/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12210633]

What is the literary lifestyle?

[Anonymous No.12210636]

homosexuality

[Anonymous No.12210637]

Posting the same autistic thread on a chinese cartoon forum every day.

[Anonymous No.12210643]

a meme invented by movie producers and other people with something to sell

[Anonymous No.12210647]

a lifestyle concerning the writing, study or content of literature

[Anonymous No.12210673]

Name the top 5 places to go for such a lifestyle.
My picks:
>NYC
>LA
>Mexico City
>Venice
>St. Petersburg

[Anonymous No.12210719]

>>12210633
leaking cum 24/7 while staying constantly flaccid

[Anonymous No.12210760]

flotilla of flowers
with loss of earthy powers

[Anonymous No.12210763]

>>12210633
yearning for greatness but always squandering any advantage/opportunity you're given by being too passive

[Anonymous No.12210806]

>>12210763
looks like I've really living it out.

[Anonymous No.12210824]

picrel

[Anonymous No.12210829]

>>12210673
sounds like a suburban mom from middle america's idea of bohemia. you're about a century too late for most of them, some of them more than that

[Anonymous No.12210843]

>>12210829
false

[Anonymous No.12210864]

>>12210673
seattle seems good for literary lifestyle

[Anonymous No.12210868]

>>12210843
>puts down a toni morrison novel
>cracks open the latest new yorker
>downloads an npr podcast
>goes to a free summer concert series
>gets hair cut at place that serves whiskey, like back when real men shaved with straight razors
>wears an untucked gingham shirt not over a t-shirt and over-polished menswear wingtips
>waits three hours for a text from the new small plates pop-up restaurant
>orders the second least-expensive malbec
>tries to watch all the oscar nominees each year
>cannot believe how good the new rap album is
>goes to a coffee tasting
>orders a kindle and hard copy of the latest kwame ngobongo novel but listens to it on audiobook during commute to his new marketing job
>goes to four spinning classes a week
>talks about how busy life as a creative is
>buys a groupon for hamilton
>lives in new york city

[Anonymous No.12210872]

>>12210868
false

[Anonymous No.12211142]

>>12210633
most /lit/ places in England?
London banned

[Anonymous No.12211143]

>>12211142
rural yorkshire
paki brum

[Anonymous No.12211165]

>>12210633
Smoking weed, living at your mom's house despite being in your mid 30's. Having mental breakdowns when comparing yourself to other people your age, yelling at your mom and blaming her for your mishaps. Smoke weed. Feel regrets. Repeat cycle.

[Anonymous No.12211170]

>>12211143
I actually live in rural yerksher.
Not too shabby.
& Bradford is objectively the most based foreign inbreeding ground.

[Anonymous No.12211173]

>>12211170
We have a yorkshire glassware water jug at our office. Magnificent thing that, cheers.

[Anonymous No.12211182]

>>12210633
Don't listen to the non-Americans, here.
NYC, LA, and Seattle are your best bets.

There are some bohemian villlages scattered around: Arden Village, Eastwind Community, Twin Oaks, etc.

alternatively, buy a plane ticket at random and make a new living for yourself every 5 years.

[Anonymous No.12211183]

Nah, those place are all old news.
Try
>Manchester
>Chicago
>Moscow
>Prague
>Vancouver

[Anonymous No.12211187]

>>12211165
this but liquor instead of weed and being nice to mum and helping around the house

[Anonymous No.12211189]

>>>12210673
Nah, those place are all old news.
Try
>Manchester
>Chicago
>Moscow
>Prague
>Vancouver

[Anonymous No.12211190]

>>12211183
>Prague
>Vancouver

You don't know what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.12211191]

>>12211183
>those place are all old news.
>Manchester
>Chicago
>Moscow
>Prague
>Vancouver

let he who is without old news etc

[Anonymous No.12211194]

>>12211190
Yes I do. I lived in both.

[Anonymous No.12211205]

>>12211194
and?

[Anonymous No.12211210]

>>12211205
???

[Anonymous No.12211212]

>>12211194
so your'a new worlder amerimutt, explains why you think turbotouristraps are lit

[Anonymous No.12211221]

>>12211205
tourist-traps are not literary.

[Anonymous No.12211223]

>>12210868
>doesn't live in new york city
>reposts stale pastas about it to cope

[Anonymous No.12211224]

>>12210633
let us not give any thought to stupidity but go on saying: what is style but an instrument of war or dating, (or both if you include the bit about homosexuality). what is style to a man like Byron? what is he, is he Byron even without the portrait, without the poems. Am I still Byron beyond it all? Will there be no me here tomorrow?

[Anonymous No.12211234]

>>12211212
I'm Dutch you retard. The fact that you think Prague and Vancouver are tourist traps is proof you've never set foot in either. That or you are too stupid to venture out of the main parts of town.

[Anonymous No.12211238]

>>12210824
Yeah, yeah. it's in the hands you don't get dealt, right?

[Anonymous No.12211243]

>>12211234
> dutch person that voluntarily lives in america

probably randstadoid, pure kanker

[Anonymous No.12211246]

>>12211223
He cute

[Anonymous No.12211248]

>>12211223
that’s basically what you sewer rats do though, even if there has been some morphogenesis since that meme was created

[Anonymous No.12211249]

>>12211243
Pull your head out of your ass.

[Anonymous No.12211251]

>>12211249
randstad kanker confirmed

[Anonymous No.12211257]

>>12211173
Haha, your welcome.
Drinking out of mason jars is quality too for volume.

