>15374058
Certain bottlings of scotch can be quite delicate and nuanced, such as Dalwhinnie or Clynelish. The same applies to high quality bottles of any kind of spirit, but scotch is an easy example.

>>15374766
Straight. I actually used to live in Middleton, Wisconsin where they make this stuff.

>>15371945
no but I browse /lit/ while drunk, as I am doing at this very moment

>>15371993
Why do you need a restricting label to help you? I just drink if I feel like it, most of the time I don't, can't be bothered. As soon as you have the label you have something to lose, you break edge like breaking a streak. Just don't start the streak to begin with.

>>15374805
That is interesting, I wonder if the reduced ability for cognitive load makes for simpler reasoning, ironically making for fewer mistakes.

>>15375191
I feel this way too, a lot of words like "addiction" and "tolerance" just end up creating the things they describe in people.

>>15372995
Post them.

>>15375100
My local place has some, I’m gonna pick it up along with some Glenmorangie tomorrow, thanks.

>>15371945
I can't read while I'm drunk, but I listen to audiobooks. This experience, especially with Russian literature, is painfully remorseful and usually ends up with me wishing I could do more to make myself a more useful and substantial human being so that my life doesn't end up slipping away in the useless, hollow fashion as many others' lives' inevitably do.

>>15371945
In the evening when winding down I'll have a drink (wine, cocktail, bourbon, scotch, or brandy) while reading. On days when I'm not working, usually I'll have a glass of wine in the early afternoon.

Reading drunk is a waste though, and only requires re-reading the next morning.

>>15371974
This is also true (that is, this doesn't really have much to do with literature). The insults after that were rather rude though.

In the hopes of turning this back towards literature, any good literature about drinking? I have enjoyed Leaving Las Vegas, Under the Volcano, and most recently The Trip to Echo Springs.

>>15375422
The Lost Weekend
Le Feu Follet
The Drinker (Fallada)

i drink piss

> drinking
> ew

>>15371945
if i have more than to my brain shuts off

>>15374058
be my twink and let me fuck you