/lit/ - Literature

Unicorns are great too.

But they, like your cute book-reading female, do not exist.

>>1739935
It's true. I tried to find a cute girl reading on GIS, took me like all day.

Depends on what she's reading.

the educated ones are always the most difficult to control

say no to girls reading books

>>1739946
I was going to make this distinction but it's already hard enough to find one actively reading. Can't optimize too much...

Basically, cute girls don't have good taste in anything worthwile because they've never had to. They may have good taste in clothes and hairstyles, but that's because they have to since they have no other endearing qualities outside of physical appearance.

You basically have a choice. A girl with REAL smarts, or a babe with no depth.

"You can't kiss the beautiful girl AND have a cool uncle."

-Dr. Steve Brule

I'm still under the impression that most of /lit/ is composed of chicks- possibly with a few of the unhideous thrown in for variety.

>>1739965
So men apparently have to like literature?

wat

And that's why I aspire to become a homosexual.

Get the fuck in here BrownBear

>>1739965
Hmm. Maybe the act of reading is what makes her cute? When I see a cute girl reading, I should try to block the book with my hand so it doesn't warp my perception of her. Of course I'll have sex with anything (female) that has read and enjoyed southern goth lit so this is probably a failed endeavor...

Also I think everyone can appreciate good art if presented succinctly since everyone wonders about their own mortality and art has some form of purpose (at least I thik) in communicating and dealing with finite amount of time.

but I use Dr. Steve Brule's axioms constantly throughout my days.

>>1739979
That was never even remotely implied, but hey, fuck it. Yes, men have to like literature.

>>1739965
>mfw when you quoted Steve Brule

>>1739987
I'm not sure. Most attractive people have come to realize their own mortality rather quickly, and wind up very similar to the sensualist characters in Bret Easton Ellis novels. Interest in art generally comes from dissatisfaction and unhappiness with simple answers to their questions. Of course, unhappiness is a prime ingredient for unattractiveness.

>>1739988
>Basically, cute girls don't have good taste in anything worthwile because they've never had to.
What I got out of that:
>Men have good taste in things because they've had to.

I figured that statement was contrasting men to women.

I guess my assumption was mistaken.

>>1739996
I love Jonathan Livingston Seagull!

>>1740006
Nah. Men are the same way. If working out, looking good and being confident is all you need to be happy and content with your life, why even open a book?

Basically, being attractive, accepted, wanted, and held to a higher class than others is faaaaar more satisfying than pondering your existence or finding literature you can identify with. Any person, male or female, will almost certainly take the route of the sensualist as opposed to the intellectual given the choice. I myself wish at times I would have put down the books when I was younger and hit the gym instead.

>>1740024
Not everyone considers being happy their goal in life.

"I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms."

Naw. A cute girl stripping in a library is best

>>1740024

Plenty of those people lead unfulfilled lives too.

>>1740033
What a waste so much books to read and she decide to show off her breast.

>>1740032
Tell me more about this Werner Herzog. Is that quote comparable to the attitude of his writing?

>>1740049
He's only written two books as far as I know.

Conquest of the Useless and Of Walking On Ice

He's a movie director. My favorite one by a long shot. No one comes close.

Let me know if you want recommendations.

>>1740065
hi im sorry i was mean yesterday. i would still like the email but you dont have to if you dont want to. goodnight.

>>1740049

LOL LOL LOL You've really never heard of Werner Herzog?

>>1740065
Ah I IMDB'd, the only thing I recognize is Red Dawn. Any movie that Christian Bale starves himself for tends to be pretty good. What else?

>>1740081
No, and I will kneel and use my hair to wash your dirty, elitist feet.

>>1740085
You mean Rescue Dawn.

He's probably most famous for Grizzly Man, one of the many for some reason that I have not seen.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is the greatest movie ever.

Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht comes close.

Encounters at the End of the World is an incredible documentary. It's the other movie that he is very well known for.

The quote I wrote before comes from Herzog on Herzog, a book-length interview with him. It's excellent.

>>1740105
Also watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd6rUo7Htso

20 min documentary

and try to get your hands on Burden of Dreams, another great documentary about him.

>>1740111
Hmm. Will def check these out. Not much of a film buff but hey

>>1740122
If I had to recommend any single movie of his (that I have actually seen) to a "non film buff" it would be Encounters at the End of the World

>>1740122
Encounters at the End of the World is fascinating stories of people and how they ended up there, and the guy gets some mesmerizing shots of the tundra.
I had only a vague notion of who Herzog was, not a film buff either, I just ended up catching it on late one night and I'd recommend it too.

Fun Fact: Werner Herzog pulled an actual 320 ton steam ship over a mountain with a primitive pulley system for the making of his feature film Fitzcarraldo, a movie about a man who pulls a steam ship over a mountain.