[Anonymous No.12211259]

>>12211251
>implying there is civilization outside randstad in netherlands

[Anonymous No.12211265]

Masturbating too much, getting high, wasting the day reading about reading

[Anonymous No.12211267]

>>12211259
>implying going to terraformed metropoli in order to enjoy your globalised postgeographical buglife is the literary lifestyle

[Anonymous No.12211316]

>>12211267
>literary lifestyle is living in a backwater shithole and angrily shitposting about le basedbugmen on anime websites for 10 hours a day
The levels of provincial cope are off the charts.
>terraformed
>postgeographical
It's like watching a child trying to play at being adult.

[Anonymous No.12211326]

Loved visiting Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam desu, the people didn't love me saying it's all lies tho.

[Anonymous No.12211327]

>>12210673
maybe 50 years ago you dumb bastard

[Anonymous No.12211333]

>>12211327
like it or not, all of those are still literary hubs and relevant

[Anonymous No.12211351]

>>12211333
Venice is a beautiful city, but was never and still isn't a literary hub in any sense whatsoever, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.12211356]

>>12211351
>Venice was never and isn't a literary hub
What?

[Anonymous No.12211366]

>>12211356
That thing you just quoted.

[Anonymous No.12211452]

>>12211165
I think you mistook a literary lifestyle for a 4channel.org lifestyle

[Anonymous No.12211640]

>>12210633
To be a handsome lad, a bright, vigorous chap; to break a girl's heart and be moved to sorrow and shame, but never to regret; to play the role of every man: a crude, bulging boar, and a fine, gentle seer--a noble, courtly knight, and a blessed, shining beggar. To be moved to tears by the haze of evening, to feel the triumph of summer waxing into the unexpected banality of afternoon--and then to sink with the rotting, pungent fruit into the soggy earth in autumn. To tremble before the unwavering, resplendent, ancient past, and to feel solemnity and sadness in its forgotten ruins. To stride like a deity over hills and plains in tattered, common rags--and to diminish into tearful compunction at your finest hour, about to inherit and worldly throne. Alas, of man I speak, a shining star--no more, no less than a tremendous, mortal flame!

[Anonymous No.12211670]

>>12211640
Sounds like something a fat old pederast would blurt out.

[Anonymous No.12211817]

IN RESPONSE TO COMMON NOTIONS LIKE THIS >>12210673 (SAME IDIOT IN THREAD EARLIER TODAY).
>Rent/buy a studio with a bunch of writers
Wrong. Instead, live in abject poverty which precludes being able to set aside moneys for being a roommate, let alone rent, let especially alone purchase of an estate.
>Live in a hub (NY, LA, SE, DC, MXC)
See Answer Number #1. This leaves rural America. No hubs, no connections. You're shit out of luck there.
>Attend poetry meets with friends
Can't waste time with this tomfoolery if you are literally a starving stenography artist.
>Discuss with said friends
No. Truly excellent writers are permitted to have only a small cadre of friends, most of them are fake, and less than a handful are actually trusted friends which makes logistically coordinating with them for a meeting quite difficult. Regardless, the friends gained are going to ragged individuals, unpleasant to say the least and will justifiably not want to hear about you go on and on about your damned book with them.
"Great souls endure in silence" as Schiller once said; even more so the writer.
>Publish Publish Publish
You need connections to publish. So it's actually, "Can't Publish, Cannot Publish, Can NOT Publish". You just write. And you keep writing, intending to publish your work one day—persisting knowing full well you'll never be able to afford an editor or the minute expense to go through any of the motions, until one day your stack of papers, your hard drives, catch fire from falling asleep with a lit Vantage cigarette hanging from your mouth only to repeat the process all over again. You'll probably die in obscurity one day, regretting that you chose the high road as a temporarily embarrassed millionaire instead of ever asking for help, or advice or even direction but you'll die with a smile, knowing you suffered and live the true literary lifestyle instead of the fake bourgeois poser shit in your post.

[Anonymous No.12211847]

>>12211142
Scotland

[Anonymous No.12211888]

>>12211182
The problem with those urban hubs is that intead of pursuing genuine a philo-literary life one gets caught up in the wildlife of the city - the grandeur and squalor, love and violence, politics and poverty - and thinks the city is itself the world, when it is just an imperfect organism designed to imitate the world and grow and preserve itself.

[Anonymous No.12211889]

>>12211817
What ignorant flowerage.

>Rent/buy a studio with a bunch of writers
This is a great idea and a good, well-meaning learning experience. Given each member of the studio is aiming to write, publish, or to accomplish some sort of literary goal, this is a postive environment for writing of any sort.
Stop romanticizing poverty because you can't make it as a middle-class citizen.

>Live in a hub (NY, LA, SE, DC, MXC)
This literally is one of the most important parts of writing--location. These are publishing capitals.

>Attend poetry meets with friends
There is often other people who share the same goals. There is never anything wrong with more CONNECTIONS. Also, more often than not, there are kind patrons who feed and help those attending.

>Discuss with said friends
A cadre or not, this is important.

>Publish Publish Publish
>You need connections to publish. So it's actually, "Can't Publish, Cannot Publish, Can NOT Publish"

It's at this point I realized I was responding to someone in harsh denial of their own positioning. I was published in high school and have only done more since. It's all about hard work and persistence. Of course, being lazy is easier.

[Anonymous No.12211897]

>>12211889
>thinks making it is about success in his own lifetime
Not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.12211909]

>>12211889
To be honest this is all dependant on what kind of literary field your in.
If you write crime paperbacks you can do it wherever but are probably best to go to a city.
If you are an avant-garde writer you can do it anywhere with a supplementary job.
It's a bit rich to expect every writer of a studio to pull their end of the stick when they aren't a crime writer etc.

[Anonymous No.12211919]

>>12211909
why couldn't they work part time jobs ?

[Anonymous No.12211922]

>>12211640
>>12211670
Stephen, is that you?

[Anonymous No.12211924]

>>12211889

[Anonymous No.12211936]

>>12211924
You're missing the point, ironically.