/lit/ - Literature

For some reason I took a course on coursera.

>saturday night

Yeah, right, it's Sunday morning here.

And I'm procrastinating over taking my cars intake apart. The carby has sucked up some shit, but even though it makes it run terribly I don't want to do it.

just had 3 major epiphanies, not worldview-wise (that's rather cemented) but how to live my life-wise
about to go to bed after i eat (even though it's 7 o'clock here)
tomorrow i have lots & lots of work to get done but it's okay

"No! It is the monk seal" is a great line.

Writing a paper on Story of O that's due on Monday. Doing dishes and cooking. Have a pretty rough hangover from last night so it's a perfect night to stay in and get some work done.

Writing a bullshit busy work ten page paper for some bullshit Environmental Issues course they make non-science majors take.

Also watching fighting games.

now it turns out there's only 6 people around...

Wurk.

Procrastinatin'

Writin'

Just got back from a planned sushi + grocery shopping outing, which ended when we were told the lights were out on the truck and then on pulling into an AutoZone finding an enormous puddle of transmission fluid underneath. Which ended up not actually being ours, but we came home anyway because no lights.

I got a iced coffee drink from DQ though.

Now I'm going to watch the extended cut of The Fellowship of the Ring. Later tonight I will probably read some, likely either Herta Muller or Jan Fridegard.

>>3200347
Trying to come up with 8ish more poems for my end-semester project while listening to a political podcast.

I did some mildly fun stuff last weekend, this weekend I have to stay in and at least make some semblance of an attempt to revise a bit for finals.

adding final footnote to 30 page research paper due midnight.
studying spanish for clep test on tuesday.
reading korsgaards skepticism about practical reason, deciding whether i want to write a critique on this or bernard williams' reasons internalism, due in 3 days.
being on virtual house arrest due to suspended license

>>3200560
>adding final footnote
Congrats. I hope to have that feel later tonight.

Listening to Nujabes, trying to talk to females

Finished up my programming project.
Eating a pulled-pork sandwich a friend of mine brought back from the barbecue restaurant he works at.
Watching Seinfeld.
Later, I'll drink some tea and continue reading The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace before finally going to sleep.

Mind you, today I'm recovering from getting extremely drunk at a party last night - 'cuz I'm so fucking cool.

Pondering why white countries and only white countries are forced to assimilate millions of 3rd world immigrants in order to prove how moral they are.

Thinking about going back to sleep. Browsing 4chan. Actively choosing not to be reading.

>>3200667
This essay is my favorite work regarding immigration.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj32n1/cj32n1-2.pdf

Tired and hungover from last night. Just finished reading a David Mitchell novel. Thinking of finding food soon, then new novel, and sleep.

sitting with roomates
smoking weed and watching a movie
taking it easy

Sunday afternoon, huh? Eating some pizza, thinking about getting off the Internet, and drinking this coffee that my brother brought when he visited. I sometimes forget that my life is quite good. Thanks for the thread, OP.

>>3200347

/lit/ always gab about social constructs. Try this one on for size.

Introversion is probably the most flagrant social construct in the book. OP's image is a perfect example of the silliness of introversion. The folly of the picture is that you don't have to be a particular "type of person" in order to enjoy your alone time without sheepishly labeling yourself a deeply pensive introvert, no matter whether the label be conscious.

We see yet another social construct working at full capacity in this lame idea that one HAS to go to parties in their free time, which, finally, shall serve as my segway into the massive social dualism of the modern identity: "free time". We can see clearly now the source of "introversion"- namely, that the individual has divided their identity thus: obligatory/working self, social/free self. And the social/free self is subject to the ideology of the introvert who thinks they are at their best when smugly reclusive, deriding the idea that the free self ought be social.

But then, we wonder just how free the hermit or the socialite is. The adjusted individual is undeclared, neither an introvert nor an extrovert, since they are free from such a contrived dualism of identity. They would go and meet people just as they would read a book under a tree or whatever. And they would do both freely, without the influence of some imaginary other, some watchful eye, some objective label-maker.

I hope you won't take this as an attack on you, OP, since I don't know you. I was simply piqued by the image you posted.

50 pages into what will probably be a 60-70 page project for school. Considering the effect that doing it drunk will have on my GPA.
The answer is next to none.

>>3200799
>next to none
Really? I would have hoped that you don't, when sober, go dropping misnomers like that.

>>3200795
The final four panels are clearly verbal irony. You are adding a great deal of baggage to the original argument by assuming it to be prescriptive. The author does not appear to be presenting or disputing a moral maxim at all, but rather stating an arbitrary preference.

And when you start talking about the split between public and private life, well, at that point we're just completely off in the woods. There's nothing in there at all about that, and I have to start wondering if you're critiquing the concept or playing out some personal drama.

Not to be rude or presumptuous of course. Just curious.

>>3200364

What are those epiphanies, if I might be so bold?

>>3200833
It's a perfectly acceptable idiom in casual conversation.

And I think you meant "I would hope" or "would have hoped that you didn't". Match your tenses.

>>3200837

Of course.

I agree with you that I might go off piece, that I might be in the woods, and that I am indeed expounding upon my own inner social conflict. Moreover, I am attempting to prescribe a solution to this conflict which operates under the assumption that others in this day and particularly those part of generation Y.

I disagree with you that the OP's picture does not have a tacit moral message, if we mean moral not as a dance between good and evil but rather a conduct of proper living. My interpretation of the photo is that its author is claiming places of art, books, mind, and so on, as the stuff of introverts. This is what brings about my rant about introversion as an imaginary, social eye on the individual's identity, viz. the ascription of characteristics to a certain decidedly antisocial conduct under the cloak of supposed deepness.

I cannot trace this pretense anywhere else but to what I called a dualism of the modern individual's days. Which brings me to my no doubt normative message that one should ignore wrangling with such a silly contrivance.

>>3200880

>*assumption that others this day and particularly those part of generation Y have experienced similarly.